Immigrant rights advocates and public defenders have picketed outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice to ask that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins cease working with federal agencies to prosecute undocumented migrants accused of selling drugs.

San Francisco’s sanctuary city law is designed to limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, specifically U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It aims to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.