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"content": "\u003cp>Anabel Garcia’s eyes burned and her breathing was labored and dry as she cleared debris from burned down properties in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2017, the Tubbs Fire had just scythed its way through towns and crops and Garcia, a vineyard worker, was out of a job. So she joined on with a contractor providing post-fire cleanup services. But that proved painful and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were sick with throat and skin problems,” she said, of herself and the scores of other immigrant workers who took cleanup gigs in the aftermath of the fire. “There were many consequences we had later, in order to keep working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was cleaning up after what was, at the time, the most destructive fire in California history, which killed 22 people and torched 5,600 structures. The Palisades and Eaton fires that started last week have already caused nearly double that damage and as Los Angeles turns its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2025/01/la-fires-california-legislature-bills/\">eye toward recovery\u003c/a>, worker advocates and state regulators are concerned about the potential hazards to cleanup workers like Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup is essential: The debris must be cleared and the ash-covered houses cleaned before any reconstruction is possible. Much of that work will fall to a cadre of immigrant laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are already employed as housekeepers and may be asked by homeowners to clear ash from a damaged house, workers’ advocates said. Others will likely be the gardeners, handymen and other domestic service workers reeling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-workers-lost-jobs/\">from lost income during the fires\u003c/a>, available for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As those big areas of the city that have been impacted get opened up and handed back to property owners, those workers are going to be, no question, in massive demand,” said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor and Occupational Safety and Health program at UCLA. “They’re a critical backbone to reconstruction efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire recovery workers can face \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/wildfire/Worker-Health-and-Safety-During-Fire-Cleanup.html\">numerous hazards\u003c/a>, including structurally unsound buildings, toxic gases, exposed electrical wiring, cancer-causing chemicals and ash, soot and dust which can damage the lungs when inhaled, according to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, homeowners Christine Meinders and Sohrab Nafici, return to their fire-ravaged neighborhood in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State environmental agencies usually remove toxic substances that have seeped into the ground, and certified contractors are required to mitigate asbestos and lead risks, Riley said. Those workers tend to be trained for the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s concerned about anyone hired for a less formal cleanup job, whether directly by a homeowner or by one of a \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/topics/environment/toxic-labor/\">growing number of loosely regulated\u003c/a> cleanup-and-recovery contractors that \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/the-migrant-workers-who-follow-climate-disasters\">chase climate-driven disasters\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Wilson, senior safety engineer at Cal/OSHA, told the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board in a public meeting on Thursday that the agency is planning to do outreach about the risks of those jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also paying attention to the need for getting in front of the next phase of this incident, which is going to be contractors moving into these areas, and what we’ve seen historically, hiring day laborers to do cleanup and salvage work, and often with little to no protection,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safety training\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, day laborers and community volunteers mingled at the Pasadena Community Job Center. The day laborers, who typically wait for work requests from homeowners or contractors at Home Depots or street corners, were instead preparing to lead efforts to clean up the debris left by strong winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of men and women shoveled, raked and swept neighborhood streets where winds had topped over trees, branches and debris that could spark or carry embers. By the end of the day, they had filled a convoy of 15 dump trucks with debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which runs the job center, helped organize the volunteers from the community and from throughout the county to clean up throughout the week. The effort highlights the role immigrant workers play helping their communities recover from disasters, said Manuel Vicente, director of the network’s Radio Jornalera program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a way to respond to the rhetoric about immigrants happening now, the rain of lies about immigrants that have been stigmatizing us,” he said. “That we’re a community that if someone falls, we extend a hand to help them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day laborer Jorge Medina cleans up vegetation debris south of the Altadena Eaton Fire burn area in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of its members being picked up for cleanup jobs, the network has deployed an OSHA-certified trainer at the job center to teach workers how to identify hazards in burned homes. It also plans to send staff to local Home Depots to hand out pamphlets and educational materials to day laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network has done similar training in hurricane-battered regions on the East Coast and in Texas and Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the L.A. County Department of Public Health have been distributing N95 masks to workers centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice Berliner, director of the department’s office of worker health and safety, pointed to surveys of gardeners, housekeepers and other domestic service workers conducted by advocacy groups after the 2018 Woolsey Fire in Malibu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the fact that they were exposed to toxic debris, handling unsafe materials without proper equipment,” Berliner said, “we’re very likely to see a similar dynamic with this upcoming cleanup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cleaning up\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County after the Tubbs Fire, Christy Lubin remembers two kinds of disaster responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one, the state sent specialized contractors to remove toxic substances from charred homes. Most of the workers who came to the Graton Day Labor Center in the county’s wine country were shut out from those jobs, lacking \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/5192.html\">the state-required hazardous material certifications\u003c/a>, said Lubin, the center’s director.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021150,science_1995438,news_12021941,news_12021661\"]In the other, the town flooded with other reconstruction contractors from around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(The contractors) were bringing in a lot of immigrant workers, especially a lot of women, who got hired to go in and do especially interior building cleanup, smoke damage cleanup,” Lubin said. “Those contractors were picking up groups of workers, meeting them on a corner, driving them in a van to these workplaces where they were sent into these buildings without the proper training, without the proper personal protective equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be tough, said Riley of UCLA, to enforce safety regulations in those disaster zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit of a wild west situation at times,” he said. “Just because of how massive the work is and how varied the worksites and how spread out they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, the former vineyard employee, said she found her cleanup job through a Facebook ad for a restoration contractor that said it was working for an insurance company. Hundreds of workers who needed income after the fires responded, she said, and the contractors didn’t seem to care about their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers boarded 15-passenger vans to burned homes, businesses and even public buildings, she said. Sometimes she worked 10-hour days. She recalled being paid somewhere between $13 and $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few weeks, Garcia cleaned a hospital clinic strewn with blood and syringes before then cleaning homes, clearing and bagging up ashes and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was covered in ashes,” she said. “Everything you saw was black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said workers were given gloves and a helmet, but nothing to protect their bodies or cover their shoes. They only received masks the first two days, then had to reuse them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What we need is to work’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experiences \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2020-02-26/as-californias-wildfires-get-worse-domestic-workers-fight-for-protection\">like those\u003c/a> drove Garcia — now a house-cleaner and a board member at the day labor center — and other worker advocates to push California lawmakers to better protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has passed new regulations requiring employers to protect workers from wildfire smoke or prohibiting them from forcing workers to be in evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in July, some domestic workers will be newly covered under state workplace safety laws. There’s an exception for those hired privately by homeowners, but Cal/OSHA spokesperson Daniel Lopez told CalMatters in an email that anyone who is hired for cleanup — no matter the employer — is already covered by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/wildfire/Worker-Health-and-Safety-During-Fire-Cleanup.html\">slew of wildfire-specific safety regulations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state advisory committee on domestic labor in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">recommended against (PDF)\u003c/a> hiring people commonly employed for household or yard work to clean up soot or ash after a wildfire, “as this may require specialized equipment and training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day laborer Oscar Hernandez, right, cleans up vegetation debris south of the Altadena Eaton Fire burn area in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t erase their willingness to do the jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning in Pasadena a handful of day laborers waited for gigs at the corner of Villa and Fair Oaks, three miles south of homes the Eaton Fire had burned one week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They perked up as cars slowed past the street. Work has been slow all season, they said, even before the fires destroyed many household jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelo Esteban said he knew that there might be work coming to clean up or rebuild burnt down communities, though he expected homeowners to turn to day laborers only after they’ve gotten help from insurance companies or the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t think much about the risks that work might carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone needs help, we can use masks,” he said. “Someone is going to do the work anyway. What we need is to work. It doesn’t matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Wendy Fry contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cleanup is essential: The debris must be cleared and the ash-covered houses cleaned before any reconstruction is possible. Much of that work will fall to a cadre of immigrant laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some are already employed as housekeepers and may be asked by homeowners to clear ash from a damaged house, workers’ advocates said. Others will likely be the gardeners, handymen and other domestic service workers reeling \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-workers-lost-jobs/\">from lost income during the fires\u003c/a>, available for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As those big areas of the city that have been impacted get opened up and handed back to property owners, those workers are going to be, no question, in massive demand,” said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor and Occupational Safety and Health program at UCLA. “They’re a critical backbone to reconstruction efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire recovery workers can face \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/wildfire/Worker-Health-and-Safety-During-Fire-Cleanup.html\">numerous hazards\u003c/a>, including structurally unsound buildings, toxic gases, exposed electrical wiring, cancer-causing chemicals and ash, soot and dust which can damage the lungs when inhaled, according to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011025-Eaton-Fire-Clean-Up-AP-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, homeowners Christine Meinders and Sohrab Nafici, return to their fire-ravaged neighborhood in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State environmental agencies usually remove toxic substances that have seeped into the ground, and certified contractors are required to mitigate asbestos and lead risks, Riley said. Those workers tend to be trained for the hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s concerned about anyone hired for a less formal cleanup job, whether directly by a homeowner or by one of a \u003ca href=\"https://publicintegrity.org/topics/environment/toxic-labor/\">growing number of loosely regulated\u003c/a> cleanup-and-recovery contractors that \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/the-migrant-workers-who-follow-climate-disasters\">chase climate-driven disasters\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Wilson, senior safety engineer at Cal/OSHA, told the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board in a public meeting on Thursday that the agency is planning to do outreach about the risks of those jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re also paying attention to the need for getting in front of the next phase of this incident, which is going to be contractors moving into these areas, and what we’ve seen historically, hiring day laborers to do cleanup and salvage work, and often with little to no protection,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safety training\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, day laborers and community volunteers mingled at the Pasadena Community Job Center. The day laborers, who typically wait for work requests from homeowners or contractors at Home Depots or street corners, were instead preparing to lead efforts to clean up the debris left by strong winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of men and women shoveled, raked and swept neighborhood streets where winds had topped over trees, branches and debris that could spark or carry embers. By the end of the day, they had filled a convoy of 15 dump trucks with debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which runs the job center, helped organize the volunteers from the community and from throughout the county to clean up throughout the week. The effort highlights the role immigrant workers play helping their communities recover from disasters, said Manuel Vicente, director of the network’s Radio Jornalera program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a way to respond to the rhetoric about immigrants happening now, the rain of lies about immigrants that have been stigmatizing us,” he said. “That we’re a community that if someone falls, we extend a hand to help them up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_021-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day laborer Jorge Medina cleans up vegetation debris south of the Altadena Eaton Fire burn area in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of its members being picked up for cleanup jobs, the network has deployed an OSHA-certified trainer at the job center to teach workers how to identify hazards in burned homes. It also plans to send staff to local Home Depots to hand out pamphlets and educational materials to day laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network has done similar training in hurricane-battered regions on the East Coast and in Texas and Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the L.A. 