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I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Wedekind said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said attending the rally was her way of “doing her part to support the resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants said the rally was part of a broader effort to show solidarity and take action on issues related to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks from Venezuela to Minnesota know that they’re not alone,” said Jane Martin, organizing director at Bay Resistance, one of the groups organizing the San Francisco rally. “We want to give folks here in the Bay who are outraged and upset about what’s happening a place to come and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd protests against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026, calling attention to immigration enforcement, U.S. actions in Venezuela, and what organizers described as authoritarian rule. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said Tuesday’s march represents a new strategy in resisting the Trump administration, beyond marching and “symbolic action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re trying to move towards now is actually more non-cooperation and disruptive action that can actually prevent this regime from continuing to attack our communities,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin pointed to a planned \u003ca href=\"https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/\">general strike \u003c/a>in Minneapolis on Friday, in protest of the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070016/why-a-bay-area-attorney-says-immigrants-rights-are-being-violated-in-minneapolis\">immigration enforcement crackdown\u003c/a> by the Trump administration there, as an example. 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In a recent Quinnipiac University National \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944\">poll\u003c/a>, 53% of U.S. voters said they thought the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers in Minneapolis earlier this month was not justified, while 35% thought it was justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good’s death led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing\">surges in support and interest\u003c/a> in rapid response and immigration enforcement legal observer training in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera, the co-director of the Nuevo Sol Day Labor and Domestic Workers Center in San Francisco — which is co-organizing Tuesday’s march — called the killing a “public execution,” and a “deliberate attack to intimidate our communities right out of the workbook for dictators in Latin America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Xavier Martín del Campo wears a pin that says “No to Empire” at an ICE protest in front of City Hall on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Trump called off a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">planned immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in the Bay Area last October after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged him to “rethink” the plan, Herrera said immigrant communities here are still living in fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re seeing is people not willing to go out in the neighborhood because now you just need to be brown and you’re going to be picked up,” Herrera said. “ There’s a tremendous drop in the local economy because people are afraid to go to a restaurant or go shopping. So, it’s having a ripple effect that is harshly damaging our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he is grateful for the wider community that has stepped up to support immigrant communities through programs like\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055084/california-volunteers-stand-guard-at-day-laborer-corners-amid-ice-sweeps\"> Adopt-A-Corner\u003c/a>, which help protect day laborers from immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than a resistance, I think we are moving forward and pressing for democracy,” Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanika Mahajan, a co-organizer of the rally, said activists across the country are looking to places like the Bay Area and Minneapolis to see how they respond to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s really about learning from each other. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon at Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Francisco to protest what organizers described as the administration’s violent actions in Venezuela, harsh immigration enforcement and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brooks came with more than a dozen members of her church, the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Francisco, each wearing a photo of a person who recently died in ICE custody around their necks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a really sad story that people are being picked up and they’re not taken care of correctly and they’re dying in ICE custody,” Brooks said, adding that she “just wants the Trump administration to follow the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Van Soelen (left) and Tamika Bowman (right) chant against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-two people \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">died in ICE custody in 2025\u003c/a>, the most in two decades, according to an analysis by \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in an inflatable frog costume — a symbol of resistance to immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn987yqnee9o\">popularized at protests\u003c/a> in Portland, Oregon, last year — Judy Wedekind carried a sign that read, “ICE are the domestic terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very inspired by the Portland frog. I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Wedekind said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said attending the rally was her way of “doing her part to support the resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants said the rally was part of a broader effort to show solidarity and take action on issues related to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks from Venezuela to Minnesota know that they’re not alone,” said Jane Martin, organizing director at Bay Resistance, one of the groups organizing the San Francisco rally. “We want to give folks here in the Bay who are outraged and upset about what’s happening a place to come and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd protests against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026, calling attention to immigration enforcement, U.S. actions in Venezuela, and what organizers described as authoritarian rule. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said Tuesday’s march represents a new strategy in resisting the Trump administration, beyond marching and “symbolic action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re trying to move towards now is actually more non-cooperation and disruptive action that can actually prevent this regime from continuing to attack our communities,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin pointed to a planned \u003ca href=\"https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/\">general strike \u003c/a>in Minneapolis on Friday, in protest of the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070016/why-a-bay-area-attorney-says-immigrants-rights-are-being-violated-in-minneapolis\">immigration enforcement crackdown\u003c/a> by the Trump administration there, as an example. She said Tuesday’s walkout was part of “building up and flexing those muscles,” with a goal of organizing “as big of an action as we can this May Day.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late November, Bay Area criminal defense attorney James Cook began offering his legal services free of charge to residents of Minneapolis — the latest American city to be embroiled in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration’s escalating immigration crackdown and ensuing protests from residents opposed to sweeping enforcement operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His days often start before dawn, with an early morning text or call from distressed residents who report having seen their friends or family be taken away by masked agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people have my information, that’s been texted far and wide throughout Minneapolis by protesters and ICE watchers and other people, and they send me the information,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with a list of names of detained or missing residents, Cook will head to the local ICE detention facility to confirm whether those people are being held there and plan next steps to prevent their deportation and, if possible, win their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, who grew up in Minneapolis and has homes there and in San Francisco, admitted that — in general — he hasn’t found much success. Of the hundreds of names he’s been given, he said he’s only successfully argued for somebody’s release from detention a couple of times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My thing has been to try to get a suspension or something so that the person can get proper counsel and do the nuanced work that needs to be done,” Cook said. “Just to stop it or delay it and since the efforts have really been ramped up, I haven’t been able to do any of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070315\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255813342-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters are confronted by an ICE supporter during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Octavio JONES/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge has led to the arrival of as many as 2,000 federal officers operating in Minnesota, many in the Minneapolis area — with up to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/how-ice-numbers-compare-to-twin-cities-largest-police-forces/601562617\">thousand\u003c/a> more on their way, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. While some agents are from Customs and Border Patrol, the bulk of the presence is from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation, which the DHS called the largest in the agency’s history, has led to the arrests of more than 4,500 immigrants, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.startribune.com/operation-metro-surge-when-will-it-end-chicago/601564603\">Minnesota Star-Tribune\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents like Cook have expressed their opposition to what they see as an incursion of hostile, anonymous and unaccountable agents and that opposition has only intensified since ICE agents killed Renee Good earlier this month and shot and wounded another person this week.[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. Cook said the client had called his family before noon the following day to say he was back in Durango, a state in northern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations like these are why Cook reminds his clients and their families that they still have constitutional rights — which should legally be upheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way, based on what I’m seeing anecdotally, that people are being treated properly as pre-trial detainees, if they’re doing the deportations that quick,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever way they’re wording it, they’re not giving them the proper information. That is where I think that real research — where the questions need to be asked and where the government needs to be held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment. Cook also didn’t mince words about the stakes he believes are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school, you learn about Nazi Germany, and you think like well, ‘I’d want to try to stop it back then’ or the Japanese internment camps. Well, this is the time, we’re living that right now,” Cook said. “In fact, that’s what I would say to any attorney, if you ever thought like … ‘I would do things to stop it.’ Well, this is it. This is what you can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cook, who has been on the ground, said he’s worried that the rights of those arrested are not being protected. “When they pluck people off the street for simply exercising their First Amendment rights, that’s a constitutional violation,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he also believes the rights of citizens monitoring or protesting federal officers are also being violated, pointing to examples of people detained seemingly without cause other than shouting at federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook is not an immigration attorney. His area of expertise is in criminal defense law and mostly in state courts, not federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In criminal defense, you have one prime directive,” Cook said. “Your mission is to get people out of custody and … in doing so, make sure the government fully follows the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook works for Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy, an Oakland-based law firm with a history of taking on high-profile cases of police or government misconduct. Partner John Burris represented Rodney King — whose videotaped beating at the hands of multiple Los Angeles police officers in 1991 sparked large-scale unrest in the city— and the family of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man killed by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was partially that history, Cook said, that caused people in the Twin Cities to begin reaching out to him for help and compelled him to begin offering his services pro bono.