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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>California made a huge \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/03/california-children-mental-health-crisis/\">one-time investment in youth mental health \u003c/a>during the COVID-19 pandemic as rates of depression, anxiety and eating disorders surged among children and teens. One piece of the state’s plan included a way to keep money flowing for schools that wanted to expand mental health services for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It involved allowing K–12 schools and colleges to charge \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a> and private health insurance for behavioral health care provided on campus, a change that would allow them to provide more services and hire additional mental health staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that effort — among the first of its kind in the country — is off to a slow start, delaying dollars and resources for schools to help students with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/mental-health/\">mental health\u003c/a> challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 14 school districts and county offices of education have begun billing for behavioral health services under the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Fee Schedule Program, according to state health officials. Forty six school districts and county offices of education started the implementation process in January 2024 and were supposed to start billing last July. A total of 494 school districts, county offices of education and colleges have signed up to participate in the new billing program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some school officials are frustrated over program delays. They say the state was slow to release guidance and necessary training to submit claims for mental health services provided. Officials at schools that hired mental health staff say they may soon have to lay off recent hires because payments for services provided are not coming in as expected. This means students could lose newly gained access to services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many unknowns and the timelines just keep getting pushed,” said Trina Frazier, assistant superintendent of student services at the Fresno County Office of Education. “And that’s really sad because it has so much potential.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Health Care Services, which is overseeing implementation of the program, told CalMatters in an email that while the target was to begin billing in mid-2024, “the scale and complexity of implementation required adjustments to provide additional flexibilities to schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Major reforms of this kind require time, coordination, and phased implementation,” the department said in its email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said it continues to work with schools to address any outstanding challenges. Its new goal is for that first group of 46 districts and education offices to start billing by the end of the current school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boost for mental health in schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and the nation have seen a surge in mental health disorders among students. For example, about 284,000 California children and teens deal with major depression, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KidsMentalHealthMasterPlan_8.18.22.pdf\">two-thirds of them do not receive treatment\u003c/a>, according to state estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the slow start for the new school billing program, other mental health efforts are underway through other components of the state’s $4.7 billion \u003ca href=\"https://cybhi.chhs.ca.gov/\">Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative\u003c/a> that launched in 2021. 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The letter does not specify a dollar amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 30 years and through a separate program, California schools have been able to get reimbursed by Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/provgovpart/Documents/ACLSS/LEA%20BOP/Program_Req_and_Info/LEAProgramOverview.pdf\">for certain physical and mental health services\u003c/a>. But there’s long been a gap for children with private insurance. This new billing program is supposed to address that, as well as allow schools to expand the types of mental health services they can provide and charge for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health experts regard school as an ideal setting for children to receive help. It’s where they spend most of their weekdays and generally feel safe. It’s also a “logistics problem solver” because schools resolve some potential barriers to care, like transportation to appointments, said Sarah Broome, a school Medicaid consultant. Also, teachers and staff see children every day and can notice when things are off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broome said that the challenges that the state and schools are facing in rolling out this new fee schedule program are somewhat predictable, partly because what California is doing is new. “So it’s not even like you can call your peer states and be like, ‘Hey, how did you guys figure out how to do this?’ You are creating a lot of this as you go. So there’s absolutely real pain there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s behind the delays?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State legislators are hearing from frustrated local officials about the billing delays. The Fresno County Office of Education filed its first claim for reimbursement on Feb. 28, but as of last week continued to face challenges, according to Frazier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier told lawmakers in a hearing last week that the program rollout “feels like building the plane while flying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the local office of education established 25 wellness centers across its schools and hired 50 new mental health workers, including clinicians and wellness coaches. But the delays prompted the office to notify its new staff about possible layoffs, Amanda Dickey, executive director of government relations for the Santa Clara County Office of Education, told lawmakers during the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we didn’t receive reimbursement for a single claim until 15 months after (starting program implementation) … as of March we were forced to pink slip 27 of our staff. So 27 of the approximately 50 that we hired,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickey told legislators that the state and the third party administrator contracted to process claims, Carelon Behavioral Health, did not give schools access to or training for the billing software used to file claims until late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_01-1024x682.jpg\" alt='A wide view of a room with students sitting on couches or chairs as they stare down at their phones or laptops. The room is decorated in light purple tones and includes several activities and resources. A digital monitor displayed a slide with \"student self-referral\" information on it.'>\u003cfigcaption>College Park High School students relax in the Wellness Center, which provides a quiet environment, peer support, social services and other resources in Pleasant Hill on March 15, 2024. \u003cem>Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Office of Education told CalMatters that one of the challenges has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/CYBHI/Documents/CYBHI-Fee-Schedule-Program-Parent-and-Caregiver-Flyer.pdf\">collecting students’ health insurance information\u003c/a> — a new task for schools, and one that requires parents and caregivers to cooperate in sharing information about their health plan. 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This new billing program is supposed to address that, as well as allow schools to expand the types of mental health services they can provide and charge for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health experts regard school as an ideal setting for children to receive help. It’s where they spend most of their weekdays and generally feel safe. It’s also a “logistics problem solver” because schools resolve some potential barriers to care, like transportation to appointments, said Sarah Broome, a school Medicaid consultant. Also, teachers and staff see children every day and can notice when things are off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broome said that the challenges that the state and schools are facing in rolling out this new fee schedule program are somewhat predictable, partly because what California is doing is new. “So it’s not even like you can call your peer states and be like, ‘Hey, how did you guys figure out how to do this?’ You are creating a lot of this as you go. So there’s absolutely real pain there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s behind the delays?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State legislators are hearing from frustrated local officials about the billing delays. The Fresno County Office of Education filed its first claim for reimbursement on Feb. 28, but as of last week continued to face challenges, according to Frazier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier told lawmakers in a hearing last week that the program rollout “feels like building the plane while flying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the local office of education established 25 wellness centers across its schools and hired 50 new mental health workers, including clinicians and wellness coaches. 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So 27 of the approximately 50 that we hired,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickey told legislators that the state and the third party administrator contracted to process claims, Carelon Behavioral Health, did not give schools access to or training for the billing software used to file claims until late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_01-1024x682.jpg\" alt='A wide view of a room with students sitting on couches or chairs as they stare down at their phones or laptops. The room is decorated in light purple tones and includes several activities and resources. A digital monitor displayed a slide with \"student self-referral\" information on it.'>\u003cfigcaption>College Park High School students relax in the Wellness Center, which provides a quiet environment, peer support, social services and other resources in Pleasant Hill on March 15, 2024. \u003cem>Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Office of Education told CalMatters that one of the challenges has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/CYBHI/Documents/CYBHI-Fee-Schedule-Program-Parent-and-Caregiver-Flyer.pdf\">collecting students’ health insurance information\u003c/a> — a new task for schools, and one that requires parents and caregivers to cooperate in sharing information about their health plan. (Mental health care provided at schools under this program should not result in any out-of-pocket costs for families, according to the state.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanya Ward, a project director at the Los Angeles County Office of Education, said her office has yet to file mental health claims under this new program, but expects to do so later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Health Care Services attributes the delays to a “learning curve” for both the state and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the department, a number of factors contributed to the delays, including the fact that some schools requested edits to the contractual documents to participate in the program and that others expressed confusion about the process and needed additional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said that districts are allowed to submit claims retroactively for dates of service back to July 1, 2024, as long as those claims are submitted by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14 districts and education offices that are now able to file claims are starting to do so in larger numbers, Autumn Boylan, deputy director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at the state health department, told lawmakers in last week’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a significant change for the entire system, and changes of this magnitude take time,” Boylan told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is still work to be done, but I do think we are making progress,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testifying next to each other at last week’s hearing, Boylan and Frazier from Fresno couldn’t agree on how much in claims had actually been paid out to the Fresno County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the first 40 claims that had been processed for Fresno, 21 were denied, Frazier said. Boylan said that some claims are being denied because they are incomplete or not properly filed. Lawmakers questioned whether schools are filing claims incorrectly because they have not been adequately taught how to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is brand new for schools,” Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a Van Nuys Democrat, said during the hearing. “It is imperative on us, as government, to lead them in the right path if we want them to take on something that’s completely out of their scope.”\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. 