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And while Bay Area groups that monitor ICE activity have not seen a similar surge in the region, elected officials and community groups have expressed concern that the fear of immigration raids could discourage even eligible citizens from voting on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know what Republicans are trying to do — intimidate Latino citizens so they stay at home and don’t exercise their right to vote,” East Bay Rep. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whenever there’s been a confirmed, major ICE operation in California, local businesses in majority Latino neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">struggle\u003c/a>, schools \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/student-absences-increased-under-threat-deportation-efforts-study-finds\">see more absences\u003c/a>, and immigrant families even postpone \u003ca href=\"https://cssp.org/resource/through-their-eyes-immigration-enforcement-health-wellbeing-children-families/\">going to the doctor\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If people hear the rumors that ICE is present, then right away the community lets itself know: ‘We need to stay home’,” said Jacob Sandoval, director of the California chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#ice-agents\">What does the law say about law enforcement at polling booths?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement released solely in Spanish on Oct. 9, Gov. 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(Ultimately, no mass immigration enforcement materialized at the event.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting fears among even citizens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent investigation \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/\">by ProPublica\u003c/a> found that immigration enforcement agents have detained more than 500 U.S. citizens during the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And LULAC’s Sandoval emphasized that fears about increased ICE activity can also impact mixed-status families — where some relatives are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, while others have no legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families might not feel comfortable with their loved ones going to the polls, even if they’re U.S. citizens,” Sandoval said. “We don’t want law enforcement or ICE around polling places where people might feel intimidated.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. 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On Thursday, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in order to force state officials to set aside the ballots already mailed to over 20,000 registered voters — individuals that the Trump administration claimed are not actually eligible citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s top elections official, said in a letter that she will review any evidence from the federal government that proves certain voters are not citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians — or order any county elections official to do so — based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Has there been an immigration enforcement surge in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">reached out\u003c/a> to immigration advocates and rapid response networks across the state to confirm if they were seeing a surge in ICE operations in the wake of the Central Valley arrests and the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em>’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are definitely on the alert and preparing in case of increased ICE activity or large-scale raids in our region,” said Lourdes Martínez, co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050971/meet-the-community-members-behind-santa-clara-countys-ice-rapid-response-network\">rapid response network\u003c/a>. “We have not been able to verify any specifics, so we are monitoring the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that lawyers are preparing in case large-scale raids do materialize. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>With just a few weeks until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/\">Nov. 3 midterm elections\u003c/a>, concerns — and rumors — about operations by U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a> are once again spreading among immigrant communities in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates have confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">a wave\u003c/a> of immigration arrests across the Central Valley this month, with more than 100 farmworkers and other people detained since Monday. And while Bay Area groups that monitor ICE activity have not seen a similar surge in the region, elected officials and community groups have expressed concern that the fear of immigration raids could discourage even eligible citizens from voting on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know what Republicans are trying to do — intimidate Latino citizens so they stay at home and don’t exercise their right to vote,” East Bay Rep. Lateefah Simon told KQED in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241202-NewBayAreaCongressmembers-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lateefah Simon, Congresswoman-elect for California’s 12th congressional district, speaks with KQED politics reporter Scott Shafer at KQED’s offices in San Francisco on Dec. 2, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whenever there’s been a confirmed, major ICE operation in California, local businesses in majority Latino neighborhoods \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">struggle\u003c/a>, schools \u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/student-absences-increased-under-threat-deportation-efforts-study-finds\">see more absences\u003c/a>, and immigrant families even postpone \u003ca href=\"https://cssp.org/resource/through-their-eyes-immigration-enforcement-health-wellbeing-children-families/\">going to the doctor\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If people hear the rumors that ICE is present, then right away the community lets itself know: ‘We need to stay home’,” said Jacob Sandoval, director of the California chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#ice-agents\">What does the law say about law enforcement at polling booths?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement released solely in Spanish on Oct. 9, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged an increase in reports of federal immigration enforcement in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But he urged state residents to know their rights, adding that “Donald Trump uses fear as a weapon — putting families in danger, weakening trust and terrifying communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about immigration enforcement in California in the run-up to the midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How reports and rumors are fueling anxieties ahead of the midterms\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An article published earlier this month by the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em> stated that ICE had launched a 45-day operation across California to arrest all immigrants without legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://newrepublic.com/post/216405/ice-terrifying-marching-orders-california\">other publications\u003c/a> picked up the story and within days, dozens of posts warning about what ICE was allegedly calling “Operation Safe California” circulated on social media.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The original reporting only quotes two unnamed sources and pointed to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego as the three main targets of ICE’s apparent surge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This move, the story suggested, was part of a strategy by the White House to focus immigration enforcement on California ahead of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">Nov. 3 elections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Noting the proximity to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">midterm elections\u003c/a>, the story said: “the decision to focus ICE resources throughout the sanctuary state is the latest effort by the Trump administration to unleash ICE in a blue state following surges to Minnesota, Illinois, New York, and Oregon.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, the Department of Homeland Security said that “for operational security and the safety of our officers, ICE will not disclose or discuss law enforcement operations.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country including in California,” a spokesperson wrote via email. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Back in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071704/ice-super-bowl-immigration-enforcement-santa-clara-san-francisco-bay-area-2026\">similar rumors\u003c/a> about possible ICE activity at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara spread across the Bay Area in the run-up to the event — rumors which DHS similarly refused to confirm or deny following KQED’s queries. (Ultimately, no mass immigration enforcement materialized at the event.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting fears among even citizens\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A recent investigation \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/\">by ProPublica\u003c/a> found that immigration enforcement agents have detained more than 500 U.S. citizens during the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And LULAC’s Sandoval emphasized that fears about increased ICE activity can also impact mixed-status families — where some relatives are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, while others have no legal status. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Families might not feel comfortable with their loved ones going to the polls, even if they’re U.S. citizens,” Sandoval said. “We don’t want law enforcement or ICE around polling places where people might feel intimidated.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2285787606-scaled-e1791586238561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12091600\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to citizenship and voter eligibility, California is already fighting a separate legal battle with the federal government ahead of the midterms. On Thursday, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in order to force state officials to set aside the ballots already mailed to over 20,000 registered voters — individuals that the Trump administration claimed are not actually eligible citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, the state’s top elections official, said in a letter that she will review any evidence from the federal government that proves certain voters are not citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians — or order any county elections official to do so — based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Has there been an immigration enforcement surge in the Bay Area?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103799/bay-area-officials-immigration-advocates-brace-for-ice-surge-after-central-valley-arrests\">reached out\u003c/a> to immigration advocates and rapid response networks across the state to confirm if they were seeing a surge in ICE operations in the wake of the Central Valley arrests and the \u003cem>Washington Examiner\u003c/em>’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are definitely on the alert and preparing in case of increased ICE activity or large-scale raids in our region,” said Lourdes Martínez, co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050971/meet-the-community-members-behind-santa-clara-countys-ice-rapid-response-network\">rapid response network\u003c/a>. “We have not been able to verify any specifics, so we are monitoring the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that lawyers are preparing in case large-scale raids do materialize. Outreach workers are also sharing an \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/ACILEP-Safety-Planning-Checklist-for-Families-2026-9a7f4962.pdf\">“Emergency Planning Checklist for Families”\u003c/a> to help immigrants prepare, said Martínez, in case a family member is arrested.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other groups in the Bay Area that monitor ICE activity have told KQED they haven’t yet seen a major surge, but confirmed that rumors about “Operation California” \u003cem>have \u003c/em>circulated widely in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile in the Central Valley, state Sen. Anna Caballero — who represents parts of Fresno and Merced — said she had heard of an estimated 60 arrests last week within the communities she represents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The facility in downtown Fresno is having trouble processing” this amount of detainees, Caballero’s spokesperson Elisa Rivera told KQED in an email. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084687/like-an-angel-meet-the-helpers-working-at-bay-area-immigration-court\">Legal observers\u003c/a> are having little success gaining access.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ice-agents\">What does the law say about ICE agents at polling locations?