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The organization said it did so after it was notified that the Oakland City Attorney’s Office rejected an original proposal from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay Burch, the university’s regional security director and a former Oakland police captain, submitted that draft memorandum of understanding to the city last year to create an independent university police department that would function alongside but separate from the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officers would possess the same powers as those in city police departments, such as the ability to carry a weapon and to use lethal force when necessary, and the department would share jurisdiction with OPD over East Oakland neighborhoods outside of campus, according to the MOU, which was rejected in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeastern University campus in Oakland on Oct. 29, 2024, formerly Mills College. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For Oakland specifically, first and foremost, the campus and its surroundings must be safe and inviting,” Burch said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandneighbors.org/eon-blog-specialelection2025/clay-burch-letter-to-east-oaklanders\">“letter to East Oaklanders”\u003c/a> posted on the East Oakland Neighbors’ website last week. “This town needs a procedurally just, constitutional police force that not only enforces the law — actually enforces the law — but also incorporates robust community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Burch is a Northeastern University employee and was cited as such in an \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em> article that reported on the campaign on Monday, he told KQED that community members are leading the newest campaign, and a university spokesperson said that article “does not represent the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although much of the information was attributed to a Northeastern employee, none of it has been fact-checked with university leaders,” spokesperson Renata Nyul said in a statement. She did not specify what, if anything, was incorrect but said that the school has been in talks with the city about partnering in student safety initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burch said in a statement to KQED that he is not leading the campaign run by East Oakland Neighbors and that his involvement has been misrepresented. He did not give further comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Hayden, a Las Vegas resident who founded East Oakland Neighbors and used to live in Oakland, said the organization’s community outreach campaign will allow East Oakland residents to be a part of the conversation around new public safety ideas, with the goal of encouraging the city and Northeastern University to consider a revised version of the police proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no government involved in this, and Northeastern doesn’t have anything to do with us,” Hayden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern University’s California-based campus is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011539/many-oakland-students-dont-go-to-college-this-new-scholarship-gives-some-a-chance\">located at the site of Mills College\u003c/a>, a former women’s liberal arts school in East Oakland. While the university itself is relatively secluded, rising crime rates in the area have led school officials to brainstorm ways of improving campus security and safety for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Oakland residents and students don’t believe that bringing in more officers will improve public safety and are worried that a police force operating outside of federal oversight and jurisdictional safeguards would pose a threat to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of accountability is particularly alarming in a city like Oakland, where our police department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">remains under federal oversight\u003c/a> after decades of violence, corruption and harm to our communities,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. “This new force would operate without those same checks, granting them even greater impunity to racially profile, assault and brutalize residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks added that if the university really wanted to support the Oakland community, it would invest in affordable housing, job training programs and mental health services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential cost of a university police force has also spurred backlash from students since this week’s campaign was publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Ford, a manager in the city’s Department of Transportation who volunteers with East Oakland Neighbors as a private citizen, Burch told him that the university would cover the total cost of the new police department, starting with $20 million for 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan starting at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(BethLaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily where I want to see my tuition go,” said William Holloway, a first-year student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students are petitioning against the proposal after this week’s news was shared in a student and alumni group chat. One student who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from the university said many of them are concerned that an independent police department will further the strain between students and locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A police force of this nature has no interest in improving East Oakland,” a petition addressed to Burch and Daniel Sachs, dean of Northeastern University’s Oakland campus, states. The petition specifically names Burch and East Oakland Neighbors as the driving forces behind the renewed push for the police department rather than the university itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More police isn’t always the answer to societal issues, and it largely fuels tensions between locals and governing bodies,” said Holloway, who is not involved in the petition. “The addition of more rather than a change of how is not something that’s necessarily going to fix things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials support the idea of a Northeastern University police department. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> continues to grapple with concerns about public safety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">a budget crisis\u003c/a> and a beleaguered police department, community organizers launched a campaign this week to revive the idea of creating an independent Northeastern University police force that would also patrol parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conflicting reports on the grassroots initiative, however, have led to widespread concern and confusion among students and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland Neighbors, an organization led by current and former city residents, is behind the latest campaign pushing for a police department that the private Northeastern University Oakland would operate. The organization said it did so after it was notified that the Oakland City Attorney’s Office rejected an original proposal from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay Burch, the university’s regional security director and a former Oakland police captain, submitted that draft memorandum of understanding to the city last year to create an independent university police department that would function alongside but separate from the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officers would possess the same powers as those in city police departments, such as the ability to carry a weapon and to use lethal force when necessary, and the department would share jurisdiction with OPD over East Oakland neighborhoods outside of campus, according to the MOU, which was rejected in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeastern University campus in Oakland on Oct. 29, 2024, formerly Mills College. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For Oakland specifically, first and foremost, the campus and its surroundings must be safe and inviting,” Burch said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandneighbors.org/eon-blog-specialelection2025/clay-burch-letter-to-east-oaklanders\">“letter to East Oaklanders”\u003c/a> posted on the East Oakland Neighbors’ website last week. “This town needs a procedurally just, constitutional police force that not only enforces the law — actually enforces the law — but also incorporates robust community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Burch is a Northeastern University employee and was cited as such in an \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em> article that reported on the campaign on Monday, he told KQED that community members are leading the newest campaign, and a university spokesperson said that article “does not represent the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although much of the information was attributed to a Northeastern employee, none of it has been fact-checked with university leaders,” spokesperson Renata Nyul said in a statement. She did not specify what, if anything, was incorrect but said that the school has been in talks with the city about partnering in student safety initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burch said in a statement to KQED that he is not leading the campaign run by East Oakland Neighbors and that his involvement has been misrepresented. He did not give further comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Hayden, a Las Vegas resident who founded East Oakland Neighbors and used to live in Oakland, said the organization’s community outreach campaign will allow East Oakland residents to be a part of the conversation around new public safety ideas, with the goal of encouraging the city and Northeastern University to consider a revised version of the police proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no government involved in this, and Northeastern doesn’t have anything to do with us,” Hayden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern University’s California-based campus is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011539/many-oakland-students-dont-go-to-college-this-new-scholarship-gives-some-a-chance\">located at the site of Mills College\u003c/a>, a former women’s liberal arts school in East Oakland. While the university itself is relatively secluded, rising crime rates in the area have led school officials to brainstorm ways of improving campus security and safety for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Oakland residents and students don’t believe that bringing in more officers will improve public safety and are worried that a police force operating outside of federal oversight and jurisdictional safeguards would pose a threat to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of accountability is particularly alarming in a city like Oakland, where our police department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">remains under federal oversight\u003c/a> after decades of violence, corruption and harm to our communities,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. “This new force would operate without those same checks, granting them even greater impunity to racially profile, assault and brutalize residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks added that if the university really wanted to support the Oakland community, it would invest in affordable housing, job training programs and mental health services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential cost of a university police force has also spurred backlash from students since this week’s campaign was publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Ford, a manager in the city’s Department of Transportation who volunteers with East Oakland Neighbors as a private citizen, Burch told him that the university would cover the total cost of the new police department, starting with $20 million for 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan starting at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(BethLaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily where I want to see my tuition go,” said William Holloway, a first-year student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students are petitioning against the proposal after this week’s news was shared in a student and alumni group chat. One student who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from the university said many of them are concerned that an independent police department will further the strain between students and locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A police force of this nature has no interest in improving East Oakland,” a petition addressed to Burch and Daniel Sachs, dean of Northeastern University’s Oakland campus, states. The petition specifically names Burch and East Oakland Neighbors as the driving forces behind the renewed push for the police department rather than the university itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More police isn’t always the answer to societal issues, and it largely fuels tensions between locals and governing bodies,” said Holloway, who is not involved in the petition. “The addition of more rather than a change of how is not something that’s necessarily going to fix things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials support the idea of a Northeastern University police department. Councilmember Noel Gallo, who is interim City Council president, said he understands the school’s desire for improved safety, especially as the campus community grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland does not have enough police officers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">is facing a major budget crisis\u003c/a>, and the proposal is an opportunity to fix that, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Ryan Richardson, who helped review the original proposal by Burch, said a private university having its own peace officers is not unheard of. The University of the Pacific, the University of Southern California and Stanford University have done it before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Northeastern University, however, the model Burch proposed isn’t authorized by California law, Richardson said, because it would create an independent, fully authorized police force outside of the local police department’s chain of command — which he called unprecedented in California. The city of Oakland would also be liable for everything the university police department does, according to the original MOU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One option for private universities is to employ fully fledged peace officers who are working in the local jurisdiction’s police department as reserve officers, Richardson said. The other option is to hire officers who are not considered California peace officers and are limited in their scope of powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be good to have some higher-level discussions about alternative pathways that we can all agree on and that will be upheld and are legal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A church-going agricultural worker. An Echo Park man taking his son to school. A 16-year-old kid searching for work to support his family in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of some of the first Californians targeted in his high-profile immigration crackdown. It’s very different from the descriptions of hardened criminals President Donald Trump has touted. People CalMatters interviewed about the raids across California suggested those swept up in them are dedicated family members and employees, their lives deeply woven into their communities. None appeared to pose the risks to national security or public safety Trump promised he’d target during his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has only begun to grapple with the resulting fear and need for reliable information. Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation allocating $25 million to provide immigrants with legal services to fight immigration proceedings against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for ICE said officers do not target noncitizens indiscriminately. “ICE’s enforcement resources are based on intelligence-driven leads,” said Richard Beam, a spokesman for ICE’s Los Angeles office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people detained during the statewide crackdown said that’s not what it feels like on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a regular morning,” said Loreal Duran from Echo Park in Los Angeles, describing her family’s before-school rush to get the kids out the door and loaded into the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning in question, Jan. 23, as her husband fastened their two young children into their seats, an immigration officer walked up, asking Loreal to show identification. “As he got closer to the car, he saw my husband, and basically, he just went around to the other side to grab my husband out of the car and take him away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loreal Duran holds a photo of her with her husband Giovanni Duran at her apartment in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The Durans’ 1-year-old daughter, whose identity is being withheld for privacy concerns, eats breakfast at their apartment in Los Angeles. Right: The Durans’ 8-year-old son, whose identity is being withheld for privacy concerns, sits on their bed at their apartment on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giovanni Duran, 42, came to California from El Salvador without federal authorization when he was 2 years old, brought by his family. He worked as a busser in a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, Loreal said. Duran is now being held in the Adelanto detention facility, run by a private company under contract to ICE, awaiting deportation to a country he doesn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to him in almost two days,” said Loreal last week. She’s had to get counseling for her 7-year-old son after he saw his dad taken away by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was telling his classmates, ‘Oh, daddy got arrested for not wearing his seatbelt,’” Duran recounted. Later, the second grader asked his mom, “Did daddy get arrested because he’s Brown? I replied back to him, I go: ‘Yea, he kinda did.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported on social media 8,276 arrests nationwide between Jan. 22 and Jan. 31. The agency would not break out those numbers for California or different cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Casting a wide net\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ProPublica and the \u003cem>Texas Tribune\u003c/em> reported less than half of the approximately 8,200 people arrested from Jan. 20 through Feb. 2, so far have criminal convictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders\">according to government data they obtained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the apparently broad crackdown has immigrant advocates working around the clock. There have been several high-profile protests — one that shuttered a freeway in Los Angeles and another that prompted police to fire off tear gas at people in National City. Social media channels have been flooded by reported sightings of immigration officers and phones have been ringing nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can sense that kind of panic and also hunger; hunger for correct, reliable information as to what they should do in times of a raid or in times of an encounter with an immigration agent,” said Ian M. Seruelo, an immigration attorney in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after President Donald Trump visited wildfire-scarred Los Angeles, promising to work with California on needed federal assistance for recovery, his administration \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dealosangeles/status/1883584230804140075?s=46\">announced, with few details, immigration enforcement operations\u003c/a> in the city carried out by federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Justice Department, “and other federal law enforcement partners.” Video released with the announcement showed officers in camouflaged uniforms and bullet-proof vests approaching apartment buildings and standing around armored vehicles and mobile command centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump authorized law enforcement agents from across the federal government to participate in immigration enforcement activities. He also lifted longtime guidelines restricting ICE from operating at “sensitive locations” such as schools, churches or hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE messaging about its enforcement actions has emphasized the apprehension of criminals. Last week, Enforcement and Removal Operations Los Angeles, a part of the agency, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/EROLosAngeles/status/1886819216638255342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886819216638255342%7Ctwgr%5E8a2028151efab540da31db22ebeb7629d80c687a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxla.com%2Fnews%2Fice-raids-california-protests-immigration\">said officers arrested\u003c/a> a 47-year-old noncitizen who was convicted of DUI. “This noncitizen had previously been arrested for driving without a license and evading a peace officer,” officials said on social media. They also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/EROLosAngeles/status/1886433176761057748\">said they arrested\u003c/a> an “unlawfully present Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member. This noncitizen is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement officials spread out through an apartment complex during a raid in Denver on Feb. 5, 2025. Officials have also been conducting immigration enforcement activities across California. \u003ccite>(David Zalubowski/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nayna Gupta, the policy director at the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants, said for the Trump administration to deport millions of people as the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/there-arent-20-million-people-deport-trump-will-certainly-try/\">promised\u003c/a>, it will have to target people who have not had contact with the criminal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on recent data, we know that fewer than 1 in 10 undocumented immigrants has a criminal record,” said Gupta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2024/07/Final_SOILA2024_ExecSummary_v5.pdf\">one in three people in Los Angeles County (PDF)\u003c/a> are immigrants, according to a report last year from the University of Southern California. Tens of thousands of county residents had to evacuate following a series of wildfires that began in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unconscionable to have or plan for immigration enforcement activities in a natural disaster,” said Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. ICE did not respond to a request for comment on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the name of public safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Republicans appear to be on board with Trump’s actions so far. They urged Newsom to veto two bills signed into law last week. One was the $25 million for immigrant legal defense and the other allocated another $25 million for Attorney General Rob Bonta to pursue litigation against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a public safety problem in California, and a big component of that is international gangs and cartels. Human trafficking has exploded, and it knows no bounds,” said Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, a Republican from Santa Clarita, during a floor debate on the legislation.