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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>In 2023, amid record-breaking rain and snow, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/prisons/\">two prisons\u003c/a> in the southern San Joaquin Valley faced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-04-26/newsom-visits-flood-threatened-corcoran\">serious risk of flooding\u003c/a>. But neither prison, California State Prison, Corcoran or the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, had a robust evacuation plan on hand and ready for the looming disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the prisons developed a joint plan to transfer roughly 8,000 incarcerated people to other state prisons within 11 to 14 days — or longer. Wheelchair-bound individuals, the plan stated, would take six days to evacuate. And department buses intended to shuttle people to safety could take up to a day to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The floods that year ultimately did not reach the prisons, but the threat they posed illustrated how California’s 90,000-prisoner corrections system has failed to prepare for natural disasters. That’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Audit-of-the-California-Department-of-Corrections-and-Rehabilitations-Natural-Disaster-Emergency-Preparedness-and-Mitigation-Efforts.pdf\">according to a report issued last week\u003c/a> by an independent agency that oversees the department’s disciplinary process and internal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While California’s prisons are vulnerable to wildfires, floods, and earthquakes, we found they are not adequately prepared to respond to emergencies posed by natural disasters,” stated the report by the Office of Inspector General, which reviewed emergency plans for 30 state prisons after fielding concerns about the department’s disaster response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report detailed deep fractures in the department’s emergency preparedness, including issues of transportation, varied risk assessment methodologies, lacking mutual aid agreements, timely evacuations, and prison overcrowding. As of December, California’s prison system was operating at roughly 120% — or 16,000 people — over its designed capacity, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are some prisons overcrowded, but the department is unable to evacuate the incarcerated population and staff at most prisons within the first critical 72 hours of an emergency,” the report noted. “Without the ability to quickly evacuate prisons, it is likely that wildfires, floods, and earthquakes will result in loss of life within the incarcerated population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038872 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-1020x680.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, the inspector general found that none of the prisons included a plan to evacuate incarcerated people outside their gates, but rather focused on moving “the incarcerated population to and from locations within the prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report concluded with a list of 18 recommendations, including ones that would bring the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation into compliance with California regulations around emergency planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlee Purdum, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Houston who researches how disasters impact incarcerated people, said the report is a “first step” in identifying more resources to support prisons and corrections agencies as they plan and prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Purdum said. “Prisons and corrections agencies are very marginalized and isolated in the emergency and disaster planning space. The significant takeaway should be that we have not engaged in these kinds of discussions, and put forth the kind of state level resources and accountability into these institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for years have been sounding the alarm over the ways in which California prisons are ill-equipped to confront climate hazards due to issues such as overcrowding and aging infrastructure. A \u003ca href=\"https://ellabakercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Hidden-Hazards-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 report (PDF)\u003c/a> by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the nonprofit organization Ella Baker Center for Human Rights chronicled those concerns and urged the state to implement safeguards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People inside have a fear that the actual plan is to abandon them in the case of an emergency. It is deeply troubling,” said James King, director of programs for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. “In these public health crises, it’s not just going to affect the people in the prisons, either incarcerated there or working there. It’s going to impact the entire county, the entire community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/031623-Corcoran-Flood-LV_05-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Trucks driving through the flooded intersection on Highway 43 near Corcoran on March 15, 2023. The flood was caused by rising water levels on the Tule River after a series of storms. \u003cem>Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those concerns were echoed by Dax Proctor, statewide coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, a statewide coalition of organizations that view climate hazards as a key reason to close prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one solution to address these issues at hand is to reduce the number of people locked up in California prisons as rapidly as possible,” Proctor said. “A good starting place would be those most vulnerable to climate hazards.”[aside postID=science_1996303 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/03/19-1115_0531-1020x679.jpg']Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services answered questions about the report before lawmakers at a hearing Thursday. They assured lawmakers that the department would not work alone in a large-scale emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has a vast amount of resources and we would rely heavily on our federal, state and local partners to assist us with the evacuation of an entire prison,” said Melissa Prill, special agent-in-charge at the corrections department’s Office of Correctional Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sen. Laura Richardson, a Democrat from Inglewood, said that in an unpredictable situation, those partners “may be busy assisting other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To assume that these other agencies are going to be available to help you, or to help us in a prison environment is not something, going forward, we have the freedom to assume,” Richardson said. “I would give this (office of inspector general)’s report of your organization — I would consider it an ‘F’ — frankly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Kelly Seyarto, a Republican from Murrieta, said he wasn’t “extremely critically concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re getting a little overboard in terms of thinking that we are going to have to evacuate entire prisons,” Seyarto said. “It’s just not a practical thing to think that somehow the whole prison is going to catch on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to CalMatters, department spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said prisons take an “all-hazards” approach to emergency planning and that it coordinates its plans with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. The department “follows the FEMA National Incident Management System, which is the national doctrine that provides all federal, state, and local response agencies with a consistent set of principles, management structures, and a systematic approach to emergency response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said the department has a history of being unprepared for climate hazards and instead reacts to them once they inevitably occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are simply facts,” King said. The department “could accept these facts and do something about them — or they could try to manage their response to the report. Disappointedly, it seems like they’ve chosen the latter. This is an opportunity to improve their response, to see the gaps and to create plans that address the gaps. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cayla Mihalovich is a California Local News fellow. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/prisons-natural-disasters/\">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": "\u003cp>Washington, D.C. — As Republicans in Congress debate how to cut as much as $880 billion over the next 10 years from Medicaid, which provides health coverage to about 72 million Americans who are low-income or disabled, the proposed cuts are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">putting swing district Republicans in a tough spot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the case for their colleagues in safe seats on both sides of the aisle, who are doubling down on their respective party’s positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the partisan divide over nearly every policy issue at this moment, those positions shouldn’t be surprising. Case in point: A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/igs_poll\">series of polls\u003c/a> released this week from the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies found partisanship influencing voter views on virtually every policy area, including Medicaid — or as it’s known in California, Medi-Cal. About 15 million Californians are covered by Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1nd0h87z\">one IGS poll\u003c/a>, more than half — 56% — of California voters believe Republicans’ proposed changes to Medi-Cal will negatively impact the state, while 21% think it will be positive. The number concerned about negative impacts skyrockets to 78% with Democrats, while 47% of GOP voters say the changes could have a positive effect.[aside postID=news_12039102 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/033023_Hollister-Hospital_LV_CM_21-copy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of voters say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">they are worried about their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a> under President Donald Trump, though those views also break along party lines: Just 18% of Republicans are worried compared to 66% of Democrats, while no party preference voters are pretty evenly split on the question. Medi-Cal recipients are most worried, with more than two-thirds expressing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters, especially the Democrats, are very, very fearful of what’s going down in Washington, and I think this poll just pretty much verifies that,” said IGS poll director Mark DiCamillo. “Republicans seem to be rather blasé about it in terms of the impacts on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiCamillo called the partisan divide on policy issues “extreme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have very, very different views than Democrats on just about everything,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Republicans this week passed a budget proposal that sets up cuts to Medicaid, the program that provides health insurance to lower-income households. Many Californians rely on the program, which is known as Medi-Cal in the state. \u003ccite>(Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those divergent views explain why Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Republican who won his Northern California district by a comfortable 10-point margin last year, supports his party’s plan to make deep cuts to Medicaid. Though the GOP hasn’t finalized which areas to cut, one idea involves tying Medicaid to work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work requirements, I think, absolutely make sense,” Kiley told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show most Medicaid recipients who can work already do. Advocates for people with lower incomes warn that new work requirements are just a way to boot people off their health insurance. The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that more than 8 million Californians, or half of Medi-Cal recipients, \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republicans-are-pushing-medicaid-cuts-heres-how-theyd-affect-california/\">could lose healthcare\u003c/a> if work requirements are imposed, despite most adults enrolled in Medi-Cal already being employed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.gwu.edu/new-state-state-report-medicaid-work-requirements-threaten-half-million-jobs-and-could-drain-state\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Commonwealth Fund and Milken Institute of Public Health at George Washington University finds that work requirements don’t increase employment, they simply lead to coverage losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They push people out of Medicaid not because they aren’t working, but because they can’t navigate complex paperwork and reporting rules,” said Sara R. Collins, a senior scholar and vice president for health care coverage and access at the Commonwealth Fund. “The result is more uninsured Americans and greater strain on families and the doctors, clinics and hospitals they depend on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiley also wants to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing Medi-Cal, even though their coverage is funded by the state rather than federal money. He noted that covering undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031544/providing-health-care-for-immigrants-is-costing-california-more-than-expected-is-coverage-at-risk\">costs more than California officials expected\u003c/a>, and argued that the funds could be used to cover citizens if federal Medi-Cal dollars decline under the GOP plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say you extend that over the next 10 years,” he said. “That’s hundreds of billions of dollars potentially that could be going to supporting access to care for our own residents, but is instead being used as essentially an incentive for further illegal immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Pete Aguilar, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, represents portions of California’s Inland Empire. He spoke with KQED’s Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos in his Washington, D.C. office on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Izzy Bloom/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Democrats are unapologetic about their support for Medi-Cal and say Republicans in Congress and Trump are making a political miscalculation by supporting cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not this magic bucket of waste, fraud, and abuse that Republicans are going to unlock and all the savings are going to emerge,” said Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar. He added that even in his more centrist Inland Empire district, Medi-Cal is incredibly popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar warned that the cuts, if realized, wouldn’t just hurt individuals who lose their insurance but could have a ripple effect on the entire hospital and healthcare system, especially in more rural districts like Kiley’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are essential services that are being provided by the federal government,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That potential pain may be why two vulnerable House Republicans from California joined 10 other swing-state GOP members of Congress in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/the-key-republican-warning-about-a-megabill-medicaid-fallout-00322377\">sounding the alarm\u003c/a> to House leadership over the proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1255046550-1-scaled-e1743452454384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Rep. David Valadao pictured in 2022. