Immigrant advocates show solidarity against ICE raids, travel bans during SF City Hall rally

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News June 11, 2025June 10, 2025

San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks at a rally against President Donald Trump's travel ban and ICE detentions on Monday, June 9, 2025, at San Francisco City Hall. Fielder organized the event with local immigrant advocacy groups amid rising tensions over federal immigration policies. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

DIVIDED WE FALL, UNITED WE STAND. That was the message delivered by immigration advocates and elected leaders in a Monday rally on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall.

The event was organized by Supervisor Jackie Fielder with immigrant advocacy groups that represent people from Asian and Latino countries, as well as the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, a nonprofit that provides services and advocacy for working-class Arabs and Muslims across the Bay Area.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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