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"content": "\u003cp>The 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico traverses hundreds of miles of public lands, including six national parks. Environmentalists have long argued that a border wall has negative impacts on wildlife and on delicate desert and mountainous terrains. With President Trump's national emergency declaration, those concerns will only grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security authority to waive environmental regulations for national security reasons. The government can bypass a whole host of laws, including the Endangered Species and Clean Air Acts, in order to expedite border wall construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concerns environmentalists like Laiken Jordahl, with the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. On a recent overcast morning, he stood in front of a new section of border fence near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in southern New Mexico. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gilroy is known as the garlic capital of the world. And two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are having a mixed impact on this agricultural community southeast of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about 50 degrees outside, but for a moment it looks like it's snowing. But the morning air is pungent and savory, and those flakes falling from the sky are garlic skin pieces, drifting away from the peeling facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727439\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic sits in bins before being processed at the processing plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch in Gilroy is the largest garlic producer in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Christopher, executive vice president, says it didn't always look this busy. In the 1990s, he says, the industry was hit hard by cheap Chinese garlic imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"U.S. garlic was trading around $40 a box in the 1990s,\" he says. \"Chinese garlic flooded the market at $10 a box, and it severely undercut a lot of U.S. growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilroy is known for its garlic, but only a few farms survived. Christopher Ranch was the biggest. Ken Christopher says about 6 percent of its garlic is bought from China; the rest is homegrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort out defective garlic at the Christopher Ranch plant. The company employs more than 1,000 people \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was really hard,\" he says. \"We're talking reduction in workforce, we're talking reduction in work hours, we had furlough days simply just to get through the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle went on for years. Then, in 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. And his stance on Chinese imports was pretty clear: tax them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher flew to Washington last year to testify in favor of tariffs on Chinese garlic. They would mean that Chinese garlic at your supermarket would be way more expensive than U.S.-grown garlic. When Christopher talks about tariffs, his face lights up. He says ideally, Chinese garlic would be taxed at rate over 400 percent. In the end, the Trump administration went for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648845578/trump-sets-tariffs-on-200-billion-in-imports-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 percent tariff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher remembers when it was announced: \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth. A coworker of mine actually got me the flag that was flying above the U.S. Capitol the day they got enacted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the plant pulls garlic samples for testing. The Christopher Ranch company saw demand for its garlic grow amid U.S. tariffs on Chinese garlic. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-160x54.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-800x268.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1200x402.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipment trucks (left) are parked at the processing plant (right). \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many American farmers, who export a large amount of their produce, the tariff war with China has dealt a big blow. Christopher says he is very sympathetic to their plight, and he doesn't think tariffs are a long-term solution. But they are certainly helping. Christopher Ranch said sales were up by about 20 percent last year. The company even had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most American agriculture, immigrants are a big part of Gilroy's labor force. And the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented labor has hit many California farmers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pack garlic into boxes at the plant. Ken Christopher, the company's executive vice president, said that when the Trump administration announced tariffs on China, \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth.\" \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic skins fall on operations manager Harald Vaernes (right) at the processing plant. The company had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher says he thinks about this all the time. \"If the Republican Party is pro-business, if they want to support industries across the country, they need to realize that immigration is a critical function of that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerardo Barba, an outreach coordinator for Catholic Charities, says the mood here has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just in general, there has been a lot more fear ... just fear to be out in public,\" he says. Barba says he's \"started noticing changes recently with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/02/08/ice-arrests-went-up-in-2017-with-biggest-increases-in-florida-northern-texas-oklahoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher amounts of actual arrests that ICE conducts\u003c/a> — generally going to people's homes, knocking on the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving through Gilroy, it's clear that town has close ties to Mexico. The streets are lined with taquerias and discotecas, and sites on the outskirts of town house migrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold storage (left) and empty garlic bins at the plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch currently employs more than 1,000 people. One man who packages garlic there tells NPR they're great bosses. He gets paid $15 an hour — a solid wage for a farmworker. He recently got his green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked that his name not be used because he has family members who are undocumented and are worried about getting deported. If that happens, they've asked him to take care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even though business is booming, there's a lot of fear. And he wonders: If enough people get deported, who's going to harvest all that garlic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gilroy is known as the garlic capital of the world. And two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are having a mixed impact on this agricultural community southeast of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about 50 degrees outside, but for a moment it looks like it's snowing. But the morning air is pungent and savory, and those flakes falling from the sky are garlic skin pieces, drifting away from the peeling facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727439\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic sits in bins before being processed at the processing plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch in Gilroy is the largest garlic producer in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Christopher, executive vice president, says it didn't always look this busy. In the 1990s, he says, the industry was hit hard by cheap Chinese garlic imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"U.S. garlic was trading around $40 a box in the 1990s,\" he says. \"Chinese garlic flooded the market at $10 a box, and it severely undercut a lot of U.S. growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilroy is known for its garlic, but only a few farms survived. Christopher Ranch was the biggest. Ken Christopher says about 6 percent of its garlic is bought from China; the rest is homegrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort out defective garlic at the Christopher Ranch plant. The company employs more than 1,000 people \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was really hard,\" he says. \"We're talking reduction in workforce, we're talking reduction in work hours, we had furlough days simply just to get through the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle went on for years. Then, in 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. And his stance on Chinese imports was pretty clear: tax them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher flew to Washington last year to testify in favor of tariffs on Chinese garlic. They would mean that Chinese garlic at your supermarket would be way more expensive than U.S.-grown garlic. When Christopher talks about tariffs, his face lights up. He says ideally, Chinese garlic would be taxed at rate over 400 percent. In the end, the Trump administration went for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648845578/trump-sets-tariffs-on-200-billion-in-imports-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 percent tariff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher remembers when it was announced: \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth. A coworker of mine actually got me the flag that was flying above the U.S. Capitol the day they got enacted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the plant pulls garlic samples for testing. The Christopher Ranch company saw demand for its garlic grow amid U.S. tariffs on Chinese garlic. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-160x54.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-800x268.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1200x402.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipment trucks (left) are parked at the processing plant (right). \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many American farmers, who export a large amount of their produce, the tariff war with China has dealt a big blow. Christopher says he is very sympathetic to their plight, and he doesn't think tariffs are a long-term solution. But they are certainly helping. Christopher Ranch said sales were up by about 20 percent last year. The company even had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most American agriculture, immigrants are a big part of Gilroy's labor force. And the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented labor has hit many California farmers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pack garlic into boxes at the plant. Ken Christopher, the company's executive vice president, said that when the Trump administration announced tariffs on China, \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth.\" \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic skins fall on operations manager Harald Vaernes (right) at the processing plant. The company had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher says he thinks about this all the time. \"If the Republican Party is pro-business, if they want to support industries across the country, they need to realize that immigration is a critical function of that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerardo Barba, an outreach coordinator for Catholic Charities, says the mood here has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just in general, there has been a lot more fear ... just fear to be out in public,\" he says. Barba says he's \"started noticing changes recently with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/02/08/ice-arrests-went-up-in-2017-with-biggest-increases-in-florida-northern-texas-oklahoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher amounts of actual arrests that ICE conducts\u003c/a> — generally going to people's homes, knocking on the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving through Gilroy, it's clear that town has close ties to Mexico. The streets are lined with taquerias and discotecas, and sites on the outskirts of town house migrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold storage (left) and empty garlic bins at the plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch currently employs more than 1,000 people. One man who packages garlic there tells NPR they're great bosses. He gets paid $15 an hour — a solid wage for a farmworker. He recently got his green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked that his name not be used because he has family members who are undocumented and are worried about getting deported. If that happens, they've asked him to take care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even though business is booming, there's a lot of fear. And he wonders: If enough people get deported, who's going to harvest all that garlic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The committee’s inquiry into disinformation began in September 2017, as revelations emerged that Facebook had been used to spread disinformation during the U.S. presidential election and the U.K. Brexit referendum vote, both in 2016. In March 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/27/597279596/they-don-t-care-whistleblower-says-cambridge-analytica-seeks-to-undermine-democr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a> broke, and showed how users’ data could be harvested and misappropriated.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\">Facebook’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS2408_facebook20120516-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law,” the authors write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media companies have been able to evade responsibility by claiming to be merely “platforms,” the committee notes. They recommend the formulation of a new category of tech company — neither exactly a “platform” or “publisher” — that clarifies companies’ liability for harmful content posted by users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is particularly irritated by Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to appear before Parliament. “Facebook seems willing neither to be regulated nor scrutinized,” it notes. “By choosing not to appear before the Committee and by choosing not to respond personally to any of our invitations, Mark Zuckerberg has shown contempt” toward Parliament and an international committee of legislators, they write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greater government oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its interim report, the lawmakers called for the U.K.’s \u003ca href=\"https://ico.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information Commissioner’s Office\u003c/a> to be an effective “sheriff in the Wild West of the Internet.” The authors add that the ICO “needs to have the same if not more technical expert knowledge as those organisations under scrutiny,” and that a levy on tech companies in the U.K. be used to pay for its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the report’s recommendations take aim at tech companies’ most tightly held information. It suggests that an independent regulator have the power to obtain any information from social media companies that are relevant to its inquiries, including what data are held on an individual user, if the user requests it. 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We also support effective privacy legislation that holds companies to high standards in their use of data and transparency for users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714976/facebook-memories-for-2018\">Mark Fiore: Facebook Memories for 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714976/facebook-memories-for-2018\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/memories_122818_final-1020x705.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“While we still have more to do, we are not the same company we were a year ago,” Palant says, pointing to the company’s tripling the size of the team of people whose job it is to “detect and protect users from bad content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the committee’s report focuses on social media companies and how to more effectively regulate them, its last recommendation speaks to the social media platforms’ users, too, as it calls for “more pause for thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More obstacles or ‘friction’ should be both incorporated into social media platforms and into users’ own activities—to give people time to consider what they are writing and sharing,” they write. “Techniques for slowing down interaction online should be taught, so that people themselves question both what they write and what they read—and that they pause and think further, before they make a judgement online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Before the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most destructive wildfire\u003c/a> tore through Butte County, detailed plans for a tiny home village for the homeless in Chico were met with a mix of indifference, NIMBY-ism and outright rejection from a previous city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But November’s Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and incinerated some 14,000 area homes, breathed new life into plans for a community of one-room wooden homes to help house some of Butte County’s homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fire created a whole new reality, it added an urgency for sure,” says Charles Withuhn, a volunteer and board member with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicohousingactionteam.org/\">Chico Housing Action Team\u003c/a> or CHAT. The current city council has given the project the go-ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723656/camp-fire-survivors-must-leave-their-properties-where-will-they-go\">Some Camp Fire Survivors Must Leave Their Properties. But Where Will They Go?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723656/camp-fire-survivors-must-leave-their-properties-where-will-they-go\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_0893-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The retired contractor and small business owner is showing me around the 2.6 acre future site of what will be called Simplicity Village. The tiny home community is planned to house some of Chico’s homeless — including some from the Camp Fire. It’s across from a lumber yard and just off Highway 99, a local thoroughfare through Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of problems in the world that I can’t fix. \u003cem>I can\u003c/em> put together a little tiny house,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a citizen-led approach that’s being funded almost entirely though private and corporate donations of money, materials and labor. The group estimates initial construction will cost roughly $790,000, with about half of that coming from in-kind donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a volunteer army,” says CHAT organizer and board member Bill Kurnizki. “We fundraise by doing musical programs, putting letters out to people and asking for donations. So the windows, the doors, siding, roofing — all donated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny home village is not solely for Camp Fire homeless, but CHAT organizers say some of the people made homeless by the blaze will get priority slots. “We want to accommodate Camp Fire victims and maybe one third of the buildings will be set aside for them,” Withuhn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAT organizer Leslie Johnson, a local attorney, notes that many homeless often get some federal subsidies such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income or disability benefits. Simplicity Village will charge just $200 a month for rent and utilities to cover the village’s operational expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have to look for every kind of opportunity to try to help solve this housing situation,” Johnson says. “People just can’t afford conventional size housing. A lot of people just can’t. But a little tiny house, people can afford to rent that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/composite21_custom-668c8db9a3af67e9cf32b5d9a330df2c4445ab44-e1550503414786.