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(Courtesy of Nikolas De Bremaeker)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her attorney, Nikolas De Bremaeker, confirmed to KQED that Albornoz Hernandez will be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-city\">California City Detention Facility\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert later Monday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said her boyfriend is already on the way to pick her up. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She was incredibly happy to see the news and to hear about the news that the federal judge had ordered her released. … Her family is incredibly happy that she’ll be home,” the attorney said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albornoz Hernandez had escaped gender-based violence in Colombia, where she was born, and applied for asylum after entering the U.S. in 2022, De Bremaeker said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had been complying with all of her paperwork and hearings when she was detained at SFO while trying to travel to Portland with her boyfriend, her attorney said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was then transported to the remote ICE facility, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083908/6-people-have-died-in-california-ice-detention-centers-as-trump-deportations-soared\">recent investigations\u003c/a> have uncovered “inhumane” conditions and “crisis-level” medical staffing shortages. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That detention center needs to be closed,” De Bremaeker said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her legal team argued that the sudden arrest violated her rights to due process guaranteed in the Constitution, and challenged the legality of her detention.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement to KQED last week, the Department of Homeland Security said work authorization or a pending asylum application — both of which Albornoz Hernandez has — does “NOT confer legal status in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency added that detention is “a choice,” since immigrants have the ability to “self-deport.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins ultimately sided with Albornoz Hernandez, noting that ICE also failed to provide a “constitutionally compliant pre-deprivation bond hearing,” according to the court filing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coggins ordered Albornoz Hernandez released immediately, without additional restrictions like ankle monitors, and all of her possessions, including her passport, returned. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Judges have been overwhelmingly finding these arrests by ICE to be unlawful and in violation of the Constitution,” De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the days after her detention, Albornoz Hernandez’s friends, family and school community rallied around her. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/300-students-protest-demand-release-of-uc-berkeley-student-detained-by-ice/article_98557673-862e-4a54-8b3c-a66efdeffb13.html\">\u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that nearly 300 students flooded into the campus’s Sproul Plaza last Wednesday to call for her release. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a campuswide email shared on Friday, the university said that it had “mounted a significant advocacy effort for Paula” and that approximately 30 letters of support were submitted by community leaders — including U.S. Reps. Lateefah Simon and Sam Liccardo, state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“All the support definitely had an impact,” De Bremaeker said. It “really showed that Paula had very strong ties to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday afternoon, Simon said that she was heartened to hear the news of Albornoz Hernandez’s release, and that her team would continue working to support her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“All students deserve safety, care, and the ability to learn without fear of violence,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement on Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said the school was relieved and overjoyed to have learned of Albornoz Hernandez’s release. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is a moment to remember what’s possible when our community comes together to support one of our own,” Lyons said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tgoldberg\">\u003cem>Ted Goldberg\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As discourse about election integrity shadowed this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\">midterm elections\u003c/a>, California voters rejected a statewide initiative brought by Republican lawmakers to require identification when voting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the measure failed, with about 60% of voters opposed and 40% in favor, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote came as President Donald Trump made multiple attempts to limit mail-in voting in recent months and apply new voter identification requirements nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 39 would have amended the state constitution to require voters to present a government-issued ID — such as a driver’s license or Social Security card — when voting in person. For those mailing their ballots, it would have required voters to write the last four digits of their ID number on the ballot envelope. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Prop39-voterID-scaled-e1791403746790.jpg\" alt=\"People in suits present at a podium surrounded by signs that read "Require Voter ID."\" class=\"wp-image-12101931\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Tony Strickland speaks at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters on Monday, March 2, 2026, for a press conference highlighting voter signatures in favor of placing a voter ID measure on the November ballot. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the measure would have required the Secretary of State and county election officials to use their “best efforts” to verify the citizenship of registered voters and report annually the percentage verified. The State Auditor would have been responsible for auditing the state and county for compliance and recommending changes in odd-numbered years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“California already has strong systems in place to verify voters and protect our elections,” said Jenny Farrell, executive director of the League of Women Voters. “Prop. 39 responds to claims of widespread voter fraud that simply are not supported by evidence in California while creating very real new barriers for eligible voters.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Diego Assemblymember Carl DeMaio led the initiative, framing it as a common-sense reform that would improve public confidence in elections, regardless of how common voter fraud actually is. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Whether it’s real or perceived, these issues result in a low confidence level amongst many voters in our elections,” he said. “So why don’t we fix that?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeMaio attempted a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/23-0016%20%28Election%20Integrity%20%29.pdf\">similar voter ID initiative\u003c/a> in 2023, which failed. This time, he claimed the initiative had bipartisan support because nearly half of the signatures gathered to qualify for the ballot were from Democrats and Independents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the initiative faced an uphill battle as opponents began tying it to Trump’s SAVE America Act. That measure stalled in Congress and would not just require voter ID at the polls nationwide, but also mandate proof of citizenship during registration and ban vote-by-mail except for illness, disability, military service or travel. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a CNN gubernatorial debate in September, Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra credited Proposition 39 to Trump. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Prop. 39 is an initiative that is backed by Donald Trump,” he said. “He couldn’t get his SAVE Act out of Congress, which tries to interfere in elections, so he’s gone around the country and put initiatives on the ballot. In California, it’s Prop. 39.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But DeMaio pushed back on that characterization and has tried to distance the initiative from the president. Trump did not weigh in on the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 39 is a far less severe proposal than the SAVE America Act, but supporters have repeated the president’s claims about voter fraud. The measure’s co-author, state Sen. Tony Strickland, cited an instance when a California woman \u003ca href=\"https://ocdistrictattorney.gov/press/costa-mesa-woman-who-illegally-registered-her-dog-to-vote-casted-mail-in-ballots-sent-to-dog-in-two-elections-required-to-pay-for-anti-voter-fraud-billboards-as-part-of-case-resolution/\">registered her dog\u003c/a> to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/AP26229644537635-scaled-e1787012052664.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095603\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump gestures to Nathaniel Rai, the boy lifeguard Ryder Williams, left, saved as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Here in Orange County, where I represent, a dog voted in the last two elections,” Strickland said. “We need to bring about voter integrity to our election system.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case against Laura Lee Yourex, 64, of Costa Mesa, was dismissed last month after she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and completed the terms of her plea agreement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/costa-mesa-womans-voter-fraud-case-dismissed-after-she-admits-registering-dog-to-vote/3956777/\">NBC Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Yourex is registered as a Republican. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats have said Yourex’s ultimate prosecution indicates the system worked as designed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/\">studies have shown\u003c/a> there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and Farrell criticized California’s initiative as a solution to a nonexistent problem. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“You are more likely to be struck by lightning in the United States than you are to commit voter fraud in an American election,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents — which include the California Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Newsom and ACLU California Action — also raised concerns that the initiative would suppress voter turnout among eligible voters who don’t have the required documentation handy. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2299685147-c8aae1f7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106131\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2299685147-c8aae1f7.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2299685147-c8aae1f7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2299685147-c8aae1f7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on at the California Economic Summit in Long Beach, California, on Oct.14, 2026. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Prop. 39 would actually affect every California voter, but we know that additional ID requirements don’t fall equally on everyone,” Farrell said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She pointed to voters of color, younger voters, low-income voters, voters with disabilities and people who have changed their names, including married women and transgender people, as all less likely to have the documents required by this initiative. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure also \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/proposition-39-explained-what-voter-id-would-mean-for-california/\">leaves key details\u003c/a> to the Legislature, including what a “best effort” to verify citizenship means in practice and what counts as a government-issued ID. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether lawmakers accept public housing IDs, student IDs, gun registration IDs or tribal IDs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090101/americas-long-history-of-voting-and-election-integrity\">could privilege\u003c/a> certain age, racial and socioeconomic groups over others. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of late last week, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-39-voter-id/\">opposition campaign\u003c/a> had drawn in around $34.5 million from donors like the California Democratic Party, the California Nurses Association and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, support for the measure had reached $36.6 million, including out-of-state Republican donors like billionaire shipping supplies magnate Richard Uihlein and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As discourse about election integrity shadowed this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results\">midterm elections\u003c/a>, California voters rejected a statewide initiative brought by Republican lawmakers to require identification when voting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the measure failed, with about 60% of voters opposed and 40% in favor, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote came as President Donald Trump made multiple attempts to limit mail-in voting in recent months and apply new voter identification requirements nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 39 would have amended the state constitution to require voters to present a government-issued ID — such as a driver’s license or Social Security card — when voting in person. For those mailing their ballots, it would have required voters to write the last four digits of their ID number on the ballot envelope. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/Prop39-voterID-scaled-e1791403746790.jpg\" alt=\"People in suits present at a podium surrounded by signs that read "Require Voter ID."\" class=\"wp-image-12101931\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Tony Strickland speaks at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters on Monday, March 2, 2026, for a press conference highlighting voter signatures in favor of placing a voter ID measure on the November ballot. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the measure would have required the Secretary of State and county election officials to use their “best efforts” to verify the citizenship of registered voters and report annually the percentage verified. The State Auditor would have been responsible for auditing the state and county for compliance and recommending changes in odd-numbered years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“California already has strong systems in place to verify voters and protect our elections,” said Jenny Farrell, executive director of the League of Women Voters. “Prop. 39 responds to claims of widespread voter fraud that simply are not supported by evidence in California while creating very real new barriers for eligible voters.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Diego Assemblymember Carl DeMaio led the initiative, framing it as a common-sense reform that would improve public confidence in elections, regardless of how common voter fraud actually is. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Whether it’s real or perceived, these issues result in a low confidence level amongst many voters in our elections,” he said. “So why don’t we fix that?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeMaio attempted a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/23-0016%20%28Election%20Integrity%20%29.pdf\">similar voter ID initiative\u003c/a> in 2023, which failed. This time, he claimed the initiative had bipartisan support because nearly half of the signatures gathered to qualify for the ballot were from Democrats and Independents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the initiative faced an uphill battle as opponents began tying it to Trump’s SAVE America Act. That measure stalled in Congress and would not just require voter ID at the polls nationwide, but also mandate proof of citizenship during registration and ban vote-by-mail except for illness, disability, military service or travel. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a CNN gubernatorial debate in September, Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra credited Proposition 39 to Trump. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Prop. 39 is an initiative that is backed by Donald Trump,” he said. “He couldn’t get his SAVE Act out of Congress, which tries to interfere in elections, so he’s gone around the country and put initiatives on the ballot. In California, it’s Prop. 39.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But DeMaio pushed back on that characterization and has tried to distance the initiative from the president. Trump did not weigh in on the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 39 is a far less severe proposal than the SAVE America Act, but supporters have repeated the president’s claims about voter fraud. The measure’s co-author, state Sen. Tony Strickland, cited an instance when a California woman \u003ca href=\"https://ocdistrictattorney.gov/press/costa-mesa-woman-who-illegally-registered-her-dog-to-vote-casted-mail-in-ballots-sent-to-dog-in-two-elections-required-to-pay-for-anti-voter-fraud-billboards-as-part-of-case-resolution/\">registered her dog\u003c/a> to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/AP26229644537635-scaled-e1787012052664.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095603\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump gestures to Nathaniel Rai, the boy lifeguard Ryder Williams, left, saved as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Here in Orange County, where I represent, a dog voted in the last two elections,” Strickland said. “We need to bring about voter integrity to our election system.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case against Laura Lee Yourex, 64, of Costa Mesa, was dismissed last month after she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and completed the terms of her plea agreement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/costa-mesa-womans-voter-fraud-case-dismissed-after-she-admits-registering-dog-to-vote/3956777/\">NBC Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Yourex is registered as a Republican. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats have said Yourex’s ultimate prosecution indicates the system worked as designed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/\">studies have shown\u003c/a> there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and Farrell criticized California’s initiative as a solution to a nonexistent problem. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“You are more likely to be struck by lightning in the United States than you are to commit voter fraud in an American election,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents — which include the California Democratic Party, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday, Paula Albornoz Hernandez sat in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">San Francisco International\u003c/a> Airport, waiting to board a flight to Portland, Oregon with her boyfriend. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They planned to head up the coast to enjoy some of Oregon’s infamous waterfalls before midterms started. Instead, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained the 23-year-old Colombian asylum seeker before she could board the plane, her lawyer, Nikolas De Bremaeker, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE then transported Albornoz Hernandez to ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-city\">California City Detention Facility\u003c/a>, a remote center in the Mojave Desert that De Bremaeker called “an atrocious place where no human being should be sent.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070623\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albornoz Hernandez entered the country in 2022 and applied for asylum for gender-based violence “well before” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/the-affirmative-asylum-process\">one-year\u003c/a> deadline, said De Bremaeker. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney told KQED that the arrest was illegal and that he filed a habeas petition — a federal petition used to argue that someone is being held without legal basis or being held under unacceptable conditions — on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She has built up so many ties,” De Bremaeker said. “The government can’t just step in and say ‘Oh, I’ve changed my mind, I’m going to detain them now.’ Our Constitution prevents that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said Albornoz Hernandez is a student in U.C. Berkeley’s business administration program and is an active member of her community. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"alignright size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-UC-Berkeley-Student-01-KQED-48dc607e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107928\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-UC-Berkeley-Student-01-KQED-48dc607e.jpg 437w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/261103-UC-Berkeley-Student-01-KQED-48dc607e-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paula Albornoz Hernandez, a 23-year-old Colombian asylum seeker and UC Berkeley business student, was detained by ICE at SFO on Friday. (Courtesy of Nikolas De Bremaeker)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“She’s missing her classes and her exams,” De Bramaeker said. “I know she’s stressing out about it right now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said in an email that Albornoz Hernandez “will receive due process and remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Richard Lyons sent an email to the university community late on Monday expressing the school’s support for Albornoz Hernandez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This student is a valued member of our community, and campus leadership is doing everything within our power to support them so that they may return to their life at Berkeley to continue their studies with us,” Lyons wrote in the email. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though immigrants have the right to travel domestically in the U.S., De Bremaeker recommended that “anybody with an [uncertain] immigration status should refrain from traveling by plane without checking in with an attorney.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the government is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">extensively monitoring travel\u003c/a> to know when people enter ports or cross borders. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s just a convenient way for them to carry out their agenda,” De Bremaeker said. “They’re desperate to meet their quota.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” DHS said in its statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has directed ICE to arrest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">3,000\u003c/a> people per day. Data from the Deportation Data Project shows that while California arrests fell in January, they started \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">climbing\u003c/a> again over the summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Going on a trip to Portland really should not mean that you get detained by ICE,” said De Bremaeker.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 51-year-old business owner and father of seven was the first of more than three dozen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California \u003c/a>residents to appear in court to face \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes\">allegations\u003c/a> by the federal government that they violated voting laws because they are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camilo Giles Jimenez, a U.S. legal permanent resident from Mexico who, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">the criminal complaint\u003c/a>, has lived outside Kerman, in Fresno County, since at least 2017, pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in downtown Fresno. The government charges say he voted in three elections in violation of the law that bans non-U.S. citizens from voting for president or Congress. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 10-minute hearing before Judge Stanley A. Boone, federal public defender Erin Snider said Jimenez, who was dressed in a peach polo shirt, faded jeans and white Nike sneakers, owns a paving company. Neither Jimenez nor Snider answered questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AP26292580333526-32bd8bdc-scaled-e1792439409172.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105146\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homeland Security Investigations task force officers escort a suspect accused of illegally registering to vote to a processing facility at Federal Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes\">announced the charges\u003c/a> against Jimenez and 27 other California residents on Oct. 19 as part of a coordinated effort they said was designed “to root out fraud” in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity. On Monday, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/six-additional-aliens-charged-illegal-voting-counties-fresno-kings-sacramento-solano\">announced charges\u003c/a> against 12 more people in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the defendants are not charged with illegally voting, but with illegally registering to vote or lying on their naturalization applications. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More court appearances are set for the coming days and weeks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legal experts say that to gain convictions for illegal voting, prosecutors must prove that these people willfully committed a crime, which could be difficult. Regardless of any criminal convictions, even legal residents could be deported whether or not they knew they were breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The cases and the people\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-three of those accused are from Southern California, six are from the Bay Area, four are from the Sacramento region, and seven are from Fresno County and the Central Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those arrested in the mid-October sweep, 72-year-old Omar Muñoz of Commerce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-reports/stories/he-was-arrested-for-noncitizen-voting-but-doesnt-know-why?srsltid=AYCX9vJ7W0oSaW66PdUm7gOZNXvIXCkWqYU2c-Luy-m4G6_GS1Aak_Xc\">told KCRW\u003c/a> that six police vehicles, a helicopter and at least six reporters arrived at his home just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 19. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s a show,” Muñoz told the station. “I said, ‘Wow!’ I said, ‘I’m not a killer.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muñoz was still wearing pajamas when he was shackled around the waist and legs and transported to downtown Los Angeles. He was released that afternoon but would not speak to the specifics of the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice department officials have said these indictments are the tip of the iceberg in what they allege is widespread voter fraud in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said in a news release. “Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely non-citizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, a federal judge sided with California by rejecting a bid by the Trump administration to separate out any ballots sent in from people on that list. The decision by U.S. District Judge David Carter is a setback for the federal government in its efforts to exert more control over state-run elections ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied an appeal by the Department of Justice to wade into its fight with California over voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513.149.0.pdf\">26-page decision\u003c/a>. “In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Newsroom tried to speak with many of the defendants and their lawyers, but except for Muñoz, all inquiries were turned down or received no response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its case against Jimenez, the government alleges the Fresno County resident submitted a voter registration application to the Fresno County Registrar in 2022, and checked a box indicating he is a U.S. citizen. Jimenez is also accused of voting in recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">The complaint\u003c/a> said Jimenez subsequently told agents that he registered to vote after receiving his green card. Jimenez also said that he had been voting since 2023, according to the complaint, although he denied ever claiming he was a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standard of proof \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prove its case against Jimenez and the other defendants, the government must show they deliberately broke federal law by voting as noncitizens, according to UCLA law professor Rick Hasen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title18/pdf/USCODE-2024-title18-partI-chap29-sec611.pdf\">federal statute\u003c/a> prohibits anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen from voting to elect the president or members of Congress. Doing so is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine or a combination of both.