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney James Cook stands for a portrait outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on, Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Evan Frost for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One major obstacle Cook said he’s facing is the fact that detainees are often transferred out of the state very quickly after they’re detained, often to facilities in Texas where they are prepared for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time I get there, even if it’s just a few hours later, if they’re in El Paso or they’re on a plane on the way, I can’t do anything,” Cook said. “All I can do is give the family, you know, some of the referrals that I have in El Paso.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook recalled being contacted by the family of a man who had been detained one day around 8 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got over to the detention facility at noon and confirmed that he was there … I filed a notice of suspension and then, I went back later that day just before they closed and they’d already sent him to Texas,” Cook said. Cook said the client had called his family before noon the following day to say he was back in Durango, a state in northern Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations like these are why Cook reminds his clients and their families that they still have constitutional rights — which should legally be upheld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way, based on what I’m seeing anecdotally, that people are being treated properly as pre-trial detainees, if they’re doing the deportations that quick,” Cook said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever way they’re wording it, they’re not giving them the proper information. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> leaders are set to discuss two proposals on Thursday meant to bolster the county against federal enforcement activity amid the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposals outline steps that county officials can take to prepare employees, residents, nonprofit partners and properties for a possible surge in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the resolutions, which would establish county-owned or county-operated properties as “ICE-free zones,” was inspired by similar moves in\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060893/south-bay-leaders-aim-to-create-ice-free-zones\"> Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and in Chicago, according to County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, the proposal’s author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said she also hopes the county can learn from the experiences of cities like Chicago, along with Portland, Los Angeles and now Minneapolis, that have seen significant influxes of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal officers over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really trying to take those lessons and look at what’s happening on the ground with the incredible work of our community partners and do our best to ensure we’re as prepared as possible,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025, to discuss support for immigrant families in the Bay Area after President Donald Trump promised mass deportations. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas said the county had a trial run in October, after President Donald Trump announced that federal officers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">coming to the Bay Area\u003c/a>, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">protests outside of the Coast Guard Base\u003c/a> in Alameda, where the Customs and Border Patrol agents were reportedly going to be stationed. The president ultimately called off the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution to designate ICE-free zones would involve identifying all properties that could potentially be used for immigration enforcement staging, processing or surveillance, then installing signage announcing that the property is restricted from that use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county would also use locked gates and other physical barriers where possible, and would create a procedure requiring county staff to report any attempts by federal officers to use the property for those purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push mirrors similar policies enacted this week in\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-13/la-county-ice-free-zones-immigration-enforcement-violence\"> Los Angeles County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/14/with-tensions-high-san-jose-enacts-ice-free-zones-on-city-owned-property/\">San José\u003c/a> and comes amid\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5687621-quinnipiac-poll-ice-enforcement/\"> heightened opposition\u003c/a> to the presence of immigration enforcement officials in American cities, particularly after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.[aside postID=news_12069688 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/KernCountyICEDetentionGetty.jpg']“We’re making it very clear that our government resources are really about providing services and protection to the community, not about causing fear or havoc and what we are seeing some of these ICE operations do in other places,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunato Bas added that officials are exploring authorizing county lawyers to sue the federal government if officers violate the policy, though that provision was not included in the proposal that the committee voted on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second, more sweeping proposal also set to be discussed during Thursday’s meeting would call for the development of a coordinated county-wide response plan in the event of a large-scale federal incursion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the policy, county employees would be trained in proactive measures like learning about their rights, installing signage declaring certain areas as restricted and ensuring they conduct client business in private areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If enforcement actions ever take place in county workplaces, employees would also be encouraged to document encounters with federal agents, including video recording where possible — and workers would be directed to report the incidents to the county’s rapid response network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies that provide crucial county services would also be directed to find alternative ways to deliver those services that minimize risk to community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE00936_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE00936_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE00936_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251113-SNAPDELAYSFEATURE00936_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shopping carts are parked around the Alameda Food Bank on Nov. 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Around October, there was a higher level of fear about going to food distribution sites and so we were able — not only with our social services agency but also with our community partners and the food bank — to ramp up very quickly more home delivery,” Fortunato Bas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods, whose immigration unit represents residents facing removal proceedings, said his office is also preparing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a surge, our office has been on the front lines and will continue to be on the front line of representing people who are being, in so many ways, unfairly persecuted by this administration,” Woods said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed during Thursday’s meeting, the proposals would then move to the full board of supervisors, who could enact them as soon as later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> announced this week that he plans to withhold funding from cities and states that have “sanctuary” immigration policies beginning next month, Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rob-bonta\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and Bay Area cities are promising to take legal action should payments stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta and Bay Area prosecutors said Wednesday that California has repeatedly won legal battles to block similar threats by the president during both of his administrations, and would do so again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a lawless repeat offender president who has lost on this issue multiple times already and will lose again,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made the threat on Tuesday amid escalating immigration crackdowns in Democrat-led cities, where three people have been shot by federal officials this month. In an address to the Detroit Economic Club, he said that beginning Feb. 1, his administration would withhold all payments to sanctuary cities and their states, which he said “protect criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No more payments will be made by the federal government to states for their corrupt criminal protection centers known as sanctuary cities,” he reiterated in a post on social media on Wednesday. “All they do is breed crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-2220642625-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump addresses the nation, alongside Vice President JD Vance (left), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (second, right) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (right), from the White House in Washington, D.C. on June 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlos Barria/Pool/AFP via Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The announcement echoes a pair of executive orders from last January, which said that the administration would take action to ensure that jurisdictions with sanctuary policies do not receive federal funding. A memorandum by Attorney General Pam Bondi in February reiterated that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco federal judge in April \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037376/sf-santa-clara-counties-ask-us-court-halt-trumps-sanctuary-city-funding-freeze\">granted a preliminary injunction \u003c/a>halting those orders, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053486/judge-blocks-trump-from-cutting-money-to-la-chicago-and-bay-area-cities-over-sanctuary-policies\">extended in August\u003c/a> and expanded to more than 30 cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same judge in 2017 ruled that a similar Trump executive order was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title#:~:text=Sullivan/Getty%20Images-,Protesters%20stand%20arm%2Din%2Darm%20as%20they%20block%20an%20entrance,cooperate%20with%20federal%20immigration%20authorities.&text=The%20Trump%20administration%20cannot%20withhold,the%20previous%20ones%2C%20is%20permanent.\">unduly coercive\u003c/a>” and violated the separation of powers, and permanently blocked him from withholding funds over cities’ sanctuary policies.