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Reps. David Valadao (R-Hanford) and Young Kim (R-Anaheim Hills) recently \u003ca href=\"https://bresnahan.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/bresnahan.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letter-to-leadership-on-medicaid.pdf\">signed a letter\u003c/a> to Speaker Mike Johnson that said ”we cannot and will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Valadao’s Central Valley district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">which has the highest percentage\u003c/a> of Medicaid recipients, 67% of residents rely on the public program for their health insurance. In Kim’s Orange County district, one-fifth of residents are enrolled in the program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/#related-links-and-downloads\">according to data\u003c/a> from the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities like ours won us the majority, and we have a responsibility to deliver on the promises we made,” the letter stated. “Balancing the federal budget must not come at the expense of those who depend on these benefits for their health and economic security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP leaders are still looking for a way to cut spending while assuaging the concerns of Republican members like Valadao and Kim. But they’ll need those swing district members to pass a budget by Memorial Day because House Republicans hold a slim majority and cannot afford to lose more than a few votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of voters say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039102/californians-worried-about-medi-cal-congressional-republicans-consider-cuts\">they are worried about their own health insurance coverage\u003c/a> under President Donald Trump, though those views also break along party lines: Just 18% of Republicans are worried compared to 66% of Democrats, while no party preference voters are pretty evenly split on the question. Medi-Cal recipients are most worried, with more than two-thirds expressing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters, especially the Democrats, are very, very fearful of what’s going down in Washington, and I think this poll just pretty much verifies that,” said IGS poll director Mark DiCamillo. “Republicans seem to be rather blasé about it in terms of the impacts on the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiCamillo called the partisan divide on policy issues “extreme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have very, very different views than Democrats on just about everything,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Republicans this week passed a budget proposal that sets up cuts to Medicaid, the program that provides health insurance to lower-income households. Many Californians rely on the program, which is known as Medi-Cal in the state. \u003ccite>(Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those divergent views explain why Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Republican who won his Northern California district by a comfortable 10-point margin last year, supports his party’s plan to make deep cuts to Medicaid. Though the GOP hasn’t finalized which areas to cut, one idea involves tying Medicaid to work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Work requirements, I think, absolutely make sense,” Kiley told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show most Medicaid recipients who can work already do. Advocates for people with lower incomes warn that new work requirements are just a way to boot people off their health insurance. The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that more than 8 million Californians, or half of Medi-Cal recipients, \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republicans-are-pushing-medicaid-cuts-heres-how-theyd-affect-california/\">could lose healthcare\u003c/a> if work requirements are imposed, despite most adults enrolled in Medi-Cal already being employed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.gwu.edu/new-state-state-report-medicaid-work-requirements-threaten-half-million-jobs-and-could-drain-state\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Commonwealth Fund and Milken Institute of Public Health at George Washington University finds that work requirements don’t increase employment, they simply lead to coverage losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They push people out of Medicaid not because they aren’t working, but because they can’t navigate complex paperwork and reporting rules,” said Sara R. Collins, a senior scholar and vice president for health care coverage and access at the Commonwealth Fund. “The result is more uninsured Americans and greater strain on families and the doctors, clinics and hospitals they depend on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiley also wants to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing Medi-Cal, even though their coverage is funded by the state rather than federal money. He noted that covering undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031544/providing-health-care-for-immigrants-is-costing-california-more-than-expected-is-coverage-at-risk\">costs more than California officials expected\u003c/a>, and argued that the funds could be used to cover citizens if federal Medi-Cal dollars decline under the GOP plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say you extend that over the next 10 years,” he said. “That’s hundreds of billions of dollars potentially that could be going to supporting access to care for our own residents, but is instead being used as essentially an incentive for further illegal immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/FTG02453_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Pete Aguilar, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, represents portions of California’s Inland Empire. He spoke with KQED’s Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos in his Washington, D.C. office on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Izzy Bloom/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Democrats are unapologetic about their support for Medi-Cal and say Republicans in Congress and Trump are making a political miscalculation by supporting cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not this magic bucket of waste, fraud, and abuse that Republicans are going to unlock and all the savings are going to emerge,” said Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar. He added that even in his more centrist Inland Empire district, Medi-Cal is incredibly popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar warned that the cuts, if realized, wouldn’t just hurt individuals who lose their insurance but could have a ripple effect on the entire hospital and healthcare system, especially in more rural districts like Kiley’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are essential services that are being provided by the federal government,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That potential pain may be why two vulnerable House Republicans from California joined 10 other swing-state GOP members of Congress in \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/the-key-republican-warning-about-a-megabill-medicaid-fallout-00322377\">sounding the alarm\u003c/a> to House leadership over the proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1255046550-1-scaled-e1743452454384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Rep. David Valadao pictured in 2022. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Reps. David Valadao (R-Hanford) and Young Kim (R-Anaheim Hills) recently \u003ca href=\"https://bresnahan.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/bresnahan.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letter-to-leadership-on-medicaid.pdf\">signed a letter\u003c/a> to Speaker Mike Johnson that said ”we cannot and will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Valadao’s Central Valley district, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033802/how-cuts-medicaid-republican-gains-california\">which has the highest percentage\u003c/a> of Medicaid recipients, 67% of residents rely on the public program for their health insurance. In Kim’s Orange County district, one-fifth of residents are enrolled in the program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/how-many-congressional-district-get-medi-cal-premium-subsidy-through-covered-california/#related-links-and-downloads\">according to data\u003c/a> from the California Health Care Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Communities like ours won us the majority, and we have a responsibility to deliver on the promises we made,” the letter stated. “Balancing the federal budget must not come at the expense of those who depend on these benefits for their health and economic security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP leaders are still looking for a way to cut spending while assuaging the concerns of Republican members like Valadao and Kim. But they’ll need those swing district members to pass a budget by Memorial Day because House Republicans hold a slim majority and cannot afford to lose more than a few votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains references to eating disorders and self-harm. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzy Degazon moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832103/the-forgotten-occupation-of-catalina-island\">Santa Catalina Island\u003c/a> because she wanted to be a fish. Most days, you can indeed find her in the ocean near Dive Park, either going for a morning swim at the surface or giving scuba diving tours of the kelp forest below. Often she does both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Degazon’s Instagram is overflowing with open water joy, but there was a time when she was too sick to walk, much less swim. To make it to Catalina, she first had to overcome a life-threatening eating disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon grew up in the English countryside, helping her parents manage a small hotel. She liked cooking with her mom, and she was good at it. When she was eight years old, she won a contest for a cake she made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just always going to be a pastry chef,” Degazon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she got sick. It started gradually when she was fifteen. She describes herself as a “wild child.” In school, teachers said she didn’t listen or pay attention. As a teenager, she went to AC/DC and Motörhead concerts. Degazon felt like she’d lost control of her life, so she began to avoid eating because it was the one thing she could control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038760\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-01-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzy Degazón at the Catalina Island Swim Club on Catalina Island on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Morrow for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>None of this stopped her passion for baking. She went to pastry school and then moved to London. She worked in the noisy, fast-paced kitchen of a five-star hotel, making strawberry tartlets, chocolate eclairs, crème brûlées — if it had pastry in it, she made it. But she didn’t eat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she didn’t even feel hungry. “When you get dangerously thin with anorexia, you don’t know it,” Degazon said. “You’re in denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, the police stopped her on the street and put her in a hospital for her own safety. She weighed 58 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t even stand up,” Degazon said. “I was really frail. I was on bed rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon had to stay in the hospital for a number of weeks. If the nurses gave her food, she’d hide it and flush it down the toilet. She had a sink in her room, and they replaced the drain pipe with a bucket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to leave, Degazon had to put on weight, which Degazon said didn’t work long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just eat, you get [to 80 pounds], you get out, and back you go,” Degazon said. “You have to fix up your noggin to get any help, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon cycled in and out of the hospital so many times that eventually a doctor told her family she would probably die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One time, when she was in a hospital in York, she turned on the TV and saw people running a marathon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember telling the nurse, I want to be like that one day. I’m going to do a marathon,” Degazon recalled. “And the nurse turned around to me and said, ‘You can’t even run to the toilet.