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11727082\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/composite21_custom-668c8db9a3af67e9cf32b5d9a330df2c4445ab44-e1550503414786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"714\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior and interior of the tiny homes built for a community called Simplicity Village in Chico. \u003ccite>(Eric Westervelt/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An ongoing housing crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Camp Fire’s historic destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in and around the northern city of Chico. Even before the Camp Fire, Butte County already had some 2,000 homeless \u003ca href=\"http://www.buttehomelesscoc.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117500423/2017_butte_pit_summary_community_report_-_final.pdf\">according to a 2017 survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, local rents have skyrocketed further, homes are selling well-above asking and there are almost no vacant rental properties available. That reality has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690230719/camp-fire-victims-forced-to-find-housing-as-last-shelter-closes\">exacerbated the housing crunch \u003c/a>as some fire refugees start to leave the area and the state altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other tiny home plans afoot in other parts of California and in other states. But CHAT hopes Simplicity Village becomes something of a model for other cities in the state grappling with widening inequality and the impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We may be entering the final phase of human existence and our ability to adapt and continue to live on the planet will depend on imaginative ways to live a smaller carbon footprint. This community will have a fraction of the carbon footprint of the typical urban or suburban setting.’\u003ccite>Charles Withuhn, CHAT volunteer and board member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This is as much about sustainability and community as it is about tiny,” Withuhn says. “We may be entering the final phase of human existence and our ability to adapt and continue to live on the planet will depend on imaginative ways to live a smaller carbon footprint,” he believes. “This community will have a fraction of the carbon footprint of the typical urban or suburban setting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAT presented a detailed tiny home village proposal some four years ago. But they were met with foot-dragging from the city council at the time and then outright rejection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers believe it took the Camp Fire to finally help get the idea off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, they hope to break ground on 33 one-room homes. Most of them will include a small bed, kitchenette and bathroom. The village will also have five larger buildings for community meetings, meals, kitchen, laundry, as well as a workshop area and a security guard house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is coordinating with county and state agencies to provide on-site mental health and other support services. The group will screen applicants and those accepted will have to live by a community code of conduct that includes no drug or alcohol use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAT has signed a letter of intent for an 18-year lease in a three-way agreement with the private landowner and the city of Chico. They’ve hired a civil engineer and are working with city agencies to get water, sewer and electricity permits lined up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Chico tiny home village, organizers admit, will be just small piece of a much \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/15/668380458/housing-crisis-concerns-grow-as-camp-fire-continues-to-burn\">bigger housing puzzle\u003c/a> here. Local media are calling for the city of Chico \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsreview.com/chico/time-to-prioritize-temporary-housing/content?oid=27644419\">to do more to accommodate fire evacuees\u003c/a>. CHAT is also calling for more mobile home parks, more affordable, subsidized apartments, more tiny home villages and other creative solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727049/their-home-survived-the-camp-fire-but-their-insurance-did-not\">Their Home Survived the Camp Fire — But Their Insurance Did Not\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727049/their-home-survived-the-camp-fire-but-their-insurance-did-not\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/img_5791-c925cc170413e54df350e3e98b62e862a94d2bab-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Organizer Withuhn says it’s not about political ideology. “Politics has nothing to do with this,” he says. “This is about human rights, human dignity, having a community. Are we going to be civilized and pull together as a team when there’s a crisis? Or is it just: guy with the most toys at the end wins, that’s it, who cares?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re saying we’d rather be part of a community,” he says, “that’s pulling together to solve a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Even before the Camp Fire, Butte County already had some 2,000 homeless \u003ca href=\"http://www.buttehomelesscoc.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117500423/2017_butte_pit_summary_community_report_-_final.pdf\">according to a 2017 survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the fire, local rents have skyrocketed further, homes are selling well-above asking and there are almost no vacant rental properties available. That reality has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690230719/camp-fire-victims-forced-to-find-housing-as-last-shelter-closes\">exacerbated the housing crunch \u003c/a>as some fire refugees start to leave the area and the state altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other tiny home plans afoot in other parts of California and in other states. But CHAT hopes Simplicity Village becomes something of a model for other cities in the state grappling with widening inequality and the impacts of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We may be entering the final phase of human existence and our ability to adapt and continue to live on the planet will depend on imaginative ways to live a smaller carbon footprint. This community will have a fraction of the carbon footprint of the typical urban or suburban setting.’\u003ccite>Charles Withuhn, CHAT volunteer and board member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This is as much about sustainability and community as it is about tiny,” Withuhn says. “We may be entering the final phase of human existence and our ability to adapt and continue to live on the planet will depend on imaginative ways to live a smaller carbon footprint,” he believes. “This community will have a fraction of the carbon footprint of the typical urban or suburban setting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHAT presented a detailed tiny home village proposal some four years ago. But they were met with foot-dragging from the city council at the time and then outright rejection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers believe it took the Camp Fire to finally help get the idea off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, they hope to break ground on 33 one-room homes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Most American automobiles are powered by internal combustion engines. Gas or diesel goes in, tiny explosions power pistons and turn a crankshaft, the car moves forward, and carbon dioxide goes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a growing chorus of environmental activists, business analysts and auto executives are predicting a sea change as battery-powered electric vehicles grow in popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going electric is not just an eco-friendly goal, an ambition that would help fight climate change. It's a business reality, according to industry analysts. But if the general path ahead is widely agreed on, the speed of the change — and the role that combustion vehicles will play during the transition — is far from clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'You cannot stop it any more — it's coming'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Electrification, you cannot stop it anymore — it's coming,\" says Elmer Kades, a managing director with the consulting firm AlixPartners. \"We have fantastic growth rates, between 50 and 60 percent on a global level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric vehicles are currently a tiny fraction of the car market, which is dominated by internal combustion engines. But many more electric car models will hit showrooms in the next few years, and several factors have analysts convinced that is part of a major transition in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11726966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM.png 798w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM-160x126.