Democrats unveil sweeping immigration reform bill

If passed, the legislation would offer an 8-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people currently living in the U.S. illegally. Catherine Seitz, Legal Director at the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area spoke with KTVU's Andre Senior on The Four on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, about the proposed legislation.

ICE detainee fights to be released to Oakland after nearly 4 years in custody

Walter Cruz-Zavala says his prolonged detention is unconstitutional, borders on persecution and he is demanding that he be released from custody. And his case comes at a time when activists hold fresh hopes that a new presidential administration will overturn nearly a half-decade of Trump-era anti-immigration policies.

Immigrant rights protests in San Jose, Sacramento and Seattle

"We want to pressure the new administration since Day One, so they don't forget about the undocumented immigrants," said one of the organizers, Gabriel Manrique. "We've been here before, the Democrats promising immigration reform, especially when Obama was president, nothing happened. So we want to start pressuring them so it happens in the first 100 days."