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And last month, she partnered with the central bank on \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/data-and-statistics/data-visualization/diversity-in-economics#interactive/overview\">a new website\u003c/a> that gives U.S. universities a visual scorecard on diversity at the undergraduate level, where she says the problem often begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713470/for-transgender-and-non-binary-protections-california-came-first\">For Transgender and Nonbinary Protections, California Came First\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713470/for-transgender-and-non-binary-protections-california-came-first\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/IMG_0043-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Before very recently, fingers were pointed at women themselves looking to factors like women’s tastes or math preparation as explainers of why they didn’t choose us and join us as economists,” Bayer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But increasingly, the field is looking within to understand why so few women decide to pursue it. 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That includes how the wall will be paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716907/trump-uses-violent-crimes-by-immigrants-to-justify-border-wall/\">Trump Uses Violent Crimes by Immigrants to Justify Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716907/trump-uses-violent-crimes-by-immigrants-to-justify-border-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1079458750-1180x848.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The president is now in a battle with congressional Democrats to approve $5.7 billion in funding for a physical barrier, placing the wall at the center of a lengthy government shutdown that Trump is struggling to find his way out of.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A campaign slogan is born\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In April 2014, when businessman Donald Trump was toying with running for president, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2014/04/12/Trump-I-Would-Build-a-Border-Fence-Like-You-Have%20Never-Seen-Before/\">told an audience in New Hampshire\u003c/a> that he would “build a border fence like you have never seen before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer, a couple of Trump’s advisers came up with the idea of calling it a “wall” as a way of signaling Trump would be an immigration hard-liner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what better way than to have his brand incorporated by Donald Trump saying, ‘Yeah, I’m going to build a wall. Nobody builds like Trump’?” said former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisers wanted to ensure that every time he gave one of his wide-ranging, largely unscripted speeches, Trump would hit the theme of being tough on immigration. “Build the wall” — like “Make America Great Again” — was easy to remember and would fit well in the “Trump variety show,” as Nunberg described Trump’s rally speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was fun. It was cool. It was novel,” said Nunberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunberg wants to be clear: Trump rejected plenty of their ideas. But he went all-in on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2014, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/496756082489171968\">sent his first tweet\u003c/a> about building a wall. Fittingly, it was in all caps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/496756082489171968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/582645393227419648\">he tweeted again\u003c/a>, adding a little more detail. The wall would be “massive,” and the funding would come, indirectly, from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The border is wide open for cartels & terrorists. Secure our border now. Build a massive wall & deduct the costs from Mexican foreign aid!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/582645393227419648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Trump officially launched his campaign in June 2015, with the wall as a centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively,” Trump said in the gilded Trump Tower in New York. “I will build a great, great wall on our Southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for crowds at his rallies to chant, “Build that wall, build that wall!” Sometimes he’d add a question about who was going to pay for it. And arenas full of supporters would respond: “Mexico!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The building materials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Early on, when Trump described the wall, he talked about concrete. He mocked those who said it would be hard or impractical. Here are some examples:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2, 2015:\u003c/strong> At a rally in Virginia, a young boy asked him, “What are the walls going to be made out of?” Trump replied, “I’ll tell you what it’s going to be made of. It’s going to be made of hardened concrete, and it’s going to be made out of rebar and steel. And — you know, it’s so easy, that’s what I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 18, 2016:\u003c/strong> “They have no idea how to do it. Whereas with me it’s easy — that’s like easy. When you build buildings like I build buildings, believe me, walls are easy. No windows, no nothing — precast concrete going very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 11, 2016:\u003c/strong> “The politicians would come up to me, and they’d say, ‘You know, Donald, you can’t build the wall.’ I said, ‘You have to be kidding. You have to be kidding. Concrete plank, you have to be kidding. Precast, precast, right? Boom. Bing. Done. Keep going.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After Trump became president, though, a dose of reality met his concrete wall. Trump’s description of the material started to change. He began referencing a barrier made of steel, rather than concrete. In part, he argued, so that border agents could see through the barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s come up pretty strongly is we want to have vision through the wall, because you want to see what’s on the other side of the wall,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News on Nov. 2, 2017. “You know, you think we’re going to build a nice, simple concrete wall, but it’s not that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of tall, steel bollards (posts) is technically more like a fence than a wall. Still, Trump kept calling it a wall and kept leading chants at his rallies all through 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Democrats refusing to fund the president’s wall, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075197395892404231\">he’s insisting\u003c/a>: “We are not building a Concrete Wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats, are saying loud and clear that they do not want to build a Concrete Wall – but we are not building a Concrete Wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats, so that you can easily see through it….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075197395892404231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A day before the shutdown went into effect, the president even went so far as to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076239448461987841\">tweet a clip-art-style rendering\u003c/a> he said was a “design” of the steel slat barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/sGltXh0cu9\">pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. 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During his campaign, Trump said the U.S. would compel Mexico to pay for it by restricting the flow of remittances, money sent to family members in Mexico by those living and working in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year,” read a campaign information sheet. (There were other ideas, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Trump has said the wall would be paid for indirectly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/678557749\">through the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement\u003c/a>, which hasn’t yet been ratified, and which economists say is unlikely to dramatically increase U.S. economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/683920624/684100878\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They’d be angry at me’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steel slats. Steel barrier. Concrete. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/582645393227419648\">he tweeted again\u003c/a>, adding a little more detail. The wall would be “massive,” and the funding would come, indirectly, from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The border is wide open for cartels & terrorists. Secure our border now. Build a massive wall & deduct the costs from Mexican foreign aid!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/582645393227419648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Trump officially launched his campaign in June 2015, with the wall as a centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively,” Trump said in the gilded Trump Tower in New York. “I will build a great, great wall on our Southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for crowds at his rallies to chant, “Build that wall, build that wall!” Sometimes he’d add a question about who was going to pay for it. And arenas full of supporters would respond: “Mexico!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The building materials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Early on, when Trump described the wall, he talked about concrete. He mocked those who said it would be hard or impractical. Here are some examples:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 2, 2015:\u003c/strong> At a rally in Virginia, a young boy asked him, “What are the walls going to be made out of?” Trump replied, “I’ll tell you what it’s going to be made of. It’s going to be made of hardened concrete, and it’s going to be made out of rebar and steel. And — you know, it’s so easy, that’s what I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 18, 2016:\u003c/strong> “They have no idea how to do it. Whereas with me it’s easy — that’s like easy. When you build buildings like I build buildings, believe me, walls are easy. No windows, no nothing — precast concrete going very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 11, 2016:\u003c/strong> “The politicians would come up to me, and they’d say, ‘You know, Donald, you can’t build the wall.’ I said, ‘You have to be kidding. You have to be kidding. Concrete plank, you have to be kidding. Precast, precast, right? Boom. Bing. Done. Keep going.