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After ten years, Degazon and her family needed a new solution to help her get better. Her grandfather suggested she go backpacking in Southeast Asia, like her brother had. Maybe that would help her break the cycle. So Degazon got her weight up to 80 pounds — enough to leave the hospital — and bought a ticket to Bangkok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035436 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230401-Brittianna-Robinson-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked like a walking stick insect,” Degazon said. “But I was going to see the world. And I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freedom suited Degazon. No one called her names or nagged her about whether she was eating enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she traveled, little things started to change. For example, in Singapore, she was with a group of people who were all buying doughnuts. Previously, Degazon would have avoided buying a doughnut or thrown the doughnut away as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Degazon did something different. “We’re in [the doughnut shop] and I’m like, ‘I want to be normal. I’m going to eat a doughnut!’” She starts to nibble the doughnut, but it’s too much for her to eat it all at once, so she puts it in her pocket. She said it took her a whole week to eat it. “I didn’t throw it away. It was pretty stale at the end, but I ate that whole donut,” Degazon said. “I felt proud that I did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon kept traveling. In the Maldives, she learned to scuba dive. On her first time down, the instructor told her to squeeze her hand when she wanted to go back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzy never squeezed the instructor’s hand. “I just wanted to stay down there forever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the clear water of the Maldives, she saw turtles and tropical fish. She was captivated and also empowered. Visiting unfamiliar countries and underwater habitats gave her that control, that responsibility for herself, that she craved. She also fell in love with the ocean and decided to visit the Caribbean Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1171\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED-800x468.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED-1536x899.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-SUZY-DEGAZON-NM-02-KQED-1920x1124.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzy Degazón snorkels at the Catalina Island Swim Club on Catalina Island on May 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Morrow for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was in Boquerón, Puerto Rico, when her transformation became clear. At first, she’d started running to rebuild her bone density. Soon, she was swimming in the ocean each day with more experienced friends. Then someone lent her a bicycle. “The next thing I know, I’m a triathlete,” Degazon said. “So I did a triple Ironman in France.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The run alone is three marathons in a row. Degazon trained hard, but she also had a secret weapon: she knew how to break something big into little bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon lived in Puerto Rico for thirteen years, representing the island as an international triathlete and ultraman competitor before many women were even doing Ironmans. In 1994, Suzy competed in the Sonoma Vineman, one of the first Ironmans in California. In 1997, she won 3rd place at Le Défi Mondial de l’Endurance in France. She earned sponsors and was on billboards across Puerto Rico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030626 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Alicia-Portnoy_JB_00003-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of all, Degazon figured out how to channel her obsessive-compulsive eating habits into a love for sports — sports that taught her to take care of her body, and keep it fueled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starving herself for ten years also caused irreversible damage to her body, including to her inner ear and auditory nerve. When Degazon applied for a work visa that required a medical exam, she received her first diagnosis of hearing loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a complete surprise. Looking back now, she suspects she’d had hearing loss her whole life. “But,” she added quickly, “I’ve never let that stop me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Degazon got hearing aids and moved forward. Eventually, she set her sights on California. She moved to LA to marry her soulmate, and then moved to Santa Catalina Island to teach scuba diving. Now she relishes the chance to show visitors the strange and wonderful creatures living in Catalina’s kelp forests, like the bright orange Garibaldi, the official marine state fish of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having anorexia was really bad, and so I always want to be alive,” Degazon said. “I want to live every day like it’s my last day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a clear morning, Degazon barely got out of the water before she started passionately describing what she saw: big sheep crabs and abalone everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, spotting a pod of sea lions swimming close to shore, she jumped back in the water to get a closer look. It was barely 8 a.m., and it was already a good day to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s agricultural sector, a small and rare \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11138262/why-these-central-valley-republicans-stand-by-donald-trump\">base of support for President Trump\u003c/a> in the liberal state, has been flipped on its head in the administration’s first 100 days, but it doesn’t appear that farmers are ready to stop backing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s hurting the people who voted for him,” Colin Carter, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry already struggled to bounce back after the first Trump administration’s trade war with China and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is being rocked by what Sen. 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And if we look at California, some California products were highly dependent on China.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2018, California’s export of tree nuts — mostly pistachios, walnuts and almonds — was lucrative and growing. Ninety-four percent of China’s tree nut imports came from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after China levied tariffs of up to 25% on some agricultural imports in response to U.S. tariffs, that 94% figure dropped to just 53%. California’s farmers lost about $900 million in revenue in one year as a result, according to Carter.[aside postID=news_12038128 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-21-1020x680.jpg']“In the case of almonds, China pivoted towards Australia. Australia can produce almonds; they increased their production and they have 0% tariffs,” Carter said. “[China] started increasing its own production of walnuts instead of buying them from California. It was a growing market, [and] California had a big market share that would have continued to grow, but that was all ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Trump awarded $16 billion in relief for affected farms. There was some rebound in the years between that trade war and the current one, but California never regained the dominance it once held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, on top of a near halt on exports to China under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361056/china-us-trade-war-tariffs-escalation\">its 125% levies\u003c/a>, trade wars with California’s other primary export partner in Canada, threaten the same lasting impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California agriculture ships fruits and vegetables, wine up to Canada, and that’s already impacted,” Carter said. Canada is the state’s number one importer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada imposed a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. wine. Instead of looking to California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022-2023_california_agricultural_exports.pdf\">sent 34% of its exported wine\u003c/a> to the country in 2022, Canada is relying on Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the trade war ebbs, “they may not come back to California,” Carter told KQED. “Trading in agriculture is a relationship that develops over time. And if one trading partner breaks that relationship, it doesn’t snap back overnight. It takes a long time to regain that trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmworkers ‘refusing to come out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The industry’s workforce is also under significant threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants made up at least 50% of the state’s farmworker population between 2010 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/health-care-access-among-californias-farmworkers/\">according to data\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those farmworkers are increasingly anxious and fearful, according to Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, the executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), an advocacy nonprofit for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. Even though Trump’s threat of mass deportations has not yet been widely carried out, the emotional and psychological fear it’s caused is already having effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair stands in front of a group of people in a room painted bright orange.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga speaks during a roundtable discussion at the ALAS Sueño Center in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a group of farmworkers … here on the North Coast and they have told our team that they’re refusing to come out beyond just their work duties,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “They don’t want to leave the farm. They don’t want to come out for other things in the community because they don’t want to be at risk, and they’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the days immediately after actions like the raids in Kern County, people have stayed home from work, worried that their farms would be targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, or that they could be stopped at a gas station on their way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many immigrants were already fearful of ICE enforcement under the Biden administration, Hernandez-Arriaga said those she spoke to in Half Moon Bay didn’t feel like a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration, she said, is “saying that they’re focusing on criminals, but that’s not what we’re seeing happening at all. In many ways, that’s what they’re using to market this increased deportation of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmers still on Trump’s side\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid the threats both to agricultural workers and the industry’s economic stability, Padilla said he has been working with farmers and speaking with Republican colleagues about the impacts of Trump’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanket tariffs risk retaliation and could harm the farmers they try to protect, warned Shannon Douglass, president of the California Farm Bureau, which advocates for the state’s farmers and ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1636px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/4669193811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1636\" height=\"961\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s agricultural industry could be devastated by dwindling exports due to retaliatory tariffs and the effect of immigration enforcement on farmworkers. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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In January, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">announced a “presidential action”\u003c/a> that directed the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a plan that would route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to dry parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5287016/farmers-are-worried-after-trump-released-billions-of-gallons-of-water-in-california\">flushed 2 billion gallons of water\u003c/a> from dams in the Sierra Nevada foothills in February, claiming that it would help give Los Angeles and California “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5287016/farmers-are-worried-after-trump-released-billions-of-gallons-of-water-in-california\">virtually unlimited water\u003c/a>.” The fires had already been fully contained at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter isn’t sure whether farmers will start to rethink their support for Trump if tariffs begin to make a bigger dent in their revenue, or if their workforce is decimated — as it would be should he carry out his threat of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump] had a lot of support in the Central Valley, and even though they were harmed during the first trade war,” Carter told KQED. “It does make you wonder how much pain they’re willing to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their workforce is worried, scared,” Padilla said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038943/democrats-voice-frustration-and-determination-to-win-back-the-house\">on KQED’s Political Breakdown podcast\u003c/a> this week, adding that even before Trump took office, January \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021487/an-immigration-raid-in-kern-county-foreshadows-what-awaits-farmworkers-and-the-economy\">immigration raids in Bakersfield\u003c/a> shook Kern County and the wider farmworker community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Trump’s ping-ponging tariffs, which have spurred a global trade war, are not only making imports more expensive but also affecting “the growers in California who export so much as part of their business,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The levies have the potential to devastate California’s agriculture industry, according to Carter, who studied the fallout from the 2018–2019 trade war with China during Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034427\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled “Make America Wealthy Again” at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its long-lasting effects show what is at risk for the industry right now, only “much worse,” Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to the early Trump trade war, China was the number one market for U.S. agriculture [exports],” he said. “The trade war that was initiated by Trump ruined that relationship, and China is no longer number one. And if we look at California, some California products were highly dependent on China.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 2018, California’s export of tree nuts — mostly pistachios, walnuts and almonds — was lucrative and growing. Ninety-four percent of China’s tree nut imports came from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after China levied tariffs of up to 25% on some agricultural imports in response to U.S. tariffs, that 94% figure dropped to just 53%. California’s farmers lost about $900 million in revenue in one year as a result, according to Carter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the case of almonds, China pivoted towards Australia. Australia can produce almonds; they increased their production and they have 0% tariffs,” Carter said. “[China] started increasing its own production of walnuts instead of buying them from California. It was a growing market, [and] California had a big market share that would have continued to grow, but that was all ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Trump awarded $16 billion in relief for affected farms. There was some rebound in the years between that trade war and the current one, but California never regained the dominance it once held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, on top of a near halt on exports to China under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361056/china-us-trade-war-tariffs-escalation\">its 125% levies\u003c/a>, trade wars with California’s other primary export partner in Canada, threaten the same lasting impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California agriculture ships fruits and vegetables, wine up to Canada, and that’s already impacted,” Carter said. Canada is the state’s number one importer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada imposed a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. wine. Instead of looking to California, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022-2023_california_agricultural_exports.pdf\">sent 34% of its exported wine\u003c/a> to the country in 2022, Canada is relying on Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the trade war ebbs, “they may not come back to California,” Carter told KQED. “Trading in agriculture is a relationship that develops over time. And if one trading partner breaks that relationship, it doesn’t snap back overnight. It takes a long time to regain that trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmworkers ‘refusing to come out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The industry’s workforce is also under significant threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants made up at least 50% of the state’s farmworker population between 2010 and 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/health-care-access-among-californias-farmworkers/\">according to data\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those farmworkers are increasingly anxious and fearful, according to Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, the executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS), an advocacy nonprofit for farmworkers in Half Moon Bay. Even though Trump’s threat of mass deportations has not yet been widely carried out, the emotional and psychological fear it’s caused is already having effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair stands in front of a group of people in a room painted bright orange.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga speaks during a roundtable discussion at the ALAS Sueño Center in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a group of farmworkers … here on the North Coast and they have told our team that they’re refusing to come out beyond just their work duties,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “They don’t want to leave the farm. They don’t want to come out for other things in the community because they don’t want to be at risk, and they’re scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that in the days immediately after actions like the raids in Kern County, people have stayed home from work, worried that their farms would be targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, or that they could be stopped at a gas station on their way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many immigrants were already fearful of ICE enforcement under the Biden administration, Hernandez-Arriaga said those she spoke to in Half Moon Bay didn’t feel like a target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration, she said, is “saying that they’re focusing on criminals, but that’s not what we’re seeing happening at all. In many ways, that’s what they’re using to market this increased deportation of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farmers still on Trump’s side\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Amid the threats both to agricultural workers and the industry’s economic stability, Padilla said he has been working with farmers and speaking with Republican colleagues about the impacts of Trump’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanket tariffs risk retaliation and could harm the farmers they try to protect, warned Shannon Douglass, president of the California Farm Bureau, which advocates for the state’s farmers and ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1636px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/4669193811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1636\" height=\"961\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s agricultural industry could be devastated by dwindling exports due to retaliatory tariffs and the effect of immigration enforcement on farmworkers. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He added that it could be because farmers believe they’ll benefit from the long-term effects of the tariff policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump and [trade advisor] Peter Navarro and [Secretary of Commerce Howard] Lutnick, I’ve seen them on CNN complaining about how U.S. agriculture’s ripped off in Canada, in Australia, in the European Union,” Carter said. “Actually, that’s just not correct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said California exports 40% of its agricultural goods and that the U.S. has done well in recent decades because of lower trade barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other farmers are hoping that high prices will be worth it for less restricted water resources, he said. In January, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">announced a “presidential action”\u003c/a> that directed the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a plan that would route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to dry parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5287016/farmers-are-worried-after-trump-released-billions-of-gallons-of-water-in-california\">flushed 2 billion gallons of water\u003c/a> from dams in the Sierra Nevada foothills in February, claiming that it would help give Los Angeles and California “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5287016/farmers-are-worried-after-trump-released-billions-of-gallons-of-water-in-california\">virtually unlimited water\u003c/a>.” The fires had already been fully contained at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter isn’t sure whether farmers will start to rethink their support for Trump if tariffs begin to make a bigger dent in their revenue, or if their workforce is decimated — as it would be should he carry out his threat of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Trump] had a lot of support in the Central Valley, and even though they were harmed during the first trade war,” Carter told KQED. “It does make you wonder how much pain they’re willing to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Despite that, he said, it’s still “a wonderful piece of music and it has not stopped astronomers from adopting the piece of music to their own purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final piece is Mozart’s \u003cem>Symphony No. 41\u003c/em>, dubbed the “Jupiter Symphony” after the composer’s death. It’s considered one of his best symphonies, an exuberant, grand work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, a concert promoter thought that it would sell more tickets” if it had a nickname, Massey said. “It was given that name primarily because this symphony was so unlike anything else at the time, it was so much longer, it was kind of a giant of its own and widely regarded as just one of the best symphonies in history, even long after Mozart died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first chords of the music remind some people of thunder, which are associated with Jupiter, ancient Roman pantheon’s main deity and thunderbolt-hurler-in-chief, and with the real planet. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:55 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the world familiarizes itself with the newly elected pope, some Catholics in the Bay Area are praying that the new leader of the church continues the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036912/pope-francis-death-bay-area-priests-urge-catholics-carry-legacy-mercy\">reformist legacy of his predecessor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from the United States. He spent much of his ministerial career in Peru, despite growing up in Chicago and moved to the Vatican in 2023 to lead the Dicastery of Bishops, a department that oversees the selection of new bishops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope Francis, who died last month, was seen by many as a voice for change within the Catholic Church, in his calls for more inclusion of LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former pope was also outspoken on broader social and political issues. Francis repeatedly spoke about the plight of refugees and the duty of Western nations to treat them with dignity. He also urged global leaders to take action on climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Cardinal Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, has been named the latest successor to Saint Peter, local Catholics who spoke with KQED said they’re hoping to see a continuation of those advocacy efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing outside of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Maria Luisa Soto described Pope Francis as a revolutionary force within the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039400 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-1-KQED_1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Mundi sits in a pew at the Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hope they continue on the right path,” Soto said in Spanish. “I hope they provide a positive example for the greater community in the world of Catholics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reformist line that has existed in recent years, and the doors that Pope Francis has opened, especially to the immigrants, to the people who are dying in the Mediterranean, to all the people from vulnerable groups … that should be continued,” said Carol Mundi, visiting San Francisco from Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Church is an institution that has to move forward at the same pace as society,” Mundi said, speaking in Spanish. “And if society goes one way and religion goes the other, the only thing it will do is alienate believers.”