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107822\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is joined by Erin Burke, left, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, and San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow during a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2026. (Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In order to violate the statute, there has to be proof that the person did so intentionally,” Hasen said. “That is, they knew they were not eligible, and they did it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Hasen said it is not necessarily considered intentional if a government office, like the Department of Motor Vehicles, mistakenly offers someone who is not a citizen the chance to register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Suppose you are told by a government official you can register to vote, even if you’re not a citizen, and the person registers, then they might be doing so knowing that they registered but not knowing that they were violating the law,” Hasen added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even a statement that a defendant makes acknowledging that he or she voted would not automatically prove the government’s case, Hasen said. Prosecutors must still show defendants were knowingly and willfully breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said successful prosecutions or guilty pleas by noncitizens accused of voter fraud are rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It seems to be a very small problem relative to the number of voters in the country,” Hasen said, adding that it is more about “trying to make an example of some people, rather than showing evidence that there’s a massive problem of election fraud in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Potential immigration consequences \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While intentionality is key to a criminal case, it may not matter when it comes to immigration consequences. Regardless of whether someone meant to break the law, unlawful voting and falsely claiming to be a citizen, including by signing a voter registration form, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12767\">can be grounds for deportation\u003c/a> and for denial of an application for U.S. citizenship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the people charged have lived in the U.S. legally for years and are in the process of applying for citizenship, according to the federal complaints against them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 51-year-old business owner and father of seven was the first of more than three dozen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California \u003c/a>residents to appear in court to face \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes\">allegations\u003c/a> by the federal government that they violated voting laws because they are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camilo Giles Jimenez, a U.S. legal permanent resident from Mexico who, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">the criminal complaint\u003c/a>, has lived outside Kerman, in Fresno County, since at least 2017, pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in downtown Fresno. The government charges say he voted in three elections in violation of the law that bans non-U.S. citizens from voting for president or Congress. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 10-minute hearing before Judge Stanley A. Boone, federal public defender Erin Snider said Jimenez, who was dressed in a peach polo shirt, faded jeans and white Nike sneakers, owns a paving company. Neither Jimenez nor Snider answered questions from reporters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/AP26292580333526-32bd8bdc-scaled-e1792439409172.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105146\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homeland Security Investigations task force officers escort a suspect accused of illegally registering to vote to a processing facility at Federal Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-28-foreign-nationals-california-election-crimes\">announced the charges\u003c/a> against Jimenez and 27 other California residents on Oct. 19 as part of a coordinated effort they said was designed “to root out fraud” in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity. On Monday, the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/six-additional-aliens-charged-illegal-voting-counties-fresno-kings-sacramento-solano\">announced charges\u003c/a> against 12 more people in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the defendants are not charged with illegally voting, but with illegally registering to vote or lying on their naturalization applications. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More court appearances are set for the coming days and weeks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legal experts say that to gain convictions for illegal voting, prosecutors must prove that these people willfully committed a crime, which could be difficult. Regardless of any criminal convictions, even legal residents could be deported whether or not they knew they were breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The cases and the people\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-three of those accused are from Southern California, six are from the Bay Area, four are from the Sacramento region, and seven are from Fresno County and the Central Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those arrested in the mid-October sweep, 72-year-old Omar Muñoz of Commerce, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-reports/stories/he-was-arrested-for-noncitizen-voting-but-doesnt-know-why?srsltid=AYCX9vJ7W0oSaW66PdUm7gOZNXvIXCkWqYU2c-Luy-m4G6_GS1Aak_Xc\">told KCRW\u003c/a> that six police vehicles, a helicopter and at least six reporters arrived at his home just after 5 a.m. on Oct. 19. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s a show,” Muñoz told the station. “I said, ‘Wow!’ I said, ‘I’m not a killer.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muñoz was still wearing pajamas when he was shackled around the waist and legs and transported to downtown Los Angeles. He was released that afternoon but would not speak to the specifics of the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice department officials have said these indictments are the tip of the iceberg in what they allege is widespread voter fraud in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said in a news release. “Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely non-citizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday, a federal judge sided with California by rejecting a bid by the Trump administration to separate out any ballots sent in from people on that list. The decision by U.S. District Judge David Carter is a setback for the federal government in its efforts to exert more control over state-run elections ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied an appeal by the Department of Justice to wade into its fight with California over voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote in his \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513/gov.uscourts.cacd.1043513.149.0.pdf\">26-page decision\u003c/a>. “In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Newsroom tried to speak with many of the defendants and their lawyers, but except for Muñoz, all inquiries were turned down or received no response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its case against Jimenez, the government alleges the Fresno County resident submitted a voter registration application to the Fresno County Registrar in 2022, and checked a box indicating he is a U.S. citizen. Jimenez is also accused of voting in recent elections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T2p_9EHq-_wT05Kw7CRM4TvYElJM3qvR/view\">The complaint\u003c/a> said Jimenez subsequently told agents that he registered to vote after receiving his green card. Jimenez also said that he had been voting since 2023, according to the complaint, although he denied ever claiming he was a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standard of proof \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prove its case against Jimenez and the other defendants, the government must show they deliberately broke federal law by voting as noncitizens, according to UCLA law professor Rick Hasen.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title18/pdf/USCODE-2024-title18-partI-chap29-sec611.pdf\">federal statute\u003c/a> prohibits anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen from voting to elect the president or members of Congress. Doing so is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine or a combination of both.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107822\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/11/110226-Essayli-Voting-DOJ-AP-CM-01-6bdc8ebd-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is joined by Erin Burke, left, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, and San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow during a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 2, 2026. 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Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In order to violate the statute, there has to be proof that the person did so intentionally,” Hasen said. “That is, they knew they were not eligible, and they did it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Hasen said it is not necessarily considered intentional if a government office, like the Department of Motor Vehicles, mistakenly offers someone who is not a citizen the chance to register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Suppose you are told by a government official you can register to vote, even if you’re not a citizen, and the person registers, then they might be doing so knowing that they registered but not knowing that they were violating the law,” Hasen added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even a statement that a defendant makes acknowledging that he or she voted would not automatically prove the government’s case, Hasen said. Prosecutors must still show defendants were knowingly and willfully breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said successful prosecutions or guilty pleas by noncitizens accused of voter fraud are rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It seems to be a very small problem relative to the number of voters in the country,” Hasen said, adding that it is more about “trying to make an example of some people, rather than showing evidence that there’s a massive problem of election fraud in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Potential immigration consequences \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While intentionality is key to a criminal case, it may not matter when it comes to immigration consequences. 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Supervisor Elisa Marquez told KQED that it’s time the county reviews its 2025 policy as an ICE-free zone to see “if there are any gaps” or misunderstandings on how to implement it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/Elisa-Marquez-Getty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez speaks during a press conference announcing new funding for communities across the state to address homelessness and mental health and stronger accountability measures for counties administering CARE Court during a press conference at BACS REGIS Center in Hayward on March 2, 2026. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The “ICE-free zone” policy covers Alameda County-owned properties, including Highland Hospital, and limits interactions with immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have an opportunity to reassess and evaluate what occurred so that way we can do our best to minimize any undue harm to anyone within our community,” Marquez said in an interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scrutiny stems from an Oct. 16 incident in which ICE brought a man arrested in Emeryville into Highland for care. Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney for the patient with Centro Legal de la Raza, previously told KQED that an ICE agent tackled his client, sat on his chest and fractured six ribs. ICE said in a statement that agents “relied on their training to control the situation,” and that the man had disclosed a preexisting injury – that he fell off a ladder\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once at Highland, De Bremaeker and hospital staff told KQED that ICE tried to obstruct access to counsel and direct medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agent was “sitting on his bed, grinning at him,” De Bremaeker said of his client.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said it’s standard practice for agents to accompany patients in their care to receive health services. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda Health System officials said at the Tuesday joint meeting that hospital staff didn’t receive a warrant for the patient from ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikki Fortunato Bas, a member of the Board of Supervisors, said at Tuesday’s meeting AHS had told her that the arrest was done with a warrant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That is extremely upsetting,” Fortunato Bas said. “Alameda Health System should’ve been clear that ICE wasn’t providing that information. ACILEP [the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership] should’ve been clear that ICE wasn’t providing that information.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas said that officials have to think through what remedies the county and health system have in place, and how they can do more. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There are a number of protocols at AHS — as I understand it, we have some protocols here at the county for the ICE-free zone — but we also have to do more,” Fortunato Bas said. “And, clearly, more training needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new state law, Senate Bill 81, requires health facilities to teach staff how to respond to federal immigration authorities’ request to use facilities. SB 81 also restricts the sharing of immigration information. While De Bremaeker’s client was hospitalized at Highland, several staff members wrote a letter obtained by KQED that AHS was not following state law as it relates to training. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker, who previously called on federal lawmakers to investigate ICE’s actions at hospitals, told county supervisors at the meeting that he wanted more collaboration between Highland and his organization. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-01-e718d960-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus, part of the Alameda Health System, on Oct. 22, 2026, in Oakland. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107158/judge-rejects-trump-administration-bid-to-set-aside-20000-california-ballots\">issued a blistering order\u003c/a> warning federal prosecutors to stop threatening California election officials with crimes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day later, federal prosecutors kept going. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least four elections workers in California have received federal criminal grand jury subpoenas over the past week, with at least one delivered on Thursday after the court’s order.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that subpoena, issued to the Orange County Registrar of Voters’s office, federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security are seeking unredacted voter records for 60 people, according to records obtained by CalMatters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Colby Brown, rover supervisor at the Veterans Memorial Center voting center, seals a ballot drop box, in Davis on June 2, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subpoenas signal an intensification of the federal government’s unprecedented targeting of California’s elections, setting up what could be a showdown over the fundamentals of American democracy around next Tuesday’s midterm elections. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutors include those in the office of Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, a leading aide in President Donald Trump’s push to find evidence to support longstanding — and never proven — claims that California elections are rigged in Democrats’ favor due to noncitizen votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-orders-criminal-probes-of-california-officials-over-ballots\">Bloomberg Law first reported\u003c/a> Thursday that U.S. Justice Department leaders had directed top federal prosecutors to pursue criminal subpoenas of state and local officials in their efforts to find evidence that noncitizens were allowed to vote. The news outlet cited two unnamed sources familiar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month Essayli sued California and Los Angeles County, demanding they set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters he accused of not being U.S. citizens, and last week the Justice Department sent letters threatening local elections officials with criminal charges if they did not do the same with lists of voters in their own counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County election officials from across California have said spot checks \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\">found the government’s list of names to be inaccurate\u003c/a> and have challenged the legality of the requests. Officials in only one county so far – San Luis Obispo – have announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/departments/district-attorney/latest-news/2026/october/district-attorney-investigating-63-federally-identified-registrations-and-local-election-referrals\">they will investigate\u003c/a> the voters from the Justice Department’s demand letters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the subpoenas say \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Los Angeles County, federal prosecutors last week subpoenaed three employees of the Registrar-Recorder’s Office, ordering them to testify before a grand jury in a criminal investigation on Nov. 4, the day after the election. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors demanded county employees bring records of how their department prevents non-citizens from voting and “records relating to or involving evidence collected by your agency which tends to indicate an alien has voted in a federal election.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan said prosecutors were taking a “confrontational, adversarial approach.” He said the federal judge’s warning to stop making threats directed at election officials “was well placed and appreciated.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Threats and intimidation have no place in elections,” Logan said. “We will take whatever steps necessary to ensure the safety of our employees and to remain focused on serving the voters of Los Angeles County so they can exercise their voting franchise.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Orange County, federal agents obtained the new grand jury subpoena last week but elections officials received it Thursday. It is similar to previous information demands from federal prosecutors. Elections officials had in September produced records on 20 registered voters in response to subpoenas. On Thursday, Registrar of Voters Bob Page told CalMatters three of those names appeared again in the new subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government downplayed the subpoenas and suggested elections officials weren’t the targets of its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Receiving a subpoena doesn’t mean you are a target,” Justice Department spokesperson Kiersten Pels said in an emailed statement. “In fact, generally, the DOJ doesn’t subpoena targets.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Judge says ‘these threats must stop’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his courtroom on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter made it clear that the federal government needed to stop \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\">threatening election workers with criminal charges\u003c/a> if they didn’t comply with prosecutors’ demands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This court believes it would be wise that any threats to state or county (election) employees cease immediately,” Carter told the courtroom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made the warning formal in his written ruling issued Wednesday evening. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11977756\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. (Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The court reiterates what it said yesterday: these threats must stop,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department has appealed Carter’s ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Pels said prosecutors are merely doing what Carter told them to do: prosecute illegal voting if it’s found.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In expressing skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims, Carter told Essayli in court on Tuesday that if noncitizens really are voting in as large of numbers as the Trump administration claims, there’s nothing stopping federal prosecutors from finding them and charging them without the risk of blocking legal voters from having their ballots counted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, federal prosecutors across California charged 28 people with registering to vote despite not being citizens. Not all of those people had voted in past elections; those charged amount to 0.0001% of the state’s 23 million registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If it’s this big, you’ve got a remedy for goodness sakes,” Carter told Essayli during the hearing. “Go out and indict.