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"content": "\u003cp>San José is taking an initial step toward temporarily banning all new smoke shops, as city leaders hope to redistribute the concentration of such businesses across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz proposed a temporary moratorium on smoke shops to the City Council’s rules committee on Wednesday. Ortiz championed the idea in response to a new county report showing that predominantly Latino areas of the city are heavily saturated with the businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been waiting long enough for health justice, and so we’re taking action now,” Ortiz said Wednesday outside City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos make up about one in every four residents across Santa Clara County, in the southern portions of the county and in East San José, Latinos account for nearly half of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County’s recently released 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1751/2025-05/lhareport-5-05-2025.pdf?VersionId=x29kOMOkTjA3JoztYS5K8tbKUKkgFQrs\">Latino Health Assessment\u003c/a> — the first comprehensive county analysis of Latino living conditions and outcomes in more than a decade — found that tobacco retailers are more than twice as common in East San José, with nearly seven retailers per square mile, compared to three in the county overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José District 5 City Councilmember Peter Ortiz, right, listens as Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas speaks during a press conference in support of a temporary ban on new smoke shops in San José outside City Hall on May 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Studies have shown that tobacco and alcohol retailers cluster in low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods that predominantly house residents of color,” the assessment report said. “Living near a large number of alcohol and tobacco retailers increases the risk of drinking and smoking and makes it harder to quit these behaviors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assessment also said that neighborhoods with a higher density of alcohol and tobacco retailers have higher rates of assault, injuries and collisions between cars and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These businesses are making it easier for children to access tobacco and vaping products before they even understand the risk,” Pastor Danny Sanchez said Wednesday during a press conference outside City Hall. “In East San José, it’s not uncommon to find two or three smoke shops within a few blocks of a school, but if you go to Los Gatos or Almaden Valley, it is not the same pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11983224 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1486127435-1020x680.jpg']Ortiz, who represents a portion of East San José, told KQED he is “pro-business,” and expects any such moratorium wouldn’t need to be in place for more than a year, while the city works to formulate new regulations and programs around how and where tobacco or smoke shops are allowed to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lack of smoke shops on the East Side or throughout the city of San José,” Ortiz said. “You’re advertising and selling products that will result in health problems to our community, and you’re making money off that. And so we need to have leaders that are willing to stand up to greed and advocate for the health outcomes of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules committee asked city staff Wednesday to create an estimate of how much work it would take to craft such a moratorium and other policies to control smoke shops, which the committee will consider on June 11. At that meeting, the committee could also make more specific policy recommendations regarding the moratorium to be reviewed later by the full city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, executive director of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks in support of a temporary ban on new smoke shops in San José outside City Hall on May 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Darcie Green, executive director of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, was on the steering committee for the county’s report, which she said affirmed much of what Latinos in East San José already knew anecdotally about health, education and opportunities for communities of color and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the call for the moratorium isn’t just about opposing smoke shops, but advocating in favor of healthier environments for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moratorium gives us the breathing room to reimagine East San José, not as a place saturated with harm, but as a model of health, justice and care,” she said Wednesday at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve to regularly assess the health and quality of life of places where we live, work and play, and to reclaim the right to design our surroundings based on what we know, what we value, and what we envision for our own future,” Green added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already has regulations in place for where cannabis dispensaries can operate and how many of them are allowed in a given area — rules which the council softened in 2023. San José also requires retailers to obtain a retail license from the city to sell tobacco products and bans the sale of flavored tobacco and vapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grizzlys Smoke Shop in the Sunol-Midtown neighborhood of San José on May 28, 2025. San José officials are considering a temporary ban on all new smoke shop businesses in the city after a county report showed they are oversaturated in predominantly Latino areas.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some businesses, Ortiz contended, set up as “smoke shops” that don’t sell tobacco, and therefore don’t need a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they’re not necessarily selling tobacco, but they’re selling paraphernalia. And then they’re sending cannabis and mushrooms under the table,” Ortiz said, adding that these loopholes circumvent city efforts to reduce clustering of such shops and to combat illegal sales of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we need to make sure that there is an analysis by city staff and then a response through policy,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino Health Assessment also shows that the community is disproportionately hindered by violence, access to healthcare, social determinants of health such as lower incomes, housing stability and faces increased mental health challenges and systematic barriers, disproportionately hinders the community when compared to the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ortiz, who represents a portion of East San José, told KQED he is “pro-business,” and expects any such moratorium wouldn’t need to be in place for more than a year, while the city works to formulate new regulations and programs around how and where tobacco or smoke shops are allowed to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a lack of smoke shops on the East Side or throughout the city of San José,” Ortiz said. “You’re advertising and selling products that will result in health problems to our community, and you’re making money off that. And so we need to have leaders that are willing to stand up to greed and advocate for the health outcomes of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules committee asked city staff Wednesday to create an estimate of how much work it would take to craft such a moratorium and other policies to control smoke shops, which the committee will consider on June 11. At that meeting, the committee could also make more specific policy recommendations regarding the moratorium to be reviewed later by the full city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041913\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SmokeShopsJG1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcie Green, executive director of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks in support of a temporary ban on new smoke shops in San José outside City Hall on May 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Darcie Green, executive director of health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, was on the steering committee for the county’s report, which she said affirmed much of what Latinos in East San José already knew anecdotally about health, education and opportunities for communities of color and immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the call for the moratorium isn’t just about opposing smoke shops, but advocating in favor of healthier environments for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moratorium gives us the breathing room to reimagine East San José, not as a place saturated with harm, but as a model of health, justice and care,” she said Wednesday at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve to regularly assess the health and quality of life of places where we live, work and play, and to reclaim the right to design our surroundings based on what we know, what we value, and what we envision for our own future,” Green added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already has regulations in place for where cannabis dispensaries can operate and how many of them are allowed in a given area — rules which the council softened in 2023. San José also requires retailers to obtain a retail license from the city to sell tobacco products and bans the sale of flavored tobacco and vapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250528-SJSMOKESHOPS-JG-3_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grizzlys Smoke Shop in the Sunol-Midtown neighborhood of San José on May 28, 2025. San José officials are considering a temporary ban on all new smoke shop businesses in the city after a county report showed they are oversaturated in predominantly Latino areas.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some businesses, Ortiz contended, set up as “smoke shops” that don’t sell tobacco, and therefore don’t need a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they’re not necessarily selling tobacco, but they’re selling paraphernalia. 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Attorneys said that the five women tried to use fabricated stories of abuse by Smith to earn early release and other benefits, like legal immigration status and settlement payouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The woman] was a driving force in this group of inmates,” defense attorney Naomi Chung said during her closing argument at trial. “[Two of the other victims] both consulted with [her] before reporting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035958 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense accused the women of coordinating their stories through a shared civil attorney, Jae Oh. 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Some of the immigrants were taken into custody despite having open asylum cases, a tactic that ICE officials have not previously used in the Bay Area, Knox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Constitution guarantees due process,” she told KQED. “When you’re facing something as life-changing as deportation, you have a right to a process, you have the right to fight that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the arrests, which took place Tuesday in the halls of San Francisco’s immigration court on Montgomery Street, came after attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security asked judges to reject the individuals’ requests for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a man was arrested in Concord’s immigration courthouse after his case was thrown out by a judge, but Knox said that on Tuesday, some of those arrested still had active cases after judges rejected the attorneys’ motions to dismiss them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration advocates speaking to a crowd of at least 100 people gathered outside the downtown San Francisco immigration court facility Wednesday said the arrests and deportations are designed to stoke fear and undermine immigrants’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Immigration1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant rights advocates call on local and federal officials to end detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on May 28, 2025, in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Riley Cooke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The rights of immigrant children, of our immigrant communities here in San Francisco and Sacramento and Concord, are constantly shifting. They’re trying to keep us on our back foot,” said Fernando Antunez, a social worker with the nonprofit Legal Services for Children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">Immigration enforcement officials\u003c/a> were seen at San Francisco’s downtown immigration court every day last week, and on at least one day at similar facilities in Concord and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar ICE presence and enforcement actions have been reported at immigration courts across the country, including in Phoenix and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday, with the crowd gathered outside, ICE officials were not in the San Francisco court building, said Sanika Mahajan, the director of community engagement and organizing at Mission Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are dozens of us here in the streets, there are dozens more upstairs accompanying our immigrants to their court appointments, and ICE is nowhere to be found,” she told the crowd at the press conference. “That is what happens when we show our people power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE enforcement efforts are part of a DHS campaign to increase deportations under President Trump, who has pledged to deport at least 1 million undocumented immigrants during the first year of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS said in a statement that it is “implementing the rule of law,” which allows for the expedited deportation of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally less than two years ago.