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government policies — particularly in Europe and China — are giving a boost to electric vehicles, as regulators consider not only the devastating impacts of climate change but also the value of improved air quality in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto companies around the world are gearing up for what will be a massive financial commitment. Carmakers plan to invest more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-electric/global-carmakers-to-invest-at-least-90-billion-in-electric-vehicles-idUSKBN1F42NW\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$90 billion\u003c/a> in the shift to electric vehicles over the next decade or so, according to a Reuters analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric motors are simpler, making them easifa er to maintain and meaning they should last longer. Keeping them charged is cheaper than buying gas, an advantage that will become even more significant if gas prices rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726962\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric motor is seen at the YASA factory in Oxford, England, in February 2018. Electric motors are much simpler than internal combustion engines, with fewer moving parts. \u003ccite>(Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, \"they are fun to drive,\" says Tom Murphy, a managing editor at Wards Auto, which ranks the world's best engines. \"They're enjoyable, they're quiet ... and there's loads of torque\" — which means instant acceleration, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, gas-powered cars are cheaper to buy than electric vehicles. It's also quicker to fill up at the pump than it is to recharge, and the country is packed with gas stations, while charging station infrastructure is still in its infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts predict batteries will get cheaper, charging will get quicker, and chargers will become more readily available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, industry watchers say, the balance will shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably in the mid-2020s time frame, it becomes comparable or cheaper to actually buy and operate an EV than an internal combustion vehicle,\" says Sam Abuelsamid, an auto analyst with Navigant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felipe Munoz, a global analyst at JATO, predicts electric vehicles will outsell conventional ones by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other analysts say this change could be slower — but most agree it is coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even people who love the internal combustion engine see the writing on the wall. John Woods owns a 1972 Porsche 914. On a recent Sunday, he joined other car enthusiasts at a parking lot in Alexandria, Va., to rev his engine and grin at the sound of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal combustion engine is \"the beginning of automotive engineering,\" Woods says. \"But the electric car will be the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723347/5-reasons-why-autonomous-cars-arent-coming-anytime-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Reasons Why Self-Driving Cars Aren't Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723347/5-reasons-why-autonomous-cars-arent-coming-anytime-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-904333356-e1549329358657.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Combustion engines really aren't going anywhere for quite some time'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise of electric vehicles, however, doesn't automatically mean the end of the reign of the gas-powered car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more battery-powered cars into circulation is only half of the equation. The next question is, what happens to all the combustion vehicles already on the road?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possibility is that they might get replaced quite quickly with electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what environmental activists want, for the sake of curbing climate change. For instance, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/08/692508990/despite-few-details-and-much-doubt-the-green-new-deal-generates-enthusiasm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green New Deal\u003c/a> proposed by Democrats calls for phasing out carbon-emitting vehicles within a decade \u003cem>— \u003c/em>which would require not only very fast production of electric vehicles but also a sudden withdrawal of combustion vehicles from roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's an ambitious target. But some version of that fast timeline could be triggered by very high gas prices or by bans or restrictions on internal combustion vehicles (like some cities \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/1341155/nine-countries-say-they-will-ban-internal-combustion-engines-none-have-a-law-to-do-so/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have discussed\u003c/a>, at least hypothetically).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also be motivated \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/think-electric-vehicles-are-great-now-just-wait-11545838139\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by consumer choices\u003c/a>, argues Dan Neil, automotive columnist at \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric vehicles \"are such better machines than the machines they're replacing,\" he says, that consumers might choose to retire their gas guzzlers long before the end of the vehicles' useful lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just like plasma TVs,\" he says. \"A lot of plasma TVs didn't see the useful end of their lives before they were replaced by much cheaper, but also much better\u003cem>, \u003c/em>LCD screens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are far more skeptical of an accelerated timeline and anticipate the two types of vehicle will coexist on the road for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726964\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees work at the main assembly line of V-6 engines at a Nissan Motor plant in Iwaki, Japan, in 2016. \u003ccite>(Toru Yamanaka/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The average age of a vehicle on the road today is almost 12 years old in the United States,\" says Abuelsamid, the Navigant analyst. \"Even if ... 100 percent of vehicles sold were electric starting today, it would still take 20 to 25 years to replace the entire vehicle fleet with electric vehicles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Visnic, editorial director at the Society of Automotive Engineers, is more blunt. \"Combustion engines really aren't going anywhere for quite some time,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasingly eco-friendly combustion vehicles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, who heads the California Air Resources Board, agrees that internal combustion engines aren't going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't turn them all into planters or sculptures,\" she says. \"So I think we're going to have to provide for them to continue to exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nichols emphasizes that modern cars are cleaner than they used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started working in this area of air pollution control back in 1971,\" she says. \"And in that time, the air emissions from internal combustion engines have been slashed by over 90 percent — twice\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important for air quality, a major concern in the world's cities. Meanwhile, improved fuel efficiency has reduced the amount each car contributes to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It highlights the importance of making sure ... that we continue to have standards for conventional vehicles that push us towards more efficient, cleaner combustion engines,\" says David Reichmuth, a senior engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. \"In the next five years, we're going to sell an awful lot of gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, and not having those standards in place will lock in a large amount of emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's one last wrinkle when considering the future of the combustion engine: The rise of the plug-in hybrid, which can run exclusively off battery power or use a combustion engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like the internal combustion engine is just going to go away in the near future,\" says Murphy of Wards. \"It's a little more nuanced than that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transformation of the auto industry is real, experts say — and happening much faster than skeptics would have predicted just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the turnover of the fleet will take time, and the phaseout of combustion vehicles likely won't be fast enough to satisfy environmental advocates concerned about global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're moving in the right direction with electric cars,\" Reichmuth says. \"But the question is: How fast do we get there? And, you know, if you look at what we're already seeing with climate change, we're going to have to move faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric vehicles are currently a tiny fraction of the car market, which is dominated by internal combustion engines. But many more electric car models will hit showrooms in the next few years, and several factors have analysts convinced that is part of a major transition in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11726966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM.png 798w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-16-at-5.12.35-PM-160x126.