[aside postID=news_12069540 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260113-BROOKE-JENKINS-ON-PB-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg']“Federal courts have held a number of times that our sanctuary policies are lawful,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, whose office is party to the suit filed earlier this year. “This administration has repeatedly tried to withhold funding or impose illegal funding conditions on our city and many others. We’ve already taken legal action to protect our federal funding, and we’re going to continue to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the move feels like an attempt by the president to distract from “horrific actions” in Minneapolis, where 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent earlier this month while acting as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing\">legal observer for immigrants\u003c/a> in the city, according to Minnesota’s Attorney General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kristi Noem, meanwhile, has said Good was carrying out actions that amounted to an “act of domestic terrorism” before she was shot, and Trump has made false claims about the events that led up to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others were shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon, the following day, on Jan. 8, during an attempt to pull over their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu and Tony LoPresti, county counsel for Santa Clara County, both said that whether the cities launch further legal action will depend on whether Trump follows through on this week’s threats, and in what form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Santa Clara County doesn’t use “sanctuary” language specifically, it also has policies that assert its right not to use local resources to aid federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly going to ensure that we’re enforcing the injunctions that we have in place, and that we will continue as a county … to litigate our constitutional rights not to cooperate with the federal government and their immigration enforcement campaign,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee called Trump’s announcement an attempt to “bully” sanctuary cities, and said that threats from Washington would not be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the Trump administration begin withholding funds next month, Bonta said, the state is prepared to take legal action “within minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got the arguments, we have the briefs, we have a legal strategy,” he said. “We just need to see how his general statements manifest into a specific action — what funding to what city for what issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it’ll be nothing, but we’re not counting on that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Federal courts have held a number of times that our sanctuary policies are lawful,” said San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, whose office is party to the suit filed earlier this year. “This administration has repeatedly tried to withhold funding or impose illegal funding conditions on our city and many others. We’ve already taken legal action to protect our federal funding, and we’re going to continue to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the move feels like an attempt by the president to distract from “horrific actions” in Minneapolis, where 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent earlier this month while acting as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing\">legal observer for immigrants\u003c/a> in the city, according to Minnesota’s Attorney General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kristi Noem, meanwhile, has said Good was carrying out actions that amounted to an “act of domestic terrorism” before she was shot, and Trump has made false claims about the events that led up to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two others were shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon, the following day, on Jan. 8, during an attempt to pull over their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiu and Tony LoPresti, county counsel for Santa Clara County, both said that whether the cities launch further legal action will depend on whether Trump follows through on this week’s threats, and in what form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Santa Clara County doesn’t use “sanctuary” language specifically, it also has policies that assert its right not to use local resources to aid federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are certainly going to ensure that we’re enforcing the injunctions that we have in place, and that we will continue as a county … to litigate our constitutional rights not to cooperate with the federal government and their immigration enforcement campaign,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee called Trump’s announcement an attempt to “bully” sanctuary cities, and said that threats from Washington would not be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should the Trump administration begin withholding funds next month, Bonta said, the state is prepared to take legal action “within minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got the arguments, we have the briefs, we have a legal strategy,” he said. “We just need to see how his general statements manifest into a specific action — what funding to what city for what issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it’ll be nothing, but we’re not counting on that. We believe he’s gonna do something, and whatever it is, we’ll be ready,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Stanford professor Alberto Díaz-Cayeros heard about the Jan. 3 capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, he knew it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068663/a-really-confusing-moment-bay-area-venezuelans-struggle-to-make-sense-of-us-attack\">strike a deep chord\u003c/a> in the Latin American psyche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chord, he said, is rooted in recognition of the United States’ long history of intervening in Latin America, often destabilizing the governments and economies and leaving millions impoverished, exploited and desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Díaz-Cayeros, a political scientist and former director of Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies, on Jan. 7 after he \u003ca href=\"https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/venezuela-after-maduro-democracy-authoritarian-rebalancing-or-chaos\">moderated a panel\u003c/a> titled, “Venezuela After Maduro: Democracy, Authoritarian Rebalancing, or Chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really struck me, at least about what happened on the night of [the Maduro raid], is less that something radical changed in Venezuela. It’s not obvious what will happen,” Díaz-Cayeros said. “But it’s more that the U.S. displayed this force and was able to say, ‘I can make things go one way or another if I so wish.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I heard the news about Maduro’s capture on KQED when I was driving to the gym. My first thought was: Have the Venezuelan people not suffered enough?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I thought about bananas — specifically those imported by the United Fruit Company, the storied American corporation that, over the course of several decades and across multiple countries, extracted resources, oppressed workers and helped remove democratically elected leaders from office. As many scholars have documented, the result has been a pattern in which U.S. interests in Latin America have prioritized profits over people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Díaz-Cayeros said it may seem like a stretch to compare current to those of a century ago, but it’s not. President Donald Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine, an early 19th-century foreign policy, to justify U.S. actions in Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. exploits in the Western Hemisphere have routinely caused devastating economic displacement, and that has, in turn, led to the northward migration of mostly poor, often Indigenous or mestizo (racially mixed) people from Latin America.,” wrote Laura E. Gomez, a legal scholar and author of \u003cem>Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism\u003c/em>, in a LinkedIn post. “In other words, we are here because the U.S. was there.”[aside postID=forum_2010101912502 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP.jpg']For a deeper history of the United Fruit and similar interventions, check out Gomez’s book, as well as \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/harvest-of-empire-a-history-of-latinos-in-america-second-revised-and-updated-edition-juan-gonzalez/6159d8f69124dfb2?ean=9780143137436&next=t\">Harvest of Empire\u003c/a>\u003c/em> by Juan Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez lays bare a dynamic U.S. officials often avoid acknowledging: When the United States asserts dominance in Latin America, the consequences reverberate at home. Yet instead of reckoning with that reality, we have built an immigration enforcement apparatus that dehumanizes migrants and routinely violates basic rights — including those of people who defend them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is notably different now is that in the past, U.S. companies and investors often led the push into Latin America and then lobbied Washington to intervene. Under the Trump administration, those roles appear reversed. The administration is using military force to secure American interests, said Miguel Tinker Salas, professor emeritus of Latin American History at Pomona College and author of \u003cem>Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure could take years, even a decade. The United States now produces more oil than it consumes and is a net exporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about power, this is about regime change, this is about access to oil, this about reestablishing U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean and Central America,” Tinker Salas told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Government supporters wave a Venezuelan flag during a demonstration on Jan. 8 in Caracas, Venezuela, five days after the United States had launched a large-scale military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. \u003ccite>((Carlos Becerra/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It can be easy to dismiss what is happening in Latin America as something happening in a distant place with little personal relevance, especially for Americans without family ties there. But the connections are real — and consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is not whether the U.S. will see an influx of Venezuelan migrants. Roughly one in four Venezuelans — about 8 million people — have left the country over the past decade, most settling in other Latin American countries, primarily Colombia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 770,000 Venezuelan immigrants lived in the United States in 2023, making up less than 2% of the nation’s 47.8 million immigrants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/venezuelan-immigrants-united-states\">according to the Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>. An estimated 3% of Venezuelan immigrants lived in California. Trump had called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/venezuelan-immigrants-tps-maduro-deportations\">deporting 600,000 Venezuelans\u003c/a> who lived in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger question is whether U.S. involvement will help create conditions that allow Venezuelans to return home to stability, prosperity and economic growth — or whether the country’s vast wealth will primarily benefit American corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venezuela’s economy has been so severely damaged that even modest foreign investment could generate growth, making it attractive to investors, Díaz-Cayeros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about the oil. It’s about all the business opportunities that open up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Stanford panel, Hector Fuentes, a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, said that Venezuela is not profiting off its oil reserves, raising the question of what the country stands to lose if the United States takes its oil, as Trump has promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has framed its actions as benefiting the U.S., with little emphasis on ensuring Venezuela becomes a stable, prosperous democracy. The outcome appears more like a hoped-for byproduct than a central goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are celebrating because there’s a sense of relief. They think the page has been turned, but the page has not been turned,” Tinker Salas said. “I’m Venezuelan-American. I don’t see huge numbers of Venezuelans returning to Venezuela in the short run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many hope Maduro’s exit marks a turning point that bucks history. It’s possible, but we won’t know for years or decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, I suggest reading up on U.S. political and economic interventions in Latin America. It’s a history that has shaped many of our lives and one that all Americans should understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Stanford professor Alberto Díaz-Cayeros heard about the Jan. 3 capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, he knew it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068663/a-really-confusing-moment-bay-area-venezuelans-struggle-to-make-sense-of-us-attack\">strike a deep chord\u003c/a> in the Latin American psyche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chord, he said, is rooted in recognition of the United States’ long history of intervening in Latin America, often destabilizing the governments and economies and leaving millions impoverished, exploited and desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Díaz-Cayeros, a political scientist and former director of Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies, on Jan. 7 after he \u003ca href=\"https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/venezuela-after-maduro-democracy-authoritarian-rebalancing-or-chaos\">moderated a panel\u003c/a> titled, “Venezuela After Maduro: Democracy, Authoritarian Rebalancing, or Chaos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really struck me, at least about what happened on the night of [the Maduro raid], is less that something radical changed in Venezuela. It’s not obvious what will happen,” Díaz-Cayeros said. “But it’s more that the U.S. displayed this force and was able to say, ‘I can make things go one way or another if I so wish.