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12026959,news_12026817,news_12026582\"]During his campaign, Trump and his advisors repeatedly invoked hardened criminals and threats to national security when promising mass detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Estefany Peña, 30, from Lincoln, California, believed when she supported Trump for reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought they were going to be targeting criminals. No one mentioned during the campaigning of Donald Trump that residents …\u003cem> legal residents\u003c/em> … were going to have to go through this,” she said. Her husband, who came to the country legally in 1999 and has a green card, went to an immigration office in San Francisco for a check-in in late January and still hasn’t come home, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything just came crumbling down,” she said of when immigration officers wouldn’t let her husband leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The husband, Joel Jacuinde, 40, is the breadwinner for his family, working at a rice dryer company east of San Francisco. Peña said he also volunteers for his church and provides the primary source of transportation for the family, regularly taking their 11-year-old son for treatment for his asthma. Both children are covered for health care under Jacuinde’s Medi-Cal account, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids are very close to their dad, so it’s taken a terrible toll on them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacuinde doesn’t show up in a database of people being detained by ICE. Peña said he was told he was not free to leave the immigration office and that agents were holding him to pressure him to sign a voluntary removal form. The family has contacted dozens of attorneys but hasn’t been able to secure legal representation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tijuana, outside a federal shelter set up to assist recently deported Mexicans, a 16-year-old told CalMatters he had been detained trying to reach Stockton to find work. “They grabbed me,” he said, and within hours, he was back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the same Tijuana shelter, Mario Guerra, 39, a construction worker from Bakersfield, said he ran from about seven or eight ICE agents on Jan. 31. Though he grew up in Bakersfield, he said he was in the U.S. without federal authorization. Guerra said the agents caught him, detained him, and sent him back to Mexico after two days in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027019\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather over US Route 101 in Downtown Los Angeles in support of the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ march on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guerra said the officers handcuffed his feet and hands and left him in a transportation van for hours from Bakersfield to San Ysidro with no restroom breaks and nothing to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were, basically, telling them that we needed to use the restroom, but they didn’t answer at all,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids are the ones who are going to suffer the most,” he added about his children who are still in Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilma Ordóñez, 34, said she and her husband and children went out to eat in East Los Angeles on Jan. 26. As they got out of the car in front of the restaurant, two agents wearing bulletproof vests approached “and told my husband that he looked like someone they were looking for,” Ordóñez described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stomach dropped as she remembered advice she’d read online, telling her husband, who is in the U.S. without legal status, “Let’s not say anything; let’s just look for an attorney.” The agents kept insisting the couple show them their IDs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had to take out his ID,” she said. “He showed it to them, and they said, ‘Oh, we knew you were not the right person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew he was not the right person, but yet they still insisted on asking him for his ID?” she asked in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible the agents were looking for indications on Ordóñez’s husband’s ID that he was not an authorized immigrant. In 2013, California passed the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, granting undocumented residents the ability to obtain driver’s licenses. More than a million undocumented Californians \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/01/drivers-licenses-undocumented-immigrants/\">got the special licenses\u003c/a>, which look slightly different than regular state licenses. Some advocates worried at the time the licenses could be misused by immigration authorities to identify people who are undocumented. ICE did not respond to a request for comment about whether it is identifying immigrants without legal status by their AB60 driver’s licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordóñez said the agents let them go, so they went into the restaurant with their children and had dinner. But when they returned to the parking lot, four agents were standing around their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told him he had signed a voluntary return in 1996 and had not left the country, and so they were going to detain him and take him,” she said, adding that he’s currently being held in a California detention facility. Ordóñez said her husband never signed the voluntary return form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The father has a very important role in the family, and right now, our children are traumatized. More than anything, our kids are suffering,” said Ordóñez. “My husband has always paid his taxes every single year since he entered, and he’s always worked and taken care of his family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Attention: If someone close to you has recently been detained by immigration agents, and you want to share your story, please reach out to CalMatters via \u003ca href=\"mailto:wendy@calmatters.org\">wendy@calmatters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Atención: Si tienes un ser querido que recientemente ha sido detenido por agentes de migración y quieres compartir tu historia, por favor comunícate con CalMatters: \u003ca href=\"mailto:wendy@calmatters.org\">wendy@calmatters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for ICE said officers do not target noncitizens indiscriminately. “ICE’s enforcement resources are based on intelligence-driven leads,” said Richard Beam, a spokesman for ICE’s Los Angeles office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people detained during the statewide crackdown said that’s not what it feels like on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a regular morning,” said Loreal Duran from Echo Park in Los Angeles, describing her family’s before-school rush to get the kids out the door and loaded into the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning in question, Jan. 23, as her husband fastened their two young children into their seats, an immigration officer walked up, asking Loreal to show identification. “As he got closer to the car, he saw my husband, and basically, he just went around to the other side to grab my husband out of the car and take him away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020825_Duran-Family_JAJ_CM_07-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loreal Duran holds a photo of her with her husband Giovanni Duran at her apartment in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: The Durans’ 1-year-old daughter, whose identity is being withheld for privacy concerns, eats breakfast at their apartment in Los Angeles. Right: The Durans’ 8-year-old son, whose identity is being withheld for privacy concerns, sits on their bed at their apartment on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giovanni Duran, 42, came to California from El Salvador without federal authorization when he was 2 years old, brought by his family. He worked as a busser in a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, Loreal said. Duran is now being held in the Adelanto detention facility, run by a private company under contract to ICE, awaiting deportation to a country he doesn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to him in almost two days,” said Loreal last week. She’s had to get counseling for her 7-year-old son after he saw his dad taken away by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was telling his classmates, ‘Oh, daddy got arrested for not wearing his seatbelt,’” Duran recounted. Later, the second grader asked his mom, “Did daddy get arrested because he’s Brown? I replied back to him, I go: ‘Yea, he kinda did.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported on social media 8,276 arrests nationwide between Jan. 22 and Jan. 31. The agency would not break out those numbers for California or different cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Casting a wide net\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ProPublica and the \u003cem>Texas Tribune\u003c/em> reported less than half of the approximately 8,200 people arrested from Jan. 20 through Feb. 2, so far have criminal convictions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders\">according to government data they obtained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the apparently broad crackdown has immigrant advocates working around the clock. There have been several high-profile protests — one that shuttered a freeway in Los Angeles and another that prompted police to fire off tear gas at people in National City. Social media channels have been flooded by reported sightings of immigration officers and phones have been ringing nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can sense that kind of panic and also hunger; hunger for correct, reliable information as to what they should do in times of a raid or in times of an encounter with an immigration agent,” said Ian M. Seruelo, an immigration attorney in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after President Donald Trump visited wildfire-scarred Los Angeles, promising to work with California on needed federal assistance for recovery, his administration \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dealosangeles/status/1883584230804140075?s=46\">announced, with few details, immigration enforcement operations\u003c/a> in the city carried out by federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Justice Department, “and other federal law enforcement partners.” Video released with the announcement showed officers in camouflaged uniforms and bullet-proof vests approaching apartment buildings and standing around armored vehicles and mobile command centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump authorized law enforcement agents from across the federal government to participate in immigration enforcement activities. He also lifted longtime guidelines restricting ICE from operating at “sensitive locations” such as schools, churches or hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE messaging about its enforcement actions has emphasized the apprehension of criminals. Last week, Enforcement and Removal Operations Los Angeles, a part of the agency, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/EROLosAngeles/status/1886819216638255342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886819216638255342%7Ctwgr%5E8a2028151efab540da31db22ebeb7629d80c687a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxla.com%2Fnews%2Fice-raids-california-protests-immigration\">said officers arrested\u003c/a> a 47-year-old noncitizen who was convicted of DUI. “This noncitizen had previously been arrested for driving without a license and evading a peace officer,” officials said on social media. They also \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/EROLosAngeles/status/1886433176761057748\">said they arrested\u003c/a> an “unlawfully present Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member. This noncitizen is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020525-ICE-Raid-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement officials spread out through an apartment complex during a raid in Denver on Feb. 5, 2025. Officials have also been conducting immigration enforcement activities across California. \u003ccite>(David Zalubowski/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nayna Gupta, the policy director at the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants, said for the Trump administration to deport millions of people as the president \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/there-arent-20-million-people-deport-trump-will-certainly-try/\">promised\u003c/a>, it will have to target people who have not had contact with the criminal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on recent data, we know that fewer than 1 in 10 undocumented immigrants has a criminal record,” said Gupta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2024/07/Final_SOILA2024_ExecSummary_v5.pdf\">one in three people in Los Angeles County (PDF)\u003c/a> are immigrants, according to a report last year from the University of Southern California. Tens of thousands of county residents had to evacuate following a series of wildfires that began in early January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unconscionable to have or plan for immigration enforcement activities in a natural disaster,” said Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. ICE did not respond to a request for comment on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In the name of public safety\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Republicans appear to be on board with Trump’s actions so far. They urged Newsom to veto two bills signed into law last week. One was the $25 million for immigrant legal defense and the other allocated another $25 million for Attorney General Rob Bonta to pursue litigation against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a public safety problem in California, and a big component of that is international gangs and cartels. Human trafficking has exploded, and it knows no bounds,” said Sen. 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Her husband, who came to the country legally in 1999 and has a green card, went to an immigration office in San Francisco for a check-in in late January and still hasn’t come home, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything just came crumbling down,” she said of when immigration officers wouldn’t let her husband leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The husband, Joel Jacuinde, 40, is the breadwinner for his family, working at a rice dryer company east of San Francisco. Peña said he also volunteers for his church and provides the primary source of transportation for the family, regularly taking their 11-year-old son for treatment for his asthma. Both children are covered for health care under Jacuinde’s Medi-Cal account, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids are very close to their dad, so it’s taken a terrible toll on them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacuinde doesn’t show up in a database of people being detained by ICE. Peña said he was told he was not free to leave the immigration office and that agents were holding him to pressure him to sign a voluntary removal form. The family has contacted dozens of attorneys but hasn’t been able to secure legal representation, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tijuana, outside a federal shelter set up to assist recently deported Mexicans, a 16-year-old told CalMatters he had been detained trying to reach Stockton to find work. “They grabbed me,” he said, and within hours, he was back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the same Tijuana shelter, Mario Guerra, 39, a construction worker from Bakersfield, said he ran from about seven or eight ICE agents on Jan. 31. Though he grew up in Bakersfield, he said he was in the U.S. without federal authorization. Guerra said the agents caught him, detained him, and sent him back to Mexico after two days in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027019\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020325_Day-Without-Immigrants_JWH_06-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gather over US Route 101 in Downtown Los Angeles in support of the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ march on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(J.W. 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As they got out of the car in front of the restaurant, two agents wearing bulletproof vests approached “and told my husband that he looked like someone they were looking for,” Ordóñez described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her stomach dropped as she remembered advice she’d read online, telling her husband, who is in the U.S. without legal status, “Let’s not say anything; let’s just look for an attorney.” The agents kept insisting the couple show them their IDs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had to take out his ID,” she said. “He showed it to them, and they said, ‘Oh, we knew you were not the right person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew he was not the right person, but yet they still insisted on asking him for his ID?” she asked in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible the agents were looking for indications on Ordóñez’s husband’s ID that he was not an authorized immigrant. In 2013, California passed the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act, granting undocumented residents the ability to obtain driver’s licenses. More than a million undocumented Californians \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/01/drivers-licenses-undocumented-immigrants/\">got the special licenses\u003c/a>, which look slightly different than regular state licenses. Some advocates worried at the time the licenses could be misused by immigration authorities to identify people who are undocumented. ICE did not respond to a request for comment about whether it is identifying immigrants without legal status by their AB60 driver’s licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordóñez said the agents let them go, so they went into the restaurant with their children and had dinner. But when they returned to the parking lot, four agents were standing around their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told him he had signed a voluntary return in 1996 and had not left the country, and so they were going to detain him and take him,” she said, adding that he’s currently being held in a California detention facility. Ordóñez said her husband never signed the voluntary return form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The father has a very important role in the family, and right now, our children are traumatized. More than anything, our kids are suffering,” said Ordóñez. “My husband has always paid his taxes every single year since he entered, and he’s always worked and taken care of his family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Attention: If someone close to you has recently been detained by immigration agents, and you want to share your story, please reach out to CalMatters via \u003ca href=\"mailto:wendy@calmatters.org\">wendy@calmatters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Atención: Si tienes un ser querido que recientemente ha sido detenido por agentes de migración y quieres compartir tu historia, por favor comunícate con CalMatters: \u003ca href=\"mailto:wendy@calmatters.org\">wendy@calmatters.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PORTLAND, Ore. — President Donald Trump’s administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legislation championed by his Democratic predecessor, threatening efforts to prevent catastrophic blazes like the ones that recently \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-los-angeles-wildfires-eaton-palisides-urban-area-a162c86589b9102a85c510246539ab72\">ripped through Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision undermines Trump’s repeated insistence that communities need to clear combustible materials like fallen branches and undergrowth — “it’s called management of the floor,” he said while visiting Los Angeles last month — to guard against wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Peace, a spokesperson for the Interior Department, said via email that mitigation work is “currently undergoing review to ensure consistency” with Trump’s executive orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scrutiny is being applied only to projects using money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, two centerpieces of former President Joe Biden’s administration. They included roughly $3 billion for wildfire mitigation efforts, often known as hazardous fuels reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peace said those programs are continuing if funded by other congressional appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a forest management nonprofit that develops and implements programs to reduce hazardous fuels and wildfire threat in Oregon, northern California and Idaho, has stopped work on projects funded by Biden’s legislation, which provides 65% of its $17 million budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director Marko Bey said he laid off 15 full-time employees after being told by federal officials the funding was frozen pending review, with no information on when it would be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t make good business sense to keep operating, not knowing if we’re going to get paid or if at some point the administration is going to rescind some of this,” Bey said. He called it a “really challenging situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitigation work, which includes removing small and dead trees with logging equipment or through controlled burns, can prevent forests from becoming tinderboxes. It often takes place in winter and spring in preparation for warmer months when fires can be more severe. Wildfire season traditionally starts in May and ends in November, though blazes can occur year-round because of warmer, drier conditions exacerbated by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example came last month in the Los Angeles area, where fires killed at least 29 people and destroyed nearly 17,000 structures in what is projected to be among the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest natural disasters in U.S. history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has talked about forest management since his first term, when he visited California after the Camp Fire killed 85 people in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to take care of the floors,” he said. “You know, the floors of the forest, very important.” In Finland, he said, “they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He issued an executive order intended to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-wildfires-forests-trees-907e413d06d8ef05dbd99815f4bb6503\">improve management of federal lands\u003c/a>, and in 2020 he complained about California officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” he said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it,” he added, “because they don’t listen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers have called for federal funding to resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Halting these payments is not only unlawful but also endangers our rural communities by removing a vital component of their economies and delaying critical work to mitigate the threat of wildfire,” Sens. Martin Heinrich New Mexico, Patty Murray of Washington, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Tuesday in a letter to the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison Fields, a deputy press secretary at the White House, defended the administration’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because there’s a review doesn’t mean there’s not a desire for this work to get done,” he said. “Proper oversight of the dollars is just as important as ensuring that California gets restored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields also said that “there has been no bigger advocate for restoring California to its natural beauty than President Trump, which is why he made it a point to visit the region in his first week in office and he’s continuing to put tremendous pressure on state and local government to reduce the barriers in restoring the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The review ordered by Trump is also disrupting a $1 billion grant program that helps local jurisdictions better prepare for fires through neighborhood risk assessments and community outreach programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics in Bozeman, Montana, who worked with counties in the state to secure Community Wildfire Defense Grants, said grant recipients were told Monday that payments had been paused for at least 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming out of Los Angeles, we have learned that this is a crisis involving very specific risk reduction efforts,” Barrett said. “Without this program communities will not have the tools to continue the very important mitigation work that’s needed.