Press
9/2/25
Mission Local - As end to TPS looms, S.F. supervisors protest
Five supervisors stood Tuesday afternoon with labor organizers and immigrants to condemn the Trump administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status for over 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
“The termination of any of the current countries that receive Temporary Protected Status directly affects our immigrant communities in San Francisco,” said District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who introduced a non-binding resolution urging the California federal delegation to urge Congress to establish a permanent pathway for Temporary Protected Status holders.
The Trump Administration’s order has been upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on Sept. 8, the immigrants will lose their protected status – this includes their ability to remain in the United States or to work here legally.
7/15/25
Vanguard News Group - SFPD Accused of Supporting Federal ICE Agents Amid Controversial Remarks
San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder is demanding accountability from the city’s police and sheriff’s departments after senior SFPD officials made controversial remarks suggesting the department has a duty to protect federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from unarmed protestors. Fielder issued a formal Letter of Inquiry on July 14, citing not only those remarks but also recent reporting that SFPD accessed Oakland’s license plate reader data more than 100 times on behalf of federal agencies, a move she says violates California state law.
7/12/25
Mission Local - What’s so dangerous about funding more S.F. shelter beds? The fight over Prop. C explained.
On Tuesday, July 15, as part of several budget votes happening that day, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will take a final vote on whether to allow Mayor Daniel Lurie to shift money from permanent supportive housing towards his stated goal of adding 1,500 (now scaled down to 1,000) new shelter beds throughout the city.
This week, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder, housing advocates, and those who have benefitted from permanent supportive housing rallied on the steps of City Hall, trying to persuade the rest of the board to vote the proposal down.
6/26/25
KQED - SF Supervisors Preserve Millions for Homeless Prevention, Housing in Budget
“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.
Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.
“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”
8/31/25
Mission Local - What Has Your S.F. Supervisor Been Up To This Summer?
Some supervisors have traveled even further. District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder went to Mexico City, accompanied by two aides, Feng Han and Sasha Gaona. The five-day trip, Fielder said, was paid out of pocket by themselves, and not on the government’s dime.
Fielder said the trio met with the Mexico City officials and discussed how to best support Mexican-born immigrants who might have potential encounters with ICE, how to introduce legislation to help mitigate chances for people to get scammed, and how to make roads more accommodating for pedestrians or cyclists.
7/15/25
SF Standard - San Francisco balances on thin blue line with Trump ICE arrests
The comments raised the hackles of Supervisor Jackie Fielder and immigrant rights advocates, who have called on Lurie to take a more forceful stance in support of the immigrant community. Fielder, who represents the Mission, responded in a fiery fashion Monday, accusing ICE of being a “fascist agency” and demanding answers on local law enforcement activities in a letter of inquiry sent to Lurie, the controller’s office, and the SFPD and Sheriff’s Department. She noted that ICE has the manpower and legal authority to make arrests on its own if necessary.
“It’s baffling that SFPD leadership would equate unarmed protestors with Trump’s armed ICE agents,” Fielder said in a statement.
6/28/25
KQED - SF Leaders Reaffirm ‘Sanctuary City’ Status Amid Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
“There are factions of this city and this country that want to see cities like San Francisco roll back their sanctuary policies,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the press conference, which was well attended by the city’s local political figures, from Mayor Daniel Lurie to state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su.
“What [this] should communicate to Trump, to anyone that wants to see us roll back, is we are not going back,” Fielder said.