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Under the Trump administration, those roles appear reversed. The administration is using military force to secure American interests, said Miguel Tinker Salas, professor emeritus of Latin American History at Pomona College and author of \u003cem>Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure could take years, even a decade. The United States now produces more oil than it consumes and is a net exporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about power, this is about regime change, this is about access to oil, this about reestablishing U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean and Central America,” Tinker Salas told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Government supporters wave a Venezuelan flag during a demonstration on Jan. 8 in Caracas, Venezuela, five days after the United States had launched a large-scale military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. \u003ccite>((Carlos Becerra/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It can be easy to dismiss what is happening in Latin America as something happening in a distant place with little personal relevance, especially for Americans without family ties there. 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Trump had called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/venezuelan-immigrants-tps-maduro-deportations\">deporting 600,000 Venezuelans\u003c/a> who lived in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger question is whether U.S. involvement will help create conditions that allow Venezuelans to return home to stability, prosperity and economic growth — or whether the country’s vast wealth will primarily benefit American corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venezuela’s economy has been so severely damaged that even modest foreign investment could generate growth, making it attractive to investors, Díaz-Cayeros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about the oil. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area lawmaker said conditions at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">newest immigration jail\u003c/a> in California amounted to “a violation of human rights” after an oversight visit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna described what he called the “systemic neglect” of more than 900 people currently held at the California City Detention Facility, a private prison in the Mojave Desert, which opened in late August under a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re treating these people like animals, not like human beings … It’s an embarrassment for the country,” he told KQED. “Whatever you think about the consequences for people who are undocumented, we should all agree that you treat people with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s visit comes at a time when ICE is locking up more people than ever in its history — roughly 69,000 as of late December — as the Trump administration continues its massive ramp-up in immigration enforcement as part of an aggressive campaign to deport millions of non-citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have raised alarms over poor conditions in ICE detention as the number of in-custody deaths\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\"> surged\u003c/a> to its highest level in more than 20 years, with 32 people dying in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress has a legal right to inspect immigration detention centers, even unannounced. But over the past year, ICE has repeatedly denied access to politicians who have tried to exercise their power of oversight. Last July, several House \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasobserver.org/dems-congress-ice-detention-oversight-lawsuit/\">Democrats sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration after ICE issued a policy requiring seven days advance notice to schedule a visit. Last month, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/ice-lawmaker-visits-policy-ruling-00695801\">blocked \u003c/a>that policy while the case unfolded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069262\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/G9_jv3KW0AMIDK3_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/G9_jv3KW0AMIDK3_a.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/G9_jv3KW0AMIDK3_a-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Bay Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna and his staff member, Yvonne Inciarte, stand outside of the ICE California City Detention Center on Jan. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ro Khanna's office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s visit to the California City facility was pre-arranged. His office first reached out to ICE on Dec. 4 to set up the visit, which took place Jan. 5, a staff member said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he and an aide spent about three hours there, and took an official tour of the facility — which is set to become ICE’s largest in the state, with capacity for nearly 2,600 detainees. Khanna was reportedly told there were 1,428 detainees, including 215 women. The most recently available ICE data available, from Dec. 26, shows 922 detainees — although that number could have increased over the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmaker said he also had two group sessions where he was able to talk with 47 detained people who had signed up to meet him. No prison staff was present in the meetings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the tour, [the warden and other prison officials] were showing us they were going by the book, and they took standards really seriously,” he said. “Then when we met the detainees, I was just floored.”[aside postID=news_12068663 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260105-VenezuelaCalifornia-06-BL_qed.jpg']Khanna said he spoke with a man who said he had blood in his urine and was still waiting for medical care after seven days. He said people described rocks in their food, undrinkable water, punishing lockdowns four times a day and no-contact visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really dehumanizing, and many of them were in tears,” he said. “Some of them had been in this country for over a decade, paying taxes, and they’re just shocked that they had been sent to this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he was particularly alarmed by the lack of medical care. On the day he visited, he said, he saw only one doctor handling a clinic waiting room filled with roughly 40 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the company that owns and operates the facility, said the safety and health of people in its custody is its top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility employs licensed health care providers, who “[take] seriously their role and responsibility to provide high-quality healthcare, available 24/7, to the individuals in our care,” said CoreCivic public affairs director Ryan Gustin, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our health services teams follow both CoreCivic’s standards for medical care and the standards set forth by our government partners. All individuals have daily access to sign up for medical care, including mental health services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin added that the company’s immigration facilities are closely monitored by ICE and required to undergo regular reviews and audits “to ensure an appropriate standard of living and care for all detainees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California, in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But information the agency is legally required to make public indicates that, as of Dec. 26, 2025, the most recent inspection of the California City facility took place “pre-occupancy,” with another inspection due at an unspecified date in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state-authorized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">inspection was conducted\u003c/a> in September by Disability Rights California, a nonprofit watchdog organization with \u003ca href=\"https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/publications/summary-of-disability-rights-californias-authority-under-state-and-federal-law\">investigative powers\u003c/a> under state and federal law to protect the rights of people with physical, developmental and psychiatric disabilities. The group found that conditions at the detention center were dangerous for disabled people and that health care access was broadly lacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, immigrant rights organizations filed a lawsuit alleging that CoreCivic began operating the ICE facility without first obtaining state and local permits. Then, in November, detainees at the facility\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\"> sued\u003c/a>, alleging the place is polluted by sewage leaks and insect infestations, and that detainees can’t get proper medical attention for life-threatening conditions.[aside postID=news_12069104 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty.jpg']Last month, the California Attorney General’s office sent out its own inspection team, as mandated under state law, and then \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">issued \u003c/a>a sharply worded letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, calling out “dangerous and inadequate living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said the facility had “opened prematurely and was not prepared to handle the needs of the incoming population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s $130 million two-year contract with CoreCivic for the California City facility — formerly used as a state prison but vacant since 2023 — was enabled by Congress’s passage last summer of a budget bill that included $170 billion for President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement priorities — including $45 billion specifically for detention facilities. Analysts estimate the money could allow for as many as 116,000 detention beds. By comparison, ICE held about 39,000 people in the final days of the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna said he decided to see the inside of the facility for himself after residents in his Santa Clara County district expressed concern for loved ones who were held there. The lawmaker said he wants more of Congress to visit detention centers and hold ICE accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think more members need to go in,” he said. “Get access to these facilities and talk to the detainees. And then we need to tell their stories. That’s our job in oversight. I did it because my constituents faced it, and I’m really glad I did and horrified to see what I discovered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Local rapid response networks are reporting an increased interest in volunteer training after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">Immigration\u003c/a> and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 48 hours of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, 37, officials with the North Bay Rapid Response Network said 30 individuals reached out to request legal observer training — the biggest surge they’ve seen since the last presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local and Minnesota state leaders said Good was on the scene as a legal observer or a volunteer who monitors law enforcement operations during intensifying protests against ICE enforcement in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Ibarra, a co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, which serves as Alameda’s rapid response network, said the East Bay organization has similarly received a flood of messages expressing interest in volunteer training. The networks provide resources for immigrant communities, including confirming immigration enforcement activity in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just speaks to the resilience of our communities and how willing they are to put themselves out there to support and be allies,” Ibarra said. “We are already updating our trainings to include stronger guidance on situational awareness, legal observation, de-escalation and how volunteers can protect one another when they’re out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engels Garcia, a steering committee member for the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara, said the network is also updating its training and procedures, adding that the group is committed to continuing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-1536x1101.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is intimidation not only to our legal observers and to the Rapid Response Network, but to the community in general, and we’re not going to be intimidated,” Garcia said. “Regardless of what transpired, no one should lose their life from recording ICE activity in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra said Alameda’s rapid response network is also hearing from current volunteers in response to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we do, this is our bread and butter,” Ibarra said. “The fact that now, you need to take this extra level of precaution to make sure that folks are being not just effective but safe in the face of federal law enforcement is something that, you know, we didn’t expect originally, but we are in that sad reality now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 36 hours of the high-profile killing, local advocates held a handful of marches and vigils across the Bay Area — and organizers said more are coming this weekend.