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']Historically, the expedited deportation policy has been used mostly to deport people who have just crossed the border or are found within 100 miles of it. However, the Trump administration plans to expand the use of the policy to any person who cannot prove that they have been in the country for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biden ignored this legal fact and chose to release millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals, into the country with a notice to appear before an immigration judge,” DHS said in its statement. “ICE is now following the law and placing these illegal aliens in expedited removal, as they always should have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of a coordinated campaign by the Trump administration to undermine due process, to not give people their day in court,” Knox said, adding that government officials are also posting flyers on the walls of courthouses that encourage immigrants to “self-deport” and mislead them about their rights in an asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions are especially alarming because they are sowing panic and could prevent some immigrants from appearing for a hearing in their case, Knox said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six months after California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that increases the pay of doctors treating Medi-Cal patients, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to divert that money to cover other health costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week proposed (PDF)\u003c/a> using $1.6 billion generated by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/election-result-proposition-35/\">Proposition 35\u003c/a> over the next two years to help address California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-budget-revision-may-2025/\">$12 billion state deficit\u003c/a>. The governor said the spending plan is allowable under the ballot measure, while doctors, hospitals, clinics and others who support the measure are crying foul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising costs are making Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance for low-income people, unsustainable, triggering a controversy over use of funds that voters earmarked for specific health costs, such as doctor’s pay and women’s reproductive health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to reallocating the Prop. 35 funds, the governor wants to move $500 million in supplemental payments that are added to the state tobacco tax into the state’s general fund instead. That money, which voters approved in a 2016 ballot measure, is supposed to support family planning and women’s health care, among other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health advocates say the governor’s proposals for shifting the money will weaken the state’s health safety net and hamstring reproductive health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood said the double hit from Newsom’s Prop. 35 and tobacco tax proposals in the state budget could cripple its services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodi Hicks, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and co-chair of the Yes on Prop. 35 campaign, called Newsom’s proposal “shocking” and “plain cruel.” She said Planned Parenthood would lose a third of its budget if it is approved by the Legislature next month. Lower-income patients would have to contend with longer wait times, fewer appointment options and potentially need to drive further to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our footprint is so large in sexual and reproductive health care in California. There is no way for other clinics to absorb that,” Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12039102 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal comes at a time when the Republican-led Congress is contemplating deep cuts to Medicaid. Included is cutting off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. (Medi-Cal is California’s name for Medicaid.) “We need the state to help us prepare, not make things significantly worse,” Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of state health funds will likely be a centerpiece as the state Legislature negotiates a budget deal with Newsom over the next month. A final budget is due June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Democratic lawmakers, who have a supermajority in the Legislature, have largely balked at Newsom’s changes to Medi-Cal, which also include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">freezing new enrollment for most adults without permanent legal status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disheartened that the Governor’s updated budget is riddled with deep cuts to our constituents’ healthcare. We cannot boast about having the fourth-largest economy while balancing our budget on the back of everyday Californians’ healthcare,” Assembly Health Committee Chair Mia Bonta, a Democrat from Oakland, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is it legal to move Prop. 35 funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prop. 35, approved by 68% of California voters in November, was designed to guarantee doctors would get paid more to serve patients covered by Medi-Cal. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-to-medicare-fee-index/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22All%20Services%22,%22sort%22:%22desc%22%7D\">Reimbursement rates for Medi-Cal\u003c/a> are so low that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/medi-cal-assisted-living/\">patients often struggle to find doctors\u003c/a> who will accept their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 35 uses a special tax paid by health insurance plans to generate revenue for Medi-Cal. Most of the money — $9 billion in 2024–25 — goes to the state’s general fund. But the additional $1.6 billion that Newsom wants to take for general Medi-Cal spending was supposed to be reserved to increase the amount doctors get paid for specific services, such as primary care, specialty care and emergency room visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget proposal would instead use the $1.6 billion intended for doctors’ pay increases to support higher Medi-Cal spending for primary care, specialty care, ambulances and hospital outpatient procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood and the California Medical Association helped lead the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/medi-cal-mco-tax-initiative/\">industry group that put the measure on the ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Dr. Shannon Udovic-Constant, president of the medical association, called Newsom’s budget proposal a “direct violation of the will of California voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposition was passed to prevent exactly this kind of maneuver — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">raiding health care funding to solve budget problems\u003c/a>,” she said.[aside postID=news_12040025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg']When questioned about the move during a budget presentation on Wednesday, Newsom denied this characterization and said the proposed spending is “absolutely consistent” with the rules established by the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom repeatedly blamed Prop. 35 for causing part of the state’s budget shortfall and called it and other recent ballot measures “unfunded initiatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Medi-Cal has a growth problem that the state cannot afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State spending on Medi-Cal has more than doubled since 2017 and is now projected to cost $76.8 billion in the 2024–25 budget year. Earlier this year lawmakers approved an extra $6 billion for unexpected Medi-Cal costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linnea Koopmans, chief executive of the Local Health Plans of California and chair of the Prop. 35 advisory committee, said in a statement to CalMatters that Newsom’s budget does not reflect California’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Undoubtedly, the state budget challenge is real, but sweeping more than $1 billion of (Prop. 35) revenue is not an option. These funds must be used to support Medi-Cal investments in providers and workforce that are necessary to improve access to care,” Koopmans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop. 35 advisory committee was established by the ballot initiative to oversee how the state spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry supporters of the measure say Newsom’s proposal doesn’t actually pay doctors more; it conflates increased costs associated with Medi-Cal’s growing enrollment with payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Weedn, a spokesperson for the Yes on 35 campaign, said in a statement that the budget proposal raises “serious legal concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor proposes using Prop. 35 funding to cover already incurred costs in Medi-Cal and not for increasing provider payments to increase access to health care,” Weedn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious part of the debate comes down to whether he’s using the Prop. 35 money to pay the state’s general expenses, not just health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration’s finance department said in a document shared with CalMatters that doctors’ pay is reviewed and increased annually, which aligns with Prop. 35’s requirements. The department also denies that using the money to pay for Medi-Cal would replace general fund spending because the amount that the state is taking from the general fund for Medi-Cal continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say these standard adjustments are not necessarily a true rate increase for doctors — they mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/Health%20Net%20settlement%20Attachment%20C.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflect increased Medi-Cal costs as a result of more patients enrolling (PDF)\u003c/a> or more expensive care being provided. In order to substantially increase how much doctors get paid, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/04/medi-cal-rate-prop-35-deadline/\">state would have to submit an application for federal approval\u003c/a>, which it has not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears the caseload growth in Medi-Cal is being used to justify the need for these funds,” said Jennifer Kent, an advisor to the Prop. 35 campaign and former director of the health care services department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom isn’t the first governor to sweep money approved by voters into the general fund, and his budget proposal also mirrors a move made by his predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/governor-legislative-leaders-agree-split-difference-proposition-56-tobacco-tax-revenues-medi-cal/\">Jerry Brown, in 2017 to eliminate payments made for family planning\u003c/a>, women’s health and dentistry by the state tobacco tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office told CalMatters that their proposal would not remove tobacco tax monies, but would reduce the amount of other state funds that the administration has used to supplement that tax and pay for reproductive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Moy, co-chief executive of Essential Access Health, which provides grants to clinics for reproductive health care, said the governor’s proposed cuts jeopardize California’s commitment to making abortion, contraceptives and other reproductive health services accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moy, a member of the Proposition 35 stakeholder advisory committee, said she is confident the final budget approved by the Legislature will pull back some of Newsom’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately we believe that California’s commitment, including our administration’s commitment, to sexual and reproductive health will be reflected in the final budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was updated on May 20 to include more information from the governor’s office to clarify their proposal related to the tobacco tax. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">www.chcf.org\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/governor-budget-medi-cal-funds-womens-reproductive-care/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal comes at a time when the Republican-led Congress is contemplating deep cuts to Medicaid. Included is cutting off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. (Medi-Cal is California’s name for Medicaid.) “We need the state to help us prepare, not make things significantly worse,” Hicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of state health funds will likely be a centerpiece as the state Legislature negotiates a budget deal with Newsom over the next month. A final budget is due June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Democratic lawmakers, who have a supermajority in the Legislature, have largely balked at Newsom’s changes to Medi-Cal, which also include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">freezing new enrollment for most adults without permanent legal status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disheartened that the Governor’s updated budget is riddled with deep cuts to our constituents’ healthcare. We cannot boast about having the fourth-largest economy while balancing our budget on the back of everyday Californians’ healthcare,” Assembly Health Committee Chair Mia Bonta, a Democrat from Oakland, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is it legal to move Prop. 35 funds?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prop. 35, approved by 68% of California voters in November, was designed to guarantee doctors would get paid more to serve patients covered by Medi-Cal. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-to-medicare-fee-index/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22All%20Services%22,%22sort%22:%22desc%22%7D\">Reimbursement rates for Medi-Cal\u003c/a> are so low that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/medi-cal-assisted-living/\">patients often struggle to find doctors\u003c/a> who will accept their insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 35 uses a special tax paid by health insurance plans to generate revenue for Medi-Cal. Most of the money — $9 billion in 2024–25 — goes to the state’s general fund. But the additional $1.6 billion that Newsom wants to take for general Medi-Cal spending was supposed to be reserved to increase the amount doctors get paid for specific services, such as primary care, specialty care and emergency room visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget proposal would instead use the $1.6 billion intended for doctors’ pay increases to support higher Medi-Cal spending for primary care, specialty care, ambulances and hospital outpatient procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood and the California Medical Association helped lead the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/medi-cal-mco-tax-initiative/\">industry group that put the measure on the ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Dr. Shannon Udovic-Constant, president of the medical association, called Newsom’s budget proposal a “direct violation of the will of California voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposition was passed to prevent exactly this kind of maneuver — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">raiding health care funding to solve budget problems\u003c/a>,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When questioned about the move during a budget presentation on Wednesday, Newsom denied this characterization and said the proposed spending is “absolutely consistent” with the rules established by the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom repeatedly blamed Prop. 35 for causing part of the state’s budget shortfall and called it and other recent ballot measures “unfunded initiatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said Medi-Cal has a growth problem that the state cannot afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State spending on Medi-Cal has more than doubled since 2017 and is now projected to cost $76.8 billion in the 2024–25 budget year. Earlier this year lawmakers approved an extra $6 billion for unexpected Medi-Cal costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linnea Koopmans, chief executive of the Local Health Plans of California and chair of the Prop. 35 advisory committee, said in a statement to CalMatters that Newsom’s budget does not reflect California’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Undoubtedly, the state budget challenge is real, but sweeping more than $1 billion of (Prop. 35) revenue is not an option. These funds must be used to support Medi-Cal investments in providers and workforce that are necessary to improve access to care,” Koopmans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop. 35 advisory committee was established by the ballot initiative to oversee how the state spends the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry supporters of the measure say Newsom’s proposal doesn’t actually pay doctors more; it conflates increased costs associated with Medi-Cal’s growing enrollment with payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molly Weedn, a spokesperson for the Yes on 35 campaign, said in a statement that the budget proposal raises “serious legal concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Governor proposes using Prop. 35 funding to cover already incurred costs in Medi-Cal and not for increasing provider payments to increase access to health care,” Weedn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most contentious part of the debate comes down to whether he’s using the Prop. 35 money to pay the state’s general expenses, not just health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration’s finance department said in a document shared with CalMatters that doctors’ pay is reviewed and increased annually, which aligns with Prop. 35’s requirements. The department also denies that using the money to pay for Medi-Cal would replace general fund spending because the amount that the state is taking from the general fund for Medi-Cal continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say these standard adjustments are not necessarily a true rate increase for doctors — they mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/Health%20Net%20settlement%20Attachment%20C.