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After Trump became president, though, a dose of reality met his concrete wall. Trump’s description of the material started to change. He began referencing a barrier made of steel, rather than concrete. In part, he argued, so that border agents could see through the barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s come up pretty strongly is we want to have vision through the wall, because you want to see what’s on the other side of the wall,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News on Nov. 2, 2017. “You know, you think we’re going to build a nice, simple concrete wall, but it’s not that simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of tall, steel bollards (posts) is technically more like a fence than a wall. Still, Trump kept calling it a wall and kept leading chants at his rallies all through 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with Democrats refusing to fund the president’s wall, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075197395892404231\">he’s insisting\u003c/a>: “We are not building a Concrete Wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats, are saying loud and clear that they do not want to build a Concrete Wall – but we are not building a Concrete Wall, we are building artistically designed steel slats, so that you can easily see through it….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075197395892404231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A day before the shutdown went into effect, the president even went so far as to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076239448461987841\">tweet a clip-art-style rendering\u003c/a> he said was a “design” of the steel slat barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/sGltXh0cu9\">pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076239448461987841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>Paying for the wall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Again and again, Trump said during the presidential campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall, one way or another. Now the government is partially shut down with Trump refusing to sign legislation to reopen it until Congress provides funding to build the wall (or steel slat barrier).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, I never said this. And I never meant they are going to write out a check. I said they’re going to pay for it. They are,” Trump told reporters on his way to visit the border in Texas on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How would Mexico pay for it? During his campaign, Trump said the U.S. would compel Mexico to pay for it by restricting the flow of remittances, money sent to family members in Mexico by those living and working in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year,” read a campaign information sheet. (There were other ideas, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Trump has said the wall would be paid for indirectly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/678557749\">through the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement\u003c/a>, which hasn’t yet been ratified, and which economists say is unlikely to dramatically increase U.S. economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/683920624/684100878\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They’d be angry at me’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Steel slats. Steel barrier. Concrete. 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However, he added, \"If we don't make a deal, I think it would be very surprising to me\" to not declare an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a declaration would almost certainly be fought in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sidestepped a question about the issue Thursday, telling reporters, \"If and when the president does that, you'll find out how we will react.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She predicted that if the president did take that step, he would have to answer to his own party for \"usurping\" power.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717145/bye-bye-trump-walks-out-of-white-house-meeting-with-democrats-about-shutdown\">Trump Walks Out of Meeting with Dems\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717145/bye-bye-trump-walks-out-of-white-house-meeting-with-democrats-about-shutdown/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1079458750-e1547075245994.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trump on Thursday reiterated that Republicans are unified in support of him on the wall. He hasn't \"ever seen unity like this in the Republican Party,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Republican senators have expressed concern over the effects of the continued partial government shutdown, now in its 20th day. A handful of House Republicans have also voted with Democrats in efforts to reopen the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also disputed characterizations of Wednesday's meeting with Democratic leaders, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683646652/trump-heads-to-the-hill-to-shore-up-gop-support-in-border-wall-standoff\">Trump abruptly walked out\u003c/a>. \"I didn't pound the table,\" he said. \"I didn't raise my voice. That is a lie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"I don't have temper tantrums. I really don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also said that despite his repeated campaign promises to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, he didn't mean that literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I said Mexico would pay for a wall in front of thousands and thousands of people,\" Trump said, \"obviously I never meant Mexico would write a check.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl_manual\">a March 2016 memo \u003c/a>from the Trump campaign to The Washington Post said, \"It's an easy decision for Mexico. Make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pelosi's news conference, she suggested that Wednesday's White House meeting with Hill leaders was never about a serious negotiation. \"I think the meeting was a setup so he could walk out,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the president keeps changing his demands: \"I don't even know if the president wants the wall,\" Pelosi said. \"I said to him 'You are moving the goal posts so many times they are out of the stadium.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic congressional leaders have refused to go along with Trump's demand for border wall funding, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up Democratic measures to fund government agencies that have run out of appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed or are working without paychecks because of the standoff. 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"content": "\u003cp>In recent months, thousands of migrants have gathered in Tijuana, hoping for asylum in the United States. Some will be deported before ever stepping foot in the U.S. Others will be detained by U.S. immigration authorities as they wait for their hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some will be allowed to live in the U.S. while their cases wind through the system. Legal experts say if they stay in California, they'll be lucky. The state has a cadre of pro bono attorneys eager to help them navigate the complicated asylum process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers approved a state budget that included $45 million in funding for immigrant legal services. 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These areas may be expensive for migrants, but the data show that having access to legal aid makes a huge difference in asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still California's high cost of living continues to push families out of the very places offering the most help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of our immigrant community are finding themselves having to move outside of Los Angeles so that they can afford to live,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.esperanza-la.org/patricia-ortiz\">Patricia Ortiz\u003c/a>, a lawyer with the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But once they're there, there is not quite the same amount of resources or support that they would have here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\">Bay Area Asylum-Seeker Anxious as Her Teen Son Is Escorted to Border by His Grandmother\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34304_alt_806-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Ortiz's clients, Rosa, has been in Los Angeles for about two months. She fled gang violence in El Salvador with her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Rosa arrived, she pictured Los Angeles as a place full of luxury and natural beauty. Some areas of the city are like that, Rosa said. But her corner of Los Angeles looks and feels like the place she escaped from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sometimes feel as if I were in the capital of El Salvador,\" said Rosa, who requested that her last name be withheld because her asylum case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was surprised by how much housing costs here. During their first month in Los Angeles, Rosa and her family lived in cramped quarters with another family sleeping right next to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We chose to move because we could not access the bathroom,\" she said. \"We did not feel comfortable entering it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Rosa has found a studio apartment near downtown LA that rents for $800 per month. But even coming up with that amount will be a struggle. Asylum-seekers are not eligible for a work permit until at least six months into their cases. Many work under the table to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these hurdles, Rosa said California provides what she didn't have in El Salvador: Safety, and the chance of a better life for her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is opportunity here,\" she said. \"Here, you can realize any dream you want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said even though it is an expensive place to live, asylum-seekers in Los Angeles have access to people who want to help. For instance, she said, \"Getting our clients connected to mental health resources outside of the LA region is very difficult. It's something that we are always struggling with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/683328305/683501501\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/biography/jenna-gilbert\">Jenna Gilbert\u003c/a>, a pro bono asylum attorney at Human Rights First, said it's heartbreaking to get calls from clients who plan to leave California months into their case, because they can't afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells them they're not just losing their lawyer. They're leaving behind California's Ninth Circuit for courts that may be more likely to deny asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you move to a small town in Texas, housing is going to be much cheaper,\" Gilbert said. \"But you probably won't have the legal resources. And you also will be in a circuit that is much less favorable to asylum-seekers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding a lawyer is powerfully associated with positive outcomes,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ingrid-v-eagly/\">UCLA law professor Ingrid Eagly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.californialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4-Eagly_Shafer_Whalley.