[aside postID=news_11821950 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg']Demonstrations are already planned for Saturday in several cities, including Dublin, Livermore, Concord and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of the shooting, a group gathered outside of ICE offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what was happening in Minneapolis, and we said we couldn’t wait another day to actually get our voices out there and the community’s voices out there,” Adam Sheehan, an event producer with Indivisible SF, a group behind last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">No Kings protest\u003c/a>, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indivisible SF is also organizing a protest on Saturday, with other Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132\">chapters\u003c/a> holding their own demonstrations and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan criticized the federal response to the shooting, citing comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who initially described Good’s actions in the moments leading up to her death as domestic terrorism. Noem also accused Good of attempting to weaponize her vehicle against agents on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Noem] came out in the cowboy hat and said it was domestic terrorism, trying to run over an officer, and then the footage came out and didn’t speak to that at all,” Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Wednesday after the shooting, Noem said immigration officers were “carrying out lawful operations” in Minneapolis, and protesters gathered around an ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle … when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting and impeding law enforcement operations,” Noem said, referring to Good’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">Footage\u003c/a> from multiple angles sourced by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> shows Good in a car nearby as officers begin advancing towards her maroon SUV. Good, the driver, appeared to try to turn right to leave the scene, but can first be seen appearing to wave the cars by, indicating for them to pass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she was approached by immigration officers and ordered to exit the vehicle. Footage shows Good back the car up, then turn as if to evade the officers. As she began to pull forward, one officer fired three shots into the vehicle, shooting Good in the head. The FBI is currently investigating the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Customs and Border Patrol agents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgou.org/2026-01-09/border-patrol-shooting-in-portland-raises-questions-about-law-enforcement-training\">shot and wounded two people\u003c/a> in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a completely unconscionable and lawless act — the murder of an innocent woman who was doing nothing illegal, simply legally observing ICE actions in Minneapolis,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of the groups behind another San Francisco demonstration the night of Good’s death, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee is the co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a group that has organized recent protests against ICE actions and holds vigils outside of San Francisco ICE offices multiple times per week. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Ibarra, a co-director of the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, which serves as Alameda’s rapid response network, said the East Bay organization has similarly received a flood of messages expressing interest in volunteer training. The networks provide resources for immigrant communities, including confirming immigration enforcement activity in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That just speaks to the resilience of our communities and how willing they are to put themselves out there to support and be allies,” Ibarra said. “We are already updating our trainings to include stronger guidance on situational awareness, legal observation, de-escalation and how volunteers can protect one another when they’re out in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engels Garcia, a steering committee member for the Rapid Response Network in Santa Clara, said the network is also updating its training and procedures, adding that the group is committed to continuing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069305\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty2-1536x1101.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that this is intimidation not only to our legal observers and to the Rapid Response Network, but to the community in general, and we’re not going to be intimidated,” Garcia said. “Regardless of what transpired, no one should lose their life from recording ICE activity in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra said Alameda’s rapid response network is also hearing from current volunteers in response to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what we do, this is our bread and butter,” Ibarra said. “The fact that now, you need to take this extra level of precaution to make sure that folks are being not just effective but safe in the face of federal law enforcement is something that, you know, we didn’t expect originally, but we are in that sad reality now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within 36 hours of the high-profile killing, local advocates held a handful of marches and vigils across the Bay Area — and organizers said more are coming this weekend.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Demonstrations are already planned for Saturday in several cities, including Dublin, Livermore, Concord and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of the shooting, a group gathered outside of ICE offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what was happening in Minneapolis, and we said we couldn’t wait another day to actually get our voices out there and the community’s voices out there,” Adam Sheehan, an event producer with Indivisible SF, a group behind last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">No Kings protest\u003c/a>, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indivisible SF is also organizing a protest on Saturday, with other Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132\">chapters\u003c/a> holding their own demonstrations and vigils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan criticized the federal response to the shooting, citing comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who initially described Good’s actions in the moments leading up to her death as domestic terrorism. Noem also accused Good of attempting to weaponize her vehicle against agents on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Noem] came out in the cowboy hat and said it was domestic terrorism, trying to run over an officer, and then the footage came out and didn’t speak to that at all,” Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Wednesday after the shooting, Noem said immigration officers were “carrying out lawful operations” in Minneapolis, and protesters gathered around an ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12069309 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle … when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting and impeding law enforcement operations,” Noem said, referring to Good’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">Footage\u003c/a> from multiple angles sourced by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> shows Good in a car nearby as officers begin advancing towards her maroon SUV. Good, the driver, appeared to try to turn right to leave the scene, but can first be seen appearing to wave the cars by, indicating for them to pass in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she was approached by immigration officers and ordered to exit the vehicle. Footage shows Good back the car up, then turn as if to evade the officers. As she began to pull forward, one officer fired three shots into the vehicle, shooting Good in the head. The FBI is currently investigating the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Customs and Border Patrol agents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgou.org/2026-01-09/border-patrol-shooting-in-portland-raises-questions-about-law-enforcement-training\">shot and wounded two people\u003c/a> in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a completely unconscionable and lawless act — the murder of an innocent woman who was doing nothing illegal, simply legally observing ICE actions in Minneapolis,” Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, one of the groups behind another San Francisco demonstration the night of Good’s death, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee is the co-executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, a group that has organized recent protests against ICE actions and holds vigils outside of San Francisco ICE offices multiple times per week. Lee said the news of Good’s death was devastating and noted that it’s not the first time ICE has employed violence against people observing or protesting immigration enforcement activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ReneeGoodProtestOaklandGetty3-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take part in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good at Fruitvale Plaza Park in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even here in Oakland, right? They shot a pepper ball right into the face of one of our faith colleagues,” Lee said, referring to an October protest against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061545/bay-area-spared-from-federal-immigration-enforcement-surge-officials-say\">potential ICE-enforcement escalation\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, where a federal agent shot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">San Mateo pastor Jorge Bautista\u003c/a> in the face with some kind of pepper powder \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/live-report-cbp-staging-area-coast-guard-island-oakland-alameda/\">at point-blank range.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said this moment is also an opportunity to remember other deaths resulting from ICE actions, like Jaime Alanís, a farmworker in Ventura who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047860/california-farmworker-dies-after-falling-from-greenhouse-roof-during-ice-raid\">fell off a greenhouse roof \u003c/a>during an ICE raid in July and died of his injuries a day later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2025 was also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5538090/ice-detention-custody-immigration-arrest-enforcement-dhs-trump\">deadliest\u003c/a> year for people in ICE custody in more than 20 years. A total of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">32 people\u003c/a> died in ICE custody last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limei Chen, an activist with the interfaith movement, regularly participates in those vigils. Last month, Chen, Lee and dozens of others were handcuffed and cited after they chained themselves to the doors of those offices to demand an end to ICE detentions of people showing up for court hearings or mandated check-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our main goal is to let the folks there who are there for their ICE check-ins know that they are not alone. We are there. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068148/san-francisco-immigration-court-down-to-four-judges-after-new-departures\">main immigration court\u003c/a> is set to close by the end of the year, driving former judges and advocates to worry that it’s part of an effort by the Trump administration to drastically remake and shrink the overburdened immigration system in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former judges told KQED that staffers were informed Tuesday that the court would not renew its lease at 100 Montgomery St., where the majority of the Bay Area’s asylum cases are heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court, which began 2025 with 21 judges, now has just four remaining after 13 were fired and four more retired at the end of the year, which some attorneys told KQED they were pressured into. Nationwide, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired since last January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Judge Dana Leigh Marks said the move to shutter the largest of three immigration courts serving Northern California feels like a step toward dismantling the path to asylum entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is bleeding from 1,000 small cuts,” she said. “It seems to me like what the current administration is trying to do is maximize the dysfunction in order to allow a change in the law by Congress. To eventually eliminate the system and eliminate the due process that immigrants get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks said she’s heard from current immigration attorneys that when the judge presiding over their client’s cases has been fired, their court dates have been removed from the docket and pushed back by up to three or four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A view looking up at a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of a new immigration court at 1855 Concord Gateway in Concord on Feb. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former Judge Arwen Swink, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068148/san-francisco-immigration-court-down-to-four-judges-after-new-departures\">fired from San Francisco’s bench last month\u003c/a>, told KQED that current staffers got an email confirming that the Montgomery Street court would shutter by January 2027, when the court’s current lease ends. She and three other former judges, who spoke with KQED on the condition of anonymity to protect their sources from retaliation, said the court is aiming to end operations at the site as soon as the summer and plans to consolidate remaining staff in the Bay Area’s other immigration courthouse in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. 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Sacramento’s smaller court shrunk from six to three judges last year. The two locations are responsible for around 90,000 more cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, the line of people waiting for check-in appointments outside the ICE field office on Sansome Street, about half a mile from the court, extended down the block and around the corner. Martens said some of the people standing outside the federal building, holding folders of legal paperwork and bundled against the early morning cold, had also been lined up Monday or Tuesday but hadn’t made it through the long, slow-moving queue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. 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But no judges are located at the site, and the communication sent to Montgomery Street staff suggests that operations will be consolidated to Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Logistically, it’s just going to be a nightmare,” she said. “It is going to be chaotic for several months, where people are not going to know if they have a hearing scheduled, where the hearing is scheduled, who their judge is, if their case is going to be moved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Maya, the asylum program director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, said the move also backpedals on the goal of opening Concord’s court: easing access for immigrants in the East Bay and Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an incredible development for people who were already in the East Bay and were having to travel to San Francisco, where it didn’t make sense, or people in the Central Valley who unfortunately don’t have an immigration courthouse,” Maya said. “But now we’ve created the problem that existed, but for people on the Peninsula or people who live in the South Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya also said that many of the Bay Area’s legal resource centers and nonprofits are based in San Francisco because of its proximity to the court. 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Martens said some of the people standing outside the federal building, holding folders of legal paperwork and bundled against the early morning cold, had also been lined up Monday or Tuesday but hadn’t made it through the long, slow-moving queue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Deborah Lee, who heads the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, said she sees the closure of San Francisco’s court as part of a series of moves by the Trump administration to dismantle the immigration judicial system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, ICE officers began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057368/unprecedented-ice-arrest-inside-oakland-courthouse-draws-backlash\">arresting immigrants outside courtrooms\u003c/a> where they had mandatory hearings, a tactic that was previously unprecedented. DOJ attorneys would move to have asylum-seekers’ cases dismissed, while officers waited in courtroom hallways to take them into detention if they were. The DOJ used similar tactics to detain immigrants who reported to ICE check-in appointments like those held at 630 Sansome St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If asylum-seekers fail to appear for a mandatory hearing or appointment, their case can be dropped altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063685\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251106_ICE-Vigil_GH-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign reading “Santuario: Manteniendo Familias Unidas” (“Sanctuary: Keeping Families United”) during the Faith in Action “Walking Our Faith” vigil outside the San Francisco Immigration Court on Nov. 6, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cp>As of Jan. 1, visitors to the United States will have to pay $100 each to enter some of the country’s most popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-parks\">national parks\u003c/a> — on top of existing entry fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-announces-modernized-more-affordable-national-park-access\">announced\u003c/a> late last year that entry fees for 11 national parks — including Yosemite National Park — were going up for foreign visitors only in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while park entry fees for U.S. residents will remain the same, typically $35 per vehicle or $80 for an annual pass, as of Jan. 1, anyone who can’t prove their U.S. residency with a government-issued ID will have to pay the additional $100 at major national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement means a steep increase in national park fees for tourists to the U.S., who will also see the cost of buying an annual pass for themselves rise. So, if you’re a U.S. resident who’s planning on welcoming family or friends from abroad, and were hoping to take them to Yosemite, what should you know about these latest costs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about the new national park fees for 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howwillfeesforinternationaltravelersbeenforced\">How will fees for international travelers be enforced?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldUSresidentsknowaboutenteringnationalparksin2026\">What should U.S. residents know about entering national parks in 2026? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>At which national parks do non-U.S. residents have to pay higher fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, 2026, a $100 per-person fee — charged on top of the typical fee of $35 per vehicle — will apply to entry for foreigners ages 16 and older at 11 of the country’s most-visited national parks (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior confirmed in an email to KQED that the new fees will apply for the amount of time the entry ticket is valid. For Yosemite, for example, the $100 per-person fee would be valid for seven days of entry to the park, just like the $35 vehicle fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062225 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors stand at Tunnel View overlook in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, Yosemite National Park and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks will be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, other national parks where non U.S. residents will have to pay the extra fees are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Acadia National Park, Maine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Everglades National Park, Florida\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Glacier National Park, Montana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Zion National Park, Utah\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, these 11 parks have seen around a combined 23 million visitors. The National Park Service doesn’t currently track the proportion of visitors coming to parks from outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much will an annual pass be for tourists to the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before these recent changes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm\">an $80 annual National Park Service pass\u003c/a> was available to all, with no residency requirements.\u003cbr>\nBut as of Jan. 1, an annual national parks pass for non U.S. residents, which allows free entry at any national park, is $250 per passholder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look at a welcome at the entrance to Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howwillfeesforinternationaltravelersbeenforced\">\u003c/a>How are these fees for international travelers be enforced?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of the Interior, all visitors age 16 and older with annual passes are asked to present a U.S. government-issued photo ID at the entrance of every national park, such as a passport or state driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who don’t have a U.S. ID to present “will be asked to upgrade to the nonresident annual pass,” a DOI spokesperson told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors will confirm their residency by providing a ZIP code when purchasing a pass online and must present a U.S. government-issued photo ID when using it,” the DOI spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new fees also apply to visitors taking YARTS, the public Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System, the Department of the Interior confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for YARTS said it’s too early to know if the fee is changing ridership on its service — but declined to comment on how fees and bus passengers’ IDs are being collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatshouldUSresidentsknowaboutenteringnationalparksin2026\">\u003c/a>What should U.S. residents know about changes to national parks entry this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To enforce annual pass compliance for non-U.S. residents, starting Jan. 1, all visitors age 16 and older with annual passes are now asked to present a U.S. government-issued photo ID to prove their U.S. residency. Currently, a national parks annual pass bears a message requiring the pass to be signed by the passholder, who must be present and provide “Valid Photo ID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s DOI announcement also included the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/video/digital-park-passes\">digital annual passes\u003c/a> for national parks, which can be bought and accessed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062221 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors stand at Tunnel View overlook in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new entry policies will also allow two motorcycles, rather than just one, to enter under a single annual park pass in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lineup of the national parks’ fee-free days has also been altered. The lineup of the national parks’ fee-free days has also been altered. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth have been removed from the list of days on which visitors can enter the park for free — a move condemned by organizations including the NAACP and the Sierra Club.