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government policies — particularly in Europe and China — are giving a boost to electric vehicles, as regulators consider not only the devastating impacts of climate change but also the value of improved air quality in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto companies around the world are gearing up for what will be a massive financial commitment. Carmakers plan to invest more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-detroit-electric/global-carmakers-to-invest-at-least-90-billion-in-electric-vehicles-idUSKBN1F42NW\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$90 billion\u003c/a> in the shift to electric vehicles over the next decade or so, according to a Reuters analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric motors are simpler, making them easifa er to maintain and meaning they should last longer. Keeping them charged is cheaper than buying gas, an advantage that will become even more significant if gas prices rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726962\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-912950426_wide-f4f5f8e35904eed3c7cc5178267e18d7e689b900-s800-c85-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An electric motor is seen at the YASA factory in Oxford, England, in February 2018. Electric motors are much simpler than internal combustion engines, with fewer moving parts. \u003ccite>(Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, \"they are fun to drive,\" says Tom Murphy, a managing editor at Wards Auto, which ranks the world's best engines. \"They're enjoyable, they're quiet ... and there's loads of torque\" — which means instant acceleration, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, gas-powered cars are cheaper to buy than electric vehicles. It's also quicker to fill up at the pump than it is to recharge, and the country is packed with gas stations, while charging station infrastructure is still in its infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts predict batteries will get cheaper, charging will get quicker, and chargers will become more readily available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, industry watchers say, the balance will shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably in the mid-2020s time frame, it becomes comparable or cheaper to actually buy and operate an EV than an internal combustion vehicle,\" says Sam Abuelsamid, an auto analyst with Navigant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felipe Munoz, a global analyst at JATO, predicts electric vehicles will outsell conventional ones by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other analysts say this change could be slower — but most agree it is coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even people who love the internal combustion engine see the writing on the wall. John Woods owns a 1972 Porsche 914. On a recent Sunday, he joined other car enthusiasts at a parking lot in Alexandria, Va., to rev his engine and grin at the sound of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal combustion engine is \"the beginning of automotive engineering,\" Woods says. \"But the electric car will be the future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723347/5-reasons-why-autonomous-cars-arent-coming-anytime-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Reasons Why Self-Driving Cars Aren't Coming Anytime Soon\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723347/5-reasons-why-autonomous-cars-arent-coming-anytime-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-904333356-e1549329358657.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Combustion engines really aren't going anywhere for quite some time'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise of electric vehicles, however, doesn't automatically mean the end of the reign of the gas-powered car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more battery-powered cars into circulation is only half of the equation. The next question is, what happens to all the combustion vehicles already on the road?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possibility is that they might get replaced quite quickly with electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what environmental activists want, for the sake of curbing climate change. For instance, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/08/692508990/despite-few-details-and-much-doubt-the-green-new-deal-generates-enthusiasm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green New Deal\u003c/a> proposed by Democrats calls for phasing out carbon-emitting vehicles within a decade \u003cem>— \u003c/em>which would require not only very fast production of electric vehicles but also a sudden withdrawal of combustion vehicles from roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's an ambitious target. But some version of that fast timeline could be triggered by very high gas prices or by bans or restrictions on internal combustion vehicles (like some cities \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/1341155/nine-countries-say-they-will-ban-internal-combustion-engines-none-have-a-law-to-do-so/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have discussed\u003c/a>, at least hypothetically).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also be motivated \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/think-electric-vehicles-are-great-now-just-wait-11545838139\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by consumer choices\u003c/a>, argues Dan Neil, automotive columnist at \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Electric vehicles \"are such better machines than the machines they're replacing,\" he says, that consumers might choose to retire their gas guzzlers long before the end of the vehicles' useful lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just like plasma TVs,\" he says. \"A lot of plasma TVs didn't see the useful end of their lives before they were replaced by much cheaper, but also much better\u003cem>, \u003c/em>LCD screens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are far more skeptical of an accelerated timeline and anticipate the two types of vehicle will coexist on the road for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726964\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/gettyimages-519202944_wide-b2a016bae9d93e41a2c436add151a4e2eeaf7947-s800-c85-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees work at the main assembly line of V-6 engines at a Nissan Motor plant in Iwaki, Japan, in 2016. \u003ccite>(Toru Yamanaka/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The average age of a vehicle on the road today is almost 12 years old in the United States,\" says Abuelsamid, the Navigant analyst. \"Even if ... 100 percent of vehicles sold were electric starting today, it would still take 20 to 25 years to replace the entire vehicle fleet with electric vehicles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Visnic, editorial director at the Society of Automotive Engineers, is more blunt. \"Combustion engines really aren't going anywhere for quite some time,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Increasingly eco-friendly combustion vehicles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Nichols, who heads the California Air Resources Board, agrees that internal combustion engines aren't going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't turn them all into planters or sculptures,\" she says. \"So I think we're going to have to provide for them to continue to exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nichols emphasizes that modern cars are cleaner than they used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started working in this area of air pollution control back in 1971,\" she says. \"And in that time, the air emissions from internal combustion engines have been slashed by over 90 percent — twice\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's important for air quality, a major concern in the world's cities. Meanwhile, improved fuel efficiency has reduced the amount each car contributes to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It highlights the importance of making sure ... that we continue to have standards for conventional vehicles that push us towards more efficient, cleaner combustion engines,\" says David Reichmuth, a senior engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. \"In the next five years, we're going to sell an awful lot of gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, and not having those standards in place will lock in a large amount of emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's one last wrinkle when considering the future of the combustion engine: The rise of the plug-in hybrid, which can run exclusively off battery power or use a combustion engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like the internal combustion engine is just going to go away in the near future,\" says Murphy of Wards. \"It's a little more nuanced than that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transformation of the auto industry is real, experts say — and happening much faster than skeptics would have predicted just a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the turnover of the fleet will take time, and the phaseout of combustion vehicles likely won't be fast enough to satisfy environmental advocates concerned about global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're moving in the right direction with electric cars,\" Reichmuth says. \"But the question is: How fast do we get there? And, you know, if you look at what we're already seeing with climate change, we're going to have to move faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A mayor from a Bay Area city that tried to land big tech companies might be starting to look pretty smart after Amazon canceled its plans for a New York City headquarters. Activists and local politicians said New York had given up too much for too little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who refused to offer Amazon and another tech giant, Google, any incentives to locate in his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">back out\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713070/google-commences-1b-expansion-in-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City plan\u003c/a> followed opposition from activists and local politicians over the hefty tax breaks and incentives the company would’ve gotten when it moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development.’