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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. 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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. But in recent months, ICE has been obtaining information about airport travelers from the Transportation Security Administration and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092697/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-warn-noncitizens-to-avoid-air-travel-after-ice-arrests\">arresting people in domestic terminals\u003c/a> if they appear to have overstayed a visa. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, he’s an example of what’s happening all over,” Hing said. “These are folks that are following rules and all of a sudden they find themselves in detention…. ICE is really trying to achieve high numbers of arrests and detentions. 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. 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He is a contributing member of society, and I do not believe he poses a danger or threat to anyone,” he wrote. “I hope he will be given the opportunity to return to his home, his work, and his community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arellano met Mo when they worked together on former San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s reelection campaign in 2024, and said Mo was a hard worker who “always went above and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Having been a reporter for Chinese-language TV station KTSF, he said Mo was able to easily connect with Chinese voters and constituents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He was just beloved. … He was immediately recognized for his role on television as an anchor, and that carried over into the work that he did,” Arellano said. “We hope that sanity will prevail and that he will be able to be released and come home soon.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Brian Krans contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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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. But in recent months, ICE has been obtaining information about airport travelers from the Transportation Security Administration and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092697/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-warn-noncitizens-to-avoid-air-travel-after-ice-arrests\">arresting people in domestic terminals\u003c/a> if they appear to have overstayed a visa. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, he’s an example of what’s happening all over,” Hing said. “These are folks that are following rules and all of a sudden they find themselves in detention…. ICE is really trying to achieve high numbers of arrests and detentions. 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": "\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. Earlier this month, an aide for California State Assemblymember Catherine Stefani was detained by immigration officials in Las Vegas. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very troubling that whatever agency decided to come here chose Home Depot, where we know that day laborers are out here every single day building community with each other and seeking work,” Ibarra said at a podium flanked by other immigration advocates. “We hope that Home Depot has not and will not aid in any federal immigration raids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates passed flyers around to encourage people to call the corporation “The Home Deport” — demanding that it denounce ICE raids on its properties nationwide, declare its stores safe spaces from immigration agents and protect the people who work and shop at its stores every day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is not the first time it has happened in other parts of the country, and we’re not here to stay silent anymore,” said Betty Gabaldon, a manager at East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy. “They came in, and within five minutes, they took four people.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a written response to KQED, Home Depot said the company didn’t know that immigration enforcement was going to happen, and it wasn’t involved in the operations. \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/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cristina Guerrero, with Monument Impact, speaks during a 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. (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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Is it safe for me to leave my home and never see my family again?” Bravo said. “Is it safe to even visit or go to my immigration appointment?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Danny Espinoza, director of Lift Up Contra Costa, was one of several activists who called on local government leaders to enact more changes to protect immigrants from federal immigration raids, like ending contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/flock\">Flock\u003c/a>, whose license plate readers help federal agents track people across the country. \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/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101248\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nancy Dougherty, with Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa, 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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Earlier this month, an aide for California State Assemblymember Catherine Stefani was detained by immigration officials in Las Vegas. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very troubling that whatever agency decided to come here chose Home Depot, where we know that day laborers are out here every single day building community with each other and seeking work,” Ibarra said at a podium flanked by other immigration advocates. “We hope that Home Depot has not and will not aid in any federal immigration raids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates passed flyers around to encourage people to call the corporation “The Home Deport” — demanding that it denounce ICE raids on its properties nationwide, declare its stores safe spaces from immigration agents and protect the people who work and shop at its stores every day. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is not the first time it has happened in other parts of the country, and we’re not here to stay silent anymore,” said Betty Gabaldon, a manager at East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy. “They came in, and within five minutes, they took four people.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a written response to KQED, Home Depot said the company didn’t know that immigration enforcement was going to happen, and it wasn’t involved in the operations. \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/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cristina Guerrero, with Monument Impact, speaks during a 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. (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. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is part of a fear that they have been carrying for a very long time,” Bravo said, noting that immigration arrests, as well as those conducted at Home Depots, have surged across the country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Concord Home Depot is no exception,” Bravo said. “People have been taken while looking for work and while attending required immigration appointments.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“Their families are left trying to find out where they are, and when they will see them again, if they will,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bravo said the people taken by ICE agents at Home Depot were merely trying to make a living to likely support their families, something that now comes with a sense of dread. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A child waits for a parent to come home, a family loses income. Neighbors begin to wonder: Is it safe for me to go to work? Is it safe for me to leave my home and never see my family again?” Bravo said. “Is it safe to even visit or go to my immigration appointment?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Danny Espinoza, director of Lift Up Contra Costa, was one of several activists who called on local government leaders to enact more changes to protect immigrants from federal immigration raids, like ending contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/flock\">Flock\u003c/a>, whose license plate readers help federal agents track people across the country. \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/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101248\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ConcordICE-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nancy Dougherty, with Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa, 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>“What happened yesterday makes one thing painfully clear: Concord’s leaders need to take a stand,” Espinoza said. “The city council needs to say plainly that ICE is not welcome here, and back those words by protections that people can count on.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While ICE has given local authorities notice before conducting immigration enforcement in Concord, it didn’t for Wednesday, according to Concord Police Lt. Shasta Vanetti.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rich Oberleitner, a retired high school teacher from Walnut Creek, attended the protest wearing an anti-ICE shirt. