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Gang members killed her husband before he could get out, but with the help of family, Pierre was able to bring her daughter, now 13, to the U.S., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierre and her daughter are among more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-august-2024-monthly-update\">300,000\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/immigration-enforcement/immigration-enforcement-and-legal-processes-monthly#table-data-heading\">Haitians\u003c/a> who have been granted temporary humanitarian parole — and an opportunity to apply for asylum — in the U.S. since January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority who come through Tijuana and San Diego travel on to jobs or loved ones in other cities, but a few thousand, including Pierre, are putting down roots here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as they work to build more secure new lives in the U.S., Haitians are confronting a new kind of crisis — the barrage of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the Republican presidential campaign of Donald Trump, who targeted Haitians in Ohio last month with outlandish and false accusations of eating other peoples’ pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/newsnation/status/1841672076371099873?s=46&t=-Fryv-WUcoW_Mg1M5zBACQ\">Trump told NewsNation\u003c/a> that, if elected, he would revoke Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian legal protection, and deport the Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely I’d revoke it,” he said. “What’s happening there is horrible … You have to remove the people. We cannot destroy our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s attacks set Pierre on edge. And though his claim that Haitians were making meals of cats and dogs was patently untrue, she felt a need to rebut it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that I’ve never done. Never,” she said. “I don’t know where this comes from. But my parents raised me well. I would never in my life do something like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemarthe Pierre waits outside of San Diego Continuing Education’s Mid-City campus after attending English class on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The scars could take years to heal’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the street from the college, a cluster of Haitians gathered on their lunch breaks in the parking lot of El Super, a supermarket specializing in Latin American products. One man served up generous portions of rice and stewed crab from pots in the back of his minivan while others chatted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was weeks after Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, first made the anti-Haitian slurs, the men were still venting their frustration and fear, said Jeef Nelson, a community advocate with the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, who joined in the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel hurt. They feel betrayed to hear speech like that coming out of the mouth of a presidential candidate,” Nelson said. “It’s going to have ugly repercussions on the Haitian population. And the scars could take years to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeef Nelson (right) and David Boniface from the Haitian Bridge Alliance bring meals to migrants waiting for flights at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Zachee St. Vil, a father of three with a small moving company in San Diego, said he’d lived through much worse. Standing in the shade, he chalked up Trump’s comments to electioneering and decided not to let it get to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the Democrat and the Republican. One says one thing, and one says another,” said St. Vil, 52, speaking in Spanish. “But in a democracy, once the voting is over, the country unites and peace can return. We all need peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In St. Vil’s life, peace hasn’t always been a given. He said he left Haiti 25 years ago \u003ca href=\"https://1997-2001.state.gov/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/haiti.html\">when police violence and insecurity became intolerable\u003c/a>. For years, he made a home in Venezuela, but then that country, too, fell into economic and political collapse. So four years ago, he and his family journeyed on to California, crossing the border illegally. They eventually received protection from deportation and were given work permits — but no pathway to citizenship — under a humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then tragedy struck. St. Vil’s son, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/2-people-rescued-one-still-missing-mission-beach/509-68fde096-7ec8-4eec-a25e-df74f4b7fb38\">a popular and promising basketball player\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article275277841.html\">drowned on a trip to the beach\u003c/a> just days after his high school graduation. Two years on, St. Vil is still gripped by grief. Yet he said he’s found San Diego to be a welcoming place that’s finally provided his family with a baseline of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can build my business here. I feel safe to go outside at any hour,” he said. “Compared to other countries, it’s a lot better here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachee St. Vil, an immigrant from Haiti, stops by to see friends in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood before starting work on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Haitians have integrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But on the presidential campaign trail, Trump and Vance have not backed off their inflammatory, racialized claims that immigrants are “invading” and “poisoning the blood” of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At rallies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTIxM7Kfh38\">Trump has declared\u003c/a> that immigrants are “attacking villages and towns” and that predominantly white Midwestern communities “will be transformed into a Third World hellhole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas calls that rhetoric “disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Using this as a talking point to get votes, I think, signifies the racism that exists,” said Vargas, whose district hugs the border and includes City Heights, one of San Diego’s most diverse neighborhoods and home to a large share of immigrants and refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to set the record straight that Haitians who are in the United States have integrated,” she said. “They’re doing their work, they’re participating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at the U.S.–Mexico border, almost all Haitians are arriving legally through a process established last year by the Biden administration that lets migrants in Mexico make appointments on a cellphone app and be vetted by U.S. border officials for parole. Once in the U.S., they’re put into immigration court proceedings, where they can make a claim for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex, an immigrant from Haiti, prepares lunch for other Haitians in San Diego on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Haiti, decades of political instability, dire poverty, natural disasters and weak civic institutions have led to a grave crisis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/03/haiti-crisis-requires-international-condemnation-lasting-solutions/#:~:text=Haiti%20has%20been%20plunged%20into,such%20as%20ports%20and%20airports\">Amnesty International declared\u003c/a> this year. Criminal gangs now control most of Port au Prince and have unleashed terrifying violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that people want to leave. But they cannot stay. They can’t see a future in such chaos,” said Nelson, of the Haitian Bridge Alliance. “It’s not safe. Everybody’s living day by day, knowing that the next day they might die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson came to the U.S. in 2018 when he was invited to be a research assistant for a California professor he had met through his job as an office manager at a Haitian university. He said his six-month position was renewed, and he eventually was able to obtain a green card and U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he works to support the Haitians who’ve settled in San Diego, as well as newly arrived migrants who are heading on to other destinations. (His organization, Haitian Bridge Alliance, also recently filed a criminal complaint in Ohio against Donald Trump over the incendiary pet-eating allegations.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/hsec/oira/2024-2026%20Refugee%20Support%20Services%20Plan.pdf\">recent report (PDF)\u003c/a> on refugees and asylees in San Diego County found that between 2,700 and 4,700 Haitians had settled in the area between autumn of 2020 and summer of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not all the Haitians arriving at the border are entering the U.S. San Diego’s small Haitian community, which is mirrored by a similar one in Tijuana. An estimated 5,000 Haitians have settled there, beginning in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘My American dream has evaporated’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-160x121.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivianne Petit Frere looks out the entrance of her restaurant, Lakou Lakay, in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is Vivianne Petit Frere. She left Haiti in 2019 when mass protests over skyrocketing fuel prices led to a political crisis and crackdown. She settled first in Brazil, then made it to Mexico in 2021. The journey — through 10 countries and across the perilous jungle of the Darien Gap — took five months, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came here to cross into the U.S.,” she said. “You know everyone has their American dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, three years later, Petit Frere has put down roots and become an anchor of the Haitian community in Tijuana. She runs a restaurant downtown called Lakou Lakay. The phrase translates from Haitian Creole as the patio or courtyard of a home — a place for people to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Haitians are the best at cooking rice,” Petit Frere said, serving up a plate heaped with a rice and beans dish, fried chicken, fried green plantain and a spicy, pickled cabbage slaw called pikliz. “I want Mexicans to learn how delicious Haitian food is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2513px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2513\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2.jpg 2513w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1536x509.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-2048x679.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1920x636.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2513px) 100vw, 2513px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The restaurant Lakou Lakay serves Haitian food in Tijuana. Right: Vivianne Petit Frere completes school work from a table in her restaurant, Lakou Lakay, in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The restaurant — with aqua green walls, bright yellow beams, blue chairs and photographs of Caribbean beaches — is not only a place for Mexicans to taste a bit of Haiti but also an informal gathering spot for Tijuana Haitians, who know they are welcome to come in and sit down, whether or not they order anything. It’s also Petit Frere’s informal office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a mother, a businesswoman, a student and a social worker,” she said, opening up her laptop at a back table. Petit Frere is studying for a degree in social work at the University of Baja California. And she’s become the Tijuana community organizer for the Haitian Bridge Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that morning, she and her husband delivered a carload of diapers and other baby supplies to a maternal health clinic serving migrants of all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We help other community groups, and they help us,” she said. “We support them with donations, translation, whatever we can. And they provide things like health services and legal aid to Haitian migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2513px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2513\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1.jpg 2513w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1536x509.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-2048x679.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1920x636.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2513px) 100vw, 2513px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Vivianne Petit Frere drops off diapers at a women’s health clinic in Tijuana. Right: Petit Frere stops to speak with a friend outside of a women’s health care clinic in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petit Frere feels that Haitians are treated with respect in Tijuana, though she said the Mexican government is sometimes slow to respond to their needs. Still, she’s become a legal permanent resident of Mexico, a process that’s somewhat easier than in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana is where she met her husband, Joseph Saint, who’s also from Haiti. Together, they’re raising three children from their past marriages. … and a toddler who was born in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son, who was born in Haiti, came here as a small child, so now he behaves like a Mexican,” she said. “And I have my Mexican daughter as well, so I see myself as part of this community. My life is here now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Saint, Vivianne Petit Frere’s husband, bargains with a salesman at his wife’s restaurant in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, when she looks at the United States, she said she sees a presidential candidate stirring up fear and revulsion toward Haitian immigrants. And she sees a culture where people’s lives revolve around making money and chasing material things rather than building community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My American dream has evaporated,” she said. “The United States has so many contradictions. I realized that over there, you never really belong. … I feel more free here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A small community of Haitians calls San Diego home. But former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant message leaves some wondering if they can truly belong. The view looks different for those in Tijuana.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1728087477,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2146},"headData":{"title":"Haitians Are Settling Along California-Mexico Border, Despite Concerns Over Anti-Immigrant Politics | KQED","description":"A small community of Haitians calls San Diego home. But former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant message leaves some wondering if they can truly belong. 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Gang members killed her husband before he could get out, but with the help of family, Pierre was able to bring her daughter, now 13, to the U.S., she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierre and her daughter are among more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-august-2024-monthly-update\">300,000\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/immigration-enforcement/immigration-enforcement-and-legal-processes-monthly#table-data-heading\">Haitians\u003c/a> who have been granted temporary humanitarian parole — and an opportunity to apply for asylum — in the U.S. since January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority who come through Tijuana and San Diego travel on to jobs or loved ones in other cities, but a few thousand, including Pierre, are putting down roots here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even as they work to build more secure new lives in the U.S., Haitians are confronting a new kind of crisis — the barrage of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the Republican presidential campaign of Donald Trump, who targeted Haitians in Ohio last month with outlandish and false accusations of eating other peoples’ pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/newsnation/status/1841672076371099873?s=46&t=-Fryv-WUcoW_Mg1M5zBACQ\">Trump told NewsNation\u003c/a> that, if elected, he would revoke Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian legal protection, and deport the Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely I’d revoke it,” he said. “What’s happening there is horrible … You have to remove the people. We cannot destroy our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s attacks set Pierre on edge. And though his claim that Haitians were making meals of cats and dogs was patently untrue, she felt a need to rebut it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that I’ve never done. Never,” she said. “I don’t know where this comes from. But my parents raised me well. I would never in my life do something like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-72-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemarthe Pierre waits outside of San Diego Continuing Education’s Mid-City campus after attending English class on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The scars could take years to heal’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Across the street from the college, a cluster of Haitians gathered on their lunch breaks in the parking lot of El Super, a supermarket specializing in Latin American products. One man served up generous portions of rice and stewed crab from pots in the back of his minivan while others chatted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it was weeks after Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, first made the anti-Haitian slurs, the men were still venting their frustration and fear, said Jeef Nelson, a community advocate with the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, who joined in the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They feel hurt. They feel betrayed to hear speech like that coming out of the mouth of a presidential candidate,” Nelson said. “It’s going to have ugly repercussions on the Haitian population. And the scars could take years to heal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeef Nelson (right) and David Boniface from the Haitian Bridge Alliance bring meals to migrants waiting for flights at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Zachee St. Vil, a father of three with a small moving company in San Diego, said he’d lived through much worse. Standing in the shade, he chalked up Trump’s comments to electioneering and decided not to let it get to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the Democrat and the Republican. One says one thing, and one says another,” said St. Vil, 52, speaking in Spanish. “But in a democracy, once the voting is over, the country unites and peace can return. We all need peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In St. Vil’s life, peace hasn’t always been a given. He said he left Haiti 25 years ago \u003ca href=\"https://1997-2001.state.gov/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/haiti.html\">when police violence and insecurity became intolerable\u003c/a>. For years, he made a home in Venezuela, but then that country, too, fell into economic and political collapse. So four years ago, he and his family journeyed on to California, crossing the border illegally. They eventually received protection from deportation and were given work permits — but no pathway to citizenship — under a humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then tragedy struck. St. Vil’s son, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/2-people-rescued-one-still-missing-mission-beach/509-68fde096-7ec8-4eec-a25e-df74f4b7fb38\">a popular and promising basketball player\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article275277841.html\">drowned on a trip to the beach\u003c/a> just days after his high school graduation. Two years on, St. Vil is still gripped by grief. Yet he said he’s found San Diego to be a welcoming place that’s finally provided his family with a baseline of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can build my business here. I feel safe to go outside at any hour,” he said. “Compared to other countries, it’s a lot better here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-74-KQED-e1727990802264-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachee St. Vil, an immigrant from Haiti, stops by to see friends in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood before starting work on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Haitians have integrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But on the presidential campaign trail, Trump and Vance have not backed off their inflammatory, racialized claims that immigrants are “invading” and “poisoning the blood” of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At rallies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTIxM7Kfh38\">Trump has declared\u003c/a> that immigrants are “attacking villages and towns” and that predominantly white Midwestern communities “will be transformed into a Third World hellhole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas calls that rhetoric “disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Using this as a talking point to get votes, I think, signifies the racism that exists,” said Vargas, whose district hugs the border and includes City Heights, one of San Diego’s most diverse neighborhoods and home to a large share of immigrants and refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to set the record straight that Haitians who are in the United States have integrated,” she said. “They’re doing their work, they’re participating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at the U.S.–Mexico border, almost all Haitians are arriving legally through a process established last year by the Biden administration that lets migrants in Mexico make appointments on a cellphone app and be vetted by U.S. border officials for parole. Once in the U.S., they’re put into immigration court proceedings, where they can make a claim for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-73-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex, an immigrant from Haiti, prepares lunch for other Haitians in San Diego on Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Haiti, decades of political instability, dire poverty, natural disasters and weak civic institutions have led to a grave crisis, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/03/haiti-crisis-requires-international-condemnation-lasting-solutions/#:~:text=Haiti%20has%20been%20plunged%20into,such%20as%20ports%20and%20airports\">Amnesty International declared\u003c/a> this year. Criminal gangs now control most of Port au Prince and have unleashed terrifying violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that people want to leave. But they cannot stay. They can’t see a future in such chaos,” said Nelson, of the Haitian Bridge Alliance. “It’s not safe. Everybody’s living day by day, knowing that the next day they might die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson came to the U.S. in 2018 when he was invited to be a research assistant for a California professor he had met through his job as an office manager at a Haitian university. He said his six-month position was renewed, and he eventually was able to obtain a green card and U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he works to support the Haitians who’ve settled in San Diego, as well as newly arrived migrants who are heading on to other destinations. (His organization, Haitian Bridge Alliance, also recently filed a criminal complaint in Ohio against Donald Trump over the incendiary pet-eating allegations.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/hsec/oira/2024-2026%20Refugee%20Support%20Services%20Plan.pdf\">recent report (PDF)\u003c/a> on refugees and asylees in San Diego County found that between 2,700 and 4,700 Haitians had settled in the area between autumn of 2020 and summer of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, not all the Haitians arriving at the border are entering the U.S. San Diego’s small Haitian community, which is mirrored by a similar one in Tijuana. An estimated 5,000 Haitians have settled there, beginning in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘My American dream has evaporated’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-1020x773.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-48-KQED-e1727990650659-160x121.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivianne Petit Frere looks out the entrance of her restaurant, Lakou Lakay, in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is Vivianne Petit Frere. She left Haiti in 2019 when mass protests over skyrocketing fuel prices led to a political crisis and crackdown. She settled first in Brazil, then made it to Mexico in 2021. The journey — through 10 countries and across the perilous jungle of the Darien Gap — took five months, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came here to cross into the U.S.,” she said. “You know everyone has their American dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, three years later, Petit Frere has put down roots and become an anchor of the Haitian community in Tijuana. She runs a restaurant downtown called Lakou Lakay. The phrase translates from Haitian Creole as the patio or courtyard of a home — a place for people to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Haitians are the best at cooking rice,” Petit Frere said, serving up a plate heaped with a rice and beans dish, fried chicken, fried green plantain and a spicy, pickled cabbage slaw called pikliz. “I want Mexicans to learn how delicious Haitian food is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2513px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007823\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2513\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2.jpg 2513w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1536x509.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-2048x679.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-2-1920x636.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2513px) 100vw, 2513px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The restaurant Lakou Lakay serves Haitian food in Tijuana. Right: Vivianne Petit Frere completes school work from a table in her restaurant, Lakou Lakay, in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The restaurant — with aqua green walls, bright yellow beams, blue chairs and photographs of Caribbean beaches — is not only a place for Mexicans to taste a bit of Haiti but also an informal gathering spot for Tijuana Haitians, who know they are welcome to come in and sit down, whether or not they order anything. It’s also Petit Frere’s informal office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a mother, a businesswoman, a student and a social worker,” she said, opening up her laptop at a back table. Petit Frere is studying for a degree in social work at the University of Baja California. And she’s become the Tijuana community organizer for the Haitian Bridge Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that morning, she and her husband delivered a carload of diapers and other baby supplies to a maternal health clinic serving migrants of all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We help other community groups, and they help us,” she said. “We support them with donations, translation, whatever we can. And they provide things like health services and legal aid to Haitian migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2513px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2513\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1.jpg 2513w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1536x509.