[aside postID=news_12036912 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-05-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Father Tom Martin, the pastor of Saint Pius Church in Redwood City and associate vicar for clergy in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he hopes Pope Leo serves as a bridge between the more progressive and conservative groups within the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know a lot about Cardinal Prevost, but just from what I’ve heard so far, and the fact that he really was a pastor, a missionary, I think really speaks to an ability to cross natural barriers and divisions. Perhaps that’s why the Cardinals elected him,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pastor also said he believes the choice of papal name — Leo — may hint at a desire to continue pushing for social change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pope Leo XIII, who was pope in the early 20th century, wrote Rerum Novarum, which is one of the signal encyclicals in the church on how we deal with social issues and social questions: the rights of labor, the rights of workers, the dignity of family life,” Martin said. “ It sends a very powerful message that Pope Leo XIV will pick up that mantle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250508_POPEREAX_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernhard Wolf and Maria Soto outside the Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francis’ tenure as pope galvanized some who grew up in the church but have grown distant from the institution or found their relationship with it complicated. This includes Salina Galea’i, who said she was a fan of what Francis stood for and hopes to see the new pope continue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The word that comes up for me when it came to any of his reform or advocacy is just inclusivity, and I think that’s really important for someone with that much say and power in the world, religious or not, to want to prioritize that,” Galea’i said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thursday’s announcement, Father Martin spent the hours speaking to parishioners who expressed excitement at a pope from the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People take their relationship with the pope very seriously; it’s an intensely personal dynamic,” Father Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take some time to digest that,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area. The original version of the story can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/english/immigrant-rights/as-safe-spaces-shrink-immigrant-youth-find-solace-in-the-beautiful-game/\">found here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2019, Adelaida, an immigrant from Todos Santos, a rural region in the northern highlands of Guatemala, arrived in the Bay Area. The timing was not ideal. The then 12-year-old resettled in California just a few months before the pandemic shut down the kinds of communal spaces that could help a teenager adjust to a new life on the other side of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooped up at home, Adelaida stumbled through her online classes. She struggled to make new friends. The lockdown made the already difficult acculturation process even slower. “I never had a chance to go out, explore what was out there,” she said in Spanish. “It was very hard to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, Adelaida’s sense of isolation persisted. She was navigating the routine stress of any teenager’s high school life—grades, homework, the social scene—all the while thousands of miles from the familiar comforts of home. Then, one afternoon last winter, while walking home from school, Adelaida caught a glimpse of a scene that filled her with longing. A group of girls, roughly her age, enjoying the simple pleasure of an outdoor soccer practice. “They were laughing, having fun, playing so freely,” she recalled. “And I thought: ‘I want that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soccer, or the beautiful game, as it’s affectionately called, is a singular global institution. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/sports-industry/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that upwards of 240 million people worldwide play it —roughly two-thirds the population of the U.S.—with a fan base that tops three billion. For its legion of devotees, the sport is transcendent: at once magic, religion, a language unto itself. For immigrant youth, the sport’s global appeal has served as a cultural bridge to their new homes, \u003ca href=\"https://globalsportmatters.com/youth/2019/12/02/research-shows-importance-of-sport-for-refugee-children/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helping\u003c/a> them build friendships that can ease the resettlement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maddy Boston, coach and program manager at Soccer Without Borders Bay Area, wraps her arms around a player who forgot to bring a jacket to practice on Thursday, March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the field is also a quiet oasis from the current anti-immigrant moment in the U.S. Since January 20, the Trump administration has launched what it calls “the largest deportation operation in American history,” \u003ca href=\"https://immpolicytracking.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issuing\u003c/a> more than 250 sweeping changes targeting the nation’s immigration system, including policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/immigrant-youth-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-trump-administrations-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aimed\u003c/a> squarely at migrant youth—moves that have chilled immigrant communities and made everyday life more fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes have significant implications for immigrant youth in Alameda County, which has the second-largest population of unaccompanied minors in California, with more than 560 resettling in the community between October 2023 and June 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/programs/social-services/unaccompanied-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county-june-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the latest data. As the administration targets young migrants, community members are reporting heightened levels of fear and uncertainty, said Katie Annand, an attorney at Immigrant Legal Defense, which provides legal representation to immigrant youth living in Oakland. That sense of fear can fracture “the sense of belonging that they are working so hard to find,” she explained. Finding community through soccer, she added, helps repair those ruptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, Annand recalled recently asking a young client what activities brought him joy. When he mentioned soccer, she invited him to describe how the game made him feel. “And there was no hesitation,” Annand said. “His first words were: ‘I feel free.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-without-sanctuary-protections-safe-spaces-shrink\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Without sanctuary protections, safe spaces shrink\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since January 20, the administration has introduced a string of policies targeting migrant children. Officials have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g-s1-52674/trump-detention-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revived\u003c/a> family detention—a practice largely \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-texas-border-c008c78469d85a7c1962a6b36ac29330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ended\u003c/a> under the Biden administration and widely criticized for its psychological impact on children. They’ve announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-directs-ice-agents-find-deport-unaccompanied-migrant-2025-02-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plans\u003c/a> to deport and prosecute hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/trump-cuts-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-minors-leaving-thousands-in-california-at-risk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terminated\u003c/a> federally funded legal aid for those children, leaving some as young as two to navigate immigration court alone, and created a new data-sharing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48979/ice-unaccompanied-minors-database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of Refugee Resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arrangement grants immigration agents access to personal data of children released to sponsors, as well as information about the sponsors themselves, who are often part of or connected to immigrant communities. The move could dissuade guardians from taking in children who arrive in the U.S. alone and erode the firewall between the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Homeland Security that the federal government previously maintained, said Sergio Perez, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea by the Trump administration is: ‘Here’s a treasure trove of information that we can use to better understand where all the immigrants are and where to send our agents,’” Perez said. “If you are going to take in an undocumented child, you probably have some connection to that child—familial or societal. And if you yourself are part of an immigrant community, you might be less likely to do that, if you know ICE is suddenly going to be breathing down your neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the team’s goalkeepers lies flat on the ground after their 3–1 victory on Saturday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/as-the-world-mourns-pope-francis-bay-area-immigrants-grapple-with-safety-in-the-pews/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stripped\u003c/a> sanctuary protections from institutions once considered off-limits: schools and churches. The result, advocates warn, is a new layer of fear in spaces that once offered safety. Many expect this wave of policies to add another layer of emotional distress to an already difficult resettlement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to respond, Perez argued, is to mobilize community in the broadest sense possible. That includes “city and county laws that protect information and those spaces as best as they can,” Perez said, as well as “civic society stepping up and saying: ‘Not here.’” Children, he added, “should be able to enjoy the sun. It’s better than being in the shadows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-network-of-care-and-community-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>A network of care and community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teammates helping each other tie their cleats and open water bottles for the goalkeeper wearing gloves before the Saturday morning game, March 22, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Adelaida eventually found her place on the team. After passing the practice that day, she approached the coach and asked if she could join the program, which is run by the nonprofit Soccer Without Borders, which uses free soccer programming to help immigrant and refugee youth build ties to their new communities. Adelaida was brought on board, joining a squad of newcomer girls. She has since found solace in the world’s most popular sport. “It has helped me feel more integrated in this country,” Adelaida explained. She made friends on the team, which helped her feel more settled in her new home. The twin shocks of relocation and lockdown have faded. Now, Adelaida said, “ I feel at home. I say that I am from Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers and advocates who work closely with recent immigrants say soccer is one of the most effective and accessible tools for helping young people rebuild their sense of self after migration. Kristina Lovato, director of UC Berkeley’s Center on Immigrant Child Welfare, interviewed dozens of young adults and unaccompanied minors across California for a forthcoming study, including immigrant youth who joined organized soccer leagues. She was struck by how the game helped ease their transition. “It’s such a friendly way that immigrants can connect to one another, and for an hour and a half on the field, let go of the mental stress that is burdening their day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This cognitive stress load is often exacerbated by the material demands of relocation, such as finding stable housing, securing employment, and repaying debts accrued during their journey. “Children arrive with a huge list of to-dos and are stressed from the minute they get here,” Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039325\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two players who combined for each of the team’s three goals celebrate their second before halftime on Thursday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many immigrant youth, the trauma of relocation captures just one emotional stage of migration. Ryan Matlow, a Stanford clinical psychologist who works with immigrant youth in the Bay Area, described numerous stages of psychological stress that accompany children across the arc of the migratory process: the trauma of leaving home, the trauma of the journey to the U.S., the trauma of crossing the border and the trauma of resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rupture of leaving home can leave children unmoored and searching for a sense of belonging. For children who came from soccer-loving communities or households, the sport can help preserve their emotional ties to the countries and cultures they left behind, Matlow said. “Having opportunities to connect with practices and traditions that resonate with their cultural history is really valuable,” he explained. The social dynamics of team sports, Matlow added, can also provide emotional support during resettlement, helping children reestablish the sense of community they left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Adelaida, Ana arrived in the U.S. just before the pandemic. In the early days, she was overcome by everyone she missed in Guatemala. She thought about her family and friends constantly as she tried to figure out her place in the East Bay. When school reopened, Ana decided to give soccer a try. Though she had never played before, she joined one of Soccer Without Borders’ girls’ leagues. The learning curve was steep but fulfilling. “I feel like I found my family here,” Ana said in Spanish. “Here, I feel safe. I keep meeting new people. I like to be here in this community. I have found the perfect place