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said immigrants are too important for the United States to be treated like the day laborers were on Wednesday morning, when they were simply trying to work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It just seems so very wrong,” he said. “It seems so very Gestapo-ish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California college students without legal immigration status still cannot work at public colleges and universities after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> again \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Veto-msg-AB-713.pdf\">vetoed a bill Sunday\u003c/a> that would have given them that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab713\">Assembly Bill 713\u003c/a> would have adopted an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">untested legal theory\u003c/a> that argues that a 1986 federal law barring employers from hiring workers in the country without authorization doesn’t apply to state governments. The logic? That 40-year-old law doesn’t mention state governments as a type of employer that cannot hire workers without proper status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the second time in three years, Newsom decided that adopting that theory for California would expose the state’s higher-education system to the wrath of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current federal government has shown it is quick to wreak destruction for political spectacle — attacking California’s public higher education institutions and terrorizing immigrant communities, including students, with reckless disregard for consequences and a desire for chaos,” Newsom wrote in his veto message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “But given the gravity of this bill’s consequences — including potential criminal and civil liability for state employees — the federal courts must resolve the legality of the novel legal theory behind this legislation before we proceed. Seeking declaratory relief in federal court would provide such clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12097112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed a nearly identical bill in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest bill by Assemblymember José Luis Solache, a Democrat from Lakewood, was meant to allow the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/cost-of-college-california/#1b26d91e-68aa-4023-aa9d-21e0a545a249\">estimated 60,000 students\u003c/a> without legal immigration status at California’s community college and public universities to earn paychecks safely on campuses instead of working for cash under the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the bill say campus jobs could be tailored to fit the students’ academic schedules or align with the research interests, such as employment in labs.[aside postID=news_12100707 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED.jpg']Campus jobs are a key way these students can afford college given that they are ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California provides eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of their immigration status, so many of them can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While California has a longstanding commitment to expanding access, affordability, and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers,” Solache said at a bill hearing in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its review of employing students without legal status in 2024 out of fears that the federal government could punish the system by withholding federal money or prosecuting UC personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decision gutted a coalition of students who led the campaign to persuade the UC to voluntarily adopt the legal theory allowing them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Newsom vetoed the 2024 bill, a student and former lecturer at the UC sued the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.spinxweb.net/horvitz/uploads/2025/10/Munoz-et-al.-v.-Regents-of-the-University-of-California-A171410.pdf\">state appellate court ruled\u003c/a> that UC’s argument that the federal government might sue the system was an abuse of discretion under the state’s law that bans employment and housing discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12100649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12100649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, where he signed 13 bills focused on protecting kids from technology, on Sept. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court said UC’s policy of not hiring students without legal status was legally indefensible unless it can show that federal law requires the UC to continue its policy of not hiring undocumented students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC appealed, but the state Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Center_for_Immigration_Law_and_Policy/Opportunity_for_All_Timeline.pdf?_gl=1*2kxkqq*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTgwMDExNDcxNC4xNzg4MjA1Mzk3*_ga_LH03WX2T8B*czE3ODgyMDUzOTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODgyMDUzOTYkajYwJGwwJGgw\">let the appellate ruling stand\u003c/a>. Still, the court ruling was silent on the soundness of the legal theory that the state can hire workers without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s veto message indicated that a federal court must weigh in on the legal theory before California can adopt a law such as Solache’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/newsom-veto-students-wtihout-legal-status/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Campus jobs are a key way these students can afford college given that they are ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California provides eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of their immigration status, so many of them can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While California has a longstanding commitment to expanding access, affordability, and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers,” Solache said at a bill hearing in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its review of employing students without legal status in 2024 out of fears that the federal government could punish the system by withholding federal money or prosecuting UC personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decision gutted a coalition of students who led the campaign to persuade the UC to voluntarily adopt the legal theory allowing them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Newsom vetoed the 2024 bill, a student and former lecturer at the UC sued the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.spinxweb.net/horvitz/uploads/2025/10/Munoz-et-al.-v.-Regents-of-the-University-of-California-A171410.pdf\">state appellate court ruled\u003c/a> that UC’s argument that the federal government might sue the system was an abuse of discretion under the state’s law that bans employment and housing discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12100649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12100649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/GavinNewsomCM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, where he signed 13 bills focused on protecting kids from technology, on Sept. 10, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court said UC’s policy of not hiring students without legal status was legally indefensible unless it can show that federal law requires the UC to continue its policy of not hiring undocumented students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC appealed, but the state Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Center_for_Immigration_Law_and_Policy/Opportunity_for_All_Timeline.pdf?_gl=1*2kxkqq*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTgwMDExNDcxNC4xNzg4MjA1Mzk3*_ga_LH03WX2T8B*czE3ODgyMDUzOTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODgyMDUzOTYkajYwJGwwJGgw\">let the appellate ruling stand\u003c/a>. Still, the court ruling was silent on the soundness of the legal theory that the state can hire workers without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s veto message indicated that a federal court must weigh in on the legal theory before California can adopt a law such as Solache’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/newsom-veto-students-wtihout-legal-status/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>It was a campaign of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mass-deportations\">mass deportation\u003c/a>, with immigration authorities engaged in racial profiling and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">disregarding the rights\u003c/a> of the people they arrested, many of whom were in the United States legally. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a charge that’s been leveled at President Donald Trump’s current enforcement efforts, with agents detaining people they perceived as immigrants without legal status on the streets of cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, frequently without warrants and referring to them by racial slurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also describes a little-known chapter of U.S. history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">“Mexican Repatriation” \u003c/a>that began amid rising xenophobia in the 1920s and gained steam during the Great Depression, said historian Marla Ramírez, who spoke about the parallels at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies last week. \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/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12100407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A demonstrator holds a sign at the departing wing of San Francisco International Airport’s International Terminal where the San Francisco Chronicle has reported that Customs and Border Protection has a hidden detention center where dozens of detainees have been arrested and held for more than a week on Sept. 16, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An estimated 1 million people were sent to Mexico in the period between World War I and World War II, and the majority of them were U.S. citizens, according to Ramírez, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295940\">a recent book\u003c/a>, “Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened during the interwar period and what’s happening now is that we have this stereotypical image of an immigrant that’s always rooted in who’s white and who’s not white,” she said. “We see U.S. citizens of non-white phenotypes being questioned, being arrested even, because they’ve been imagined to be immigrants, even when they’re U.S. citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Recent lawsuits have alleged — through officer bodycam footage, witnesses and individual testimonies — that agents have denied some people the opportunity to produce proof of legal status during their arrest, speak to an attorney while detained or present their case to an immigration judge before they are deported.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The current environment echoes the immigration policing of a century ago, Ramírez said, and it poses a danger not only to immigrants but to society as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Whenever we are willing to turn a blind eye to the civil rights and constitutional rights of a group, it becomes a dangerous, slippery slope,” she said. “It gives [the government] permission to ignore those same rights for other groups.