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> that tracked outcomes for families after being released from detention, Eagly and her colleagues found that between 2001 and 2016, released families that did not have a lawyer were only allowed to stay in the country 7 percent of the time. Those who had a lawyer increased their odds to 49 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're more likely to be able to gather evidence, to work collaboratively with their lawyer and to otherwise prepare and find witnesses who can testify in their case,\" Eagly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from Eagly's study does not include cases since President Trump took office. Under his administration, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/539/\">asylum denial rates have been increasing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lizeth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on a day off from her job at an El Pollo Loco, Lizeth finds herself cooking. While her kids are at school, she stirs a big pot of \u003cem>caldo de res\u003c/em>, or beef soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've always cooked,\" she said. \"I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c.jpg\" alt=\"Lizeth, an immigrant from Honduras, looks out the window of her studio apartment in Los Angeles.\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11717076\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c.jpg 695w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizeth, an immigrant from Honduras, looks out the window of her studio apartment in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lizeth, who only wants to use her middle name, had a small business selling food out of her home in Honduras. But she said gangs threatened her for refusing to pay a \"war tax,\" a local form of extortion. She fled with her husband and two of her children, now aged 6 and 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been living in Los Angeles for more than two years, and they're still awaiting a decision in their asylum case. By now, they've settled into a routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At six o'clock, we get up and get ready,\" Lizeth said. They need to be out the door by 7:20 a.m., so Lizeth can get to work by 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Lizeth a year and a half to get her work permit. Her husband just received his. Like other asylum-seekers, they started off renting rooms in houses crammed with other occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, they can afford the $1,000 rent for their own studio apartment in the San Fernando Valley. It doesn't offer much privacy, Lizeth said. A simple room divider separates the living room from the bedroom. But their home is decked out with festive Christmas decorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's 1,000 percent better,\" than anything she expected to have, Lizeth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have dreams. I have goals. And I know I can achieve them. In my country, you have goals. You have hope. But everything remains a dream,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years may sound like a long time to wait for an asylum decision. But Lizeth's attorney Jenna Gilbert said these days \"two years is on the shorter end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As years go by, Gilbert worries that judges may start to think her clients no longer have a credible fear of gang members in their home country. She says a claim that may have been strong a few years ago, \"maybe today isn't so strong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things are changing so rapidly, there's really no way to provide your clients with any kind of comfort, any kind of understanding of what the road ahead might look like,\" Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I have dreams. I have goals. And I know I can achieve them. In my country, you have goals. You have hope. But everything remains a dream.'\u003ccite>Lizeth, immigrant from Honduras living in L.A.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At this point, Gilbert is hoping that a decision in Lizeth's case is delayed until 2020 or later, when there could be a new president in the White House with more favorable asylum policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that we're kind of at the halfway point, I'm hoping that cases slow down as much as possible until we can see the end of this administration,\" Gilbert said. \"Hopefully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Lizeth and her family grow more comfortable in California every day. They've put a down payment on a car. Their kids are picking up English in school. Lizeth worries what would happen if they were deported back to Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They think those of us coming from the United States are carrying a lot of money,\" she said. \"There are many cases of people who went back to Honduras and didn't live more than a month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, Lizeth said, the future is bright. In Honduras, holidays were hard. She could afford to give her kids gifts or a nice meal, but never both. This year, in the U.S., she was able to make a big Christmas dinner and give her children new clothes and shoes. A nice Christmas, she said, like she hadn't had in a long time.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent months, thousands of migrants have gathered in Tijuana, hoping for asylum in the United States. Some will be deported before ever stepping foot in the U.S. Others will be detained by U.S. immigration authorities as they wait for their hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some will be allowed to live in the U.S. while their cases wind through the system. Legal experts say if they stay in California, they'll be lucky. The state has a cadre of pro bono attorneys eager to help them navigate the complicated asylum process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, California lawmakers approved a state budget that included $45 million in funding for immigrant legal services. With that increased funding, the state's Department of Social Services has contracted dozens of nonprofits to offer legal help to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Immigration/ISF%20Fact%20Sheet%20May%202018.pdf?ver=2018-05-11-135436-710\">thousands of immigrants\u003c/a> every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state money is spread to organizations throughout California. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Immigration/FY%202017-18%20Immigration%20Services%20Funding%20Award%20Announcement.pdf?ver=2017-10-31-092359-893\">regional breakdowns\u003c/a> show that nonprofits in Los Angeles and the Bay Area have received the largest chunks of money. These areas may be expensive for migrants, but the data show that having access to legal aid makes a huge difference in asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still California's high cost of living continues to push families out of the very places offering the most help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of our immigrant community are finding themselves having to move outside of Los Angeles so that they can afford to live,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.esperanza-la.org/patricia-ortiz\">Patricia Ortiz\u003c/a>, a lawyer with the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But once they're there, there is not quite the same amount of resources or support that they would have here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\">Bay Area Asylum-Seeker Anxious as Her Teen Son Is Escorted to Border by His Grandmother\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34304_alt_806-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Ortiz's clients, Rosa, has been in Los Angeles for about two months. She fled gang violence in El Salvador with her two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Rosa arrived, she pictured Los Angeles as a place full of luxury and natural beauty. Some areas of the city are like that, Rosa said. But her corner of Los Angeles looks and feels like the place she escaped from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I sometimes feel as if I were in the capital of El Salvador,\" said Rosa, who requested that her last name be withheld because her asylum case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was surprised by how much housing costs here. During their first month in Los Angeles, Rosa and her family lived in cramped quarters with another family sleeping right next to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We chose to move because we could not access the bathroom,\" she said. \"We did not feel comfortable entering it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Rosa has found a studio apartment near downtown LA that rents for $800 per month. But even coming up with that amount will be a struggle. Asylum-seekers are not eligible for a work permit until at least six months into their cases. Many work under the table to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these hurdles, Rosa said California provides what she didn't have in El Salvador: Safety, and the chance of a better life for her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is opportunity here,\" she said. \"Here, you can realize any dream you want.