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"science_1993130,news_12024151,news_12024085\"]There are also concerns about how Trump’s recent executive order on downsizing the federal workforce could affect seasonal wildland firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management, said firefighters are exempt from the order as public safety workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But confusion has caused delays. Ben McLane, a fire crew captain for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state, said uncertainty over whether firefighters are exempt from the freeze stalled the hiring process for seasonal wildland firefighter positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants whom McLane has selected for his crew have received some of the information they need to complete — such as medical and drug tests and fingerprinting — in order to be officially hired. But the process has not been completed because human resources lacks agency permission to move forward, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very confused, and we’re not being told anything,” he said. “I don’t know whose job it is to say that firefighters are an essential aspect for public safety and are exempt from the hiring freeze. But whoever’s job it is, they need to say it, because if they don’t, then there will be situations where people call 911 and there aren’t enough firefighters to go around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allowed for some small increases to the 18,700 federal firefighters in 2022, but issues with workforce understaffing and retention remain. The attrition rate for firefighters at the U.S. Forest Service has been 45% over the past four years, a group of Democratic senators said in a second letter to the administration this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We therefore need to focus on recruitment and retention of this critically important workforce, rather than place more uncertainty within it through an arbitrary freeze,” the lawmakers wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brown reported from Billings, Montana, and Megerian from Washington. Associated Press writer Matthew Daly in Washington contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He called it a “really challenging situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitigation work, which includes removing small and dead trees with logging equipment or through controlled burns, can prevent forests from becoming tinderboxes. It often takes place in winter and spring in preparation for warmer months when fires can be more severe. Wildfire season traditionally starts in May and ends in November, though blazes can occur year-round because of warmer, drier conditions exacerbated by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example came last month in the Los Angeles area, where fires killed at least 29 people and destroyed nearly 17,000 structures in what is projected to be among the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">costliest natural disasters in U.S. history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has talked about forest management since his first term, when he visited California after the Camp Fire killed 85 people in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to take care of the floors,” he said. “You know, the floors of the forest, very important.” In Finland, he said, “they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021743\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand and talk in a brunt out part of a forested area.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/111718_Newsom-Trump-Fire_REUTERS_CM_01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump visits the charred wreckage of Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park with then Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, FEMA Administrator Brock Long, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones and then-Gov. Jerry Brown in Paradise on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Leah Millis/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He issued an executive order intended to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-us-news-wildfires-forests-trees-907e413d06d8ef05dbd99815f4bb6503\">improve management of federal lands\u003c/a>, and in 2020 he complained about California officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” he said. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees, and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it,” he added, “because they don’t listen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers have called for federal funding to resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Halting these payments is not only unlawful but also endangers our rural communities by removing a vital component of their economies and delaying critical work to mitigate the threat of wildfire,” Sens. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> insurance regulators have approved a request from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985175/insurance-in-california-is-changing-heres-how-it-may-affect-you\">California FAIR Plan\u003c/a>, the state’s insurer of last resort, to get money from regular insurers to help pay customer claims from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">the Los Angeles Fires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 billion will be collected from private insurance companies in California to keep the FAIR Plan solvent. Insurance companies will be able to pass on $500 million to their policyholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR plan is a not-for-profit insurer offering coverage to homeowners who can’t get it through normal insurance companies. That means it takes the riskiest homes. The plan’s liabilities more than doubled between 2020 and 2024 as traditional insurers pulled back from California. Industry observers expected that a large fire could wipe out the FAIR Plan’s reserves despite the high premiums charged for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been warned for many years. Nobody should be surprised that this happened. It’s unfortunate,” said Mark Friedlander of the Insurance Information Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sign of a stressed and sickly insurance market, he added, placing the blame on outdated 1980s-era insurance regulations that the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014632/california-insurance-regulators-aim-ease-coverage-crisis-new-rules\">finally updated in late 2024\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[California had an] antiquated regulatory environment, which is now, of course, being addressed by the insurance commissioner’s Sustainable Insurance Strategy,” Friedlander said. “It will take several years for that strategy to have full impacts in the market, where the market could begin to stabilize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022444\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011425-Tubbs-Fire-JH-AP-01-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, a row of chimneys stand in a neighborhood devastated by the Tubbs Fire near Santa Rosa, California. In an order dated July 12, 2021, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel ruled that California Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara has the power to order the state’s “Insurer of last resort” to offer more options for homeowners who can’t buy traditional coverage because they live in areas threatened by wildfires. \u003ccite>(Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emily Rogan, a senior program officer with United Policyholders, a nonprofit that helps consumers navigate after disasters, referred to the situation as sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is making sure that the policyholders in the L.A. fires have their claims paid out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR Plan is a necessity, Rogan explained, because for-profit insurance companies can’t be counted on to offer coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If split evenly among California’s eight million home-owning households, the $500 million would be about $60 per household. However, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0200-bulletins/bulletin-notices-commiss-opinion/upload/Bulletin-2025-4-Updated-Guidance-regarding-Insurer-Recoupment-Procedures-in-Response-to-Assessment-by-the-FAIR-Plan.pdf\">guidance issued this week\u003c/a> (PDF) to companies by the Department of Insurance, Commissioner Ricardo Lara specified that the fee should be a percentage of each policyholder’s premium. People with more expensive insurance will pay a larger share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021019 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CAWildfireSoCal4AP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fees will show up on bills is undetermined and will be hammered out in the coming months. The fee will be temporary and cannot be folded into insurance rates. The total amount should be collected within two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a precedent for supplemental insurance fees. Following several seasons of bad hurricanes in the 2000s, Florida’s insurer of last resort was bailed out, with property insurance policyholders shouldering the entire cost. In California, the FAIR plan last needed rescuing three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, fires consumed parts of Altadena, Malibu and Topanga, some overlapping with the footprint of the January fires in Los Angeles. The 1994 Northridge Earthquake, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/earthquakes/northridge\">costliest natural disasters\u003c/a> in the nation’s history, hit the same region. Thousands of homes were destroyed and freeways collapsed. Thousands were injured and 72 people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the disaster, insurance companies decided they no longer wanted to cover earthquake damage. California was too risky, so they stopped writing policies in the state. The state Legislature created the \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/press-room/press-releases/2019/northridge-earthquake-remembered-one-costliest-natural-disasters-in\">California Earthquake Authority\u003c/a>, which provides pricey earthquake insurance and permits standard insurers to exclude earthquake coverage from their property insurance policies. The result is that, according to CEA, only about 13% of Californians who have residential insurance also have earthquake insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers came back to the state, but more residents are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993316/california-shows-where-insurers-would-need-to-boost-coverage-in-fire-prone-areas\">at risk of being uncovered\u003c/a> when the next Big One hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability after Northridge could have been a wake-up call about the danger of an unhealthy insurance market. Instead, following disastrous fires starting in 2017, the market again destabilized to the point of approaching collapse because too many Californians rely on the FAIR Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Lara has looked at what happened [after those disasters] and decided we didn’t learn the right lesson,” said Michael Soller, a Department of Insurance spokesperson. “We need to stay on and strengthen the mitigation path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making homes safer is the path forward, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California can’t get to the point where insurance companies don’t want to cover fire damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/earthquakes\">earthquakes \u003c/a>rattled the East Bay on Thursday, adding a jolt of quake anxiety to what was already a rain-soaked day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest of the bunch, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake, struck shortly before 2 p.m. just east of Hayward, sending a short but strong shockwave through much of the Bay Area. It followed two other small quakes — likely foreshocks — in the hours before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shaking could be felt as far north as Vallejo and south throughout San José, according to \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75132987/dyfi/intensity\">U.S. Geological Survey data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quakes’ epicenters surrounded the Hayward fault, which spans from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south. It runs under the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward before connecting to the longer Calaveras fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s slip-strike fault hasn’t been hit with a strong earthquake since the 1860s, according to USGS, but do these smaller shakes mean the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1949019/its-about-time-how-to-get-ready-for-the-next-emergency\">Big One\u003c/a> is happening soon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg\" alt=\"A panoramic view of the North Bay shoreline near Rodeo. In the foreground are oil refinery terminals. Behind them are houses and hills.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1408947194-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, along the San Pablo Bay. The Feb. 13 quakes’ epicenters surrounded the Hayward fault, which spans from San Pablo Bay in the north to Fremont in the south. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Peggy Hellweg with UC Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, who spoke to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1936949/do-little-quakes-mean-the-big-one-is-close-at-hand\">KQED in 2019\u003c/a>, it’s not so easy to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at the time that small quakes happen along the Hayward fault all the time, as they did in January of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 to 30 years, those worrisome, but fairly harmless, shakes had never led to a “big one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer the fault goes without a significant quake, though, the more pressure it builds up, Hellweg said. And the widespread myth that small earthquakes release some of this tension isn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1936949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/05-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average interval between major seismic events on the Hayward fault is about 140 years, plus or minus 50. \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3020/fs20163020.pdf\">USGS researchers\u003c/a> say there’s about a 33% chance a magnitude 7 quake could take place on the fault in the next three decades, and there’s a slightly lower but still significant chance that two other faults that run through the Bay Area, the Paicines and San Andreas, could see some action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concern on the East Bay fault specifically is that it is made of a combination of locked and creeping lines. While the creeping ones move, normally causing some slight shaking, locked faults don’t. Instead, shaking on those could be foreshocks of a larger quake to come, UC Berkeley seismologist Roland Burgmann previously told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a quake — big or small — occurs, it’s a good time to check on earthquake kits and make sure to have the MyShake app downloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app, created by Berkeley’s Seismology Lab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999982/recent-california-earthquakes-had-a-few-seconds-warning-in-the-big-one-that-could-save-lives\">gave Californians a few seconds’ notice\u003c/a> before significant earthquakes last year and could make a real difference when a big one hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farther from the epicenter, the longer the warning time you can usually get from the app, which sends out a notification instructing people to do what they’ve been taught since kindergarten but could forget in a panic: duck, cover and hold on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen that for many earthquakes, particularly on the West Coast, in California, the people that are injured are injured by things falling on them because they’re trying to get to safety,” said Angie Lux, a project scientist for the Berkeley Seismology Lab’s earthquake early warning program. “It’s really hard to move during an earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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He acknowledged, however, that it would not have been allowed under the department’s previous policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy was relaxed in March when voters approved former Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">Proposition E\u003c/a>, expanding police powers to pursue vehicles whose occupants were suspects in any felony or a “violent misdemeanor.” The move broke from a national trend to limit dangerous chases to situations involving violent felonies or misdemeanors that pose an imminent public safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a real concern that if we liberalized our policy even further, that we would have more collisions, more injuries to innocent members of the public. That’s what we got this week,” said Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone. “It’s early in Prop. 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Police had tried to pull over the silver Audi at Stonestown Galleria on the city’s west side about 30 minutes earlier after getting a notice that it had been stolen in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Napper Tandy bar in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The driver, Taylor Ross of San Francisco, “failed to yield” to officers’ attempt to pull over the car, fleeing east across the city to the Mission, sideswiping multiple cars and a traffic pole near the BART station at 24th and Mission streets as she swerved through the busy commercial corridor, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross, 27, and Eureeka Abrams of Bay Point, 29, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026453/a-miracle-no-one-died-sf-bar-crash-that-draws-new-look-police-chase-rules\">arrested \u003c/a>shortly after the crash and charged Wednesday by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Ross faces 24 counts related to evading a police officer, vehicle theft, and a hit and run causing injuries. Abrams also faces seven charges. The women both had outstanding warrants in other California counties, including for grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle they were driving was reported stolen out of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, criticized the police pursuit on Sunday, calling it a “miracle” that no one died in the “dangerous high-speed chase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS9050_475371683-e1428090565437.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent a formal letter of inquiry to Scott this week, requesting additional information about the department’s decision to pursue the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did this incident comply with current SFPD policy, and how did it rise to the level of vehicle pursuit that ultimately put many lives in danger?” Fielder’s letter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She opposed Proposition E during her campaign, pointing to data showing that police chases often go wrong and kill upwards of two people per day nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California law enforcement agencies, the San Francisco Police Department has one of the worst apprehension rates and highest collision rates during pursuits, according to Carter-Oberstone, a progressive commissioner who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to oust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there is a threat to people’s lives, it is understood that there may be a need for such a policy, however, in this case, the public deserves to know if were there other options that could have avoided such a confrontation that resulted in significant bystander injuries and extensive damages to a local business establishment,” Fielder wrote in her inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said he was open to a wider discussion about pursuits but added that the expanded policy — approved by voters — had to be followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this situation, it ended up with a bad outcome, but let’s not draw any conclusions as to why those outcomes [happened],” he told commissioners. “The bottom line is the driver of that vehicle ran into that parklet, not the officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg?ver=1710347365\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Carter-Oberstone stands in front of the SFPD Northern District Police Station in the Fillmore District in San Francisco on Mar. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone also pressed Scott about why drones, another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999063/san-francisco-police-deploy-drone-surveillance-after-24-year-break\">controversial power\u003c/a> expanded by Proposition E, couldn’t be used in such police chases to avoid putting bystanders in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember one of the biggest selling points of Prop. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco officials are pressing the Police Department on its loosened car pursuit policy after a chase on Super Bowl Sunday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026453/a-miracle-no-one-died-sf-bar-crash-that-draws-new-look-police-chase-rules\">ended in a crash\u003c/a> in the Mission District that sent six people to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under questioning from the Police Commission on Wednesday night, Chief Bill Scott said the pursuit is still being investigated. He acknowledged, however, that it would not have been allowed under the department’s previous policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy was relaxed in March when voters approved former Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">Proposition E\u003c/a>, expanding police powers to pursue vehicles whose occupants were suspects in any felony or a “violent misdemeanor.” The move broke from a national trend to limit dangerous chases to situations involving violent felonies or misdemeanors that pose an imminent public safety threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a real concern that if we liberalized our policy even further, that we would have more collisions, more injuries to innocent members of the public. That’s what we got this week,” said Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone. “It’s early in Prop. E’s tenure —- do you think it’s worth reconsidering whether this policy is serving the public interest and public safety?