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Hundreds of workers who needed income after the fires responded, she said, and the contractors didn’t seem to care about their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers boarded 15-passenger vans to burned homes, businesses and even public buildings, she said. Sometimes she worked 10-hour days. She recalled being paid somewhere between $13 and $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a few weeks, Garcia cleaned a hospital clinic strewn with blood and syringes before then cleaning homes, clearing and bagging up ashes and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything was covered in ashes,” she said. “Everything you saw was black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said workers were given gloves and a helmet, but nothing to protect their bodies or cover their shoes. They only received masks the first two days, then had to reuse them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What we need is to work’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Experiences \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2020-02-26/as-californias-wildfires-get-worse-domestic-workers-fight-for-protection\">like those\u003c/a> drove Garcia — now a house-cleaner and a board member at the day labor center — and other worker advocates to push California lawmakers to better protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has passed new regulations requiring employers to protect workers from wildfire smoke or prohibiting them from forcing workers to be in evacuation zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in July, some domestic workers will be newly covered under state workplace safety laws. There’s an exception for those hired privately by homeowners, but Cal/OSHA spokesperson Daniel Lopez told CalMatters in an email that anyone who is hired for cleanup — no matter the employer — is already covered by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/wildfire/Worker-Health-and-Safety-During-Fire-Cleanup.html\">slew of wildfire-specific safety regulations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state advisory committee on domestic labor in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/Voluntary-Industry-Guidelines-SB-321.pdf\">recommended against (PDF)\u003c/a> hiring people commonly employed for household or yard work to clean up soot or ash after a wildfire, “as this may require specialized equipment and training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/011525_EatonFireDayLaborersPasadenaLosAngeles_JAJ_CM_022-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day laborer Oscar Hernandez, right, cleans up vegetation debris south of the Altadena Eaton Fire burn area in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t erase their willingness to do the jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning in Pasadena a handful of day laborers waited for gigs at the corner of Villa and Fair Oaks, three miles south of homes the Eaton Fire had burned one week earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They perked up as cars slowed past the street. Work has been slow all season, they said, even before the fires destroyed many household jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelo Esteban said he knew that there might be work coming to clean up or rebuild burnt down communities, though he expected homeowners to turn to day laborers only after they’ve gotten help from insurance companies or the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t think much about the risks that work might carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone needs help, we can use masks,” he said. “Someone is going to do the work anyway. What we need is to work. It doesn’t matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Wendy Fry contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Other conservative politicians have also vocalized their support for curbing policies that protect transgender athletes and youth seeking gender-affirming care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news did not come as a surprise. 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Mandates requiring workplaces and federal agencies to honor a person’s preferred pronouns would also be overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government may also prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to subsidize gender-affirming health care, and could force facilities that receive federal funding such as public schools and prisons to separate people on the basis of biological sex in intimate spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” the White House official said to reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-YouthClimateProtest-06-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of Trump’s order is unfounded, Mahogany argued. Defining sex as a biological binary of only male and female excludes not only transgender but also intersex people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gender has been something that has been defined differently between cultures throughout human history,” Mahogany said. “It’s really important to acknowledge that the Trump administration can say whatever it wants. It doesn’t necessarily change the realities that we are living every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said they’re concerned about what could happen to transgender people who are barred from accessing gender-affirming care, and said it’s likely that rates of depression and suicidal ideation may go up. They also said that disregarding a person’s gender identity could leave transgender individuals vulnerable to sexual and physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mahogany, Trump’s executive order and the conservative rhetoric around sex and gender may also hurt people who are not transgender. 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The crowd ranged from “pretty hardcore MAGA folks,” decked out in Trump’s signature red MAGA hat, to political moderates, said Bill Jackson, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all here to celebrate the new possibilities of this administration — the opportunities for accelerating our economic growth, for protecting our borders and for a more open kind of free speech and culture,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20241105w/index.html\">60,000 votes\u003c/a> going to Trump and his vice president JD Vance in San Francisco — or just under 16% of all votes cast — Republicans are still in the minority in the city. But this turnout was still higher than the number of votes \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20201103w/index.html\">Trump won in San Francisco in 2020,\u003c/a> demonstrating the President’s growing popularity — as well as slightly less engagement overall with the Democratic party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rightward shift was “slight,” said Josh Wolff, “but we’ll take anything here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Wolff cheers while watching the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump on TV at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, surrounded by fellow supporters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolff, 26, said he moved to California from Florida seven years ago. Compared to his home state, he found the tax rate and cost of living in California to be much higher, with what he calls low overall returns in government services. This year, Wolff was elected to the Republican Party County Central Committee in San Francisco, where he plans to tackle local issues, according to \u003ca href=\"https://joshwolff.me/\">his website\u003c/a>. One issue at the top of mind is public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolff described moving to the Bay Area to attend school and having many of his belongings stolen from his parked car in broad daylight “as a welcome gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was treated as a routine incident,” he said. “If you look around many parking lots, there are signs [posted] that blame the victim. It’s this kind of a mentality where the people who abide by the law — who pay the taxes — are the ones at fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some attendees were lifelong Republicans, others said that their interest in Trump’s firebrand politics stemmed from a gradual political evolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carly Matthews (left) and Philip Wing (center) listen to the national anthem being sung by Christopher Macchio during a watch party at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would be at an event like this in my life,” said Carly Matthews. “I moved from the left to the right in a span of 18 months, and I got my citizenship so that I could vote in this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said reckless government spending and disrespect to law enforcement disturbed her, so she made an account on X — the once San Francisco-based social media platform formerly known as Twitter that Elon Musk bought and rebranded — and started watching full-length interviews with Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it ‘getting X-ucated,’” Matthews joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-YouthClimateProtest-06-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews was born in Canada. After her own 10-year journey to become a U.S. citizen, she describes herself as “very pro-immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wonderful melting pot. That’s what I love about San Francisco,” Matthews said. “But when you’re crossing over the border illegally, and if you want to do harm to our citizens, that’s not good. If someone is willing to work hard and contribute to society, then yes, I support immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong independent voter, McCrea said she experienced a similar shift in her own thinking about Trump, from skepticism to “gratitude and relief” while watching his second inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCrea now identifies as a conservative, and as part of that, said she’s faced a bit of hostility for her beliefs. “I’m used to it now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a liberal city like San Francisco, McCrea knows that many people who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in the election or who are concerned that Trump’s immigration policies are worried or angry that Trump’s second term may lead to an even more troubling era for the United States. She offered them a piece of advice: take the long view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Realize that the pendulum swings,” McCrea said. “This is civics. This is how it works in the United States. 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But this turnout was still higher than the number of votes \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20201103w/index.html\">Trump won in San Francisco in 2020,\u003c/a> demonstrating the President’s growing popularity — as well as slightly less engagement overall with the Democratic party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rightward shift was “slight,” said Josh Wolff, “but we’ll take anything here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Wolff cheers while watching the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump on TV at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, surrounded by fellow supporters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolff, 26, said he moved to California from Florida seven years ago. Compared to his home state, he found the tax rate and cost of living in California to be much higher, with what he calls low overall returns in government services. This year, Wolff was elected to the Republican Party County Central Committee in San Francisco, where he plans to tackle local issues, according to \u003ca href=\"https://joshwolff.me/\">his website\u003c/a>. One issue at the top of mind is public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolff described moving to the Bay Area to attend school and having many of his belongings stolen from his parked car in broad daylight “as a welcome gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was treated as a routine incident,” he said. “If you look around many parking lots, there are signs [posted] that blame the victim. It’s this kind of a mentality where the people who abide by the law — who pay the taxes — are the ones at fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some attendees were lifelong Republicans, others said that their interest in Trump’s firebrand politics stemmed from a gradual political evolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carly Matthews (left) and Philip Wing (center) listen to the national anthem being sung by Christopher Macchio during a watch party at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would be at an event like this in my life,” said Carly Matthews. “I moved from the left to the right in a span of 18 months, and I got my citizenship so that I could vote in this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said reckless government spending and disrespect to law enforcement disturbed her, so she made an account on X — the once San Francisco-based social media platform formerly known as Twitter that Elon Musk bought and rebranded — and started watching full-length interviews with Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it ‘getting X-ucated,’” Matthews joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews was born in Canada. After her own 10-year journey to become a U.S. citizen, she describes herself as “very pro-immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wonderful melting pot. That’s what I love about San Francisco,” Matthews said. “But when you’re crossing over the border illegally, and if you want to do harm to our citizens, that’s not good. If someone is willing to work hard and contribute to society, then yes, I support immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong independent voter, McCrea said she experienced a similar shift in her own thinking about Trump, from skepticism to “gratitude and relief” while watching his second inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCrea now identifies as a conservative, and as part of that, said she’s faced a bit of hostility for her beliefs. “I’m used to it now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a liberal city like San Francisco, McCrea knows that many people who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in the election or who are concerned that Trump’s immigration policies are worried or angry that Trump’s second term may lead to an even more troubling era for the United States. She offered them a piece of advice: take the long view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Realize that the pendulum swings,” McCrea said. “This is civics. This is how it works in the United States. It goes back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to be divided about this,” McCrea continued. “We can have an honest difference of opinion and still be friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:42 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As President Biden leaves the Oval Office on Monday, three California lawmakers were among those he pardoned in an attempt to protect them from retribution for their involvement in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017426/trump-says-jan-6-panel-members-should-be-jailed-south-bays-zoe-lofgren-isnt-worried\">the bipartisan investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preemptive pardon covers Sen. Adam Schiff, South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren and San Bernardino Rep. 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Both Biden’s announcement and the committee’s response note the “exceptional circumstances” that they believe require the extraordinary step of preemptively pardoning public officials to shield them from politically motivated prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PresidentBiden2025AP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden, center, with Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Sec. of State Anthony Blinken, right, speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House on the announcement of a ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages after more than 15 months of war, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Evan Vucci/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I cannot in good conscience do nothing. Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” Biden said in his statement. “Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Lofgren \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017426/trump-says-jan-6-panel-members-should-be-jailed-south-bays-zoe-lofgren-isnt-worried\">told KQED\u003c/a> she was not requesting a pardon from Biden after Trump had told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-will-likely-pardon-capitol-rioters-day-1-says-jan-6-committee-me-rcna183275\">\u003cem>NBC’s Meet the Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the committee members should be jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in the Constitution. And I think we have a judicial branch that will make sure that the Constitution is enforced on that,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lofgren said the decision was Biden’s to make, Schiff said in a solo statement Monday that he believed the pardon was “unnecessary” and “unwise,” but said he understood why Biden felt he needed to issue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff told KQED last month that he didn’t like the precedent that pardons for the committee would set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t like the precedent of it,” he said. “I didn’t like it when Trump talked about doing that on his way out. And I don’t favor President Biden doing it either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023056 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both expressed that members of the committee had been fulfilling their duties in Congress when they investigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which took place on Jan. 6, 2021, while lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine members of the House of Representatives investigated the role Trump and close allies were believed to have played in inciting the violence, and ultimately referred Trump to the Department of Justice to face legal charges. A case brought by the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/nx-s1-5205376/jan-6-trump-case\">was thrown out\u003c/a> after Trump’s election victory due to DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the investigation, Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify, and Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R–Bakersfield), Jim Jordan (R–Ohio), Andy Biggs (R–Ariz.), and Scott Perry (R–Pa.) were referred to the House Ethics Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand by [the work we did],” Schiff said in an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMf7Q3g9JEA\">CNN’s Dana Bash\u003c/a> earlier this month. “We feel we have the protection of the Speech and Debate Clause. So, I — my own feeling is, let’s just avoid this kind of broad precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the statement on behalf of the whole committee, issued by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D–Miss.) and former Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both expressed that members of the committee had been fulfilling their duties in Congress when they investigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which took place on Jan. 6, 2021, while lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine members of the House of Representatives investigated the role Trump and close allies were believed to have played in inciting the violence, and ultimately referred Trump to the Department of Justice to face legal charges. A case brought by the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/nx-s1-5205376/jan-6-trump-case\">was thrown out\u003c/a> after Trump’s election victory due to DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the investigation, Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify, and Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R–Bakersfield), Jim Jordan (R–Ohio), Andy Biggs (R–Ariz.), and Scott Perry (R–Pa.) were referred to the House Ethics Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand by [the work we did],” Schiff said in an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMf7Q3g9JEA\">CNN’s Dana Bash\u003c/a> earlier this month. “We feel we have the protection of the Speech and Debate Clause. So, I — my own feeling is, let’s just avoid this kind of broad precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the statement on behalf of the whole committee, issued