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflect increased Medi-Cal costs as a result of more patients enrolling (PDF)\u003c/a> or more expensive care being provided. In order to substantially increase how much doctors get paid, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/04/medi-cal-rate-prop-35-deadline/\">state would have to submit an application for federal approval\u003c/a>, which it has not done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears the caseload growth in Medi-Cal is being used to justify the need for these funds,” said Jennifer Kent, an advisor to the Prop. 35 campaign and former director of the health care services department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom isn’t the first governor to sweep money approved by voters into the general fund, and his budget proposal also mirrors a move made by his predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/governor-legislative-leaders-agree-split-difference-proposition-56-tobacco-tax-revenues-medi-cal/\">Jerry Brown, in 2017 to eliminate payments made for family planning\u003c/a>, women’s health and dentistry by the state tobacco tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office told CalMatters that their proposal would not remove tobacco tax monies, but would reduce the amount of other state funds that the administration has used to supplement that tax and pay for reproductive care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Moy, co-chief executive of Essential Access Health, which provides grants to clinics for reproductive health care, said the governor’s proposed cuts jeopardize California’s commitment to making abortion, contraceptives and other reproductive health services accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moy, a member of the Proposition 35 stakeholder advisory committee, said she is confident the final budget approved by the Legislature will pull back some of Newsom’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately we believe that California’s commitment, including our administration’s commitment, to sexual and reproductive health will be reflected in the final budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was updated on May 20 to include more information from the governor’s office to clarify their proposal related to the tobacco tax. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\">www.chcf.org\u003c/a> to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/governor-budget-medi-cal-funds-womens-reproductive-care/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The woman’s story is summarized only briefly in the document that seals her impending deportation: After she inadvertently witnessed an extrajudicial killing by members of the Ethiopian military, she was imprisoned and beaten for more than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was only the beginning. The witness — as the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> has chosen to call her after she asked not to be named due to safety concerns for herself and her family — fled Ethiopia and made her way to Mexico. She was planning to ask for protection in the United States. But by the time she made it to the banks of the Rio Grande, her options had narrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>, on the day he was inaugurated for the second time, had declared that anyone trying to cross the southern border without prior authorization was part of an “invasion.” The order suspended their right to apply for asylum at the border. So the witness swam across the river to Texas, where she sought out Border Patrol agents to ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She didn’t know it, but there was still a way to avoid being sent home — a narrow form of protection, called the United Nations Convention Against Torture, that applies to people whose governments could torture them or allow them to be tortured. CAT is harder to qualify for than asylum and doesn’t come with the same benefits, like a path to citizenship and the possibility of bringing her family to the U.S. as well. It would, however, stop her from being deported to Ethiopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under the president’s order, nearly all of her rights as a CAT applicant — such as the right to bring a lawyer to interviews with asylum officers and to appeal denials — had been quietly and deliberately erased, and what remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to federal guidance produced in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285543/aclu-trump-lawsuit-asylum-ban-southern-border-january\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, a new report by two prominent human rights organizations, and independent reporting by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, including nearly a dozen interviews with immigration attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates around the country, as well as a former asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has declined to answer the\u003cem> California Newsroom’s\u003c/em> questions about the witness’s case or how the asylum system — in particular the process of applying for protection under the Convention Against Torture — is currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the changes in practice appear to mean that, for thousands of people fleeing or trying to avoid torture by their own governments, the process of applying for humanitarian protection in the U.S. provides little more than false hope. And its dismantling has been so well hidden that immigration attorneys are only just now starting to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginger Jacobs, a senior partner at the San Diego firm that represents the witness, worries that many people who have legitimate claims to humanitarian protection could end up casualties of the Trump administration’s zeal to effect mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is that it’s another way to disappear people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There’s nothing you can do’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before they can go before an immigration judge to formally plead their cases, applicants for CAT protection must first convince an asylum officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that their fear of torture is credible. For her interview on April 27, the witness spoke with the officer by phone. She sat alone in a tiny booth in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside San Diego, where she has been detained since early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the witness was handed the two-page document containing the short summary of what she’d told the asylum officer. A box on the document had been checked to indicate that her story was credible. But further down, another checked box indicated that the witness “did not establish it is more likely than not that she will be tortured in Ethiopia.” There was no explanation of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12041513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-800x104.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-1020x132.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-160x21.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-800x107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-1020x136.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-160x21.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the witness’s account of torture by the Ethiopian government was credible, but still determined she could be deported back to her country. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson, Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Jan. 20, that determination could only have been made in court by an immigration judge. Now, that single checkmark, made by an official whom the witness never saw, is the final and uncontestable decision that will send her back to the government that she believes will imprison and torture her, or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her deportation officer just said, there’s nothing you can do,” said Sydney Johnson, who became the witness’s attorney after the decision was made, referring to the ICE official in charge of arranging the witness’s return to Ethiopia. (Johnson requested that her client not be interviewed directly because ICE records detainee phone calls.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the witness arrived in the U.S. before Trump signed his executive order, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/\">Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion,”\u003c/a> she would have been given time to find a lawyer before the interview, and been allowed to have the lawyer present on the call. She would have received detailed documentation of how the asylum officer made the decision, and had the right to ask an immigration judge to review and possibly overturn it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, new \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/gov.uscourts.dcd_.277039.52.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal guidance\u003c/a> for asylum officers, submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice in the ACLU lawsuit, clarifies that those rights no longer exist. In addition to claiming that the president’s suspension of asylum is illegal, the ACLU complaint specifies that his order is “depriving noncitizens of a meaningful opportunity to present CAT claims.”\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12038128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-21-1020x680.jpg']A \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ThisIsAnOrderFromTrumpReport_final1.pdf\">report published in early May\u003c/a> by researchers with Human Rights First and Refugees International calls screenings for CAT applicants a “sham” that is now being used to fast-track deportations. Some who have asked for humanitarian protection at the U.S.-Mexico border are not even granted interviews like the one the witness had, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys say that also includes screenings for a form of protection, similar to CAT, called “withholding of removal,” which applies to people who have been threatened or persecuted but are not facing torture. (It’s why the U.S. government was not supposed to send \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia\u003c/a> back to El Salvador.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both withholding of removal and CAT are enshrined in international law, and are not up for interpretation by U.S. officials, said Jennifer Scarborough, an immigration attorney who focuses on detained clients at the border and around the country. “Withholding is not discretionary,” she said. “The law says that if you meet those requirements, then the government may not deport you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government isn’t screening people for withholding of removal, Scarborough said, it has no way of knowing whether they meet the requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS has \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/semi-monthly-credible-fear-and-reasonable-fear-receipts-and-decisions\">stopped publishing semi-monthly data\u003c/a> about screenings, making it difficult to determine how many people have been denied access to protection since the new rules went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a terrifying situation,” said Jennifer Babaie, director of legal services at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas. The organization is a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former USCIS asylum officer who routinely conducted screening interviews called the new system “an erosion of due process and these people’s rights.” The person asked not to be named due to fear of reprisal from the current administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By removing these checks and balances that protect the rights of immigrants, the former asylum officer said, “the Trump administration is behaving in the same way as those governments we offer protection from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A farce by design’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before her phone screening with the asylum officer, the witness had been ill. A chronic medical condition had flared up, and that morning, she was groggy and lethargic after ICE doctors increased the dosage of her medication. She had a splitting headache. According to Johnson, her attorney, the witness said the asylum officer did not ask if she felt up to the screening interview, and the witness didn’t think she had the option to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told Johnson the interview lasted two hours. Twice, as she told the asylum officer her story — how prison guards had touched her breasts and taunted her as they beat her, how they poured water on her when she urinated on herself — the Amharic interpreter, who had been patched into the call, suddenly dropped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the second time, toward the end of the call, the interpreter didn’t come back. The witness said she could continue in English as long as the asylum officer spoke slowly. She told Johnson that throughout the entire screening, the officer asked only “yes” or “no” questions. When the officer finally read back a summary, details were missing, but the witness said she was not allowed to add anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the current guidance under Trump’s order, “at the end of the interview, the AO [Asylum Officer] must review the summary with the individual and give him or her an opportunity to correct errors.” Officers also have the option to reschedule the interview if needed, including if the applicant doesn’t feel well or is having trouble communicating. In fact, officers were previously required to ask whether an applicant felt well enough to be interviewed, and “should avoid communicating” without an interpreter, according to internal USCIS documents reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1536x912.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1920x1140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guidance for asylum officers issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in late January, after President Donald Trump’s executive order. \u003ccite>(Public filing in RAICES v. Noem)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Training documents also recommend that asylum officers cross-check applicants’ fear claims with contextual information about the conditions in their countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While USCIS has declined to provide documentation of the information used to make the decision in the witness’s case, local reporting shows that since 2018, Ethiopia has been embroiled in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-amhara-fano-insurgency-rebels-6108686ebbffee1458f71269380346fc\">ethnically charged fighting\u003c/a> between the government and armed militias. An April 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://upr-info.org/sites/default/files/country-document/2025-04/JS23_UPR47_Ethiopia.pdf\">joint report\u003c/a> from the World Organisation Against Torture and the Ethiopian Human Rights Council says that “enforced disappearance and torture” by government forces and other militant groups are “rampant in most parts of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ethiopia/\">U.S. State Department report\u003c/a> on humans rights practices in Ethiopia, published in 2023, cites “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> has omitted some details of the witness’s experience and background to protect her and her family.