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100391/judge-says-immigration-agents-must-stop-the-way-theyre-conducting-warrantless-arrests\">denied violating the rights\u003c/a> of people arrested during immigration enforcement actions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After the UC Berkeley talk, Julia Curry Rodríguez, an emerita professor from San José State University, said Ramírez’s research shows how authorities sometimes disregard policies and laws to make violations against immigrants appear justified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In the early part of the 20th century, we see a twisting of rules to do things that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen,” she said. “It tells us we have to be astute. … We can’t allow someone to tell us, ‘We have the right,’ when they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1876\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12100817\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED.jpg 1876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: The cover of Marla Ramírez’s book “Banished Citizens: A History of The Mexican American Woman who Endured Repatriation.”\u003cbr>Right: Marla Ramírez is an assistant professor of history and Chicano/a studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>It was a campaign of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mass-deportations\">mass deportation\u003c/a>, with immigration authorities engaged in racial profiling and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">disregarding the rights\u003c/a> of the people they arrested, many of whom were in the United States legally. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a charge that’s been leveled at President Donald Trump’s current enforcement efforts, with agents detaining people they perceived as immigrants without legal status on the streets of cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, frequently without warrants and referring to them by racial slurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also describes a little-known chapter of U.S. history: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">“Mexican Repatriation” \u003c/a>that began amid rising xenophobia in the 1920s and gained steam during the Great Depression, said historian Marla Ramírez, who spoke about the parallels at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies last week. \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/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12100407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260916-HiddenICESFO-NG-27_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A demonstrator holds a sign at the departing wing of San Francisco International Airport’s International Terminal where the San Francisco Chronicle has reported that Customs and Border Protection has a hidden detention center where dozens of detainees have been arrested and held for more than a week on Sept. 16, 2026. (Nina Glick/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An estimated 1 million people were sent to Mexico in the period between World War I and World War II, and the majority of them were U.S. citizens, according to Ramírez, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295940\">a recent book\u003c/a>, “Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened during the interwar period and what’s happening now is that we have this stereotypical image of an immigrant that’s always rooted in who’s white and who’s not white,” she said. “We see U.S. citizens of non-white phenotypes being questioned, being arrested even, because they’ve been imagined to be immigrants, even when they’re U.S. citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Recent lawsuits have alleged — through officer bodycam footage, witnesses and individual testimonies — that agents have denied some people the opportunity to produce proof of legal status during their arrest, speak to an attorney while detained or present their case to an immigration judge before they are deported.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The current environment echoes the immigration policing of a century ago, Ramírez said, and it poses a danger not only to immigrants but to society as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Whenever we are willing to turn a blind eye to the civil rights and constitutional rights of a group, it becomes a dangerous, slippery slope,” she said. “It gives [the government] permission to ignore those same rights for other groups.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12100391/judge-says-immigration-agents-must-stop-the-way-theyre-conducting-warrantless-arrests\">denied violating the rights\u003c/a> of people arrested during immigration enforcement actions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After the UC Berkeley talk, Julia Curry Rodríguez, an emerita professor from San José State University, said Ramírez’s research shows how authorities sometimes disregard policies and laws to make violations against immigrants appear justified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In the early part of the 20th century, we see a twisting of rules to do things that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen,” she said. “It tells us we have to be astute. … We can’t allow someone to tell us, ‘We have the right,’ when they don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1876\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12100817\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED.jpg 1876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260921-Deportation-lessons-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: The cover of Marla Ramírez’s book “Banished Citizens: A History of The Mexican American Woman who Endured Repatriation.”\u003cbr>Right: Marla Ramírez is an assistant professor of history and Chicano/a studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Courtesy of Marla Ramírez)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ramírez searched the archives of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (the agency that predated the Department of Homeland Security) and found evidence that the government knew it was expelling U.S. citizens in typed rosters of people deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One list, from July 1939, included 36-year-old Juan Franco, a Mexican national, and his wife, Juana Cuevas, 28, whose nationality is listed as “United States,” as is that of their four children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another man, Pedro Cruz, 79, a Mexican national, was deported along with his wife, Isabel Martinez, and their seven children, two daughters-in-law, a son-in-law and 12 grandchildren, all of them U.S. nationals, the archival records show.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The fact that these women and children were Americans means that “repatriation” and even “deportation” are inaccurate terms, Ramírez said. 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According to reporting from the San Francisco Chronicle, SFO is also being used as a de facto detention center by Customs and Border Protection.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>The impression that a lot of immigration attorneys have and folks who have been in the detention centers recently have told me like, yeah, a lot of people I’m in here with are people who were picked up at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, we talk with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sara DiNatale about how airports have become the new frontier in Trump’s immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>It’s not like this is happening constantly, but it is still happening more because it used to never happen. Historically ICE agents have not entered airports, domestic terminals, picking up people for visa overstays, especially people with visa overstay that have no criminal history. 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So the thought among immigration attorneys and other experts in immigration is that the shift to focusing on airports is a response to the fact that it is not as easy anymore to get people when they’re doing court hearings or check-ins with ICE because of these court orders. Trump has still made it clear that he has, you know, these large deportation goals. And so that is why people think airports have become a shift in that strategy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Can you kind of describe some of the kinds of immigration actions that are happening at airports like SFO?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>Yeah, the videos we’ve seen all follow a very similar formula. You typically see plain, closed ICE agents. It’s not particularly obvious that they’re federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Iryna Gorb: \u003c/strong>I need more! 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So when we’re talking about the people who are in domestic terminals that ICE agents are arresting in, those people are not the same people that we found being held in the airport. The people being held at the airport are flying internationally. Because when you’re flying internationally, you are essentially at the border asking for entry. And what we found and what our reporting found is that the people held at the airport are having this longer in-between step. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> So what exactly has changed? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale:\u003c/strong> Traditionally, if you had been flying internationally you have a work permit visa or a green card and something about your background check pops in the Customs and Border Protection system. If it wasn’t like an active warrant, typically they would say, hey, something weird popped up on your your background check, we need to set up a follow up appointment to go through this, you would get like a temporary release. So you’re allowed to leave the airport and you know, you have to come back and check with the customs officers. Sometimes you would be able to bring your immigration attorney. And they’re basically holding your green card or your work permit as collateral. So like people always came back for these appointments. It wasn’t like people were running off. But now the follow-up appointment, which is called deferred inspection, is essentially dead. And so instead of a follow-up appointment, they’re just holding them at the airport until they can decide what to do with them. And typically the end decision, which sometimes can take up to a week or more, is to transfer them to ICE detention with an order to go before an immigration judge to decide whether or not they’re admissible into the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You’re saying some of these folks are being held at the airport for up to a week, potentially?