\u003ccite>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As big tech companies expand nationwide, cities continue to grapple with how to make sure they are benefiting. San Jose is one example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when Amazon was looking for a city \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/09/18/551773552/cities-try-convincing-amazon-they-re-ready-for-its-new-headquarters\">to house its second headquarters\u003c/a>, Liccardo threw San Jose’s hat in the ring. But unlike the various cities that promised generous tax incentives, San Jose offered Amazon no money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amazon ultimately picked New York for one of its new campuses, many activists said it made no sense for one of the world’s wealthiest companies to get gig tax breaks and other incentives. It caused such a local outrage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">Amazon announced it was pulling out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lesson for cities really ought to be, don’t take the bait. And don’t even offer the bait,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">The Google Land Rush\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/welcometo_120518_final-1020x649.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say he doesn’t want Big Tech headquartered in San Jose — Adobe, Cisco and eBay are based there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only major city in the United States that actually has a smaller daytime population than nighttime population,” Liccardo says. “And, as a result, our residents spend a lot of time commuting. We’re right up there with the worst cities in commutes and obviously it drives up the housing costs. And so we get the worst of both worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726713\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-1020x1424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-860x1200.jpg 860w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. \u003ccite>(Tony Avelar/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says when he was approached by Google, which was interested in building a campus in San Jose, the company didn’t ask for incentives and his government didn’t offer any. Rather, the mayor says the city is requiring that 25 percent of the housing built around the campus be rent-restricted and affordable. Like most of the Bay Area, the cost of living in San Jose has skyrocketed, largely driven by the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is headquartered nearby Mountain View, is projected to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/28/google-village-could-bring-24000-jobs-to-downtown-san-jose-study/\">tens of thousands of jobs\u003c/a> to San Jose. And Liccardo says the company agreed to fees on development to help fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is planning to develop as much as 8 million square feet in downtown San Jose. The city lacks the allure of San Francisco or neighboring Palo Alto, so it’s not hard to see why some are so excited to develop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plenty of locals and activists are not happy with Google moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Buchanan, the policy director at Working Partnerships USA, a community labor coalition, says that even if San Jose isn’t offering big tax breaks, that doesn’t mean Google’s move will be good for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re not offering billions in tax rebates,” he says. “But we’re offering really valuable public land in an area where prices are going through the roof. Google is just on the beneficial side of things going their way, without having to give anything back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many activists in the various cities where tech is expanding, Buchanan has questions about the details: How exactly is housing going to be kept affordable? And, of all those jobs coming to town, how many will go to locals?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">Details Emerge on San Jose’s $100 Million Pledge to Build More Affordable Housing\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/67e331_eab4d73496c2473f9957aefb8a8fe1a9mv2_d_4000_2304_s_2.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Google’s workforce,” Buchanan says, “only about \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.google/annual-report/\">7 percent\u003c/a> are either Latino or African-American. You look at the population of San Jose, and it just looks incredibly different than who it is that Google is actually hiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expensive housing has been a problem for people like Joseph Chavez. A few years ago, it was so bad that his family — like so many others — had to leave San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prices are so outrageous, we’ve got to move to the Central Valley to actually have affordable homes,” he explains. “So with Google coming here, it might be a bad idea. Rent’s going to go sky high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chavez works in construction, and he’s hoping to work on the new San Jose Google site. “More jobs means more opportunities. More opportunity means everybody gets to eat. If it pays well, you might be able to make it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether he’ll be able to make it in San Jose after the Google campus gets built, that’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=This+City+Told+Amazon+And+Google%3A+No+Incentives+For+You&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A mayor from a Bay Area city that tried to land big tech companies might be starting to look pretty smart after Amazon canceled its plans for a New York City headquarters. Activists and local politicians said New York had given up too much for too little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who refused to offer Amazon and another tech giant, Google, any incentives to locate in his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">back out\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713070/google-commences-1b-expansion-in-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City plan\u003c/a> followed opposition from activists and local politicians over the hefty tax breaks and incentives the company would’ve gotten when it moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development.’\u003ccite>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As big tech companies expand nationwide, cities continue to grapple with how to make sure they are benefiting. San Jose is one example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when Amazon was looking for a city \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/09/18/551773552/cities-try-convincing-amazon-they-re-ready-for-its-new-headquarters\">to house its second headquarters\u003c/a>, Liccardo threw San Jose’s hat in the ring. But unlike the various cities that promised generous tax incentives, San Jose offered Amazon no money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amazon ultimately picked New York for one of its new campuses, many activists said it made no sense for one of the world’s wealthiest companies to get gig tax breaks and other incentives. It caused such a local outrage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">Amazon announced it was pulling out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lesson for cities really ought to be, don’t take the bait. And don’t even offer the bait,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">The Google Land Rush\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/welcometo_120518_final-1020x649.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say he doesn’t want Big Tech headquartered in San Jose — Adobe, Cisco and eBay are based there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only major city in the United States that actually has a smaller daytime population than nighttime population,” Liccardo says. “And, as a result, our residents spend a lot of time commuting. We’re right up there with the worst cities in commutes and obviously it drives up the housing costs. And so we get the worst of both worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726713\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-1020x1424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-860x1200.jpg 860w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. \u003ccite>(Tony Avelar/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says when he was approached by Google, which was interested in building a campus in San Jose, the company didn’t ask for incentives and his government didn’t offer any. Rather, the mayor says the city is requiring that 25 percent of the housing built around the campus be rent-restricted and affordable. Like most of the Bay Area, the cost of living in San Jose has skyrocketed, largely driven by the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is headquartered nearby Mountain View, is projected to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/28/google-village-could-bring-24000-jobs-to-downtown-san-jose-study/\">tens of thousands of jobs\u003c/a> to San Jose. And Liccardo says the company agreed to fees on development to help fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is planning to develop as much as 8 million square feet in downtown San Jose. The city lacks the allure of San Francisco or neighboring Palo Alto, so it’s not hard to see why some are so excited to develop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plenty of locals and activists are not happy with Google moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Buchanan, the policy director at Working Partnerships USA, a community labor coalition, says that even if San Jose isn’t offering big tax breaks, that doesn’t mean Google’s move will be good for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re not offering billions in tax rebates,” he says. “But we’re offering really valuable public land in an area where prices are going through the roof. Google is just on the beneficial side of things going their way, without having to give anything back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many activists in the various cities where tech is expanding, Buchanan has questions about the details: How exactly is housing going to be kept affordable? And, of all those jobs coming to town, how many will go to locals?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">Details Emerge on San Jose’s $100 Million Pledge to Build More Affordable Housing\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/67e331_eab4d73496c2473f9957aefb8a8fe1a9mv2_d_4000_2304_s_2.