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To be clear, the district court judge explained that voting unlawfully results in criminal exposure,” Pels wrote in her statement. “Consistent with this, California also wrote in its filing that the remedy for unlawful voting is through criminal prosecution. Thus, while DOJ maintains that a civil remedy is still available, all agree that noncitizen voting is properly addressed through criminal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin Levitt, an elections law expert at Loyola Law School, said federal prosecutors can argue they’re carrying out a legitimate criminal investigation, but in that case, there shouldn’t be any rush to subpoena officials in the middle of the election. The statute of limitations on federal voting offenses, he noted, is five years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Because they have no role in affecting the election results, there is no reason whatsoever for them to demand this information now,” Levitt said. “It’s not directly against the judge’s order … but it’s certainly not going to make the judge happy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107158/judge-rejects-trump-administration-bid-to-set-aside-20000-california-ballots\">issued a blistering order\u003c/a> warning federal prosecutors to stop threatening California election officials with crimes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day later, federal prosecutors kept going. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least four elections workers in California have received federal criminal grand jury subpoenas over the past week, with at least one delivered on Thursday after the court’s order.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that subpoena, issued to the Orange County Registrar of Voters’s office, federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security are seeking unredacted voter records for 60 people, according to records obtained by CalMatters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260602_PRIMARY2026CD4_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Colby Brown, rover supervisor at the Veterans Memorial Center voting center, seals a ballot drop box, in Davis on June 2, 2026. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subpoenas signal an intensification of the federal government’s unprecedented targeting of California’s elections, setting up what could be a showdown over the fundamentals of American democracy around next Tuesday’s midterm elections. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutors include those in the office of Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, a leading aide in President Donald Trump’s push to find evidence to support longstanding — and never proven — claims that California elections are rigged in Democrats’ favor due to noncitizen votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-orders-criminal-probes-of-california-officials-over-ballots\">Bloomberg Law first reported\u003c/a> Thursday that U.S. Justice Department leaders had directed top federal prosecutors to pursue criminal subpoenas of state and local officials in their efforts to find evidence that noncitizens were allowed to vote. The news outlet cited two unnamed sources familiar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month Essayli sued California and Los Angeles County, demanding they set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters he accused of not being U.S. citizens, and last week the Justice Department sent letters threatening local elections officials with criminal charges if they did not do the same with lists of voters in their own counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County election officials from across California have said spot checks \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\">found the government’s list of names to be inaccurate\u003c/a> and have challenged the legality of the requests. Officials in only one county so far – San Luis Obispo – have announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/departments/district-attorney/latest-news/2026/october/district-attorney-investigating-63-federally-identified-registrations-and-local-election-referrals\">they will investigate\u003c/a> the voters from the Justice Department’s demand letters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the subpoenas say \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Los Angeles County, federal prosecutors last week subpoenaed three employees of the Registrar-Recorder’s Office, ordering them to testify before a grand jury in a criminal investigation on Nov. 4, the day after the election. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors demanded county employees bring records of how their department prevents non-citizens from voting and “records relating to or involving evidence collected by your agency which tends to indicate an alien has voted in a federal election.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan said prosecutors were taking a “confrontational, adversarial approach.” He said the federal judge’s warning to stop making threats directed at election officials “was well placed and appreciated.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Threats and intimidation have no place in elections,” Logan said. “We will take whatever steps necessary to ensure the safety of our employees and to remain focused on serving the voters of Los Angeles County so they can exercise their voting franchise.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Orange County, federal agents obtained the new grand jury subpoena last week but elections officials received it Thursday. It is similar to previous information demands from federal prosecutors. Elections officials had in September produced records on 20 registered voters in response to subpoenas. On Thursday, Registrar of Voters Bob Page told CalMatters three of those names appeared again in the new subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government downplayed the subpoenas and suggested elections officials weren’t the targets of its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Receiving a subpoena doesn’t mean you are a target,” Justice Department spokesperson Kiersten Pels said in an emailed statement. “In fact, generally, the DOJ doesn’t subpoena targets.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Judge says ‘these threats must stop’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his courtroom on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter made it clear that the federal government needed to stop \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\">threatening election workers with criminal charges\u003c/a> if they didn’t comply with prosecutors’ demands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This court believes it would be wise that any threats to state or county (election) employees cease immediately,” Carter told the courtroom. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made the warning formal in his written ruling issued Wednesday evening. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Carter wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11977756\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/CMPollWorkers02-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A voter fills out their ballot at a polling station at the American Legion in Shasta Lake, California, during a special election in Shasta County on Nov. 7, 2023. (Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The court reiterates what it said yesterday: these threats must stop,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department has appealed Carter’s ruling to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Pels said prosecutors are merely doing what Carter told them to do: prosecute illegal voting if it’s found.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In expressing skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims, Carter told Essayli in court on Tuesday that if noncitizens really are voting in as large of numbers as the Trump administration claims, there’s nothing stopping federal prosecutors from finding them and charging them without the risk of blocking legal voters from having their ballots counted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, federal prosecutors across California charged 28 people with registering to vote despite not being citizens. Not all of those people had voted in past elections; those charged amount to 0.0001% of the state’s 23 million registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If it’s this big, you’ve got a remedy for goodness sakes,” Carter told Essayli during the hearing. “Go out and indict.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To be clear, the district court judge explained that voting unlawfully results in criminal exposure,” Pels wrote in her statement. “Consistent with this, California also wrote in its filing that the remedy for unlawful voting is through criminal prosecution. Thus, while DOJ maintains that a civil remedy is still available, all agree that noncitizen voting is properly addressed through criminal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin Levitt, an elections law expert at Loyola Law School, said federal prosecutors can argue they’re carrying out a legitimate criminal investigation, but in that case, there shouldn’t be any rush to subpoena officials in the middle of the election. The statute of limitations on federal voting offenses, he noted, is five years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Because they have no role in affecting the election results, there is no reason whatsoever for them to demand this information now,” Levitt said. “It’s not directly against the judge’s order … but it’s certainly not going to make the judge happy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California Sen. 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(Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About two dozen community members were on the lookout for agents on Thursday morning for hours, being directed by others to make noise if immigration authorities exited or entered the facility. They’d been showing up since Monday, an organizer said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alameda Health System, which Highland is a part of, declined to comment on allegations specific to De Bremaeker’s client’s care, citing patient confidentiality. But said, generally, law enforcement does not direct treatment and the system is complying with all laws and requirements concerning immigration enforcement in its facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an earlier statement to KQED about the ICE activity, AHS said that it activated an Incident Command Center and that security personnel were on site monitoring developments. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after a planned demonstration against ICE’s presence got underway on Friday, the health system told KQED that no patients at Highland Hospital were in ICE custody, and ICE personnel were not present on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alameda Health System’s training falls short, staff says\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some staff members told AHS in the letter that they “at all levels, remain confused and consistently express a lack of clarity on policy when patients are brought in civil detention.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is out of step with current best practices in the state of California,” the staff members wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb81\">Senate Bill 81\u003c/a>, which took effect in September 2025, requires medical health care providers to restrict certain immigration information from being shared and, as part of new restrictions to nonpublic areas, facilities must inform staff on how to respond to requests to access sites and establish procedures for receiving visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus is seen through flowering branches in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. The hospital is part of Alameda Health System. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But staff told administrators the hospital system isn’t in compliance with that law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ansel Schmidt, a physical therapist at the Highland Hospital, isn’t on the patient’s care team, but helped draft the letter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m not sure that I’ve received anything that I would call training,” Schmidt told KQED. What Schmidt has received is a “badge buddy,” or a reference guide, that he said implies staff can cooperate with ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A badge buddy reviewed by KQED shows that staff are instructed to notify an administrator when a patient in ICE custody shows up for care. Providers request agents leave during evaluation, inform patients of their rights and, if they don’t meet admission criteria, can be handed off to the ICE control office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmidt said that emails about responding to immigration activity have left him and others feeling “really confused and isolated,” because that “isn’t a training.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to staff concerns over training and what training is already in place, AHS said staff are told to “promptly escalate” situations through the appropriate channels where immigration authorities are present at any facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We reinforce these procedures through staff communications, training, scenario-based exercises, desktop training, and quick-reference ‘badge buddies’ that staff can keep with their identification badges,” AHS said. “The protocol has also been reviewed in staff webinar forums, including this week, and recordings are available to staff on our intranet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iman Khalil, a respiratory therapist at San Leandro Hospital, part of the Alameda Health System, said staff members receive minimal training about what to do when immigration authorities show up. Khalil received the same badge and emails Schmidt did.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Allowing the agents in the hospital … undoes all that training,” Khalil said. “You really don’t think they’ll even allow the agents in the hospital. But here we are.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS CEO James Jackson told staff that AHS believed the man in ICE’s custody at the hospital for the last week was part of the agency’s civil immigration enforcement authority and called on personnel to review established immigration response protocols, according to an Oct. 19 email obtained and reviewed by KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said a scheduled Oct. 27 joint meeting between county supervisors and the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees is an opportunity “to push for doing everything possible to enforce our policies that protect immigrant communities.” Fortunato Bas said officials will discuss budget, governance and compliance with local and state policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICE-free zone?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highland Hospital, which sits on county property, also falls under Alameda County’s “ICE-free zone” ordinance that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County supervisors and advocates touted the policy, of which similar ones have been adopted across the Bay Area, as a way to push back against violent and sometimes deadly actions by immigration agents during the second Trump administration. In January, agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota during a surge of immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez and other officials have also noted the limits of just how far the ICE-free zone can go. It doesn’t prevent immigration officials from actually being on county property, Sanchez \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/28/ice-free-zones-are-coming-to-alameda-county/\">said previously\u003c/a>. Officials in other jurisdictions with these “zones” have even referred to them as symbolic — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/04/ice-free-zones-community-wide-warning-system-weighed-in-richmond-amid-trump-crackdowns/\">a way to create\u003c/a> “false expectations.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1577\" height=\"1560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-1536x1519.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said his client is still in ICE custody as of Thursday afternoon. Another man he represents was detained by ICE in the San Antonio neighborhood in Oakland on the same day, before being taken to another hospital for injuries that De Bremaeker said were sustained because of the officers’ actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two cases are part of an “unprecedented escalation” of violence from ICE, De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland City Council member Charlene Wang said in a social media video Friday afternoon that she was outraged by the arrests. She said she had been in touch with AHS administration to see if there were any legal grounds to remove immigration authorities from the property, which Wang said they “[didn’t] know the answer to yet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney called on federal lawmakers to launch a congressional inquiry into ICE’s actions and, in particular, the agency’s activity in hospitals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They have been occupying these hospitals for days, creating an incredible threat to community members, terrifying folks who need medical care from going to the hospital,” De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said that De Bremaeker’s client — who the agency characterized as an “illegal alien” — was arrested as part of a targeted enforcement operation. During which, the agency said the detainee tried to assault officers and refused lawful commands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Officers relied on their training to control the situation,” an ICE spokesperson said, adding that De Bremaeker’s client disclosed a preexisting injury of falling off a ladder two days prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said, like other law enforcement agencies, it is standard procedure for ICE to accompany detainees for the safety of staff and public. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renee Coe, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is among the community members who came out to keep watch for ICE at the hospital. She said some community members are scared to show up to the hospital because of federal agents’ presence, but urged them not to put off medical care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS said its property is not being used as a staging area, operations base or processing location for immigration enforcement activities, and the immigration vehicles currently on Highland property are present “only in connection with a patient who is in immigration enforcement custody.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas told community members outside the hospital on Friday that her understanding of the ICE presence on the property was the same as the health system’s.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At any given time, I understand they only had two agents … maintaining legal custody of the patient at any given time,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 100 Oakland residents held an emergency press conference at 6 p.m. on Friday in front of Highland to demand accountability for local authorities, security contracting with the facility and AHS for “continuously” assisting ICE operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After immigration authorities detained a man in Emeryville last week and brought him to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highland-hospital\">Alameda County hospital\u003c/a>, some medical staff said they didn’t receive legally required training that would have helped them respond to enforcement activity. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several staff members at Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus in Oakland told administrators in a letter that the Oct. 16 arrival of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a detainee “highlighted major hazards to the rights and safety of our patients.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immigration agents brought a man to Highland for treatment after an agent allegedly tackled him and fractured six of his ribs, said Nikolas De Bremaeker, an attorney at Centro Legal De La Raza who represents the man. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker and some employees said agents allegedly tried to obstruct access to counsel, to direct medical treatment and asked staff for medical information. The agent who tackled the patient, the attorney said, had been “sitting on his bed, grinning at him.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s incredibly scary,” De Bremaeker told KQED. “It’s just unacceptable for ICE agents to be terrorizing folks inside a hospital.