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s chase ended when a silver SUV plowed through the outdoor seating at the Napper Tandy sports bar just after the Super Bowl kicked off, destroying the parklet and injuring patrons who were watching the game on a large outdoor screen. Police had tried to pull over the silver Audi at Stonestown Galleria on the city’s west side about 30 minutes earlier after getting a notice that it had been stolen in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250210_SF-Parklet-Crash_MD_04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Napper Tandy bar in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The driver, Taylor Ross of San Francisco, “failed to yield” to officers’ attempt to pull over the car, fleeing east across the city to the Mission, sideswiping multiple cars and a traffic pole near the BART station at 24th and Mission streets as she swerved through the busy commercial corridor, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross, 27, and Eureeka Abrams of Bay Point, 29, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026453/a-miracle-no-one-died-sf-bar-crash-that-draws-new-look-police-chase-rules\">arrested \u003c/a>shortly after the crash and charged Wednesday by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Ross faces 24 counts related to evading a police officer, vehicle theft, and a hit and run causing injuries. Abrams also faces seven charges. The women both had outstanding warrants in other California counties, including for grand theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle they were driving was reported stolen out of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, criticized the police pursuit on Sunday, calling it a “miracle” that no one died in the “dangerous high-speed chase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent a formal letter of inquiry to Scott this week, requesting additional information about the department’s decision to pursue the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did this incident comply with current SFPD policy, and how did it rise to the level of vehicle pursuit that ultimately put many lives in danger?” Fielder’s letter asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She opposed Proposition E during her campaign, pointing to data showing that police chases often go wrong and kill upwards of two people per day nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California law enforcement agencies, the San Francisco Police Department has one of the worst apprehension rates and highest collision rates during pursuits, according to Carter-Oberstone, a progressive commissioner who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to oust\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there is a threat to people’s lives, it is understood that there may be a need for such a policy, however, in this case, the public deserves to know if were there other options that could have avoided such a confrontation that resulted in significant bystander injuries and extensive damages to a local business establishment,” Fielder wrote in her inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said he was open to a wider discussion about pursuits but added that the expanded policy — approved by voters — had to be followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this situation, it ended up with a bad outcome, but let’s not draw any conclusions as to why those outcomes [happened],” he told commissioners. “The bottom line is the driver of that vehicle ran into that parklet, not the officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg?ver=1710347365\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240312-MAX-CARTER-OBERSTONE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Carter-Oberstone stands in front of the SFPD Northern District Police Station in the Fillmore District in San Francisco on Mar. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone also pressed Scott about why drones, another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999063/san-francisco-police-deploy-drone-surveillance-after-24-year-break\">controversial power\u003c/a> expanded by Proposition E, couldn’t be used in such police chases to avoid putting bystanders in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember one of the biggest selling points of Prop. E was that we were going to deploy drones in precisely these scenarios, and it would avoid these types of outcomes,” Carter-Oberstone said. “But I hear you saying now that we actually don’t have the types of drones that are capable of doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some drones with the technology to join a vehicle pursuit and allow officers to maintain a greater distance, Scott said, but the city’s current fleet doesn’t have that capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the six drones in use now work in short, lower-speed pursuits but can’t keep pace with ones like Sunday’s. The department has also ordered 22 more for district stations that don’t have the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the first day of his second term, President Trump sat behind neat stacks of executive orders in the Oval Office and started signing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023109/3-california-members-jan-6-committee-pardoned-biden-trump-takes-office\">pardoned\u003c/a> the more than 1,500 “hostages,” as he called them, who’d been convicted or charged in connection with the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. He went on to sign a slew of immigration-related orders, including one titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">Protecting The American People Against Invasion\u003c/a>,” which called for a dramatic surge in border enforcement and, among other things, the dissolution of the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force was born out of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964656/settlement-over-trump-family-separations-at-the-border-limits-future-separations-for-8-years\">federal settlement agreement\u003c/a>, reached in 2023 between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union after a yearslong lawsuit, that required the government to reunite thousands of families who were forcibly separated during Trump’s first term. The separations were part of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy, a crackdown on illegal border crossings in 2018. As reports emerged of weeping children being taken from their parents’ arms and languishing behind chain-link fences, the policy drew global condemnation for its inhumane treatment of people seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter if he expected his new immigration orders to be challenged in the courts, Trump responded that he didn’t think they could be. “They’re very straight up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and civil rights attorneys who work with separated families disagree, saying the sweeping changes will test the strength of the federal settlement agreement, which also banned most separations for eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s broad focus on total enforcement of all immigration laws, without specifying who exactly the orders apply to, has the ACLU and immigrant advocates on alert for anything that resembles a new family separation policy or undermines the settlement. And they’re spring-loaded to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be monitoring very closely to see whether the Trump administration faithfully applies the settlement,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU attorney who led the lawsuit. “And if they don’t, we’ll be back in court immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven years after Zero Tolerance, hundreds of children remain apart from their families. For the more than 3,000 families who have already been reunited and for thousands more making their way toward the border today, even a relatively minor or temporary policy change could jeopardize their claims for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, [the administration is] trying to shut down the border again to all asylum seekers,” said Laura Peña, director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR). “And that is going to affect children. It is going to affect families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about family separation under President Trump, then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘shameful chapter’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand how so many families ended up separated, you have to go back to pre-Trump America. Unauthorized entry to the U.S. is illegal, but for decades, adults who crossed the border illegally with their children, many of whom were fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, were generally not prosecuted for that infraction alone. Instead, families would either be allowed to stay in the U.S. pending immigration rulings or be deported together. But things changed after Trump took office in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spring, the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, started toying with a new way to deter people from crossing the border illegally: prosecute every adult, including those crossing with kids. In April of 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/dl\">took the policy border-wide\u003c/a>, dubbing it “Zero Tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution,” Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-addresses-recent-criticisms-zero-tolerance-church-leaders#:~:text=That%20is%20what%20the%20law,to%20jail%20with%20their%20parents.\">later said\u003c/a> of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11797878]Now, when families were apprehended at the border, federal agents began sending children and their parents or guardians to separate holding facilities. A 14-year-old boy and his older sister, who had raised him, crossed the border into Texas, where they surrendered to the Border Patrol. “On the third day, they took me out of my cage and said I would be separated from my sister, but they didn’t tell me where I was going,” the boy later \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-cages-inhumane-treatment-border\">told a visitor from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>. “I don’t understand why they separated us. They didn’t give me a chance to say goodbye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after Zero Tolerance was formally implemented, the Trump administration began touting a dip in illegal border crossings but did not mention it was a small dip, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jul/19/did-zero-tolerance-policy-reduce-illegal-immigrati/\">typical for that time of year\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, border-area prosecutors complained that their dockets were overwhelmed by all the misdemeanor immigration cases and that people accused of serious crimes were \u003ca href=\"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-028_0.pdf\">slipping through the cracks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an even more problematic consequence of Zero Tolerance: the massive number of children who were suddenly in the care of the federal government. Children went to holding pens — many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">tents\u003c/a> erected for the purpose — while they waited to be placed in shelters or foster homes. Over 40% of those detention centers were located in California, Arizona and Texas. Humanitarian workers reported that federal authorities were not prepared to care for them, so older children took care of younger ones and illnesses went untreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the government lost track of which children belonged to which parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ap_19276669107972-4157dfa405bb5b5b5ae1512bc469aa8dc930c533-e1639768153780.jpg\" alt=\"Children walk in a line past barricades toward a large white tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant youth line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida., in Feb. 2019. The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a lawsuit in October 2019, on behalf of thousands of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003ccite>(Wilfredo Lee/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers and therapists asked traumatized kids who they came with, while immigration lawyers tried to calm hysterical parents who had no idea where authorities had taken their children. Many kids panicked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy\">crying endlessly\u003c/a>, or went catatonic. In one case, after Border Patrol agents forcibly removed a Honduran father’s 3-year-old son from his hands, the man became so agitated he had to be moved to a Texas jail, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-family-was-separated-at-the-border-and-this-distraught-father-took-his-own-life/2018/06/08/24e40b70-6b5d-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html\">strangled himself to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU filed its class-action lawsuit on behalf of these families, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, in February of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, under growing public pressure, Trump ordered an end to family separations without revoking Zero Tolerance. Separations slowed but didn’t stop. By the time Trump left office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">well over 5,000 children\u003c/a> had been taken from their families. While many had been reunited by then, some parents had been deported, leaving their children in the United States with other family members or in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2023, the Biden administration settled the ACLU’s lawsuit by agreeing to aid in the reunification of separated families and to provide a pathway for their claims to asylum, including access to work permits, various forms of support and a three-year legal status called humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before approving the settlement, federal judge Dana Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/separation-families-border-ruling-00130938\">said\u003c/a> family separation “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of the frying pan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Gelernt said there could be as many as 1,000 children still separated from their parents or guardians. Those families have been identified using the sparse records kept by the Trump administration during Zero Tolerance, which often yield little more than a name. The government and a coalition of nonprofit advocacy organizations have not been able to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11843100]Lesly Tayes, an attorney in Guatemala, has been working to track down separated parents by combing through Guatemalan government records for information on their possible whereabouts. When she finds them, often in rural indigenous communities, she helps them travel to the Guatemalan capital to formally regain custody of their kids. But some parents Tayes worked with had never been to a city in their lives. “I had to support them with transportation or hotels,” she said. “Many of them didn’t even speak Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who want to join their children in the U.S. and seek asylum often need help removing bureaucratic obstacles first; a sibling may need a passport for the journey or a legal guardian proof of their relationship with the child from whom they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after families are together again in the United States, their struggle is hardly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, has spent the last several years conducting clinical research and consulting as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. “There was trauma everywhere,” he said. “These children were experiencing difficulties integrating into an environment that abused them,” by which he meant the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Dreby, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Albany who has studied the impact of immigration policies on families for the past two decades, said that even after separated families are reunited, parents and children can struggle to repair their relationships. In some cases, children who were separated when very young are reunited with parents they don’t remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids might be like, ‘Why did they even go? Why did they do that? It led to this mess,’” Dreby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11843880]The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement promises that, once reunified in the United States, families will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-approves-historic-settlement-in-aclus-family-separation-lawsuit\">supported\u003c/a> with mental health and other medical care, housing and legal assistance and the ability to apply for work permits. But advocates say these resources have fallen short of what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in mental health services for this population is still very scarce and very limited,” Mercado said. “There’s no continuity of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S., families face an avalanche of urgent problems. Tayes said parents and guardians often wait months to get authorization to work. “Some of them were struggling with food, housing. It wasn’t easy for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging over these families is the specter of another deportation. According to the ACLU, the 2023 court settlement should supersede any immigration-related orders from the Trump administration. But the agreement doesn’t guarantee asylum, and the application process can be difficult to navigate, even with the help of an attorney. Non-governmental organizations serving Ms L. class members say they have struggled to provide pro bono legal help, especially after family separations were no longer a front-page issue and funding sources dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of legal status can be complicated by the fact that members of separated families are often pursuing separate immigration cases. Children’s asylum claims, for example, were often filed after the initial separation, when the government designated them as “unaccompanied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [parents] lose their asylum cases,” Gelernt said, “then they’re going to be in real trouble of being removed and/or re-separated from their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Separations continue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In settling \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em>, the federal government agreed to halt further family separation at the border through 2031, though there are exceptions that have allowed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/october-2024-monthly-report-on-separated-children.pdf\">hundreds more separations\u003c/a> since the settlement went into effect. For example, parents and children crossing the border illegally are still detained separately when the adults are deemed a national security or public safety risk, a danger to their children or if they’ve been charged with a felony other than crossing the border without authorization. However, the wording of the exceptions allows for broad interpretation. “You can basically run an 18-wheeler through them,” said one immigration law expert with knowledge of family separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman protests family separations at the border as a coalition of activist groups and labor unions participate in a May Day march in Los Angeles for workers and human rights in 2021. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peña, whose organization ProBAR is a project of the American Bar Association, said cases in which border crossers are flagged for national security reasons are hard for attorneys like her to challenge because they often involve classified information. “The government can cite national security risk without revealing what information exactly is underlying that determination,” she said. “So it’s hard to determine the source of the risk and advocate for family reunification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent is flagged under one of the exceptions, they often go into federal immigration custody while their child goes to a shelter operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Many parents are later released from custody if they successfully fight their case, but because the government has become legally responsible for their children’s welfare, strict guidelines kick in for releasing them into the care of someone else — even their parents. As a result, it can take much longer to reunite a family than to separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement mandates that families who are separated be given written notice of the reason. Agencies have to facilitate communication between parents and children, and if parents are being deported, they must be given the option to be deported with or without their children. But Peña said this doesn’t always happen: “There are certain rights that the parents have under this settlement agreement that they’re not going to know about if they don’t have a lawyer who is also educated on these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt said the ACLU is relying on organizations like Peña’s to report apparent patterns in immigration enforcement. Cases of parents being flagged under the exceptions could suddenly increase, for example, creating what, in effect, becomes a new separation policy. If that happens, Gelernt said, “We’d go back to court and say, it can’t be that four out of five parents all of a sudden are abusing their children, or four out of every five parents are a public safety threat to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the Trump administration knows better than to try to renegotiate or oppose the settlement agreement or to reestablish a formal separation policy. “I’d be surprised if they do forcible separation again, given the outcry against it,” he said. “But I’ve been wrong before about where they’re willing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates say it’s too early to tell how Trump’s spiking the task force, which has been a collaboration between the departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, State, and Justice, will impact reunification efforts. The group’s main purpose in recent months has been to determine whether separated families were eligible for relief under the settlement agreement and to smooth the way for reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement remains in effect, Gelernt said, so even without a task force, the Trump administration will have to do something to meet its requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House could not immediately be reached for comment as to whether the Trump administration intends to honor the court-ordered settlement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses several federal agencies involved in immigration issues, did not respond to the same question by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NGOs working with separated families said that, so far, the government appears to be meeting its obligations under the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/family-reunification-task-force\">the task force’s website\u003c/a> was updated to reflect the new secretaries of Homeland Security and the State Department, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio, and to remove references to the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11907020]The settlement agreement stipulates that the federal website where separated families can register for relief, \u003ca href=\"http://together.gov/\">Together.gov\u003c/a>, has to stay up and that the registration process has to remain open until December 2026. Gelernt worries that potential class members may be afraid to come forward in the current enforcement climate but urges them to register: “Otherwise, they are very vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dismantling of the task force is only symbolic, Gelernt sees it as a tactic to erase Zero Tolerance from the collective consciousness. “That they immediately eliminated the task force highlights the Trump administration’s failure to admit there was such a policy, much less acknowledge the brutal abuse it inflicted on little children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even without a formal policy of family separation, sweeping changes to the bureaucracy — especially when they’re rushed — can get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña worries that, as Trump’s orders take effect, there may not be clear guidance for immigration authorities on the ground. “Law enforcement agencies could really be looking at anybody who’s not a citizen and trying to figure out, ‘Okay, are they a priority or not?’” she said. “Because of the complexity, a lot of people who should not be on this priority list are going to get caught up in it. And that’s where we’re going to see mass family separations, potentially not just at the border, but across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU believes they should be notified if class members are picked up for removal, but Gelernt acknowledges the government may hold a different view. DHS did not respond to questions about how it will handle those encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Pinheiro, executive director of Al Otro Lado, an organization that supports migrants on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the border, said her office has been fielding calls from separated families asking how the new executive orders could affect them. “Unfortunately, we can tell them what we know, which isn’t much at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreby, the sociologist, has observed that the mere threat of deportation and separation weighs heavily on immigrants, even those with legal status. “The ongoing anxiety is a really big deal,” she said, adding that cultural shifts can matter, as well as changes in policy. “When you have moments of really strong anti-immigrant rhetoric, the anxiety bubbles to the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado put it more succinctly: “As a psychologist, I am very concerned about what’s to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gelernt and other legal advocates are confident that the \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement, and their fight against Zero Tolerance during Trump’s first term, have prepared them for potential legal battles. “By the time we understood that it was systematic, it had already been happening for months and months,” Gelernt said of the original wave of family separations. “This time, I think everyone’s attuned to watching for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 8:50 p.m. This story has been updated to reflect that “Protecting The American People Against Invasion” was not Trump’s second executive order; it was signed later in the same sitting. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 5:30 p.m.: This story was updated to clarify that the Ms. L settlement agreement may not require the government to alert the ACLU when it detains a member of the settlement class. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s broad focus on total enforcement of all immigration laws, without specifying who exactly the orders apply to, has the ACLU and immigrant advocates on alert for anything that resembles a new family separation policy or undermines the settlement. And they’re spring-loaded to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be monitoring very closely to see whether the Trump administration faithfully applies the settlement,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU attorney who led the lawsuit. “And if they don’t, we’ll be back in court immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven years after Zero Tolerance, hundreds of children remain apart from their families. For the more than 3,000 families who have already been reunited and for thousands more making their way toward the border today, even a relatively minor or temporary policy change could jeopardize their claims for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, [the administration is] trying to shut down the border again to all asylum seekers,” said Laura Peña, director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR). “And that is going to affect children. It is going to affect families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about family separation under President Trump, then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘shameful chapter’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand how so many families ended up separated, you have to go back to pre-Trump America. Unauthorized entry to the U.S. is illegal, but for decades, adults who crossed the border illegally with their children, many of whom were fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, were generally not prosecuted for that infraction alone. Instead, families would either be allowed to stay in the U.S. pending immigration rulings or be deported together. But things changed after Trump took office in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spring, the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, started toying with a new way to deter people from crossing the border illegally: prosecute every adult, including those crossing with kids. In April of 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/dl\">took the policy border-wide\u003c/a>, dubbing it “Zero Tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution,” Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-addresses-recent-criticisms-zero-tolerance-church-leaders#:~:text=That%20is%20what%20the%20law,to%20jail%20with%20their%20parents.\">later said\u003c/a> of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, when families were apprehended at the border, federal agents began sending children and their parents or guardians to separate holding facilities. A 14-year-old boy and his older sister, who had raised him, crossed the border into Texas, where they surrendered to the Border Patrol. “On the third day, they took me out of my cage and said I would be separated from my sister, but they didn’t tell me where I was going,” the boy later \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-cages-inhumane-treatment-border\">told a visitor from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>. “I don’t understand why they separated us. They didn’t give me a chance to say goodbye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after Zero Tolerance was formally implemented, the Trump administration began touting a dip in illegal border crossings but did not mention it was a small dip, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jul/19/did-zero-tolerance-policy-reduce-illegal-immigrati/\">typical for that time of year\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, border-area prosecutors complained that their dockets were overwhelmed by all the misdemeanor immigration cases and that people accused of serious crimes were \u003ca href=\"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-028_0.pdf\">slipping through the cracks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an even more problematic consequence of Zero Tolerance: the massive number of children who were suddenly in the care of the federal government. Children went to holding pens — many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">tents\u003c/a> erected for the purpose — while they waited to be placed in shelters or foster homes. Over 40% of those detention centers were located in California, Arizona and Texas. Humanitarian workers reported that federal authorities were not prepared to care for them, so older children took care of younger ones and illnesses went untreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the government lost track of which children belonged to which parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ap_19276669107972-4157dfa405bb5b5b5ae1512bc469aa8dc930c533-e1639768153780.jpg\" alt=\"Children walk in a line past barricades toward a large white tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant youth line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida., in Feb. 2019. The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a lawsuit in October 2019, on behalf of thousands of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003ccite>(Wilfredo Lee/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers and therapists asked traumatized kids who they came with, while immigration lawyers tried to calm hysterical parents who had no idea where authorities had taken their children. Many kids panicked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy\">crying endlessly\u003c/a>, or went catatonic. In one case, after Border Patrol agents forcibly removed a Honduran father’s 3-year-old son from his hands, the man became so agitated he had to be moved to a Texas jail, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-family-was-separated-at-the-border-and-this-distraught-father-took-his-own-life/2018/06/08/24e40b70-6b5d-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html\">strangled himself to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU filed its class-action lawsuit on behalf of these families, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, in February of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, under growing public pressure, Trump ordered an end to family separations without revoking Zero Tolerance. Separations slowed but didn’t stop. By the time Trump left office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">well over 5,000 children\u003c/a> had been taken from their families. While many had been reunited by then, some parents had been deported, leaving their children in the United States with other family members or in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2023, the Biden administration settled the ACLU’s lawsuit by agreeing to aid in the reunification of separated families and to provide a pathway for their claims to asylum, including access to work permits, various forms of support and a three-year legal status called humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before approving the settlement, federal judge Dana Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/separation-families-border-ruling-00130938\">said\u003c/a> family separation “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of the frying pan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Gelernt said there could be as many as 1,000 children still separated from their parents or guardians. Those families have been identified using the sparse records kept by the Trump administration during Zero Tolerance, which often yield little more than a name. The government and a coalition of nonprofit advocacy organizations have not been able to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lesly Tayes, an attorney in Guatemala, has been working to track down separated parents by combing through Guatemalan government records for information on their possible whereabouts. When she finds them, often in rural indigenous communities, she helps them travel to the Guatemalan capital to formally regain custody of their kids. But some parents Tayes worked with had never been to a city in their lives. “I had to support them with transportation or hotels,” she said. “Many of them didn’t even speak Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who want to join their children in the U.S. and seek asylum often need help removing bureaucratic obstacles first; a sibling may need a passport for the journey or a legal guardian proof of their relationship with the child from whom they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after families are together again in the United States, their struggle is hardly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, has spent the last several years conducting clinical research and consulting as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. “There was trauma everywhere,” he said. “These children were experiencing difficulties integrating into an environment that abused them,” by which he meant the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Dreby, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Albany who has studied the impact of immigration policies on families for the past two decades, said that even after separated families are reunited, parents and children can struggle to repair their relationships. In some cases, children who were separated when very young are reunited with parents they don’t remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids might be like, ‘Why did they even go? Why did they do that? It led to this mess,’” Dreby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement promises that, once reunified in the United States, families will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-approves-historic-settlement-in-aclus-family-separation-lawsuit\">supported\u003c/a> with mental health and other medical care, housing and legal assistance and the ability to apply for work permits. But advocates say these resources have fallen short of what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in mental health services for this population is still very scarce and very limited,” Mercado said. “There’s no continuity of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S., families face an avalanche of urgent problems. Tayes said parents and guardians often wait months to get authorization to work. “Some of them were struggling with food, housing. It wasn’t easy for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging over these families is the specter of another deportation. According to the ACLU, the 2023 court settlement should supersede any immigration-related orders from the Trump administration. But the agreement doesn’t guarantee asylum, and the application process can be difficult to navigate, even with the help of an attorney. Non-governmental organizations serving Ms L. class members say they have struggled to provide pro bono legal help, especially after family separations were no longer a front-page issue and funding sources dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of legal status can be complicated by the fact that members of separated families are often pursuing separate immigration cases. Children’s asylum claims, for example, were often filed after the initial separation, when the government designated them as “unaccompanied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [parents] lose their asylum cases,” Gelernt said, “then they’re going to be in real trouble of being removed and/or re-separated from their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Separations continue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In settling \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em>, the federal government agreed to halt further family separation at the border through 2031, though there are exceptions that have allowed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/october-2024-monthly-report-on-separated-children.pdf\">hundreds more separations\u003c/a> since the settlement went into effect. For example, parents and children crossing the border illegally are still detained separately when the adults are deemed a national security or public safety risk, a danger to their children or if they’ve been charged with a felony other than crossing the border without authorization. However, the wording of the exceptions allows for broad interpretation. “You can basically run an 18-wheeler through them,” said one immigration law expert with knowledge of family separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman protests family separations at the border as a coalition of activist groups and labor unions participate in a May Day march in Los Angeles for workers and human rights in 2021. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peña, whose organization ProBAR is a project of the American Bar Association, said cases in which border crossers are flagged for national security reasons are hard for attorneys like her to challenge because they often involve classified information. “The government can cite national security risk without revealing what information exactly is underlying that determination,” she said. “So it’s hard to determine the source of the risk and advocate for family reunification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent is flagged under one of the exceptions, they often go into federal immigration custody while their child goes to a shelter operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Many parents are later released from custody if they successfully fight their case, but because the government has become legally responsible for their children’s welfare, strict guidelines kick in for releasing them into the care of someone else — even their parents. As a result, it can take much longer to reunite a family than to separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement mandates that families who are separated be given written notice of the reason. Agencies have to facilitate communication between parents and children, and if parents are being deported, they must be given the option to be deported with or without their children. But Peña said this doesn’t always happen: “There are certain rights that the parents have under this settlement agreement that they’re not going to know about if they don’t have a lawyer who is also educated on these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt said the ACLU is relying on organizations like Peña’s to report apparent patterns in immigration enforcement. Cases of parents being flagged under the exceptions could suddenly increase, for example, creating what, in effect, becomes a new separation policy. If that happens, Gelernt said, “We’d go back to court and say, it can’t be that four out of five parents all of a sudden are abusing their children, or four out of every five parents are a public safety threat to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the Trump administration knows better than to try to renegotiate or oppose the settlement agreement or to reestablish a formal separation policy. “I’d be surprised if they do forcible separation again, given the outcry against it,” he said. “But I’ve been wrong before about where they’re willing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates say it’s too early to tell how Trump’s spiking the task force, which has been a collaboration between the departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, State, and Justice, will impact reunification efforts. The group’s main purpose in recent months has been to determine whether separated families were eligible for relief under the settlement agreement and to smooth the way for reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement remains in effect, Gelernt said, so even without a task force, the Trump administration will have to do something to meet its requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House could not immediately be reached for comment as to whether the Trump administration intends to honor the court-ordered settlement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses several federal agencies involved in immigration issues, did not respond to the same question by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NGOs working with separated families said that, so far, the government appears to be meeting its obligations under the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/family-reunification-task-force\">the task force’s website\u003c/a> was updated to reflect the new secretaries of Homeland Security and the State Department, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio, and to remove references to the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The settlement agreement stipulates that the federal website where separated families can register for relief, \u003ca href=\"http://together.gov/\">Together.gov\u003c/a>, has to stay up and that the registration process has to remain open until December 2026. Gelernt worries that potential class members may be afraid to come forward in the current enforcement climate but urges them to register: “Otherwise, they are very vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dismantling of the task force is only symbolic, Gelernt sees it as a tactic to erase Zero Tolerance from the collective consciousness. “That they immediately eliminated the task force highlights the Trump administration’s failure to admit there was such a policy, much less acknowledge the brutal abuse it inflicted on little children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even without a formal policy of family separation, sweeping changes to the bureaucracy — especially when they’re rushed — can get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña worries that, as Trump’s orders take effect, there may not be clear guidance for immigration authorities on the ground. “Law enforcement agencies could really be looking at anybody who’s not a citizen and trying to figure out, ‘Okay, are they a priority or not?’” she said. “Because of the complexity, a lot of people who should not be on this priority list are going to get caught up in it. And that’s where we’re going to see mass family separations, potentially not just at the border, but across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU believes they should be notified if class members are picked up for removal, but Gelernt acknowledges the government may hold a different view. DHS did not respond to questions about how it will handle those encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Pinheiro, executive director of Al Otro Lado, an organization that supports migrants on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the border, said her office has been fielding calls from separated families asking how the new executive orders could affect them. “Unfortunately, we can tell them what we know, which isn’t much at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreby, the sociologist, has observed that the mere threat of deportation and separation weighs heavily on immigrants, even those with legal status. “The ongoing anxiety is a really big deal,” she said, adding that cultural shifts can matter, as well as changes in policy. “When you have moments of really strong anti-immigrant rhetoric, the anxiety bubbles to the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado put it more succinctly: “As a psychologist, I am very concerned about what’s to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gelernt and other legal advocates are confident that the \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement, and their fight against Zero Tolerance during Trump’s first term, have prepared them for potential legal battles. “By the time we understood that it was systematic, it had already been happening for months and months,” Gelernt said of the original wave of family separations. “This time, I think everyone’s attuned to watching for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 8:50 p.m. This story has been updated to reflect that “Protecting The American People Against Invasion” was not Trump’s second executive order; it was signed later in the same sitting. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:34 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy rain fell across the Bay Area Thursday morning and afternoon as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026803/one-of-the-years-strongest-storms-is-about-to-hit-the-bay-area\">one of the strongest atmospheric river storms of the year\u003c/a> hit California, causing highway flooding, power outages and a few landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says the Santa Cruz Mountains have been hit the hardest, leading to a rare flash flood warning for parts of that region, and a minor flood watch for most of the Bay Area remains until Sunday as the rain recedes. But flood advisories are in effect for most of the Bay Area through 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard numerous reports of flooding from the East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains and the North Bay,” said Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “There have been several landslides, but from here on out, we should see rain rates decrease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 10,000 PG&E customers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1950931/map-pge-power-outages\">are without power\u003c/a>, with the majority in the South Bay. One man was killed in an early morning crash west of Santa Cruz, but it was not immediately certain whether the rain was a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dylan Flynn, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office, said the worst of the storm was expected before 10 a.m., though the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025860/trump-orders-and-atmospheric-rivers-how-prepared-are-californias-levees\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> will bring moderate to heavy rainfall and wind gusts over 50 mph across the Bay Area through Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/nwsbayarea/status/1890074097117536551?s=46&t=8L9OHVE58oUXKjH2wCBDtA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen over the region so far. By the time the storm passes, the North Bay could receive up to 4 inches of rain, the Bay Area up to 3 inches and the Santa Cruz Mountains up to 6 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pumping tropical moisture through the atmosphere directly at us; It’s like a fire hose,” Flynn said. “In terms of rainfall rates, this is about as heavy as it gets for us for atmospheric rivers. The only good news is that principal impacts only lasted about 12 hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrival flights are experiencing delays at San Francisco International Airport by more than an hour because of winds, according to FlightAware. The website reports departures are delayed by nearly an hour and a half. Inbound flights are delayed at the origin by more than two hours due to the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has knocked over trees from Marin to Santa Cruz, including a large tree blocking Skyline Boulevard at Brandy Rock Way in Oakland’s Ridgemont neighborhood, according to an X post by the Oakland Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OaklandFireLive/status/1890140306768871698\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple roads are closed across Sonoma County and on major highways across the region near Oakland, San Mateo, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, Hercules, Vallejo, South San Francisco, San Carlos, Emeryville and Castro Valley, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Highways are sort of the canary in the coal mine of where we start to see flooding in the typical places and how flooding is likely to become more widespread from there,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders have been lifted across Santa Cruz County. Evacuation orders