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb884\">approved stronger restrictions\u003c/a> on how law enforcement officers can conduct arrests during an election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 884 prohibits law enforcement — a category which includes federal agents like ICE but also state and local officers — from making arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on Election Day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The law does specify an exception: Arrests can still be made within the 200 feet “buffer zone” for crimes “related to disrupting the operation of the polling place, a crime against a person, or a crime against property.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12088632\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/251104-SCCVOTE-JG-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edgardo Domingo fills out a ballot at a voting booth at the Vietnamese American Cultural Center in San José on Nov. 4, 2025. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that it can be a form of intimidation if folks are going to vote in person and see law enforcement there,” said Angélica Salceda, with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We all have a right to be able to cast our ballot free from coercion or intimidation,” she added. “We have the right for that vote to be secret. We don’t have to answer any questions about who we voted for if we don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If county officials determine that voting was disrupted at a polling place because law enforcement violated this law, they can extend the time voters have to turn in their ballots beyond the usual poll closing time of 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, SB 884 specifies that the buffer zone only applies on Election Day — Nov. 3 of this year. There is no mention of these restrictions being effective on the weeks leading up to Election Day, when many voters go to their county election office or early voting center to turn in their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Salceda points out that there are also other ways to vote, including mailing in your ballot by Nov. 3 or placing it in an official county drop box. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has tried to change the rules around voting by mail, but these efforts were \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-blocks-postal-service-from-restricting-mail-ballots\">blocked earlier\u003c/a> this year by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Armed law enforcement aren’t the only ones capable of voter intimidation, added Salceda. “We’re talking about situations where someone would want to drop their ballot at the dropbox and someone is there harassing or intimidating people,” she said. “Those are unlawful actions that should be reported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California’s secretary of state has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/contact\">a hotline available\u003c/a> in multiple languages where residents can report incidents that may violate electoral law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>English: 800-345-VOTE (8683) \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Spanish: 800-232-VOTA (8682)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Chinese: 800-339-2857 \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Hindi: 888-345-2692\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Tagalog: 800-339-2957\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lfitzgerald\">\u003cem>Laura Fitzgerald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued California and state elections officials on Thursday, two days after demanding that they prove U.S. citizenship for tens of thousands of registered voters — or set aside their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The unusual lawsuit, filed weeks before Election Day, immediately drew criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials, who have accused President Donald Trump and the federal government of stoking unfounded concerns about voter fraud and trying to intimidate voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In letters sent Tuesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Dean Logan, who are also named as defendants in the lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice gave officials two days to confirm the voters’ citizenship status, ramping up its pressure on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-integrity\">root out alleged voter fraud\u003c/a> ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The letters sent by acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter were accompanied by a password-protected thumb drive that the DOJ said contained the names of over 20,000 voters who the federal government “believes are likely noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its complaint filed Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal court to order California to set aside the vote-by-mail ballots sent to those people and to block the state from counting those ballots until the voters’ citizenship status can be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12104428\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DOJAPPhoto-196de4d3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The U.S. Department of Justice logo is seen on a podium before a press conference, May 6, 2025, at the Justice Department in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are nineteen days away from the last day of voting. Six million ballots have already been cast. This is not a good faith effort based on the timing,” said David Becker, who heads the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Todd Blanche said the 20,000 individuals were flagged as likely noncitizens by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We provided California an opportunity to self-correct its records, and we requested that it segregate the suspected illegal ballots for the upcoming election,” Blanche said in a statement. “California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Logan said Los Angeles County election officials did not try accessing the thumb drive because it didn’t meet the registrar’s security standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After McCotter sent the letters to Weber and Logan, California Attorney General Rob Bonta denounced the Trump administration for taking such a step while voters across the state are already filling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103647/dropbox-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-find-my-polling-place-election-day-voter-guide-california-midterm-elections-2026-vote-for-governor\">vote-by-mail ballots\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every count, recount, hand count, lawsuit, and audit has found that there’s no widespread voter fraud in the U.S.,” Bonta wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2110834245312839757\">post\u003c/a> on X, responding to the lawsuit. “The Trump Admin’s last-minute demands are meritless, and we look forward to making our case in court.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Weber’s office released a response to McCotter’s letter in which the state’s top elections official said she aimed “to set the record straight.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She noted “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the list as well as an earlier claim from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin that over 190,000 registered California voters “may be” noncitizens. California has yet to receive any response to a request for the data and methodology behind those claims, Weber said, noting that courts have found the federal government’s citizenship records to be unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology,” Weber wrote in her letter to McCotter. “However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians—or order any county elections official to do so—based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued California and state elections officials on Thursday, two days after demanding that they prove U.S. citizenship for tens of thousands of registered voters — or set aside their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The unusual lawsuit, filed weeks before Election Day, immediately drew criticism from Gov. 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(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are nineteen days away from the last day of voting. Six million ballots have already been cast. This is not a good faith effort based on the timing,” said David Becker, who heads the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Todd Blanche said the 20,000 individuals were flagged as likely noncitizens by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We provided California an opportunity to self-correct its records, and we requested that it segregate the suspected illegal ballots for the upcoming election,” Blanche said in a statement. “California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Logan said Los Angeles County election officials did not try accessing the thumb drive because it didn’t meet the registrar’s security standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After McCotter sent the letters to Weber and Logan, California Attorney General Rob Bonta denounced the Trump administration for taking such a step while voters across the state are already filling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12103647/dropbox-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-find-my-polling-place-election-day-voter-guide-california-midterm-elections-2026-vote-for-governor\">vote-by-mail ballots\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every count, recount, hand count, lawsuit, and audit has found that there’s no widespread voter fraud in the U.S.,” Bonta wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2110834245312839757\">post\u003c/a> on X, responding to the lawsuit. “The Trump Admin’s last-minute demands are meritless, and we look forward to making our case in court.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Weber’s office released a response to McCotter’s letter in which the state’s top elections official said she aimed “to set the record straight.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She noted “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the list as well as an earlier claim from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin that over 190,000 registered California voters “may be” noncitizens. California has yet to receive any response to a request for the data and methodology behind those claims, Weber said, noting that courts have found the federal government’s citizenship records to be unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology,” Weber wrote in her letter to McCotter. “However, I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians—or order any county elections official to do so—based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belie[f]’ that certain voters are ‘likely’ noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Democratic Sen. 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Those charges carried a maximum of two years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Central to the weeklong trial was video evidence of the confrontation taken from multiple angles, shown numerous times in court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It shows around nine to 10 protesters outside the field office garage as two vans are escorted out by around 20 federal agents, mainly with ICE and Federal Protective Services. After the vans depart, the agents return to the garage. Protesters are seen banging on the garage door as it closes, knocking it off its track, before an agent fires several pepper balls outside through the door. 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The Rapid Response Network operates a hotline to mobilize volunteers and support immigrant families during ICE actions. 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They serve our residents, protect our community and work to keep Kerman safe,” she said. “What we are witnessing from ICE does the opposite.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12016800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maria Pacheco, mayor of Kerman, California, speaks at a press conference in Fresno calling for the protection of undocumented immigrants following President-elect Donald Trump’s win. 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Local officials said ICE does not appear to have warrants or be targeting individuals with criminal backgrounds or final deportation orders.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although local rapid response agencies said Friday that they hadn’t yet seen increased ICE activity, there have been rumors and fears that the preelection surge could extend to Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are definitely on the alert and preparing in case of increased ICE activity or large-scale raids in our region,” said Lourdes Martinez, co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “We have not been able to verify any specifics, so we are monitoring the situation.