by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D–Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R–Wyo.) expressed gratitude for the pardon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are indeed ‘extraordinary circumstances’ when public servants are pardoned to prevent false prosecution by the government for having worked faithfully as Members of Congress to expose the facts of a months-long criminal effort to override the will of the voters after the 2020 elections, including by inciting a violent insurrection to thwart the peaceful transfer of power,” it reads. “Such a prosecution would be ordered and conducted by persons who led this unprecedented attack on our constitutional system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">\u003cem>Marisa Lagos\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>That revving you hear from Sacramento is the sound of California’s Democratic leaders preparing to sue the tar out of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this all before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">California sued the Trump administration 123 times\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2021, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/california-cost-trump-lawsuits/\">spent about $10 million a year\u003c/a> in doing so. A majority of the lawsuits dealt with environment rules, immigration and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and policy expect those same issues to take center stage during Trump 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bonta’s team started to prepare legal briefs months ahead of the election, it’s why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special legislative session\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and it’s why state Democrats have agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/\">allocate $50 million to fight Trump\u003c/a> in court — a move that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/J_GallagherAD3/status/1878599444003959053\">state Republicans denounced\u003c/a> as a “slush fund” for “hypothetical fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. California essentially “stepped in for a Justice Department that was no longer doing its job on behalf of the nation” and defended the law in court, said Anthony Wright, executive director at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-again-leaves-affordable-care-act-in-place/\">Supreme Court ruled in California’s favor\u003c/a> to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Had the decision gone Texas’ way, approximately 20 million Americans, including 5 million Californians, could have lost their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health care subsidies\u003c/strong>. California also went to bat for health care subsidies that help make Obamacare coverage more affordable. In 2017, Trump announced the federal government would stop paying insurers for cost-sharing subsidies that help offset out-of-pocket expenses, like deductibles and copays. Becerra and 17 other state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estimated 6 million Americans who would have been affected by this change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='donald-trump' label='More Trump Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/judge-dismisses-californias-lawsuit-over-halted-cost-sharing-payments\">placed its lawsuit on hold\u003c/a> when marketplaces and insurers found a workaround to offset those losses by increasing premiums on certain plans (but also premium aid), and the case was eventually closed. While this was not a court win, per say, Wright said California’s administrative response was still a win for consumers. “It was a way so that people’s copayments and deductibles didn’t spike to unaffordable levels,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Title X ‘gag’ rule\u003c/strong>. Title X is a federal program created in the 1970s that provides free or low cost family planning services to people with low incomes. In 2018, Trump proposed a “gag rule” that prohibited clinics receiving Title X funding from performing or referring patients to abortion services. Home to about a fourth of all Title X patients, California along with others challenged the policy change, but a ruling by a federal appeals court judge ultimately allowed it to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the rule change, many clinics stopped participating in the Title X program. That meant that the program served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration/\">about 60% fewer patients\u003c/a> between 2018 and 2020, according to KFF, a health policy research center. The Biden administration eventually revoked Trump’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Health advocates say they’ll be closely watching everything from reproductive choice and access to gender-affirming care to potential cuts or caps on Medicaid spending. Medicaid, better known as Medi-Cal in California, serves close to a third of the state population, and reductions in funding for this program would be deeply consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is the key word. While the state can do a lot to protect Californian’s access to care — as the Legislature has attempted to do with a slate of laws over the last few years — it also depends greatly on federal funding to make that happen, said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director at Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big takeaway and a big lesson learned from this last time around is we can do a lot here in California to protect consumers, to uphold California values,” McAllister said. “But without the federal funding to guarantee access to health care for folks, it’s really hard to keep people enrolled and to keep people with coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>That revving you hear from Sacramento is the sound of California’s Democratic leaders preparing to sue the tar out of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this all before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">California sued the Trump administration 123 times\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2021, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/california-cost-trump-lawsuits/\">spent about $10 million a year\u003c/a> in doing so. A majority of the lawsuits dealt with environment rules, immigration and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and policy expect those same issues to take center stage during Trump 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bonta’s team started to prepare legal briefs months ahead of the election, it’s why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special legislative session\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and it’s why state Democrats have agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/\">allocate $50 million to fight Trump\u003c/a> in court — a move that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/J_GallagherAD3/status/1878599444003959053\">state Republicans denounced\u003c/a> as a “slush fund” for “hypothetical fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. California essentially “stepped in for a Justice Department that was no longer doing its job on behalf of the nation” and defended the law in court, said Anthony Wright, executive director at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-again-leaves-affordable-care-act-in-place/\">Supreme Court ruled in California’s favor\u003c/a> to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Had the decision gone Texas’ way, approximately 20 million Americans, including 5 million Californians, could have lost their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health care subsidies\u003c/strong>. California also went to bat for health care subsidies that help make Obamacare coverage more affordable. In 2017, Trump announced the federal government would stop paying insurers for cost-sharing subsidies that help offset out-of-pocket expenses, like deductibles and copays. Becerra and 17 other state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estimated 6 million Americans who would have been affected by this change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/judge-dismisses-californias-lawsuit-over-halted-cost-sharing-payments\">placed its lawsuit on hold\u003c/a> when marketplaces and insurers found a workaround to offset those losses by increasing premiums on certain plans (but also premium aid), and the case was eventually closed. While this was not a court win, per say, Wright said California’s administrative response was still a win for consumers. “It was a way so that people’s copayments and deductibles didn’t spike to unaffordable levels,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Title X ‘gag’ rule\u003c/strong>. Title X is a federal program created in the 1970s that provides free or low cost family planning services to people with low incomes. In 2018, Trump proposed a “gag rule” that prohibited clinics receiving Title X funding from performing or referring patients to abortion services. Home to about a fourth of all Title X patients, California along with others challenged the policy change, but a ruling by a federal appeals court judge ultimately allowed it to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the rule change, many clinics stopped participating in the Title X program. That meant that the program served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration/\">about 60% fewer patients\u003c/a> between 2018 and 2020, according to KFF, a health policy research center. The Biden administration eventually revoked Trump’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Health advocates say they’ll be closely watching everything from reproductive choice and access to gender-affirming care to potential cuts or caps on Medicaid spending. Medicaid, better known as Medi-Cal in California, serves close to a third of the state population, and reductions in funding for this program would be deeply consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is the key word. While the state can do a lot to protect Californian’s access to care — as the Legislature has attempted to do with a slate of laws over the last few years — it also depends greatly on federal funding to make that happen, said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director at Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>TIJUANA, Mexico — It’s noon and the sun is brutal. At the foot of a steep hill, in the shade, a woman with an exhausted stare is rocking her child to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Alamie says she can’t remember the last time she rested, certainly not back in Buenaventura, the city on Colombia’s Pacific coast where she comes from, a place rocked by armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband owned a small store there. He was a peace activist in his free time. Local gangs began demanding higher protection fees. She said, “They told us if we didn’t pay, they’d kill our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the decision to leave home was made in a matter of seconds. They’d head north to the U.S.-Mexico border and hire a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em> (a smuggler) to get them to the other side. Her sister, who lives in California, would be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a coyote in Tijuana was easy. One guy offered to cross the family of three for $8,000. But folks at Juventud 2000, a shelter in the city, dissuaded them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us we could get killed out there or caught and sent back to Colombia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andres Patiño plays with his son outside the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Alamie have decided instead to go the official route by using the CBP One app, which provides an appointment to request legal entry into the U.S. But she’s been waiting for five months and is starting to get desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unauthorized apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have decreased significantly in the past six months — by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government attributes the dip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/23/1198912704/bidens-executive-actions-on-immigration-send-mixed-signals\">an executive order\u003c/a> issued last summer by President Biden that severely restricts asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with no authorization. Another factor is the implementation of the CBP One app, and experts say the Mexican national guard cracking down on migrants heading north is playing a key role, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 20, he will be inheriting a quiet border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the date is looming in her mind. “I think about it every day,” she says. “I imagine him taking his seat at the White House. And then what’s going to happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to ramping up border security, Trump has promised to shut down the CBP One app. “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1835315698169475316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835315698169475316%7Ctwgr%5Ec463189ca2f09e6a59829ce2e85febcef0d344a1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fimmigration%2F3227614%2Ftrump-ending-cbp-one-migrant-app-border-consequences%2F\">posted on X last year\u003c/a>, “[and] terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals,” a reference to the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s assertion that the app is used to smuggle people across the border is false. Immigrants seeking asylum use the app to make appointments for screening with U.S. government officials to gain legal entry into the country while they wait to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestrian port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line the grounds of the migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the lower number of border apprehensions only tells part of the story. Behind the scenes, folks on the ground say major shifts are happening in how people cross the border. “Immigrants are still arriving,” says Jose Maria Garcia Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter. “They’re just moving underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is just a stone’s throw away from the border wall. It’s so packed that the floor of the main room is covered in back-to-back sleeping tents. Many people here are Mexicans displaced by narco violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this day, a nonprofit is delivering presents to migrant children. The result is utter chaos. Shrieks of delight are punctuated by beeping toy sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Lara says this is nothing compared with what it was like early last year. There were so many migrants that people had to camp out in public parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For months now, the number of people arriving at the shelter has gone down,” he says. “They’re still coming to Tijuana though. Becoming invisible. Hiring coyotes who put them up in motels and safe houses, so they can cross over through more remote parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Maria Garcia Lara head of migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian aid groups say the shift has been notable. “Things along the border have changed in the last year to four months,” says James Crodero of the volunteer group Border Kindness, which leaves first aid supplies and water for migrants along the border. He says crossings have shifted “from more predictable routes that have been used for years on end, to areas that we don’t know. We know for a fact that people are coming across, and it has moved into more dangerous areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Tijuana shelter, in her piece of shade, Alamie says she’s reconsidering attempting to cross. The coyote has almost doubled his price, from $8,000 to $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so close,” she sighs, pointing in the direction of the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a general sense of anxiety at the shelter. Near where Alamie is sitting, a group of women wash clothing at a furious pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all from Michoacán, Mexico, and say they’re all fleeing drug violence. They keep trying to get a CBP One appointment with no luck, and they know their window of opportunity is closing. But they don’t want to cross without documents or hire a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they’d ever go back home, one woman, Marta, who asks that her last name be withheld fearing cartel violence, smiles wearily. Without pausing her scrubbing, she answers: “Never. But we can’t move forward either. We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta from Michoacán, Mexico, washes clothes at the migrant shelter Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child peers through the gate doors as women wash clothes at the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, in a neighborhood up in the hills, a man named Samuel makes a living getting people like Marta and Alamie unstuck. Samuel is a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will not give his last name because what he does is illegal in both countries. And like all coyotes, he has to give a cut of his profits to a cartel. He won’t tell me which one. He simply refers to them as “\u003cem>los mañosos,\u003c/em>” or “the slick ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel says crossing costs between $9,000 and $12,000 for a family. He says he’s heard of coyotes who can “get violent” with women but that he’s always been respectful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain view of Tecate, Mexico, from California’s Jacumba Valley on Dec. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, he says, migrants get crossed through deeper parts of the desert. It’s dangerous terrain, and can take up to a week, but it’s less patrolled by Mexican authorities and U.S. Border Patrol. “We don’t get caught. We have ways,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>An unassuming middle-aged man, Samuel is surveilling as we speak, his eyes darting around. He speaks in short sentences unless he gets heated, like when he’s asked if the incoming Trump administration could hurt his business. “The U.S. can put up a wall,” he says. “But you better make sure it reaches the sky. Because there’s no such thing as a problem for us. Like a mouse, we’ll find a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several miles up, on the other side of the border, many people envision a very different future under Trump’s administration, one with an impenetrable border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1536x1271.