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said even though it is an expensive place to live, asylum-seekers in Los Angeles have access to people who want to help. For instance, she said, \"Getting our clients connected to mental health resources outside of the LA region is very difficult. It's something that we are always struggling with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/683328305/683501501\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/biography/jenna-gilbert\">Jenna Gilbert\u003c/a>, a pro bono asylum attorney at Human Rights First, said it's heartbreaking to get calls from clients who plan to leave California months into their case, because they can't afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells them they're not just losing their lawyer. They're leaving behind California's Ninth Circuit for courts that may be more likely to deny asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you move to a small town in Texas, housing is going to be much cheaper,\" Gilbert said. \"But you probably won't have the legal resources. And you also will be in a circuit that is much less favorable to asylum-seekers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finding a lawyer is powerfully associated with positive outcomes,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ingrid-v-eagly/\">UCLA law professor Ingrid Eagly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.californialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4-Eagly_Shafer_Whalley.pdf\">a study\u003c/a> that tracked outcomes for families after being released from detention, Eagly and her colleagues found that between 2001 and 2016, released families that did not have a lawyer were only allowed to stay in the country 7 percent of the time. Those who had a lawyer increased their odds to 49 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're more likely to be able to gather evidence, to work collaboratively with their lawyer and to otherwise prepare and find witnesses who can testify in their case,\" Eagly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data from Eagly's study does not include cases since President Trump took office. Under his administration, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/539/\">asylum denial rates have been increasing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lizeth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on a day off from her job at an El Pollo Loco, Lizeth finds herself cooking. While her kids are at school, she stirs a big pot of \u003cem>caldo de res\u003c/em>, or beef soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've always cooked,\" she said. \"I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c.jpg\" alt=\"Lizeth, an immigrant from Honduras, looks out the window of her studio apartment in Los Angeles.\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11717076\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c.jpg 695w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/5c199117948d9c000a5a3dd8-eight-39d9b6c2f21337f6a9d2b760bd30aa547c0afb9c-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizeth, an immigrant from Honduras, looks out the window of her studio apartment in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(David Wagner/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lizeth, who only wants to use her middle name, had a small business selling food out of her home in Honduras. But she said gangs threatened her for refusing to pay a \"war tax,\" a local form of extortion. She fled with her husband and two of her children, now aged 6 and 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been living in Los Angeles for more than two years, and they're still awaiting a decision in their asylum case. By now, they've settled into a routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At six o'clock, we get up and get ready,\" Lizeth said. They need to be out the door by 7:20 a.m., so Lizeth can get to work by 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Lizeth a year and a half to get her work permit. Her husband just received his. Like other asylum-seekers, they started off renting rooms in houses crammed with other occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, they can afford the $1,000 rent for their own studio apartment in the San Fernando Valley. It doesn't offer much privacy, Lizeth said. A simple room divider separates the living room from the bedroom. But their home is decked out with festive Christmas decorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's 1,000 percent better,\" than anything she expected to have, Lizeth said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have dreams. I have goals. And I know I can achieve them. In my country, you have goals. You have hope. But everything remains a dream,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years may sound like a long time to wait for an asylum decision. But Lizeth's attorney Jenna Gilbert said these days \"two years is on the shorter end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As years go by, Gilbert worries that judges may start to think her clients no longer have a credible fear of gang members in their home country. She says a claim that may have been strong a few years ago, \"maybe today isn't so strong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things are changing so rapidly, there's really no way to provide your clients with any kind of comfort, any kind of understanding of what the road ahead might look like,\" Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I have dreams. I have goals. And I know I can achieve them. In my country, you have goals. You have hope. But everything remains a dream.'\u003ccite>Lizeth, immigrant from Honduras living in L.A.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At this point, Gilbert is hoping that a decision in Lizeth's case is delayed until 2020 or later, when there could be a new president in the White House with more favorable asylum policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that we're kind of at the halfway point, I'm hoping that cases slow down as much as possible until we can see the end of this administration,\" Gilbert said. \"Hopefully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Lizeth and her family grow more comfortable in California every day. They've put a down payment on a car. Their kids are picking up English in school. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump abruptly halted spending talks at the White House on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats again rejected his demand for a $5.7 billion border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, Trump dismissed the negotiations as a \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083099784012091396\">total waste of time\u003c/a>,\" as a partial government shutdown stretched into its 19th day. He added, \"I said bye-bye, nothing else works!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083099784012091396\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our meeting did not last long,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters, standing in the chilly White House driveway. \"It's cold out here, and the temperature wasn't much warmer in the Situation Room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the president just got up and walked out,\" said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after Pelosi said the Democrats are unwilling to agree to wall funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw a temper tantrum,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Pence blamed Democrats for refusing to give ground on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this brief meeting, we heard once again that Democratic leaders are unwilling to even negotiate to resolve this partial government shutdown or address the crisis at our Southern border,\" Pence said. \"What the president made clear today is he is going to stand firm to achieve his priorities: to build a wall, a steel barrier on the Southern border.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the two sides at an impasse, some 800,000 federal employees are expected to miss their first paycheck, on Friday, since the shutdown began on Dec. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president seems to be insensitive to that,\" Pelosi said. \"He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Trump met with GOP senators, urging his fellow Republicans not to waver in their demand for a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Republicans are totally unified,\" Trump told reporters after that meeting. \"There was no discussion about anything other than solidarity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-1079805070_custom-a4ec84a1861d8b00ab4335722a58e93dae17454b-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speak to the media following a meeting with President Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717147\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speak to the media following a meeting with President Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The president insisted that a compromise is still possible, but he also threatened to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/07/682965555/fact-check-can-trump-use-emergency-powers-to-build-the-wall\">emergency powers\u003c/a> if necessary to fund the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we'll have to do that, but you never know,\" Trump told reporters. \"I really believe the Democrats and the Republicans are working together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was little evidence of that during the White House meeting or on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers from both parties traded barbs and blamed the shutdown on the other side's inflexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's prime-time address from the Oval Office on Tuesday appeared to have done little to change the terms of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer dismissed the president's speech as \"little more than a rehash of spurious arguments and misleading statistics that the president has been using for weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In no way did the president's speech last night make a persuasive or even a new case for an exorbitantly expensive border wall,\" Schumer said, noting that he is talking about \"a wall that the president guaranteed would be paid by Mexico.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats accused the president of using the shutdown to gain political leverage, while forcing Transportation Security Administration officers, food safety inspectors and Border Patrol agents to work without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717004/fact-check-trumps-oval-office-pitch-for-a-border-wall\">FACT CHECK: Trump's Oval Office Pitch for a Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717004/fact-check-trumps-oval-office-pitch-for-a-border-wall\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-1079458526_custom-ebaa60d83e3b6015f89bb80f16ea4c651dd3cd32-1180x798.