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250718-RidealongRapidResponse-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12052237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250718-RidealongRapidResponse-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250718-RidealongRapidResponse-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250718-RidealongRapidResponse-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A dispatcher for the Rapid Response Network gathers supplies at the group’s office in San José on July 21, 2025. 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Anna Caballero, who represents parts of Fresno and Merced, said she had heard of an estimated 60 arrests this week within the communities she represents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There are over 60 detainees, and the facility in downtown Fresno is having trouble processing,” Caballero’s spokesperson Elisa Rivera wrote to KQED. “Legal observers are having little success gaining access.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We also had a young person call our office after both of his parents were picked up,” Caballero said. “He did not know where to turn or what he was supposed to do.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Fresno County’s city of Kerman alone, Mayor Maria Pacheco said eight residents were detained between Wednesday and Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These are people with families, jobs and lives here in Kerman,” she said. “As Mayor, I refuse to accept that residents should be afraid to carry out the most ordinary parts of their day.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Pacheco said she has been aiding affected families to locate their detained relatives and get legal assistance. She added that Kerman police do not work with ICE on immigration enforcement operations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our local police officers have a different responsibility. They serve our residents, protect our community and work to keep Kerman safe,” she said. “What we are witnessing from ICE does the opposite.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12016800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/immigrants-central-valley-6751c0512ec92-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maria Pacheco, mayor of Kerman, California, speaks at a press conference in Fresno calling for the protection of undocumented immigrants following President-elect Donald Trump’s win. (Esther Quintanilla/KVPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Four men were detained while getting pan dulce and coffee on their way to work,” Pacheco continued. “How does that make Kerman safer? …. Fear is not public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>East Bay Rep. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>A steaming tray of hot taquitos arrived at the center of the table, as the family passed sides of rice and vegetables around while three small dogs yapped in the background. It was a typical night for Rosa, a single mother of three who lives in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Sunnydale neighborhood. But even the ordinary feels surreal right now. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This spring, Rosa, who is originally from Honduras, was released from an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, and allowed to return to her children and modest apartment just north of the Cow Palace. She was locked up for nearly 11 months, leaving behind three daughters who were forced to look after themselves for almost a year. Rosa’s release ranks her among the lucky few not deported, but the experience and its aftermath have left the close-knit family reeling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED is not using Rosa’s last name because she fears it could hurt her pending visa application and because she is a domestic violence victim. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915523/the-babies-left-behind-caitlin-dickerson-on-the-new-family-separation-crisis\">Family separation\u003c/a> has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement, including in Northern California, where arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">have surged\u003c/a>. Experts in youth well-being say it’s had devastating impacts on children in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Approximately 400,000 immigrants were booked into ICE detention between Jan. 20, 2025, and April 9, 2026, and researchers estimate that approximately 205,000 children experienced the detention of a parent during that period, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yUSgCmZEBgF8mo28iGf88iRUmCq?domain=brookings.edu\">Brookings Institution analysis\u003c/a>. The study found that most children whose parents have been detained are U.S. citizens. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa eats dinner with her family at their home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Many of the adults caught in recent immigration enforcement are parents,” said Kristina Lovato, an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley who also directs the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare. “Forced family separation is traumatic. Not only is it sudden and involuntary, but it’s often accompanied by uncertainty, whether a parent will return.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration enforcement under Trump has increasingly involved arrests away from the border. On June 2, 2025, ICE agents in unmarked vehicles arrested Rosa outside her apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just started screaming, ‘let me call my daughter,’” Rosa said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She didn’t know what happened for three hours. She saw me go outside, but never come back,” Rosa said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jenn, a bubbly college student pursuing a career in fashion, had just arrived home from a trip to Cabo San Lucas with friends for her birthday the day before her life turned upside down. She was sleeping in after the trip when suddenly her doorbell started ringing over and over. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t really get a lot of visitors here, but the doorbell just kept ringing, and I finally got up,” said her daughter, Jenn, who is now 21. It was one of the community workers who provides resident support services at their affordable housing complex. “One of my family members called him to come tell me that my mom was detained.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That day, Jenn immediately stepped into the role of parent, looking after her two younger siblings, now ages 11 and 15, in their mother’s absence. While taking community college classes, she navigated legal and immigration systems for her mother and paid the family’s bills working long hours in customer service, foregoing sleep and her own social life. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was summer, my friends wanted to vacation and do so much, but I had to take so much time off to just be home with my sisters,” she said. “When the holidays came around, that’s when it really made me feel like this is not right, and especially for their birthdays and everything.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She had help from a cousin who was like a brother, and whom Rosa had legal guardianship of when he was a child. But every day was still marked by uncertainty and unanswerable questions from her siblings about what would happen to their mother or themselves. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On the days she was most exhausted, Jenn said it felt easier to go hungry than try to put a meal together, whereas her mother had always made sure they had good food on the table. “Nobody wanted to cook. Nobody wanted to spend money going out to eat, either,” Jenn said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While her mom was detained, Jenn’s younger sibling, then 14, experienced a mental-health crisis and was diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The clinical psychologist who saw the teen wrote a letter in support of Rosa’s release, saying the family separation was causing the child’s condition to worsen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa prepares dinner for her family at her home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Continuity of caregiving with her mother is not a preference but a clinical necessity, as disruptions in caregiving or reliance on individuals without autism-specific understanding are likely to exacerbate anxiety, dysregulation and functional decline,” the doctor wrote in September 2025, nearly seven months before Rosa was finally released. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE arrests more than quadrupled in the first year of the second Trump administration, according to UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a>. During that time, experts tracking immigration enforcement actions say more people without any criminal background were detained, and releases from ICE facilities became increasingly rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The release rate, which was never that high, has gone way down,” said David Hausman, assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Releases within 60 days of arrest went from around 35% under the Biden administration to about 7% in 2025, according to the Deportation Data Project, which Hausman co-directs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials arrested Rosa under the pretense that she was a “fugitive” because she had returned to the country following a past removal in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a 15-year-old, Rosa escaped physical and sexual violence in Honduras. She came to the U.S. seeking safety, but was ultimately revictimized by an older man who groomed her and fathered two of her children. During their relationship, he forced her to assist him in illegal activity like shoplifting and drug sales. She was later convicted of both crimes, which led to her first deportation 16 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa’s daughter holds a photo on her phone of her mother from when she was in detention at their San Francisco home on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her ex brought her back to the U.S. after only about two weeks. She was later deported a second time in October of the same year, and he brought her back within a month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa escaped the relationship in 2014, and parented her three children in San Francisco for the next decade solo. She assisted local police in investigating crimes tied to her former criminal charges, and her cooperation, along with her recognized status as a trafficking victim, allowed her to vacate the convictions from her record. She has since been seeking a T visa, for victims of human trafficking, and U visa, for victims of other abuse crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the work to clear her record did not deter the immigration agents who arrested her last year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was lots of back and forth, and the government argued she was a danger because of these arrests 15 years ago related to the trafficking,” said Hayley Upshaw, an attorney with San Francisco’s public defender’s office who worked on Rosa’s case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While she was detained in Washington, tragedy struck Rosa’s family again. Her 28-year-old nephew, who had been helping her daughters in their mom’s absence, died suddenly in April. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa at her home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immediately afterward, the public defender’s office worked with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, a Seattle-based organization that provides direct legal aid, to file a temporary restraining order and a habeas petition that legally challenged Rosa’s detention. Nearly a month after her nephew’s death, Rosa was released. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m here now. But he is not here,” Rosa said, fighting back tears. “They let me come home because he passed away, you know. But they didn’t let me come home because I deserved to come home.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys and advocates working with Rosa say that her release was a rare reprieve from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and detention policies, but the trauma her family has endured persists across all cases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tearing families apart deeply harms our communities. As in Rosa’s case, it can mean that a mother can’t pick up her children from school, children are put at risk of losing their homes, and their loved ones worry themselves sick,” said Jennifer Friedman, managing attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Immigration Defense Unit. “Whether a person was born in the U.S. or has had contact with the criminal legal system, it does not justify violating their civil and human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in an emailed statement that it “does not separate families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates. This is consistent with past administrations’ immigration enforcement,” a representative for DHS said. “Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Much is unknown about the long-term outcomes for children whose parents have been detained, said Lovato, from the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare. ICE is not involved in follow-up care for detainees’ children, according to the Brookings report, and parents will often avoid engaging with child protective services because they fear more targeting by law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa and her children are relieved she is back home, but they are all still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard,” Jenn said. “To this day, sometimes my sisters are like, ‘Oh, can I go do this, can I go do that?