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe at the US southern border in Jacumba Valley, California, on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kate Monroe is the founder of Border Vets, a group of military veterans that advocate for stronger border security. We meet her on the San Diego side of the border, in what’s known as the Jacumba Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reported extensively in this region. In the past few years, it’s been the site of massive informal open-air detention camps. “Up until just a few months ago, you would see 500 to 1,000 people a day crossing in every single hole along this border, in broad daylight,” she says. That sight scared her. “Americans, we don’t have to go quietly into the night. We can stand up and fight that,” referring to illegal crossings.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101908347,news_12021487,news_12016488\"]Still, for the last few months, it’s been quieter out here as border crossings go down or, depending on who you ask, go further underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe’s hope is that the incoming president takes border enforcement further. She says she’s looking forward to seeing mass deportations of immigrants with criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone can agree that those people should go,” she says. Monroe also hopes to see a strengthened Border Patrol and the wall finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an advocate for tougher immigration and border enforcement doesn’t mean she doesn’t have compassion for immigrants, she says. Particularly when it comes to the risks and dangers women face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe says her military career ended after a brutal sexual assault. When she hears migrant women’s stories and the way sexual assault is often seen as the “price to pay” for making the trek to the U.S., it reminds her of what she endured. “It disgusts me,” she says. “It pains me and my spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, she would like to see border security and deportations combined with immigration reform that allows for orderly migration. “If we really want people in our country, we need to build workforce housing, change our visa program, reimagine the way that we handle immigration. All these jobs we say Americans don’t want, we need to put together a plan to get labor here in a way that doesn’t get them assaulted, robbed and killed on the way here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe visits the southern US border in Jacumba Valley on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe speaks to migrants in Jacumba Valley, after they crossed into the US on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk, we see a family walking by the border wall. They’re the first migrants I’ve seen out here in three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They look terrified to see us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe gives them water. Two of the girls, ages 4 and 11, start sobbing. Their puffy winter jackets are covered in desert dust. Their father, Ronald, hugs them and cries. “It’s over,” he whispers in their ear. “We’re no longer running away. Nothing can happen to us now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is from Venezuela. They’ve been on the move for a month. They say it felt too scary to wait in Mexico hoping to get an official appointment for entry into the U.S., so they hired a coyote. When asked about that experience, Ronald’s voice cracks as he says, “To those people, we are nothing but merchandise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a matter of seconds, before he can tell us his last name or the rest of his story, Border Patrol agents arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother holds onto her daughter after crossing the southern border in Jacumba Valley as Border Patrol agents process the group. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine how humiliating?” Monroe says, pointing at Ronald as he crouches to remove his shoelaces, a standard Border Patrol request, while his daughters watch. “Is this what compassion looks like?” she asks as the family is loaded into the patrol car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe believes scenes like this are a result of policies Democrats put in place. She says there has to be a better way for people to come to America, and that Trump has the answers to fix the broken immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>TIJUANA, Mexico — It’s noon and the sun is brutal. At the foot of a steep hill, in the shade, a woman with an exhausted stare is rocking her child to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Alamie says she can’t remember the last time she rested, certainly not back in Buenaventura, the city on Colombia’s Pacific coast where she comes from, a place rocked by armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband owned a small store there. He was a peace activist in his free time. Local gangs began demanding higher protection fees. She said, “They told us if we didn’t pay, they’d kill our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the decision to leave home was made in a matter of seconds. They’d head north to the U.S.-Mexico border and hire a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em> (a smuggler) to get them to the other side. Her sister, who lives in California, would be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a coyote in Tijuana was easy. One guy offered to cross the family of three for $8,000. But folks at Juventud 2000, a shelter in the city, dissuaded them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us we could get killed out there or caught and sent back to Colombia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andres Patiño plays with his son outside the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Alamie have decided instead to go the official route by using the CBP One app, which provides an appointment to request legal entry into the U.S. But she’s been waiting for five months and is starting to get desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unauthorized apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have decreased significantly in the past six months — by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government attributes the dip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/23/1198912704/bidens-executive-actions-on-immigration-send-mixed-signals\">an executive order\u003c/a> issued last summer by President Biden that severely restricts asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with no authorization. Another factor is the implementation of the CBP One app, and experts say the Mexican national guard cracking down on migrants heading north is playing a key role, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 20, he will be inheriting a quiet border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the date is looming in her mind. “I think about it every day,” she says. “I imagine him taking his seat at the White House. And then what’s going to happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to ramping up border security, Trump has promised to shut down the CBP One app. “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1835315698169475316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835315698169475316%7Ctwgr%5Ec463189ca2f09e6a59829ce2e85febcef0d344a1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fimmigration%2F3227614%2Ftrump-ending-cbp-one-migrant-app-border-consequences%2F\">posted on X last year\u003c/a>, “[and] terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals,” a reference to the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s assertion that the app is used to smuggle people across the border is false. Immigrants seeking asylum use the app to make appointments for screening with U.S. government officials to gain legal entry into the country while they wait to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestrian port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line the grounds of the migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the lower number of border apprehensions only tells part of the story. Behind the scenes, folks on the ground say major shifts are happening in how people cross the border. “Immigrants are still arriving,” says Jose Maria Garcia Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter. “They’re just moving underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is just a stone’s throw away from the border wall. It’s so packed that the floor of the main room is covered in back-to-back sleeping tents. Many people here are Mexicans displaced by narco violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this day, a nonprofit is delivering presents to migrant children. The result is utter chaos. Shrieks of delight are punctuated by beeping toy sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Lara says this is nothing compared with what it was like early last year. There were so many migrants that people had to camp out in public parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For months now, the number of people arriving at the shelter has gone down,” he says. “They’re still coming to Tijuana though. Becoming invisible. Hiring coyotes who put them up in motels and safe houses, so they can cross over through more remote parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Maria Garcia Lara head of migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian aid groups say the shift has been notable. “Things along the border have changed in the last year to four months,” says James Crodero of the volunteer group Border Kindness, which leaves first aid supplies and water for migrants along the border. He says crossings have shifted “from more predictable routes that have been used for years on end, to areas that we don’t know. We know for a fact that people are coming across, and it has moved into more dangerous areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Tijuana shelter, in her piece of shade, Alamie says she’s reconsidering attempting to cross. The coyote has almost doubled his price, from $8,000 to $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so close,” she sighs, pointing in the direction of the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a general sense of anxiety at the shelter. Near where Alamie is sitting, a group of women wash clothing at a furious pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all from Michoacán, Mexico, and say they’re all fleeing drug violence. They keep trying to get a CBP One appointment with no luck, and they know their window of opportunity is closing. But they don’t want to cross without documents or hire a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they’d ever go back home, one woman, Marta, who asks that her last name be withheld fearing cartel violence, smiles wearily. Without pausing her scrubbing, she answers: “Never. But we can’t move forward either. We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta from Michoacán, Mexico, washes clothes at the migrant shelter Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child peers through the gate doors as women wash clothes at the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, in a neighborhood up in the hills, a man named Samuel makes a living getting people like Marta and Alamie unstuck. Samuel is a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will not give his last name because what he does is illegal in both countries. And like all coyotes, he has to give a cut of his profits to a cartel. He won’t tell me which one. He simply refers to them as “\u003cem>los mañosos,\u003c/em>” or “the slick ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel says crossing costs between $9,000 and $12,000 for a family. He says he’s heard of coyotes who can “get violent” with women but that he’s always been respectful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain view of Tecate, Mexico, from California’s Jacumba Valley on Dec. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, he says, migrants get crossed through deeper parts of the desert. It’s dangerous terrain, and can take up to a week, but it’s less patrolled by Mexican authorities and U.S. Border Patrol. “We don’t get caught. We have ways,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>An unassuming middle-aged man, Samuel is surveilling as we speak, his eyes darting around. He speaks in short sentences unless he gets heated, like when he’s asked if the incoming Trump administration could hurt his business. “The U.S. can put up a wall,” he says. “But you better make sure it reaches the sky. Because there’s no such thing as a problem for us. Like a mouse, we’ll find a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several miles up, on the other side of the border, many people envision a very different future under Trump’s administration, one with an impenetrable border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1536x1271.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe at the US southern border in Jacumba Valley, California, on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kate Monroe is the founder of Border Vets, a group of military veterans that advocate for stronger border security. We meet her on the San Diego side of the border, in what’s known as the Jacumba Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reported extensively in this region. In the past few years, it’s been the site of massive informal open-air detention camps. “Up until just a few months ago, you would see 500 to 1,000 people a day crossing in every single hole along this border, in broad daylight,” she says. That sight scared her. “Americans, we don’t have to go quietly into the night. We can stand up and fight that,” referring to illegal crossings.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, for the last few months, it’s been quieter out here as border crossings go down or, depending on who you ask, go further underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe’s hope is that the incoming president takes border enforcement further. She says she’s looking forward to seeing mass deportations of immigrants with criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone can agree that those people should go,” she says. Monroe also hopes to see a strengthened Border Patrol and the wall finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an advocate for tougher immigration and border enforcement doesn’t mean she doesn’t have compassion for immigrants, she says. Particularly when it comes to the risks and dangers women face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe says her military career ended after a brutal sexual assault. When she hears migrant women’s stories and the way sexual assault is often seen as the “price to pay” for making the trek to the U.S., it reminds her of what she endured. “It disgusts me,” she says. “It pains me and my spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, she would like to see border security and deportations combined with immigration reform that allows for orderly migration. “If we really want people in our country, we need to build workforce housing, change our visa program, reimagine the way that we handle immigration. All these jobs we say Americans don’t want, we need to put together a plan to get labor here in a way that doesn’t get them assaulted, robbed and killed on the way here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe visits the southern US border in Jacumba Valley on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe speaks to migrants in Jacumba Valley, after they crossed into the US on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk, we see a family walking by the border wall. They’re the first migrants I’ve seen out here in three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They look terrified to see us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe gives them water. Two of the girls, ages 4 and 11, start sobbing. Their puffy winter jackets are covered in desert dust. Their father, Ronald, hugs them and cries. “It’s over,” he whispers in their ear. “We’re no longer running away. Nothing can happen to us now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is from Venezuela. They’ve been on the move for a month. They say it felt too scary to wait in Mexico hoping to get an official appointment for entry into the U.S., so they hired a coyote. When asked about that experience, Ronald’s voice cracks as he says, “To those people, we are nothing but merchandise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a matter of seconds, before he can tell us his last name or the rest of his story, Border Patrol agents arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother holds onto her daughter after crossing the southern border in Jacumba Valley as Border Patrol agents process the group. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine how humiliating?” Monroe says, pointing at Ronald as he crouches to remove his shoelaces, a standard Border Patrol request, while his daughters watch. “Is this what compassion looks like?” she asks as the family is loaded into the patrol car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe believes scenes like this are a result of policies Democrats put in place. 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"title": "California’s Government Grew to Record Size Under Newsom. Now He, Too, Is Talking About ‘Efficiency’",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s not only Washington, D.C., where “efficiency” has become the buzzword du jour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California facing an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/california-budget-deficit-legislative-analyst/\">uncertain fiscal future\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom made his own pitch for a leaner state government last week as he previewed his annual budget proposal. Touting billions of dollars in savings from eliminating empty positions and scaling back spending on everything from travel to printing, the Democratic governor compared his efforts to the Department of Government Efficiency, the incoming Trump administration’s push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html\">slash costs across the federal government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all taxpayers. We all want to make sure our money is being well invested, not wasted. We want more efficiency,” Newsom told reporters during a stop at the Stanislaus State campus in Turlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our D.O.G.E. is spelled O.D.I.” he said, referring to the Office of Data and Innovation he created in 2019 to improve public services through technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. The California Volunteers office has quintupled in size under Newsom to manage his new initiatives to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/california-service-corps.html\">engage young people in community service\u003c/a> and climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/gavin-newsom-2025-california-budget/\">latest budget plan unveiled last week\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed creating two new state agencies, to oversee housing and homelessness programs and consumer protection programs. Additional details are not yet available, though state officials said these would largely be a reorganization of departments that already exist.