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Singer Lila Downs in a white dress holds a guitar; text promotes her Dรญa de los Muertos show on October 25 at Zellerbach Hall for the 2025-26 Cal Performances season.


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News update: Today’s reports of a surge of federal law enforcement to the Bay Area has city officials and residents worried. Joe Eskenazi explains which immigration forces might pose the most immediate risk to San Franciscans.

Abigail Vรขn Neely reports on the different ways the National Guard could support ICE in San Francisco.

And as President Trump threatens to send more troops to a “destroyed,” “ruined,” crime-ridden San Francisco, Kelly Waldron has the real data on our supposedly dangerous streets.

We’ll keep reporting on any ICE activity. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, the Tenderloin has been promised affordable housing at 101 Hyde since 2015; in the interim, La Cocina was supposed to use the space for an inexpensive food hall. But the city has again stalled on building there, and now La Cocina is shuttered to the public. Eleni Balakrishnan explains how it all fell apart.

More soon,

Sara

Banner for Cal Performances announcing Lila Downsโ€™ Dรญa de los Muertos concert on October 25 at Zellerbach Hall as part of the 2025โ€“26 season, with a photo of Lila Downs.

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Several law enforcement officers detain a person with a head covering on a city sidewalk while a photographer captures the scene.

Purported ICE surge to Bay Area is graver worry for S.F. than National Guard

“The actual harm to communities is coming from ICE and federal law deployments.โ€ย 

Line graphs showing trends from 1985 to 2024 in rates of eight crimes: aggravated assault, burglary, homicide, larceny, car break-ins, motor vehicle theft, rape, and robbery.

Trump says S.F. โ€˜went wrong.โ€™ Crime data shows otherwise.

“Crime is declining and is declining sharply.”

Law enforcement officers escort a handcuffed individual into a building labeled "APPRAISERS BUILDING" as other officers stand nearby.

How could the National Guard support ICE in San Francisco?

“This is no different than the arsonist putting out the fire.”

In the Neighborhoods

A single-story building on a city corner features colorful murals on its walls, with cars and tall buildings visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered food hall site in limbo 

โ€œMost of the time the metal doors are down. It’s again a blighted space on the sidewalk.”

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View of San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge seen through the window of a boat, with water in the foreground and fog partially covering the buildings.
View from the water taxi
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Today: Scuff Queer Line Dancing and Two-Stepping, at the Verdi Club, October 22, 8-11PM

Tomorrow: What’s Next for San Francisco’s Public Schools? with Superintendent Maria Su, at Manny’s, October 23, 7:30-8:30PM

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