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>Yes. So typically what happens because these are often really old arrests. And in a lot of cases, they are expunged from their state record. So they’re flying, not realizing that the federal system being used for the background check will still pull up a state expunges arrest. And then the agents are saying, Okay, well, we need to request your original court records. And until we have those court records to decide if you should be admitted or not. You just have to hold tight and the time that they’re waiting to get those records can span. If it is a Friday, the court is not going to send the certified records over the weekend. I’ve also had immigration attorneys tell me like, I have certified court records for the, like for this individual and I’m happy to bring them. And the agent said, no, we need them directly from either the arresting police agency or the court. Even if that was the case in the before times, it didn’t automatically mean you needed to be detained while you were awaiting that hearing. But now under Trump’s current executive orders, he’s made it very clear if there is a question about your admissibility and questions about your criminal history, you absolutely need to remain detained. They still have in there, it’s still linked on their website, you can read it, that people should not be held for more than 72 hours. And when we looked at the federal data which encompassed all the airports, we found that Customs and Border Protection has detained more than 400 people at international airports for longer than 72-hours since January and through July. And then of that 400 people, 146 were people who had valid green cards, so they were lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And where exactly in the airport are they being held?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale:\u003c/strong> It’s between A and G and like the part that connects both terminals that you like walk between. It’s all behind like the area you can’t get to unless like a customs agent is like walking with you. So this particular room is like kind of deep into the innards of the airport. There’s no windows. I have not been inside of it. They will not let me in. But it’s been described to me as just like a very, it looks like a basic like waiting room. Not somewhere you wanna sleep for days. There’s no beds. If you’ve ever been through customs and you get pulled for a secondary interview, you’re not allowed to have your phone. And that is the same with when you’re in being held in one of these rooms. You don’t have a phone or anything. So at SFO we know of 25 people who were held there for more than 72 hours from January through July and then 19 of those 25 people were transferred to ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ll have more with The Chronicle’s Sara DiNatale right after this. By the way, if you appreciate the local deep dives that we bring you on the bay, consider supporting our work by becoming a sustaining member of KQED. We can’t do this work without you. Just go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. We’ll be right back. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And like you said, this detainment area is really out of sight, and we haven’t known a lot about what is actually happening there, but you actually talked with a 67-year-old man who was held there. Tell me about him and his story?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>During this reporting process, I met a 67 year old man who was held at SFO for eight days starting in March. He agreed to talk to us without publishing his name because he doesn’t want any more attention to be put on his legal status. He is a green card holder. He has been a lawful permanent resident here for decades and he’s lived here legally for about 50 years. So he lives in Fresno. He was flying back from a trip to Mexico. And when he lands in Fresno, he is sitting on the plane and federal agents board and call his name. And they take him into custody right then and there. They cuffed his wrists and his feet, and they put him into a van, and they drove him to SFO. He was very confused about like what he was being arrested for on his way there actually in the van. He’s already starting to panic, especially because of his medical conditions. So he has diabetes and it was the end of his trip. So he didn’t have any more insulin on him because he was expecting to go home. Customs agents put him in this room. He is allowed one phone call to contact his son specifically just to ask for his medications. His son has to drive then from Fresno to SFO to deliver the medications. He also has no way to test his blood sugar. And it isn’t until a paramedic from the airport comes in to check him. That it becomes clear that he is having an episode. His blood sugar is way out of a normal range, he clearly needs insulin, and they do give him his insulin from his son finally, and he’s able to use it. He’s there for eight days. 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And when we looked at the federal data which encompassed all the airports, we found that Customs and Border Protection has detained more than 400 people at international airports for longer than 72-hours since January and through July. And then of that 400 people, 146 were people who had valid green cards, so they were lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And where exactly in the airport are they being held?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale:\u003c/strong> It’s between A and G and like the part that connects both terminals that you like walk between. It’s all behind like the area you can’t get to unless like a customs agent is like walking with you. So this particular room is like kind of deep into the innards of the airport. There’s no windows. I have not been inside of it. They will not let me in. But it’s been described to me as just like a very, it looks like a basic like waiting room. Not somewhere you wanna sleep for days. There’s no beds. If you’ve ever been through customs and you get pulled for a secondary interview, you’re not allowed to have your phone. And that is the same with when you’re in being held in one of these rooms. You don’t have a phone or anything. So at SFO we know of 25 people who were held there for more than 72 hours from January through July and then 19 of those 25 people were transferred to ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ll have more with The Chronicle’s Sara DiNatale right after this. By the way, if you appreciate the local deep dives that we bring you on the bay, consider supporting our work by becoming a sustaining member of KQED. We can’t do this work without you. Just go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. We’ll be right back. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> And like you said, this detainment area is really out of sight, and we haven’t known a lot about what is actually happening there, but you actually talked with a 67-year-old man who was held there. Tell me about him and his story?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>During this reporting process, I met a 67 year old man who was held at SFO for eight days starting in March. He agreed to talk to us without publishing his name because he doesn’t want any more attention to be put on his legal status. He is a green card holder. He has been a lawful permanent resident here for decades and he’s lived here legally for about 50 years. So he lives in Fresno. He was flying back from a trip to Mexico. And when he lands in Fresno, he is sitting on the plane and federal agents board and call his name. And they take him into custody right then and there. They cuffed his wrists and his feet, and they put him into a van, and they drove him to SFO. He was very confused about like what he was being arrested for on his way there actually in the van. He’s already starting to panic, especially because of his medical conditions. So he has diabetes and it was the end of his trip. So he didn’t have any more insulin on him because he was expecting to go home. Customs agents put him in this room. He is allowed one phone call to contact his son specifically just to ask for his medications. His son has to drive then from Fresno to SFO to deliver the medications. He also has no way to test his blood sugar. And it isn’t until a paramedic from the airport comes in to check him. That it becomes clear that he is having an episode. His blood sugar is way out of a normal range, he clearly needs insulin, and they do give him his insulin from his son finally, and he’s able to use it. He’s there for eight days. So through that eight days, he only had his blood sugar checked one time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How did he describe the conditions inside SFO while he was being detained?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>He described the whole experience as psychological torture. You know, he didn’t have a change of clothes. So they do take him to, they escort him to a shower every three days, but then he’s changing back into his dirty clothes after. You know he doesn’t have bed. So he’s described sleeping upright for the entire time. And you know, he was only snatching a couple hours of sleep in between, you know like it’s difficult to sleep upright. And in addition, the lights were always on. The diabetes wasn’t the only medical issue he had. He had some other medications he was required to take, and I didn’t even mention he’s also mostly blind. He doesn’t describe there being a formal medical screening, which is something you would expect and is required of any holding facility.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do we know about why he was detained by Customs and Border Protection?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>Yeah, so he wasn’t given a lot of clarity while it was happening to him. But he had an old 20 year old like run in with law enforcement that they essentially were looking into. I had one attorney I spoke with about just like this process describing it like a fishing expedition, like they are looking for something that they can argue makes you inadmissible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So he was held at SFO for eight days, you said Sara. Where is he now?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>So, after his eight days, he was transferred to California City, which is the state’s largest detention center. Once he gets to California City, it takes a minute for him to be able to get connected with legal representation, but he eventually does. And they’re able to sort of untangle this old arrest and, you know, go before the court, make sure it’s clear that it’s a misdemeanor charge. And after five months, he does eventually get out. So he’s out, he has his green card still intact, and he’s just kind of recovering from this whole experience, which of course was very traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Sara, you’re describing, I mean in his words, psychological torture, people being held for days without really understanding why, not having access to legal representation. I mean is this legal? I mean can Customs and Border Protection just do this at airports here in the United States?