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A handful of GOP senators have broken with their party and voiced concern about the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like government shutdowns,\" said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. \"I don't think they're a good way to govern, and we ought to be able to get our work done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has not budged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell described the president's wall proposal as \"imminently reasonable,\" and noted that Democrats have supported similar border barriers in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steel fencing was fine, even salutary, when President Obama was in the White House,\" McConnell complained. \"But it's 'immoral' when President Trump occupies the office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McConnell blasted Schumer for holding up Senate votes on unrelated foreign policy measures during the budget impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do Democrats want to hold everything hostage?\" McConnell asked. \"I urge my Democratic colleagues more strongly to get past this purely partisan spite.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressional Democrats are equally dug in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Democrats have consistently indicated that we are willing to substantially increase funding for border security,\" said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. \"But we are not willing to waste taxpayer dollars on a medieval border wall that is a fifth century solution to a 21st century problem. And we are certainly not willing to reward a presidential temper tantrum that has shut down the government for 19 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., added, \"I just think this is a situation where (Trump) is holding the American people hostage to a vanity wall fantasy. He should let that go. It's absolutely false that the border wall is the way to deal with any humanitarian crisis or national security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump described the federal employees who have been furloughed or are working without pay as \"terrific patriots\" and has insisted without evidence that both government workers and the general public support his effort to secure funding for the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people out there want something to happen at our Southern border,\" Trump said. \"It's a very bad political issue for the Democrats. That I can tell you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-poll/a-growing-number-of-americans-blame-trump-for-shutdown-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1P223U\">Reuters/Ipsos poll\u003c/a> published Tuesday found only about 4 in 10 Americans support the idea of building additional barriers along the border, and support has fallen since 2015. The same poll found 51 percent of Americans say the president \"deserves most of the blame\" for the government shutdown — an increase of 4 percentage points since a poll taken just before Christmas. Among Republicans, however, support for the wall is much stronger, with 77 percent approving and 54 percent supporting the shutdown as a means to that end. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Bye-Bye%27%3A+Trump+Walks+Out+Of+White+House+Meeting+With+Democrats+About+Shutdown&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw a temper tantrum,\" Schumer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Pence blamed Democrats for refusing to give ground on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this brief meeting, we heard once again that Democratic leaders are unwilling to even negotiate to resolve this partial government shutdown or address the crisis at our Southern border,\" Pence said. \"What the president made clear today is he is going to stand firm to achieve his priorities: to build a wall, a steel barrier on the Southern border.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the two sides at an impasse, some 800,000 federal employees are expected to miss their first paycheck, on Friday, since the shutdown began on Dec. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president seems to be insensitive to that,\" Pelosi said. \"He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money. But they can't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, Trump met with GOP senators, urging his fellow Republicans not to waver in their demand for a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Republicans are totally unified,\" Trump told reporters after that meeting. \"There was no discussion about anything other than solidarity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11717147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-1079805070_custom-a4ec84a1861d8b00ab4335722a58e93dae17454b-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speak to the media following a meeting with President Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House on Wednesday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11717147\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speak to the media following a meeting with President Trump about the partial government shutdown at the White House on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The president insisted that a compromise is still possible, but he also threatened to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/07/682965555/fact-check-can-trump-use-emergency-powers-to-build-the-wall\">emergency powers\u003c/a> if necessary to fund the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we'll have to do that, but you never know,\" Trump told reporters. \"I really believe the Democrats and the Republicans are working together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was little evidence of that during the White House meeting or on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers from both parties traded barbs and blamed the shutdown on the other side's inflexibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's prime-time address from the Oval Office on Tuesday appeared to have done little to change the terms of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schumer dismissed the president's speech as \"little more than a rehash of spurious arguments and misleading statistics that the president has been using for weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In no way did the president's speech last night make a persuasive or even a new case for an exorbitantly expensive border wall,\" Schumer said, noting that he is talking about \"a wall that the president guaranteed would be paid by Mexico.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats accused the president of using the shutdown to gain political leverage, while forcing Transportation Security Administration officers, food safety inspectors and Border Patrol agents to work without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717004/fact-check-trumps-oval-office-pitch-for-a-border-wall\">FACT CHECK: Trump's Oval Office Pitch for a Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717004/fact-check-trumps-oval-office-pitch-for-a-border-wall\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-1079458526_custom-ebaa60d83e3b6015f89bb80f16ea4c651dd3cd32-1180x798.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A handful of GOP senators have broken with their party and voiced concern about the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't like government shutdowns,\" said Sen. 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And we are certainly not willing to reward a presidential temper tantrum that has shut down the government for 19 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., added, \"I just think this is a situation where (Trump) is holding the American people hostage to a vanity wall fantasy. He should let that go. It's absolutely false that the border wall is the way to deal with any humanitarian crisis or national security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump described the federal employees who have been furloughed or are working without pay as \"terrific patriots\" and has insisted without evidence that both government workers and the general public support his effort to secure funding for the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The people out there want something to happen at our Southern border,\" Trump said. \"It's a very bad political issue for the Democrats. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump used his first prime-time address from the Oval Office to make the case for his controversial border wall. The president's demand for $5.7 billion in wall funding — and Democrats' opposition — has led to a partial shutdown of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here we check some of the arguments made by the president and top Democrats in their response.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Trump's Speech\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 1: Humanitarian and security crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our Southern border.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>Illegal border crossings in the most recent fiscal year (ending in September 2018) were \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\">actually lower than either 2016 or 2014\u003c/a> and much lower than at their peak around 2000. The number of unauthorized border-crossers is also dwarfed by the number of people who overstay their visas. But there has been a spike in crossings in the past few months, topping 60,000 in both October and November. And while illegal crossings are still well below the levels of a generation ago, the makeup of the traffic has changed. There are now many more children and families from Central America, who present different challenges than single adults from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Central American migrants are seeking asylum, citing a fear of violence or persecution back home. While the majority of these asylum claims are ultimately rejected, assessing them can take months or years. In the past, asylum-seekers were typically released into the U.S. during this period, a practice the Trump administration criticizes as \"catch and release.