for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another player in the league said the field lets her briefly tune out from the stress of daily life. “I put everything aside and have fun,” she said in Spanish. “It’s a safe space for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches and advocates emphasized the importance of maintaining emotionally safe environments as the political climate becomes more unwelcoming to immigrants. That means being attentive to how, and if, national politics are discussed on the field, explained Ye-Htet Soe, the program manager of the Bay Area chapter of Soccer Without Borders. “Some teams want to talk about it more, and others just want to play,” he said. For some players, bringing the administration or politics into team spaces risks damaging the psychological safety they offer. “The most important thing is creating a sense of belonging. And the way you do that through sports isn’t necessarily to talk about the issue at hand,” Soe continued. “Sometimes you need to let sport do its thing and create that sense of community, with an emphasis on fun and joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-finding-a-voice-on-the-field\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Finding a voice on the field\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The teams exchanged compliments during the post-game positivity circle on Saturday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a bright Saturday afternoon in mid-April, Ana and her teammates stood in a straight line in front of their opponents after the referee blew the game’s final whistle. It had been a close, nail-biter of a game; while the two teams were evenly matched, one squeaked by with a victory after a late goal in the second half of the game. Friends and family cheered and groaned from the sidelines. Players were flushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maddy Boston, one of the team’s coaches and a program manager at Soccer Without Borders Bay Area, gathered both squads at midfield for a ritual known as the positivity circle. Each player shared their name, country of origin and a compliment for someone on the opposing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston kicked off the circle with a peppy post-game recap, then opened up the floor. Ana stepped forward, shyly, praising two players on the opposing team for their crisp passing and stamina. “I loved the way you play,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, sitting on a bench, Adelaida reflected on what the team had given her. Being in the league had inspired a dream: she wanted to start a team of her own someday. “It all came from this team that helped me grow stronger as a person,” she said. Her ideal name for it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The players and coach end practice with their team chant on Thursday, March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the years passed, Adelaida’s sense of isolation persisted. She was navigating the routine stress of any teenager’s high school life—grades, homework, the social scene—all the while thousands of miles from the familiar comforts of home. Then, one afternoon last winter, while walking home from school, Adelaida caught a glimpse of a scene that filled her with longing. A group of girls, roughly her age, enjoying the simple pleasure of an outdoor soccer practice. “They were laughing, having fun, playing so freely,” she recalled. “And I thought: ‘I want that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soccer, or the beautiful game, as it’s affectionately called, is a singular global institution. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/sports-industry/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated\u003c/a> that upwards of 240 million people worldwide play it —roughly two-thirds the population of the U.S.—with a fan base that tops three billion. For its legion of devotees, the sport is transcendent: at once magic, religion, a language unto itself. For immigrant youth, the sport’s global appeal has served as a cultural bridge to their new homes, \u003ca href=\"https://globalsportmatters.com/youth/2019/12/02/research-shows-importance-of-sport-for-refugee-children/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helping\u003c/a> them build friendships that can ease the resettlement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/1-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-23-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maddy Boston, coach and program manager at Soccer Without Borders Bay Area, wraps her arms around a player who forgot to bring a jacket to practice on Thursday, March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the field is also a quiet oasis from the current anti-immigrant moment in the U.S. Since January 20, the Trump administration has launched what it calls “the largest deportation operation in American history,” \u003ca href=\"https://immpolicytracking.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issuing\u003c/a> more than 250 sweeping changes targeting the nation’s immigration system, including policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/immigrant-youth-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-trump-administrations-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aimed\u003c/a> squarely at migrant youth—moves that have chilled immigrant communities and made everyday life more fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes have significant implications for immigrant youth in Alameda County, which has the second-largest population of unaccompanied minors in California, with more than 560 resettling in the community between October 2023 and June 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/programs/social-services/unaccompanied-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county-june-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according\u003c/a> to the latest data. As the administration targets young migrants, community members are reporting heightened levels of fear and uncertainty, said Katie Annand, an attorney at Immigrant Legal Defense, which provides legal representation to immigrant youth living in Oakland. That sense of fear can fracture “the sense of belonging that they are working so hard to find,” she explained. Finding community through soccer, she added, helps repair those ruptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, Annand recalled recently asking a young client what activities brought him joy. When he mentioned soccer, she invited him to describe how the game made him feel. “And there was no hesitation,” Annand said. “His first words were: ‘I feel free.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-without-sanctuary-protections-safe-spaces-shrink\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Without sanctuary protections, safe spaces shrink\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since January 20, the administration has introduced a string of policies targeting migrant children. Officials have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g-s1-52674/trump-detention-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revived\u003c/a> family detention—a practice largely \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-texas-border-c008c78469d85a7c1962a6b36ac29330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ended\u003c/a> under the Biden administration and widely criticized for its psychological impact on children. They’ve announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-directs-ice-agents-find-deport-unaccompanied-migrant-2025-02-23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plans\u003c/a> to deport and prosecute hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/trump-cuts-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-minors-leaving-thousands-in-california-at-risk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terminated\u003c/a> federally funded legal aid for those children, leaving some as young as two to navigate immigration court alone, and created a new data-sharing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48979/ice-unaccompanied-minors-database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of Refugee Resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arrangement grants immigration agents access to personal data of children released to sponsors, as well as information about the sponsors themselves, who are often part of or connected to immigrant communities. The move could dissuade guardians from taking in children who arrive in the U.S. alone and erode the firewall between the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Homeland Security that the federal government previously maintained, said Sergio Perez, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea by the Trump administration is: ‘Here’s a treasure trove of information that we can use to better understand where all the immigrants are and where to send our agents,’” Perez said. “If you are going to take in an undocumented child, you probably have some connection to that child—familial or societal. And if you yourself are part of an immigrant community, you might be less likely to do that, if you know ICE is suddenly going to be breathing down your neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/2-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-15-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the team’s goalkeepers lies flat on the ground after their 3–1 victory on Saturday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/newsletter/as-the-world-mourns-pope-francis-bay-area-immigrants-grapple-with-safety-in-the-pews/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stripped\u003c/a> sanctuary protections from institutions once considered off-limits: schools and churches. The result, advocates warn, is a new layer of fear in spaces that once offered safety. Many expect this wave of policies to add another layer of emotional distress to an already difficult resettlement process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to respond, Perez argued, is to mobilize community in the broadest sense possible. That includes “city and county laws that protect information and those spaces as best as they can,” Perez said, as well as “civic society stepping up and saying: ‘Not here.’” Children, he added, “should be able to enjoy the sun. It’s better than being in the shadows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-a-network-of-care-and-community-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>A network of care and community\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039322\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/3-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-01-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teammates helping each other tie their cleats and open water bottles for the goalkeeper wearing gloves before the Saturday morning game, March 22, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Adelaida eventually found her place on the team. After passing the practice that day, she approached the coach and asked if she could join the program, which is run by the nonprofit Soccer Without Borders, which uses free soccer programming to help immigrant and refugee youth build ties to their new communities. Adelaida was brought on board, joining a squad of newcomer girls. She has since found solace in the world’s most popular sport. “It has helped me feel more integrated in this country,” Adelaida explained. She made friends on the team, which helped her feel more settled in her new home. The twin shocks of relocation and lockdown have faded. Now, Adelaida said, “ I feel at home. I say that I am from Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers and advocates who work closely with recent immigrants say soccer is one of the most effective and accessible tools for helping young people rebuild their sense of self after migration. Kristina Lovato, director of UC Berkeley’s Center on Immigrant Child Welfare, interviewed dozens of young adults and unaccompanied minors across California for a forthcoming study, including immigrant youth who joined organized soccer leagues. She was struck by how the game helped ease their transition. “It’s such a friendly way that immigrants can connect to one another, and for an hour and a half on the field, let go of the mental stress that is burdening their day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This cognitive stress load is often exacerbated by the material demands of relocation, such as finding stable housing, securing employment, and repaying debts accrued during their journey. “Children arrive with a huge list of to-dos and are stressed from the minute they get here,” Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039325\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/4-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-07-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two players who combined for each of the team’s three goals celebrate their second before halftime on Thursday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many immigrant youth, the trauma of relocation captures just one emotional stage of migration. Ryan Matlow, a Stanford clinical psychologist who works with immigrant youth in the Bay Area, described numerous stages of psychological stress that accompany children across the arc of the migratory process: the trauma of leaving home, the trauma of the journey to the U.S., the trauma of crossing the border and the trauma of resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rupture of leaving home can leave children unmoored and searching for a sense of belonging. For children who came from soccer-loving communities or households, the sport can help preserve their emotional ties to the countries and cultures they left behind, Matlow said. “Having opportunities to connect with practices and traditions that resonate with their cultural history is really valuable,” he explained. The social dynamics of team sports, Matlow