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>So when someone is coming, re-entering the country, court history and case law history, time and time again says the government has its peak authority at that moment, because it is a matter of national security. And that gives them a lot of latitude to do these things within a legal framework. That’s not to say that like everything they’re doing is legal and won’t face legal challenges. We have seen attorneys challenge these spaces and, you know, saying, hey, you need to at least make sure they meet, like, the minimum requirement for what makes a facility safe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And is Customs and Border Protection still keeping people in conditions like this within SFO?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>So since the 67-year-old’s detainment, Customs and Border Protections has started using a different room to house people and that room has padded benches where people can actually lay down. So that’s an improvement, at least slightly in the conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what does the airport say? Like, do they have any jurisdiction over how customs operate?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>The airport itself has no control over what customs does with its space. So SFO cannot tell customs, hey, we don’t like this and you need to stop. Like because the airport is a border, customs has to have a space to operate and the airport has to provide that space. And once they hand over that space to them, they really can’t control what they do in it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how has the Trump administration responded to this story?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>They did not respond to a long list of questions I sent them. I asked customs directly like, hey, I see in your guidelines that you have the 72-hour hold policy. Is that no longer a policy? And that was one of the specific questions they did not answer. I reached out to Congressman Kevin Mullin. He wound up using his congressional authority to demand inspection of the facility. Congressman Mullin was able to ask them some direct questions during his visit. According to him, they told him like, yes, this is a distinct policy shift under Trump. We would have given these people follow-up appointments before and now we keep them here. You know, they said sometimes because of waiting on court records and weekends. Uh, sometimes people are here longer than three days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, it seems just like it’s safe to say that airports have sort of become this new frontier in Trump’s immigration crackdown, I’m curious what immigrant attorneys and advocates are advising people to do?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, there’s definitely the advice out there to just not travel, and I understand why people are heeding that advice. I would say if you are someone with a green card or another visa, you need to be really aware of exactly what your status is. So if you’re a green-card holder who has had a past brushing with law enforcement, you need to really sure that if you think your charges are vacated that they actually are before you travel internationally. And then for those who have visa overstays, the risk is that you will be targeted even if you don’t have any criminal history.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Sara, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us. I appreciate it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sara DiNatale:\u003c/strong> Thank you so much for having me. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> That was Sara DiNatale, a politics reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. We’ll leave you a link to Sara’s reporting on this in our show notes. Thanks as well to KQED’s Katie DeBenedetti for some of the tape that you heard at the top of this episode. This episode was cut down and edited by producer Gabriela Glueck. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>As of this Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> will give immigration officers more power to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials will now consider a wider range of factors to decide if an applicant is likely to become a “public charge” — someone who is primarily dependent on the government to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-2\">states\u003c/a> that individuals who are likely to become a public charge cannot be admitted to the country, but it does not provide an exact list of factors or circumstances to determine who is a “public charge.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s why different administrations have interpreted the law differently. \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/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Concord Immigration Court in Concord on May 7, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a Biden-era rule that limited what officials could look at when considering an application. Without that guardrail in place, DHS can now consider whether an individual has ever received “means-tested public benefits” — a category that officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/20/2026-14539/public-charge-ground-of-inadmissibility\">have confirmed\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Unemployment benefits (CalWords)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Food stamps (CalFresh) and other nutrition-assistance programs like WIC for women, infants and children\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Housing vouchers\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Early education programs like Head Start (if the applicant is a child)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>School lunch and summer food service programs that an applicant received thanks to food stamps or Medicaid coverage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also considers direct cash aid programs at the local level, like guaranteed or universal basic income programs (also known as UBI). Over the past decade, cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Stockton have developed their own UBI programs for low-income families that don’t take immigration status into account.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What else could immigration officials look at?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DHS insists that the Biden-era rule prevented immigration officials from making more informed decisions. Looking at current and past public benefits, the agency said, is “relevant to determining whether an alien is likely at any time to become a public charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy is not entirely clear about what else immigration officials would consider public benefits, said Robert Yabes, who leads the immigration legal program at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Officials now have much more discretion when making a decision,” he added. “We will have to observe how they use that now in cases,” he said. “And then based on what we learn, we will guide clients.”\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/10/2026/05/gettyimages-2238189274-scaled-e1789757180450.jpeg\" alt=\"A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-12085161\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The announcement has sparked uncertainty and anxiety among immigrant families in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The rules are constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not,” said Lydia Bustamante, who leads San José’s Office of Inclusion and Belonging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The result is that people are not accessing the services and resources that they need and deserve in order to support their families in one of the highest-cost-of-living areas in the country,” she added, stressing the importance of talking to legal experts to better understand this new rule.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are many ways to find legal aid in the Bay Area. These are some options recommended by immigrant advocates KQED spoke to:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/get-help/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>: 800-551-5554\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://desj.santaclaracounty.gov/oir/legal-services\">portal of free-to-low-cost immigration legal services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership: 510-241-4011\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Marin County Rapid Response Network: 415-991-4545\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County: 408-290-1144\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Stand Together Contra Costa: 925-900-5151\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>North Bay Rapid Response Network (Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties): 707-800-4544\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are generally not involved in federal immigration affairs, Santa Clara County Executive James Williams pointed out. “All of the care and services we offer to ensure the health and well-being of every family in our community,” he said, “remains fully open and accessible to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re doing all we can to make sure that people continue to access those services,” he added, “and know that their county government is standing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is impacted by this change?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Folks should first find out whether the new public charge rule actually affects them, said Yabes from Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t apply to everybody,” he said. “Families should not automatically withdraw from any program that they’re in right now, especially with children, [without] finding out if the new rule actually applies to their particular immigration situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new rule affects only people who are applying for a green card or a visa, Yabes explained. It doesn’t include naturalized U.S. citizens or current green card holders — unless they leave the country for more than six months. “It also does not apply to people who have refugee or asylum status,” he added, “or even DACA and TPS recipients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protects some people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is granted to immigrants from countries where the situation is too dangerous or unstable to return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Individuals who are applying for legal permanent residence (a green card) will, however, be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-3\">new guidelines\u003c/a> — even if they have an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or are being sponsored by an employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are state and local officials worried about this new public charge rule?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California and 22 other Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration to block the new public charge rule. Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Monday that these guidelines give immigration officials “practically unlimited discretion to deny someone a green card because they used a public benefit program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a cruel policy designed to force immigrant families to forgo healthcare and food assistance programs out of fear that using them could jeopardize their immigration status,” he added.\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/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12053793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. 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More funding losses could strain local services even more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, DHS said that state leaders pushing back against the policy “are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome,” DHS added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2019, San Francisco and Santa Clara County won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-san-francisco-and-county-of-santa-clara-conclude-public-charge-lawsuit\">legal battle\u003c/a> against the first Trump administration over a similar change to the public charge rule. “This is something that we have fought before,” Chiu said. “This is a cruel attempt by the federal administration to impose a wealth test on families that are seeking a future in our country.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As of this Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> will give immigration officers more power to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials will now consider a wider range of factors to decide if an applicant is likely to become a “public charge” — someone who is primarily dependent on the government to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-2\">states\u003c/a> that individuals who are likely to become a public charge cannot be admitted to the country, but it does not provide an exact list of factors or circumstances to determine who is a “public charge.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s why different administrations have interpreted the law differently. \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/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Concord Immigration Court in Concord on May 7, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a Biden-era rule that limited what officials could look at when considering an application. Without that guardrail in place, DHS can now consider whether an individual has ever received “means-tested public benefits” — a category that officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/20/2026-14539/public-charge-ground-of-inadmissibility\">have confirmed\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Unemployment benefits (CalWords)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Food stamps (CalFresh) and other nutrition-assistance programs like WIC for women, infants and children\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Housing vouchers\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Early education programs like Head Start (if the applicant is a child)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>School lunch and summer food service programs that an applicant received thanks to food stamps or Medicaid coverage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also considers direct cash aid programs at the local level, like guaranteed or universal basic income programs (also known as UBI). Over the past decade, cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Stockton have developed their own UBI programs for low-income families that don’t take immigration status into account.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What else could immigration officials look at?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DHS insists that the Biden-era rule prevented immigration officials from making more informed decisions. Looking at current and past public benefits, the agency said, is “relevant to determining whether an alien is likely at any time to become a public charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy is not entirely clear about what else immigration officials would consider public benefits, said Robert Yabes, who leads the immigration legal program at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Officials now have much more discretion when making a decision,” he added. “We will have to observe how they use that now in cases,” he said. “And then based on what we learn, we will guide clients.”\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/10/2026/05/gettyimages-2238189274-scaled-e1789757180450.jpeg\" alt=\"A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-12085161\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The announcement has sparked uncertainty and anxiety among immigrant families in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The rules are constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not,” said Lydia Bustamante, who leads San José’s Office of Inclusion and Belonging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The result is that people are not accessing the services and resources that they need and deserve in order to support their families in one of the highest-cost-of-living areas in the country,” she added, stressing the importance of talking to legal experts to better understand this new rule.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are many ways to find legal aid in the Bay Area. These are some options recommended by immigrant advocates KQED spoke to:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/get-help/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>: 800-551-5554\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://desj.santaclaracounty.gov/oir/legal-services\">portal of free-to-low-cost immigration legal services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership: 510-241-4011\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Marin County Rapid Response Network: 415-991-4545\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County: 408-290-1144\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Stand Together Contra Costa: 925-900-5151\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>North Bay Rapid Response Network (Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties): 707-800-4544\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are generally not involved in federal immigration affairs, Santa Clara County Executive James Williams pointed out. “All of the care and services we offer to ensure the health and well-being of every family in our community,” he said, “remains fully open and accessible to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re doing all we can to make sure that people continue to access those services,” he added, “and know that their county government is standing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is impacted by this change?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Folks should first find out whether the new public charge rule actually affects them, said Yabes from Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t apply to everybody,” he said. “Families should not automatically withdraw from any program that they’re in right now, especially with children, [without] finding out if the new rule actually applies to their particular immigration situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new rule affects only people who are applying for a green card or a visa, Yabes explained. It doesn’t include naturalized U.S. citizens or current green card holders — unless they leave the country for more than six months. “It also does not apply to people who have refugee or asylum status,” he added, “or even DACA and TPS recipients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protects some people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is granted to immigrants from countries where the situation is too dangerous or unstable to return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Individuals who are applying for legal permanent residence (a green card) will, however, be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-3\">new guidelines\u003c/a> — even if they have an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or are being sponsored by an employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are state and local officials worried about this new public charge rule?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California and 22 other Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration to block the new public charge rule. Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Monday that these guidelines give immigration officials “practically unlimited discretion to deny someone a green card because they used a public benefit program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a cruel policy designed to force immigrant families to forgo healthcare and food assistance programs out of fear that using them could jeopardize their immigration status,” he added.\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/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12053793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara County have also sued the federal government over the new policy in a separate lawsuit. “If even a fraction of households are withdrawing from these social services, our city stands to lose millions of dollars in federal reimbursements,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties are already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082251/after-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-free-clinics-are-stepping-up\">expecting to lose\u003c/a> millions of dollars in Medicaid funding thanks to cuts from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. 