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Google’s workforce,” Buchanan says, “only about \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.google/annual-report/\">7 percent\u003c/a> are either Latino or African-American. You look at the population of San Jose, and it just looks incredibly different than who it is that Google is actually hiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expensive housing has been a problem for people like Joseph Chavez. A few years ago, it was so bad that his family — like so many others — had to leave San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prices are so outrageous, we’ve got to move to the Central Valley to actually have affordable homes,” he explains. “So with Google coming here, it might be a bad idea. Rent’s going to go sky high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chavez works in construction, and he’s hoping to work on the new San Jose Google site. “More jobs means more opportunities. More opportunity means everybody gets to eat. If it pays well, you might be able to make it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether he’ll be able to make it in San Jose after the Google campus gets built, that’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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A hearing is expected to be held in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question asks, \"\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4426784-Planned-Questions-2020-Acs#document/p11/a414610\">Is this person a citizen of the United States?\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is locked in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/04/661932989/how-the-2020-census-citizenship-question-ended-up-in-court\">legal battle with dozens of states, cities and other groups\u003c/a> that do not want the question to appear on census forms for the constitutionally mandated head count of every person living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau has not asked every household about citizenship status in close to 70 years, although some households have been asked a citizenship question on the smaller Census Bureau survey, known as the American Community Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4797159-Understanding-the-Quality-of-Alternative\">Citing Census Bureau research\u003c/a>, the groups suing the administration argue that asking about citizenship status will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/663061835/citizenship-question-may-be-major-barrier-to-2020-census-participation\">depress census participation\u003c/a> among households with noncitizens, who are intended to be included in the count. That could lead to an undercount of immigrants and communities of color, which would have major implications on how political power and federal funding are shared over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure is mounting to resolve all of these disputes by June so that the printing of paper questionnaires for the census can proceed as scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Population counts from the census determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state receives. They also guide the distribution of \u003ca href=\"https://gwipp.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2181/f/downloads/Counting%20for%20Dollars%20%234%20Census-derived%20Datasets.pdf\">an estimated $880 billion a year\u003c/a> in federal tax dollars to states and local communities for Medicare, schools and other public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court's decision comes a month after U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/671283852/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-remove-2020-census-citizenship-question\">ordered the administration to stop\u003c/a> its plans to include the controversial question. Furman's decision was the first major trial court ruling out of seven lawsuits over the Trump administration's decision to include the citizenship question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration maintains that the Justice Department wants responses to the question to better enforce part of the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5684706-Jan-15-2019-Ruling-by-U-S-District-Judge-Jesse\">277-page opinion\u003c/a>, however, Furman concluded that was not the \"real reason\" Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved including the question. The judge found Ross' decision to be \"arbitrary and capricious,\" in part because adding the question is less effective and more expensive than an alternative method the Census Bureau recommended to Ross: compiling existing government records on citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furman also said that Ross made a \"veritable smorgasbord of classic, clear-cut\" violations of administrative law, including providing misleading statements about the citizenship question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross has said that the Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5258&v=vylt-NTsT8I\">\"initiated\" the request\u003c/a> for the question. But court filings show that after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/656570447/commerce-secretary-now-recalls-discussing-citizenship-question-with-steve-bannon\">discussing the question with Steve Bannon\u003c/a>, the former White House chief strategist, and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p776/a428457\">former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach\u003c/a>, Ross \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/632847876/i-will-call-the-ag-trump-officials-pushed-for-census-citizenship-question\">pressured his staff at the Commerce Department\u003c/a> to get a formal request for the question from the Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual move, the Trump administration's attorneys \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685847296/trump-administration-appeals-ruling-blocking-2020-census-citizenship-question\">appealed Furman's ruling to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals\u003c/a> before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687510944/trump-administration-to-ask-supreme-court-to-decide-citizenship-questions-fate\">asking the Supreme Court\u003c/a> to bypass the 2nd Circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the two lead lawsuits in New York, district judges are hearing citizenship question cases in California, Maryland and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internal documents released as part of the lawsuits reveal that the Trump administration had prepared to defend adding a citizenship question in the country's highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since this issue will go to the Supreme Court we need to be diligent in preparing the administrative record,\" Commerce Department official Earl Comstock wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4872562-2018-09-11-Letter-Response#document/p40/a453277\">a 2017 email to Ross\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should be very careful, about everything, whether or not it is likely to end up in the SC,\" Ross replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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They also guide the distribution of \u003ca href=\"https://gwipp.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2181/f/downloads/Counting%20for%20Dollars%20%234%20Census-derived%20Datasets.pdf\">an estimated $880 billion a year\u003c/a> in federal tax dollars to states and local communities for Medicare, schools and other public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court's decision comes a month after U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of New York \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/671283852/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-remove-2020-census-citizenship-question\">ordered the administration to stop\u003c/a> its plans to include the controversial question. Furman's decision was the first major trial court ruling out of seven lawsuits over the Trump administration's decision to include the citizenship question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration maintains that the Justice Department wants responses to the question to better enforce part of the Voting Rights Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5684706-Jan-15-2019-Ruling-by-U-S-District-Judge-Jesse\">277-page opinion\u003c/a>, however, Furman concluded that was not the \"real reason\" Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved including the question. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:14 p.m. PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump will support a border security funding compromise, averting a partial government shutdown early Saturday — but he also will declare a national emergency in order to build the wall he has pushed for along the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action — including a national emergency — to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border,\" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. \"The President is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday evening, Congress had easily passed the bipartisan spending deal, which had been crafted by lawmakers from both the chambers. The vote was 83-16 in the Senate and 300-128 in the House, constituting veto-proof majorities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the president's decision removes the threat of another partial shutdown, it also raises the stakes in his push for a trademark border wall right as the 2020 presidential campaign is heating up. Trump's move to pursue additional funding for the wall through the declaration of a national emergency is an extraordinary and unprecedented possible use of presidential power — and one almost certain to elicit efforts to limit the executive branch's expansive authority over what constitutes such an emergency and how one is to be handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump had seemed somewhat hesitant to sign the breakthrough deal that congressional negotiators reached in the wake of a previous 35-day shutdown, the longest ever in U.S. history. The