[aside postID=news_12038327 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1020x680.jpg']Johnson said she thinks her client’s illness, along with the incomplete translation, likely muddied what should have been an open-and-shut CAT case. She asked ICE to refer the witness back to USCIS for another interview when the witness felt well enough and proper translation was available. In an email reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, an ICE officer wrote that the witness is “not eligible” for a second interview, because she’d already had one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the asylum officer’s decision was final, and under the new rules, there was no way to appeal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for immigrants say there are further signs that the screening process is deteriorating as applicants’ attorneys and judges have been sidelined. Natalie Cadwalader-Schultheis, a San Diego-based attorney with Human Rights First, said screenings used to take anywhere from half an hour to four hours. She now has clients who say their interviews lasted as little as five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her organization’s new report, “these torture screenings are a farce by design.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights a trend that alarms human rights watchdogs. Some asylum seekers at the border told the researchers that their requests for humanitarian protection were ignored. “In some instances, officers told [asylum seekers] they were being transported to other facilities where they would have asylum interviews, only to be taken to staging areas for their removal,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom asked DHS about the report’s findings, including the specific anecdotes it cites, and received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one testimonial from the report, a Russian woman refused to board a government flight to Costa Rica, demanding to know why she was being deported. According to the report, officers “falsely stated that there had been a court decision and told her she should just go quietly so as not to traumatize her children, who were crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s too quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both ICE and USCIS have refused to give the witness any further documents related to her interview, according to Johnson. In one email to Johnson, reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, USCIS implied that either the interview did not happen or that the agency doesn’t have to share the records with detainees’ lawyers. “The whole thing is just this incredibly frustrating cycle where nobody can tell me anything,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the witness asked to see the detailed notes from her interview, which asylum officers are required to take, an ICE officer suggested she file a Freedom of Information Act request, or FOIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about this suggestion, Scarborough, a veteran immigration attorney, called it “stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how long it takes to get a FOIA response? Two to three months,” she said. “You know what’s going to happen in two to three months? Your client’s going to be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with several immigration attorneys around the country who say they’re being stonewalled in similar ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CAT application process has been disappeared from us,” Cadwalader-Schultheis said. “It’s happening absolutely in secret, and they don’t want us understanding how it works. If we did, I think it would be very apparent just how illegal and how much of a sham this whole thing is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the asylum-focused attorneys the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with convene a weekly phone call to compare cases and try to piece together the administration’s new rules amidst a gaping lack of transparency. “We’re all just trying to figure it out in real time,” said Babaie, the Texas legal services director, who participates in the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group seems to be at the bleeding edge of an unfolding situation that even most immigration lawyers have not yet realized, just as even the savviest experts took months to catch on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/\">Trump’s family separation policy in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess Feldman, an immigration attorney who directs Southwestern Law School’s Asylum Law Clinic, said she suspects CAT applicants are being rushed through the screening process, if they get one, then being deported quickly. Because the Trump administration has done away with a “consultation period” that previously allowed applicants to contact an attorney before their screening, she thinks many applicants may not be reaching out to lawyers at all. “It’s just silent,” she said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem. In fact, it’s too quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 90 days,” she said, “I think we’ll look back and say, how did we not know this was happening in May?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re going to know she’s there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what high-level immigration officials actually know about recent changes to humanitarian protection. In response to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about what is currently happening when detained migrants express fear of returning to their countries, Matthew Tragesser, the public affairs chief at USCIS, provided links to several websites that don’t reflect the new rules, including that judges no longer review screening decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USCIS did not answer specific questions about the discrepancy, and why public websites that contain outdated information are still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the ACLU argues that the president does not have the power to broadly suspend protections laid out in law by Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge hearing the case rules to suspend the president’s executive order, thousands of asylum seekers could be allowed to stay in the country until they can apply for protection in immigration court. Those like the witness, who have already failed screenings under the order, would be allowed a do-over. But this time, they could have their lawyers present, and they’d have the right to appeal negative decisions.[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg']In the meantime, the witness has told Johnson that other detainees at Otay Mesa have also failed their CAT screenings — and that some have disappeared in the middle of the night. The witness said she doesn’t know whether they have been moved to other facilities or deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not respond to questions from the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> about when the witness will be deported. Johnson said ICE told her that the witness will be sent home as soon as the Ethiopian government provides her passport and a flight can be arranged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs, who has been advising Johnson on the case, said that even by requesting the witness’s travel documents, ICE is putting her in danger. Once she arrives in Ethiopia, Jacobs said, “They’re going to know she’s there. I don’t see how she escapes from just being sent straight back to detention or prison, where she will be tortured again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Johnson filed a request for an administrative stay, essentially asking ICE not to deport the witness until the ACLU lawsuit is resolved, and also requested that she be released from detention so that she can get proper medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johnson, the witness believes that if she is sent back to her country, Ethiopian officials will kill her. “She told me she would rather die here than return to die in Ethiopia,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness’s cousin, a U.S. citizen who lives in California, said he knows her as a smart, kind woman who is always easy to talk to. Now, when she calls him from detention, she sounds subdued, nervous and scared. The cousin asked to be referred to only as Negash, his middle name, out of fear that the Ethiopian government would harm him if he were to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negash said he was shocked to learn that the witness was denied the opportunity to make her case before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my country,” he said, referring to the United States. “It’s the best country in the world. How are we going to send her to die over there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state, with NPR as its national partner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Anna Sussman contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under the president’s order, nearly all of her rights as a CAT applicant — such as the right to bring a lawyer to interviews with asylum officers and to appeal denials — had been quietly and deliberately erased, and what remains of the process now takes place under a veil of secrecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to federal guidance produced in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285543/aclu-trump-lawsuit-asylum-ban-southern-border-january\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, a new report by two prominent human rights organizations, and independent reporting by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, including nearly a dozen interviews with immigration attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates around the country, as well as a former asylum officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has declined to answer the\u003cem> California Newsroom’s\u003c/em> questions about the witness’s case or how the asylum system — in particular the process of applying for protection under the Convention Against Torture — is currently working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the changes in practice appear to mean that, for thousands of people fleeing or trying to avoid torture by their own governments, the process of applying for humanitarian protection in the U.S. provides little more than false hope. And its dismantling has been so well hidden that immigration attorneys are only just now starting to catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginger Jacobs, a senior partner at the San Diego firm that represents the witness, worries that many people who have legitimate claims to humanitarian protection could end up casualties of the Trump administration’s zeal to effect mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger is that it’s another way to disappear people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There’s nothing you can do’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before they can go before an immigration judge to formally plead their cases, applicants for CAT protection must first convince an asylum officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that their fear of torture is credible. For her interview on April 27, the witness spoke with the officer by phone. She sat alone in a tiny booth in the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility outside San Diego, where she has been detained since early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, the witness was handed the two-page document containing the short summary of what she’d told the asylum officer. A box on the document had been checked to indicate that her story was credible. But further down, another checked box indicated that the witness “did not establish it is more likely than not that she will be tortured in Ethiopia.” There was no explanation of the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12041513\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3.png 1321w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-800x104.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-1020x132.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom3-160x21.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1355px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1355\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2.jpg 1355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-800x107.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-1020x136.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CANewsroom2-160x21.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the witness’s account of torture by the Ethiopian government was credible, but still determined she could be deported back to her country. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson, Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before Jan. 20, that determination could only have been made in court by an immigration judge. Now, that single checkmark, made by an official whom the witness never saw, is the final and uncontestable decision that will send her back to the government that she believes will imprison and torture her, or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her deportation officer just said, there’s nothing you can do,” said Sydney Johnson, who became the witness’s attorney after the decision was made, referring to the ICE official in charge of arranging the witness’s return to Ethiopia. (Johnson requested that her client not be interviewed directly because ICE records detainee phone calls.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the witness arrived in the U.S. before Trump signed his executive order, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion/\">Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion,”\u003c/a> she would have been given time to find a lawyer before the interview, and been allowed to have the lawyer present on the call. She would have received detailed documentation of how the asylum officer made the decision, and had the right to ask an immigration judge to review and possibly overturn it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, new \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/gov.uscourts.dcd_.277039.52.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal guidance\u003c/a> for asylum officers, submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice in the ACLU lawsuit, clarifies that those rights no longer exist. In addition to claiming that the president’s suspension of asylum is illegal, the ACLU complaint specifies that his order is “depriving noncitizens of a meaningful opportunity to present CAT claims.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ThisIsAnOrderFromTrumpReport_final1.pdf\">report published in early May\u003c/a> by researchers with Human Rights First and Refugees International calls screenings for CAT applicants a “sham” that is now being used to fast-track deportations. Some who have asked for humanitarian protection at the U.S.-Mexico border are not even granted interviews like the one the witness had, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys say that also includes screenings for a form of protection, similar to CAT, called “withholding of removal,” which applies to people who have been threatened or persecuted but are not facing torture. (It’s why the U.S. government was not supposed to send \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347427/maryland-el-salvador-error\">Kilmar Abrego Garcia\u003c/a> back to El Salvador.