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-03-5314ee6d-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About two dozen community members were on the lookout for agents on Thursday morning for hours, being directed by others to make noise if immigration authorities exited or entered the facility. They’d been showing up since Monday, an organizer said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alameda Health System, which Highland is a part of, declined to comment on allegations specific to De Bremaeker’s client’s care, citing patient confidentiality. But said, generally, law enforcement does not direct treatment and the system is complying with all laws and requirements concerning immigration enforcement in its facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an earlier statement to KQED about the ICE activity, AHS said that it activated an Incident Command Center and that security personnel were on site monitoring developments. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after a planned demonstration against ICE’s presence got underway on Friday, the health system told KQED that no patients at Highland Hospital were in ICE custody, and ICE personnel were not present on the property. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alameda Health System’s training falls short, staff says\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some staff members told AHS in the letter that they “at all levels, remain confused and consistently express a lack of clarity on policy when patients are brought in civil detention.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This is out of step with current best practices in the state of California,” the staff members wrote. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb81\">Senate Bill 81\u003c/a>, which took effect in September 2025, requires medical health care providers to restrict certain immigration information from being shared and, as part of new restrictions to nonpublic areas, facilities must inform staff on how to respond to requests to access sites and establish procedures for receiving visitors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_010-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus is seen through flowering branches in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. The hospital is part of Alameda Health System. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But staff told administrators the hospital system isn’t in compliance with that law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ansel Schmidt, a physical therapist at the Highland Hospital, isn’t on the patient’s care team, but helped draft the letter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m not sure that I’ve received anything that I would call training,” Schmidt told KQED. What Schmidt has received is a “badge buddy,” or a reference guide, that he said implies staff can cooperate with ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A badge buddy reviewed by KQED shows that staff are instructed to notify an administrator when a patient in ICE custody shows up for care. Providers request agents leave during evaluation, inform patients of their rights and, if they don’t meet admission criteria, can be handed off to the ICE control office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmidt said that emails about responding to immigration activity have left him and others feeling “really confused and isolated,” because that “isn’t a training.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to staff concerns over training and what training is already in place, AHS said staff are told to “promptly escalate” situations through the appropriate channels where immigration authorities are present at any facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We reinforce these procedures through staff communications, training, scenario-based exercises, desktop training, and quick-reference ‘badge buddies’ that staff can keep with their identification badges,” AHS said. “The protocol has also been reviewed in staff webinar forums, including this week, and recordings are available to staff on our intranet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iman Khalil, a respiratory therapist at San Leandro Hospital, part of the Alameda Health System, said staff members receive minimal training about what to do when immigration authorities show up. Khalil received the same badge and emails Schmidt did.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Allowing the agents in the hospital … undoes all that training,” Khalil said. “You really don’t think they’ll even allow the agents in the hospital. But here we are.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS CEO James Jackson told staff that AHS believed the man in ICE’s custody at the hospital for the last week was part of the agency’s civil immigration enforcement authority and called on personnel to review established immigration response protocols, according to an Oct. 19 email obtained and reviewed by KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas said a scheduled Oct. 27 joint meeting between county supervisors and the Alameda Health System Board of Trustees is an opportunity “to push for doing everything possible to enforce our policies that protect immigrant communities.” Fortunato Bas said officials will discuss budget, governance and compliance with local and state policies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICE-free zone?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highland Hospital, which sits on county property, also falls under Alameda County’s “ICE-free zone” ordinance that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County supervisors and advocates touted the policy, of which similar ones have been adopted across the Bay Area, as a way to push back against violent and sometimes deadly actions by immigration agents during the second Trump administration. In January, agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota during a surge of immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez and other officials have also noted the limits of just how far the ICE-free zone can go. It doesn’t prevent immigration officials from actually being on county property, Sanchez \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/28/ice-free-zones-are-coming-to-alameda-county/\">said previously\u003c/a>. Officials in other jurisdictions with these “zones” have even referred to them as symbolic — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/04/ice-free-zones-community-wide-warning-system-weighed-in-richmond-amid-trump-crackdowns/\">a way to create\u003c/a> “false expectations.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1577\" height=\"1560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12105984\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd.jpg 1577w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-Highland-Hospital-SK-02-0b437edd-1536x1519.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1577px) 100vw, 1577px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One side of an Alameda Health System employee’s “badge buddy” that outlines how to respond to immigration authorities when they show up to one of the facilities. (Courtesy of Iman Khalil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Bremaeker said his client is still in ICE custody as of Thursday afternoon. Another man he represents was detained by ICE in the San Antonio neighborhood in Oakland on the same day, before being taken to another hospital for injuries that De Bremaeker said were sustained because of the officers’ actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two cases are part of an “unprecedented escalation” of violence from ICE, De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland City Council member Charlene Wang said in a social media video Friday afternoon that she was outraged by the arrests. She said she had been in touch with AHS administration to see if there were any legal grounds to remove immigration authorities from the property, which Wang said they “[didn’t] know the answer to yet.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney called on federal lawmakers to launch a congressional inquiry into ICE’s actions and, in particular, the agency’s activity in hospitals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They have been occupying these hospitals for days, creating an incredible threat to community members, terrifying folks who need medical care from going to the hospital,” De Bremaeker said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE said that De Bremaeker’s client — who the agency characterized as an “illegal alien” — was arrested as part of a targeted enforcement operation. During which, the agency said the detainee tried to assault officers and refused lawful commands. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Officers relied on their training to control the situation,” an ICE spokesperson said, adding that De Bremaeker’s client disclosed a preexisting injury of falling off a ladder two days prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said, like other law enforcement agencies, it is standard procedure for ICE to accompany detainees for the safety of staff and public. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renee Coe, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is among the community members who came out to keep watch for ICE at the hospital. She said some community members are scared to show up to the hospital because of federal agents’ presence, but urged them not to put off medical care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AHS said its property is not being used as a staging area, operations base or processing location for immigration enforcement activities, and the immigration vehicles currently on Highland property are present “only in connection with a patient who is in immigration enforcement custody.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunato Bas told community members outside the hospital on Friday that her understanding of the ICE presence on the property was the same as the health system’s.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“At any given time, I understand they only had two agents … maintaining legal custody of the patient at any given time,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 100 Oakland residents held an emergency press conference at 6 p.m. on Friday in front of Highland to demand accountability for local authorities, security contracting with the facility and AHS for “continuously” assisting ICE operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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