proposal only includes $1.375 billion for border barriers and increases other border security funding — far short of the $5.7 billion Trump had demanded to make his signature campaign promise a reality. Many influential conservatives balked at that figure, which is what triggered Trump to back off an earlier similar funding offer in December that led to the partial shutdown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now he will go along with the offer — by adding his own controversial terms. For some time, Trump has floated the idea of declaring a national emergency to secure the funding he desires, and it's an idea that Democrats and many within the GOP have cautioned him against, both for the potential precedent it would set and legal challenges it almost certainly will face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said an emergency declaration \"would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/1096184812115767297\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is yet another demonstration of President Trump's naked contempt for the rule of law. This is not an emergency, and the president's fearmongering doesn't make it one. He couldn't convince Mexico, the American people or their elected representatives to pay for his ineffective and expensive wall, so now he's trying an end-run around Congress in a desperate attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for it. The Congress will defend our constitutional authorities,\" the Democratic leaders said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the first to make the announcement Thursday afternoon that Trump would back the legislative package. McConnell also said he would endorse the president's plan to declare a national emergency, even though the top Senate Republican seemed to previously warn against such a maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he — I would say to all my colleagues that he has indicated he's prepared to sign the bill. He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. And I've indicated to him that I'm going to support the national emergency declaration,\" McConnell said on the Senate floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $333 billion bipartisan spending package also funds a number of unrelated agencies that have become part of the overall spending fight. The bill also has restrictions on where the fencing can be built, including explicit protections for sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725867/butterflies-vs-border-wall-national-butterfly-center-seeks-restraining-order\">a butterfly refuge\u003c/a> in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell and other top Republicans had urged Trump to sign it, with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, even invoking a high power after the daily morning prayer on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so government doesn't shut down,\" Grassley said before leading the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Democrats had celebrated the legislation as a victory over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of concrete wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. The final agreement includes a fraction of that funding for steel fencing that is similar to existing barriers elsewhere on the border. However, that victory was short-lived with the news of the emergency declaration, which Democrats have already indicated they would challenge in court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't believe there's any good faith negotiations to have with Republicans if they're going to support the president doing an end run around Congress,\" Pelosi said in a press conference shortly after McConnell's remarks in the Senate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans, and of course we will respond when we review our options,\" Pelosi said, adding that \"Republicans should have some dismay about the door that they are opening, the threshold they are crossing.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said earlier this month in his Spanish-language response to the State of the Union that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723796/california-attorney-general-vows-to-sue-if-trump-uses-emergency-powers-to-build-wall\">he would sue the Trump administration\u003c/a> the moment the president declares a national emergency to free up funds for a border wall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any crisis on our border is of President Trump's own making: family separations, child detention, turning our backs on asylum seekers, and more. There is no national emergency. If Trump oversteps his authority and abandons negotiations with Congress by declaring a fabricated national emergency, we won't only call his bluff, we will do what we must to hold him accountable,\" Becerra said in a statement Thursday. \"No one is above the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could also be a way Democrats in Congress could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725334/if-trump-declares-an-emergency-to-build-the-wall-congress-can-block-him\">seek to invalidate any emergency declaration\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters, Sanders dismissed any possible legal challenges to the emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are very prepared but there shouldn't be [any challenges],\" the White House press secretary said. \"The president's doing his job. Congress should do theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally, said in a statement that this was the right move from the president. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The budget deal is a down payment on the wall, provides funding for more immigration judges, and does not include a cap on detention beds for violent illegal immigrant offenders,\" Graham said. \"It's now time for President Trump to use executive power, including declaring national emergency, to build the wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've heard the arguments that it will be the end of Western order, and I don't believe that. I've heard the arguments that it sets a precedent, as if future presidents wouldn't be smart enough to know they have this option. The president isn't exercising any power that Congress didn't give him,\" said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. \"I don't know how he is going to structure it. It may be there will have to be a vote of Congress. Almost surely someone will try to tie it up in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other senators, however, sounded more skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concerns about an emergency declaration were the precedent it would establish,\" said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. \"I also thought it would not be a practical solution because there would be a lawsuit filed immediately and the money would presumably be balled up associated with that litigation. I thought there were other, better alternatives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I generally don't think that's a good approach but we'll have to deal with it and see what can be done about it,\" Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said of the impending national emergency declaration. \"But again I want to see what he actually does.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general I'm not for using emergency powers because I think the Constitution is very clear at very — trying to separate the powers. And if we start naming things as emergency, very quickly we lose things — sort of the checks and balances of government,\" said libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeland security funding bill would also reduce the number of immigration detention beds from roughly 49,060 to roughly 40,000 over the course of a year. Detention beds became a major issue in the negotiations after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725493/ice-detention-beds-new-stumbling-block-in-efforts-to-prevent-another-shutdown\">Democrats sought to curb aggressive immigration enforcement\u003c/a> in exchange for more overall spending on border security. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation also includes a number of funding changes for programs ranging from border security to energy and environment. It includes $9.3 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, $17 billion in new infrastructure funding, a $1.8 billion spending increase for the 2020 census and a 1.9 percent pay raise for federal workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, negotiators were unable to agree on a number of priorities they hoped to add on to the spending bill. Talks broke down over a measure to provide back pay for federal contractors who missed paychecks during the last shutdown, according to several aides familiar with the talks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure forced them to abandon all unrelated policies, like funding for disaster aid and an extension of the Violence Against Women Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders plan to try to address those issues separately, and grants under the Violence Against Women Act will continue to be funded, according to several leadership aides. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The bill also has restrictions on where the fencing can be built, including explicit protections for sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725867/butterflies-vs-border-wall-national-butterfly-center-seeks-restraining-order\">a butterfly refuge\u003c/a> in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell and other top Republicans had urged Trump to sign it, with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, even invoking a high power after the daily morning prayer on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so government doesn't shut down,\" Grassley said before leading the chamber in the Pledge of Allegiance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Democrats had celebrated the legislation as a victory over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of concrete wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. 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