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both withholding of removal and CAT are enshrined in international law, and are not up for interpretation by U.S. officials, said Jennifer Scarborough, an immigration attorney who focuses on detained clients at the border and around the country. “Withholding is not discretionary,” she said. “The law says that if you meet those requirements, then the government may not deport you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the government isn’t screening people for withholding of removal, Scarborough said, it has no way of knowing whether they meet the requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS has \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/semi-monthly-credible-fear-and-reasonable-fear-receipts-and-decisions\">stopped publishing semi-monthly data\u003c/a> about screenings, making it difficult to determine how many people have been denied access to protection since the new rules went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such a terrifying situation,” said Jennifer Babaie, director of legal services at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas. The organization is a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former USCIS asylum officer who routinely conducted screening interviews called the new system “an erosion of due process and these people’s rights.” The person asked not to be named due to fear of reprisal from the current administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By removing these checks and balances that protect the rights of immigrants, the former asylum officer said, “the Trump administration is behaving in the same way as those governments we offer protection from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A farce by design’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The night before her phone screening with the asylum officer, the witness had been ill. A chronic medical condition had flared up, and that morning, she was groggy and lethargic after ICE doctors increased the dosage of her medication. She had a splitting headache. According to Johnson, her attorney, the witness said the asylum officer did not ask if she felt up to the screening interview, and the witness didn’t think she had the option to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witness told Johnson the interview lasted two hours. Twice, as she told the asylum officer her story — how prison guards had touched her breasts and taunted her as they beat her, how they poured water on her when she urinated on herself — the Amharic interpreter, who had been patched into the call, suddenly dropped off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the second time, toward the end of the call, the interpreter didn’t come back. The witness said she could continue in English as long as the asylum officer spoke slowly. She told Johnson that throughout the entire screening, the officer asked only “yes” or “no” questions. When the officer finally read back a summary, details were missing, but the witness said she was not allowed to add anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the current guidance under Trump’s order, “at the end of the interview, the AO [Asylum Officer] must review the summary with the individual and give him or her an opportunity to correct errors.” Officers also have the option to reschedule the interview if needed, including if the applicant doesn’t feel well or is having trouble communicating. In fact, officers were previously required to ask whether an applicant felt well enough to be interviewed, and “should avoid communicating” without an interpreter, according to internal USCIS documents reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-800x475.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1020x606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-160x95.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1536x912.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/InterviewProcedures-1920x1140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guidance for asylum officers issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in late January, after President Donald Trump’s executive order. \u003ccite>(Public filing in RAICES v. Noem)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Training documents also recommend that asylum officers cross-check applicants’ fear claims with contextual information about the conditions in their countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While USCIS has declined to provide documentation of the information used to make the decision in the witness’s case, local reporting shows that since 2018, Ethiopia has been embroiled in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-amhara-fano-insurgency-rebels-6108686ebbffee1458f71269380346fc\">ethnically charged fighting\u003c/a> between the government and armed militias. An April 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://upr-info.org/sites/default/files/country-document/2025-04/JS23_UPR47_Ethiopia.pdf\">joint report\u003c/a> from the World Organisation Against Torture and the Ethiopian Human Rights Council says that “enforced disappearance and torture” by government forces and other militant groups are “rampant in most parts of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ethiopia/\">U.S. State Department report\u003c/a> on humans rights practices in Ethiopia, published in 2023, cites “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> has omitted some details of the witness’s experience and background to protect her and her family.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson said she thinks her client’s illness, along with the incomplete translation, likely muddied what should have been an open-and-shut CAT case. She asked ICE to refer the witness back to USCIS for another interview when the witness felt well enough and proper translation was available. In an email reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, an ICE officer wrote that the witness is “not eligible” for a second interview, because she’d already had one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the asylum officer’s decision was final, and under the new rules, there was no way to appeal it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for immigrants say there are further signs that the screening process is deteriorating as applicants’ attorneys and judges have been sidelined. Natalie Cadwalader-Schultheis, a San Diego-based attorney with Human Rights First, said screenings used to take anywhere from half an hour to four hours. She now has clients who say their interviews lasted as little as five minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to her organization’s new report, “these torture screenings are a farce by design.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights a trend that alarms human rights watchdogs. Some asylum seekers at the border told the researchers that their requests for humanitarian protection were ignored. “In some instances, officers told [asylum seekers] they were being transported to other facilities where they would have asylum interviews, only to be taken to staging areas for their removal,” the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom asked DHS about the report’s findings, including the specific anecdotes it cites, and received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one testimonial from the report, a Russian woman refused to board a government flight to Costa Rica, demanding to know why she was being deported. According to the report, officers “falsely stated that there had been a court decision and told her she should just go quietly so as not to traumatize her children, who were crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s too quiet’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both ICE and USCIS have refused to give the witness any further documents related to her interview, according to Johnson. In one email to Johnson, reviewed by the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em>, USCIS implied that either the interview did not happen or that the agency doesn’t have to share the records with detainees’ lawyers. “The whole thing is just this incredibly frustrating cycle where nobody can tell me anything,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the witness asked to see the detailed notes from her interview, which asylum officers are required to take, an ICE officer suggested she file a Freedom of Information Act request, or FOIA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about this suggestion, Scarborough, a veteran immigration attorney, called it “stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how long it takes to get a FOIA response? Two to three months,” she said. “You know what’s going to happen in two to three months? Your client’s going to be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with several immigration attorneys around the country who say they’re being stonewalled in similar ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CAT application process has been disappeared from us,” Cadwalader-Schultheis said. “It’s happening absolutely in secret, and they don’t want us understanding how it works. If we did, I think it would be very apparent just how illegal and how much of a sham this whole thing is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the asylum-focused attorneys the \u003cem>California Newsroom\u003c/em> spoke with convene a weekly phone call to compare cases and try to piece together the administration’s new rules amidst a gaping lack of transparency. “We’re all just trying to figure it out in real time,” said Babaie, the Texas legal services director, who participates in the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group seems to be at the bleeding edge of an unfolding situation that even most immigration lawyers have not yet realized, just as even the savviest experts took months to catch on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-immigration/670604/\">Trump’s family separation policy in 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess Feldman, an immigration attorney who directs Southwestern Law School’s Asylum Law Clinic, said she suspects CAT applicants are being rushed through the screening process, if they get one, then being deported quickly. Because the Trump administration has done away with a “consultation period” that previously allowed applicants to contact an attorney before their screening, she thinks many applicants may not be reaching out to lawyers at all. “It’s just silent,” she said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem. In fact, it’s too quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 90 days,” she said, “I think we’ll look back and say, how did we not know this was happening in May?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They’re going to know she’s there’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what high-level immigration officials actually know about recent changes to humanitarian protection. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2022, California has been offering free lunches to all students in elementary through high school. But once they reach college, more than two-thirds of students who apply for financial aid experience food insecurity, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/default/files/file-attachments/food_and_housing_basic_needs_survey_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federally funded CalFresh program feeds some college students, but the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2025/03/california-colleges-calfresh-food-insecurity/\">complicated application process and eligibility rules\u003c/a> prevent many from accessing funds. More than 70% of eligible students don’t receive CalFresh, according to a 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CalFresh-eligibility-and-participation-among-college-students.pdf\">California Policy Lab report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To improve CalFresh outreach and enrollment, California started setting aside \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB129\">annual funds\u003c/a> in 2021 for public colleges and universities to establish and operate basic needs centers with food pantries, where students obtain free food staples. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Documents/Basic-Needs-Flyer-Nov2022.pdf\">California State University\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://basicneeds.ucop.edu/about/services.html#:~:text=Food%20Pantries%3A%20UC%20food%20pantries,a%20self%2Dassessed%20need%20basis.\">University of California\u003c/a> systems each receive $15 million and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/report/CCCCO-Basic-Needs-Services-Center-Report.pdf\">California Community Colleges\u003c/a> receives $30 million annually. As of 2023, every public higher education campus in the state has a basic needs center and food pantry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for many campuses, these solutions still aren’t enough. To fill the gaps, some have created their own innovative solutions. From free meals to food lockers, staff and students at five campuses around California offer creative alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humboldt students level up their food pantry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Cal Poly Humboldt, through the full-service food program “Oh SNAP!,” students stock the shelves, fill pantry orders and offer CalFresh application support. They also greet their peers as they enter, offering them tea or coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reduce food waste, students negotiated in 2016 with the campus dining services department to collect unused food to offer at the pantry at no cost to students. The department notifies the basic needs center when leftovers are available; students bring their own containers to package up what they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12039737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/OaklandSchoolChildren-1020x696.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh SNAP! has hired a local organic farmer to provide produce and give classes on cooking and gardening. The program also offers pop-up thrift stores where students can fill a bag with clothes and housewares for $5; proceeds go back into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh SNAP! “provides peace of mind,” said Anna Martinez, a student studying political science, law and policy at Cal Poly Humboldt. “I don’t have to really worry too heavy on whether or not I can afford food, because if I can’t, there’s always Oh SNAP! I can go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the social justice, equity and inclusion officer for Cal Poly’s student government, Martinez successfully advocated for the student board to increase funding for cultural foods. She values the sense of community Oh SNAP! provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very welcoming when it comes to different needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, vital for the 6,000 students at Cal Poly Humboldt, clocked 30,000 visits to Oh SNAP! last year, according to Mira Friedman, health education and clinic support services lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Compton College serves free meals to all\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sara Goldrick-Rab, a Philadelphia sociologist and advocate for college student basic needs, thinks a free meal every day is “exactly what is needed” on college campuses. She \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X231153131\">conducted a study\u003c/a> giving students free, daily meals for three semesters at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allowed students to eat in a regular way in the school cafeteria, just like they would in the National School Lunch Program. And lo-and-behold, it increased graduation rates,” Goldrick-Rab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton College President Keith Curry read about the Bunker Hill pilot program and decided to implement a similar program at Compton. Now, every Compton student — and employee — receives a daily meal. Students also get $20 each week to spend at the campus farmer’s market. Students enrolled in CalFresh receive $50 each week for the farmer’s market and can use their EBT card at campus dining services. The college uses a mix of grants and various campus funds to cover the costs of the meal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing more than any other community college in the state of California and also nationally,” Curry said. “How many schools can say that students receive one meal per day on their campus from their cafeteria?