covered Felton Grove residents living near the San Lorenzo River, as well as residents near Watsonville because of rising water levels in two local creeks: Corralitos and Salsipuedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County posted a video on Facebook showing the Corralitos Creek overflowing with brown, muddy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CHPscrz/status/1890091906086105334\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Soquel, Main Street above Bates Creek was closed due to a tree down with fallen wires, and a landslide and flooding shut down San Jose Road. Some roads were also closed in Watsonville and Interlaken, according to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel Murillo, public information officer for the California Highway Patrol office in Santa Cruz, said that as the atmospheric river pounds the region, all available officers are working and gearing up for anything else the storm brings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a vehicle that got stuck in the middle of the roadway because that individual chose to drive across flooded roads,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said a man was killed around 4:20 a.m. on State Route 1 and Scaroni Road when he was hit by a truck. Murillo said he can’t at this point attribute the death to the rain, but it happened during the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service is paying close attention to any notable rise in streams and major rivers, with the Russian River at Guerneville and the San Lorenzo River having the highest chances of going into flood stage. “San Lorenzo is of particular concern given the rain so far and how flashy that basin is. The river gauge is already reporting a sharp rise,” meteorologists wrote in the weather service’s morning forecast discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said this atmospheric river mirrors a more significant trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1996145 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/02/250210-SurferSewage-05-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a trend towards the atmospheric river storms that make landfall getting warmer,” he said. “They’ll tend to produce more rainfall than snow, which creates runoff right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that water is spilling into roadways, which is causing traffic issues, especially in the North Bay, said Sgt. Andrew Barclay, public information officer with the California Highway Patrol Golden Gate Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing debris, and we are seeing people that are driving too fast in those conditions that are losing control and spinning out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the weather service wrote in its most recent flood advisory that “downtown is the most likely place to experience minor flooding” and that on Thursday afternoon, “flooding may transpire, mainly in areas of hilly terrain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service forecasts high surf with waves up 45 to feet through Saturday and has issued a flood watch through Saturday evening for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, except for regions south of Hollister. Heavy rainfall may also continue to cause landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the rain and wind grabs everybody’s attention, the most deadly weather we have here in the Bay Area is high surf and people getting swept out to sea,” Flynn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said scattered showers will pick up Thursday afternoon with a chance of thunderstorms, but the rain will be spottier than what happened overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday afternoon, the sun will make a triumphant return, and the rain will stop,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists expect a weaker storm to move through the region Sunday, with light rain focused on the North Bay. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 13: This story was updated to reflect the news that the rule change was being delayed while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/native-american\"> Native American\u003c/a> tribes that unsuccessfully petitioned for federal recognition have been barred from trying again. The Biden administration, in its final months, moved to lift that ban, but federal officials on Thursday delayed the change a day before it was set to take effect — and some in Indian Country say they’re holding their breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in somewhat unprecedented times of pushing the boundary of executive authority over a variety of things,” Elizabeth Reese, a Stanford Law School professor and citizen of the Nambé Pueblo, told KQED before the rule change was delayed. “I think we’re all watching to see if the [Trump] administration continues the Biden administration policy on lifting that ban for re-petitioning and know that this is something that a lot of tribes are watching for — and that it means a lot to them to be able to re-petition their federal recognition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, officials under President Trump have not given any indication whether they will ultimately keep the rule change, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs published \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02558.pdf\">a document (PDF)\u003c/a> on Thursday in the Federal Register that delayed lifting the ban on re-petitioning until March 21 while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal recognition designates a tribe as a sovereign nation and gives it access to federal resources it wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for. Petitioning, an administrative process within the Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement, is the most common of the few ways tribes can presently get recognition — including through a congressional act and a federal court ruling — but it’s also notoriously lengthy and complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribes can wait years before their petitions are denied, exhausting appeals, and then — since explicitly being banned in 1994 — being left with no way to petition again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the case for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889209/east-bay-ohlone-tribes-struggle-for-federal-recognition\">the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, which was denied in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh said deciding to re-petition is not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11957424 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stand in the shadows. Her face and body are illuminated by a spotlight. She has long, brown hair and wears a blue and tan-print jacket and jeans. She looks somber.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Nijmeh, chair of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe in the Bay Area, stands for a portrait next to Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, California, on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The East Bay Ohlone tribe has long struggled for federal recognition. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a promise,” she said. “The question I have is: Are these the same people — which I know they are in the [Interior Department’s] Office of Federal Acknowledgement — are those the same people determining our petition again, who determined it the first time when they gave us the denial?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Nijmeh is opposed to removing the ban on re-petitioning, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, the recognition process has been broken and has led to deeply unjust determinations that are not rooted in fairness or even the public interest,” Nijmeh wrote in a letter to Bureau of Indian Affairs administrators ahead of the change that she shared with KQED. “This rule change will make just a little bit fairer, creating a narrow window for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attempt to do away with the ban in a 2015 final rule failed. That was until a 2020 federal court ruling found that the Department of the Interior’s reasons for implementing the ban were “arbitrary and capricious,” leading the Interior Department to reconsider the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muwekma would be one of more than 30 tribes, including four in California, that would be able to re-petition for recognition if the rule change goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Bryan Mercier, in Thursday’s Federal Register document, said the rule change was delayed because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/\">Trump memo on a “regulatory freeze”\u003c/a> issued on his first day in office, requiring all executive agencies and departments to consider postponing final rules 60 days from its effective date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether to allow re-petitioning is a policy determination that falls within the scope of ‘the management of all Indian affairs,’ and the new administration needs time to review the policy determination, consistent with the direction set forth in the [presidential memo],” Mercier wrote in the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12010054 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1322038432.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has not given any indication whether it will keep the rule change or otherwise delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the process was created in 1978, only 18 of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes have gained recognition through petitioning. Most came through signing treaties — an option that is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pamunkey Indian Tribe in Virginia most recently received acknowledgment through the process in 2016. President Donald Trump also signed an executive order on one of his first days asking the Department of the Interior to create a plan for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44677/lumbee-tribe-recognition-north-carolina-trump\">recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina\u003c/a>, which has long sought the designation but has faced pushback from other tribes over the legitimacy of its claim to Native identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the re-petitioning rule change does eventually take effect, Reese, the Stanford law professor, said the Trump administration’s attempts to slash government bureaucracy won’t likely help the complicated federal recognition process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions over the administration’s attempts to freeze federal funding and eliminate diversity initiatives stirred uncertainty among tribal leaders. Last month, however, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed an order that excludes tribal nations from Trump’s directives targeting “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Ideology Extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AP25016621783047-1-1-scaled-e1738972969977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Campbell, deputy director of the Native American Rights Fund and member of the Native Village of Gambell, said it’s still too early to see how Burgum might lead the Department of the Interior, which houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we always remind the administration of the important relationships that tribal nations have with the United States and the unique history and political nature of that relationship,” Campbell said, “and the unique obligation that the United States has to consult with tribal nations before they take action that may harm or affect tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s new leadership has a variety of relationships with Indian Country. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was banned from all tribal lands in her home state of South Dakota until one tribe \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-tribal-ban-south-dakota-e6d39081a38ff9961400a582c3153ee3\">lifted its order\u003c/a> days before her confirmation hearing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the Health and Human Services Department, was endorsed by some tribal nations during his failed presidential campaign and candidacy for the Cabinet post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said some of Trump’s policies actually align with Indian Country needs. Shrinking the size of the federal government, for example, “actually does need to happen in Indian Country,” she said, and giving “more freedom and flexibility to tribes in how they spend federal dollars is good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern is that the dollars themselves are still incredibly vital,” she continued. “I worry that in cutting inefficient bureaucracies, Trump will go beyond that and cut what he thinks are unnecessary programs that are, in fact, very necessary to the health and safety of Native people across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Muwekma, tribal leaders have since turned to trying to gain recognition through an act of Congress, with Nijmeh even unsuccessfully running for a South Bay seat in last year’s March primary. Pushback, including from federally recognized tribes, has stalled their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback from lawmakers centered on concerns about tribal gaming in the Bay Area and keeping the recognition process fair for all tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because other members of the Bay Area congressional delegation share my concerns about gaming, the Tribe’s decision has left us at an impasse,” former Rep. Anna Eshoo wrote in an Aug. 22 letter to the San José City Council, “and prevented us from engaging constructively on the complex underlying issue of whether legislative recognition should be pursued at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who Nijmeh ran against in that March primary, also called a San José City Council resolution urging congressional action “misleading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nijmeh told KQED that building a casino is not why the Muwekma want federal recognition, but they also don’t want to give up that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our right, as a sovereign, to use that economic tool if we choose to do it. And that is the word: ‘choose,’” Nijmeh said. “Our current administration is not looking at that right now. We’re focusing on keeping our 614 tribal citizens in our homeland, being able to buy or acquire land to build our native village, to keep our children here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution in San José ultimately died. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 13: This story was updated to reflect the news that the rule change was being delayed while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/native-american\"> Native American\u003c/a> tribes that unsuccessfully petitioned for federal recognition have been barred from trying again. The Biden administration, in its final months, moved to lift that ban, but federal officials on Thursday delayed the change a day before it was set to take effect — and some in Indian Country say they’re holding their breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re living in somewhat unprecedented times of pushing the boundary of executive authority over a variety of things,” Elizabeth Reese, a Stanford Law School professor and citizen of the Nambé Pueblo, told KQED before the rule change was delayed. “I think we’re all watching to see if the [Trump] administration continues the Biden administration policy on lifting that ban for re-petitioning and know that this is something that a lot of tribes are watching for — and that it means a lot to them to be able to re-petition their federal recognition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, officials under President Trump have not given any indication whether they will ultimately keep the rule change, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs published \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-02558.pdf\">a document (PDF)\u003c/a> on Thursday in the Federal Register that delayed lifting the ban on re-petitioning until March 21 while the Trump administration reviews it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal recognition designates a tribe as a sovereign nation and gives it access to federal resources it wouldn’t otherwise be eligible for. Petitioning, an administrative process within the Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement, is the most common of the few ways tribes can presently get recognition — including through a congressional act and a federal court ruling — but it’s also notoriously lengthy and complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribes can wait years before their petitions are denied, exhausting appeals, and then — since explicitly being banned in 1994 — being left with no way to petition again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the case for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889209/east-bay-ohlone-tribes-struggle-for-federal-recognition\">the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, which was denied in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chairwoman Charlene Nijmeh said deciding to re-petition is not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11957424 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stand in the shadows. Her face and body are illuminated by a spotlight. She has long, brown hair and wears a blue and tan-print jacket and jeans. She looks somber.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/TribalBuyBack01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Nijmeh, chair of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe in the Bay Area, stands for a portrait next to Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, California, on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. The East Bay Ohlone tribe has long struggled for federal recognition. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a promise,” she said. “The question I have is: Are these the same people — which I know they are in the [Interior Department’s] Office of Federal Acknowledgement — are those the same people determining our petition again, who determined it the first time when they gave us the denial?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean Nijmeh is opposed to removing the ban on re-petitioning, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, the recognition process has been broken and has led to deeply unjust determinations that are not rooted in fairness or even the public interest,” Nijmeh wrote in a letter to Bureau of Indian Affairs administrators ahead of the change that she shared with KQED. “This rule change will make just a little bit fairer, creating a narrow window for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attempt to do away with the ban in a 2015 final rule failed. That was until a 2020 federal court ruling found that the Department of the Interior’s reasons for implementing the ban were “arbitrary and capricious,” leading the Interior Department to reconsider the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muwekma would be one of more than 30 tribes, including four in California, that would be able to re-petition for recognition if the rule change goes into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Bryan Mercier, in Thursday’s Federal Register document, said the rule change was delayed because of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/\">Trump memo on a “regulatory freeze”\u003c/a> issued on his first day in office, requiring all executive agencies and departments to consider postponing final rules 60 days from its effective date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether to allow re-petitioning is a policy determination that falls within the scope of ‘the management of all Indian affairs,’ and the new administration needs time to review the policy determination, consistent with the direction set forth in the [presidential memo],” Mercier wrote in the document.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has not given any indication whether it will keep the rule change or otherwise delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the process was created in 1978, only 18 of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes have gained recognition through petitioning. Most came through signing treaties — an option that is no longer available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pamunkey Indian Tribe in Virginia most recently received acknowledgment through the process in 2016. President Donald Trump also signed an executive order on one of his first days asking the Department of the Interior to create a plan for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44677/lumbee-tribe-recognition-north-carolina-trump\">recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina\u003c/a>, which has long sought the designation but has faced pushback from other tribes over the legitimacy of its claim to Native identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the re-petitioning rule change does eventually take effect, Reese, the Stanford law professor, said the Trump administration’s attempts to slash government bureaucracy won’t likely help the complicated federal recognition process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, questions over the administration’s attempts to freeze federal funding and eliminate diversity initiatives stirred uncertainty among tribal leaders. Last month, however, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed an order that excludes tribal nations from Trump’s directives targeting “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Ideology Extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026280\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/AP25016621783047-1-1-scaled-e1738972969977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matthew Campbell, deputy director of the Native American Rights Fund and member of the Native Village of Gambell, said it’s still too early to see how Burgum might lead the Department of the Interior, which houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we always remind the administration of the important relationships that tribal nations have with the United States and the unique history and political nature of that relationship,” Campbell said, “and the unique obligation that the United States has to consult with tribal nations before they take action that may harm or affect tribes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s new leadership has a variety of relationships with Indian Country. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was banned from all tribal lands in her home state of South Dakota until one tribe \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-tribal-ban-south-dakota-e6d39081a38ff9961400a582c3153ee3\">lifted its order\u003c/a> days before her confirmation hearing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the Health and Human Services Department, was endorsed by some tribal nations during his failed presidential campaign and candidacy for the Cabinet post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said some of Trump’s policies actually align with Indian Country needs. Shrinking the size of the federal government, for example, “actually does need to happen in Indian Country,” she said, and giving “more freedom and flexibility to tribes in how they spend federal dollars is good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern is that the dollars themselves are still incredibly vital,” she continued. “I worry that in cutting inefficient bureaucracies, Trump will go beyond that and cut what he thinks are unnecessary programs that are, in fact, very necessary to the health and safety of Native people across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Muwekma, tribal leaders have since turned to trying to gain recognition through an act of Congress, with Nijmeh even unsuccessfully running for a South Bay seat in last year’s March primary. Pushback, including from federally recognized tribes, has stalled their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the pushback from lawmakers centered on concerns about tribal gaming in the Bay Area and keeping the recognition process fair for all tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because other members of the Bay Area congressional delegation share my concerns about gaming, the Tribe’s decision has left us at an impasse,” former Rep. Anna Eshoo wrote in an Aug. 22 letter to the San José City Council, “and prevented us from engaging constructively on the complex underlying issue of whether legislative recognition should be pursued at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who Nijmeh ran against in that March primary, also called a San José City Council resolution urging congressional action “misleading.