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021637,news_12018471,news_12020389,news_12021308\"]It’s difficult to get a comprehensive picture of how Newsom’s priorities have enlarged state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His Finance Department was unable to answer questions about whether several of his biggest and most expensive initiatives added new positions to the state payroll, including CalAIM, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">first-of-its-kind overhaul\u003c/a> of medical care for low-income patients; Homekey, which funds the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/11/newsom-pandemic-beat-homelessness/\">conversion of hotels and motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>; the trash pickup program Clean California; and CARE Court, a system to push people with mental illness \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">off the streets and into treatment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in the workforce is also driven by laws predating Newsom, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">gas tax hike\u003c/a> that has funded thousands of new jobs to repair California’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, the governor has shrunk some parts of the state government, such as by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/california-prison-cost-per-inmate/\">closing several prisons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overall trend is up. There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, commissioned the California Performance Review to overhaul state bureaucracy. The 2,500-page report \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-04-me-cpr4-story.html\">recommended more than 1,000 steps\u003c/a> to shrink the state government and save billions of dollars annually, including consolidating departments and agencies, eliminating 118 boards and commissions, and cutting 12,000 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Kozberg, a veteran of a similar “reinventing government” effort under another previous Republican governor, Pete Wilson, co-chaired the California Performance Review. She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. It takes knowledge of government,” she said. “You could do it and you should do it, but it’s going to take a lot of tenacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown did push through a \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/03/30/news17476/index.html\">reorganization and consolidation plan\u003c/a> to “make government more efficient,” aided by a political environment in which an economic recession and steep budget deficits were the prevailing concern. It included eliminating 20 departments, offices and boards, merging the state’s personnel agencies and slashing funding for employee travel and cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler, who served under Brown before working for Newsom, said some of what California governors have done in the name of efficiency is to demonstrate their values to the public — and some of it is just for show. But it’s difficult to eliminate more than a minor part of state government, she said, because the vast majority of money in the budget pays for services, which are much harder to take away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government is not the bastion of efficiency. It’s just not what the incentives are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler expressed trepidation about Newsom’s latest approach, demanding an across-the-board 7.95% spending cut for every agency and department. Though it’s easier and appears value neutral, she said, that’s not the effect that it ultimately has on Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a real evaluation of whether this is making government better,” Bosler said. “I worry about all the things that are not going to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. The California Volunteers office has quintupled in size under Newsom to manage his new initiatives to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/california-service-corps.html\">engage young people in community service\u003c/a> and climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/gavin-newsom-2025-california-budget/\">latest budget plan unveiled last week\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed creating two new state agencies, to oversee housing and homelessness programs and consumer protection programs. Additional details are not yet available, though state officials said these would largely be a reorganization of departments that already exist.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. 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She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/wildfires\">wildfires\u003c/a> didn’t just leave torched homes and businesses in ruin. They also consumed spiritual centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least three houses of worship — Altadena Community Church, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center and Masjid Al-Taqwa — burned in the Eaton Fire, destroying irreplaceable artifacts. The congregations are left with a major loss, but their leaders said they have felt an outpouring of generosity from the larger community, spurring hopes of rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 7, the fire ignited in Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains before swiftly moving toward urban areas such as Altadena and Pasadena, burning more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire\">14,000 acres and destroying more than 7,000 structures\u003c/a>. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Tellström, Altadena Community Church’s pastor, lives a few blocks from the fire evacuation line in Pasadena. Embers landed on the church, igniting the fire that consumed all but the arches and front wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that was left of the front door was the frame, which looked as if it were a window to a magnificent view of the San Gabriel mountains. Half of the front wall of what used to be a cream-colored church, now charred black, fell on top of Tellström’s old office. The word “church,” outlined in metal, is the only word that remains of an otherwise obliterated welcome sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg\" alt=\"The word 'CHURCH' in metal on a wall laying on top of a pile of debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena Community Church was completely destroyed by the Eaton Fire that ignited on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellström has not been back to visit yet, but he said he hopes a clavichord — a stringed keyboard instrument he and his dad constructed many years ago — survived the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was played for the first time in public on Christmas Eve,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was constructed in the late 1940s. Tellström said the congregation of about 60 is just beginning the hard conversation about whether or not to rebuild. They’re proud of being an openly queer-affirming church, and he said they refuse to see their message of acceptance incinerated by the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will honor whatever they want to do,” said Tellström, who retires next month. “Churches are shrinking across America right now. They’re harder to maintain. On the other hand, [our congregation] loves what they stand for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1920x1262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few miles from the church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was also consumed by the Eaton Fire. Rabbi Jill Gold Wright said the temple, which was older than a century, boasts a large congregation with around 450 families. She was at the synagogue before the flames engulfed the church on Jan. 7, a night she described as harrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embers violently flared across the property as volunteers scrambled to determine what to save. The smoke was so thick inside the synagogue they could only rescue 11 Torah scrolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no more time for them to rescue anything else,” Gold Wright said. “So they got into their cars with the Torah scrolls and drove away, and then our synagogue was on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at least one scroll dates back to the 17th century. Nine scrolls will be held indefinitely in the Huntington Library’s archives. The synagogue kept two for when the congregation gathers to worship online and at temporary venues. Gold Wright said at least 22 families lost their homes, and she is unsure if the congregation will decide to rebuild at the same site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m holding the grief and the loss and also holding a real confidence that the community will thrive and that we will stay together,” she said. “That is a very Jewish thing — to hold two seemingly opposing but actually very human experiences at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker with Southern California Edison walks through the ruins of the Masjid Al-Taqwa that was destroyed in the Eaton fire at 2183 N. Lake Avenue in Altadena on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Masjid Al-Taqwa, the only mosque serving the area, was founded around 40 years ago by African-American Muslims, according to former Imam Jihad Saafir, who has been speaking to the media on the mosque’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This beautiful masjid that was beloved to us for years burnt down, and it broke all of our hearts,” he said, referring to the mosque in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the mosque’s board members lost their home and business, while another’s home is the only house left standing on its block. Saafir said the community hopes to rebuild, but they need time to heal before making a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022146 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-056-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a setback for a beautiful comeback, but we leave that up to the creator,” he said. “The future is looking bright even though we didn’t know what to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s aware that rebuilding on the same site could mean a repeat of a future fire, and he is cognizant that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">human-caused climate change\u003c/a> led to the dry conditions that caused the fire to burn out of control. However, he is unsure where else to rebuild. Like the other congregations in this story, the mosque is seeking financial donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beautiful part is that the day we found out it burned, we started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/help_restore_our_beloved_masjid_in_altadena\">GoFundMe and a LaunchGood\u003c/a>,” he said. “We’re almost at a million dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena Community Church is \u003ca href=\"https://altadenaucc.org/\">collecting donations through its website\u003c/a>. Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center has raised almost $150,000 of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pjtc-rebuild-after-the-eaton-canyon-fire\">$500,000 goal on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Gold Wright said the temple is “raising funds more immediately for our families who have been impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three leaders said that even though their physical buildings are gone, the spiritual home that remains within the heart of the community is still very much alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building is not the church,” Tellström said. “The people — that’s the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The word “church,” outlined in metal, is the only word that remains of an otherwise obliterated welcome sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg\" alt=\"The word 'CHURCH' in metal on a wall laying on top of a pile of debris.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFire3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altadena Community Church was completely destroyed by the Eaton Fire that ignited on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tellström has not been back to visit yet, but he said he hopes a clavichord — a stringed keyboard instrument he and his dad constructed many years ago — survived the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was played for the first time in public on Christmas Eve,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building was constructed in the late 1940s. Tellström said the congregation of about 60 is just beginning the hard conversation about whether or not to rebuild. They’re proud of being an openly queer-affirming church, and he said they refuse to see their message of acceptance incinerated by the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will honor whatever they want to do,” said Tellström, who retires next month. “Churches are shrinking across America right now. They’re harder to maintain. On the other hand, [our congregation] loves what they stand for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1315\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFirePasadenaJewishTempleGetty-1920x1262.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few miles from the church, the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was also consumed by the Eaton Fire. Rabbi Jill Gold Wright said the temple, which was older than a century, boasts a large congregation with around 450 families. She was at the synagogue before the flames engulfed the church on Jan. 7, a night she described as harrowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embers violently flared across the property as volunteers scrambled to determine what to save. The smoke was so thick inside the synagogue they could only rescue 11 Torah scrolls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no more time for them to rescue anything else,” Gold Wright said. “So they got into their cars with the Torah scrolls and drove away, and then our synagogue was on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said at least one scroll dates back to the 17th century. Nine scrolls will be held indefinitely in the Huntington Library’s archives. The synagogue kept two for when the congregation gathers to worship online and at temporary venues. Gold Wright said at least 22 families lost their homes, and she is unsure if the congregation will decide to rebuild at the same site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m holding the grief and the loss and also holding a real confidence that the community will thrive and that we will stay together,” she said. “That is a very Jewish thing — to hold two seemingly opposing but actually very human experiences at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ReligiousCenterFireMosqueGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker with Southern California Edison walks through the ruins of the Masjid Al-Taqwa that was destroyed in the Eaton fire at 2183 N. Lake Avenue in Altadena on Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Masjid Al-Taqwa, the only mosque serving the area, was founded around 40 years ago by African-American Muslims, according to former Imam Jihad Saafir, who has been speaking to the media on the mosque’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This beautiful masjid that was beloved to us for years burnt down, and it broke all of our hearts,” he said, referring to the mosque in Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the mosque’s board members lost their home and business, while another’s home is the only house left standing on its block. Saafir said the community hopes to rebuild, but they need time to heal before making a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a setback for a beautiful comeback, but we leave that up to the creator,” he said. “The future is looking bright even though we didn’t know what to think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s aware that rebuilding on the same site could mean a repeat of a future fire, and he is cognizant that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">human-caused climate change\u003c/a> led to the dry conditions that caused the fire to burn out of control. However, he is unsure where else to rebuild. Like the other congregations in this story, the mosque is seeking financial donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beautiful part is that the day we found out it burned, we started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/help_restore_our_beloved_masjid_in_altadena\">GoFundMe and a LaunchGood\u003c/a>,” he said. “We’re almost at a million dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena Community Church is \u003ca href=\"https://altadenaucc.org/\">collecting donations through its website\u003c/a>. Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center has raised almost $150,000 of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pjtc-rebuild-after-the-eaton-canyon-fire\">$500,000 goal on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Gold Wright said the temple is “raising funds more immediately for our families who have been impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three leaders said that even though their physical buildings are gone, the spiritual home that remains within the heart of the community is still very much alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The building is not the church,” Tellström said. “The people — that’s the church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The last time Susan Civitts heard her brother’s voice was a phone call on Christmas. He promised Civitts that in the new year, he would come home to Pennsylvania to visit his sister and their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 4, Charles Albert Bollinger, 81, was struck by a car on Silver Avenue, just steps away from his home in San Francisco’s residential Portola District. Police said the driver fled immediately after the crash. Shortly after, Bollinger died of his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a very special person,” Civitts told KQED. “He was my best friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bollinger’s death marked the city’s first traffic fatality of 2025, coming just days after the end of the deadliest year for San Francisco pedestrians in nearly two decades. The city’s 24th pedestrian was killed on the Great Highway on Dec. 27, only eight days before Bollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 41 people, including cyclists and motorists, were killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco in 2024. That’s the most since 2007, which also had 41 overall traffic deaths, 24 of which were pedestrians, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Traffic-Crashes-Resulting-in-Injury/ubvf-ztfx/about_data\">publicly available data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco traffic fatalities since 2014 \" aria-label=\"Stacked Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-C8akl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/C8akl/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worrying surge came despite Vision Zero, a decadelong initiative to eliminate traffic deaths on the city’s roadways by 2024. It’s clear something needs to change, and some observers hold out hope that new laws and automated enforcement coming this year could do just that — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">revitalize the city’s commitment to Vision Zero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that 2025 is a pivot point,” said Marta Lindsey, communications director for Walk SF, a group that tracks pedestrian deaths and agitates for data-based, preventive approaches to reducing traffic violence. “Please, let this be the year we start to see the trajectory shift in a positive direction. It’s possible that we will see that change — if the city gets its act together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Vision Zero initiative, some of the city’s most visible street changes have come in response to tragic deaths. Just last March, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992918/san-francisco-driver-78-arrested-months-after-crash-that-killed-family-of-4\">family of four\u003c/a> waiting for a bus in the West Portal neighborhood was killed by a speeding driver, a horrifying loss that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety\">briefly galvanized the city\u003c/a> around the issue of traffic violence and spurred expedited safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for cities to rein in traffic deaths, advocates say, they will have to be less reactive and more proactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey and other proponents are encouraged by two moves in particular, set to roll out in the spring: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020110/sf-speed-cameras-coming-march-will-they-help-cut-traffic-deaths\">automated speed cameras\u003c/a> and a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019725/daylighting-laws-will-be-enforced-in-the-bay-area-in-2025-heres-how-to-avoid-a-ticket\">daylighting\u003c/a> law, which aims to prevent parked cars from obstructing drivers’ views at intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new policies, Vision Zero Network founder Leah Shahum said, are a good example of what happens when cities anticipate crashes instead of reacting to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sooner that a city can transition to incorporating that more proactive approach, the better,” Shahum said. “That’s where you’re going to see the big, big safety gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speed poses a deadly danger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Jenny Yu talks about what happened to her mother in 2011, she uses the word “crash” or “collision” — not “accident” — because she and other advocates believe her mother’s life-changing injuries were preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu’s mother, Judy, was walking to the beach when she was struck by a speeding 94-year-old driver turning left on Park Presidio Boulevard. Judy survived, but she suffered broken bones, a collapsed lung and a traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a vibrant woman who really enjoyed being a mom and a grandma,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the years after the crash, Yu started attending Walk SF community events and met others in the Bay Area affected by traffic violence. She learned about the connection between speed and safety: Speed was the No. 1 cause of all traffic crashes in San Francisco last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/media/41214/download?inline\">Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, San Francisco will become the first city in California to turn on speed cameras, nearly a year and a half after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill authorizing the technology in six cities across the state. San Francisco will install 33 over the coming months, each in areas identified as having a high number of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, a founding member of the Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets, traveled to Sacramento with groups like Walk SF four times to fight for the cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Vc9hv/8/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tool has been proven to help in other states and other countries,” Yu told KQED. “There’s a track record of this change that — if we’re willing to adopt it — has shown to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowing down drivers, whether through speed cameras or street changes, would have a substantial effect on street safety. Last year, speed was responsible for a quarter of all fatalities in San Francisco — a figure that has reached as high as 40% in recent years. Statewide, more than a third of all traffic deaths are due to speeding and aggressive driving, according to data collected by \u003ca href=\"https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/tools/california-safe-speeds-toolkit/california-safe-speeds-toolkit-research-speeds-speed-limits-and#:~:text=Speed%20is%20a%20significant%20concern,aggressive%20driving%20(Caltrans%202023%20).\">UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed can also make a significant difference in a pedestrian’s chances of surviving a crash. A person hit by a car traveling at 35 mph is five times more likely to die than a pedestrian hit by a car at 20 mph, notes a guide by the \u003ca href=\"https://nacto.org/publication/city-limits/the-need/speed-kills/#:~:text=Vehicle%20speed%20at%20the%20time,at%2020%20miles%20per%20hour.\">National Association of City Transportation Officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the cameras, San Francisco is experimenting with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/speed-management\">lower speed limits\u003c/a>, which will be proposed on 11 more streets this year. The strategy stems from \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB43\">AB 43\u003c/a>, a law passed in 2021 that gives local governments the ability to lower speed limits that were previously set by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Czarecki, with the community advocacy group Walk SF, hangs a sign at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until AB 43 took effect, California required cities to set speed limits by using the 85th percentile rule. It’s defined as the speed below which 85% of drivers were already going on a road, which, in theory, should be what they consider to be a safe speed. \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/safety-programs/setting-speed-limits\">Caltrans\u003c/a> calls this measure “the single most influential indicator” of what is safe and reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like setting a curfew based on when a teenager comes home,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 85th percentile did not take into account pedestrians, cycling traffic, schools or any other conditions that might make the speed limit unsafe. AB 43 allows local governments to consider those factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of San Francisco’s streets have 25 mph speed limits, though some are higher. Lake Merced Boulevard, for example, is 35 mph and 40 in some sections, even near schools. In a 2022 survey, Walk SF documented numerous drivers exceeding 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a silver bullet, lower speed limits are already making an impact in the Tenderloin — the neighborhood with the highest number of \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/tenderloin-community-action-plan/tcap-youth-gap-analysis-report.pdf\">children\u003c/a> in the city. Despite having one of the lowest rates of \u003ca href=\"https://underscoresf.com/remember-theres-a-car-ownership-map-of-san-francisco/#:~:text=Braitsch%20found%20in%20his%20research,those%20zones%20without%20a%20car.\">car ownership\u003c/a>, every street in the neighborhood falls on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/speed-and-turn-limits-boost-safety-tenderloin-streets-0\"> high-injury network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Viloria, a Tenderloin resident and organizer with San Francisco Transit Riders, said neighborhood mobilization around infrastructure has helped reduce crashes and pedestrian deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a dense neighborhood, we don’t have a lot of open space,” Viloria said. “The streets are open space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making pedestrians more visible to drivers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California’s new daylighting law took effect this year, making it illegal to park within 20 feet of the vehicle approach side of a crosswalk, San Francisco will begin issuing tickets on March 1, regardless of whether or not the curb is painted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the new law has drawn some frustration for reducing street parking, experts on urban design and transportation have celebrated it as a way to rethink public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Street space is really, really precious in a city like San Francisco,” said David Zipper, a senior fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative. “It’s worth asking: If we care about safety in the city, should we be using that space to store private property — which is what automobiles are — or should we be using it to create safe spaces for those who are walking and biking?\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents frequently point to Hoboken, New Jersey, a city of 60,000 people that hasn’t had a pedestrian death in more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762\">seven years\u003c/a>. After an elderly resident was hit and killed by a van in 2015, the city limited street parking in its daylighting efforts, part of its commitment to Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Silver Avenue in Portola, daylighting might have saved Bollinger’s life. Cars are frequently parked in front of the intersection, neighbors said, making it difficult for drivers to register pedestrians crossing on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Tsang, whose family lives above the unmarked crosswalk, said she avoids crossing there when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that the cars will stop for them,” said Tsang, 22. “There’s not many stop signs on this part of the street, so sometimes you see cars going really fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too fast, said Steve and Therese Heller, who live next door to Bollinger and his son. While they were shocked to learn about Bollinger’s death, they weren’t surprised that the fatal collision happened at that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The visibility there is just really poor,” Steve Heller said. “No one thinks it’s an intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationwide struggle with traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all the efforts to make San Francisco’s streets safer for all, there are some factors that lie outside local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although traffic fatalities nationwide have declined in recent years, the numbers overall remain at what U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-estimates-traffic-fatalities-declined-first-half-2024\">crisis levels\u003c/a>” in a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report from September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One key reason is that cars are bigger and faster than ever before. SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselves steadily\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/12/27/suvs-gm-ford-toyota-chevrolet/4408728002/\"> added pounds and inches\u003c/a> — now constitute more than \u003ca href=\"https://jalopnik.com/trucks-and-suvs-are-now-over-80-percent-of-new-car-sale-1848427797\">four out of every five new cars sold\u003c/a> in the U.S., up from just over half in 2013, even as national household size \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/\">steadily declines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reward car manufacturers who make their vehicles more like tanks,” outgoing SFMTA Chief Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED’s Forum this month. “And that, of course, simply exports the safety problem to more vulnerable road users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SUVs may be safer for the person behind the wheel, research has shown them to be much more dangerous for everyone else on the road, including other drivers. Children \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810?casa_token=u6DQpGM5NB0AAAAA:GKZdIHNMWcRpPu6omlgmCSVD5N1Eq4PFbHHwQIwcP6GZn-OXYgqdtOObsFkT1K2RbV1TFDv_ZQ\">are\u003c/a> eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared to lighter and smaller cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, studies have shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012221000241?casa_token=KYdWSu-CAaUAAAAA:O0Co6cx8XMXThwDKoYelaO6k_TTxsLnUppJoZpA5uCiscNUCO3uvqNaKNZRKULBvCWV_h5Xacg\">a correlation\u003c/a> between the surge in sales of larger vehicles and a staggering increase in pedestrian fatalities in the United States between 2000 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie Fryman, director of special projects at the Bay Area urban policy think tank SPUR, said that the explosion in the size of vehicles, coupled with an increase in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/#:~:text=What%20the%20data%20says%20about%20dangerous%20driving%20and%20road%20rage%20in%20the%20U.S.&text=About%20half%20of%20Americans%20(49,new%20Pew%20Research%20Center%20survey.\">erratic driving\u003c/a> since the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929172/sf-on-track-for-deadliest-year-in-traffic-deaths-and-new-report-blames-inadequate-misdirected-police-enforcement\">a lack of SFPD traffic enforcement\u003c/a>, has been a deadly combo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a perfect storm,” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018833 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPD-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data collected by city-owned vehicles reveal a dangerous accountability gap with speeding and erratic driving within the city’s fleet. In 2016, the city launched a telematics program to install black boxes in a number of city vehicles. This program followed a deadly string of crashes involving public employees and contractors and was spearheaded by former Supervisor Norman Yee after he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/yee-beginning-to-walk-sf-school-board-president-2657972.php\">hit \u003c/a>by a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program led to \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.VehicleTelematicsUpdate.081920.pdf\">initial reductions\u003c/a> in driver speeds, progress flagged as the pandemic took hold. By 2021,\u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/san-francisco-annual-telematics-report-calendar-year-2021-final.pdf\"> the city’s report\u003c/a> shows a jump in speeding incidents over 80 mph, with thousands every day. The report also shows a backlog of more than 1,700 vehicles slated for telematics that did not have the boxes installed. Little progress and underutilization of these findings have led to hundreds of collisions each year, according to recent reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/18/city-employee-traffic-crashes/\">the San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of technology has been successfully implemented in pilots in New York City, where fleet management and safety have been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/agencies/vision-zero-and-nyc-fleet.page\">pillar \u003c/a>of Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t actually need every car on the road to have it to get the safety benefits,” Zipper said. “If only one car has the technology, that vehicle is probably going to be able to slow down vehicles behind it that might otherwise be driving recklessly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming years, San Francisco should expect little from the federal government on reining in traffic deaths, advocates say. The Trump administration is likely to oppose regulations of the auto industry, and some of the new standards proposed by NHTSA — like one requiring that new passenger vehicles be designed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-proposes-new-vehicle-safety-standard-protect-pedestrians\">with risks to pedestrians\u003c/a> in mind — may get rolled back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to see road safety improve in a city like San Francisco,” Zipper said, “I would encourage residents to look to their own leaders in City Hall and to perhaps look toward Sacramento and to not expect much of anything by way of a tailwind to come from Washington.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zipper and others in the transportation and urban design community believe that part of the problem is embedded into American ideas about road safety: the principle that everyone shares responsibility for preventing injuries and deaths on the road. The idea of “shared responsibility” is built into the “safe-systems approach,” the guiding paradigm of American roadway safety, which draws from Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While seemingly anodyne, Zipper argues that this principle subtly obscures who is responsible for causing the vast majority of collisions — drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we actually want to save lives and reduce crashes, then we need to really put the spotlight on who has disproportionate power to save lives,” Zipper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Rudick, the editor of transit-focused Streetsblog SF, put it bluntly: “We can talk about shared responsibility when somebody rides through a crowd and kills 14 people with a bicycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What comes next in SF?