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-2048x679.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/HAITIANS-AT-THE-BORDER-DIPTYCH-1-1920x636.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2513px) 100vw, 2513px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Vivianne Petit Frere drops off diapers at a women’s health clinic in Tijuana. Right: Petit Frere stops to speak with a friend outside of a women’s health care clinic in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petit Frere feels that Haitians are treated with respect in Tijuana, though she said the Mexican government is sometimes slow to respond to their needs. Still, she’s become a legal permanent resident of Mexico, a process that’s somewhat easier than in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana is where she met her husband, Joseph Saint, who’s also from Haiti. Together, they’re raising three children from their past marriages. … and a toddler who was born in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son, who was born in Haiti, came here as a small child, so now he behaves like a Mexican,” she said. “And I have my Mexican daughter as well, so I see myself as part of this community. My life is here now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/KQED-75-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Saint, Vivianne Petit Frere’s husband, bargains with a salesman at his wife’s restaurant in Tijuana on Sept. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, when she looks at the United States, she said she sees a presidential candidate stirring up fear and revulsion toward Haitian immigrants. And she sees a culture where people’s lives revolve around making money and chasing material things rather than building community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My American dream has evaporated,” she said. “The United States has so many contradictions. I realized that over there, you never really belong. … I feel more free here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12007740/haitians-on-edge-at-californias-border-even-as-they-put-down-roots","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_24736","news_27626","news_34582","news_17708","news_20202","news_21998"],"featImg":"news_12007786","label":"source_news_12007740"},"arts_13965193":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13965193","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13965193","score":null,"sort":[1727276419000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fremont-immigrant-suburb-idealism-my-hometown","title":"Fremont, My Hometown","publishDate":1727276419,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Fremont, My Hometown | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen/\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]y pride in hailing from a sprawling suburb has always left people puzzled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont isn’t exactly a Bay Area centerpiece. Still, I eagerly defend it by mentioning that it’s the fourth-most populous city in the Bay Area, and that yes, indeed it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>the Bay (it’s Alameda County! We’ve always had a BART station! We have our own stinky marsh bridge!). Our food is multicultural and peerless, and our dusty hills can be transcendent when their summer brown molts to green after a few healthy rainstorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My exuberance has been matched only by a 52-year-old man I once met at a West Berkeley homeless shelter. I noted his “Flying A’s Niles” T-shirt while I interviewed residents prior to the shelter’s closing, and he shared stories about the car club in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789138/how-charlie-chaplin-and-silent-films-flourished-in-the-east-bay\">Fremont’s historic Niles district, made famous a century ago as a studio town for dozens of Charlie Chaplin films\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965201\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Supriya Yelimeli (right) plays with her sister and cousin in a creek at Fremont’s Central Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the man grew up in a very different Fremont than I did, we giddily swapped tales about shared haunts, and he told me — with only a hint of pride — that Lake Elizabeth is about the same size as Lake Merritt. This trivia is most interesting to someone who has enjoyed innumerable sunset walks while dodging geese droppings at both parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We regarded the city of his youth — and of mine — as something of a sanctuary. A safe and comfortable place, frozen in time, with ducks and vintage cars and bountiful food and quality family moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538']Fremont’s reputation seems to be manufactured this way, under the generous umbrella of “boring.” It benefits both immigrant families who hope to create bubbles of safety by raising children in familiar environments, and the many forces that reap the rewards of inflated real estate prices — pinned to shiny signifiers like top schools, safe neighborhoods and the entirely inexplicable (repeat!) ranking of “Happiest City in America” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/fremont-happiest-city-2024-18693776.php\">dubiously graded by WalletHub, a personal finance company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this notion of Fremont’s exceptionalism is insidious. It harms all of us to silo suburbs away from the greater context of the Bay Area, especially when sweetness and safety should be easy to come by for everyone. It’s a microcosm of how Silicon Valley — of which Fremont is a part, culturally, industrially and economically — often isolates itself from the Bay, as if impervious to any ills or faults of its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965199\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quintessential Bay Area immigrant family photo in front of the San Francisco skyline. The author (center) is flanked by her sister and mom. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I remember my childhood as cozy and simple. My main preoccupation was what my older sister was doing at any given moment, then my parents, then our cat, in that order. I liked going to school, watching Bollywood films at Naz 8 (a famed local theater \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/bollywood-goes-hollywood-1/\">formerly run by a Pakistani immigrant who cameoed in Bollywood B-films\u003c/a>, since replaced by another Desi-centric moviehouse) and taking weekend BART trips to San Francisco to ogle sea lions with visiting cousins. I practiced riding a Ripstik around the park with my dad, who followed patiently on foot and didn’t think to tell me that skateboarding would make me a cooler teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents moved to Fremont in the late ’90s because the homes were still cheaper than South Bay cities like Sunnyvale and Cupertino, which had already established themselves in Silicon Valley’s tech empire extending just beyond San Jose’s outskirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fremont was on the east side of the Bay’s marshy waters, reachable only by crossing the Dumbarton Bridge or curving around the Bay’s southern shoreline past the stretches of garbage landfill in Milpitas. Geographically, it rested in slightly undefined territory — neither claimed by the East Bay nor Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author plays with her late father, who immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1993, eventually making his way to Silicon Valley via Illinois, Kansas, Ohio and New Jersey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine Fremont in this up-and-coming era, when my parents bought a three-bedroom home for $275,000. Sadly, they lost that home in the recession, struggling to pay the mortgage, and thereafter remained renters in the city. Being a studious Zillow-scroller (I blame the housing beat, but it’s really just nosiness), I’m never thrilled to see that it last sold in 2018 for $1.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I credit journalism with helping me understand Fremont and its relationship to the fractured region I grew up in. In 2011, during a high school newspaper trip, I interviewed protesters at the Occupy San Francisco camp and passersby in the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101906515']I stopped a platinum-haired, older woman on the street, who was wearing what my 15-year-old mind imagined to be a Chanel suit. I asked what she thought of the movement, and she told me frankly, “Well, I am the 1%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as I covered anti-homeless actions by neighbors in San Jose, San Francisco and Berkeley, I took note of Fremont neighbors in the midst of their own attempts to block a homeless navigation center in that neighborhood made so famous by silent films, where subsidized housing (as in the rest of the city) constitutes a tiny fraction of available homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupying the same county as Berkeley and Oakland, where the highest percentage of our homeless neighbors live, Fremont was doing its best to replicate the behaviors of so many Silicon Valley cities that have made it clear that their doors are closed to those who are not affluent, not tech-aligned, not worthy of sharing space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965198\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965198\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author sitting at her dad’s desk, surrounded by 90s and 2000s paraphernalia, along with issues of Silicon India and the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have the brash self-awareness of my interviewee in San Francisco, whose generationally wealthy peers have historically driven efforts of exclusion in the Bay. But it seemed Fremont residents had adopted this playbook for their own efforts to distance themselves from anything uncomfortable, or unfamiliar, while allowing the immigrant narrative of struggle to obscure the way we wield power in very similar ways after obtaining a home, income and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a 10-hour Fremont Unified School District Board meeting in 2018, I listened as parent after parent, almost exclusively immigrants, insisted that education on sexual assault, affirmative consent, gender, puberty, abortion and intercourse would irreparably corrupt fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders. One Asian American alum of Fremont schools countered at that meeting: without education, how was a young girl supposed to cope if she got her period before middle school? The district would go without a sexual education curriculum for all elementary schoolers that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964383']It comes at a cost to cling to comfort and familiarity for only \u003ci>our\u003c/i> communities, pretending that everything that exists outside of them — a housing crisis, a drug crisis, overlapping homelessness and mental health crises, all exacerbated by a pandemic — are not part of our lives too. That the comforts we have are due to perseverance alone, and not a system of privilege that is tenuous at best, and could easily turn on us like it has in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular form of clinging in Fremont, and many of our most affluent suburbs sprinkled throughout Silicon Valley’s zip codes, makes the Bay Area worse for everyone. It keeps the Bay from functioning as a cohesive unit, where people can move and live in different types of neighborhoods as their lives change and families grow. Where people can access resources away from the city, and easily find a nice big patch of green space to dodge geese droppings with a kid still finding their feet on a pair of quad skates (amid the Great Ripstik Abandonment of 2009).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author (middle) rides a Fremont-line BART train. Here she is pictured with older sister (left) and older cousin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom lives in Milpitas now, and I only stop by Fremont to get treats at India Cash & Carry; make a biannual, masochistic trudge up Mission Peak; or ride the train to the (still new-to-me) Warm Springs BART station to grimly observe the rash of new condos and apartments just barely blocking my precious dusty hill view (as is my right).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A promise of “luxury right to your doorstep” glares back at me from the myriad advertisements wrapped around scaffolding. It’s a sign that — without intervention — the sweet comforts of my childhood in Fremont will become even more distant for those who want to live and flourish in my hometown.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supriya Yelimeli surveys Fremont’s immigrant idealism and its relationship to inequity in the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727721526,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1567},"headData":{"title":"Fremont, My Hometown | KQED","description":"Supriya Yelimeli surveys Fremont’s immigrant idealism and its relationship to inequity in the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Fremont, My Hometown","datePublished":"2024-09-25T08:00:19-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-30T11:38:46-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Silicon Valley Unseen","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Supriya Yelimeli","nprStoryId":"kqed-13965193","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13965193/fremont-immigrant-suburb-idealism-my-hometown","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen/\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y pride in hailing from a sprawling suburb has always left people puzzled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont isn’t exactly a Bay Area centerpiece. Still, I eagerly defend it by mentioning that it’s the fourth-most populous city in the Bay Area, and that yes, indeed it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>the Bay (it’s Alameda County! We’ve always had a BART station! We have our own stinky marsh bridge!). Our food is multicultural and peerless, and our dusty hills can be transcendent when their summer brown molts to green after a few healthy rainstorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My exuberance has been matched only by a 52-year-old man I once met at a West Berkeley homeless shelter. I noted his “Flying A’s Niles” T-shirt while I interviewed residents prior to the shelter’s closing, and he shared stories about the car club in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789138/how-charlie-chaplin-and-silent-films-flourished-in-the-east-bay\">Fremont’s historic Niles district, made famous a century ago as a studio town for dozens of Charlie Chaplin films\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965201\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12320544-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Supriya Yelimeli (right) plays with her sister and cousin in a creek at Fremont’s Central Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the man grew up in a very different Fremont than I did, we giddily swapped tales about shared haunts, and he told me — with only a hint of pride — that Lake Elizabeth is about the same size as Lake Merritt. This trivia is most interesting to someone who has enjoyed innumerable sunset walks while dodging geese droppings at both parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We regarded the city of his youth — and of mine — as something of a sanctuary. A safe and comfortable place, frozen in time, with ducks and vintage cars and bountiful food and quality family moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13964538","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fremont’s reputation seems to be manufactured this way, under the generous umbrella of “boring.” It benefits both immigrant families who hope to create bubbles of safety by raising children in familiar environments, and the many forces that reap the rewards of inflated real estate prices — pinned to shiny signifiers like top schools, safe neighborhoods and the entirely inexplicable (repeat!) ranking of “Happiest City in America” as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/fremont-happiest-city-2024-18693776.php\">dubiously graded by WalletHub, a personal finance company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this notion of Fremont’s exceptionalism is insidious. It harms all of us to silo suburbs away from the greater context of the Bay Area, especially when sweetness and safety should be easy to come by for everyone. It’s a microcosm of how Silicon Valley — of which Fremont is a part, culturally, industrially and economically — often isolates itself from the Bay, as if impervious to any ills or faults of its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965199\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12163155-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quintessential Bay Area immigrant family photo in front of the San Francisco skyline. The author (center) is flanked by her sister and mom. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I remember my childhood as cozy and simple. My main preoccupation was what my older sister was doing at any given moment, then my parents, then our cat, in that order. I liked going to school, watching Bollywood films at Naz 8 (a famed local theater \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/bollywood-goes-hollywood-1/\">formerly run by a Pakistani immigrant who cameoed in Bollywood B-films\u003c/a>, since replaced by another Desi-centric moviehouse) and taking weekend BART trips to San Francisco to ogle sea lions with visiting cousins. I practiced riding a Ripstik around the park with my dad, who followed patiently on foot and didn’t think to tell me that skateboarding would make me a cooler teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents moved to Fremont in the late ’90s because the homes were still cheaper than South Bay cities like Sunnyvale and Cupertino, which had already established themselves in Silicon Valley’s tech empire extending just beyond San Jose’s outskirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Fremont was on the east side of the Bay’s marshy waters, reachable only by crossing the Dumbarton Bridge or curving around the Bay’s southern shoreline past the stretches of garbage landfill in Milpitas. Geographically, it rested in slightly undefined territory — neither claimed by the East Bay nor Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/image000000-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author plays with her late father, who immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1993, eventually making his way to Silicon Valley via Illinois, Kansas, Ohio and New Jersey. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine Fremont in this up-and-coming era, when my parents bought a three-bedroom home for $275,000. Sadly, they lost that home in the recession, struggling to pay the mortgage, and thereafter remained renters in the city. Being a studious Zillow-scroller (I blame the housing beat, but it’s really just nosiness), I’m never thrilled to see that it last sold in 2018 for $1.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I credit journalism with helping me understand Fremont and its relationship to the fractured region I grew up in. In 2011, during a high school newspaper trip, I interviewed protesters at the Occupy San Francisco camp and passersby in the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101906515","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I stopped a platinum-haired, older woman on the street, who was wearing what my 15-year-old mind imagined to be a Chanel suit. I asked what she thought of the movement, and she told me frankly, “Well, I am the 1%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as I covered anti-homeless actions by neighbors in San Jose, San Francisco and Berkeley, I took note of Fremont neighbors in the midst of their own attempts to block a homeless navigation center in that neighborhood made so famous by silent films, where subsidized housing (as in the rest of the city) constitutes a tiny fraction of available homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupying the same county as Berkeley and Oakland, where the highest percentage of our homeless neighbors live, Fremont was doing its best to replicate the behaviors of so many Silicon Valley cities that have made it clear that their doors are closed to those who are not affluent, not tech-aligned, not worthy of sharing space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965198\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965198\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12024470-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author sitting at her dad’s desk, surrounded by 90s and 2000s paraphernalia, along with issues of Silicon India and the San Francisco Chronicle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have the brash self-awareness of my interviewee in San Francisco, whose generationally wealthy peers have historically driven efforts of exclusion in the Bay. But it seemed Fremont residents had adopted this playbook for their own efforts to distance themselves from anything uncomfortable, or unfamiliar, while allowing the immigrant narrative of struggle to obscure the way we wield power in very similar ways after obtaining a home, income and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a 10-hour Fremont Unified School District Board meeting in 2018, I listened as parent after parent, almost exclusively immigrants, insisted that education on sexual assault, affirmative consent, gender, puberty, abortion and intercourse would irreparably corrupt fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders. One Asian American alum of Fremont schools countered at that meeting: without education, how was a young girl supposed to cope if she got her period before middle school? The district would go without a sexual education curriculum for all elementary schoolers that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13964383","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It comes at a cost to cling to comfort and familiarity for only \u003ci>our\u003c/i> communities, pretending that everything that exists outside of them — a housing crisis, a drug crisis, overlapping homelessness and mental health crises, all exacerbated by a pandemic — are not part of our lives too. That the comforts we have are due to perseverance alone, and not a system of privilege that is tenuous at best, and could easily turn on us like it has in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular form of clinging in Fremont, and many of our most affluent suburbs sprinkled throughout Silicon Valley’s zip codes, makes the Bay Area worse for everyone. It keeps the Bay from functioning as a cohesive unit, where people can move and live in different types of neighborhoods as their lives change and families grow. Where people can access resources away from the city, and easily find a nice big patch of green space to dodge geese droppings with a kid still finding their feet on a pair of quad skates (amid the Great Ripstik Abandonment of 2009).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img20240917_12071490-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author (middle) rides a Fremont-line BART train. Here she is pictured with older sister (left) and older cousin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Supriya Yelimeli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom lives in Milpitas now, and I only stop by Fremont to get treats at India Cash & Carry; make a biannual, masochistic trudge up Mission Peak; or ride the train to the (still new-to-me) Warm Springs BART station to grimly observe the rash of new condos and apartments just barely blocking my precious dusty hill view (as is my right).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A promise of “luxury right to your doorstep” glares back at me from the myriad advertisements wrapped around scaffolding. It’s a sign that — without intervention — the sweet comforts of my childhood in Fremont will become even more distant for those who want to live and flourish in my hometown.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13965193/fremont-immigrant-suburb-idealism-my-hometown","authors":["byline_arts_13965193"],"series":["arts_22322"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_7496","arts_1773","arts_3001","arts_7172"],"featImg":"arts_13965472","label":"source_arts_13965193"},"news_12004810":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12004810","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12004810","score":null,"sort":[1726439442000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fact-check-reveals-trumps-inaccurate-claims-about-california-and-kamala-harris","title":"Fact-Check Reveals Trump's Inaccurate Claims About California and Kamala Harris","publishDate":1726439442,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Fact-Check Reveals Trump’s Inaccurate Claims About California and Kamala Harris | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Overlooking the Pacific Ocean from his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-13/trump-golf-course-rancho-palos-verdes-landslides\">own golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes\u003c/a>, former president Donald Trump praised his California property as one of the most beautiful in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the state, however, is being destroyed by rampant crime, sweeping homelessness and unauthorized immigrants — and it’s spurring a mass exodus, Trump said at a press conference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California is a mess,” said Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow Comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” said the former president, who had held a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Thursday night and plans one later today in the Bay Area community of Woodside to cash in on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/kamala-harris-donald-trump-campaign-money-california/\">California’s lucrative trove of donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attacking California is something Trump didn’t even do once in his first — and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1834311545729225026\">he says only\u003c/a> — presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Political experts perceived it as a missed opportunity: After all, his allies have for decades decried California as too liberal for the rest of the nation — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">partly why there has never been a California Democrat elected president\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out on how much Harris’ California ties could hurt her chance among undecided voters. For most Michigan and Arizona voters who spoke to CalMatters last month, Harris’ record in the White House \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">mattered more\u003c/a> than her California brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who repeatedly mispronounced Harris’s first name, also blamed Harris for federal economic and border policies and insisted he outperformed her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/presidential-debate-kamala-harris-donald-trump/\">during the debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign’s rapid response team \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHQ\">posted about some of Trump’s statements\u003c/a>, but has not directly responded to what he said about her record or her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much of the many, many things Trump said about California and Harris’ record is accurate? Here’s our fact check on some notable claims:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State of the state\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“California has the highest inflation, highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, and it ranks as the third worst state to start a business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Inflation\u003c/strong>: Inflation rates fluctuate month to month. Florida had the highest inflation at 4% as of March, while California had the seventh highest, at 3.6%, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highest-lowest-inflation/73184932007/\">analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics data\u003c/a> by Moody’s Analytics. Even according to U.S. Senate Republicans’ own inflation tracker, as of August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/california-inflation-report/\">California\u003c/a> ranked 5th for increased monthly inflation costs since January 2021 and had a cumulative inflation rate lower than Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/state-inflation-tracker\">other states in the West region\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Taxes:\u003c/strong> California does have the highest state sales tax at 7.25%, but \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2024-sales-taxes/\">ranks 8th\u003c/a> in total state and local sales tax rates this year, according to the Tax Foundation. California’s property tax rate is at 0.75%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/mortgages/property-tax-by-state\">the 34th highest\u003c/a> of all 50 states. The state also has a progressive income tax rate while other states have a flat rate for all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices\u003c/strong>: It is true. California does have the highest gas price of all states, at $4.76 a gallon as of today, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">according to the AAA\u003c/a>. The national average is $3.23.