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Mission Local has been covering immigration enforcement in San Francisco for months, attending asylum hearings , reporting on protests , and diving deep into the data on how many people have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A lot has happened in that time. Readers could be forgiven for tuning out the news — the MAGA approach to PR, as articulated by Steve Bannon , is to focus on “muzzle velocity” and flood the zone with news.
To bring you up to speed, here’s what’s happened in San Francisco over the past nine months.
Jan. 20, 20