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a new mayor — and, soon, a new director of the SFMTA — the city would seem to be at a natural inflection point in its push to tackle traffic fatalities. Six safe streets activists interviewed by KQED all agreed this opportunity would be missed without meaningful action from city leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not up to the MTA,” said Stephen Braitsch, a data engineer who maps \u003ca href=\"https://transpomaps.org/projects\">streets’ data\u003c/a>. “For us to achieve Vision Zero, it’s a political decision — full stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian crosswalk sign on Silver Avenue, near the site of the first pedestrian fatality in San Francisco in 2025, in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though new Mayor Daniel Lurie didn’t mention safe streets in his inauguration speech, many are heartened by the appointment of former MTA official and influential urbanism expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020575/lurie-makes-final-picks-major-new-sf-city-hall-roles-ahead-inauguration\">Alicia John-Baptiste\u003c/a> as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia knows how to solve these problems,” Rudick said. “What it’s going to require is for Mayor Lurie to give her the ability to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu and other advocates, in the meantime, will continue pushing legislators for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006976/san-francisco-advocates-intensify-call-for-newsom-to-sign-traffic-safety-bill-after-recent-pedestrian-deaths\">In September, Newsom vetoed\u003c/a> a first-of-its-kind bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, which would have required \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1216557190/car-crash-accident-speeding-technology-slow-down-speed-assistance\">alerts \u003c/a>in cars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003239/should-your-car-warn-you-that-youre-speeding-california-lawmakers-vote-yes\">caution speeding drivers\u003c/a>. Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), which became mandatory for all new cars sold in Europe last year, warns drivers every 10 miles that they exceed the speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu is undeterred. After her experience taking her fight for speed cameras to Sacramento, she knows these campaigns can take multiple attempts. The Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets is also helping chapters in other states push for similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s just one less family that experiences this tragedy,” Yu said, “that’s worth it to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bollinger’s death marked the city’s first traffic fatality of 2025, coming just days after the end of the deadliest year for San Francisco pedestrians in nearly two decades. The city’s 24th pedestrian was killed on the Great Highway on Dec. 27, only eight days before Bollinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 41 people, including cyclists and motorists, were killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco in 2024. That’s the most since 2007, which also had 41 overall traffic deaths, 24 of which were pedestrians, according to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Traffic-Crashes-Resulting-in-Injury/ubvf-ztfx/about_data\">publicly available data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco traffic fatalities since 2014 \" aria-label=\"Stacked Columns\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-C8akl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/C8akl/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worrying surge came despite Vision Zero, a decadelong initiative to eliminate traffic deaths on the city’s roadways by 2024. It’s clear something needs to change, and some observers hold out hope that new laws and automated enforcement coming this year could do just that — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">revitalize the city’s commitment to Vision Zero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that 2025 is a pivot point,” said Marta Lindsey, communications director for Walk SF, a group that tracks pedestrian deaths and agitates for data-based, preventive approaches to reducing traffic violence. “Please, let this be the year we start to see the trajectory shift in a positive direction. It’s possible that we will see that change — if the city gets its act together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the Vision Zero initiative, some of the city’s most visible street changes have come in response to tragic deaths. Just last March, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992918/san-francisco-driver-78-arrested-months-after-crash-that-killed-family-of-4\">family of four\u003c/a> waiting for a bus in the West Portal neighborhood was killed by a speeding driver, a horrifying loss that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety\">briefly galvanized the city\u003c/a> around the issue of traffic violence and spurred expedited safety improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for cities to rein in traffic deaths, advocates say, they will have to be less reactive and more proactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey and other proponents are encouraged by two moves in particular, set to roll out in the spring: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020110/sf-speed-cameras-coming-march-will-they-help-cut-traffic-deaths\">automated speed cameras\u003c/a> and a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019725/daylighting-laws-will-be-enforced-in-the-bay-area-in-2025-heres-how-to-avoid-a-ticket\">daylighting\u003c/a> law, which aims to prevent parked cars from obstructing drivers’ views at intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These new policies, Vision Zero Network founder Leah Shahum said, are a good example of what happens when cities anticipate crashes instead of reacting to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sooner that a city can transition to incorporating that more proactive approach, the better,” Shahum said. “That’s where you’re going to see the big, big safety gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Speed poses a deadly danger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Jenny Yu talks about what happened to her mother in 2011, she uses the word “crash” or “collision” — not “accident” — because she and other advocates believe her mother’s life-changing injuries were preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu’s mother, Judy, was walking to the beach when she was struck by a speeding 94-year-old driver turning left on Park Presidio Boulevard. Judy survived, but she suffered broken bones, a collapsed lung and a traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a vibrant woman who really enjoyed being a mom and a grandma,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-15_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the years after the crash, Yu started attending Walk SF community events and met others in the Bay Area affected by traffic violence. She learned about the connection between speed and safety: Speed was the No. 1 cause of all traffic crashes in San Francisco last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/media/41214/download?inline\">Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, San Francisco will become the first city in California to turn on speed cameras, nearly a year and a half after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill authorizing the technology in six cities across the state. San Francisco will install 33 over the coming months, each in areas identified as having a high number of injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, a founding member of the Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets, traveled to Sacramento with groups like Walk SF four times to fight for the cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Vc9hv/8/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tool has been proven to help in other states and other countries,” Yu told KQED. “There’s a track record of this change that — if we’re willing to adopt it — has shown to save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowing down drivers, whether through speed cameras or street changes, would have a substantial effect on street safety. Last year, speed was responsible for a quarter of all fatalities in San Francisco — a figure that has reached as high as 40% in recent years. Statewide, more than a third of all traffic deaths are due to speeding and aggressive driving, according to data collected by \u003ca href=\"https://safetrec.berkeley.edu/tools/california-safe-speeds-toolkit/california-safe-speeds-toolkit-research-speeds-speed-limits-and#:~:text=Speed%20is%20a%20significant%20concern,aggressive%20driving%20(Caltrans%202023%20).\">UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed can also make a significant difference in a pedestrian’s chances of surviving a crash. A person hit by a car traveling at 35 mph is five times more likely to die than a pedestrian hit by a car at 20 mph, notes a guide by the \u003ca href=\"https://nacto.org/publication/city-limits/the-need/speed-kills/#:~:text=Vehicle%20speed%20at%20the%20time,at%2020%20miles%20per%20hour.\">National Association of City Transportation Officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the cameras, San Francisco is experimenting with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/speed-management\">lower speed limits\u003c/a>, which will be proposed on 11 more streets this year. The strategy stems from \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB43\">AB 43\u003c/a>, a law passed in 2021 that gives local governments the ability to lower speed limits that were previously set by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-05-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Czarecki, with the community advocacy group Walk SF, hangs a sign at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until AB 43 took effect, California required cities to set speed limits by using the 85th percentile rule. It’s defined as the speed below which 85% of drivers were already going on a road, which, in theory, should be what they consider to be a safe speed. \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/safety-programs/setting-speed-limits\">Caltrans\u003c/a> calls this measure “the single most influential indicator” of what is safe and reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like setting a curfew based on when a teenager comes home,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 85th percentile did not take into account pedestrians, cycling traffic, schools or any other conditions that might make the speed limit unsafe. AB 43 allows local governments to consider those factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of San Francisco’s streets have 25 mph speed limits, though some are higher. Lake Merced Boulevard, for example, is 35 mph and 40 in some sections, even near schools. In a 2022 survey, Walk SF documented numerous drivers exceeding 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While not a silver bullet, lower speed limits are already making an impact in the Tenderloin — the neighborhood with the highest number of \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/tenderloin-community-action-plan/tcap-youth-gap-analysis-report.pdf\">children\u003c/a> in the city. Despite having one of the lowest rates of \u003ca href=\"https://underscoresf.com/remember-theres-a-car-ownership-map-of-san-francisco/#:~:text=Braitsch%20found%20in%20his%20research,those%20zones%20without%20a%20car.\">car ownership\u003c/a>, every street in the neighborhood falls on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/speed-and-turn-limits-boost-safety-tenderloin-streets-0\"> high-injury network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Viloria, a Tenderloin resident and organizer with San Francisco Transit Riders, said neighborhood mobilization around infrastructure has helped reduce crashes and pedestrian deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a dense neighborhood, we don’t have a lot of open space,” Viloria said. “The streets are open space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making pedestrians more visible to drivers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California’s new daylighting law took effect this year, making it illegal to park within 20 feet of the vehicle approach side of a crosswalk, San Francisco will begin issuing tickets on March 1, regardless of whether or not the curb is painted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the new law has drawn some frustration for reducing street parking, experts on urban design and transportation have celebrated it as a way to rethink public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-19_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Street space is really, really precious in a city like San Francisco,” said David Zipper, a senior fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative. “It’s worth asking: If we care about safety in the city, should we be using that space to store private property — which is what automobiles are — or should we be using it to create safe spaces for those who are walking and biking?\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents frequently point to Hoboken, New Jersey, a city of 60,000 people that hasn’t had a pedestrian death in more than \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762\">seven years\u003c/a>. After an elderly resident was hit and killed by a van in 2015, the city limited street parking in its daylighting efforts, part of its commitment to Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Silver Avenue in Portola, daylighting might have saved Bollinger’s life. Cars are frequently parked in front of the intersection, neighbors said, making it difficult for drivers to register pedestrians crossing on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Tsang, whose family lives above the unmarked crosswalk, said she avoids crossing there when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people assume that the cars will stop for them,” said Tsang, 22. “There’s not many stop signs on this part of the street, so sometimes you see cars going really fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too fast, said Steve and Therese Heller, who live next door to Bollinger and his son. While they were shocked to learn about Bollinger’s death, they weren’t surprised that the fatal collision happened at that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The visibility there is just really poor,” Steve Heller said. “No one thinks it’s an intersection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A nationwide struggle with traffic deaths\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all the efforts to make San Francisco’s streets safer for all, there are some factors that lie outside local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although traffic fatalities nationwide have declined in recent years, the numbers overall remain at what U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/nhtsa-estimates-traffic-fatalities-declined-first-half-2024\">crisis levels\u003c/a>” in a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report from September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One key reason is that cars are bigger and faster than ever before. SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselves steadily\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/12/27/suvs-gm-ford-toyota-chevrolet/4408728002/\"> added pounds and inches\u003c/a> — now constitute more than \u003ca href=\"https://jalopnik.com/trucks-and-suvs-are-now-over-80-percent-of-new-car-sale-1848427797\">four out of every five new cars sold\u003c/a> in the U.S., up from just over half in 2013, even as national household size \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/\">steadily declines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reward car manufacturers who make their vehicles more like tanks,” outgoing SFMTA Chief Jeffrey Tumlin told KQED’s Forum this month. “And that, of course, simply exports the safety problem to more vulnerable road users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While SUVs may be safer for the person behind the wheel, research has shown them to be much more dangerous for everyone else on the road, including other drivers. Children \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810?casa_token=u6DQpGM5NB0AAAAA:GKZdIHNMWcRpPu6omlgmCSVD5N1Eq4PFbHHwQIwcP6GZn-OXYgqdtOObsFkT1K2RbV1TFDv_ZQ\">are\u003c/a> eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared to lighter and smaller cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, studies have shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012221000241?casa_token=KYdWSu-CAaUAAAAA:O0Co6cx8XMXThwDKoYelaO6k_TTxsLnUppJoZpA5uCiscNUCO3uvqNaKNZRKULBvCWV_h5Xacg\">a correlation\u003c/a> between the surge in sales of larger vehicles and a staggering increase in pedestrian fatalities in the United States between 2000 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie Fryman, director of special projects at the Bay Area urban policy think tank SPUR, said that the explosion in the size of vehicles, coupled with an increase in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/#:~:text=What%20the%20data%20says%20about%20dangerous%20driving%20and%20road%20rage%20in%20the%20U.S.&text=About%20half%20of%20Americans%20(49,new%20Pew%20Research%20Center%20survey.\">erratic driving\u003c/a> since the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929172/sf-on-track-for-deadliest-year-in-traffic-deaths-and-new-report-blames-inadequate-misdirected-police-enforcement\">a lack of SFPD traffic enforcement\u003c/a>, has been a deadly combo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a perfect storm,” Fryman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data collected by city-owned vehicles reveal a dangerous accountability gap with speeding and erratic driving within the city’s fleet. In 2016, the city launched a telematics program to install black boxes in a number of city vehicles. This program followed a deadly string of crashes involving public employees and contractors and was spearheaded by former Supervisor Norman Yee after he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/yee-beginning-to-walk-sf-school-board-president-2657972.php\">hit \u003c/a>by a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program led to \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.VehicleTelematicsUpdate.081920.pdf\">initial reductions\u003c/a> in driver speeds, progress flagged as the pandemic took hold. By 2021,\u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/san-francisco-annual-telematics-report-calendar-year-2021-final.pdf\"> the city’s report\u003c/a> shows a jump in speeding incidents over 80 mph, with thousands every day. The report also shows a backlog of more than 1,700 vehicles slated for telematics that did not have the boxes installed. Little progress and underutilization of these findings have led to hundreds of collisions each year, according to recent reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/18/city-employee-traffic-crashes/\">the San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of technology has been successfully implemented in pilots in New York City, where fleet management and safety have been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/agencies/vision-zero-and-nyc-fleet.page\">pillar \u003c/a>of Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t actually need every car on the road to have it to get the safety benefits,” Zipper said. “If only one car has the technology, that vehicle is probably going to be able to slow down vehicles behind it that might otherwise be driving recklessly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming years, San Francisco should expect little from the federal government on reining in traffic deaths, advocates say. The Trump administration is likely to oppose regulations of the auto industry, and some of the new standards proposed by NHTSA — like one requiring that new passenger vehicles be designed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-proposes-new-vehicle-safety-standard-protect-pedestrians\">with risks to pedestrians\u003c/a> in mind — may get rolled back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to see road safety improve in a city like San Francisco,” Zipper said, “I would encourage residents to look to their own leaders in City Hall and to perhaps look toward Sacramento and to not expect much of anything by way of a tailwind to come from Washington.