The Bay Agenda: ICE & the Bay Area - Your Legal Rights

Immigration enforcement continues to impact communities across the Bay Area. Knowing your legal rights—and where to turn for reliable information—can make a critical difference.

Join KALW for ICE & the Bay Area: Your Legal Rights, a community-focused event featuring leading immigration attorneys and scholars who will break down what individuals and families need to know about immigration enforcement, removal defense, and legal protections. This event is designed to empower community members, advocates, and allies with practical knowledge and up-to-date legal insight.

• Your rights during encounters with ICE
• Key aspects of removal defense and post-conviction relief
• How immigration and criminal law intersect
• Current policy context and long-term impacts on Bay Area communities

Attorney Jeffrey B. Hayden represents the residents of the Bay Area in California, which includes the cities in the metro areas of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Palo Alto. He focuses his practice on criminal defense and juvenile offenses. He currently hosts a weekly radio program on KALW Local Public Radio (91.7FM in San Francisco) called Your Legal Rights, providing free legal information and guidance for listeners.

Attorney Stanley Radtke's areas of expertise are immigration law, removal defense, and appellate work in both immigration and criminal defense. In addition, he practices in Social Security Disability Appeals and personal injury claims. Mr. Radtke is a published author for his law review articles which have been cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Attorney Radtke is highly regarded in his areas of practice and as a child of immigrants he understands the importance of having good representation in the legal system.

Carla Gomez was the Private Defender Program’s first in-house immigration attorney, focused on the intersection of criminal and immigration law, including post-conviction relief, as she previously did as a senior staff attorney in the San Francisco office of the Immigrants Legal Resource Center. Ms. Gomez co-authored California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants: How to Use Criminal Courts to Erase the Immigration Consequences of Crimes, ILRC, first edition (2023). Carla has over 20 years of criminal defense experience as both a federal and county public defender and has extensive experience as an immigration defense attorney.

Prior to coming to the ILRC, Carla started her career as a federal public defender in San Diego as both a trial and appellate attorney. Carla then became a San Francisco public defender, where she practiced for over 15 years as a felony attorney, and in 2017, she was part of the team that spearheaded the Immigration Unit. Carla has successfully defended the most challenging cases in immigration court, where her clients with serious felonies have won asylum, withholding, protection under the Convention Against Torture, and readjustment of status. Her successful post-conviction relief practice throughout California has saved lawful permanent residents with aggravated felonies from deportation and allowed noncitizens to adjust their status.

Professor Bill Hing founded the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in 1979 and served as volunteer executive director for its first two decades. A professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, he is the author of at least 14 books, including, most recently, Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System.

An expert in immigration policy, negotiations, public service strategies, and Asian American legal history, Bill Hing is a professor at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as a professor of law and as the founding director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic.

Your RSVP includes admission to Mission Grafica: The Public's Voice, a collaborative art exhibition produced with the Mission Cultual Center for Latino Arts. tracing the evolution of social justice movements in the Bay Area. Through posters and prints — many produced in MCCLA’s community print studio — the show is a living timeline of how Bay Area artists have responded to power, injustice, and change for generations.

There is a $10 - $20 sliding scale suggested donation for this event. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI

🚪 Reception doors open at 5:00

🗣️ Program begins at 6:00

🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; free street parking is available across from the venue at 7:00 pm

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