Bay Area neighbors are turning their blocks into Trump resistance networks
April 30, 2026
Raheem Hosseini
On a Saturday in June, Sakura Saunders and her neighbors met outside a dingy office building in San Francisco’s South of Market and dared it to open.
A day prior, immigrant families in the area had received unusual text messages summoning them to 478 Tehama St. — the headquarters for Cypress Private Security, which reportedly works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and whose parent company has booked billions in security contracts with ICE’s parent entity, the Department of Homeland Security.
Suspecting an ICE trap, progressive coalition Bay Resistance called on a network that has ballooned with volunteers since President Donald Trump’s reelection. Around 7 a.m., hours before that day’s No Kings protests, about 200 people picketed the building and made legal referrals to the roughly two dozen immigrants who answered the texts. The office didn’t open.