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zipper and others in the transportation and urban design community believe that part of the problem is embedded into American ideas about road safety: the principle that everyone shares responsibility for preventing injuries and deaths on the road. The idea of “shared responsibility” is built into the “safe-systems approach,” the guiding paradigm of American roadway safety, which draws from Vision Zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While seemingly anodyne, Zipper argues that this principle subtly obscures who is responsible for causing the vast majority of collisions — drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we actually want to save lives and reduce crashes, then we need to really put the spotlight on who has disproportionate power to save lives,” Zipper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Rudick, the editor of transit-focused Streetsblog SF, put it bluntly: “We can talk about shared responsibility when somebody rides through a crowd and kills 14 people with a bicycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What comes next in SF?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With a new mayor — and, soon, a new director of the SFMTA — the city would seem to be at a natural inflection point in its push to tackle traffic fatalities. Six safe streets activists interviewed by KQED all agreed this opportunity would be missed without meaningful action from city leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not up to the MTA,” said Stephen Braitsch, a data engineer who maps \u003ca href=\"https://transpomaps.org/projects\">streets’ data\u003c/a>. “For us to achieve Vision Zero, it’s a political decision — full stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-23_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian crosswalk sign on Silver Avenue, near the site of the first pedestrian fatality in San Francisco in 2025, in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though new Mayor Daniel Lurie didn’t mention safe streets in his inauguration speech, many are heartened by the appointment of former MTA official and influential urbanism expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020575/lurie-makes-final-picks-major-new-sf-city-hall-roles-ahead-inauguration\">Alicia John-Baptiste\u003c/a> as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia knows how to solve these problems,” Rudick said. “What it’s going to require is for Mayor Lurie to give her the ability to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu and other advocates, in the meantime, will continue pushing legislators for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006976/san-francisco-advocates-intensify-call-for-newsom-to-sign-traffic-safety-bill-after-recent-pedestrian-deaths\">In September, Newsom vetoed\u003c/a> a first-of-its-kind bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener, which would have required \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1216557190/car-crash-accident-speeding-technology-slow-down-speed-assistance\">alerts \u003c/a>in cars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003239/should-your-car-warn-you-that-youre-speeding-california-lawmakers-vote-yes\">caution speeding drivers\u003c/a>. Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), which became mandatory for all new cars sold in Europe last year, warns drivers every 10 miles that they exceed the speed limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu is undeterred. After her experience taking her fight for speed cameras to Sacramento, she knows these campaigns can take multiple attempts. The Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets is also helping chapters in other states push for similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s just one less family that experiences this tragedy,” Yu said, “that’s worth it to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Reeling from destructive wildfires, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/north-america-us-news-business-paradise-wildfires-720e09a42e8942ed8bac91b4bcf85b3c\">the deadliest\u003c/a> in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials like dead plants and wooden furniture within 5 feet of homes in risky areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules were set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. But as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wildfires-southern-california-212389bfba69f39baaf72579f1644ddd\">Los Angeles grapples with blazes\u003c/a> that have destroyed thousands of homes in what \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-natural-disasters-losses-insurance-recovery-d2f24e44d75503118643151eaee947fb\">could be the costliest\u003c/a> natural disaster in U.S. history, the regulations still haven’t been written. The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has no firm timeline for completing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating at every level of government,” said Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern, who was part of a group of lawmakers who authored the legislation. “I feel like a failure on it, being quite frank.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the neighborhoods ravaged by the Palisades Fire are in areas that must follow state requirements to keep the immediate surroundings of their homes free of combustible materials and would be subject to the new rules because they are deemed at highest fire risk by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire, driven by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-wind-wildfires-climate-change-weather-42b55ae1e66b56a6375300e448f01946\">hurricane-force winds\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-embers-spread-9d2eff9cac9d355f906ea5f63ace1957\">spread embers by air\u003c/a>, destroyed at least 5,000 structures across areas including Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Topanga Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the latest proposal, existing homes would have three years to comply with the regulations, so it’s not clear how many homes would have been saved. But clearing the immediate area around homes likely would have made some difference, several experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel really strongly that it would” have made a difference in some cases based on previous research, said Steve Hawks, a former state firefighter who now works for an insurance industry research group that supported the law. “There’s no guarantees, of course, particularly when you have a high intensity wildfire like these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So-called defensible space laws require homeowners in fire-prone places to keep the area immediately around their homes free of landscaping and other materials that could catch fire. California already enforces some of the most stringent defensible space laws in the West. The state began requiring homeowners in high-risk areas to clear flammable materials within 30 feet of their houses in the 1960s and then expanded the rules to include areas within 100 feet of structures in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest measure creates a new “ember-resistant” zone, dubbed “zone zero,” that bars things like brush, wooden fencing, furniture, sheds and mulch within 5 feet of homes. The idea is to clear all materials that could catch fire from flying embers carried by winds and spread to the structure. State officials and researchers said embers are responsible for 90% of structures destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone-zero law passed with bipartisan support after California experienced record-breaking fires in 2017 and 2018, including a fire that wiped out the town of Paradise, destroying more than 17,000 structures and killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes have a much better chance of surviving a wildfire when homeowners follow defensible space requirements and various home-hardening recommendations like using vent covers to keep out flying embers, said Yana Valachovic, a fire scientist with the University of California’s Cooperative Extension in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. She is helping CalFire survey the LA fires’ destruction this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hesitant to put a number factor on exactly how much greater survival rate we’ll get,” she said. “But, you know, we have to do everything to push the equation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Ut/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Board of Forestry and Fire Protection said it’s still in “the pre-rulemaking phase” while it finds money to alleviate the potential costs under the new requirements. State officials said in a November meeting that the draft language likely won’t be considered by the board until late this year, though CalFire has already encouraged homeowners to take up the practice on \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/defensible-space/\">its website\u003c/a>. The agency recommended the adoption of zone zero requirements as part of a report on fire strategies requested by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers last year also passed legislation to extend the deadline to comply — from one year to three years — for existing homes once the regulations are adopted. Some cities and homeowners are already taking on the practice voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many facets to consider as part of this complex process,” Edith Hannigan, executive officer of the board, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “This topic remains a priority for the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, and staff aims to have a draft proposal to present to the Board as soon as is feasible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, state officials told The Associated Press that Newsom has planned to direct $25 million to help homeowners create zone zero areas and follow other defensible space requirements in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-billions-2025-budget-gov-newsom-trump-419a6f75bfbfed26a76fe21870ac37e6\">his budget proposal\u003c/a> unveiled last week. The money will come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-bonds-climate-schools-348b9d64e0813355620bf26056cf0bba\">a $10 billion bond\u003c/a> approved by voters in 2024 to pay for climate change initiatives.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021911,news_11787162,news_11786957,news_11711140\"]Some of the most effective strategies include clearing dead vegetation and debris off a structure’s roof and out of gutters and replacing bark with pea gravel, said Kimiko Barrett, who authored \u003ca href=\"https://headwaterseconomics.org/natural-hazards/retrofitting-home-wildfire-resistance/\">a 2024 study\u003c/a> looking at the costs for retrofitting existing structures in California. Replacing wooden fencing could cost more, but it also helps better protect a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of not doing anything could be far, far greater,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zone zero discussions have been underway for the past decade, and the idea isn’t always popular. Stern, the state senator who also lost his home in another Los Angeles fire in 2018, said he struggles to convince his family to follow the practice. His parents dismissed his advice like clearing out the rosemary bush next to their home as minor things, Stern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I don’t know is whether people are going to see that as a headache,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman, a Democrat who led the effort to pass the zone-zero law in 2020 as a state Assembly member, said the implementation “shouldn’t have taken years and years.” She then deferred questions to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the state acts with the urgency that the issue and these guidelines deserve,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the latest draft, the rules would immediately apply to new homes and allow existing buildings three years to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the latest proposal, existing homes would have three years to comply with the regulations, so it’s not clear how many homes would have been saved. But clearing the immediate area around homes likely would have made some difference, several experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel really strongly that it would” have made a difference in some cases based on previous research, said Steve Hawks, a former state firefighter who now works for an insurance industry research group that supported the law. “There’s no guarantees, of course, particularly when you have a high intensity wildfire like these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So-called defensible space laws require homeowners in fire-prone places to keep the area immediately around their homes free of landscaping and other materials that could catch fire. California already enforces some of the most stringent defensible space laws in the West. The state began requiring homeowners in high-risk areas to clear flammable materials within 30 feet of their houses in the 1960s and then expanded the rules to include areas within 100 feet of structures in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest measure creates a new “ember-resistant” zone, dubbed “zone zero,” that bars things like brush, wooden fencing, furniture, sheds and mulch within 5 feet of homes. The idea is to clear all materials that could catch fire from flying embers carried by winds and spread to the structure. State officials and researchers said embers are responsible for 90% of structures destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone-zero law passed with bipartisan support after California experienced record-breaking fires in 2017 and 2018, including a fire that wiped out the town of Paradise, destroying more than 17,000 structures and killing 85 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homes have a much better chance of surviving a wildfire when homeowners follow defensible space requirements and various home-hardening recommendations like using vent covers to keep out flying embers, said Yana Valachovic, a fire scientist with the University of California’s Cooperative Extension in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. She is helping CalFire survey the LA fires’ destruction this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hesitant to put a number factor on exactly how much greater survival rate we’ll get,” she said. “But, you know, we have to do everything to push the equation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192423304-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A firefighter sprays water on a house to protect it from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Nick Ut/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Board of Forestry and Fire Protection said it’s still in “the pre-rulemaking phase” while it finds money to alleviate the potential costs under the new requirements. State officials said in a November meeting that the draft language likely won’t be considered by the board until late this year, though CalFire has already encouraged homeowners to take up the practice on \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/defensible-space/\">its website\u003c/a>. The agency recommended the adoption of zone zero requirements as part of a report on fire strategies requested by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers last year also passed legislation to extend the deadline to comply — from one year to three years — for existing homes once the regulations are adopted. Some cities and homeowners are already taking on the practice voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many facets to consider as part of this complex process,” Edith Hannigan, executive officer of the board, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “This topic remains a priority for the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, and staff aims to have a draft proposal to present to the Board as soon as is feasible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, state officials told The Associated Press that Newsom has planned to direct $25 million to help homeowners create zone zero areas and follow other defensible space requirements in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-billions-2025-budget-gov-newsom-trump-419a6f75bfbfed26a76fe21870ac37e6\">his budget proposal\u003c/a> unveiled last week. The money will come from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-bonds-climate-schools-348b9d64e0813355620bf26056cf0bba\">a $10 billion bond\u003c/a> approved by voters in 2024 to pay for climate change initiatives.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She said she supports some of his recent proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVpQYU5lM8\">rename\u003c/a> the Gulf of Mexico and to acquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/president-elect-trump-on-greenland-and-panama-canal/5148065\">Greenland\u003c/a> — in what the president-elect has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251168/trump-greenland\">described\u003c/a> as “economic security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Trump is an out-of-the-box thinker and extremely wise. So why do I want to go watch a man like that be installed as our next president? It’s just staggering,” Gentry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Burns, the chair of the Contra Costa Republican Party, also plans to be at Trump’s inauguration. 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