\" The administration wants to detain migrants while their asylum claims are adjudicated. This has led to overcrowded detention centers. And under a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/622678753/the-history-of-the-flores-settlement-and-its-effects-on-immigration\">court order\u003c/a>, young migrants generally cannot be detained for more than about 20 days. (The administration tried to get around that last year with its ill-fated and short-lived family separation policy, to allow indefinite detention of adults while children were turned over to the Health and Human Services Department or resettled with family members.) Importantly, most asylum-seekers turn themselves in to U.S. authorities, which they could do with or without a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 2: Driving down jobs and wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The effect of illegal immigration on wages has been studied extensively, and conclusions vary quite a bit. Because of the underground nature of the problem, hard evidence can be hard to come by. Some evidence exists that because illegal immigrants tend to be low-skilled, they compete with native-born workers and can lower wages for those at the bottom of the income scale. But they can also reduce the cost of production in some industries, which can mean lower prices for Americans as a whole. Indeed, many employers complain that in today's tight labor market, the shortage of immigrant labor is driving up their costs. As for the president's claim that illegal immigrants drain public resources, many studies have concluded that while illegal immigrants may drive up the cost of government services in some places, they also make up for it by paying taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 3: ICE arrests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged [with] or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The president is right about the total number of arrests of immigrants with criminal records that ICE has arrested over the past two years. But that number alone is misleading, because many of those of immigrants have very likely committed immigration-related offenses rather than violent crimes as the president is suggesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has frequently pointed to sympathetic crime victims to justify his crackdown on illegal immigration. But experts say the president's rhetoric overstates\u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/white-houses-misleading-error-ridden-narrative-immigrants-crime\"> the threat posed by immigrants\u003c/a>, who tend to commit crime at lower rates than people who are born in the United States — including murder and other violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 4: Illegal drugs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Our Southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs. ... My administration has presented Congress with a detailed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs, drug smugglers and human traffickers. It's a tremendous problem.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/DIR-032-18%202018%20NDTA%20final%20low%20resolution.pdf#page=31\">Drug Enforcement Administration\u003c/a>, most illegal drugs imported to the U.S. from Mexico are smuggled through legal ports of entry. Only a small fraction comes through parts of the border that would be covered by a wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 5: Wall paid for by Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"The wall will also be paid for, indirectly, by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president is referring to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which was signed by the leaders of the three countries on Nov. 30, 2018. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly claimed that the new pact would usher in huge economic benefits, essentially making up for the cost of the wall. The problem with that is twofold: First, the agreement has to be approved by Congress, and that's not a sure thing, so presumptions about how much money it will bring in are premature. Second, many economists say the new agreement is at best a modest reworking of the North American Free Trade Agreement and are skeptical about its economic benefits. Typical was Phil Levy of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2018/12/18/can-the-new-nafta-pay-for-trumps-wall/#16b0b7c5ee10\">who wrote that\u003c/a> \"there is very little in the USMCA to suggest it will create an economic growth spurt in the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 6: $5.7 billion request\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Law enforcement professionals have requested $5.7 billion for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall. This barrier is absolutely critical to border security.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The administration's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/congress-must-do-more-to-address-the-border-crisis/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wh\">latest request\u003c/a> — presented to lawmakers over the weekend — seeks $5.7 billion for 234 miles of \"new physical barrier,\" which works out to about $24 million per mile. That's a shift from December, when Homeland Security said it wanted $5.7 billion to secure 215 miles of border but only 100 miles of that was expected to be a new barrier. The rest would go to restoring existing walls and fences. The switch from concrete to steel was not made at the request of Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the administration is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for additional border guards, immigration judges, detention beds and \"to ensure the well-being of those taken into custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Democrats' Response\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim: Democrats and the president want border security\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: \"Make no mistake. Democrats and the president both want stronger border security. However, we sharply disagree with the president about the most effective way to do it.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the president's proposed border wall as costly, ineffective and immoral. \"We're not doing a wall,\" Pelosi said. \"A wall is an immorality between countries.\" Though, as the president noted, congressional Democrats including Schumer have at times \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/\">supported border barriers in the past\u003c/a>. Nearly 700 miles of wall and fencing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/05/us/border-wall.html\">have already been built\u003c/a> along the U.S. border with Mexico since 2006. Some have argued that where walls make sense, they have already been built and where they haven't been built, they don't make sense. Each party is seeking to blame the other for the partial government shutdown. According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-poll/a-growing-number-of-americans-blame-trump-for-shutdown-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1P223U\">Reuters/Ipsos Poll\u003c/a>, 51 percent blame the president, an increase of 4 points from a similar poll just before Christmas. The same poll found only about about 4 in 10 Americans support the idea of additional fencing along the border, and support has fallen since 2015. Among Republicans, however, support for the wall is stronger, with 77 percent supporting additional fencing and 54 percent approving of a shutdown as a means to that end. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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(The administration tried to get around that last year with its ill-fated and short-lived family separation policy, to allow indefinite detention of adults while children were turned over to the Health and Human Services Department or resettled with family members.) Importantly, most asylum-seekers turn themselves in to U.S. authorities, which they could do with or without a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 2: Driving down jobs and wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The effect of illegal immigration on wages has been studied extensively, and conclusions vary quite a bit. Because of the underground nature of the problem, hard evidence can be hard to come by. Some evidence exists that because illegal immigrants tend to be low-skilled, they compete with native-born workers and can lower wages for those at the bottom of the income scale. But they can also reduce the cost of production in some industries, which can mean lower prices for Americans as a whole. Indeed, many employers complain that in today's tight labor market, the shortage of immigrant labor is driving up their costs. As for the president's claim that illegal immigrants drain public resources, many studies have concluded that while illegal immigrants may drive up the cost of government services in some places, they also make up for it by paying taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 3: ICE arrests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged [with] or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The president is right about the total number of arrests of immigrants with criminal records that ICE has arrested over the past two years. But that number alone is misleading, because many of those of immigrants have very likely committed immigration-related offenses rather than violent crimes as the president is suggesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has frequently pointed to sympathetic crime victims to justify his crackdown on illegal immigration. But experts say the president's rhetoric overstates\u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/white-houses-misleading-error-ridden-narrative-immigrants-crime\"> the threat posed by immigrants\u003c/a>, who tend to commit crime at lower rates than people who are born in the United States — including murder and other violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 4: Illegal drugs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Our Southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs. ... My administration has presented Congress with a detailed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs, drug smugglers and human traffickers. It's a tremendous problem.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/DIR-032-18%202018%20NDTA%20final%20low%20resolution.pdf#page=31\">Drug Enforcement Administration\u003c/a>, most illegal drugs imported to the U.S. from Mexico are smuggled through legal ports of entry. Only a small fraction comes through parts of the border that would be covered by a wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 5: Wall paid for by Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"The wall will also be paid for, indirectly, by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president is referring to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which was signed by the leaders of the three countries on Nov. 30, 2018. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly claimed that the new pact would usher in huge economic benefits, essentially making up for the cost of the wall. The problem with that is twofold: First, the agreement has to be approved by Congress, and that's not a sure thing, so presumptions about how much money it will bring in are premature. Second, many economists say the new agreement is at best a modest reworking of the North American Free Trade Agreement and are skeptical about its economic benefits. Typical was Phil Levy of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2018/12/18/can-the-new-nafta-pay-for-trumps-wall/#16b0b7c5ee10\">who wrote that\u003c/a> \"there is very little in the USMCA to suggest it will create an economic growth spurt in the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim 6: $5.7 billion request\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Law enforcement professionals have requested $5.7 billion for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall. This barrier is absolutely critical to border security.\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fact check: \u003c/strong>The administration's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/congress-must-do-more-to-address-the-border-crisis/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wh\">latest request\u003c/a> — presented to lawmakers over the weekend — seeks $5.7 billion for 234 miles of \"new physical barrier,\" which works out to about $24 million per mile. That's a shift from December, when Homeland Security said it wanted $5.7 billion to secure 215 miles of border but only 100 miles of that was expected to be a new barrier. The rest would go to restoring existing walls and fences. 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"content": "\u003cp>As possible 2020 presidential candidates start announcing exploratory committees, there's talk that Sen. Kamala Harris may be on the verge of launching herself into the ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, her memoir \u003cem>The Truths We Hold\u003c/em> hits shelves. In it, the California Democrat ticks through her résumé and credentials, while mixing in a look at her upbringing and family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris spoke with NPR on a number of wide-ranging topics, from her mother to her views on the death penalty and the Kavanaugh hearings to whether Joe Biden would make a good president. But she didn't commit to a presidential run herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights from the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>People like you write books like this mostly when they are getting ready to launch a campaign — it's a \"get to know me on a national level.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have not made up my mind. There are a collection of factors to consider ... they include my family, they include the need for real leadership in this country and whether I can provide that leadership. So there are a number of factors, but I will keep you posted. But I am not prepared to make any announcement at the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Much of the book is framed around your mother. How does introducing her to your readers help them understand you? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was a force of nature. She was somebody who really committed her life to the service of others. She is and was somebody who was incredibly smart but incredibly loving at the same time. These things coexisted with my mother. And there's so much that I learned from her that we would call values and principals, and reason for being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many people will not know that your mom was an immigrant from India. Why did she come to the U.S.?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was 19 when she graduated college. She wanted to study science. She went to her father, my grandfather, and my grandmother and said, \"I want to go and study at one of the best schools for that.\" And my grandfather, who had an arranged marriage to my grandmother, and this was in the 1950s that my mother approached them, my mother said she wanted to go and study at UC Berkeley California and my grandfather said go. And so they put her on a plane, and this is when transcontinental travel was not very common, she had never been to the United States. But my grandfather was really quite progressive, and he said to his eldest child who was his daughter, my mother: \"You go and you study.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth be told, I believe that the plan was that she would then get that degree and come back and have a good arranged marriage in India, but my mother being who she was, the daughter of a father who fought for India's independence, she was naturally attracted to the civil rights movement that was exploding all over the United States — but also in the Bay Area... She became very involved in the civil rights movement, and met my father. Instead of going back to India and having an arranged marriage, she had a marriage based on love. 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But my grandfather was really quite progressive, and he said to his eldest child who was his daughter, my mother: \"You go and you study.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth be told, I believe that the plan was that she would then get that degree and come back and have a good arranged marriage in India, but my mother being who she was, the daughter of a father who fought for India's independence, she was naturally attracted to the civil rights movement that was exploding all over the United States — but also in the Bay Area... She became very involved in the civil rights movement, and met my father. Instead of going back to India and having an arranged marriage, she had a marriage based on love. 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These individuals who understood the skill of the profession of law to translate the passion from the streets to courtrooms of our country and do the work that we know must constantly be done of reminding people of that promise we articulated in 1776, that we're all equal and should be treated that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family and extended family thought, at best, it was a curious decision and with some of them I had to defend the decision like one would a thesis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why did they not expect that from you? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said, \"Why would you go and be a part of an institution that is not always fair and does not always pursue justice?\" Some would call it the persecutors office, not the prosecutor's office. ... Law enforcement has such a profound and direct impact on the most vulnerable among us. And there is a duty and a responsibility to be a voice for the most voiceless and vulnerable and to do the work of justice. And that's the work I wanted to do. ... It is also understanding that the victims of crime come from the same communities as those who have been treated unfairly. The victims of crime deserve a voice. I, for a while, specialized in child sexual assault cases. I'm gonna tell you, prosecuting those cases were extraordinarily difficult and some of the most important work I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have been criticized by some on the left over the death penalty, for defending the death penalty. How to you explain your position? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, I am personally opposed to the death penalty. I have always been — and I remain — opposed to the death penalty. 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She decided that what she had known needed to be known by the decision-makers. So she reached out to her member of Congress, to make sure that those people who have the responsibility for vetting this guy knew this thing that she knew. And she wanted to remain anonymous because it was never about her. She initiated all that visited her in the ensuing months because she felt an obligation as a citizen to make sure that those who are in a position of power and responsibility had all the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what ended up happening was a circus. What ended up happening was she was vilified for doing what she believed was the right thing to do. And again, having personally prosecuted sexual assault cases, I was incredibly disappointed and frustrated by the lack of information that leaders have about the nature of these kinds of issues like sexual assault. And how they treated her, I thought was regrettable and really unfortunate. And I have nothing but praise for her and her courage, including what it did, which was require people to have a national conversation about an issue that is seldom discussed — and impacts a wide range of people in all genders, in every socioeconomic background, race, religion and ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big picture question: Why do you think Donald Trump won? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll give you a crude analysis. I mean, if we had hour upon hours, I could get into much more depth and specificity. But here's my take on it: Over the last 10 years in our country, at least, we've seen an incredible amount of change — the Great Recession, the term \"Great Depression\" was already taken. But in America, then and today, people are literally walking around with the proverbial tin cup. Economic upheaval like we have not seen in generations. People lost their homes, they lost their jobs, many of whom will never be able to buy a home or have a permanent job again. 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We have things happening that you don't want to even know about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has also raised the specter of terrorists crossing the border, although \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0cvSTMz_s&feature=youtu.be&t=337\">many of these claims are overblown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has happened on the border in recent months is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\">a surge of Central American families seeking asylum\u003c/a>. U.S. law and and court orders make it difficult to quickly deport these families or detain them for an extended period while their asylum claims are adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. 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The material used would now be steel, not concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The administration is also seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for additional Border Patrol agents, immigration judges, detention beds, drug detection equipment and to address what it calls \"urgent humanitarian needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pence argued that this approach represented a compromise on the White House's part, to go beyond just a wall and fund things Democrats want too. 