Bay City News Hundreds of Bay Area faith leaders and immigrant rights activists rallied Friday outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in San Francisco to support a San Jose tattoo artist facing immigration detention. Attendees repeated chants and sang in unison, sprawling across Sansome Street. They chanted songs and held up signs that read "All people are sacred," and "Don't kidnap Guillermo." Guillermo Medina Reyes went before an immigration judge Friday afternoon to learn his fate of whether he would go into ICE detention or be granted bond. "The possibility that I may not come back out, that's something that I had to accept before coming here today," Medina Reyes said in a speech. Medina Reyes came to the United States from Mexico at the age of 6 and said he grew up without a clear path to citizenship. He got involved in crime at a young age and was imprisoned for attempted murder at the age of 16. He was released after 12 and a half years in prison, but immigration authorities quickly detained him and he was taken to an immigration detention facility. "It turned out that immigration facilities were worse," he said. "The racist treatment by the guards, the lack of medical and mental health care, working for eight hours a day and only being paid one dollar, surely made me want to go back to prison. Not to mention the inhumane conditions were unbearable." He was in detention for more than a year before being released. "After a year and a couple months, I finally got released on bond. I was working hard to rebuild my life and become the best version of myself," he said. "Then last year the immigration raids began increasing and I was seeing videos everywhere of masked agents in military gear attacking people who looked like me." The threat of being re-detained by ICE reemerged. Immigration authorities under President Donald Trump have stated that Medina Reyes is a threat to the public because of his criminal record. In June, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ordered a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from detaining him without a bond hearing, which took place Friday. "Guillermo and his legal team, with the support of our community, have won the chance to go in front of the judge and have a bond hearing through the habeas petition filed in June of last year," said Esperanza Cuautle, a community organizer who advocates for people detained by ICE. Outside the ICE building in San Francisco, the crowd waited to learn the judge's decision. "This hearing underscores a fundamental a fundamental principle -- no agency should have unchecked authority to deprive someone of their freedom," Cuautle said. The hearing was still pending as of late Friday afternoon. Copyright © 2026 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.