#community-protest

#community-protest

Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Hercules resident who worked in Berkeley for 20 years, has been deported to India after a 15-day detention during which, she said, she experienced harrowing conditions. Courtesy of her family Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay woman who was detained for 15 days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a routine check-in was deported to her home country of India this week.

Jaime Alanís, a Mexican farmworker, fell while hiding during an ICE raid at a Southern California farm, sustaining severe injuries including a broken neck and fractured skull.

The Berkeley Unified School District faced a tough budgeting process for 2025-2026, balancing an $8 million deficit while warning of possible mid-year cuts.

"I just think it's bullshit what they're doing," one attendee, Erin Poland, told Streetsblog about the NYPD push, which, she said, is "not actually protecting cyclists [but] putting them in more danger and in more harm."