\u003cbr>\nFlag Day on June 16, which is also President Trump’s birthday, has been added, as has Constitution Day on Sept. 17. The fee-free days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm\">listed here\u003c/a>, do not apply to non-U.S. residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s annual passes now also feature new graphics on the cards to commemorate the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, featuring the faces of former President George Washington and President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any way for international visitors to avoid the higher fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new fees go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. But because annual passes are punched on the date of purchase and are valid for 12 months on a rolling basis, any annual pass that was already purchased before the new year will be exempt from the new fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DOI confirmed to KQED by email that “international visitors with a valid 2025 pass can use that pass until it expires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062224 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person fishes in the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the announcement, the Mariposa County Tourism Bureau published \u003ca href=\"https://www.yosemite.com/nonresident-and-international-fees/\">a guide to help foreign travelers navigate the new fee structure\u003c/a>. In it, the organization recommends that most groups of international visitors who plan to visit more than one national park in 2026 purchase the $250 annual pass for non U.S. residents — but that solo travelers or couples who are only planning to visit one park, like Yosemite, should probably swallow the $100 per-person fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisabeth Barton, founding member and CEO of tour company Echo Adventure Cooperative, which operates guided tours in and around Yosemite and Stanislaus National Forest, said tour groups like hers are already facing confusion and longer wait times at entrances due to the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group normally prefers to take care of entrance fees on the backend, but Barton said the groups of visitors they’ve led into the park so far this year have had to pony up the extra money at the gate themselves in addition to their IDs if they are U.S. residents — spending a lengthy 10 minutes sorting through who pays what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole situation just feels very haphazard and like they don’t quite know how to handle it,” Barton said. “You can tell too that all the rangers were really uncomfortable and they were already very brow beaten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for tour groups like hers have also changed, upping the usual $20-per person entrance fee to $100 per person for international travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus non-residents can no longer purchase annual Yosemite-only passes, which are $70 for the whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said communication from the park to the general public and tour groups has been slow and even conflicting at times — so much so that international tourists are arriving completely unaware of the quadrupled fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t know until they arrive – and I have a feeling that’s going to happen a lot,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the U.S. government increasing national park fees for international travelers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to a DOI spokesperson, the fee increase is a direct response to President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/making-america-beautiful-again-by-improving-our-national-parks/\">July 3 executive order\u003c/a> that instructed the Interior Secretary to increase park pass rates for nonresidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the increased fees is slated to go to park facility upgrades, maintenance and services, according to the Department of the Interior’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-announces-modernized-more-affordable-national-park-access\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1993381881380061610\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their email to KQED, a DOI spokesperson argued that revenue from passes sold will “help keep our parks beautiful and running well, including for … \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/deferred-maintenance.htm\">the deferred maintenance backlog\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nonresident surcharge is a small fraction of total trip costs (airfare, lodging, transport) for foreign tourists,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What concerns are already being raised about levying higher fees for parks on international tourists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the announcement, parks advocacy groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-administration-hike-nps-entrance-fees\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> and the Coalition to Protect National Parks, released statements condemning the coming changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, these groups raised concerns about the burden of checking IDs on already overworked parks staff — as well as the potential that increased fees for foreigners could deter international travel to parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes/The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the administration wants to support the National Park System, we urge them to help ensure our national parks are fully funded and fully staffed,” Coalition to Protect National Parks Executive Director Emily Thompson said in an emailed statement to KQED. “That’s the answer rather than focusing on complicated directives that will only increase the workload for park staff already overstretched to keep everything running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity has also pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-trump-use-of-headshot-on-national-parks-pass-2025-12-10/\">filing a lawsuit on Dec. 10 \u003c/a>that argues that both the America the Beautiful pass’s new graphics bearing President Trump’s face and the creation of a new non-resident pass option violate the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/sticker-covering-trump-void-national-park-pass-21278091.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some artists have begun selling stickers to cover the new graphics\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the National Park Service confirmed in an email to KQED that altered passes are void.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite-based tour guides have also expressed concern that the new policy could create long wait times at park gates while IDs are being checked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John DeGrazio, owner of Yosemite tour provider YExplore, said the rules may put park rangers — and even guiding businesses like his — in the uncomfortable position of asking for identification to determine U.S. residency, calling it “a stripping away of freedoms.”[aside postID=news_12062476 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg']The policy, fears DeGrazio, “could be a gateway: Are they gonna now position ICE agents at the entrance of national parks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of goes against the whole idea of going out and visiting our national parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies could also put a deeper dent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">already precipitous drop in international tourism \u003c/a>reported this year — with \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/03/us-tourism-lose-29-billion-trump-policies/\">estimates as high as $30 billion lost\u003c/a> this year due to fewer international visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio said he’s worried the parks fee increase will be an even further “inhibitor of visitation” to parks nationwide, shrinking demand for businesses like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Echo Adventure Cooperative’s Barton said she’d already fielded a cancellation following the announcement, from an international tourist who’d planned to visit Yosemite in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quoting the visitor, she said, “‘The cost is one thing, but just feeling that we get that we’re not wanted in the United States was enough for us to cancel our visit,’” Barton said. “And that broke my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many foreigners typically visit these U.S. National Parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the DOI doesn’t collect statistics on international parks visitorship, a spokesperson told KQED by email that the agency plans to begin doing so next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ustravel.org/sites/default/files/media_root/document/NPS_Overseas_Highlights_V1%20%281%29.pdf\">estimates\u003c/a> from the U.S. Travel Association, around 35% of international travelers visited national parks as part of their trips in 2016 — and more than 14 million foreigners visited national parks in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors hike the Mist Trail toward Vernal Falls on Aug. 31, 2025, in the Yosemite National Park, California. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio said the number of international customers his Yosemite tour company sees has been going down steadily, from around 30% “a couple of years ago” to less than 10% this year — and is worried it could decrease even more as a result of the new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a terrible, short-sighted idea that will damage local businesses in and around the national parks,” he said. “Everyone believes that there is no positive outcome for a move like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said that changes to travel and immigration policies under President Trump had even left one family who had reserved cabins in the Yosemite area through her company with half their group unable to get into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already seeing these policies affect our gateway communities, and this is just going to take it another step forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also fears that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Trump’s rhetoric around immigration \u003c/a>has fueled what she calls “us versus them” conversations happening in rural communities where these national parks are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What permission does that give folks, and how will that change the visitor experience?” she said. “I think that’s my biggest concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement means a steep increase in national park fees for tourists to the U.S., who will also see the cost of buying an annual pass for themselves rise. So, if you’re a U.S. resident who’s planning on welcoming family or friends from abroad, and were hoping to take them to Yosemite, what should you know about these latest costs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what we know about the new national park fees for 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Howwillfeesforinternationaltravelersbeenforced\">How will fees for international travelers be enforced?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatshouldUSresidentsknowaboutenteringnationalparksin2026\">What should U.S. residents know about entering national parks in 2026? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>At which national parks do non-U.S. residents have to pay higher fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, 2026, a $100 per-person fee — charged on top of the typical fee of $35 per vehicle — will apply to entry for foreigners ages 16 and older at 11 of the country’s most-visited national parks (see below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior confirmed in an email to KQED that the new fees will apply for the amount of time the entry ticket is valid. For Yosemite, for example, the $100 per-person fee would be valid for seven days of entry to the park, just like the $35 vehicle fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062225 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-114-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors stand at Tunnel View overlook in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, Yosemite National Park and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks will be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, other national parks where non U.S. residents will have to pay the extra fees are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Acadia National Park, Maine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Everglades National Park, Florida\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Glacier National Park, Montana\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Zion National Park, Utah\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, these 11 parks have seen around a combined 23 million visitors. The National Park Service doesn’t currently track the proportion of visitors coming to parks from outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much will an annual pass be for tourists to the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before these recent changes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm\">an $80 annual National Park Service pass\u003c/a> was available to all, with no residency requirements.\u003cbr>\nBut as of Jan. 1, an annual national parks pass for non U.S. residents, which allows free entry at any national park, is $250 per passholder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251027-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-18-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors look at a welcome at the entrance to Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howwillfeesforinternationaltravelersbeenforced\">\u003c/a>How are these fees for international travelers be enforced?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of the Interior, all visitors age 16 and older with annual passes are asked to present a U.S. government-issued photo ID at the entrance of every national park, such as a passport or state driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who don’t have a U.S. ID to present “will be asked to upgrade to the nonresident annual pass,” a DOI spokesperson told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors will confirm their residency by providing a ZIP code when purchasing a pass online and must present a U.S. government-issued photo ID when using it,” the DOI spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new fees also apply to visitors taking YARTS, the public Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System, the Department of the Interior confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for YARTS said it’s too early to know if the fee is changing ridership on its service — but declined to comment on how fees and bus passengers’ IDs are being collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatshouldUSresidentsknowaboutenteringnationalparksin2026\">\u003c/a>What should U.S. residents know about changes to national parks entry this year?