CalMatters spent four months interviewing experts, requesting data and making a dozen visits to encampments in San Francisco and Fresno to document enforcement efforts and follow the unhoused people displaced when their camps were cleared.

A Vallejo man was crushed to death during a city cleanup on Christmas Eve. Officials called it a tragic accident, but advocates warn unhoused people face growing risks.

Legal advocates say the precedent set in a Vallejo case could act as a check on lawmakers as they move to crack down on encampments in the wake of last summer’s Supreme Court decision.

Residents at a building on Shattuck Avenue have complained of persistent issues with mold, leaks and electricity. They organized under new rights codified in a November ballot measure.

The January raids, which rattled Central Valley farmworkers ahead of President Trump’s inauguration, included illegal, discriminatory stops and coercive deportations, a new lawsuit alleges.

The bill, sponsored by 201 members of Congress, would also offer that path to certain people with Temporary Protected Status.

A policy change by the Trump administration allows immigration agents to enter and arrest people in health facilities. Some clinics are training health workers to support patients in the event of arrests.

Ulises Peña Lopez, a Santa Clara County resident, was unlawfully and violently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to his attorney, family and advocates.