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nijmeh told KQED that building a casino is not why the Muwekma want federal recognition, but they also don’t want to give up that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our right, as a sovereign, to use that economic tool if we choose to do it. And that is the word: ‘choose,’” Nijmeh said. “Our current administration is not looking at that right now. We’re focusing on keeping our 614 tribal citizens in our homeland, being able to buy or acquire land to build our native village, to keep our children here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution in San José ultimately died. A similar Richmond City Council resolution to support the tribe’s bid — brought forward by former Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin, who told KQED ahead of the vote that she had no worries about gaming — was postponed indefinitely last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to opposition to the tribe’s efforts, Nijmeh said the tribe’s spirit “will never die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pray this time it will be different,” Nijmeh said in that letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. “But either way, Muwekma Ohlone is a Sovereign Nation, and we will continue to be one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland representatives promised to look under “every couch cushion” for firefighting funds after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">station closures last month\u003c/a>. Now, three say they’ve found the money and are proposing a plan to prevent more shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Oakland’s city administrator shuttered two firehouses to cut costs, warning that four more would follow this month without new funding. The city faces a $130 million budget deficit, worsened by the stalled Coliseum sale, a key piece of its budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Council members have asked finance in the past, help us find every last penny, but ultimately, it’s up to us to really do the digging and find every penny, which has been the case here,” said Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who represents part of the fire-prone Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran, along with Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Zac Unger, are asking the whole council to redirect $8.75 million to the fire department. “That would be enough to prevent the closure of four stations and be able to hopefully reopen two more at some point before the end of the fiscal year,” said Ramachandran, noting that there wasn’t a timeline for reopening the stations in Grass Valley and Woodminster yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of the harshest critics of Oakland’s July budget, which included a controversial provision that would drastically slash spending and shift most fiscal powers to budget staff if the city’s deal to sell its 50% stake in the Coliseum didn’t go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00563-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland councilmember, Janani Ramachandran, right, addresses a crowd, as Representative Barbara Lee looks on at the grand opening of of the Barbara Lee Campaign Headquarters on Broadway in downtown Oakland, California, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the budget passed, the Coliseum deal quickly — and quietly — shifted. Initially, the local developers, the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, and former Mayor Sheng Thao revised the contract to delay payments and shorten the closing time. But last fall, AASEG fell behind on payments while negotiating a second deal with the Oakland A’s for its stake in the property. That agreement requires a complicated county approval process, which has been slow and unstable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay triggered the contingency budget, and Budget Administrator Bradley Johnson announced in November that without immediate and drastic changes, the city could run out of money. Since public safety accounts for the bulk of the city’s overspending, police and fire departments had to be part of the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a significant pre-existing structural issue as an organization,” Johnson said at a council meeting. “To maintain our solvency, now is the time that we have to take action to solve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11893199 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS52109_6217605359_e609311dd5_o-qut-1020x670.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021911/oakland-hills-burned-before-la-fires-have-many-terrified-it-will-happen-again\">Residents in the Oakland Hills\u003c/a>, near the two shuttered stations, spent January watching the destructive Los Angeles blazes and worrying about their own city’s ability to respond if a fast-moving fire started in their neighborhoods, which have been ravaged by fire before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire union president Seth Olyer said that without the two stations operating, response times have been longer and resources spread thin. In January, a house fire near a closed station took crews more than 10 minutes to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of four more stations unsustainable and unprecedented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would take us from a fire department that prides itself on being able to keep small incidents small and prevent the spread of fire to really almost being spectators as we do our absolute best to try and keep fires contained to the city block they originated,” Olyer told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am definitely singing the praises of Councilmembers Kaplan and Ramachandran for their efforts to try and come together and find these funds,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It’s one of two stations scheduled to close until June. The closure is part of the city’s effort to confront its $129 million budget deficit. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He previously said that thanks to Kaplan, the city had identified revenue from events at the Oakland Arena and Coliseum to stave off the additional closures for another month. “But, again, the fact remains that there are still miles and miles of the Oakland Hills where Oaklanders are unprotected from fire and [emergency services] needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The councilmembers’ resolution would pull more than $2.5 million in unexpected revenue from events at the Coliseum and Oakland Arena and about the same amount from the city’s self-insurance liability fund. 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Some of the staff’s budget decisions, especially around public safety, have been unpopular with public and council representatives. “What we’re seeing is a whole lot of cut, cut, cut to different programs and services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended resolution, which Ramachandran feels confident will have strong support, is slated to go before the whole board on March 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it doesn’t pass, the four additional closures could take effect as soon as next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number one thing that we have been hearing from the public every single day since the closure of these fire stations has been, ‘Save our stations, reopen and keep open some of the bread and butter of public safety,’” she told KQED. “It’s been an issue that’s united Oaklanders perhaps more than any other that I’ve seen during my time as a council member so far, and the message is extremely loud and clear that we cannot afford to lose homes, lose lives, lose businesses, lose anything due to fires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027395/ice-las-escuelas-y-los-ninos-lo-que-las-familias-deberian-saber\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]anic has continued to spread through immigrant communities across California ever since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in the light of his promises to conduct mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigrant families in the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025930/keeping-ice-out-of-classrooms-how-california-leaders-are-stepping-up-efforts\">say this sense of fear is already affecting their daily lives\u003c/a> — and heightened by frequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026582/fake-flyer-warning-sf-area-ice-raids-shows-how-false-rumors-spread-fear\">rumors\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sightings locally\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns have also been stoked by the new administration’s reversal of a 2011 Department of Homeland Security policy that kept immigration agents away from “sensitive locations” like schools and churches. One East Bay mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025930/keeping-ice-out-of-classrooms-how-california-leaders-are-stepping-up-efforts\">told KQED\u003c/a> that her teenage daughter noticed many of her classmates stopped showing up to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re staying home because they’re afraid they could be arrested,” said Reina, who asked not to have her last name shared. “Or their parents could be taken away while they’re in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Immigrant Data Portal, in 2021, 20% of minors in the state — around 1.8 million people — were either \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?breakdown=by-age-group\">undocumented or living with someone undocumented\u003c/a>. This was true for \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?breakdown=by-age-group&raceth=03\">32% of Latino teens and children, and 19% of Asian American youth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you are part of a family that has been affected by the administration’s deportation plans, keep reading for how experts and advocates recommend parents and guardians can talk to young people about their rights when it comes to immigration enforcement — and how to prepare for worst-case scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that this is not legal advice, and it’s always recommended that you consult an immigration attorney for guidance on your family’s specific situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#schools\">What should families know about ICE in schools?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#talk\">How should you talk to your kids about ICE in the news?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What does a ‘family preparedness plan’ look like?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kristina Lovato, the director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare Initiative at UC Berkeley, said that it’s “really important” for every family who could be affected by immigration enforcement to have what agencies and organizations call “a family preparedness plan” in case of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/resources/step-step-family-preparedness-plan\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center has a thorough tool kit\u003c/a> with guidance on ways to prepare for such a scenario, focusing on a care plan for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024332]For example, ILRC suggests that parents should identify a trusted adult to take care of their kids, in case they are detained or deported. (There is a possibility that a child \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/us-citizen-children-impacted-immigration-enforcement\">may end up in the child welfare system\u003c/a> after a parent is detained or deported.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three avenues to designate a trusted adult to care for for your child:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find another adult who can verbally agree to take care of your child in a situation where you cannot. The downside of a verbal agreement is that the trusted adult may not be able to make certain decisions for your child, like medical decisions, in the event that their parent or caregiver is deported.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Complete \u003ca href=\"https://www4.courts.ca.gov/documents/caregiver.pdf\">a Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit (PDF)\u003c/a> so that the trusted adult can also make school and medical decisions on behalf of your child. This option does not impact your parental rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have the court \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-11/gc211.pdf\">appoint a guardian for your child (PDF)\u003c/a> by filling out a GC-211 form. This new guardian can, in certain situations, make more decisions than an authorized caregiver on behalf of your child, and the guardianship can also be made conditional, to “kick in” if a parent or caregiver is deported. This route does not take away your parental rights, but it does suspend them by granting legal custody of your child to someone else — making it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/resources/step-step-family-preparedness-plan\">“a serious decision” to embark on, notes ILRC\u003c/a>, and one which should be accompanied by legal advice.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In any case, parents or caregivers should let their children know about their plan, recommends ILRC — telling them exactly who they would stay with if they were not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toolkit also suggests documenting your child’s medications and medical conditions — like allergies — and giving a copy to their school, and another to the adult you designated as an emergency caretaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of your child’s nationality, advocates suggest making sure they have a passport.\u003ca id=\"schools\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should families know about ICE in schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be familiar with California policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the election, California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024851/california-legislature-approves-50m-to-fight-trump-administration-in-court\">prepared to challenge Trump administration actions the state deems illegal\u003c/a>. And while \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/02/california-deportations-hit-people-with-deep-roots/\">ICE can still operate in California\u003c/a>, the state is not providing resources to them for immigration enforcement, except for cases of detaining people \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article299940659.html\">convicted of serious crimes\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter who is in the White House, in California, we will continue to lead with California values,” State Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">said in a December news release\u003c/a>. “My office will continue to use the full force of the law and every tool at our disposal to protect the rights of California’s immigrants — and we need staff at these critical locations to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot let the Trump deportation machine create a culture of fear and mistrust that prevents immigrants from accessing vital public services,” said Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025930]California law \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">limits state and local participation in immigration enforcement activities\u003c/a>. Bonta’s office updated its official guidance surrounding immigration enforcement in the state, stipulating that state courthouses, public health care facilities and public schools are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">required to adopt these policies “or equivalent policies.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">updated guidance for staff at schools and campuses\u003c/a> asks that they do the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Notify the local educational agency administrator of any immigration officer’s request to enter campus.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask to see — and make copies or notes of — the officer’s credentials, including name and badge number; the phone number of their supervisor; any documentation that allows school access, like a warrant.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Document the actions of any officer who enters the premises without consent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Notify children’s guardians as soon as possible of ICE activity, and do so before an officer questions or removes a student for immigration-enforcement purposes (“\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">unless prevented by a judicial warrant or subpoena\u003c/a>”).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Notify the California Department of Justice of any attempt by an immigration officer to access a school site or a student by emailing \u003ca href=\"mailto:immigration@doj.ca.gov\">immigration@doj.ca.gov.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to the state attorney general, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">your family and your children have the right to\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>a public education, regardless of a parent or caregiver’s immigration status;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>have documents remain private and protected by schools, which can only be released by guardian permission or in response to a court order or subpoena;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>file a complaint or report a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827832/what-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one\">hate crime.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If anyone in California suspects that a school or its staff are assisting ICE, state Attorney General Rob Bonta urged them to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/report\">report these concerns to his office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know your right to remain silent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE agent can approach a minor in a public space to ask questions or ask for their identification, said Lovato. But in this case — and almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">all cases with law enforcement\u003c/a> — the young person should know that they do not need to respond to any questions, according to legal experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates counsel that children \u003ca href=\"https://mobilizationforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/What-to-do-if-ICE-Comes-to-Your-School.pdf\">should not run away, and try to stay calm (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A minor can state that they want to remain silent until they speak with a lawyer,” Lovato said. “Do not answer any questions about your birthplace, immigration status or how you’ve entered the United States.” Lovato also recommended not giving an ICE agent “any personal information about yourself or anyone in your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say it may also be helpful for a child to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">carry a card that details their rights\u003c/a> with them when they go out. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">find a printable version from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">what advocates and legal experts say you can do during ICE encounters\u003c/a>, which includes details like how to tell an ICE agent from a police officer and what advocates recommend you do if ICE knocks on your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025647]If it is safe, legal experts say your child can also attempt to record ICE’s actions. KQED also has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide on your rights when recording officers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can ICE do with children?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Immigration-Detention-Factsheet_FINAL.pdf\">obligated to hand children over (PDF)\u003c/a> to the Office of Refugee Resettlement — part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — in 72 hours. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2019-07/OIG-19-51-Jul19_.pdf\">This rule has, however, been violated before [PDF]\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are looking for a minor who has been detained, you can call, text, or message (through Whatsapp) \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/national-call-center-eng.pdf\">the Office of Refugee Resettlement (PDF)\u003c/a> at 1-800-203-7001 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:information@ORRNCC.com\">information@ORRNCC.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your child is 18 or over, you can use \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a> to search for them. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it might take a few days for a person to show up in this ICE database. If this person has still not shown up in the database after those few days, you can contact advocacy organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> through \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\">their form online\u003c/a> or call 209-757-3733.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations that support children include \u003ca href=\"https://lsc-sf.org/\">Legal Services for Children, Kids in Need of Defense\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.icwclaw.org/\">Immigration Center for Women and Children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Vara (left), with the Latino Task Force, stands with a group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28 during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a sanctuary city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How should you talk to your kids about ICE in the news?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lovato studied the impact of deportations on Los Angeles families during the first Trump administration. She said many young people in these families faced an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjhzrh4\">ambiguous loss\u003c/a>” after seeing a parent forcibly separated from them, coupled with the uncertainty of when they may be reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a type of loss that is often unnoticed by the general public,” she said. She also noted many children in the study who had seen their parents deported then experienced anxiety that they themselves — or other family members — would be next, even if they had documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy for young people and children to pick up on any sense of tension around them — and kids “overhear everything,” said Ioanna Angelakis, a marriage and family therapist based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might hear [something] in a certain way that they can’t understand and they can’t process,” she said. This stress can appear in different ways for kids, like acting out in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this, she said parents and caregivers should try to explain things to their child in age-appropriate language. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-climate-safety-and-crisis/school-violence-resources/talking-to-children-about-violence-tips-for-parents-and-teachers\">National Association of School Psychologists has this advice\u003c/a> on how to explain traumas, especially in schools, to different age groups. KQED also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\">multiple guides\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965530/how-to-talk-to-your-child-about-traumatic-world-events\">how to talk to children\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\">the news is disturbing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11764070]Some concrete advice advocates suggest for parents and caregivers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reassure your children\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said that while it may be difficult, parents need “to get their own fears under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that parents should explain to their children — even if they’re teenagers — that their family will “continue to protect them” and will do everything they can to “make sure that the kids remain safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no easy solution for all of this and it is truly terrifying if a family is in danger,” she said. But Angelakis said that a parent’s reassuring tone can help children from developing tremendous anxiety — or from mirroring their family’s stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell your child you have a plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said parents should try “putting some containment” on the anxiety their child is feeling, and let them know that “our family has a plan and we’re doing everything that we can to stay safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These plans would include the back-up child care and guardian situations suggested by the ILRC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell your child they don’t have to say anything to law enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like adults, \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/juvenile-justice/arrest#:~:text=Your%20child%20has%20the%20right,the%20court%20will%20appoint%20one.