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: California is estimated to have the largest population of undocumented immigrants, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">1.8 million\u003c/a>, based on a Pew Research Center estimate of 2022 Census figures. But California is also the only state where that population decreased from 2019 to 2022, while the populations in Republican-led Florida and Texas grew the most.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Utility rates\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">As of June\u003c/a>, Hawaii — not California — had the highest electricity rates, averaging 42.4 cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In California, residential customers paid an average of 33.0 cents per kilowatt hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/living/monthly-utility-costs-by-state/#states_with_the_most_expensive_utilities_section\">A Forbes analysis\u003c/a> of monthly utility bills by state ranked Alaska the most expensive, followed by Hawaii, Connecticut, West Virginia and Georgia.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Worst state to start a business\u003c/strong>: It depends which ranking you look at, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/best-states-to-start-a-business/#state_by_state_ranking_the_best_states_to_start_a_business_section\">according to Forbes\u003c/a>, California is the 37th best state to start a business this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Crime in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> Trump blamed the “destruction” of San Francisco on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris. He said murders rose “significantly” and car thefts “went through the roof” while Harris was state attorney general. He argued that Harris was lenient in prosecuting several cases, that she had endorsed defunding the police and that “the police don’t endorse her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crime stats\u003c/strong>: When Harris was California attorney general between 2011 and 2017, homicide rates fluctuated, with an average of 1,819 homicides — or 4.7 per 100,000 people — each year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Crime%20In%20CA%202022f.pdf\">the state Department of Justice\u003c/a>. Vehicle thefts ebbed and flowed, averaging 164,000 or 424.9 per 100,000 people. Both rates were far lower than during the 1990s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Leniency\u003c/strong>: Despite claims she’s soft on crime, Harris has a mixed record. As a local prosecutor, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">did not pursue the death penalty against a cop killer\u003c/a> — a case Trump used during the press conference to justify his claim. But years later, Harris prosecuted a woman with mental illness for assaulting police officers. As California’s attorney general, Harris defended \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">the state’s death penalty\u003c/a> even though she personally opposed it. Harris remained neutral on various ballot measures about reducing penalties for low-level offenses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">allowing earlier release for more offenders\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Defund the police\u003c/strong>: It is true that Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/\">expressed support for redirecting some money\u003c/a> and “reimagining” public safety during her 2020 presidential campaign, weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, sparking waves of protests against law enforcement. “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” she said at the time. After President Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate, however, she denounced the “defund” movement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Police endorsements\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4865127-law-enforcement-endorse-kamala-harris/\">More than 100 law enforcement officials\u003c/a> — including sheriffs, former and current police chiefs and FBI agents — endorsed Harris last week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seating facing a split screen showing a man and woman.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the border\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> He lambasted Harris for supporting “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants while she was San Francisco’s district attorney, claiming she shielded “illegal aliens” who committed murders and refused to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary city policy\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco city ordinance — which prevented officials from handing over unauthorized migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if they committed a felony — \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-about-harris-record-on-crime/\">dates to 1985\u003c/a>. It was originally aimed at protecting asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala, but was extended in 1989 to cover all immigrants. Harris — who was district attorney from 2004 to 2011 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">supported changing the policy\u003c/a> to report undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of a felony in 2008.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prosecuting unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: Trump said Harris offered sanctuary in 2008 to Edwin Ramos, a Salvadoran migrant who was charged with three counts of murder and who had prior convictions for assault and attempted robbery. Similarly, Trump mentioned the case of Rony Aguilera, a Honduran immigrant who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 2008. It is true city officials did not turn him over to federal agents at the time — under the sanctuary city policy that Harris helped change that year. Ramos was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-killer-Edwin-Ramos-sentenced-in-triple-slaying-3625545.php\">sentenced to life in prison in 2014\u003c/a>, and Aguilera was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/s-f-gang-member-sentenced-in-teen-s-slaying-4847595.php\">in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> “After Kamala Harris and Gavin Newscum took charge of San Francisco, homelessness increased by over 200%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong> Homelessness has grown in California, but not by that much. From 2007 to 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness grew \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">by 30.5%\u003c/a>, according to a report to Congress. In San Francisco, the point-in-time count of homeless people this year reached the lowest level since 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">according to the city\u003c/a>. Nearly 186,000 Californians live on the streets or homeless shelters, up 8% from 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">according to a new CalMatters analysis\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202023%20Numbers%20-%201.2024.pdf\">As of last year\u003c/a>, California accounted for nearly 30% of the nation’s homeless population and roughly half of the unsheltered population. [aside postID=\"forum_2010101907043,news_12000992,news_12004347\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California exodus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>: He claimed the state has the most number of people leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts: \u003c/strong>It is true that California \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-trends-return-to-pre-pandemic-norms.html\">shed the most people\u003c/a> last year — 75,423, according to the Census Bureau. But it’s not just a California problem: \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/population-map-reveals-states-growing-shrinking-1893641#:~:text=The%20states%20that%20lost%20the,same%20reasons%2C%22%20Poston%20said.\">New York\u003c/a> lost the most population between 2020 and 2022, losing 2.6% of its population, according to Census data. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-population-exodus-housing/\">reasons for California’s shrinking population\u003c/a> are complicated: Some died, some moved to other states due to the high cost of living, and some left the country altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify California’s crime rates.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Donald Trump didn’t attack California or Kamala Harris’s home-state record during their presidential debate. He didn’t miss his chance on a fundraising visit, blasting the state on crime, homelessness and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727475106,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1560},"headData":{"title":"Fact-Check Reveals Trump's Inaccurate Claims About California and Kamala Harris | KQED","description":"Donald Trump didn’t attack California or Kamala Harris’s home-state record during their presidential debate. He didn’t miss his chance on a fundraising visit, blasting the state on crime, homelessness and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fact-Check Reveals Trump's Inaccurate Claims About California and Kamala Harris","datePublished":"2024-09-15T15:30:42-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-27T15:11:46-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/yue-yu\">Yue Stella Yu, \u003c/a>CalMatters","nprStoryId":"kqed-12004810","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12004810/fact-check-reveals-trumps-inaccurate-claims-about-california-and-kamala-harris","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Overlooking the Pacific Ocean from his \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-13/trump-golf-course-rancho-palos-verdes-landslides\">own golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes\u003c/a>, former president Donald Trump praised his California property as one of the most beautiful in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the state, however, is being destroyed by rampant crime, sweeping homelessness and unauthorized immigrants — and it’s spurring a mass exodus, Trump said at a press conference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state of California is a mess,” said Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow Comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” said the former president, who had held a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Thursday night and plans one later today in the Bay Area community of Woodside to cash in on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/07/kamala-harris-donald-trump-campaign-money-california/\">California’s lucrative trove of donors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attacking California is something Trump didn’t even do once in his first — and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1834311545729225026\">he says only\u003c/a> — presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday night in Philadelphia. Political experts perceived it as a missed opportunity: After all, his allies have for decades decried California as too liberal for the rest of the nation — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">partly why there has never been a California Democrat elected president\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out on how much Harris’ California ties could hurt her chance among undecided voters. For most Michigan and Arizona voters who spoke to CalMatters last month, Harris’ record in the White House \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-california-record-democrats/\">mattered more\u003c/a> than her California brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, who repeatedly mispronounced Harris’s first name, also blamed Harris for federal economic and border policies and insisted he outperformed her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/presidential-debate-kamala-harris-donald-trump/\">during the debate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Harris campaign’s rapid response team \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/KamalaHQ\">posted about some of Trump’s statements\u003c/a>, but has not directly responded to what he said about her record or her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much of the many, many things Trump said about California and Harris’ record is accurate? Here’s our fact check on some notable claims:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>State of the state\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\n“California has the highest inflation, highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the most illegal aliens, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, and it ranks as the third worst state to start a business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Inflation\u003c/strong>: Inflation rates fluctuate month to month. Florida had the highest inflation at 4% as of March, while California had the seventh highest, at 3.6%, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highest-lowest-inflation/73184932007/\">analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics data\u003c/a> by Moody’s Analytics. Even according to U.S. Senate Republicans’ own inflation tracker, as of August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/california-inflation-report/\">California\u003c/a> ranked 5th for increased monthly inflation costs since January 2021 and had a cumulative inflation rate lower than Florida and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/state-inflation-tracker\">other states in the West region\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Taxes:\u003c/strong> California does have the highest state sales tax at 7.25%, but \u003ca href=\"https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/2024-sales-taxes/\">ranks 8th\u003c/a> in total state and local sales tax rates this year, according to the Tax Foundation. California’s property tax rate is at 0.75%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/mortgages/property-tax-by-state\">the 34th highest\u003c/a> of all 50 states. The state also has a progressive income tax rate while other states have a flat rate for all.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Gas prices\u003c/strong>: It is true. California does have the highest gas price of all states, at $4.76 a gallon as of today, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">according to the AAA\u003c/a>. The national average is $3.23.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: California is estimated to have the largest population of undocumented immigrants, at \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">1.8 million\u003c/a>, based on a Pew Research Center estimate of 2022 Census figures. But California is also the only state where that population decreased from 2019 to 2022, while the populations in Republican-led Florida and Texas grew the most.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Utility rates\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a\">As of June\u003c/a>, Hawaii — not California — had the highest electricity rates, averaging 42.4 cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In California, residential customers paid an average of 33.0 cents per kilowatt hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/living/monthly-utility-costs-by-state/#states_with_the_most_expensive_utilities_section\">A Forbes analysis\u003c/a> of monthly utility bills by state ranked Alaska the most expensive, followed by Hawaii, Connecticut, West Virginia and Georgia.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Worst state to start a business\u003c/strong>: It depends which ranking you look at, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/best-states-to-start-a-business/#state_by_state_ranking_the_best_states_to_start_a_business_section\">according to Forbes\u003c/a>, California is the 37th best state to start a business this year.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Crime in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> Trump blamed the “destruction” of San Francisco on Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris. He said murders rose “significantly” and car thefts “went through the roof” while Harris was state attorney general. He argued that Harris was lenient in prosecuting several cases, that she had endorsed defunding the police and that “the police don’t endorse her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crime stats\u003c/strong>: When Harris was California attorney general between 2011 and 2017, homicide rates fluctuated, with an average of 1,819 homicides — or 4.7 per 100,000 people — each year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Crime%20In%20CA%202022f.pdf\">the state Department of Justice\u003c/a>. Vehicle thefts ebbed and flowed, averaging 164,000 or 424.9 per 100,000 people. Both rates were far lower than during the 1990s.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Leniency\u003c/strong>: Despite claims she’s soft on crime, Harris has a mixed record. As a local prosecutor, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">did not pursue the death penalty against a cop killer\u003c/a> — a case Trump used during the press conference to justify his claim. But years later, Harris prosecuted a woman with mental illness for assaulting police officers. As California’s attorney general, Harris defended \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/08/kamala-harris-prosecutor-california-san-francisco/\">the state’s death penalty\u003c/a> even though she personally opposed it. Harris remained neutral on various ballot measures about reducing penalties for low-level offenses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-california-criminal-justice-00171490\">allowing earlier release for more offenders\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Defund the police\u003c/strong>: It is true that Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/\">expressed support for redirecting some money\u003c/a> and “reimagining” public safety during her 2020 presidential campaign, weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, sparking waves of protests against law enforcement. “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities,” she said at the time. After President Joe Biden tapped her as his running mate, however, she denounced the “defund” movement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Police endorsements\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4865127-law-enforcement-endorse-kamala-harris/\">More than 100 law enforcement officials\u003c/a> — including sheriffs, former and current police chiefs and FBI agents — endorsed Harris last week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Several people are seating facing a split screen showing a man and woman.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091024_PresidentialDebate_FM_CM-04-scaled-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at KQED headquarters in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Immigration and the border\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> He lambasted Harris for supporting “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants while she was San Francisco’s district attorney, claiming she shielded “illegal aliens” who committed murders and refused to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary city policy\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco city ordinance — which prevented officials from handing over unauthorized migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if they committed a felony — \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trumps-false-and-misleading-claims-about-harris-record-on-crime/\">dates to 1985\u003c/a>. It was originally aimed at protecting asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala, but was extended in 1989 to cover all immigrants. Harris — who was district attorney from 2004 to 2011 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-undocumented-juveniles/index.html\">supported changing the policy\u003c/a> to report undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of a felony in 2008.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Prosecuting unauthorized immigrants\u003c/strong>: Trump said Harris offered sanctuary in 2008 to Edwin Ramos, a Salvadoran migrant who was charged with three counts of murder and who had prior convictions for assault and attempted robbery. Similarly, Trump mentioned the case of Rony Aguilera, a Honduran immigrant who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 2008. It is true city officials did not turn him over to federal agents at the time — under the sanctuary city policy that Harris helped change that year. Ramos was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SF-killer-Edwin-Ramos-sentenced-in-triple-slaying-3625545.php\">sentenced to life in prison in 2014\u003c/a>, and Aguilera was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/s-f-gang-member-sentenced-in-teen-s-slaying-4847595.php\">in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said:\u003c/strong> “After Kamala Harris and Gavin Newscum took charge of San Francisco, homelessness increased by over 200%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts:\u003c/strong> Homelessness has grown in California, but not by that much. From 2007 to 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness grew \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">by 30.5%\u003c/a>, according to a report to Congress. In San Francisco, the point-in-time count of homeless people this year reached the lowest level since 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">according to the city\u003c/a>. Nearly 186,000 Californians live on the streets or homeless shelters, up 8% from 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">according to a new CalMatters analysis\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202023%20Numbers%20-%201.2024.pdf\">As of last year\u003c/a>, California accounted for nearly 30% of the nation’s homeless population and roughly half of the unsheltered population. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101907043,news_12000992,news_12004347","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California exodus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Trump said\u003c/strong>: He claimed the state has the most number of people leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facts: \u003c/strong>It is true that California \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-trends-return-to-pre-pandemic-norms.html\">shed the most people\u003c/a> last year — 75,423, according to the Census Bureau. But it’s not just a California problem: \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/population-map-reveals-states-growing-shrinking-1893641#:~:text=The%20states%20that%20lost%20the,same%20reasons%2C%22%20Poston%20said.\">New York\u003c/a> lost the most population between 2020 and 2022, losing 2.6% of its population, according to Census data. The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-population-exodus-housing/\">reasons for California’s shrinking population\u003c/a> are complicated: Some died, some moved to other states due to the high cost of living, and some left the country altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify California’s crime rates.