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To enforce annual pass compliance for non-U.S. residents, starting Jan. 1, all visitors age 16 and older with annual passes are now asked to present a U.S. government-issued photo ID to prove their U.S. residency. Currently, a national parks annual pass bears a message requiring the pass to be signed by the passholder, who must be present and provide “Valid Photo ID.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s DOI announcement also included the launch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/video/digital-park-passes\">digital annual passes\u003c/a> for national parks, which can be bought and accessed online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062221 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-61-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors stand at Tunnel View overlook in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new entry policies will also allow two motorcycles, rather than just one, to enter under a single annual park pass in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lineup of the national parks’ fee-free days has also been altered. The lineup of the national parks’ fee-free days has also been altered. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth have been removed from the list of days on which visitors can enter the park for free — a move condemned by organizations including the NAACP and the Sierra Club.\u003cbr>\nFlag Day on June 16, which is also President Trump’s birthday, has been added, as has Constitution Day on Sept. 17. The fee-free days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm\">listed here\u003c/a>, do not apply to non-U.S. residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s annual passes now also feature new graphics on the cards to commemorate the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, featuring the faces of former President George Washington and President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any way for international visitors to avoid the higher fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new fees go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. But because annual passes are punched on the date of purchase and are valid for 12 months on a rolling basis, any annual pass that was already purchased before the new year will be exempt from the new fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DOI confirmed to KQED by email that “international visitors with a valid 2025 pass can use that pass until it expires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062224 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-112-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person fishes in the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the announcement, the Mariposa County Tourism Bureau published \u003ca href=\"https://www.yosemite.com/nonresident-and-international-fees/\">a guide to help foreign travelers navigate the new fee structure\u003c/a>. In it, the organization recommends that most groups of international visitors who plan to visit more than one national park in 2026 purchase the $250 annual pass for non U.S. residents — but that solo travelers or couples who are only planning to visit one park, like Yosemite, should probably swallow the $100 per-person fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisabeth Barton, founding member and CEO of tour company Echo Adventure Cooperative, which operates guided tours in and around Yosemite and Stanislaus National Forest, said tour groups like hers are already facing confusion and longer wait times at entrances due to the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her group normally prefers to take care of entrance fees on the backend, but Barton said the groups of visitors they’ve led into the park so far this year have had to pony up the extra money at the gate themselves in addition to their IDs if they are U.S. residents — spending a lengthy 10 minutes sorting through who pays what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole situation just feels very haphazard and like they don’t quite know how to handle it,” Barton said. “You can tell too that all the rangers were really uncomfortable and they were already very brow beaten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for tour groups like hers have also changed, upping the usual $20-per person entrance fee to $100 per person for international travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus non-residents can no longer purchase annual Yosemite-only passes, which are $70 for the whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said communication from the park to the general public and tour groups has been slow and even conflicting at times — so much so that international tourists are arriving completely unaware of the quadrupled fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t know until they arrive – and I have a feeling that’s going to happen a lot,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the U.S. government increasing national park fees for international travelers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to a DOI spokesperson, the fee increase is a direct response to President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/making-america-beautiful-again-by-improving-our-national-parks/\">July 3 executive order\u003c/a> that instructed the Interior Secretary to increase park pass rates for nonresidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the increased fees is slated to go to park facility upgrades, maintenance and services, according to the Department of the Interior’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-announces-modernized-more-affordable-national-park-access\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In their email to KQED, a DOI spokesperson argued that revenue from passes sold will “help keep our parks beautiful and running well, including for … \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/deferred-maintenance.htm\">the deferred maintenance backlog\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nonresident surcharge is a small fraction of total trip costs (airfare, lodging, transport) for foreign tourists,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What concerns are already being raised about levying higher fees for parks on international tourists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the announcement, parks advocacy groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-administration-hike-nps-entrance-fees\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> and the Coalition to Protect National Parks, released statements condemning the coming changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, these groups raised concerns about the burden of checking IDs on already overworked parks staff — as well as the potential that increased fees for foreigners could deter international travel to parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997996\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GETTYIMAGES-2021284785-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Yosemite Fall is reflected in the Merced River at Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tracy Barbutes/The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the administration wants to support the National Park System, we urge them to help ensure our national parks are fully funded and fully staffed,” Coalition to Protect National Parks Executive Director Emily Thompson said in an emailed statement to KQED. “That’s the answer rather than focusing on complicated directives that will only increase the workload for park staff already overstretched to keep everything running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity has also pushed back, \u003ca href=\"https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-trump-use-of-headshot-on-national-parks-pass-2025-12-10/\">filing a lawsuit on Dec. 10 \u003c/a>that argues that both the America the Beautiful pass’s new graphics bearing President Trump’s face and the creation of a new non-resident pass option violate the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of 2004. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/sticker-covering-trump-void-national-park-pass-21278091.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some artists have begun selling stickers to cover the new graphics\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the National Park Service confirmed in an email to KQED that altered passes are void.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite-based tour guides have also expressed concern that the new policy could create long wait times at park gates while IDs are being checked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John DeGrazio, owner of Yosemite tour provider YExplore, said the rules may put park rangers — and even guiding businesses like his — in the uncomfortable position of asking for identification to determine U.S. residency, calling it “a stripping away of freedoms.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The policy, fears DeGrazio, “could be a gateway: Are they gonna now position ICE agents at the entrance of national parks?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of goes against the whole idea of going out and visiting our national parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies could also put a deeper dent in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">already precipitous drop in international tourism \u003c/a>reported this year — with \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/03/us-tourism-lose-29-billion-trump-policies/\">estimates as high as $30 billion lost\u003c/a> this year due to fewer international visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio said he’s worried the parks fee increase will be an even further “inhibitor of visitation” to parks nationwide, shrinking demand for businesses like his.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Echo Adventure Cooperative’s Barton said she’d already fielded a cancellation following the announcement, from an international tourist who’d planned to visit Yosemite in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quoting the visitor, she said, “‘The cost is one thing, but just feeling that we get that we’re not wanted in the United States was enough for us to cancel our visit,’” Barton said. “And that broke my heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many foreigners typically visit these U.S. National Parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the DOI doesn’t collect statistics on international parks visitorship, a spokesperson told KQED by email that the agency plans to begin doing so next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ustravel.org/sites/default/files/media_root/document/NPS_Overseas_Highlights_V1%20%281%29.pdf\">estimates\u003c/a> from the U.S. Travel Association, around 35% of international travelers visited national parks as part of their trips in 2016 — and more than 14 million foreigners visited national parks in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors hike the Mist Trail toward Vernal Falls on Aug. 31, 2025, in the Yosemite National Park, California. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio said the number of international customers his Yosemite tour company sees has been going down steadily, from around 30% “a couple of years ago” to less than 10% this year — and is worried it could decrease even more as a result of the new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a terrible, short-sighted idea that will damage local businesses in and around the national parks,” he said. “Everyone believes that there is no positive outcome for a move like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said that changes to travel and immigration policies under President Trump had even left one family who had reserved cabins in the Yosemite area through her company with half their group unable to get into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re already seeing these policies affect our gateway communities, and this is just going to take it another step forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also fears that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Trump’s rhetoric around immigration \u003c/a>has fueled what she calls “us versus them” conversations happening in rural communities where these national parks are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What permission does that give folks, and how will that change the visitor experience?” she said. “I think that’s my biggest concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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