\">children have the right to remain silent\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">interacting with ICE \u003c/a>under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, for some children, advocates acknowledge that going to a police officer or providing information to people or schools might not be helpful for them or their families. This can be the case for a child from a mixed-status family, or a young person whose community has historically experienced violent responses from the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato explained that immigration organizations have been encouraging parents to tell their kids and engage in a household practice of “saying no to ICE. Actually verbally, reciting it and practicing: just saying no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regulate your own anxiety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said in many situations, fear is warranted and rational — since for so many, ICE headlines hit close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she emphasized that parents should try to regulate their response when talking to their children. A way for guardians to check on their own anxiety by consulting with other trusted people in their life, and make sure they are not getting “caught in [their] own head,” said Angelakis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes “making sure you breathe right,” she recommended. And that “we pass on the relevant information to the child” in a way that isn’t “skyrocketing anyone’s anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ways \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/regain-emotional-safety/\">advocates suggest you can do this include\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>having your child express their feelings, but not letting them try to comfort you;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>giving a child some positive forms of control, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/regain-emotional-safety/\">deciding what to have for dinner or choosing a game to play;\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>being a role model on how to handle distress and conflict, like making sure anger looks “in-control” rather than “out-of-control.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said that while families can also try to limit their news intake, she acknowledges that many families are hearing about “terrifying” situations which are hard to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we do have these conversations with kids, and [that] we do minimize any kind of anxiety evoking or anxiety increasing conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she emphasizes: “Kids are pretty incredible. And super resilient and awfully smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s Tyche Hendricks and Ki Sung.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For example, ILRC suggests that parents should identify a trusted adult to take care of their kids, in case they are detained or deported. (There is a possibility that a child \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/us-citizen-children-impacted-immigration-enforcement\">may end up in the child welfare system\u003c/a> after a parent is detained or deported.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three avenues to designate a trusted adult to care for for your child:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Find another adult who can verbally agree to take care of your child in a situation where you cannot. The downside of a verbal agreement is that the trusted adult may not be able to make certain decisions for your child, like medical decisions, in the event that their parent or caregiver is deported.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Complete \u003ca href=\"https://www4.courts.ca.gov/documents/caregiver.pdf\">a Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit (PDF)\u003c/a> so that the trusted adult can also make school and medical decisions on behalf of your child. This option does not impact your parental rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Have the court \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-11/gc211.pdf\">appoint a guardian for your child (PDF)\u003c/a> by filling out a GC-211 form. This new guardian can, in certain situations, make more decisions than an authorized caregiver on behalf of your child, and the guardianship can also be made conditional, to “kick in” if a parent or caregiver is deported. This route does not take away your parental rights, but it does suspend them by granting legal custody of your child to someone else — making it \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/resources/step-step-family-preparedness-plan\">“a serious decision” to embark on, notes ILRC\u003c/a>, and one which should be accompanied by legal advice.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In any case, parents or caregivers should let their children know about their plan, recommends ILRC — telling them exactly who they would stay with if they were not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toolkit also suggests documenting your child’s medications and medical conditions — like allergies — and giving a copy to their school, and another to the adult you designated as an emergency caretaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of your child’s nationality, advocates suggest making sure they have a passport.\u003ca id=\"schools\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should families know about ICE in schools?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be familiar with California policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the election, California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024851/california-legislature-approves-50m-to-fight-trump-administration-in-court\">prepared to challenge Trump administration actions the state deems illegal\u003c/a>. And while \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/02/california-deportations-hit-people-with-deep-roots/\">ICE can still operate in California\u003c/a>, the state is not providing resources to them for immigration enforcement, except for cases of detaining people \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article299940659.html\">convicted of serious crimes\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter who is in the White House, in California, we will continue to lead with California values,” State Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">said in a December news release\u003c/a>. “My office will continue to use the full force of the law and every tool at our disposal to protect the rights of California’s immigrants — and we need staff at these critical locations to do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot let the Trump deportation machine create a culture of fear and mistrust that prevents immigrants from accessing vital public services,” said Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California law \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">limits state and local participation in immigration enforcement activities\u003c/a>. Bonta’s office updated its official guidance surrounding immigration enforcement in the state, stipulating that state courthouses, public health care facilities and public schools are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">required to adopt these policies “or equivalent policies.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">updated guidance for staff at schools and campuses\u003c/a> asks that they do the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Notify the local educational agency administrator of any immigration officer’s request to enter campus.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask to see — and make copies or notes of — the officer’s credentials, including name and badge number; the phone number of their supervisor; any documentation that allows school access, like a warrant.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Document the actions of any officer who enters the premises without consent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Notify children’s guardians as soon as possible of ICE activity, and do so before an officer questions or removes a student for immigration-enforcement purposes (“\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">unless prevented by a judicial warrant or subpoena\u003c/a>”).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Notify the California Department of Justice of any attempt by an immigration officer to access a school site or a student by emailing \u003ca href=\"mailto:immigration@doj.ca.gov\">immigration@doj.ca.gov.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to the state attorney general, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-provides-guidance-students-educators-immigration\">your family and your children have the right to\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>a public education, regardless of a parent or caregiver’s immigration status;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>have documents remain private and protected by schools, which can only be released by guardian permission or in response to a court order or subpoena;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>file a complaint or report a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827832/what-is-a-hate-crime-and-what-you-can-do-if-you-experience-one\">hate crime.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If anyone in California suspects that a school or its staff are assisting ICE, state Attorney General Rob Bonta urged them to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/report\">report these concerns to his office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know your right to remain silent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE agent can approach a minor in a public space to ask questions or ask for their identification, said Lovato. But in this case — and almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">all cases with law enforcement\u003c/a> — the young person should know that they do not need to respond to any questions, according to legal experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates counsel that children \u003ca href=\"https://mobilizationforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/What-to-do-if-ICE-Comes-to-Your-School.pdf\">should not run away, and try to stay calm (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A minor can state that they want to remain silent until they speak with a lawyer,” Lovato said. “Do not answer any questions about your birthplace, immigration status or how you’ve entered the United States.” Lovato also recommended not giving an ICE agent “any personal information about yourself or anyone in your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say it may also be helpful for a child to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">carry a card that details their rights\u003c/a> with them when they go out. You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">find a printable version from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">what advocates and legal experts say you can do during ICE encounters\u003c/a>, which includes details like how to tell an ICE agent from a police officer and what advocates recommend you do if ICE knocks on your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If it is safe, legal experts say your child can also attempt to record ICE’s actions. KQED also has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide on your rights when recording officers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can ICE do with children?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Immigration-Detention-Factsheet_FINAL.pdf\">obligated to hand children over (PDF)\u003c/a> to the Office of Refugee Resettlement — part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — in 72 hours. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2019-07/OIG-19-51-Jul19_.pdf\">This rule has, however, been violated before [PDF]\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are looking for a minor who has been detained, you can call, text, or message (through Whatsapp) \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/national-call-center-eng.pdf\">the Office of Refugee Resettlement (PDF)\u003c/a> at 1-800-203-7001 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:information@ORRNCC.com\">information@ORRNCC.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your child is 18 or over, you can use \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a> to search for them. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it might take a few days for a person to show up in this ICE database. If this person has still not shown up in the database after those few days, you can contact advocacy organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> through \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\">their form online\u003c/a> or call 209-757-3733.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations that support children include \u003ca href=\"https://lsc-sf.org/\">Legal Services for Children, Kids in Need of Defense\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.icwclaw.org/\">Immigration Center for Women and Children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250128-SFImmigration-42-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Vara (left), with the Latino Task Force, stands with a group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28 during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a sanctuary city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How should you talk to your kids about ICE in the news?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lovato studied the impact of deportations on Los Angeles families during the first Trump administration. She said many young people in these families faced an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjhzrh4\">ambiguous loss\u003c/a>” after seeing a parent forcibly separated from them, coupled with the uncertainty of when they may be reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a type of loss that is often unnoticed by the general public,” she said. She also noted many children in the study who had seen their parents deported then experienced anxiety that they themselves — or other family members — would be next, even if they had documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy for young people and children to pick up on any sense of tension around them — and kids “overhear everything,” said Ioanna Angelakis, a marriage and family therapist based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They might hear [something] in a certain way that they can’t understand and they can’t process,” she said. This stress can appear in different ways for kids, like acting out in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this, she said parents and caregivers should try to explain things to their child in age-appropriate language. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-climate-safety-and-crisis/school-violence-resources/talking-to-children-about-violence-tips-for-parents-and-teachers\">National Association of School Psychologists has this advice\u003c/a> on how to explain traumas, especially in schools, to different age groups. KQED also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\">multiple guides\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965530/how-to-talk-to-your-child-about-traumatic-world-events\">how to talk to children\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\">the news is disturbing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some concrete advice advocates suggest for parents and caregivers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reassure your children\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said that while it may be difficult, parents need “to get their own fears under control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that parents should explain to their children — even if they’re teenagers — that their family will “continue to protect them” and will do everything they can to “make sure that the kids remain safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no easy solution for all of this and it is truly terrifying if a family is in danger,” she said. But Angelakis said that a parent’s reassuring tone can help children from developing tremendous anxiety — or from mirroring their family’s stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell your child you have a plan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said parents should try “putting some containment” on the anxiety their child is feeling, and let them know that “our family has a plan and we’re doing everything that we can to stay safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These plans would include the back-up child care and guardian situations suggested by the ILRC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell your child they don’t have to say anything to law enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like adults, \u003ca href=\"https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/juvenile-justice/arrest#:~:text=Your%20child%20has%20the%20right,the%20court%20will%20appoint%20one.\">children have the right to remain silent\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">interacting with ICE \u003c/a>under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, for some children, advocates acknowledge that going to a police officer or providing information to people or schools might not be helpful for them or their families. This can be the case for a child from a mixed-status family, or a young person whose community has historically experienced violent responses from the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato explained that immigration organizations have been encouraging parents to tell their kids and engage in a household practice of “saying no to ICE. Actually verbally, reciting it and practicing: just saying no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Regulate your own anxiety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said in many situations, fear is warranted and rational — since for so many, ICE headlines hit close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she emphasized that parents should try to regulate their response when talking to their children. A way for guardians to check on their own anxiety by consulting with other trusted people in their life, and make sure they are not getting “caught in [their] own head,” said Angelakis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes “making sure you breathe right,” she recommended. And that “we pass on the relevant information to the child” in a way that isn’t “skyrocketing anyone’s anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ways \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/regain-emotional-safety/\">advocates suggest you can do this include\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>having your child express their feelings, but not letting them try to comfort you;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>giving a child some positive forms of control, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidpower.org/library/article/regain-emotional-safety/\">deciding what to have for dinner or choosing a game to play;\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>being a role model on how to handle distress and conflict, like making sure anger looks “in-control” rather than “out-of-control.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Angelakis said that while families can also try to limit their news intake, she acknowledges that many families are hearing about “terrifying” situations which are hard to ignore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that we do have these conversations with kids, and [that] we do minimize any kind of anxiety evoking or anxiety increasing conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she emphasizes: “Kids are pretty incredible. And super resilient and awfully smart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026524/california-rain-return-with-one-of-years-strongest-storms-on-the-way\">the season’s strongest storms\u003c/a> is set to hit the Bay Area on Wednesday night, dumping inches of rain across the region overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and the South Bay, which have been spared by much of the rain so far this winter as storms tracked farther north, are forecast to be hit especially hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t really had a storm of this caliber so far this season,” said Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “The North Bay has seen that, but the Bay Area and Central Coast has missed out on much of that action as of now, so this will be the first that we’re seeing of potentially flash flooding conditions and widespread shallow landslides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Showers are expected to start in the North Bay and San Francisco on Wednesday evening, growing more powerful around 7 p.m. before reaching the South Bay a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the rain will fall overnight as the system picks up moisture, fueled by a strong \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025860/trump-orders-and-atmospheric-rivers-how-prepared-are-californias-levees\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> dropping between 1.5 and 3 inches of rain in the low-elevation areas and up to 6 inches in the Santa Cruz and Santa Lucia mountain ranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937369\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11937369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473.jpg\" alt=\"A view of damaged colorful houses along the shores of the river with a bridge in Capitola.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1454693473-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, damage from a powerful storm is visible on Jan. 6, 2023, in Capitola. Flood watch will be in effect in Santa Cruz County beginning at 10 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flood watches will begin at 10 p.m. in Sonoma County, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025965/storm-linked-2-sonoma-county-deaths-another-round-rain-hits-bay-area\">Russian River and other waterways\u003c/a> overflowed last week, as well as in Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Those are set to remain in effect until Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The commute [Thursday] morning is going to be terrible, to put it bluntly,” Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As showers continue Thursday morning, saturated soils will increase the potential for downed trees and widespread shallow landslides, especially in those South Bay ranges. High winds are also forecast, which could lead to downed power lines and cause outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials are warning residents to be prepared to lose electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make sure that people have enough flashlights, different generators, and things like that, to make sure that they are prepared for potential power outages due to the damaging winds,” Santa Clara emergency management spokesperson Charles Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250127-BrooksIsland-38-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is extending hours at its warming centers and offering some overnight locations for unhoused people and anyone who wants to avoid traveling in the rough conditions. 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