added, can also provide emotional support during resettlement, helping children reestablish the sense of community they left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Adelaida, Ana arrived in the U.S. just before the pandemic. In the early days, she was overcome by everyone she missed in Guatemala. She thought about her family and friends constantly as she tried to figure out her place in the East Bay. When school reopened, Ana decided to give soccer a try. Though she had never played before, she joined one of Soccer Without Borders’ girls’ leagues. The learning curve was steep but fulfilling. “I feel like I found my family here,” Ana said in Spanish. “Here, I feel safe. I keep meeting new people. I like to be here in this community. I have found the perfect place for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another player in the league said the field lets her briefly tune out from the stress of daily life. “I put everything aside and have fun,” she said in Spanish. “It’s a safe space for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches and advocates emphasized the importance of maintaining emotionally safe environments as the political climate becomes more unwelcoming to immigrants. That means being attentive to how, and if, national politics are discussed on the field, explained Ye-Htet Soe, the program manager of the Bay Area chapter of Soccer Without Borders. “Some teams want to talk about it more, and others just want to play,” he said. For some players, bringing the administration or politics into team spaces risks damaging the psychological safety they offer. “The most important thing is creating a sense of belonging. And the way you do that through sports isn’t necessarily to talk about the issue at hand,” Soe continued. “Sometimes you need to let sport do its thing and create that sense of community, with an emphasis on fun and joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-finding-a-voice-on-the-field\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Finding a voice on the field\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/5-03.22.2025-SoccerGame-13-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The teams exchanged compliments during the post-game positivity circle on Saturday, March 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a bright Saturday afternoon in mid-April, Ana and her teammates stood in a straight line in front of their opponents after the referee blew the game’s final whistle. It had been a close, nail-biter of a game; while the two teams were evenly matched, one squeaked by with a victory after a late goal in the second half of the game. Friends and family cheered and groaned from the sidelines. Players were flushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maddy Boston, one of the team’s coaches and a program manager at Soccer Without Borders Bay Area, gathered both squads at midfield for a ritual known as the positivity circle. Each player shared their name, country of origin and a compliment for someone on the opposing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston kicked off the circle with a peppy post-game recap, then opened up the floor. Ana stepped forward, shyly, praising two players on the opposing team for their crisp passing and stamina. “I loved the way you play,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, sitting on a bench, Adelaida reflected on what the team had given her. Being in the league had inspired a dream: she wanted to start a team of her own someday. “It all came from this team that helped me grow stronger as a person,” she said. Her ideal name for it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/6-03.21.2025-SoccerPractice-24-scaled-1-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The players and coach end practice with their team chant on Thursday, March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/ Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Parishioner Bob Schaper knew what he was looking for had to be there somewhere in Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">Altadena \u003c/a>— although there wasn’t much that remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what’s left,” Schaper said, as he pointed to a blackened entryway that, since the devastating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a>, now opened to a charred field of destruction. “The church burned down through the floors to the subsequent [kindergarten] school rooms below. Organ, pews, the beams, roof — everything is just gone, simply gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An elementary school serving some 300 students, renovated just a few years ago, was also immolated, along with a two-story suite of parish offices and a day care center. But none of the destruction deterred Schaper from his mission. Without telling a soul, he zipped up a hazmat suit, slipped on a mask, laced up some heavy boots and got to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in there with full gear, a sledgehammer and saws, cutting away pipe and chicken wire and finally through a hole about as big as a dinner plate. I look [through it] and there’s the words: ‘To the Glory of God,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s just like, oh! There’s the bell!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s brass bell was a gift from the family of Dean Howe, a young parishioner who died from cancer at age 15. For nearly 60 years, it rang out at the start of Sunday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-24-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt remains of Saint Mark’s Church, in Altadena, on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Matt Wright, another parishioner who helped lift the bell from the ashes, its discovery signaled hope for the church’s uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bell will make its return when Saint Mark’s makes its return to Altadena Drive,” Wright said. “The bell will be a centerpiece of the new church sanctuary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the second Sunday after the fire, Pastor Carri Grindon was leading the Saint Mark’s congregation at its new temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles — a roughly 20-minute drive from the Altadena campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s still processing the loss while making sure that everyone in the church community, many if not most of whom either lost homes or were temporarily displaced, is OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been in this mode of, do the next thing, just take care of the next person, just plan the next gathering,” she said, speaking on the porch of the Saint Barnabas parish house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parishioner shared a video of the church engulfed in flames, while the Eaton Fire continued its furious march across the expanse of this tight-knit foothill community. Altadena is known for its hardiness and a wild, feral spirit. But this was too much. Grindon refused to believe her eyes until she arrived on site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was something about standing on the site,” she said. “A church is a particular kind of loss because it [represents] all of these big moments in people’s lives. It’s unimaginable to not be able to be there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena lost more than a dozen places of worship in the Eaton Fire, including large campuses like Saint Mark’s and Altadena United Methodist, and storefront churches like Abounding Faith Ministries. Most have publicly expressed determination to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if rebuilding a home is challenging, rebuilding a faith community and its sanctuary is even harder, involving shared commitment, fundraising and a re-evaluation of priorities — all while maintaining a community that’s been scattered like embers blown by Santa Ana winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-14-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church of Altadena prepares to hold Easter services in their temporary home at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charlie Cutler has seen it before, as president of ChurchWest, which provides property and other insurance to ministries across California, Nevada and Arizona, including two other churches destroyed in the Eaton Fire. One of those churches — the Altadena Community Church, another historic sanctuary and school — was directly across the street from Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We work with over 4,000 ministries in California, and we have at least one church that is a total loss every year,” he said. “And every single time the church says we want to rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Altadena churches that ChurchWest covered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wanting to rebuild and actually doing it are very different things, he cautioned. Cutler said that before any blueprints are drawn up or any concrete is poured, each church community should ask itself some difficult questions. Is rebuilding really the best idea? Or even possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-113-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to a ChurchWest client that lost its sanctuary in the 2018 Camp Fire, which largely destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise. For that church, survival meant not rebuilding at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there’s no people, because all the people have been displaced, and the members of the congregation had gone to Chico or moved out of the area completely, they saw a decline in attendance,” Cutler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Meanwhile, there was a church down the street with similar beliefs and (the churches) consolidated,” he continued. “I think they created a very healthy church — they are now one congregation that’s come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congregation of Saint Mark’s Episcopal is a vibrant mix of ages, income levels and ethnicities. That’s helped by having an elementary school and kindergarten, which attracts young families and new parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 4, some 300 Saint Mark’s Elementary school kids sang the R&B classic “Stand by Me” for hundreds of parents, school officials and elected leaders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new, temporary teaching space at EF Academy private school in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-6-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Grindon holds Easter services for the congregation of St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena in their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mette Lampcov for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new, “Saint Mark’s Village” offers over 2-dozen classrooms, administrative offices, and plenty of outdoor space on the Academy’s 16 acres — all at no cost to Saint Mark’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with such generosity, Pastor Grindon recognizes the immense challenges that lie ahead. Yes, the insurance money is in the bank. But even with that, she estimates a roughly $20 million shortfall and a rebuilding master plan that could span over two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have the perfect campus,” Grindon said. “It’s beloved, but now that it’s gone, what would we do differently? We know that it’ll cost a lot to rebuild the church and school, and those costs are only going to go up. But we want to get back there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grindon envisions a 20-year reconstruction and a roughly $20 million shortfall. She imagines fundraising over time, in phases. “There’s no way that we, just in a straight capital campaign within the community, are we going to get there,” she said, “unless some major angels show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034277 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250328_Zorthian-Ranch_SK_17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaper, who located Saint Mark’s church bell, said that the arduous process of rebuilding should not consume the spirit of the people who still fill the pews every Sunday at its temporary location in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at church now, we’re doing church now,” Schaper said. “Saint Mark’s is going to continue to be a church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in his retirement years, Schaper doesn’t know if he’ll be around when the new Saint Mark’s rises again. But it’s not something he’s given much thought to, choosing instead to focus on the hard work of keeping his church family’s head up, day by day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must protect and keep our arms around the people themselves. We must maintain that as number one and then put a building around that,” he said. “We have to keep going because this is going to take longer than anyone thinks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12039470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1536x516.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-DIPTYCH-KQED-1920x645.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the St. Marks Episcopal Church of Altadena congregation hunt for Easter eggs at their temporary home at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on April 20, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Schaper uncovered the church’s bronze bell, three other parishioners helped him dislodge it. Once free, they attached it to a pair of iron bars to carefully carry it from the ruins, “like Cleopatra” in her chair, parishioner Tom Horner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bell was carefully washed, the crew lifted it once more. Then, they rang it, for the first time since January 5, the Sunday before the Eaton Fire took almost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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