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12004810/fact-check-reveals-trumps-inaccurate-claims-about-california-and-kamala-harris","authors":["byline_news_12004810"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17626","news_1323","news_32839","news_4020","news_20202","news_61","news_17968","news_29111"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11971091","label":"news_18481"},"news_12004373":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12004373","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12004373","score":null,"sort":[1726254022000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"one-unaccompanied-minors-quest-for-citizenship-illuminates-californias-pilot-program","title":"One Unaccompanied Minor's Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California's Pilot Program","publishDate":1726254022,"format":"standard","headTitle":"One Unaccompanied Minor’s Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California’s Pilot Program | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Aug. 14, “A.” walked onto his Northern California high school campus as a senior. The 18-year-old, like most of his classmates, has come a long way since he first set foot on this campus as a freshman three years ago, though few have experienced the transformation that he has. A. (whose first name and exact location are being withheld to protect his identity), went from speaking only Spanish to performing skits on stage in English, from struggling to find his classes to helping other newcomers find theirs, and from undocumented and afraid of deportation to documented and eager to share his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A.’s childhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was relatively normal: a close-knit family and a passion for soccer. That was until gangs started hovering near his school. After witnessing gang violence himself, he no longer felt safe walking to and from class. He and his parents began having heart-wrenching conversations, wondering aloud if he’d be better off living with extended family in the United States. Soon, the decision was made. A. would be heading north with a small group of migrants on the long journey through Guatemala and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just [told] me, ‘You have to go with these people,’” A. said, “and that was all.” He was just 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 23-day journey on foot, A. and his group arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. They stood on the banks of the Rio Grande, and A. could see border patrol agents on the other side. There were drones flying overhead and lights scanning the shore. A. didn’t know how to swim, so he was given an inner tube to help him cross. When he landed on U.S. soil, Border Patrol agents apprehended him and the other members of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. was held by federal officials — first U.S. Customs and Border Protection and then the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) — for two-and-a-half months before being released to the care of his aunt in Utah. He was relieved to finally be with family again, ready to tackle the next steps in establishing his new life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was released, he was given a notice to appear in immigration court three weeks later. A. knew this court date was important, and he would need his aunt’s help to get him there. But when the day approached, his aunt wouldn’t take him. She was undocumented herself and afraid of what might happen if she showed up to immigration court. A. missed his court date, and not long after, his family decided he should live, instead, with an aunt in California, one with more financial resources to care for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a white shirt looks at a computer screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. works on his driver’s license application at a Northern California DMV on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day of his 15th birthday, A. arrived in Northern California. He settled in quickly with his aunt and her younger children and, within weeks, was starting his first day of high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had nobody to translate for me,” A. said. “And it was so hard for me to understand what the teachers were saying and how the rules were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon, he received devastating news. A letter had arrived for him at his aunt’s house in Utah stating that, as a result of his failure to appear in court, the judge had issued a removal order for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finding nothing but dead ends with the list of legal resources provided to him by ORR, A. gave up hope. He continued going to school and trying his best, but he kept his story to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to share my story because I was afraid that you never know what kind of people you’re going to meet with and if they were going to do something against you,” he recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year passed this way, with A. keeping his legal status to himself, in agony over his future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Children at the border\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between October 2020 and September 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/grant-funding/unaccompanied-children-released-sponsors-state\">the Office of Refugee Resettlement reported\u003c/a> that 107,646 unaccompanied children were released to sponsors nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr-plan-for-uc-program-following-t42-termination.pdf\">a massive increase from the previous year\u003c/a> in which ORR released only 16,837 minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite landing in all 50 states, a few states routinely place the most, with Texas, Florida, and California each taking in more than 10,000 children in the past year. Most minors in ORR care, like A., have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, coming from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. After being apprehended by immigration authorities, they are transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for housing and sheltering them while confirming their placement with a sponsor. Most youth sponsors are family members, and it can take weeks or months for ORR to confirm the safety and viability of that home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the minor is relocated there, contact with ORR ends. Minors are typically given a notice to appear in court and a list of legal resources, as happened with A., but, as Kristina McKibben-Sias of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjaca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Justice Alliance\u003c/a> said, this system, which appears much like foster care, is distinctly different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand by a wall with their arms folded.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1920x1215.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina McKibben (left) and Natalia Osorio-Elizondo in the Sacramento office of the Community Justice Alliance, which provides legal and social services to immigrants in Northern and Central California, on July 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is just kind of uncharted territory where they’re left to navigate all of their basic needs on their own,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These basic needs often include things like housing support, healthcare, mental health services, and help accessing education, all on top of the need for trauma-informed legal representation. Immigration attorneys like McKibben say these needs go hand-in-hand as they all affect a child’s ability to resettle comfortably and safely in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s new program for immigrant youth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the record-breaking number of unaccompanied minors coming to California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office and the California Department of Social Services in 2022 piloted a new program to provide wraparound services to immigrant youth across the state. The \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/chirp/\">Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Project\u003c/a>, or CHIRP, provided funding to 16 organizations, allowing them to integrate social services alongside legal aid. They could now provide their youth clients with an attorney and a case manager or social worker who would collaborate on each case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIRP was the first program of its kind in the country, and advocates were hopeful it would provide a model to other states. They also hoped it would become permanent. The two-year term of the pilot would pose challenges. First, organizations would post job positions, hire new employees, and integrate them into their teams. Some organizations struggled at first to find qualified employees willing to take on the uncertainty of working under a pilot program. What kind of job security could they expect when their funding might run out in a matter of months? And second, immigration courts are complicated and notoriously backlogged, meaning the cases these organizations would be taking on would surely take more than two years to conclude. What would happen after two years if the funding wasn’t renewed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a framed picture of a child's drawing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-800x766.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1020x977.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1536x1471.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1920x1839.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina McKibben holds a drawing made to her by one of Community Justice Alliance’s youngest clients on July 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, with all the uncertainty of a new program, advocates and the organizations that received funding were thrilled with the work they could do. In the two years since the program began, \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/chirp/\">more than 600 children received services across 30 counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From hopeless to hope restored\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When A.’s sophomore year began, he tried to sign up for his school’s soccer team, only to find that he needed to provide his health insurance information for the required physical. A. didn’t have health insurance (\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/SB-75.aspx\">despite being eligible for Medi-Cal under a 2016 law\u003c/a> allowing for all children in California to qualify regardless of immigration status), and he needed help figuring out what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. turned to his English teacher, Dr. J, who he had developed a close and trusted relationship with over the past year. Learning of his status, Dr. J — whose full name is being withheld to protect A.’s identity — assured him that together, they would find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no hopes,” A. said, “and she was the one who told me that we were not going to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began calling legal aid organizations across the state, drawing on her two decades of teaching experience to connect with educators who had more experience working with newcomer youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although their dockets are completely full, [they] took their time to meet with me and educate me and then connect me eventually with the Community Justice Alliance,” Dr. J. recalled. After hearing A.’s story, CJA agreed to take his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within weeks, their social services team was able to help him get physical and mental health appointments as the legal team assembled his case. They argued his eligibility for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status — and won. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is an important tool for unaccompanied youth like A. — and one that’s nearly impossible to get without an attorney. It puts status holders on a pathway to permanent residency and, eventually, the ability to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a white shirt and black pants stands on a football field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. on his high school’s football and soccer field on July 25, 2024, his passion for soccer eventually led him to get the social services he needed. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For A., this represented a new start, the ability to be himself openly and to share his story with anyone who would listen. He no longer had to live in fear of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel embarrassed [about] my past. I feel proud [of] where I’m coming from and everything I’ve done. And I was able to tell my story to my friends. It was definitely a big change for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dr. J saw her once-silent student blossom. He joined drama and performed skits on stage and used his new confidence to speak to California lawmakers about the importance of CHIRP. The program had quickly and radically transformed his life, and he wanted the same for the thousands of other children who continue to come to California alone each year.[aside postID=\"news_11986437,news_11976293,news_11683949\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in May of this year, Newsom announced in his budget revision that funding for CHIRP would not be extended beyond its initial two-year timeline, giving organizations until Aug. 31 to find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the program on the chopping block, Community Justice Alliance was scrambling. But just days before the deadline, organizers received the news that the funding would be extended another 10 months. The extension comes as a huge relief, but it won’t last long. Advocates still hope California will find a permanent place in its budget for the $17.8 million program and argue that this relatively modest price tag is easily justified by the vulnerability of those it helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. continues his own advocacy while he begins his senior year of high school. He thinks frequently about what he’d like to do after graduation, and his experience with CHIRP and the Community Justice Alliance has made his dream clear: “I think I would like to be a social worker,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An unaccompanied minor shares his struggle to adjust to life in the U.S. He now champions California’s pilot program that helps immigrant youth but is scrambling for funding after budget cuts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726783612,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1996},"headData":{"title":"One Unaccompanied Minor's Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California's Pilot Program | KQED","description":"An unaccompanied minor shares his struggle to adjust to life in the U.S. He now champions California’s pilot program that helps immigrant youth but is scrambling for funding after budget cuts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"One Unaccompanied Minor's Journey to the US Sparks Hope in California's Pilot Program","datePublished":"2024-09-13T12:00:22-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-19T15:06:52-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/e97afa3e-34e1-4566-94da-b1e8013f25fd/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Lauren DeLaunay Miller","nprStoryId":"kqed-12004373","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12004373/one-unaccompanied-minors-quest-for-citizenship-illuminates-californias-pilot-program","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n Aug. 14, “A.” walked onto his Northern California high school campus as a senior. The 18-year-old, like most of his classmates, has come a long way since he first set foot on this campus as a freshman three years ago, though few have experienced the transformation that he has. A. (whose first name and exact location are being withheld to protect his identity), went from speaking only Spanish to performing skits on stage in English, from struggling to find his classes to helping other newcomers find theirs, and from undocumented and afraid of deportation to documented and eager to share his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A.’s childhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was relatively normal: a close-knit family and a passion for soccer. That was until gangs started hovering near his school. After witnessing gang violence himself, he no longer felt safe walking to and from class. He and his parents began having heart-wrenching conversations, wondering aloud if he’d be better off living with extended family in the United States. Soon, the decision was made. A. would be heading north with a small group of migrants on the long journey through Guatemala and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just [told] me, ‘You have to go with these people,’” A. said, “and that was all.” He was just 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a 23-day journey on foot, A. and his group arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. They stood on the banks of the Rio Grande, and A. could see border patrol agents on the other side. There were drones flying overhead and lights scanning the shore. A. didn’t know how to swim, so he was given an inner tube to help him cross. When he landed on U.S. soil, Border Patrol agents apprehended him and the other members of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. was held by federal officials — first U.S. Customs and Border Protection and then the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) — for two-and-a-half months before being released to the care of his aunt in Utah. He was relieved to finally be with family again, ready to tackle the next steps in establishing his new life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was released, he was given a notice to appear in immigration court three weeks later. A. knew this court date was important, and he would need his aunt’s help to get him there. But when the day approached, his aunt wouldn’t take him. She was undocumented herself and afraid of what might happen if she showed up to immigration court. A. missed his court date, and not long after, his family decided he should live, instead, with an aunt in California, one with more financial resources to care for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a white shirt looks at a computer screen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. works on his driver’s license application at a Northern California DMV on July 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the day of his 15th birthday, A. arrived in Northern California. He settled in quickly with his aunt and her younger children and, within weeks, was starting his first day of high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had nobody to translate for me,” A. said. “And it was so hard for me to understand what the teachers were saying and how the rules were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon, he received devastating news. A letter had arrived for him at his aunt’s house in Utah stating that, as a result of his failure to appear in court, the judge had issued a removal order for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finding nothing but dead ends with the list of legal resources provided to him by ORR, A. gave up hope. He continued going to school and trying his best, but he kept his story to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to share my story because I was afraid that you never know what kind of people you’re going to meet with and if they were going to do something against you,” he recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year passed this way, with A. keeping his legal status to himself, in agony over his future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Children at the border\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Between October 2020 and September 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/grant-funding/unaccompanied-children-released-sponsors-state\">the Office of Refugee Resettlement reported\u003c/a> that 107,646 unaccompanied children were released to sponsors nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr-plan-for-uc-program-following-t42-termination.pdf\">a massive increase from the previous year\u003c/a> in which ORR released only 16,837 minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite landing in all 50 states, a few states routinely place the most, with Texas, Florida, and California each taking in more than 10,000 children in the past year. Most minors in ORR care, like A., have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, coming from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. After being apprehended by immigration authorities, they are transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for housing and sheltering them while confirming their placement with a sponsor. Most youth sponsors are family members, and it can take weeks or months for ORR to confirm the safety and viability of that home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once the minor is relocated there, contact with ORR ends. Minors are typically given a notice to appear in court and a list of legal resources, as happened with A., but, as Kristina McKibben-Sias of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjaca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Justice Alliance\u003c/a> said, this system, which appears much like foster care, is distinctly different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand by a wall with their arms folded.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-800x506.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1536x972.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-04-KQED-1920x1215.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina McKibben (left) and Natalia Osorio-Elizondo in the Sacramento office of the Community Justice Alliance, which provides legal and social services to immigrants in Northern and Central California, on July 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is just kind of uncharted territory where they’re left to navigate all of their basic needs on their own,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These basic needs often include things like housing support, healthcare, mental health services, and help accessing education, all on top of the need for trauma-informed legal representation. Immigration attorneys like McKibben say these needs go hand-in-hand as they all affect a child’s ability to resettle comfortably and safely in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s new program for immigrant youth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the record-breaking number of unaccompanied minors coming to California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office and the California Department of Social Services in 2022 piloted a new program to provide wraparound services to immigrant youth across the state. The \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/chirp/\">Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Project\u003c/a>, or CHIRP, provided funding to 16 organizations, allowing them to integrate social services alongside legal aid. They could now provide their youth clients with an attorney and a case manager or social worker who would collaborate on each case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHIRP was the first program of its kind in the country, and advocates were hopeful it would provide a model to other states. They also hoped it would become permanent. The two-year term of the pilot would pose challenges. First, organizations would post job positions, hire new employees, and integrate them into their teams. Some organizations struggled at first to find qualified employees willing to take on the uncertainty of working under a pilot program. What kind of job security could they expect when their funding might run out in a matter of months? And second, immigration courts are complicated and notoriously backlogged, meaning the cases these organizations would be taking on would surely take more than two years to conclude. What would happen after two years if the funding wasn’t renewed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a framed picture of a child's drawing.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-800x766.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1020x977.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1536x1471.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-05-KQED-1920x1839.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina McKibben holds a drawing made to her by one of Community Justice Alliance’s youngest clients on July 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, with all the uncertainty of a new program, advocates and the organizations that received funding were thrilled with the work they could do. In the two years since the program began, \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/chirp/\">more than 600 children received services across 30 counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From hopeless to hope restored\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When A.’s sophomore year began, he tried to sign up for his school’s soccer team, only to find that he needed to provide his health insurance information for the required physical. A. didn’t have health insurance (\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Pages/SB-75.aspx\">despite being eligible for Medi-Cal under a 2016 law\u003c/a> allowing for all children in California to qualify regardless of immigration status), and he needed help figuring out what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. turned to his English teacher, Dr. J, who he had developed a close and trusted relationship with over the past year. Learning of his status, Dr. J — whose full name is being withheld to protect A.’s identity — assured him that together, they would find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no hopes,” A. said, “and she was the one who told me that we were not going to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She began calling legal aid organizations across the state, drawing on her two decades of teaching experience to connect with educators who had more experience working with newcomer youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although their dockets are completely full, [they] took their time to meet with me and educate me and then connect me eventually with the Community Justice Alliance,” Dr. J. recalled. After hearing A.’s story, CJA agreed to take his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within weeks, their social services team was able to help him get physical and mental health appointments as the legal team assembled his case. They argued his eligibility for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status — and won. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is an important tool for unaccompanied youth like A. — and one that’s nearly impossible to get without an attorney. It puts status holders on a pathway to permanent residency and, eventually, the ability to apply for citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young man wearing a white shirt and black pants stands on a football field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240909-UNACCOMPANIED-YOUTH-LDM-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A. on his high school’s football and soccer field on July 25, 2024, his passion for soccer eventually led him to get the social services he needed. \u003ccite>(Lauren DeLaunay Miller for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For A., this represented a new start, the ability to be himself openly and to share his story with anyone who would listen. He no longer had to live in fear of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel embarrassed [about] my past. I feel proud [of] where I’m coming from and everything I’ve done. And I was able to tell my story to my friends. It was definitely a big change for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dr. J saw her once-silent student blossom. He joined drama and performed skits on stage and used his new confidence to speak to California lawmakers about the importance of CHIRP. The program had quickly and radically transformed his life, and he wanted the same for the thousands of other children who continue to come to California alone each year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11986437,news_11976293,news_11683949","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in May of this year, Newsom announced in his budget revision that funding for CHIRP would not be extended beyond its initial two-year timeline, giving organizations until Aug. 31 to find a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the program on the chopping block, Community Justice Alliance was scrambling. But just days before the deadline, organizers received the news that the funding would be extended another 10 months. The extension comes as a huge relief, but it won’t last long. Advocates still hope California will find a permanent place in its budget for the $17.8 million program and argue that this relatively modest price tag is easily justified by the vulnerability of those it helps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A. continues his own advocacy while he begins his senior year of high school. He thinks frequently about what he’d like to do after graduation, and his experience with CHIRP and the Community Justice Alliance has made his dream clear: “I think I would like to be a social worker,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12004373/one-unaccompanied-minors-quest-for-citizenship-illuminates-californias-pilot-program","authors":["byline_news_12004373"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_1169"],"tags":["news_18123","news_27626","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_12003809","label":"news_26731"},"news_12003444":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12003444","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12003444","score":null,"sort":[1725661870000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-vetoes-controversial-bill-to-help-undocumented-immigrants-buy-homes","title":"Newsom Vetoes Controversial Bill to Help Undocumented Immigrants Buy Homes","publishDate":1725661870,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Vetoes Controversial Bill to Help Undocumented Immigrants Buy Homes | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to access a wildly popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976218/california-will-help-fund-the-down-payment-for-your-first-house-heres-how-to-apply\">first-generation homeownership loan program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1840, authored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), would have prohibited California’s Housing Finance Agency from disqualifying applicants from the California Dream For All Shared Appreciation Loan solely on an applicant’s immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program, the state loans homebuyers 20% of the purchase price, or up to $150,000. Buyers repay the loan, without interest, when the home is sold, along with 20% of any appreciation on the home’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first round of funding in 2023 helped nearly 2,200 applicants purchase their first home. It was so popular — with the roughly $300 million in loans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946353/californias-dream-for-all-home-loan-program-ran-through-300-million-in-11-days-who-got-the-money\">exhausted in just 11 days\u003c/a> after applications opened — that the state changed the rules for this year’s $250 million funding round and selected applicants based on a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 100 applicants have closed on their homes, according to CalHFA spokesperson Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GarciaRETeam/status/1828613523494031404\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sept. 4, Johnson said about 18,000 people had applied for this year’s funding round. CalHFA predicts up to around 2,200 applicants will ultimately be awarded loans. However, with the state facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/may-revise-2024-homeless-housing/\">major budget deficit\u003c/a> this year, legislators declined to provide further funding in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill that was sent to me was a program that had no money,” Newsom said. “I thought it was unnecessary and completely consistent with prior vetoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002972 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arambula’s bill incited lively discussion between Republicans and Democrats and was often the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/03/pelosi-celebrates-plans-for-illegal-immigrants-to-buy-homes-with-american-tax-dollars/\">race-baiting headlines\u003c/a>. In late August, the \u003ca href=\"https://src.senate.ca.gov/sites/src.senate.ca.gov/files/AB%201840%20%28Arambula%29%20Veto%20Request%20Letter_.pdf\">California Senate Republican Caucus\u003c/a> asked Newsom to veto the bill, saying, “legal California taxpayers are already struggling to purchase and maintain their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AB-1840-Veto-Message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a> to the California State Assembly, he noted there is “finite funding available” for such programs, and expanding eligibility “must be carefully considered within the context of the annual state budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply disappointed that Gov. Newsom today vetoed AB 1840,” Arambula said in a statement Friday. “The veto doesn’t change the fact that many people — including undocumented immigrants — dream of owning a home so that generational wealth can be passed to their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other housing questions do you have for KQED?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing is one of the most crucial — and contentious — issues in the Bay Area, and here at KQED, we have a whole team dedicated to exploring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">stories about housing affordability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our work, we also want to bring you explainers and guides about housing in the region, offering practical advice and insight for renters, homeowners and unhoused folks on a wide range of housing situations. We also want you to send us your story ideas and tips, share your personal experience with housing in the Bay Area or volunteer to be one of the KQED readers and listeners we consult about housing stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So tell us: What housing question should we answer next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use the comment box below to submit your question about housing in the Bay Area or California more widely. Or, maybe there’s a housing program you want to be explained or investigated. Whatever’s on your mind, use the Google Form below to talk to us. The information you provide here will be shared with the folks who work on KQED’s housing coverage, and we may follow up with you directly through the contact details you provide. (We’ll never share your information outside of KQED without your permission.) We won’t be able to reply to everyone who submits a question, but what you tell us will make our reporting stronger on KQED.org, KQED Public Radio and our social media channels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to access one of the state’s first-generation homeownership loan programs. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1725663657,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":true,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":709},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Vetoes Controversial Bill to Help Undocumented Immigrants Buy Homes | KQED","description":"Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a controversial bill on Friday that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to access one of the state’s first-generation homeownership loan programs. 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Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to access a wildly popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976218/california-will-help-fund-the-down-payment-for-your-first-house-heres-how-to-apply\">first-generation homeownership loan program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1840, authored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), would have prohibited California’s Housing Finance Agency from disqualifying applicants from the California Dream For All Shared Appreciation Loan solely on an applicant’s immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program, the state loans homebuyers 20% of the purchase price, or up to $150,000. Buyers repay the loan, without interest, when the home is sold, along with 20% of any appreciation on the home’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first round of funding in 2023 helped nearly 2,200 applicants purchase their first home. It was so popular — with the roughly $300 million in loans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946353/californias-dream-for-all-home-loan-program-ran-through-300-million-in-11-days-who-got-the-money\">exhausted in just 11 days\u003c/a> after applications opened — that the state changed the rules for this year’s $250 million funding round and selected applicants based on a lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 100 applicants have closed on their homes, according to CalHFA spokesperson Eric Johnson.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1828613523494031404"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As of Sept. 4, Johnson said about 18,000 people had applied for this year’s funding round. CalHFA predicts up to around 2,200 applicants will ultimately be awarded loans. However, with the state facing a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/may-revise-2024-homeless-housing/\">major budget deficit\u003c/a> this year, legislators declined to provide further funding in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill that was sent to me was a program that had no money,” Newsom said. “I thought it was unnecessary and completely consistent with prior vetoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12002972","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arambula’s bill incited lively discussion between Republicans and Democrats and was often the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/03/pelosi-celebrates-plans-for-illegal-immigrants-to-buy-homes-with-american-tax-dollars/\">race-baiting headlines\u003c/a>. In late August, the \u003ca href=\"https://src.senate.ca.gov/sites/src.senate.ca.gov/files/AB%201840%20%28Arambula%29%20Veto%20Request%20Letter_.pdf\">California Senate Republican Caucus\u003c/a> asked Newsom to veto the bill, saying, “legal California taxpayers are already struggling to purchase and maintain their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AB-1840-Veto-Message.pdf\">veto message\u003c/a> to the California State Assembly, he noted there is “finite funding available” for such programs, and expanding eligibility “must be carefully considered within the context of the annual state budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m deeply disappointed that Gov. Newsom today vetoed AB 1840,” Arambula said in a statement Friday. “The veto doesn’t change the fact that many people — including undocumented immigrants — dream of owning a home so that generational wealth can be passed to their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other housing questions do you have for KQED?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Housing is one of the most crucial — and contentious — issues in the Bay Area, and here at KQED, we have a whole team dedicated to exploring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">stories about housing affordability\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of our work, we also want to bring you explainers and guides about housing in the region, offering practical advice and insight for renters, homeowners and unhoused folks on a wide range of housing situations. We also want you to send us your story ideas and tips, share your personal experience with housing in the Bay Area or volunteer to be one of the KQED readers and listeners we consult about housing stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So tell us: What housing question should we answer next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use the comment box below to submit your question about housing in the Bay Area or California more widely. Or, maybe there’s a housing program you want to be explained or investigated. Whatever’s on your mind, use the Google Form below to talk to us. The information you provide here will be shared with the folks who work on KQED’s housing coverage, and we may follow up with you directly through the contact details you provide. (We’ll never share your information outside of KQED without your permission.) 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The conditions, ranging from non-functioning toilets to holes in the walls and leaky ceilings, were particularly acute at housing on ranches, where most of the respondents resided, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Bravo, who lived as a child in local ranches where her father worked, remembers the smell of mold, which can be toxic, in the shower and while falling asleep. Rats scratched the walls. She hopes the findings stir the local community and county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been aware of these conditions for so many years and have just looked away or have wanted to help, but nothing has come out of it,” said Bravo, 29, who was an interviewer for the report. “This survey is putting facts on paper. You cannot look away any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Bravo in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report titled \u003cem>Growing Together: Advancing Housing Solutions for Workers in West Marin\u003c/em>, the area needs a bare minimum of 460 additional units of quality housing but likely closer to 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of decent housing for agricultural and other lower-income workers and their families is threatening the survival of local farms, restaurants and other businesses, according to employers surveyed for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the land in West Marin, spanning from Stinson Beach in the south to Tomales in the north, is protected from development and dedicated to parks or agriculture. Restrictive land use policies, limited infrastructure for water and septic systems and community resistance to new developments have made housing scarce and very expensive, researchers concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Latino households in the rural area rent their homes. Researchers found that many long-term rentals are unpermitted, old and often mobile homes or conversions of buildings not designed for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranches are a top provider of affordable housing in West Marin. Most of the surveyed dairy and cattle workers lived in employer-provided housing. Other ranches have closed agricultural operations but continue to offer rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the 68 Latino workers who participated in the in-depth interviews had one or more household members working in agriculture, including oyster and vegetable farms. The rest had jobs in fields such as food service, landscaping and housekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many reported reluctance to request repairs because they feared losing the only housing they could afford near their jobs. Half of the participants were undocumented immigrants, even though all reported living in the United States for 20 years on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bravo’s case, rent for her family of six was taken out of her father’s paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s another reason a lot of these people don’t feel like they have the right to say something because it’s tied to their employment, and they fear losing their employment if they speak up about these conditions in their homes,” said Bravo, who became a community advocate with the Bolinas Community Land Trust and is pushing for fair and secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Coast Guard housing that CLAM, the Community Land Trust of West Marin, aims to turn into affordable housing in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the county found dozens of Latino families living with \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/10/21/bolinas-rv-camp-proposed-for-emergency-housing/?clearUserState=true\">raw sewage on the ground\u003c/a> and using water through garden hoses in unpermitted mobile homes at a Bolinas ranch. The property, which was cited about 30 years ago for unsanitary living conditions, now hosts a temporary recreational vehicle park secured by the Bolinas Community Land Trust while it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/marin-bolinas-housing-workers-19717600.php\">attempts to build\u003c/a> permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its natural coastal beauty and uninhabited open space, West Marin draws millions of visitors each year and most likely don’t see where the people shucking oysters, milking cows or making organic cheese live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more workers in West Marin commute from Sonoma and East Bay counties, local employers face increased competition from other businesses that are also recruiting for jobs, according to the researchers, who surveyed a total of 150 workers and 17 agricultural employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks closes a gate to a pasture where goats are grazing on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tamara Hicks, co-owner of Toluma Farms & Tomales Farmstead Creamery, bought permitted Airstream and Park Model trailers to house four of her 10 employees at the 160-acre property. They share a kitchen with all the amenities in a separate building. But that’s not a long-term solution, she said. She expects her workers, currently single and in their 20s, to move on to have families and better housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest rate-limiting factor of maintaining great people is the housing by far. And so, I’ve lost most of our really fantastic people to Vermont, to Maine, to Arizona,” said Hicks, who has owned the certified-organic goat and sheep farm with her husband for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said many farms and ranches in the region are more than a century old. Some landowners now fear that trying to fix or build units could lead to inspections that open the door to costly penalties due to other code violations, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a good, streamlined, affordable, fast, easy way for people to either rehab existing housing or build new housing,” Hicks, 56, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband have plans that were drawn a decade ago to build a couple of units for workers on their land. But the biggest obstacles have been permits and the money to do it, Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks’ home on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study makes several recommendations to counteract what authors call decades of inaction limiting affordable housing. They include, among other things, proposed reforms to zoning and permitting and a code amnesty and financial assistance for landowners who want to improve housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish there was one solution. I’d say housing is a team sport,” said Cassandra Benjamin, who led the study and is interim director of housing at the Marin Community Foundation. “The way to solve this is through everybody flexing and doing more than they’re doing now — from the county to the local foundations, to the nonprofits, to businesses, to residents. So everybody has to be in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002081 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends that foundations invest in strengthening Latino organizing and advocacy so that agricultural workers and other residents can participate in housing solutions. Racist and exclusionary policies have long constrained opportunities for this workforce in Marin County, the most segregated in the Bay Area, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really became very restrictive, both in terms of community acceptance but also regulation about housing,” Benjamin said at her office in Point Reyes Station. “That’s part of what we have to turn around in this work. And what’s exciting is that county supervisors know we need more housing. The ranchers are advocating for it. Certainly, the workers are. So I’m hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, who studies farmworker wellbeing at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center, said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">mass shooting that killed seven workers at two farms in Half Moon Bay last year\u003c/a> highlighted deplorable living conditions for farmworkers at those sites, increasing awareness about the issue throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Marin County decides to use public funds to help agriculture businesses build housing, Flores said it would be an opportunity to support employers that raise pay and safety standards for laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is, how do you best support the farms that want to do the right thing?” he said. “Because the competition is so stiff that if you’re not providing public subsidies to those farms that want to do the right thing, they might be pushed out of business, and that’s not in the public interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Researchers found that housing conditions on ranches, where most respondents lived, were especially dire, with issues like non-functioning toilets, mold, holes in walls and leaky ceilings.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726704041,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1479},"headData":{"title":"West Marin Worker Housing Often Substandard and Faulty, New Report Finds | KQED","description":"Researchers found that housing conditions on ranches, where most respondents lived, were especially dire, with issues like non-functioning toilets, mold, holes in walls and leaky ceilings.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"West Marin Worker Housing Often Substandard and Faulty, New Report Finds","datePublished":"2024-09-06T10:41:37-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-18T17:00:41-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4e322814-c483-493e-915a-b1e2010941bc/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12002972","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12002972/west-marin-worker-housing-often-substandard-and-faulty-new-report-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Low-wage Latino workers who reside in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a>’s western region often live in substandard rentals with mold, mice and other serious problems because they have no other affordable options, according to a report released Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmhousingsolutions.org/\">study\u003c/a> on the West Marin housing landscape, which was funded by the county and philanthropic organizations, offers a glimpse into the living conditions of the population, relegated to a largely underground rental market that powers the agriculture and tourism industries in the bucolic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 80% of the study’s participants lived in units with several major health and safety violations, according to interviews with dozens of Latino workers, representing the experience of more than 280 adults and children. The conditions, ranging from non-functioning toilets to holes in the walls and leaky ceilings, were particularly acute at housing on ranches, where most of the respondents resided, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Bravo, who lived as a child in local ranches where her father worked, remembers the smell of mold, which can be toxic, in the shower and while falling asleep. Rats scratched the walls. She hopes the findings stir the local community and county to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been aware of these conditions for so many years and have just looked away or have wanted to help, but nothing has come out of it,” said Bravo, 29, who was an interviewer for the report. “This survey is putting facts on paper. You cannot look away any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Bravo in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report titled \u003cem>Growing Together: Advancing Housing Solutions for Workers in West Marin\u003c/em>, the area needs a bare minimum of 460 additional units of quality housing but likely closer to 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of decent housing for agricultural and other lower-income workers and their families is threatening the survival of local farms, restaurants and other businesses, according to employers surveyed for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the land in West Marin, spanning from Stinson Beach in the south to Tomales in the north, is protected from development and dedicated to parks or agriculture. Restrictive land use policies, limited infrastructure for water and septic systems and community resistance to new developments have made housing scarce and very expensive, researchers concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Latino households in the rural area rent their homes. Researchers found that many long-term rentals are unpermitted, old and often mobile homes or conversions of buildings not designed for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranches are a top provider of affordable housing in West Marin. Most of the surveyed dairy and cattle workers lived in employer-provided housing. Other ranches have closed agricultural operations but continue to offer rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of the 68 Latino workers who participated in the in-depth interviews had one or more household members working in agriculture, including oyster and vegetable farms. The rest had jobs in fields such as food service, landscaping and housekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many reported reluctance to request repairs because they feared losing the only housing they could afford near their jobs. Half of the participants were undocumented immigrants, even though all reported living in the United States for 20 years on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Bravo’s case, rent for her family of six was taken out of her father’s paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s another reason a lot of these people don’t feel like they have the right to say something because it’s tied to their employment, and they fear losing their employment if they speak up about these conditions in their homes,” said Bravo, who became a community advocate with the Bolinas Community Land Trust and is pushing for fair and secure housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Coast Guard housing that CLAM, the Community Land Trust of West Marin, aims to turn into affordable housing in Point Reyes Station on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the county found dozens of Latino families living with \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/10/21/bolinas-rv-camp-proposed-for-emergency-housing/?clearUserState=true\">raw sewage on the ground\u003c/a> and using water through garden hoses in unpermitted mobile homes at a Bolinas ranch. The property, which was cited about 30 years ago for unsanitary living conditions, now hosts a temporary recreational vehicle park secured by the Bolinas Community Land Trust while it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/marin-bolinas-housing-workers-19717600.php\">attempts to build\u003c/a> permanent homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its natural coastal beauty and uninhabited open space, West Marin draws millions of visitors each year and most likely don’t see where the people shucking oysters, milking cows or making organic cheese live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more workers in West Marin commute from Sonoma and East Bay counties, local employers face increased competition from other businesses that are also recruiting for jobs, according to the researchers, who surveyed a total of 150 workers and 17 agricultural employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks closes a gate to a pasture where goats are grazing on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tamara Hicks, co-owner of Toluma Farms & Tomales Farmstead Creamery, bought permitted Airstream and Park Model trailers to house four of her 10 employees at the 160-acre property. They share a kitchen with all the amenities in a separate building. But that’s not a long-term solution, she said. She expects her workers, currently single and in their 20s, to move on to have families and better housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest rate-limiting factor of maintaining great people is the housing by far. And so, I’ve lost most of our really fantastic people to Vermont, to Maine, to Arizona,” said Hicks, who has owned the certified-organic goat and sheep farm with her husband for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks said many farms and ranches in the region are more than a century old. Some landowners now fear that trying to fix or build units could lead to inspections that open the door to costly penalties due to other code violations, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a good, streamlined, affordable, fast, easy way for people to either rehab existing housing or build new housing,” Hicks, 56, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband have plans that were drawn a decade ago to build a couple of units for workers on their land. But the biggest obstacles have been permits and the money to do it, Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240903-MARIN-SUBSTANDARD-AG-WORKER-HOUSING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamara Hicks’ home on her ranch in Tomales on Sept. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study makes several recommendations to counteract what authors call decades of inaction limiting affordable housing. They include, among other things, proposed reforms to zoning and permitting and a code amnesty and financial assistance for landowners who want to improve housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish there was one solution. I’d say housing is a team sport,” said Cassandra Benjamin, who led the study and is interim director of housing at the Marin Community Foundation. “The way to solve this is through everybody flexing and doing more than they’re doing now — from the county to the local foundations, to the nonprofits, to businesses, to residents. So everybody has to be in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12002081","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/014_qed-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends that foundations invest in strengthening Latino organizing and advocacy so that agricultural workers and other residents can participate in housing solutions. Racist and exclusionary policies have long constrained opportunities for this workforce in Marin County, the most segregated in the Bay Area, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really became very restrictive, both in terms of community acceptance but also regulation about housing,” Benjamin said at her office in Point Reyes Station. “That’s part of what we have to turn around in this work. And what’s exciting is that county supervisors know we need more housing. The ranchers are advocating for it. Certainly, the workers are. So I’m hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Flores, who studies farmworker wellbeing at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center, said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">mass shooting that killed seven workers at two farms in Half Moon Bay last year\u003c/a> highlighted deplorable living conditions for farmworkers at those sites, increasing awareness about the issue throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Marin County decides to use public funds to help agriculture businesses build housing, Flores said it would be an opportunity to support employers that raise pay and safety standards for laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is, how do you best support the farms that want to do the right thing?” he said. “Because the competition is so stiff that if you’re not providing public subsidies to those farms that want to do the right thing, they might be pushed out of business, and that’s not in the public interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12002972/west-marin-worker-housing-often-substandard-and-faulty-new-report-finds","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_31795","news_6266","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_4092","news_18538","news_18269","news_27626","news_1775","news_20202","news_19904","news_18142","news_6505"],"featImg":"news_12005403","label":"news"},"news_12002081":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12002081","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12002081","score":null,"sort":[1725037612000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-wage-theft-victims-miss-out-on-millions-in-collected-funds","title":"California Wage Theft Victims Miss Out on Millions in Collected Funds","publishDate":1725037612,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Wage Theft Victims Miss Out on Millions in Collected Funds | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Federal labor enforcement officials recover millions of dollars each year from employers who break minimum wage or overtime pay laws, but a significant percentage never makes it to workers who are owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $166 million was unclaimed by nearly 200,000 wage theft victims over the last three years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. If workers don’t claim that money within three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">it’s sent\u003c/a> to the U.S. Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many don’t know they are entitled to compensation. More than 15,000 employees with money waiting for them worked for businesses in California, one of the top states with unclaimed wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating and sad all around,” said Yvonne Medrano, an attorney with Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a Los Angeles nonprofit that represents undocumented immigrants in wage theft cases. “It’s workers’ hard-earned money and yet it’s not getting to where it needs to be, which is into the workers’ pockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor officials acknowledged that the department is more efficient at recovering wages from about nine in 10 employers through investigations than it is in getting the owed wages to the workers whose rights were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations often uncover past abuses in targeted low-wage industries that rely heavily on a transient or immigrant workforce, such as restaurants, agriculture and construction. By the time cases are resolved, people entitled to back pay may have moved on to other jobs or changed home addresses and phone numbers, making it hard to notify them of the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Raymond, Assistant District Director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, speaks during a workers’ rights event for low-wage and at-risk workers hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the Consulates of Mexico at the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another hurdle to receiving remuneration is that many undocumented immigrants may recoil from filing ID verification documents with a federal agency to get a check because they fear that it could lead to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data/charts/all-acts\">$660 million\u003c/a> in back pay the labor department has recovered from employers from fiscal year 2021 through 2023 was distributed to workers, according to a high-ranking official with the wage and hour division, which investigates alleged violations. The official estimated that, potentially, as much as one-fifth of those funds don’t reach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department could not immediately provide how much money was transferred to the U.S. Treasury in recent years, a Labor Department spokesperson said. Alberto Raymond, a district director with the wage and hour division in San Francisco, said the agency pursues several avenues to try to get wage theft victims relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want workers to be paid. They are due that money, and we will work very, very, very hard to get them paid,” said Raymond, an investigator with the labor department for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of migrant vineyard workers, who were underpaid and retaliated against by a labor contractor in California, were sent checks after the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco located them, according to a labor department spokesperson. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of dedicated staff throughout the country combs public databases to find impacted workers, confirm their identities and disburse their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department distributed about \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data\">$27 million\u003c/a> to nearly 4,000 workers through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">Workers Owed Wages\u003c/a> program in fiscal year 2023. More than 1,600 people claimed $9 million through the program in the previous fiscal year. Community organizations or foreign government authorities, such as Mexican Consulates in the United States, also help find people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of migrant vineyard workers, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230601-0\">underpaid and retaliated against by a labor contractor\u003c/a> in California, were sent checks after the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco located them, according to a labor department spokesperson. Some of the 55 farmworkers were still in the U.S., but others had returned to remote, rural towns in Mexico, said Arturo Zaldivar, the Consulate staffer who tracked the workers. Finding them took weeks, Zaldivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t expecting that money. They thought they’d lost it forever,” he said in Spanish, adding that the farmworkers told him the money would cover food and rent for weeks or even months. “I’ve had contact with many workers in Mexico and supporting them in this way is very encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Consulate General of Mexico, Consulado General de Mexico, in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zaldivar said he is scouring social media accounts and calling current and former employees of a business to find dozens of additional impacted workers. Once he gets in touch with one, that person can help find former co-workers who can also claim wages, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our compatriots trust us, the Consulate,” he said. “If you say wage and hour division, they are like, ‘What’s that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, labor enforcement agencies were hesitant to collaborate with community groups out of fear that they’d appear biased, though that has been changing, according to advocates and academics who study wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To increase remuneration, the labor department should partner with more churches, immigrant rights organizations and others who can knock on doors and help find workers because they are trusted messengers, Medrano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign during a workers’ rights event hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the Consulates of Mexico at the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024, for low-wage and at-risk workers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The disconnect and the lack of local relationships is clear in moments like this,” she said, referring to the $166 million in unclaimed wages. “I see the DOL moving towards a more community-oriented role, but we’re not there yet. And I think this is very much a symptom of that issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a top priority of the department is not distributing all uncollected wages but increasing businesses’ compliance with the rules, said Paul DeCamp, an attorney who ran the wage and hour division during the George W. Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11999978 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/10Sandra-fields9_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the bigger priority for the department is stopping the violations and getting the back wages disgorged” from employers, said DeCamp, who represents and advises businesses at Epstein Becker Green, a law firm. “And if we can get the wages into the hands of the workers, all the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials said there are roughly 700 wage and hour investigators nationwide, with just a handful of staffers dedicated to getting money into the hands of the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers don’t have a time limit to claim wages recovered by the state’s labor enforcement agency, the California Labor Commissioner, according to a spokesperson who said California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=96.7.&lawCode=LAB\">Unpaid Wage Fund\u003c/a> had a balance of $18.3 million as of Aug. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also takes money from that fund for other expenditures. From fiscal years 2020 through 2022, nearly $17 million due to workers who weren’t found was transferred to the state’s general fund, according to the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Know someone who might need to claim owed wages? Workers should call 877-552-9832 for help in Spanish or search the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">\u003cem>Workers Owed Wages\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> website to find out if they are due money and apply for compensation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly 200,000 wage theft victims have left millions unclaimed over the past three years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1725056293,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1304},"headData":{"title":"California Wage Theft Victims Miss Out on Millions in Collected Funds | KQED","description":"Nearly 200,000 wage theft victims have left millions unclaimed over the past three years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Wage Theft Victims Miss Out on Millions in Collected Funds","datePublished":"2024-08-30T10:06:52-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-30T15:18:13-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/11960bbd-3204-41a8-adc1-b1dc01028b56/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12002081","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12002081/california-wage-theft-victims-miss-out-on-millions-in-collected-funds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal labor enforcement officials recover millions of dollars each year from employers who break minimum wage or overtime pay laws, but a significant percentage never makes it to workers who are owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $166 million was unclaimed by nearly 200,000 wage theft victims over the last three years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. If workers don’t claim that money within three years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">it’s sent\u003c/a> to the U.S. Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many don’t know they are entitled to compensation. More than 15,000 employees with money waiting for them worked for businesses in California, one of the top states with unclaimed wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating and sad all around,” said Yvonne Medrano, an attorney with Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a Los Angeles nonprofit that represents undocumented immigrants in wage theft cases. “It’s workers’ hard-earned money and yet it’s not getting to where it needs to be, which is into the workers’ pockets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor officials acknowledged that the department is more efficient at recovering wages from about nine in 10 employers through investigations than it is in getting the owed wages to the workers whose rights were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations often uncover past abuses in targeted low-wage industries that rely heavily on a transient or immigrant workforce, such as restaurants, agriculture and construction. By the time cases are resolved, people entitled to back pay may have moved on to other jobs or changed home addresses and phone numbers, making it hard to notify them of the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberto Raymond, Assistant District Director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, speaks during a workers’ rights event for low-wage and at-risk workers hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the Consulates of Mexico at the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another hurdle to receiving remuneration is that many undocumented immigrants may recoil from filing ID verification documents with a federal agency to get a check because they fear that it could lead to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data/charts/all-acts\">$660 million\u003c/a> in back pay the labor department has recovered from employers from fiscal year 2021 through 2023 was distributed to workers, according to a high-ranking official with the wage and hour division, which investigates alleged violations. The official estimated that, potentially, as much as one-fifth of those funds don’t reach workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department could not immediately provide how much money was transferred to the U.S. Treasury in recent years, a Labor Department spokesperson said. Alberto Raymond, a district director with the wage and hour division in San Francisco, said the agency pursues several avenues to try to get wage theft victims relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want workers to be paid. They are due that money, and we will work very, very, very hard to get them paid,” said Raymond, an investigator with the labor department for 27 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002502\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/017_KQED_Napa_VineyardFarmWorkers_09302020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of migrant vineyard workers, who were underpaid and retaliated against by a labor contractor in California, were sent checks after the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco located them, according to a labor department spokesperson. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of dedicated staff throughout the country combs public databases to find impacted workers, confirm their identities and disburse their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department distributed about \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/data\">$27 million\u003c/a> to nearly 4,000 workers through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">Workers Owed Wages\u003c/a> program in fiscal year 2023. More than 1,600 people claimed $9 million through the program in the previous fiscal year. Community organizations or foreign government authorities, such as Mexican Consulates in the United States, also help find people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of migrant vineyard workers, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230601-0\">underpaid and retaliated against by a labor contractor\u003c/a> in California, were sent checks after the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco located them, according to a labor department spokesperson. Some of the 55 farmworkers were still in the U.S., but others had returned to remote, rural towns in Mexico, said Arturo Zaldivar, the Consulate staffer who tracked the workers. Finding them took weeks, Zaldivar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t expecting that money. They thought they’d lost it forever,” he said in Spanish, adding that the farmworkers told him the money would cover food and rent for weeks or even months. “I’ve had contact with many workers in Mexico and supporting them in this way is very encouraging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-IMMIGRANTWORKERSRIGHTS-77-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Consulate General of Mexico, Consulado General de Mexico, in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zaldivar said he is scouring social media accounts and calling current and former employees of a business to find dozens of additional impacted workers. Once he gets in touch with one, that person can help find former co-workers who can also claim wages, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our compatriots trust us, the Consulate,” he said. “If you say wage and hour division, they are like, ‘What’s that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, labor enforcement agencies were hesitant to collaborate with community groups out of fear that they’d appear biased, though that has been changing, according to advocates and academics who study wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To increase remuneration, the labor department should partner with more churches, immigrant rights organizations and others who can knock on doors and help find workers because they are trusted messengers, Medrano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240826-ImmigrantWorkersRights-72-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign during a workers’ rights event hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the Consulates of Mexico at the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2024, for low-wage and at-risk workers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The disconnect and the lack of local relationships is clear in moments like this,” she said, referring to the $166 million in unclaimed wages. “I see the DOL moving towards a more community-oriented role, but we’re not there yet. And I think this is very much a symptom of that issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a top priority of the department is not distributing all uncollected wages but increasing businesses’ compliance with the rules, said Paul DeCamp, an attorney who ran the wage and hour division during the George W. Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11999978","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/10Sandra-fields9_qed-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the bigger priority for the department is stopping the violations and getting the back wages disgorged” from employers, said DeCamp, who represents and advises businesses at Epstein Becker Green, a law firm. “And if we can get the wages into the hands of the workers, all the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials said there are roughly 700 wage and hour investigators nationwide, with just a handful of staffers dedicated to getting money into the hands of the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers don’t have a time limit to claim wages recovered by the state’s labor enforcement agency, the California Labor Commissioner, according to a spokesperson who said California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=96.7.&lawCode=LAB\">Unpaid Wage Fund\u003c/a> had a balance of $18.3 million as of Aug. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also takes money from that fund for other expenditures. From fiscal years 2020 through 2022, nearly $17 million due to workers who weren’t found was transferred to the state’s general fund, according to the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Know someone who might need to claim owed wages? Workers should call 877-552-9832 for help in Spanish or search the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/wow\">\u003cem>Workers Owed Wages\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> website to find out if they are due money and apply for compensation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12002081/california-wage-theft-victims-miss-out-on-millions-in-collected-funds","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_31795","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_26334","news_20579","news_20202","news_19904","news_31850","news_32380","news_3733"],"featImg":"news_12002086","label":"news"},"news_12002189":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12002189","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12002189","score":null,"sort":[1724929218000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens","title":"Over 1 Million Were Deported to Mexico Nearly 100 Years Ago. Most of Them Were US Citizens","publishDate":1724929218,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Over 1 Million Were Deported to Mexico Nearly 100 Years Ago. Most of Them Were US Citizens | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A bill making its way through the California state legislature would commemorate a little-known chapter of U.S. history: a large-scale deportation of Mexicans — and Mexican Americans — nearly a century ago. And the bill’s backers say it’s all the more relevant in this election year when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5044582/trump-has-promised-deportations-on-an-unprecedented-scale\">mass deportation is again a political topic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yearslong episode, referred to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/09/10/439114563/americas-forgotten-history-of-mexican-american-repatriation\">the Mexican Repatriation\u003c/a> by those who enacted it, began in 1930, as the Great Depression took hold. As employment dwindled, hostility toward immigrants grew. President Herbert Hoover had announced a plan to ensure “American jobs for real Americans,” implying that anyone of Mexican descent was not a “real” American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB537\">bill\u003c/a>, SB 537, would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or immigrants to build a memorial in Los Angeles recognizing the people who were forcibly deported from the U.S. during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians say more than a million people — and possibly as many as 1.8 million — throughout the country were forced to go to Mexico. But not all of them were Mexican. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unmpress.com/9780826339744/decade-of-betrayal/\">scholars estimate that \u003c/a>more than half of those pushed out of the country were American citizens, often the U.S.-born children of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those deported was Martin Cabrera’s grandfather, Emilio, who was born in 1918 in Wilmington, California, in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12002188\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-1020x1648.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white image of a man and woman dressed in wedding attire.\" width=\"640\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-1020x1648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-800x1292.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-160x258.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-951x1536.jpg 951w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emilio Cabrera and Maria Asuncion pose for a portrait at their wedding in Mexico in 1934. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Cabrera family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera, the CEO of Cabrera Capital, an investment firm in Chicago, said that when he was a boy, his grandfather told him stories about being deported, along with his mother and little sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was about 12 years old in 1930,” Cabrera said. “He was put into a box car over by Los Angeles at Union Station, and they’re shipped out and ended up in San Luis Potosí in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his grandfather never complained about what he had been through and worked hard to build a good life for his family. But when Cabrera became an adult, he began to realize how hard it must have been for the family to leave everything behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have a lot of belongings that they took with them when they were being deported,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A lawless deportation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson said government officials flagrantly \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol26/iss1/1/\">disregarded people’s constitutional rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lawless deportation,” he said. “There were no removal procedures. There’s no process, there’s no nothing. And [under law] you can’t deport a citizen. You can’t force a citizen to leave the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson points out that “repatriation” is a misnomer for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had never lived in Mexico, including his former colleague, the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/08/im-mexican-american-and-i-was-a-judge-what-trump-is-doing-is-appalling/\">California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I view the repatriation as an ethnic cleansing that took place in the greater Southwest, including Los Angeles, in the Great Depression,” he said. “And it’s had significant impacts…. For generations, Mexican identities were kept, some might say, ‘in the closet.’ It was kept quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in places like Los Angeles adopted the term “repatriation” because they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/stories-from-the-archives/ins-records-for-1930s-mexican-repatriations\">waging pressure campaigns\u003c/a> to induce Mexicans to “voluntarily” depart, as well as collaborating with federal immigration authorities to carry out formal deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows some families were coerced into “self-deporting” through persuasion, threats or intimidation. Others were rounded up by force, even taken from hospitals. Johnson notes that, though immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, local officials were often the ones conducting the raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most notorious incidents took place in Los Angeles in February 1931, where city police corralled hundreds of people at La Placita, the plaza in front of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, in a Mexican neighborhood. Officers checked papers and trucked dozens of people to the train station to send them to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Obviously it could happen again’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tamara Gisiger was a high school junior when she learned about the Mexican Repatriation. Her class was studying the Great Depression, and she wanted to focus her final paper on how it had affected people of Mexican heritage like her. She said she was shocked by what her research turned up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I brought it up to my teacher, I was even more shocked when she didn’t know about it,” said Gisiger, who’s starting her first year at Bowdoin College. “So, I started talking to family members about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She learned that a cousin’s grandfather was deported and the family had to start over at the southern tip of Baja California, a region where “repatriates” were promised land but, with no water, found it nearly impossible to farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very un-talked about because it’s shameful,” she said. “It’s traumatizing and hidden from the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gisiger’s paper came to the attention of California State Sen. Josh Becker, and together, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB537\">they wrote the bill\u003c/a> to place the memorial at La Placita park in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker said Americans need to learn this history because \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141\">the inflammatory way that former President Donald Trump speaks about immigrants\u003c/a> as he campaigns for president echoes the anti-immigrant climate that made Mexican Repatriation possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFch7SbrYWI&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today we are seeing the same kind of hateful, vile rhetoric coming from political leaders, and actually calls for mass deportation,” Becker said at a recent press conference promoting the bill. “I think many people think, ‘Oh, that’s just rhetoric that will never happen.’ We’re here to say: ‘This happened in the past and obviously it could happen again.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">an estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants\u003c/a> in the United States as of 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform\">Republican party platform\u003c/a> pledges to “Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history,” something analysts predict would be complicated and very costly. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\">growing share of Americans\u003c/a> — though still a minority — support large-scale deportations, polls show.[aside postID=\"news_12002117,news_11999292,news_11979997\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has more rigorous due process protections than it did in the 1930s, including a deportation process in the immigration courts, notes Johnson, the law school dean. But those protections could be overridden, he said, if a president were to declare a state of emergency for deportations and sympathetic courts were to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could end up with mass removals or at least mass removals for a time,” he said. “So I think damage could be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2006/01/02/5079627/remembering-californias-repatriation-program\">California issued a formal apology\u003c/a> for its role in the Mexican Repatriation, acknowledging that it violated people’s civil liberties and constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker’s bill to erect a commemorative monument passed the state assembly unanimously Wednesday and is expected to pass the senate this week. It must make it to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk by Saturday if it’s to be signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Cabrera thinks that recognition is needed to help raise awareness about what he calls “a dark part of our American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you learn from those negative points in our history? One: recognize it and then document it. But also educate people and what transpired,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new California bill would commemorate 'a dark part of our American history' known as the Mexican 'repatriation' of the 1930s.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1725058325,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1304},"headData":{"title":"Over 1 Million Were Deported to Mexico Nearly 100 Years Ago. Most of Them Were US Citizens | KQED","description":"A new California bill would commemorate 'a dark part of our American history' known as the Mexican 'repatriation' of the 1930s.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Over 1 Million Were Deported to Mexico Nearly 100 Years Ago. Most of Them Were US Citizens","datePublished":"2024-08-29T04:00:18-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-30T15:52:05-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/0d94dcfe-0f0d-46e4-ba29-b1da010a81a9/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12002189","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A bill making its way through the California state legislature would commemorate a little-known chapter of U.S. history: a large-scale deportation of Mexicans — and Mexican Americans — nearly a century ago. And the bill’s backers say it’s all the more relevant in this election year when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5044582/trump-has-promised-deportations-on-an-unprecedented-scale\">mass deportation is again a political topic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yearslong episode, referred to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/09/10/439114563/americas-forgotten-history-of-mexican-american-repatriation\">the Mexican Repatriation\u003c/a> by those who enacted it, began in 1930, as the Great Depression took hold. As employment dwindled, hostility toward immigrants grew. President Herbert Hoover had announced a plan to ensure “American jobs for real Americans,” implying that anyone of Mexican descent was not a “real” American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB537\">bill\u003c/a>, SB 537, would authorize a nonprofit organization representing Mexican Americans or immigrants to build a memorial in Los Angeles recognizing the people who were forcibly deported from the U.S. during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians say more than a million people — and possibly as many as 1.8 million — throughout the country were forced to go to Mexico. But not all of them were Mexican. Indeed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unmpress.com/9780826339744/decade-of-betrayal/\">scholars estimate that \u003c/a>more than half of those pushed out of the country were American citizens, often the U.S.-born children of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those deported was Martin Cabrera’s grandfather, Emilio, who was born in 1918 in Wilmington, California, in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12002188\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-1020x1648.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white image of a man and woman dressed in wedding attire.\" width=\"640\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-1020x1648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-800x1292.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-160x258.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED-951x1536.jpg 951w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-Mexican-Repatriation-01-KQED.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emilio Cabrera and Maria Asuncion pose for a portrait at their wedding in Mexico in 1934. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Cabrera family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera, the CEO of Cabrera Capital, an investment firm in Chicago, said that when he was a boy, his grandfather told him stories about being deported, along with his mother and little sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was about 12 years old in 1930,” Cabrera said. “He was put into a box car over by Los Angeles at Union Station, and they’re shipped out and ended up in San Luis Potosí in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his grandfather never complained about what he had been through and worked hard to build a good life for his family. But when Cabrera became an adult, he began to realize how hard it must have been for the family to leave everything behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have a lot of belongings that they took with them when they were being deported,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A lawless deportation’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson said government officials flagrantly \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol26/iss1/1/\">disregarded people’s constitutional rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a lawless deportation,” he said. “There were no removal procedures. There’s no process, there’s no nothing. And [under law] you can’t deport a citizen. You can’t force a citizen to leave the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson points out that “repatriation” is a misnomer for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had never lived in Mexico, including his former colleague, the late \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/08/im-mexican-american-and-i-was-a-judge-what-trump-is-doing-is-appalling/\">California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I view the repatriation as an ethnic cleansing that took place in the greater Southwest, including Los Angeles, in the Great Depression,” he said. “And it’s had significant impacts…. For generations, Mexican identities were kept, some might say, ‘in the closet.’ It was kept quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in places like Los Angeles adopted the term “repatriation” because they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/stories-from-the-archives/ins-records-for-1930s-mexican-repatriations\">waging pressure campaigns\u003c/a> to induce Mexicans to “voluntarily” depart, as well as collaborating with federal immigration authorities to carry out formal deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows some families were coerced into “self-deporting” through persuasion, threats or intimidation. Others were rounded up by force, even taken from hospitals. Johnson notes that, though immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, local officials were often the ones conducting the raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most notorious incidents took place in Los Angeles in February 1931, where city police corralled hundreds of people at La Placita, the plaza in front of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, in a Mexican neighborhood. Officers checked papers and trucked dozens of people to the train station to send them to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Obviously it could happen again’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tamara Gisiger was a high school junior when she learned about the Mexican Repatriation. Her class was studying the Great Depression, and she wanted to focus her final paper on how it had affected people of Mexican heritage like her. She said she was shocked by what her research turned up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I brought it up to my teacher, I was even more shocked when she didn’t know about it,” said Gisiger, who’s starting her first year at Bowdoin College. “So, I started talking to family members about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She learned that a cousin’s grandfather was deported and the family had to start over at the southern tip of Baja California, a region where “repatriates” were promised land but, with no water, found it nearly impossible to farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very un-talked about because it’s shameful,” she said. “It’s traumatizing and hidden from the family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gisiger’s paper came to the attention of California State Sen. Josh Becker, and together, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB537\">they wrote the bill\u003c/a> to place the memorial at La Placita park in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker said Americans need to learn this history because \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141\">the inflammatory way that former President Donald Trump speaks about immigrants\u003c/a> as he campaigns for president echoes the anti-immigrant climate that made Mexican Repatriation possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TFch7SbrYWI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TFch7SbrYWI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Today we are seeing the same kind of hateful, vile rhetoric coming from political leaders, and actually calls for mass deportation,” Becker said at a recent press conference promoting the bill. “I think many people think, ‘Oh, that’s just rhetoric that will never happen.’ We’re here to say: ‘This happened in the past and obviously it could happen again.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">an estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants\u003c/a> in the United States as of 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform\">Republican party platform\u003c/a> pledges to “Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history,” something analysts predict would be complicated and very costly. A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\">growing share of Americans\u003c/a> — though still a minority — support large-scale deportations, polls show.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12002117,news_11999292,news_11979997","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has more rigorous due process protections than it did in the 1930s, including a deportation process in the immigration courts, notes Johnson, the law school dean. But those protections could be overridden, he said, if a president were to declare a state of emergency for deportations and sympathetic courts were to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could end up with mass removals or at least mass removals for a time,” he said. “So I think damage could be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2006/01/02/5079627/remembering-californias-repatriation-program\">California issued a formal apology\u003c/a> for its role in the Mexican Repatriation, acknowledging that it violated people’s civil liberties and constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker’s bill to erect a commemorative monument passed the state assembly unanimously Wednesday and is expected to pass the senate this week. It must make it to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk by Saturday if it’s to be signed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Cabrera thinks that recognition is needed to help raise awareness about what he calls “a dark part of our American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you learn from those negative points in our history? One: recognize it and then document it. But also educate people and what transpired,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens","authors":["259"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_2704","news_20202","news_34468","news_23121","news_34469"],"featImg":"news_12002205","label":"news_72"},"news_12002260":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12002260","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12002260","score":null,"sort":[1724929207000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"protesters-decry-conditions-at-ice-detention-centers-as-aclu-report-detail-alleged-abuses","title":"Protesters Decry Conditions at ICE Detention Centers as ACLU Report Details Alleged Abuses","publishDate":1724929207,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Protesters Decry Conditions at ICE Detention Centers as ACLU Report Details Alleged Abuses | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Advocates are escalating their condemnation of federal immigration authorities and a private prison company that operates ICE detention facilities in California, where dozens of detained men have waged months-long protests over what they say are sub-standard and abusive conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a protest in San Francisco Wednesday outside the office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, several dozen activists called on the agency’s field director to meet with detainees who are waging hunger and labor strikes inside two Kern County facilities: Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center and Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After ICE ended free phone calls earlier this month, dozens of people resumed a hunger and labor strike they have waged intermittently for more than two years. The detainees began by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917597/immigrant-detainees-strike-over-working-conditions-california-regulators-investigate\">protesting $1/day pay\u003c/a> for cleaning dormitories and bathrooms and then used the strikes to call attention to what they say are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942414/with-detainee-hunger-strike-in-third-week-ice-is-failing-to-review-requests-for-freedom-advocates-say\">sexually abusive pat-downs, retaliatory use of solitary confinement and substandard care \u003c/a>and conditions. Advocates say eight people are still refusing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eunice Hernandez Chenier, an organizer with Pangea Legal Services, said waging a hunger strike shows how serious the concerns are for people living inside the two privately operated immigration jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is obviously a very big sacrifice and a decision that one does not take lightly,” said Hernandez Chenier. “So you can imagine how terrible conditions and treatment are in the facilities in order for someone to make such a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez Chenier added that two hunger strikers were transferred to a different ICE facility in Tacoma, WA, last week, a move she called retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retaliatory transfers are common when folks are striking or when folks are just asserting their rights,” she said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"immigrant-detention-centers\"]Protesters called on ICE to end their contracts with GEO Group for both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex this December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191223005099/en/\">when the contracts are up for a 5-year review and renewal\u003c/a>. The publicly traded, multinational corrections corporation holds contracts to operate four out of six ICE detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the protesters, an ICE spokeswoman referred KQED to a statement issued last year that reads in part: “ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokeswoman, Alethea Smock, also pointed to the agency’s recent statement that it had ended a pandemic-era free phone call program as a result of budget constraints. ICE “would gladly reinstate the 520 minutes calling program with adequate appropriated funds” from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-free-cell-phone-minutes-provided-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency\">the statement said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-12.pdf\">ICE’s detention standards regarding solitary confinement\u003c/a>, which governs the use of cells for “disciplinary segregation” or “administrative segregation.” The standards say segregation must be reviewed every 30 days if it stretches longer than that. It also states that “every effort” shall be made to place detainees with “serious mental illness” in an alternate setting where they can receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grievances Reveal Abuse and Neglect, Advocates Say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The protest in San Francisco occurred on the same day that the ACLU of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Resistance%20Retaliation%20Repression%20-%20Two%20Years%20in%20California%20Immigration%20Detention.pdf\">released a report\u003c/a> documenting what it called a pattern of hazardous, inhumane conditions, medical neglect and retaliation across all six ICE facilities in California, which have a combined capacity to hold nearly 7,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a database of 485 grievance claims filed over the past two years by immigrants held at all six ICE facilities in California. The claim records were obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit or directly from the people who filed them. According to the ACLU’s report, ICE determined that only 8% of the grievances were well-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Lucas rallies outside the U.S. Customs and Immigraiton Enforcement offices in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 2024, in support of labor and hunger strikers inside two detention centers in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, ICE officials said in a statement that it is “committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments under appropriate \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7S-VCPNYRAu5q15KHzj81M?domain=ice.gov\">conditions of confinement\u003c/a>.” They added that “the agency takes allegations of misconduct very seriously – personnel are held to the highest standards of professional and ethical behavior, and when a complaint is received, it is investigated thoroughly to determine veracity and ensure comprehensive standards are strictly maintained and enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-04/OIG-24-23-Apr24.pdf\">unannounced federal inspection\u003c/a> at Golden State Annex in April found the facility “generally complied” with health care and other standards but failed to allow recreation for people in solitary confinement and did not meet requirements for responding to grievances. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2023-11/OIG-24-03-Nov23.pdf\">inspection\u003c/a> last November at the Mesa Verde facility found staff did not accurately report a use of force incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Complaint Charges Sexual Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the day before the protest, half a dozen detained immigrants at Golden State Annex filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Immigrant-Rights/CRCL-Complaint-IR-08272024.pdf\">federal civil rights complaint \u003c/a>alleging sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination, based on their sexual orientation, gender expression or as retaliation for speaking out over poor conditions. The complaint charges that guards repeatedly made sexually suggestive and threatening comments to a gay couple who had fled violence in Colombia, subjected a transgender woman to sexually intrusive pat-down searches and waged a campaign of sexually degrading comments against a man after he protested medical neglect and mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees filing the complaint are asking the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to investigate and ensure that staff members charged with abuse are barred from working with detained individuals, according to attorney Lee Ann Felder-Heim with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the six people involved only filed the complaint after waiting months for a response to earlier reports of the abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of reports of sexual abuse and harassment in many facilities across the country,” Felder-Heim said. “So this is definitely not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, GEO Group spokesman Christopher Ferreira said the company takes all allegations of sexual abuse and harassment “with the utmost seriousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a zero-tolerance policy as it relates to such matters and take steps to ensure a thorough investigation of all related complaints,” he said, adding that GEO is committed to providing services to the Department of Homeland Security “in accordance with all established federal standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alternatives to Detention Are Cheaper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">funding to hold 41,500 people\u003c/a> in immigration detention at any given time at an annual cost of $3.4 billion. Just over \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/\">36,000 people were in custody\u003c/a> as of Aug. 11. The American Immigration Lawyers Association estimates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">cost of detention at $165/day\u003c/a> per person. ICE’s “Alternatives to Detention” program, involving community-based supervision, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/features/atd\">a cost of $8/day\u003c/a> per individual.[aside label=\"More Immigration Coverage\" tag=\"asylum-seeker\"]Immigration detention is not a punishment for a crime but a form of civil detention to ensure individuals appear for court proceedings and to protect the public from those who could be considered a safety risk. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11343\">Immigration law requires mandatory detention\u003c/a> for certain immigrants who are in deportation proceedings because of their criminal record, and in some cases for those seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties advocates argue that it’s not necessary to detain people who are fighting deportation, as there are fairer and much less expensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/alternatives-immigration-detention-overview\">alternatives to detention\u003c/a>. They say immigration detention is harmful and inhumane. And they point to evidence that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/11-years-government-data-reveal-immigrants-do-show-court\">vast majority of non-detained people show up\u003c/a> for their immigration court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many conservatives – and some moderates – insist that immigration detention is a necessary part of strengthening border enforcement and removing more of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has pledged \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/video/2024/01/10/trump-promises-largest-deportation-effort-in-the-history-of-our-country-1184677\">“the largest deportation effort in the history of our country,”\u003c/a> if elected in November. To carry that out would likely require a massive expansion of detention capacity if authorities plan to jail people while they await hearings in the backlogged immigration courts.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The protest Wednesday came as the ACLU released a report documenting what it calls a pattern of inhumane conditions at all California ICE facilities, and immigrants at one of them filed a civil rights complaint over sexual abuse.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1724959906,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1397},"headData":{"title":"Protesters Decry Conditions at ICE Detention Centers as ACLU Report Details Alleged Abuses | KQED","description":"The protest Wednesday came as the ACLU released a report documenting what it calls a pattern of inhumane conditions at all California ICE facilities, and immigrants at one of them filed a civil rights complaint over sexual abuse.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Protesters Decry Conditions at ICE Detention Centers as ACLU Report Details Alleged Abuses","datePublished":"2024-08-29T04:00:07-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-29T12:31:46-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12002260","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12002260/protesters-decry-conditions-at-ice-detention-centers-as-aclu-report-detail-alleged-abuses","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Advocates are escalating their condemnation of federal immigration authorities and a private prison company that operates ICE detention facilities in California, where dozens of detained men have waged months-long protests over what they say are sub-standard and abusive conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a protest in San Francisco Wednesday outside the office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, several dozen activists called on the agency’s field director to meet with detainees who are waging hunger and labor strikes inside two Kern County facilities: Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center and Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After ICE ended free phone calls earlier this month, dozens of people resumed a hunger and labor strike they have waged intermittently for more than two years. The detainees began by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917597/immigrant-detainees-strike-over-working-conditions-california-regulators-investigate\">protesting $1/day pay\u003c/a> for cleaning dormitories and bathrooms and then used the strikes to call attention to what they say are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942414/with-detainee-hunger-strike-in-third-week-ice-is-failing-to-review-requests-for-freedom-advocates-say\">sexually abusive pat-downs, retaliatory use of solitary confinement and substandard care \u003c/a>and conditions. Advocates say eight people are still refusing food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eunice Hernandez Chenier, an organizer with Pangea Legal Services, said waging a hunger strike shows how serious the concerns are for people living inside the two privately operated immigration jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is obviously a very big sacrifice and a decision that one does not take lightly,” said Hernandez Chenier. “So you can imagine how terrible conditions and treatment are in the facilities in order for someone to make such a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez Chenier added that two hunger strikers were transferred to a different ICE facility in Tacoma, WA, last week, a move she called retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retaliatory transfers are common when folks are striking or when folks are just asserting their rights,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"immigrant-detention-centers"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Protesters called on ICE to end their contracts with GEO Group for both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex this December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191223005099/en/\">when the contracts are up for a 5-year review and renewal\u003c/a>. The publicly traded, multinational corrections corporation holds contracts to operate four out of six ICE detention centers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the protesters, an ICE spokeswoman referred KQED to a statement issued last year that reads in part: “ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokeswoman, Alethea Smock, also pointed to the agency’s recent statement that it had ended a pandemic-era free phone call program as a result of budget constraints. ICE “would gladly reinstate the 520 minutes calling program with adequate appropriated funds” from Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-free-cell-phone-minutes-provided-during-covid-19-public-health-emergency\">the statement said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-12.pdf\">ICE’s detention standards regarding solitary confinement\u003c/a>, which governs the use of cells for “disciplinary segregation” or “administrative segregation.” The standards say segregation must be reviewed every 30 days if it stretches longer than that. It also states that “every effort” shall be made to place detainees with “serious mental illness” in an alternate setting where they can receive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grievances Reveal Abuse and Neglect, Advocates Say\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The protest in San Francisco occurred on the same day that the ACLU of Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Resistance%20Retaliation%20Repression%20-%20Two%20Years%20in%20California%20Immigration%20Detention.pdf\">released a report\u003c/a> documenting what it called a pattern of hazardous, inhumane conditions, medical neglect and retaliation across all six ICE facilities in California, which have a combined capacity to hold nearly 7,200 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report is based on a database of 485 grievance claims filed over the past two years by immigrants held at all six ICE facilities in California. The claim records were obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit or directly from the people who filed them. According to the ACLU’s report, ICE determined that only 8% of the grievances were well-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Lucas rallies outside the U.S. Customs and Immigraiton Enforcement offices in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 2024, in support of labor and hunger strikers inside two detention centers in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, ICE officials said in a statement that it is “committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments under appropriate \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7S-VCPNYRAu5q15KHzj81M?domain=ice.gov\">conditions of confinement\u003c/a>.” They added that “the agency takes allegations of misconduct very seriously – personnel are held to the highest standards of professional and ethical behavior, and when a complaint is received, it is investigated thoroughly to determine veracity and ensure comprehensive standards are strictly maintained and enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-04/OIG-24-23-Apr24.pdf\">unannounced federal inspection\u003c/a> at Golden State Annex in April found the facility “generally complied” with health care and other standards but failed to allow recreation for people in solitary confinement and did not meet requirements for responding to grievances. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2023-11/OIG-24-03-Nov23.pdf\">inspection\u003c/a> last November at the Mesa Verde facility found staff did not accurately report a use of force incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Complaint Charges Sexual Abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the day before the protest, half a dozen detained immigrants at Golden State Annex filed a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Immigrant-Rights/CRCL-Complaint-IR-08272024.pdf\">federal civil rights complaint \u003c/a>alleging sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination, based on their sexual orientation, gender expression or as retaliation for speaking out over poor conditions. The complaint charges that guards repeatedly made sexually suggestive and threatening comments to a gay couple who had fled violence in Colombia, subjected a transgender woman to sexually intrusive pat-down searches and waged a campaign of sexually degrading comments against a man after he protested medical neglect and mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees filing the complaint are asking the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to investigate and ensure that staff members charged with abuse are barred from working with detained individuals, according to attorney Lee Ann Felder-Heim with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the six people involved only filed the complaint after waiting months for a response to earlier reports of the abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of reports of sexual abuse and harassment in many facilities across the country,” Felder-Heim said. “So this is definitely not an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, GEO Group spokesman Christopher Ferreira said the company takes all allegations of sexual abuse and harassment “with the utmost seriousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a zero-tolerance policy as it relates to such matters and take steps to ensure a thorough investigation of all related complaints,” he said, adding that GEO is committed to providing services to the Department of Homeland Security “in accordance with all established federal standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alternatives to Detention Are Cheaper\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">funding to hold 41,500 people\u003c/a> in immigration detention at any given time at an annual cost of $3.4 billion. Just over \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/\">36,000 people were in custody\u003c/a> as of Aug. 11. The American Immigration Lawyers Association estimates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/featured-issue-immigration-detention\">cost of detention at $165/day\u003c/a> per person. ICE’s “Alternatives to Detention” program, involving community-based supervision, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/features/atd\">a cost of $8/day\u003c/a> per individual.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Immigration Coverage ","tag":"asylum-seeker"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Immigration detention is not a punishment for a crime but a form of civil detention to ensure individuals appear for court proceedings and to protect the public from those who could be considered a safety risk. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11343\">Immigration law requires mandatory detention\u003c/a> for certain immigrants who are in deportation proceedings because of their criminal record, and in some cases for those seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil liberties advocates argue that it’s not necessary to detain people who are fighting deportation, as there are fairer and much less expensive \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/alternatives-immigration-detention-overview\">alternatives to detention\u003c/a>. They say immigration detention is harmful and inhumane. And they point to evidence that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/11-years-government-data-reveal-immigrants-do-show-court\">vast majority of non-detained people show up\u003c/a> for their immigration court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many conservatives – and some moderates – insist that immigration detention is a necessary part of strengthening border enforcement and removing more of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has pledged \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/video/2024/01/10/trump-promises-largest-deportation-effort-in-the-history-of-our-country-1184677\">“the largest deportation effort in the history of our country,”\u003c/a> if elected in November. To carry that out would likely require a massive expansion of detention capacity if authorities plan to jail people while they await hearings in the backlogged immigration courts.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12002260/protesters-decry-conditions-at-ice-detention-centers-as-aclu-report-detail-alleged-abuses","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_23087","news_26233","news_27240","news_6884","news_20606","news_23687","news_22215","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_12002183","label":"news"},"news_12000804":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12000804","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12000804","score":null,"sort":[1724151628000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"legal-pathway-opens-for-undocumented-spouses-of-u-s-citizens-why-are-some-waiting-to-apply","title":"Legal Pathway Opens for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens. Why Are Some Waiting to Apply?","publishDate":1724151628,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Legal Pathway Opens for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens. Why Are Some Waiting to Apply? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A rare legal pathway has opened up for as many as half a million undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area and across the country that could lead to eventual U.S. citizenship. But in an election year when immigration is a polarizing issue, it’s also raising questions for those who stand to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden Administration began accepting Monday applications for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-implements-keeping-families-together\">a program\u003c/a> that would enable long-term unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens — and 50,000 undocumented stepchildren of citizens — to become permanent legal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant legal aid groups across California are rolling out information sessions on how to apply, even as they rush to read \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-18725.pdf\">the program’s fine print (PDF)\u003c/a> — which won’t be officially published by the federal government until Tuesday, Aug. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some families said they were eager to take advantage of the long-sought opportunity to secure the full rights of citizenship, others were cautious about applying. With former President Donald Trump condemning undocumented immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country,” they fear they’d be especially vulnerable if he makes good on his vow of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fear of deportation if Trump wins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Janet Reyes, a dental assistant at an Oakland high school, is a U.S.-born citizen. She and her husband, Marco, have two kids, ages 8 and 15, who were also born here. But Marco, a construction worker, is undocumented, having come illegally from Mexico when he was a young man. KQED is not using his last name because of his concerns about deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When President Joe Biden announced the legalization program in June, Reyes said she and her husband were “beyond excited” that it would allow him to get a better job and join Reyes and the kids on family vacations. But now Reyes says they’re not sure it’s wise to give the government so much information about Marco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you apply, you’re going to be added to this list. … And if the Republican wins, it might be something bad that you’re on this list,” she said. “Some of my coworkers were just like, ‘I think we’re going to wait until after the election to see who wins.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angélica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, is encouraging undocumented immigrants who’ve been in the U.S. for at least a decade and are married to a citizen to find out if they qualify and apply.[aside label=\"More Immigration Coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Monday, Salas applauded the Biden-Harris administration for creating the program, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/keepingfamiliestogether\">Keeping Families Together\u003c/a>. She acknowledged that it’s possible a future Trump administration could end the program or that it could face a challenge in court, as former Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller has pledged. But Salas said that’s all the more reason for eligible families to get covered by the program now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is that the program exists today,” said Salas. “We want to make sure as many families [as possible] are in the program, even as we know that there are many who see this as a threat. We just don’t understand why having U.S. citizens actually take advantage of their right as citizens to petition for their families is threatening to anybody in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics on the right called the Biden executive order unconstitutional and suggested Vice President Kamala Harris would go further in granting legal status to undocumented immigrants if elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This illegal and unlegislated amnesty for half a million illegal aliens is just a cat’s paw for what is likely to come in a future administration if it is allowed to stand,” said Dan Stein, president of the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the program works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under current law, noncitizens who entered the country illegally cannot become legal residents without leaving and re-entering lawfully through an official port of entry. However, immigration law also states that those who have been in the U.S. without legal immigration status are \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/three-and-ten-year-bars\">barred from re-entering\u003c/a>, often for 10 years and sometimes longer. That has created a Catch-22 for undocumented immigrants, including spouses of U.S. citizens, who would otherwise be entitled to a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program offers “parole in place,” or the ability to apply for legal admission to the U.S. while already here, on a case-by-case basis to noncitizens who:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Entered without authorization;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have lived in the U.S. continuously for at least 10 years;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Are married to a U.S. citizen;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have no felony convictions or current criminal charges;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have not been ordered deported;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Undergo background checks and national security and public safety screenings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s also available to undocumented immigrants under age 21 who are stepchildren of U.S. citizens and have a noncitizen parent married to that citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released Monday, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ur Jaddou, said the process is geared toward noncitizens “who contribute to and have long standing connections within American communities across the country.”[aside label=\"More Stories about DACA\" tag=\"daca\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens — many of them mothers and fathers — live with uncertainty,” said Jaddou. “This process to keep U.S. families together will remove these undue barriers for those who would otherwise qualify to live and work lawfully in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those parents is Brenda Valle, 35, a student enrollment administrator and mother of two young sons, who spoke at the CHIRLA press conference in Los Angeles Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valle, who says she was brought to the U.S. as a 3-year-old, has protection from deportation and a renewable two-year work permit under DACA, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>. But that protection is temporary, and until now, she had no way to legalize her status, even though as the spouse of a U.S. citizen, she’s technically entitled to become a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings a sense of relief I can barely put into words,” said Valle. “I look forward to the day when I can focus on long-term goals … and leave behind the constant worry of what would happen to my children if we were separated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the word\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights groups are beginning to host information sessions and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chirlausa/videos/466790242806055\">spread the word about the program through social media\u003c/a>. CHIRLA is hosting presentations three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Sanctuary Covenant in Berkeley has started weekly information sessions over Zoom. 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But some say they will hold off on applying for fear that giving the government their information would put them at risk him being deported if Donald Trump wins the November election.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1724179264,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1399},"headData":{"title":"Legal Pathway Opens for Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens. Why Are Some Waiting to Apply? | KQED","description":"An estimated half a million couples could benefit from the program. 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But in an election year when immigration is a polarizing issue, it’s also raising questions for those who stand to benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden Administration began accepting Monday applications for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-implements-keeping-families-together\">a program\u003c/a> that would enable long-term unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens — and 50,000 undocumented stepchildren of citizens — to become permanent legal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant legal aid groups across California are rolling out information sessions on how to apply, even as they rush to read \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-18725.pdf\">the program’s fine print (PDF)\u003c/a> — which won’t be officially published by the federal government until Tuesday, Aug. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some families said they were eager to take advantage of the long-sought opportunity to secure the full rights of citizenship, others were cautious about applying. With former President Donald Trump condemning undocumented immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country,” they fear they’d be especially vulnerable if he makes good on his vow of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fear of deportation if Trump wins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Janet Reyes, a dental assistant at an Oakland high school, is a U.S.-born citizen. She and her husband, Marco, have two kids, ages 8 and 15, who were also born here. But Marco, a construction worker, is undocumented, having come illegally from Mexico when he was a young man. KQED is not using his last name because of his concerns about deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When President Joe Biden announced the legalization program in June, Reyes said she and her husband were “beyond excited” that it would allow him to get a better job and join Reyes and the kids on family vacations. 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She acknowledged that it’s possible a future Trump administration could end the program or that it could face a challenge in court, as former Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller has pledged. But Salas said that’s all the more reason for eligible families to get covered by the program now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know is that the program exists today,” said Salas. “We want to make sure as many families [as possible] are in the program, even as we know that there are many who see this as a threat. We just don’t understand why having U.S. citizens actually take advantage of their right as citizens to petition for their families is threatening to anybody in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics on the right called the Biden executive order unconstitutional and suggested Vice President Kamala Harris would go further in granting legal status to undocumented immigrants if elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This illegal and unlegislated amnesty for half a million illegal aliens is just a cat’s paw for what is likely to come in a future administration if it is allowed to stand,” said Dan Stein, president of the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the program works\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under current law, noncitizens who entered the country illegally cannot become legal residents without leaving and re-entering lawfully through an official port of entry. 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But that protection is temporary, and until now, she had no way to legalize her status, even though as the spouse of a U.S. citizen, she’s technically entitled to become a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings a sense of relief I can barely put into words,” said Valle. “I look forward to the day when I can focus on long-term goals … and leave behind the constant worry of what would happen to my children if we were separated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spreading the word\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights groups are beginning to host information sessions and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chirlausa/videos/466790242806055\">spread the word about the program through social media\u003c/a>. CHIRLA is hosting presentations three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Sanctuary Covenant in Berkeley has started weekly information sessions over Zoom. 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