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California colleges offer a limited number of free meals, such as \u003ca href=\"https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/aggieeats\">UC Davis\u003c/a>, where a food truck serves between 300 and 400 meals per day and students pay what they want. In fall 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wvm.edu/news/2025/wvmccd-launches-first-in-nation-universal-free-meals-program.html\">West Valley-Mission District\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County will begin offering free meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Corinthia Mims said the first time she entered Compton’s cafeteria, “it was joy, always buzzing,” she said. Her twin, Cynthia Mims, said the free meals bring everyone together like family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Students] feel embraced and they feel important. It’s a feast,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeding students keeps them in school. According to data the college gathered last year, students who received free meals and money for the farmers’ market were more likely to stay in their classes for the entire semester with a completion rate of 1% or 2% higher than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curry visits the cafeteria to get feedback from the students. “They’re proud to tell me what they like and what they got today. Because there’s no negative stigma around it, because everyone is treated equally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldrick-Rab highlights the program at Compton College as an example of what a college student universal meal plan could look like. “It’s a very nice modern version. … It’s not really a cafeteria in the classic sense. It is refrigerators full of prepared meals, the way that adults would go into a Whole Foods and get a grab-and-go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr4065/text\">2019\u003c/a>, U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, introduced the Food for Thought bill, which proposes universal meal pilot programs on college campuses. The bill failed and was reintroduced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6934/text\">2022\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4812\">2023\u003c/a> but never enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contra Costa College fills food lockers with free meals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Contra Costa College, students who work full time have difficulty accessing the food pantry during open hours. In April, the college unveiled 20 refrigerated lockers in the campus cafeteria where students can pick up their pre-ordered, free groceries between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Students order online and student staff fill the orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus basic needs center, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.edu/student-support/basic-needs/\">Compass Center\u003c/a>, also offers \u003ca href=\"https://cccadvocate.com/14394/news/campus-news/free-lunch-program-at-ccc-cafeteria-returns/\">free meal vouchers\u003c/a> to students three days a week, giving out 50 for breakfast, 75 for lunch and 15 for dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teddy Thollaug, a first-year student studying art and journalism at Contra Costa College, says they appreciate the hot meals and food lockers, especially on days when their disability makes it too hard to stand and cook. Because Thollaug’s classes are all online, they are not on campus regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/050825_FoodLockers_FM_CM_12-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short, multicolored hair and glasses sits at a cafeteria table, facing the camera and smiling slightly. They wear a Marvel graphic T-shirt, shorts, a black zip-up hoodie, and several necklaces. In the background, groups of people gather and talk at other tables near a set of vending machines. The room is softly lit and spacious with modern chairs and tables.\">\u003cfigcaption>Teddy Thollaug at the Contra Costa College dining hall in San Pablo on May 8, 2025. Thollaug works as a student worker at the campus’ Basic Needs Services, which offers weekly free food to lower-income students delivered through refrigerated food lockers in the dining hall. \u003cem>Florence Middleton for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A typical order includes fresh fruit and vegetables, butter and cheese, and a “mystery package,” which contains grains, sauces and canned food. “Honestly, I feel like a kid on Christmas every time I open a mystery package,” Thollaug said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, the center served 5,008 students and 14,785 families of students, according to Hope Dixon, the basic needs center coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Antelope Valley College students earn points for food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To encourage and support students to take full course loads, Antelope Valley College initiated Fresh Success, a CalFresh program that “pays” enrolled students in points for enrolled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full-time students get more points, “because that’s our goal. We want you to get your degree, and [if you’re a full-time student,] you’re less likely to be able to run around and get all the other community resources,” said Jill Zimmerman, dean of the Antelope Valley College student health and wellness center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh-resource-center/fresh-success\">Fresh Success\u003c/a> is part of CalFresh’s Employment and Training program, and is overseen by the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Currently 20 colleges across 18 counties participate in the program, which partially reimburses schools with federal dollars for workforce development services such as job training and job search assistance for students with low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh Success allocates points for each unit enrolled, up to 40 points per week. Students use their points at the on-campus pantry to purchase food, toiletries and laundry soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alliza Wade, having access to Fresh Success means being able to put more time toward school rather than working more hours. Wade, a STEM major at Antelope Valley College, is enrolled in CalFresh but it doesn’t cover all of her food expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Fresh Success] has a very, very significant impact on how I’m able to live and eat, and how I’m going to be able to pursue my future, because [it helps with] saving and being able to eat healthy,” Wade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the college is reimbursed 45 cents for every dollar spent, the Fresh Success program benefits the college as well by providing funds to put towards employment and training support like job-specific clothing and gear, cooking classes and car tune-ups through the campus automotive program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cerro Coso feeds students who aren’t eligible for CalFresh\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Lorena Moreno started as the basic needs coordinator in early 2024 at Cerro Coso Community College in the southeastern Sierra region of the state, she noticed that students without permanent legal status were in dire need of assistance. Non-citizens are not eligible for CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno tackled the need by creating an on-campus food program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cerrocoso.edu/services-and-resources/basic-needs/wileyfresh.html\">WileyFresh\u003c/a> — modeled on \u003ca href=\"https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/aggiefresh\">Aggie Fresh\u003c/a> at UC Davis, which serves students who meet CalFresh requirements but lack citizenship. Eligible students receive a monthly Albertson’s gift card valued at $291, comparable to the amount an eligible single student receives on a monthly CalFresh EBT card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Aggie Fresh program, students who qualify for WileyFresh are required to participate in workshops that support academic and personal growth. Moreno offers the workshops as a webinar to protect student identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Moreno increased outreach efforts. Her team of part-time student employees passed out flyers at events to raise awareness. They saw visits to the Wiley Food Pantry grow from about 350 per month in the spring semester to about 500 per week in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Moreno intends to expand the program to include more students who can’t enroll in CalFresh. “Because at the end of the day, that’s what it’s intended for — this population who is missing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Research shows students can’t rely on each other’s charity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many colleges now offer a way for students to donate unused card swipes from their campus meal plans to each other. However, research shows that these donations only reach a tiny fraction of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2017, college dining services did not allow students to share their meal plans with other students. This didn’t sit well with students at Morehouse and Spelman colleges in Atlanta. They began a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/some-morehouse-and-spelman-students-hunger-strike-help-needy-classmates/upY625DlEIxOPrmDlxe8mJ/\">hunger strike\u003c/a> to challenge meal plan policies that forbid sharing meal swipes. Their activism convinced their colleges to change the policies and led to a nationwide program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.swipehunger.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_NC9BhCkARIsABSnSTb91Gfyu7N9jNtwHDjBHF4ibbNKjcWRywDscdQ7QXv951_u6ggPyzwaAoUWEALw_wcB\">Swipe Out Hunger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meal-swipe programs, as they’re called at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.swipehunger.org/campusdata2024/\">approximately 850 colleges\u003c/a> nationwide that offer them, allow students to donate unused meal swipes to fellow students who need them. In California, 17 colleges participate in Swipe Out Hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are not effective, Goldrick-Rab said. She \u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/sites/hope/files/media/document/SOH_Implementation.pdf\">evaluated Swipe Out Hunger\u003c/a> and found that the active programs see just 300 swipes a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the bottom line, I would rather give people money than food, but I still think the National School Lunch Program is important. I just want all of it. I want the guaranteed basic income. I want a higher minimum wage. Because all of it is scientifically working,” Goldrick-Rab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: This story has been edited to clarify that the 2023 Food and Housing Basic Needs Survey by the California Student Aid Commission uses data from a survey of students who applied for financial aid.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Moore is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2025/05/food-pantries-california/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh SNAP! has hired a local organic farmer to provide produce and give classes on cooking and gardening. The program also offers pop-up thrift stores where students can fill a bag with clothes and housewares for $5; proceeds go back into the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh SNAP! “provides peace of mind,” said Anna Martinez, a student studying political science, law and policy at Cal Poly Humboldt. “I don’t have to really worry too heavy on whether or not I can afford food, because if I can’t, there’s always Oh SNAP! I can go to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the social justice, equity and inclusion officer for Cal Poly’s student government, Martinez successfully advocated for the student board to increase funding for cultural foods. She values the sense of community Oh SNAP! provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very welcoming when it comes to different needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, vital for the 6,000 students at Cal Poly Humboldt, clocked 30,000 visits to Oh SNAP! last year, according to Mira Friedman, health education and clinic support services lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Compton College serves free meals to all\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sara Goldrick-Rab, a Philadelphia sociologist and advocate for college student basic needs, thinks a free meal every day is “exactly what is needed” on college campuses. She \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X231153131\">conducted a study\u003c/a> giving students free, daily meals for three semesters at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allowed students to eat in a regular way in the school cafeteria, just like they would in the National School Lunch Program. And lo-and-behold, it increased graduation rates,” Goldrick-Rab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compton College President Keith Curry read about the Bunker Hill pilot program and decided to implement a similar program at Compton. Now, every Compton student — and employee — receives a daily meal. Students also get $20 each week to spend at the campus farmer’s market. Students enrolled in CalFresh receive $50 each week for the farmer’s market and can use their EBT card at campus dining services. The college uses a mix of grants and various campus funds to cover the costs of the meal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing more than any other community college in the state of California and also nationally,” Curry said. “How many schools can say that students receive one meal per day on their campus from their cafeteria?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California colleges offer a limited number of free meals, such as \u003ca href=\"https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/aggieeats\">UC Davis\u003c/a>, where a food truck serves between 300 and 400 meals per day and students pay what they want. In fall 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wvm.edu/news/2025/wvmccd-launches-first-in-nation-universal-free-meals-program.html\">West Valley-Mission District\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County will begin offering free meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Corinthia Mims said the first time she entered Compton’s cafeteria, “it was joy, always buzzing,” she said. Her twin, Cynthia Mims, said the free meals bring everyone together like family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Students] feel embraced and they feel important. It’s a feast,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeding students keeps them in school. According to data the college gathered last year, students who received free meals and money for the farmers’ market were more likely to stay in their classes for the entire semester with a completion rate of 1% or 2% higher than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curry visits the cafeteria to get feedback from the students. “They’re proud to tell me what they like and what they got today. Because there’s no negative stigma around it, because everyone is treated equally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldrick-Rab highlights the program at Compton College as an example of what a college student universal meal plan could look like. “It’s a very nice modern version. … It’s not really a cafeteria in the classic sense. It is refrigerators full of prepared meals, the way that adults would go into a Whole Foods and get a grab-and-go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr4065/text\">2019\u003c/a>, U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, introduced the Food for Thought bill, which proposes universal meal pilot programs on college campuses. The bill failed and was reintroduced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6934/text\">2022\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4812\">2023\u003c/a> but never enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contra Costa College fills food lockers with free meals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Contra Costa College, students who work full time have difficulty accessing the food pantry during open hours. In April, the college unveiled 20 refrigerated lockers in the campus cafeteria where students can pick up their pre-ordered, free groceries between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Students order online and student staff fill the orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus basic needs center, called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.edu/student-support/basic-needs/\">Compass Center\u003c/a>, also offers \u003ca href=\"https://cccadvocate.com/14394/news/campus-news/free-lunch-program-at-ccc-cafeteria-returns/\">free meal vouchers\u003c/a> to students three days a week, giving out 50 for breakfast, 75 for lunch and 15 for dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teddy Thollaug, a first-year student studying art and journalism at Contra Costa College, says they appreciate the hot meals and food lockers, especially on days when their disability makes it too hard to stand and cook. Because Thollaug’s classes are all online, they are not on campus regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/050825_FoodLockers_FM_CM_12-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short, multicolored hair and glasses sits at a cafeteria table, facing the camera and smiling slightly. They wear a Marvel graphic T-shirt, shorts, a black zip-up hoodie, and several necklaces. In the background, groups of people gather and talk at other tables near a set of vending machines. The room is softly lit and spacious with modern chairs and tables.