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not your mom anymore, like, you can go ask mom.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa can’t be re-detained unless new charges, or evidence in her past cases, are brought forward. But she is still awaiting the outcome of her T or U visa applications, as well as an appeal for asylum. If she is granted any of those, she will have lawful status. But if they are denied, she could lose asylum and be removed from the country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa is slowly getting back to a more normal life. She’s taking English classes, shuttling the kids to school and work, and enjoying her hobbies, like dancing and cooking. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the threat of deportation, no longer abstract for the family, still looms over Rosa and her children. Now, she avoids some activities out of fear of exposing herself too much, like posting on social media or advertising where she’ll be when she goes out to sell food during the day for income. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“After this happened, I worry more than before,” she said. “But I will always fight for my family and for me.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A steaming tray of hot taquitos arrived at the center of the table, as the family passed sides of rice and vegetables around while three small dogs yapped in the background. It was a typical night for Rosa, a single mother of three who lives in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Sunnydale neighborhood. But even the ordinary feels surreal right now. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This spring, Rosa, who is originally from Honduras, was released from an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, and allowed to return to her children and modest apartment just north of the Cow Palace. She was locked up for nearly 11 months, leaving behind three daughters who were forced to look after themselves for almost a year. Rosa’s release ranks her among the lucky few not deported, but the experience and its aftermath have left the close-knit family reeling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>KQED is not using Rosa’s last name because she fears it could hurt her pending visa application and because she is a domestic violence victim. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915523/the-babies-left-behind-caitlin-dickerson-on-the-new-family-separation-crisis\">Family separation\u003c/a> has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement, including in Northern California, where arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">have surged\u003c/a>. Experts in youth well-being say it’s had devastating impacts on children in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Approximately 400,000 immigrants were booked into ICE detention between Jan. 20, 2025, and April 9, 2026, and researchers estimate that approximately 205,000 children experienced the detention of a parent during that period, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yUSgCmZEBgF8mo28iGf88iRUmCq?domain=brookings.edu\">Brookings Institution analysis\u003c/a>. The study found that most children whose parents have been detained are U.S. citizens. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101505\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa eats dinner with her family at their home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Many of the adults caught in recent immigration enforcement are parents,” said Kristina Lovato, an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley who also directs the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare. “Forced family separation is traumatic. Not only is it sudden and involuntary, but it’s often accompanied by uncertainty, whether a parent will return.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration enforcement under Trump has increasingly involved arrests away from the border. On June 2, 2025, ICE agents in unmarked vehicles arrested Rosa outside her apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just started screaming, ‘let me call my daughter,’” Rosa said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She didn’t know what happened for three hours. She saw me go outside, but never come back,” Rosa said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jenn, a bubbly college student pursuing a career in fashion, had just arrived home from a trip to Cabo San Lucas with friends for her birthday the day before her life turned upside down. She was sleeping in after the trip when suddenly her doorbell started ringing over and over. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t really get a lot of visitors here, but the doorbell just kept ringing, and I finally got up,” said her daughter, Jenn, who is now 21. It was one of the community workers who provides resident support services at their affordable housing complex. “One of my family members called him to come tell me that my mom was detained.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That day, Jenn immediately stepped into the role of parent, looking after her two younger siblings, now ages 11 and 15, in their mother’s absence. While taking community college classes, she navigated legal and immigration systems for her mother and paid the family’s bills working long hours in customer service, foregoing sleep and her own social life. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was summer, my friends wanted to vacation and do so much, but I had to take so much time off to just be home with my sisters,” she said. “When the holidays came around, that’s when it really made me feel like this is not right, and especially for their birthdays and everything.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She had help from a cousin who was like a brother, and whom Rosa had legal guardianship of when he was a child. But every day was still marked by uncertainty and unanswerable questions from her siblings about what would happen to their mother or themselves. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On the days she was most exhausted, Jenn said it felt easier to go hungry than try to put a meal together, whereas her mother had always made sure they had good food on the table. “Nobody wanted to cook. Nobody wanted to spend money going out to eat, either,” Jenn said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While her mom was detained, Jenn’s younger sibling, then 14, experienced a mental-health crisis and was diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The clinical psychologist who saw the teen wrote a letter in support of Rosa’s release, saying the family separation was causing the child’s condition to worsen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa prepares dinner for her family at her home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Continuity of caregiving with her mother is not a preference but a clinical necessity, as disruptions in caregiving or reliance on individuals without autism-specific understanding are likely to exacerbate anxiety, dysregulation and functional decline,” the doctor wrote in September 2025, nearly seven months before Rosa was finally released. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE arrests more than quadrupled in the first year of the second Trump administration, according to UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a>. During that time, experts tracking immigration enforcement actions say more people without any criminal background were detained, and releases from ICE facilities became increasingly rare.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The release rate, which was never that high, has gone way down,” said David Hausman, assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Releases within 60 days of arrest went from around 35% under the Biden administration to about 7% in 2025, according to the Deportation Data Project, which Hausman co-directs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials arrested Rosa under the pretense that she was a “fugitive” because she had returned to the country following a past removal in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a 15-year-old, Rosa escaped physical and sexual violence in Honduras. She came to the U.S. seeking safety, but was ultimately revictimized by an older man who groomed her and fathered two of her children. During their relationship, he forced her to assist him in illegal activity like shoplifting and drug sales. She was later convicted of both crimes, which led to her first deportation 16 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101507\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa’s daughter holds a photo on her phone of her mother from when she was in detention at their San Francisco home on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her ex brought her back to the U.S. after only about two weeks. She was later deported a second time in October of the same year, and he brought her back within a month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa escaped the relationship in 2014, and parented her three children in San Francisco for the next decade solo. She assisted local police in investigating crimes tied to her former criminal charges, and her cooperation, along with her recognized status as a trafficking victim, allowed her to vacate the convictions from her record. She has since been seeking a T visa, for victims of human trafficking, and U visa, for victims of other abuse crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the work to clear her record did not deter the immigration agents who arrested her last year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was lots of back and forth, and the government argued she was a danger because of these arrests 15 years ago related to the trafficking,” said Hayley Upshaw, an attorney with San Francisco’s public defender’s office who worked on Rosa’s case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While she was detained in Washington, tragedy struck Rosa’s family again. Her 28-year-old nephew, who had been helping her daughters in their mom’s absence, died suddenly in April. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260827-SFICEDetaineeReleased-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosa at her home in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immediately afterward, the public defender’s office worked with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, a Seattle-based organization that provides direct legal aid, to file a temporary restraining order and a habeas petition that legally challenged Rosa’s detention. Nearly a month after her nephew’s death, Rosa was released. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m here now. But he is not here,” Rosa said, fighting back tears. “They let me come home because he passed away, you know. But they didn’t let me come home because I deserved to come home.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys and advocates working with Rosa say that her release was a rare reprieve from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and detention policies, but the trauma her family has endured persists across all cases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tearing families apart deeply harms our communities. As in Rosa’s case, it can mean that a mother can’t pick up her children from school, children are put at risk of losing their homes, and their loved ones worry themselves sick,” said Jennifer Friedman, managing attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Immigration Defense Unit. “Whether a person was born in the U.S. or has had contact with the criminal legal system, it does not justify violating their civil and human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in an emailed statement that it “does not separate families.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates. This is consistent with past administrations’ immigration enforcement,” a representative for DHS said. “Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Much is unknown about the long-term outcomes for children whose parents have been detained, said Lovato, from the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare. ICE is not involved in follow-up care for detainees’ children, according to the Brookings report, and parents will often avoid engaging with child protective services because they fear more targeting by law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa and her children are relieved she is back home, but they are all still adjusting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s been really hard,” Jenn said. “To this day, sometimes my sisters are like, ‘Oh, can I go do this, can I go do that?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not your mom anymore, like, you can go ask mom.’” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rosa can’t be re-detained unless new charges, or evidence in her past cases, are brought forward. 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Legal experts warn, however, that the law and the lawsuits relying on it face unlikely odds in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>All three plaintiffs had preexisting lawsuits against the government and amended those complaints this week after the law’s signing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That includes Javier Ramirez, who was arrested on June 12, 2025, amid roving immigration raids in the Los Angeles area and less than a week after President Donald Trump sent more than 2,000 National Guardsmen and U.S. Marines into the region. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KXHFkYjpoeg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KXHFkYjpoeg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramirez, who exports cars to Mexico and splits his time between Los Angeles and Tijuana, was at his family’s car lot in Montebello when agents drove up and walked in through a gate, left slightly open, according to security footage of the incident. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramirez told KQED the agents ignored posted signs saying “No Trespassing” and “Private Property.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“One of them points me out and yells, ‘Hey, just get him, he’s Mexican,’” Ramirez said, recounting the arrest. “That’s when they threw me down to the ground. I yelled at them, I’m telling them, ‘You know what, I have my passport. I was born here.’ They didn’t care. They didn’t care. They didn’t even check out my wallet or anything like that.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the video, shared by his lawyer, agents can be seen wrestling Ramirez to the ground and kneeling on his back while an agent stands with another detained man nearby. Ramirez can be heard in the recordings telling agents he’s a citizen. His brother offered to give the officers Ramirez’ diabetes medication, according to his lawsuit, but they declined to take it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He spent four days in a federal detention facility. There, he fainted due to lack of medical care before he was released, he said. The case against him was later dropped. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He’s now suing the U.S. and 20 agents who were involved in his arrest and detention for various rights violations, including unlawful detention, denial of due process and excessive use of force. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I want justice,” Ramirez said. “I have kids as well, and as a proud Latino I also teach my kids to speak Spanish, and I don’t want them to, in the near future, just by looking Hispanic or them talking Spanish, have this happen to them.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Maria Garcia Baldizzone, an attorney representing Ramirez and the two other cases amended after the No Kings Act was signed, said all three cases involve U.S. citizens being wrongfully and violently detained, seemingly just for “looking Latino.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our clients have been beaten by ICE agents or Border Patrol agents, they’ve been thrown to the ground,” Garcia Baldizzone said. “One of the other ones we filed [Tuesday] was Cary Lopez. She was nine months pregnant, and they had twisted her arm and pressed her body and her pregnant belly against their cars.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cqGkGxKNSHQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cqGkGxKNSHQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The third case involved a man named Angel Piña who said he was with his wife when he witnessed federal agents harassing three minors. Piña’s wife called 911, and soon after, an agent tackled him to the ground and two others piled on top. He was arrested and taken by ambulance to the hospital after suffering injuries to his head, ankle and shoulder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lV77pDgNLlM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lV77pDgNLlM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Garcia Baldizzone said all three cases are seeking compensatory damages for the suffering that the plaintiffs endured and punitive damages from the individual agents for these violations of rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping to hold these agents accountable for what they’ve done to our clients, what they have done to other people and to show them that it’s not right, that what they’re doing is not right,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Whether the cases will succeed, however, remains to be seen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Although Congress has passed laws establishing a right to sue local and state officials for violating constitutional rights, the Legislature has never done the same for federal officials, said Kevin Johnson, a distinguished professor of law emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a man named Webster Bivens in 1971 who sued six agents for violating his constitutional rights. Cases in later years seeking accountability from federal officials cited the Bivens ruling, but Johnson said two rulings in the past decade have significantly limited the ability to bring such suits, called Bivens actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The No Kings Act, introduced by San Francisco state Sen. 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And, in recent months, media reports have revealed that more are being held in airports for longer than 72 hours, the maximum time U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy generally tries to hold individuals in custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After Miami, SFO had the second-highest number of these detentions, which resulted in a transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said, “Certain travelers may require additional processing based on the circumstances of their case. The length and nature of that processing can vary depending on a number of factors, including necessary records, coordination with other government agencies and transportation or travel logistics.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Padilla said that he learned it’s not uncommon for ICE to bring detained immigrants to SFO and “turn them over” to CBP. 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Its programming — including immigration support and leadership development — had already been halted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But since then, things for Rimi and her organization have turned around: This week, the city’s Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/53261?view_id=10&redirect=true\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/bag092926_agenda.pdf\">allocate\u003c/a> $150,000 to Parivar Bay Area through its fiscal sponsor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.transcanwork.org/\">TransCanWork\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kaj (left) dances during the Diwali celebrations at Parivar Bay Area in San Francisco on Oct. 20, 2025. (Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said the money is a “lifeline” and that she was “extremely relieved and eternally grateful for the City and County of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for truly coming through in these times and helping us rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are staying in San Francisco, we’re rebuilding, and we’re opening our doors again,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The resolution was \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8145043&GUID=ECF08B98-28F2-4B32-82DB-7516AF0277AF\">sponsored\u003c/a> by supervisors Mandelman, Connie Chan, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood. It will now head to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s desk to be signed and approved. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parivar Bay Area fills a role no other organization does — it’s the only trans-led group focused on South Asian and Global South trans immigrants,” Mandelman said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091922/san-francisco-trans-led-space-fears-closure-9-months-after-opening\">in a July statement to KQED\u003c/a>. “Building that kind of trust and infrastructure took years, and it’s important to do what we can to keep it in place.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While Parivar Bay Area did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060818/we-are-home-center-supporting-transgender-immigrants-opens-in-sf-during-diwali\">lose its original community space\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco, Rimi said it has moved to an office at \u003ca href=\"https://stmarkssquare.org/\">St. Mark’s Square\u003c/a> near Japantown. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that Parivar aims to start bringing back its programming early to mid-October, with a Diwali celebration slated for November. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Diwali [celebration] is kind of the testament of what it symbolizes — which is light over darkness, and saying, ‘This is now us getting back to doing the work,’” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, Rimi said that the full breadth of Parivar’s programming may not be able to return to its original scale. For example, Parivar may not be able to provide direct immigration and legal navigation support but switch to referrals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We can’t bring everything back overnight,” she said. “But most important is that we have a physical space. We have a dot on the map in San Francisco … where one can walk through the doors during our opening hours and find support, culture and belonging.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said she saw ways the San Francisco community came to support Parivar — the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/saveparivar\">received over $5,000 in donations\u003c/a> — but the experience highlighted to her that “impact alone doesn’t guarantee sustainability” and that the long-term future “cannot depend on one source of funding.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Community shouldn’t have to lose an institution or a grassroots organization like Parivar to realize how much they need it,” she said. “Because these services are sometimes not deemed as core services, but they’re the only services offered anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of 21 bills on Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097637/lawmakers-send-immigration-detention-bills-to-gov-newsom\">aimed at increasing oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention and reining in what he called the “Orwellian” tactics of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The enactment of the new laws comes as immigration arrests have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">soared to new levels\u003c/a>, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide in July. California had the third-highest number of those arrests, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recently expanded detention capacity in the state as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to achieve “mass deportation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-bills-to-push-back-on-trumps-orwellian-immigration-tactics-to-protect-immigrant-communities/\">wide-ranging laws\u003c/a>, authored by Democrats from across the state, included measures to restrict law enforcement use of electroshock gloves, masks and flash-bang grenades, enable individuals to sue federal officials in state court over rights violations and require local agencies to release 911 call records originating from ICE facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several bills focused on expanding the state’s power to enforce health and safety standards in immigration detention, restrict construction of new detention centers and tax private detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>In his signing statement, Newsom noted that the underlying authority for immigration enforcement lies with the federal government. But he insisted that facilities in California are subject to the state’s standards and oversight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Trump has put his political interests above the health, safety and livelihood of American families,” Newsom said. “California is taking action to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight around immigration enforcement in our state. This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a time when the number of people who died in ICE custody hit a two-decade high last year and continues to surge, legal watchdogs are raising alarms about the conditions inside the eight immigration jails in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of the new laws, SB 942, authored by Central Valley Sen. Ana Caballero, creates a bill of rights for people in all forms of civil custody in California, including immigration detention. It establishes minimum standards for medical care, food, water, sanitation, religious practice, contact with family and access to legal counsel. And it gives the state attorney general new powers to enforce those standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of Immigrant Defense Advocates, called it a “first of its kind” law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California in many ways is leading the nation when it comes to pushing the envelope in terms of protecting the health and safety of immigrants in detention,” he said. “For years, we’ve passed bills that have been the first of their kind in the entire country and other states have followed suit and taken inspiration from those bills. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta co-sponsored that bill with Immigrant Defense Advocates in conjunction with another bill that extends existing state inspections of ICE facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Here in California, we know our diversity is our strength. There is no room in California for President Trump’s hateful mass deportation and detention agenda,” Bonta said in a statement. “We will continue to fight to provide immigrants with the rights, necessities, and respect that they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neither Core Civic nor GEO Group, the largest private prison companies operating ICE detention in California, responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates who work with California immigrant families applauded the legislature and the governor for backing new legal protections at a time when fear is coursing through immigrant communities — even for individuals who have lawful status or have lived in the U.S. for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Todd Benson, executive director of the multi-denominational community organization Faith in Action East Bay, credited the grassroots efforts of his members and others, who met with lawmakers and wrote letters to the governor, for the passage of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve all seen examples of the brutality of ICE agents. This goes against our faith values,” he said. “We believe that all human beings have dignity and should be treated with dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said increasing ICE arrests unnecessarily separate families and traumatize California children, and inhumane conditions in detention appear to be a “deliberate effort to get people to self deport.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A bill from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney will impose a 25% tax on the gross income of for-profit companies that operate immigration detention facilities — and put the money into a state fund to support immigration services.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12027566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Assemblymember Matt Haney speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, called it a win for accountability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No one should profit from tearing families apart,” Fouladi said. “Private detention corporations make hundreds of millions of dollars every year in California by separating parents from their children and locking up our neighbors in inhumane conditions. AB 1633 makes them pay for the trauma and suffering they inflict.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He urged the governor to also sign a companion bill, AB 2465, that would bar private detention contractors from receiving state grants or loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move to halt the use of electric shock gloves came as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-immigration-680c6f8a96736f46529287178c57b44b\">ICE awarded a nearly $17 million contract\u003c/a> last month to purchase 6,000 pairs. California sheriffs and other law enforcement groups \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/08/california-ice-electric-shock-gloves/\">opposed the ban\u003c/a>, which they consider a “less lethal” de-escalation tool. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener celebrated the signing of his bill to bar law enforcement officers from wearing masks, as well as another, dubbed the “No Kings Act,” to allow people to sue in state court over allegations that immigration agents have violated their civil rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California State Senator Scott Weiner in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. (Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>He said that’s needed because of cases across the country where immigration agents have violently pulled people from their cars and homes, and have fatally shot both immigrants and U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“ICE and Border Patrol have terrorized California communities with impunity. That ends today,” Wiener said. “When federal agents act lawlessly, they should be held accountable the same as any other lawbreaker.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wiener’s office said they expect a few individuals to file suit shortly under the new law, which takes effect immediately and applies to incidents going back to March 2025. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, legal analysts expect the Trump administration to challenge a number of the new laws in court. Kevin Johnson, an emeritus professor at the UC Davis School of Law, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gloves-shock-law-newsom-bill-91b68ae4fbd44065256fb5e6b06891ad\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a> that courts are likely to rule that the state cannot bar federal officers from wearing shock gloves or face coverings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The state has very limited, if any, powers in dictating to the federal government how its officers are armed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A few measures passed by the legislature were not among the 21 bills signed. They included a bill — vetoed by Newsom on Sunday night — that would have fortified a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101563/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-fund-immigration-attorneys-in-rural-california\">pipeline of new immigration lawyers\u003c/a> to work in rural parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Also not signed were bills to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb941\">cap at 35% the markup private facilities can charge \u003c/a>detainees for commissary items, and the one to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2465\">bar private detention contractors\u003c/a> from receiving state grants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom has until midnight on Sep. 30 to act on the remaining bills on his desk, in his last year as California’s governor.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of 21 bills on Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097637/lawmakers-send-immigration-detention-bills-to-gov-newsom\">aimed at increasing oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention and reining in what he called the “Orwellian” tactics of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The enactment of the new laws comes as immigration arrests have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">soared to new levels\u003c/a>, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide in July. California had the third-highest number of those arrests, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recently expanded detention capacity in the state as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to achieve “mass deportation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-bills-to-push-back-on-trumps-orwellian-immigration-tactics-to-protect-immigrant-communities/\">wide-ranging laws\u003c/a>, authored by Democrats from across the state, included measures to restrict law enforcement use of electroshock gloves, masks and flash-bang grenades, enable individuals to sue federal officials in state court over rights violations and require local agencies to release 911 call records originating from ICE facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several bills focused on expanding the state’s power to enforce health and safety standards in immigration detention, restrict construction of new detention centers and tax private detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2287296637-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>In his signing statement, Newsom noted that the underlying authority for immigration enforcement lies with the federal government. But he insisted that facilities in California are subject to the state’s standards and oversight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Trump has put his political interests above the health, safety and livelihood of American families,” Newsom said. “California is taking action to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight around immigration enforcement in our state. This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a time when the number of people who died in ICE custody hit a two-decade high last year and continues to surge, legal watchdogs are raising alarms about the conditions inside the eight immigration jails in California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of the new laws, SB 942, authored by Central Valley Sen. Ana Caballero, creates a bill of rights for people in all forms of civil custody in California, including immigration detention. It establishes minimum standards for medical care, food, water, sanitation, religious practice, contact with family and access to legal counsel. And it gives the state attorney general new powers to enforce those standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of Immigrant Defense Advocates, called it a “first of its kind” law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California in many ways is leading the nation when it comes to pushing the envelope in terms of protecting the health and safety of immigrants in detention,” he said. “For years, we’ve passed bills that have been the first of their kind in the entire country and other states have followed suit and taken inspiration from those bills. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta co-sponsored that bill with Immigrant Defense Advocates in conjunction with another bill that extends existing state inspections of ICE facilities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Here in California, we know our diversity is our strength. There is no room in California for President Trump’s hateful mass deportation and detention agenda,” Bonta said in a statement. “We will continue to fight to provide immigrants with the rights, necessities, and respect that they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neither Core Civic nor GEO Group, the largest private prison companies operating ICE detention in California, responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates who work with California immigrant families applauded the legislature and the governor for backing new legal protections at a time when fear is coursing through immigrant communities — even for individuals who have lawful status or have lived in the U.S. for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Todd Benson, executive director of the multi-denominational community organization Faith in Action East Bay, credited the grassroots efforts of his members and others, who met with lawmakers and wrote letters to the governor, for the passage of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve all seen examples of the brutality of ICE agents. This goes against our faith values,” he said. “We believe that all human beings have dignity and should be treated with dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said increasing ICE arrests unnecessarily separate families and traumatize California children, and inhumane conditions in detention appear to be a “deliberate effort to get people to self deport.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A bill from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney will impose a 25% tax on the gross income of for-profit companies that operate immigration detention facilities — and put the money into a state fund to support immigration services.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12027566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Assemblymember Matt Haney speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, called it a win for accountability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No one should profit from tearing families apart,” Fouladi said. “Private detention corporations make hundreds of millions of dollars every year in California by separating parents from their children and locking up our neighbors in inhumane conditions. AB 1633 makes them pay for the trauma and suffering they inflict.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He urged the governor to also sign a companion bill, AB 2465, that would bar private detention contractors from receiving state grants or loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The move to halt the use of electric shock gloves came as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-immigration-680c6f8a96736f46529287178c57b44b\">ICE awarded a nearly $17 million contract\u003c/a> last month to purchase 6,000 pairs. California sheriffs and other law enforcement groups \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/08/california-ice-electric-shock-gloves/\">opposed the ban\u003c/a>, which they consider a “less lethal” de-escalation tool. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener celebrated the signing of his bill to bar law enforcement officers from wearing masks, as well as another, dubbed the “No Kings Act,” to allow people to sue in state court over allegations that immigration agents have violated their civil rights. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101942\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20170515_StateCapitol_Sen_ScottWeiner_credit_BertJohnson-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California State Senator Scott Weiner in Sacramento on May 15, 2017. (Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>He said that’s needed because of cases across the country where immigration agents have violently pulled people from their cars and homes, and have fatally shot both immigrants and U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“ICE and Border Patrol have terrorized California communities with impunity. That ends today,” Wiener said. “When federal agents act lawlessly, they should be held accountable the same as any other lawbreaker.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wiener’s office said they expect a few individuals to file suit shortly under the new law, which takes effect immediately and applies to incidents going back to March 2025. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, legal analysts expect the Trump administration to challenge a number of the new laws in court. Kevin Johnson, an emeritus professor at the UC Davis School of Law, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gloves-shock-law-newsom-bill-91b68ae4fbd44065256fb5e6b06891ad\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a> that courts are likely to rule that the state cannot bar federal officers from wearing shock gloves or face coverings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The state has very limited, if any, powers in dictating to the federal government how its officers are armed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A few measures passed by the legislature were not among the 21 bills signed. They included a bill — vetoed by Newsom on Sunday night — that would have fortified a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12101563/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-fund-immigration-attorneys-in-rural-california\">pipeline of new immigration lawyers\u003c/a> to work in rural parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Also not signed were bills to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb941\">cap at 35% the markup private facilities can charge \u003c/a>detainees for commissary items, and the one to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2465\">bar private detention contractors\u003c/a> from receiving state grants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom has until midnight on Sep. 30 to act on the remaining bills on his desk, in his last year as California’s governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have fortified a pipeline of new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> lawyers to work in rural parts of California that are home to many immigrants but few attorneys equipped to help them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1194/id/3456227\">SB 1194\u003c/a>, authored by Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would have codified an existing legal fellowship pilot program placing newly minted lawyers at immigrant-serving community organizations in underserved regions such as the Central Valley, Inland Empire and Central Coast, and pairing them with experienced immigration lawyers from urban areas who provide intensive training and mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislature sent it to the governor’s desk at a time when the Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">ramped up immigration arrests\u003c/a> in the state and across the country to new levels as part of the president’s mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the pilot program has received about $2.5 million a year, and the current budget provides $7.5 million — three years worth of funding — so the program is expected to continue operating for now. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>But advocates say SB 1194 would have made it permanent and ensured the funding builds capacity in rural and underserved areas, which the budget language does not.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his veto message on Sunday evening, Newsom said he shared Caballero’s commitment “to ensure California maintains the capacity to provide legal representation for vulnerable immigrant communities as arrests and detentions rise.” But he said that’s taken care of by the budget, which includes a total of nearly $150 million for immigration services, including the $7.5 million and another $34 million for nonprofit organizations to provide legal aid.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“As such, this bill, which creates an unfunded program on top of this work, is duplicative and unnecessary,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates who sponsored the measure said they were deeply disappointed that the governor rejected a chance to protect “a proven, community-driven program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The veto “underscores the Newsom administration’s failure to acknowledge grassroots-led solutions developed by rural communities and sends the message that these regions, and the immigrant communities that call them home, can be ignored without consequence or accountability,” said Jackie Gonzalez, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Data show that people who have legal representation are \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/closure/\">far more likely to succeed\u003c/a> in fighting deportation than those without. And \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/addressrep/\">a new report shows \u003c/a>that where an immigrant lives affects whether they can find an attorney to represent them in immigration proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For too long, the resources California has invested to expand access to immigration legal services have failed to reach communities in the Central Valley,” Caballero said. The fellowship program “creates a pipeline in the Central Valley for high-quality immigration legal services by training the next generation of lawyers to serve individuals, families and communities that need them the most.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The pilot program began during the first Trump administration. So far, it has trained about 20 attorneys who’ve provided pro bono representation to nearly 2,500 people across 39 counties, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has the largest number of immigrants of any state. People vulnerable to immigration enforcement include people with green cards or other lawful status, as well as the more than 2 million California residents who are unauthorized immigrants, many of whom have lived in the state for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Adriana Melgoza, executive director of the Watsonville Law Center, said that on the Central Coast, longtime agricultural workers have often been in this country so long they have not only U.S.-born children but U.S.-born grandchildren, yet no way to become legal residents. She said she’s also seen an uptick in immigration arrests in the region.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Any arrest in our community brings fear for the entire community,” she said. “Children who are citizens are really afraid to go to school because they fear that they’re not going to come back to a parent…. We’re traumatizing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2279628970-scaled-e1790630969215.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101706\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An ICE deportation officer’s badge in Dallas on Monday, June 1, 2026. (Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>But Melgoza, whose organization was part of the original pilot program, said her area, including Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, is a “legal desert,” with a severe lack of immigration lawyers and a growing need.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A lot of the clients that we’re representing in removal defense have options to fight their case,” she said. “But if they don’t have an attorney, people face straight deportation without even the chance… to exercise their rights.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly three decades worth of data on immigration court outcomes made available by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research center at Syracuse University, shows that nearly seven out of 10 individuals who lack lawyers are ordered deported, while fewer than three out of 10 face deportation if they have an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The fellowship program not only provides three years of training for new immigration lawyers, but also assists nonprofit organizations in rural areas in developing their capacity to become legal service providers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s key, according to Gonzalez, because it allows those groups to apply for a larger pool of state funding for immigration legal services. Those funds, administered by the state Department of Social Services, are only available to organizations that can show at least three years of expertise.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St. on Feb. 5, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The fellowship has been a resounding success by all measures,” Gonzalez said. “It has recruited young attorneys back home to serve their communities… and all of the participating organizations have acquired three years of [capacity-building], making them eligible to obtain funding that has previously predominantly only been available to larger organizations in wealthier metropolitan hubs.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But this year’s budget strips out language directing the funds to historically underserved areas and instead calls for “sustainable, cost-effective fellowship strategies.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>With the veto killing a chance to enshrine the fellowship into law, Gonzalez said she fears the program could be reshaped into something “that no longer prioritizes rural communities at all.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 1194 was one of an array of bills on the governor’s desk aimed at strengthening California’s support for immigrants at risk of deportation and exercising state oversight of immigration detention.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Newsom has until Sep. 30 to sign or veto the remaining legislation.\u003c/p>\n",
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Anna Caballero, would have codified an existing legal fellowship pilot program placing newly minted lawyers at immigrant-serving community organizations in underserved regions such as the Central Valley, Inland Empire and Central Coast, and pairing them with experienced immigration lawyers from urban areas who provide intensive training and mentorship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislature sent it to the governor’s desk at a time when the Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">ramped up immigration arrests\u003c/a> in the state and across the country to new levels as part of the president’s mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the pilot program has received about $2.5 million a year, and the current budget provides $7.5 million — three years worth of funding — so the program is expected to continue operating for now. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. 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(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>But advocates say SB 1194 would have made it permanent and ensured the funding builds capacity in rural and underserved areas, which the budget language does not.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his veto message on Sunday evening, Newsom said he shared Caballero’s commitment “to ensure California maintains the capacity to provide legal representation for vulnerable immigrant communities as arrests and detentions rise.” But he said that’s taken care of by the budget, which includes a total of nearly $150 million for immigration services, including the $7.5 million and another $34 million for nonprofit organizations to provide legal aid.