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Within 10 seconds, the man – known only by his initials A.T. in court documents – was in handcuffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was whisked away in the backseat of an unmarked Dodge Charger to an ICE facility for processing, the rag and squeeze bottle left behind on top of the Mazda. Later that day he was fingerprinted and released, once ICE realized he was a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling unsealed Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that immigration agents likely violated federal statutes by arresting people such as A.T. without a warrant before assessing whether they were flight risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong finalized \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/08/los-angeles-warrantless-immigration-arrests-blocked/\">a tentative ruling issued last month\u003c/a> that immigration agents can’t just arrest someone, even if they’re in the country unlawfully, without determining if they’re likely to flee before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12098459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12098459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This Court finds ample evidence that Defendants have an ongoing policy and practice of conducting warrantless arrests in violation of the requirement to conduct a likelihood-of-escape analysis,” the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, immigration officers can arrest someone without a warrant only when they have probable cause both that the person is in the country unlawfully and that they are likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ruling is one of the most important decisions to date in the community’s effort to end the federal government’s cruel and illegal practice of abducting people and separating them from their families,” said Mayra Joachin, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said: “ICE has authority for lawful arrests where authorized under 8 USC 1357. Law enforcement officers use ‘reasonable suspicion’ to investigate immigration status and probable cause to make arrests consistent with the statute and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on these practices.”[aside postID=news_12099590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260914-GilroyICEFolo-13-BL.jpg']The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. In arrest reports, agents are supposed to explain why they determined someone was a flight risk and therefore couldn’t wait to get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies keep an eye on protesters blocking the entrance to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys argued that, in 80 percent of all the arrest reports they reviewed, agents either did not make any assessment of flight risk or simply used boilerplate language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the agent’s narrative used boilerplate language that contradicted other parts of his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Frimpong cited this instance, noting the discrepancy between the official government narrative and the body cam footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one arrest, the Government’s escape narrative claims that an individual – E.G.G. – was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained based, in part, on ‘his flight from law enforcement,” Frimpong wrote. “… But a video of this arrest shows E.G.G. remained working and standing in the same place from the time that the agent entered the car wash to the time that the agent called him over….contrary to the Government’s written escape risk analysis, (he) did not flee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same body cam footage a supervisory agent tells the worker, “We’re going to give you a ride, and check if everything is OK. If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">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. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. Courts in two of those cases later found agents kept on doing it anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal immigration agents arrest a man in Bell as residents clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents after a traffic collision involving one of the agency’s vehicles during immigration raids across the Los Angeles area on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, Frimpong ordered that agents must document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s or officer’s prearrest probable cause to believe that the person was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argued the analysis should include community ties, like whether a person has a job and a home and a family, but the judge declined to require those specifics if the escape risk can be shown through other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also declined to require agents to document cases where they talk to someone but don’t arrest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government asked for a two week delay to decide whether to appeal before the order takes effect. Frimpong denied that, saying the government “cannot reasonably assert that it is harmed in any legally cognizable sense” by being ordered to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/09/la-immigration-raids-warrantless-arrests-ruling/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. In arrest reports, agents are supposed to explain why they determined someone was a flight risk and therefore couldn’t wait to get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies keep an eye on protesters blocking the entrance to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys argued that, in 80 percent of all the arrest reports they reviewed, agents either did not make any assessment of flight risk or simply used boilerplate language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the agent’s narrative used boilerplate language that contradicted other parts of his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Frimpong cited this instance, noting the discrepancy between the official government narrative and the body cam footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one arrest, the Government’s escape narrative claims that an individual – E.G.G. – was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained based, in part, on ‘his flight from law enforcement,” Frimpong wrote. “… But a video of this arrest shows E.G.G. remained working and standing in the same place from the time that the agent entered the car wash to the time that the agent called him over….contrary to the Government’s written escape risk analysis, (he) did not flee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same body cam footage a supervisory agent tells the worker, “We’re going to give you a ride, and check if everything is OK. If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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-caption-text\">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. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. 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Frimpong denied that, saying the government “cannot reasonably assert that it is harmed in any legally cognizable sense” by being ordered to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/09/la-immigration-raids-warrantless-arrests-ruling/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Construction began earlier this year but has been halted following a federal court ruling. 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This includes discussing if the county can inspect the property to check for hazardous materials.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They should walk away from this project now, cut their losses and understand that they made bad decisions to try to put this project where it doesn’t belong,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement on Monday, ICE said the new facility is intended to be “a new ICE office,” not a detention center like the Golden State Annex in McFarland, California or the California City Immigration Processing Center. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Like ICE offices across the country, it will include temporary, short-term holding rooms for individuals awaiting transfer to another facility or release,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Planning and development for this project have been ongoing for several years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security added that the agency is building more facilities after hiring more personnel, thanks to increased funding from what they called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text\">the Big Beautiful Bill\u003c/a>.” ICE has hired an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents across the country, increasing its workforce by 120%, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n",
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And data show burnout affects doctors’ quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the patient before you required all this extra work, has had this added fear, had all these challenges,” he said, referencing the study, “when the clinician sees you, he or she may not be as good and sharp as you would like them to be.”\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/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Individuals walk towards the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. 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Since then, San Miguel and colleagues at SF General who work with immigrant patients say they’ve watched with a sense of powerlessness as people avoid or delay treatment, and as mounting stress exacerbates their underlying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/news/ice-tactics-and-deportation-fears-limit-access-to-health-care-for-children-of-immigrants-survey/\">2025 survey\u003c/a> of healthcare workers who serve immigrants echoes that experience: Among hundreds of respondents across 30 states, 84% said patient visits were down substantially; many said their ability to provide preventive care and manage chronic conditions suffered.\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/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, poses for a portrait at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a small study from UCSF suggests that immigration policies can force some doctors to practice in a way that’s at odds with their sense of moral or professional duty, taking a toll on them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The experience has become routine for San Miguel as he finishes his residency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the type of care that I always wanted to give,” he said of working with patients who, like him, immigrated to this country. “But I think part of that has become realizing that the amount of support we can give isn’t necessarily enough.