\">\u003cfigcaption>Teddy Thollaug at the Contra Costa College dining hall in San Pablo on May 8, 2025. Thollaug works as a student worker at the campus’ Basic Needs Services, which offers weekly free food to lower-income students delivered through refrigerated food lockers in the dining hall. \u003cem>Florence Middleton for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A typical order includes fresh fruit and vegetables, butter and cheese, and a “mystery package,” which contains grains, sauces and canned food. “Honestly, I feel like a kid on Christmas every time I open a mystery package,” Thollaug said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, the center served 5,008 students and 14,785 families of students, according to Hope Dixon, the basic needs center coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Antelope Valley College students earn points for food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To encourage and support students to take full course loads, Antelope Valley College initiated Fresh Success, a CalFresh program that “pays” enrolled students in points for enrolled units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full-time students get more points, “because that’s our goal. We want you to get your degree, and [if you’re a full-time student,] you’re less likely to be able to run around and get all the other community resources,” said Jill Zimmerman, dean of the Antelope Valley College student health and wellness center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calfresh-resource-center/fresh-success\">Fresh Success\u003c/a> is part of CalFresh’s Employment and Training program, and is overseen by the Foundation for California Community Colleges. Currently 20 colleges across 18 counties participate in the program, which partially reimburses schools with federal dollars for workforce development services such as job training and job search assistance for students with low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresh Success allocates points for each unit enrolled, up to 40 points per week. Students use their points at the on-campus pantry to purchase food, toiletries and laundry soap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alliza Wade, having access to Fresh Success means being able to put more time toward school rather than working more hours. Wade, a STEM major at Antelope Valley College, is enrolled in CalFresh but it doesn’t cover all of her food expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Fresh Success] has a very, very significant impact on how I’m able to live and eat, and how I’m going to be able to pursue my future, because [it helps with] saving and being able to eat healthy,” Wade said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the college is reimbursed 45 cents for every dollar spent, the Fresh Success program benefits the college as well by providing funds to put towards employment and training support like job-specific clothing and gear, cooking classes and car tune-ups through the campus automotive program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cerro Coso feeds students who aren’t eligible for CalFresh\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Lorena Moreno started as the basic needs coordinator in early 2024 at Cerro Coso Community College in the southeastern Sierra region of the state, she noticed that students without permanent legal status were in dire need of assistance. Non-citizens are not eligible for CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno tackled the need by creating an on-campus food program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cerrocoso.edu/services-and-resources/basic-needs/wileyfresh.html\">WileyFresh\u003c/a> — modeled on \u003ca href=\"https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/aggiefresh\">Aggie Fresh\u003c/a> at UC Davis, which serves students who meet CalFresh requirements but lack citizenship. Eligible students receive a monthly Albertson’s gift card valued at $291, comparable to the amount an eligible single student receives on a monthly CalFresh EBT card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Aggie Fresh program, students who qualify for WileyFresh are required to participate in workshops that support academic and personal growth. Moreno offers the workshops as a webinar to protect student identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Moreno increased outreach efforts. Her team of part-time student employees passed out flyers at events to raise awareness. 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They began a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/some-morehouse-and-spelman-students-hunger-strike-help-needy-classmates/upY625DlEIxOPrmDlxe8mJ/\">hunger strike\u003c/a> to challenge meal plan policies that forbid sharing meal swipes. Their activism convinced their colleges to change the policies and led to a nationwide program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.swipehunger.org/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_NC9BhCkARIsABSnSTb91Gfyu7N9jNtwHDjBHF4ibbNKjcWRywDscdQ7QXv951_u6ggPyzwaAoUWEALw_wcB\">Swipe Out Hunger\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meal-swipe programs, as they’re called at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.swipehunger.org/campusdata2024/\">approximately 850 colleges\u003c/a> nationwide that offer them, allow students to donate unused meal swipes to fellow students who need them. In California, 17 colleges participate in Swipe Out Hunger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are not effective, Goldrick-Rab said. She \u003ca href=\"https://hope.temple.edu/sites/hope/files/media/document/SOH_Implementation.pdf\">evaluated Swipe Out Hunger\u003c/a> and found that the active programs see just 300 swipes a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the bottom line, I would rather give people money than food, but I still think the National School Lunch Program is important. I just want all of it. I want the guaranteed basic income. I want a higher minimum wage. Because all of it is scientifically working,” Goldrick-Rab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For the record: This story has been edited to clarify that the 2023 Food and Housing Basic Needs Survey by the California Student Aid Commission uses data from a survey of students who applied for financial aid.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Moore is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-park-service\">National Park Service\u003c/a> leaders are warning Californians about degrading conditions and safety risks on public lands this summer following the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030343/layoffs-have-hit-the-beloved-national-park-service-how-will-it-affect-your-visit\">cuts to staffing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite firing 1,000 probationary employees this year and implementing a hiring freeze, the secretary of the interior \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3426-ensuring-national-parks-are-open-and-accessible\">ordered all national parks to remain “open and accessible”\u003c/a> — something that Don Neubacher, former superintendent of Yosemite National Park, said is untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just can’t have more visitors, less staff, less money and do an adequate job,” he said. “This is not possible. So I think you’re going to find long lines, less law enforcement presence, less search and rescue capability, and less visitor centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996682/yosemite-reservation-system-2025-vehicles-camping\">Yosemite\u003c/a>, he said the quality of service is already declining: the popular High Sierra Camps are closed, and other campgrounds have had to delay their opening ahead of the busy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Galipeau, who retired as superintendent of Channel Islands National Park in 2018, said he noticed cuts already beginning to affect service in his last few years on the job. However, he added that the recent hiring freeze and additional cuts in the proposed White House budget are unlike anything he has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The poor park service is left in a catch-22,” he said. “They want to keep the parks, but they don’t have the human resources or the funding to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Neubacher and Galipeau are also members of the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization made up of current and former parks employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the National Park Service said, “It’s not unusual or unique to this year for questions to come up about staffing or for the staffing needs to fluctuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Neubacher, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\">situation on the ground\u003c/a> is much more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying everything’s fine, but I don’t think one person in the park service believes that. And all the people I talk to say it’s really traumatic and it’s in crisis mode,” Neubacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many park staffers are so demoralized on the job that they are “jumping ship” at the first opportunity.[aside postID=news_12029839 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Besides longer lines and dirtier facilities, Galipeau said reduced staffing could also endanger park visitors. Fewer staffers will mean longer emergency service response times and less preventive maintenance for roads and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a bad experience or you get lost or you get hurt or maybe there’s a crime that occurs in the park, and there’s no one for you to turn to,” Galipeau said. “All this equates to a bad visitor experience, and a bad visitor experience means you won’t go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of maintenance also spells trouble for the beginning of the peak wildfire season in California, and Neubacher said the parks are less prepared now than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only will there be fewer people to maintain vegetation and remove invasive species, but park rangers are also trained medics and firefighters. Galipeau said rangers are often sent to other regions or states to offer disaster aid; as a ranger at Everglades National Park in Florida, he was once sent to help fight fires in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those people around, how are we going to help when there’s a catastrophe? We won’t be able to,” Galipeau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the issues they anticipate, the former park service leaders said that people should still visit the parks this summer — if anything, to see for themselves how bad it is and offer their sympathies to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go there, enjoy your heritage. That’s why we set these places aside as a country,” Galipeau said. “But then if you see things that are broken, you need to go back home, you need to dial up your member of Congress or your senator and say, ‘You need to stop this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996682/yosemite-reservation-system-2025-vehicles-camping\">Yosemite\u003c/a>, he said the quality of service is already declining: the popular High Sierra Camps are closed, and other campgrounds have had to delay their opening ahead of the busy season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Galipeau, who retired as superintendent of Channel Islands National Park in 2018, said he noticed cuts already beginning to affect service in his last few years on the job. However, he added that the recent hiring freeze and additional cuts in the proposed White House budget are unlike anything he has ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The poor park service is left in a catch-22,” he said. “They want to keep the parks, but they don’t have the human resources or the funding to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Neubacher and Galipeau are also members of the executive council of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a nonprofit organization made up of current and former parks employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the National Park Service said, “It’s not unusual or unique to this year for questions to come up about staffing or for the staffing needs to fluctuate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Neubacher, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996198/what-you-should-know-about-visiting-national-parks-right-now\">situation on the ground\u003c/a> is much more severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying everything’s fine, but I don’t think one person in the park service believes that. And all the people I talk to say it’s really traumatic and it’s in crisis mode,” Neubacher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that many park staffers are so demoralized on the job that they are “jumping ship” at the first opportunity.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax credits for the parents of young children. A state-funded scientific research institute. Exempting service workers’ tips from state income tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are among the hundreds of proposals California lawmakers swiftly rejected Friday under the banner of cost savings, as they cited the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-budget-revision-may-2025/?1\">$12 billion budget deficit\u003c/a> — a worsening figure due to the threat of unprecedented federal funding cuts and California’s ballooning spending on health care for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in (a) very difficult budget environment this year, so consequently many good bills are going to fall by the wayside today,” said Assembly Appropriations Committee Chair \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/buffy-wicks-165044\">Buffy Wicks\u003c/a>, an Oakland Democrat, before beginning that chamber’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not in a year where we can be expanding programs, developing new offices, new agencies, new departments, and expanding our footprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Friday procedure is known as the “suspense file” — the state Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-killed-bills/\">most secretive\u003c/a> and fast-paced biannual hearing, where the chairs of the Assembly and Senate Appropriations committees quickly shoot down pricey proposals with little explanation, often acting more aggressively during years of budget woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense files are where the appropriations committees send bills that would cost the state at least $50,000 in the Senate and $150,000 in the Assembly. The process was originally a way for lawmakers to consider policy proposals that cost the state money together by balancing them against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the well-accepted open secret in Sacramento is that it’s also an opportunity for lawmakers to quietly kill controversial bills, appease powerful special interests or just winnow down the number of bills they’ll have to debate on the floor. Lawmakers decide ahead of time, in secret, whether to pass the bills to the full Senate or Assembly, or to withhold them. The public hearings are a rapid-fire announcement of the decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025617 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee axed 29% of the 432 bills on its list, although it kept a handful of those alive to work on next year. That’s more aggressive trimming \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-legislature-bills-budget-deficit/\">than the committee did last May. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state is facing a significant budget deficit and with that in mind, the committee had to make difficult choices on a number of bills to reduce costs,” said Senate Appropriations Chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/anna-caballero-101330\">Anna Caballero\u003c/a>, a Merced Democrat, before the hearing. She opened the hearing with a defense of the arcane proceedings, explaining that the results would be posted online, but rushed out to catch a flight after the meeting without discussing her approach with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed 35% of the 666 measures on its suspense file, similar to last year. Lawmakers had been warned to keep the cost of their proposals down, Wicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stressed heavily to members as they were putting together their legislative package this year to be very mindful of cost,” she told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s fiscal future is anything but certain: As federal threats loom, Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month rolled out a $322 billion spending plan that included \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">significant cuts to Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s health care system for low-income Californians, and a 3% cut to public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care expansions on the chopping block\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, some Assembly measures that would have expanded health care services for Californians met their fate. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab804\">Wicks’ own proposal\u003c/a> seeking federal approval to qualify some housing services as Medi-Cal benefits, a $40 million endeavor that Newsom previously vetoed. The committee also killed a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab315\">allow more Medi-Cal enrollees to receive home-based care\u003c/a> and another that would have allowed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab4\">higher-earning immigrants in the country illegally\u003c/a> to purchase insurance plans on Covered California, the state-run health care marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052325_Suspense-Day_FG_CM_04-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Several lawmakers and state Capitol staff sit behind a two-row dais during a legislative hearing. A large oval image of the California State Assembly seal can be seen hung up on the wall behind them.\">\u003cfigcaption>Assemblymembers meet during a suspense file hearing at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 23, 2025. \u003cem>Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, lawmakers shelved a proposal by Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/catherine-blakespear-21275\">Catherine Blakespear\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb644\">impose campaign contribution limits \u003c/a>on candidates for judicial office and school board races, which the influential California Teachers Association opposed. They axed Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/henry-stern-36368\">Henry Stern\u003c/a>’s proposal to expand the state’s contentious new mental health program CARE Courts \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb823\">to include defendants with bipolar disorder I\u003c/a>, and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/marie-alvarado-gil-165433\">Marie Alvarado-Gil\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb818\">bill to address mountain lion interactions\u003c/a> that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article304707486.html\">pitted rural communities\u003c/a> against animal rights and wildlife conservation advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate Appropriations Committee also killed two Republican tough-on-crime proposals, showing the limits of Democrats’ recent shift slightly rightward on crime. Until Friday, it had been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-democrats-crime/\">surprisingly smooth sailing\u003c/a> this year for Senate Minority Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/brian-jones-42\">Brian Jones\u003c/a>’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb286\">bill to block sex offenders\u003c/a> from being released from prison through the state’s elderly parole program, and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a>’s bill to increase penalties for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb432\">selling or giving fentanyl to minors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement-backed bills were opposed by criminal justice reform advocates, who still \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/\">hold sway with the majority party\u003c/a> and often argue it would be too costly for the state to imprison more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Jones, a San Diego Republican, called the suspense file process “anti-democratic” and accused Democrats of “silencing the voices of victims and the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some measures are now postponed until next year. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1349\">two Assembly measures\u003c/a> seeking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1291\">tighter regulations on ticket sales\u003c/a> for sports and musical events, amid fierce opposition from ticketing platforms such as Stubhub and from local chambers of commerce. The measures would restrict when those platforms can resell tickets, strengthen the disclosure of ticket information and require venues to accept proof of purchase as tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assm. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/isaac-bryan-165440\">Isaac Bryan\u003c/a>, a Culver City Democrat who authored one of the measures, said Wicks never articulated her concerns with his proposal, even though Wicks told reporters Friday her staff had been in touch with Bryan’s office. “There was never an attempt to discuss the bill,” which led him to believe her concerns had been alleviated, Bryan said in a statement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also pushed off some issues to be debated further during budget negotiations between the Legislature and Newsom. That process will accelerate in the coming weeks before a mid-June deadline to pass a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom’s film tax credit pushed to budget talk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They stripped out language in both Assembly and Senate bills to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-film-tax-credit-gavin-newsom-hollywood/\">more than double the state’s film tax credit\u003c/a> to $750 million. Newsom has pushed hard for the tax credit expansion to help the ailing Los Angeles industry and keep production in state, and he’s included the money in his budget proposals which lawmakers will debate separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/rick-chavez-zbur-165429\">Rick Zbur\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles Democrat who authored the Assembly version of the measure, said the committee move was merely a technical one to separate budget allocations from policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in the size of the program will happen in the budget,” Zbur said. “I’m not that nervous about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to others, the move indicated that some lawmakers remain skeptical of spending so much on the program. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/benjamin-allen-70\">Ben Allen\u003c/a>, an El Segundo Democrat who sponsored the Senate bill to boost the tax credits, said he was “certainly disappointed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something we are going to push back against as budget negotiations begin to heat up,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/newsom-ceqa-yimby-housing/\">An ambitious and highly technical proposal by Sen. 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She opened the hearing with a defense of the arcane proceedings, explaining that the results would be posted online, but rushed out to catch a flight after the meeting without discussing her approach with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed 35% of the 666 measures on its suspense file, similar to last year. Lawmakers had been warned to keep the cost of their proposals down, Wicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stressed heavily to members as they were putting together their legislative package this year to be very mindful of cost,” she told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s fiscal future is anything but certain: As federal threats loom, Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month rolled out a $322 billion spending plan that included \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">significant cuts to Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s health care system for low-income Californians, and a 3% cut to public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care expansions on the chopping block\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, some Assembly measures that would have expanded health care services for Californians met their fate. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab804\">Wicks’ own proposal\u003c/a> seeking federal approval to qualify some housing services as Medi-Cal benefits, a $40 million endeavor that Newsom previously vetoed. 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A large oval image of the California State Assembly seal can be seen hung up on the wall behind them.\">\u003cfigcaption>Assemblymembers meet during a suspense file hearing at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 23, 2025. \u003cem>Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, lawmakers shelved a proposal by Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/catherine-blakespear-21275\">Catherine Blakespear\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb644\">impose campaign contribution limits \u003c/a>on candidates for judicial office and school board races, which the influential California Teachers Association opposed. They axed Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/henry-stern-36368\">Henry Stern\u003c/a>’s proposal to expand the state’s contentious new mental health program CARE Courts \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb823\">to include defendants with bipolar disorder I\u003c/a>, and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/marie-alvarado-gil-165433\">Marie Alvarado-Gil\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb818\">bill to address mountain lion interactions\u003c/a> that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article304707486.html\">pitted rural communities\u003c/a> against animal rights and wildlife conservation advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate Appropriations Committee also killed two Republican tough-on-crime proposals, showing the limits of Democrats’ recent shift slightly rightward on crime. Until Friday, it had been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-democrats-crime/\">surprisingly smooth sailing\u003c/a> this year for Senate Minority Leader \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/brian-jones-42\">Brian Jones\u003c/a>’ \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb286\">bill to block sex offenders\u003c/a> from being released from prison through the state’s elderly parole program, and Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/kelly-seyarto-165446\">Kelly Seyarto\u003c/a>’s bill to increase penalties for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb432\">selling or giving fentanyl to minors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement-backed bills were opposed by criminal justice reform advocates, who still \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-democrats-teen-sex-solicitation/\">hold sway with the majority party\u003c/a> and often argue it would be too costly for the state to imprison more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Jones, a San Diego Republican, called the suspense file process “anti-democratic” and accused Democrats of “silencing the voices of victims and the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some measures are now postponed until next year. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1349\">two Assembly measures\u003c/a> seeking \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1291\">tighter regulations on ticket sales\u003c/a> for sports and musical events, amid fierce opposition from ticketing platforms such as Stubhub and from local chambers of commerce. The measures would restrict when those platforms can resell tickets, strengthen the disclosure of ticket information and require venues to accept proof of purchase as tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assm. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/isaac-bryan-165440\">Isaac Bryan\u003c/a>, a Culver City Democrat who authored one of the measures, said Wicks never articulated her concerns with his proposal, even though Wicks told reporters Friday her staff had been in touch with Bryan’s office. “There was never an attempt to discuss the bill,” which led him to believe her concerns had been alleviated, Bryan said in a statement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also pushed off some issues to be debated further during budget negotiations between the Legislature and Newsom. That process will accelerate in the coming weeks before a mid-June deadline to pass a balanced budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom’s film tax credit pushed to budget talk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They stripped out language in both Assembly and Senate bills to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/05/california-film-tax-credit-gavin-newsom-hollywood/\">more than double the state’s film tax credit\u003c/a> to $750 million. Newsom has pushed hard for the tax credit expansion to help the ailing Los Angeles industry and keep production in state, and he’s included the money in his budget proposals which lawmakers will debate separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/rick-chavez-zbur-165429\">Rick Zbur\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles Democrat who authored the Assembly version of the measure, said the committee move was merely a technical one to separate budget allocations from policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in the size of the program will happen in the budget,” Zbur said. “I’m not that nervous about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to others, the move indicated that some lawmakers remain skeptical of spending so much on the program. 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