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“As such, this bill, which creates an unfunded program on top of this work, is duplicative and unnecessary,” Newsom wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates who sponsored the measure said they were deeply disappointed that the governor rejected a chance to protect “a proven, community-driven program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The veto “underscores the Newsom administration’s failure to acknowledge grassroots-led solutions developed by rural communities and sends the message that these regions, and the immigrant communities that call them home, can be ignored without consequence or accountability,” said Jackie Gonzalez, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Data show that people who have legal representation are \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/closure/\">far more likely to succeed\u003c/a> in fighting deportation than those without. And \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/addressrep/\">a new report shows \u003c/a>that where an immigrant lives affects whether they can find an attorney to represent them in immigration proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For too long, the resources California has invested to expand access to immigration legal services have failed to reach communities in the Central Valley,” Caballero said. The fellowship program “creates a pipeline in the Central Valley for high-quality immigration legal services by training the next generation of lawyers to serve individuals, families and communities that need them the most.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The pilot program began during the first Trump administration. So far, it has trained about 20 attorneys who’ve provided pro bono representation to nearly 2,500 people across 39 counties, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has the largest number of immigrants of any state. People vulnerable to immigration enforcement include people with green cards or other lawful status, as well as the more than 2 million California residents who are unauthorized immigrants, many of whom have lived in the state for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Adriana Melgoza, executive director of the Watsonville Law Center, said that on the Central Coast, longtime agricultural workers have often been in this country so long they have not only U.S.-born children but U.S.-born grandchildren, yet no way to become legal residents. She said she’s also seen an uptick in immigration arrests in the region.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Any arrest in our community brings fear for the entire community,” she said. “Children who are citizens are really afraid to go to school because they fear that they’re not going to come back to a parent…. We’re traumatizing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-2279628970-scaled-e1790630969215.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101706\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An ICE deportation officer’s badge in Dallas on Monday, June 1, 2026. (Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>But Melgoza, whose organization was part of the original pilot program, said her area, including Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, is a “legal desert,” with a severe lack of immigration lawyers and a growing need.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A lot of the clients that we’re representing in removal defense have options to fight their case,” she said. “But if they don’t have an attorney, people face straight deportation without even the chance… to exercise their rights.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly three decades worth of data on immigration court outcomes made available by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research center at Syracuse University, shows that nearly seven out of 10 individuals who lack lawyers are ordered deported, while fewer than three out of 10 face deportation if they have an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The fellowship program not only provides three years of training for new immigration lawyers, but also assists nonprofit organizations in rural areas in developing their capacity to become legal service providers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s key, according to Gonzalez, because it allows those groups to apply for a larger pool of state funding for immigration legal services. Those funds, administered by the state Department of Social Services, are only available to organizations that can show at least three years of expertise.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St. on Feb. 5, 2020. 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A DHS spokesperson, who did not identify themself, said in an email to KQED that Mo was arrested Sept. 17 in “a targeted enforcement operation” at the airport. The spokesperson said that on Jan. 13, 2020, “Mo lawfully entered the U.S. on a temporary basis but illegally overstayed his welcome by failing to depart by May 15, 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/employment-authorization-document\">work authorization\u003c/a> document is typically only available to a person who is lawfully present in the U.S. or applying for legal permanent residence or some form of immigration protection, such as asylum. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Until recently, ICE did not generally arrest people with expired visas if they had a pending application for another type of immigration relief. 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So they’re going after people who the system tells them have overstayed visas.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12095564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081726-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-09-MC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during Jose Ortega Elementary School’s first morning circle of the school year on Aug. 17, 2026, in San Francisco. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, meanwhile, has sent a letter to the Las Vegas Immigration Court saying Mo is a “positive addition to our city” and calling for his release from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Ho Yin has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for years and has developed a strong network here. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the Hong Kong-born aide to a San Francisco state Assembly member are fighting for his release from immigration detention in the Nevada desert a week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">federal immigration agents\u003c/a> arrested him at the Las Vegas airport.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ho-Yin Mo, a field representative for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, is represented by a Las Vegas immigration attorney who’s working to secure his release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump, University of San Francisco Law Professor Bill Ong Hing said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said the lawyer is asking an immigration judge to order Mo’s release on bond and, failing that, would challenge the lawfulness of his detention in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A hearing is scheduled for next week, according to Joe Arellano, a political strategist and former colleague of Mo’s, though it’s unclear in what court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration court records do not show an open deportation case against Mo.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GettyImages-528794650-scaled-e1790353795933.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101343\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Muhammad Ali Center, a museum and cultural center built as a tribute to the champion boxer Muhammad Ali and his values, is located in Louisville, Kentucky’s “Museum Row.” (James Leynse-Corbis News/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest last Thursday, Mo was passing through the Harry Reid International Airport on his way to Louisville, Kentucky, to visit the Muhammad Ali Museum, Arellano said, adding that Mo admired the late boxer, who was an advocate for social justice.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He always talked about the importance of democracy, as someone who came from Hong Kong and had experienced a lot of the turmoil,” Arellano went on. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These were ideals that he held very close to his heart.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stefani has called for Mo’s immediate release from ICE detention and called him “a valued, legal employee” and a “selfless public servant,” but her staff declined to speak further about his case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, the California State Assembly’s Rules Committee said it “can confirm that Ho Yin Mo is a current employee of the California State Assembly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Assembly complies with all applicable federal employment verification requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security did not dispute that Mo has a valid work authorization. A DHS spokesperson, who did not identify themself, said in an email to KQED that Mo was arrested Sept. 17 in “a targeted enforcement operation” at the airport. The spokesperson said that on Jan. 13, 2020, “Mo lawfully entered the U.S. on a temporary basis but illegally overstayed his welcome by failing to depart by May 15, 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/employment-authorization-document\">work authorization\u003c/a> document is typically only available to a person who is lawfully present in the U.S. or applying for legal permanent residence or some form of immigration protection, such as asylum. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Until recently, ICE did not generally arrest people with expired visas if they had a pending application for another type of immigration relief. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights advocates are still trying to find more information about at least four people who have “vanished” after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ice\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents\u003c/a> detained them outside a Concord Home Depot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Brian Ibarra, a coordinator with Concord Immigrant Protections Network, said that unmarked vehicles drove into the Home Depot parking lot early Wednesday morning, which day laborers believed to be federal agents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Described as wearing patches with ‘ERO,’ the Enforcement and Removal Operations division under ICE, they began detaining individuals at the scene. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ibarra said the people wearing ICE patches removed up to five people, but the advocates don’t have any other information such as their names or where they are being held. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brian Ibarra, coordinator for Concord Immigrant Protections Network (CIPN), rallies in solidarity with day laborers outside a Home Depot in Concord on Sept. 24, 2026, following reports that federal immigration agents detained several people there the previous day. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They just vanished,” Ibarra said. “As of right now, we don’t know who was taken, but once we do, we plan to offer them resources and any help that we have.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a protest outside the Home Depot on Thursday, about three dozen advocates gathered and chanted slogans like “No justice, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here.” They held signs that read “Hands off our neighbors” and “Stop terrorizing our communities! Stop tearing families apart!”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has not responded to KQED’s requests for more information. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s arrests are a continuation of the Trump Administration’s enforcement of mass deportations. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We cannot legally interfere with federal enforcement agencies, including preventing them from coming into our stores and parking lots,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cristina Guerrero runs the day labor program for Monument Impact, a Bay Area nonprofit organization supporting low-income, immigrant and refugee families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said people who are up early every morning waiting at Home Depot for work opportunities are already vulnerable to discrimination and exploitation, even aside from the fear of being sent away without a chance to say goodbye to their families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Every day, they have to go out, put themselves at risk, and hope that someone will give them an opportunity to work,” she said. “They are fathers, sons, brothers, neighbors, and members of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates also spoke about Maureen Wanjiru Ngure, a Concord resident and nurse, who ICE recently detained after going to an appointment in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her family has confirmed she’s since been deported to Kenya, where she hasn’t lived for two decades, Ibarra said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>United Latino Voices Executive Director Tony Bravo said the arrests at Home Depot are frightening for immigrant families across Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-15-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101245\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-15-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-15-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-15-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally in solidarity with day laborers outside a Home Depot in Concord on Sept. 24, 2026, following reports that federal immigration agents detained several people there the previous day. 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