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers call that kind of ethical conflict “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war\">moral injury\u003c/a>,” a term coined by a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist working with Vietnam War veterans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Marlene Martín, a UCSF clinical medicine professor, was inspired to do the study last summer, around the time ICE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">conducting widespread raids\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. A colleague who works with immigrant patients told her no one had shown up to their appointment that day at SF General. If that was happening in San Francisco, where there was relatively little high-profile ICE activity at the time, Martín wondered what doctors elsewhere were seeing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So she and her colleagues interviewed 38 primary care doctors in 13 states about their experiences caring for immigrant patients in this climate. They recently published their findings \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2851433\">in JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The interviews confirmed that doctors across the country were seeing patients miss appointments, with some suffering more from chronic diseases as their treatment lapsed. For instance, Martín said, one interviewee described a patient whose diabetes had spiraled out of control because his son, who’d been driving him to his appointments, had been arrested by ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t fix that,” she said. “You can’t address that in a clinical visit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some doctors told the researchers they were afraid to even ask their patients how they were doing, “because it would open this whole topic that they didn’t know how to answer. They didn’t know how to make it better,” Martín said. “In medicine we’re used to being able to address things that patients are talking about and to help them get better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One doctor described to researchers the kind of dilemmas they face, given fears about encountering immigration agents in hospitals: “Would I rather have [my patient] be at home while they’re having substernal, crushing chest pain vs. what are the costs and benefits of going [to the hospital]?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some cases, the interviewees reported their clinics had stopped accepting undocumented patients altogether, for fear of losing federal funding. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Those experiences, day after day, are what can lead to moral injury.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What surprised study co-author Dr. Alicia Fernandez was how much doctors changed the way they practiced in response to immigration policy changes. “What we saw was many physicians and practices, entire practices, altering their patterns of care,” the UCSF professor and SF General primary care doctor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some transitioned to telehealth appointments. Others switched medications so patients didn’t have to go into the clinic or pharmacy as often. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Fernandez said the changes can come at a cost — both for the patients and the doctors who care for them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Alicia Fernandez, a UCSF professor and general internist at SF General, talk at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We definitely feel that our patients are getting worse, and we feel that the care that we are giving is an inferior form of care, and that’s why it’s associated with moral distress,” Fernandez said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She points to a recent experience with an undocumented patient who’d avoided being seen out of fear. “He came in already having damage from his diabetes,” she said. “That’s a terrible feeling.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This kind of distress isn’t just bad for individual doctors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Moral injury can contribute to burnout,” said Dr. Robert Pearl, a physician and Stanford professor who served as CEO of the Permanente Medical Group for nearly two decades. And data show burnout affects doctors’ quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the patient before you required all this extra work, has had this added fear, had all these challenges,” he said, referencing the study, “when the clinician sees you, he or she may not be as good and sharp as you would like them to be.”\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/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Individuals walk towards the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Burnout and moral injury can also lead doctors and other healthcare workers to leave their professions, he said, with particularly dire effects in primary care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We already have a shortage,” he said, so “when you need a primary care doctor, that individual might not be there. And we’re certainly seeing that in many communities across the United States, where it’s almost impossible to find a primary care physician with an open panel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For doctors in the study who were themselves immigrants, the distress was compounded. That has broad implications given that almost half of the country’s internal medicine doctors are foreign-born, according to \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852745?guestAccessKey=da3ba888-5ff2-456f-9d94-b301cf5d2884&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=081226\">a study\u003c/a> released last month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the UCSF study on moral injury is small and qualitative, it points to ways healthcare institutions can support staff in an increasingly difficult environment. Doctors whose clinics protected patients’ immigration-related information and expanded telehealth, for example, described ways those changes helped them care for patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A sense of powerlessness contributed to the moral distress doctors in the study felt. Carolyn Dewa, a psychiatry and behavioral medicine professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, said social support can protect against that. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you feel supported by colleagues and peers, or you feel supported by supervisors,” she said, “if people are not isolated from one another but feel that they’re part of a group, it also is protective.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The doctors interviewed for the study also described the importance of having a sense of agency. “This paper pointed out that feeling like you could take an active role does help mitigate some of the distress,” said Dr. Anne Rosenthal, who runs the adult primary care clinic at SF General, where Fernandez and San Miguel work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her clinic has tried to do that in part by training staff on what to do if immigration enforcement shows up and proactively educating patients about what they need to do to keep Medi-Cal coverage as state enrollment rules change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/over-two-million-more-californians-projected-to-lack-health-insurance-by-2030/\">UC Berkeley Labor Center projects\u003c/a> half of undocumented residents in California under age 65 could be uninsured by 2030, double the rate now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We live in fear of losing our patients, because we know that their physical health will suffer, the health of their kids will suffer, and the health of the community will suffer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The rally coincided with a federal court hearing on a request to halt construction of a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Gilroy. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee seemed skeptical during the court hearing in San José on Tuesday. Outside of the courthouse, dozens of people protested the planned project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tell me how a change from agricultural research to immigration offices and detention is not a change in use,” Lee told U.S. Department of Justice attorney Krystal-Rose Perez at one point. “An office versus a detention center or holding center are very different things.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a tentative ruling last week, Lee said the state and county were likely to succeed in their charge that ICE and other federal agencies violated laws that require assessing environmental consequences and considering state and local viewpoints before approving a project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county claims development of the proposed 18,700-square-foot facility, which could hold up to 150 detainees, would overwhelm an existing septic system and disturb toxic fungicides and carcinogenic materials, posing a danger for workers and any future detainees. DOJ attorneys called that characterization overblown, arguing that only about 10 immigrants would be detained at any time there. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even though we don’t have a final ruling yet from the court, the signs that we heard today in the hearing are incredibly encouraging,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said, speaking to reporters afterward. “This is the wrong place for this facility. This should have never been proposed here, and it should certainly not proceed here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In May, the government started demolition at 7240 Holsclaw Rd. to renovate existing structures into an ICE office with a short-term holding area, according to court documents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ speculation that ICE will overload the septic system at the site by holding 150 detainees, 24 hours a day, plus 60 staff members, lacks support,” government attorneys wrote in an opposition brief. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The brief continues later: “If the Gilroy project is delayed, ICE would have to rely on existing facilities that are farther away and already support other operational needs. Delaying the Gilroy project would also place a significant burden on individuals in removal proceedings who are out of custody and have reporting requirements with ICE.” \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/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098774\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A demonstrator holds an “ICE Out” sign near the Robert F. 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Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, we have an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents on the ground across the country,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “That’s a 120% increase in our workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Construction on the facility had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090807/ice-will-pause-construction-on-controversial-south-bay-detention-facility\">been paused\u003c/a> as part of a voluntary agreement between the parties. Lee said she will continue a stay on the project until at least Sept. 15. If she then issues a preliminary injunction, as requested by the county, construction would be temporarily blocked. A final resolution on the case is not expected until after a hearing in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The dispute comes as ICE races to expand its detention capacity, after Congress approved $115 billion for immigration enforcement nationwide since July 2025. 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