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It also has the potential to impact February food stamp benefits provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Upcoming tax refund checks might have been disrupted too, but the White House said Monday the IRS would issue refunds during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR congressional correspondent Scott Detrow and NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Will+Address+Nation+About+Border+As+Shutdown+Drags+Into+3rd+Week+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, the National Park Service has decided to dip into entrance fee funds to pay for expanded operations during a government shutdown that has furloughed many of its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after reports of degradation in the parks — trash thrown on the ground, human waste piling up and visitors behaving irresponsibly by letting their dogs off leash or even driving off-road to do doughnuts in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shutdown Delays Yosemite Death Probe, Spurs More National Park Closures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-151376605-Vernal-Falls.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676134/National-Park-Service-s-Revised-Contingency-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised contingency plan\u003c/a>, obtained and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by\u003c/a> The Washington Post, did not specify how many agency employees would return to work, nor which parks would receive the additional staffing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/updatelapse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> earlier Sunday, the National Park Service said the funds would not be able to fully open parks and that many of the smaller sites around the country will remain closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NPS will begin to use these funds to clean up trash that has built up at numerous parks, clean and maintain restrooms, bring additional law enforcement rangers into parks to patrol accessible areas, and to restore accessibility to areas that would typically be accessible this time of year,\" the agency wrote in the press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 of the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/entrance-fee-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">418 park sites collect entrance fees\u003c/a>. The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. On any given day, 10 to 50 people will show up. Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. 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The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. On any given day, 10 to 50 people will show up. Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. Purdy hopes that Joshua Tree National Park will be one of the ones chosen for additional staff resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it is, she hopes that National Park Service janitors will be some of the first staffers to come back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217\"> Loading… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred twenty-seven. That’s how many women will be in Congress this year, up from 110 in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">the previous Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a jump that’s simultaneously so big and so small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, there are 15 percent more women in this Congress than there were last session. There are now a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">record number\u003c/a> of women of color in the House. There are also a slew of firsts: Congress will get its first Native American women, Muslim women and youngest female member ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, this year’s record-setting number of women will bring the share of women Congress members up from 20.6 percent … to 23.7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, these women are in the House. While the number of Senate women will increase by two, the number of House women will grow by 15 compared with those elected in the last Congress. Here’s a series of charts to help you understand exactly how big a deal that change in the House is and what it might mean for how the new Congress does its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Almost entirely Democratic women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A defining feature of the record-setting wave of women coming into Congress is that it is nearly entirely Democratic. While there are 35 Democratic women freshmen in the House, there will be only one on the Republican side: Carol Miller of West Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, the number of Democratic women in the House \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">will increase\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">25 this year\u003c/a>, while the number of Republican women will decline by 10. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two (interrelated) things happened in 2018: Voters elected a blue wave, and that blue wave had a lot of women in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217\"> Loading… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in January 2017, it was abundantly clear that Democratic women were furious that Donald Trump had been elected president. That helped push a record number of Democratic women to run for office. That led to a record number of Democratic women nominees and ultimately a record-setting freshman class of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 percent of Republican men who left their seats (either through retirement, resignation or defeat) have been replaced by Democratic women. And almost half of Republican women who have departed were replaced by Democratic women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-10767090501_slide-5c239116449ceffa00cedc09ce90008f92928472-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715916\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So now, as the new Congress starts, there are only 13 Republican women in this House, down from 23 last session. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681027434/the-new-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women-but-very-few-republican-women\">a lot of reasons for this\u003c/a>. There are relatively few Republican women in state legislatures, for example, and a lower share of women are Republicans than Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s also a sense within the party that they may need to adopt different policies. Former Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, expounded upon the need for more contraceptive availability as an example at a December panel hosted by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean seriously, I am pro-life. I’m unapologetically pro-life. Why not give women the option of having their choices when it comes to health care before they have to choose between keeping a life and ending a life?” she said. “And the fact that I’ve got more issues with Republican men on this is absolutely absurd to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from that, when it comes to promoting female candidates, Republicans lack a massive outside spending machine like Democrats have in Emily’s List. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Republicans’ House fundraising arm, the National Republican Congressional Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollcall.com/news/%20politics/elise-stefanik-wants-to-play-in-primaries-to-help-republican-women\">doesn’t participate in primaries\u003c/a>, as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee does. Some in the GOP, like New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, believe that boosting women in primaries is essential to ultimately boost GOP women’s congressional numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why, in December, Stefanik said she was stepping down from her recruitment post at the NRCC — to focus on using her own leadership PAC to help women in her party win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More bipartisan? Not necessarily\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a conventional wisdom in Washington that women are more bipartisan than men — that once they’re in Congress, they will be more willing to make compromise legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s anecdotal evidence of this. Women were instrumental in ending the 2013 shutdown. Women like Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski have a reputation for being open to crossing party lines on key votes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a particularly seductive idea at a time when partisan rancor in Washington seems to regularly hit ever-new highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not necessarily true, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/636258585/electing-more-women-would-change-congress-but-not-make-it-more-bipartisan\">according to recent research\u003c/a> (and as NPR reported last summer). A late 2018 study found that while women on the Hill are more sociable, in the sense that they participate more in interparty congressional events like Secret Santas, those lawmakers remain first and foremost partisan when it comes to their votes, amendments and even official travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across those measures, there are virtually no gaps between women and men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step back from the data, and this conclusion looks pretty logical. After all, the number of women in Congress has been increasing slowly over the past couple of decades, a time when polarization has also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217\"> Loading… \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, research has shown that women do legislate differently than men do. There is evidence that women and men \u003ca href=\"https://my.vanderbilt.edu/alanwiseman/files/2016/03/VWW_Issues_201603.pdf\">introduce bills in different issue areas\u003c/a> — women more often in education, health, and civil rights and liberties; men more often in agriculture and energy. (That same study also found that those bills in “women’s issues” areas tend to pass less often than other bills, particularly when sponsored by women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, women in the minority party have been shown to keep their bills alive longer than men in the minority do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say that the bills on Congress’ docket next year may well look different than usual. As for lawmakers’ willingness to compromise on those bills? 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