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Though they were 8,000 miles apart, they began messaging each other or having online video chats almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marco sifts through their old Facebook messages and reads them aloud. “I told her, ‘Take care always and bear in mind always that I love you very much.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt like we’re in high school again,” says Tess. “But it was so corny. So corny because we’re already old!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco translates another message and laughs. “I told her, ‘You look old!’ She told me, ‘What do you expect? \u003cem>Sa hirap ng pinagdaanan ko\u003c/em>?’ (After the difficulties I’ve been through?)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess’s life was troubled after high school. Before coming to America, she was married to an abusive husband in Manila. Tess says he was possessive, hit her and was emotionally abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her husband left his job and gambled away their savings, Tess was forced to look for overseas caregiver jobs to support their kids and make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these jobs were in the U.S., where she was forced to work long hours. Tess recalls a harrowing experience in which one employer refused to feed her, and she was forced to eat dog food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429835 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess rarely saw the money she was paid for these jobs. It wasn’t until much later that she realized she’d been a victim of labor trafficking. When she finally escaped her last abusive employer, she followed one of her daughters, who had moved to Los Angeles. It wasn’t an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked job after job,” Tess recalls. “I was homeless that time, trying to establish myself alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess got a divorce and wanted to restart her life. Marco was in a similar rut. He grew tired of living so far from friends and family in Saudi Arabia. That’s when he sent Tess that fateful friend request. And after months of chatting, he saved up some money to visit her in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess remembers the moment she saw Marco at the airport, the first time she laid eyes on him after 37 years. “I said, ‘This is for real? Wow, he’s still cute!’ ” She beats her chest and voices the sound of a fast-beating heart: “Boog-boog! Boog-boog!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just meet at the middle and then I kiss her,” Marco recalls, smacking his lips together. “Muah! Only in cheek. I whisper her, ‘I’m going to kneel and then propose with you to marry me.’ And then she told me, ‘No, no! Not here!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429834 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE).\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess had overstayed her visa. She was worried she would get picked up by U.S. customs agents if they attracted too much attention at the airport. So Marco withheld his proposal, but he moved in with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When his visa is about to expire, I said to him, ‘So what’s your plan? You can go back.’ ” Tess said. “He said, ‘No, I’m not going to leave you anymore with these things happening to you. We’re going to live here.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess is now a caregiver for employers that she says treat her well and give her fair pay. Marco is a maintenance worker and usually the house chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2pbzTxX7TULwqIjsDVdgOapotRq3txhJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Tess share a laugh. But the risk is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about an immigration raid in Los Angeles targeting undocumented Filipinos, Tess and Marco attend a “Know Your Rights” workshop. In a crowded room, undocumented Filipino immigrants watch as volunteers act out what to do if ICE comes knocking: Don’t sign anything, don’t give agents permission to search you or your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the workshop, Tess leads the group in a Tagalog song about the struggles of the immigrant experience: “\u003cem>Ang buhay ng migrante isang mahabang laban\u003c/em>,” or “The life of an immigrant is one long fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429836 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess looks around the room. Though most people are in good spirits, there are many scared and anxious faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an old saying in Tagalog: “\u003cem>Bahala na\u003c/em>.” It means “come what may” or “whatever happens, happens.” It’s how Tess and Marco look at their situation. Fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America, they say, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have established a good life here in America. We built our dream after 37 years,” Tess says. “But if I’ll be deported, I’ll fight for my rights. Until the last breath. I’ll fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will fight,” Marco says. “Fight, fight, fight.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess didn’t know about Marco’s feelings partly because he was planning to be a priest. His Catholic family and everyone at school knew it. So even though they cared for each other, Tess and Marco stayed “buddy-buddy” in high school, and then parted ways after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when priesthood didn’t work out, Marco always kept Tess in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four times I dream of her,” Marco remembers. “1989, 1992, ’98, and 2002.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2012, 37 years after graduation, they finally reconnected. Their romance rekindled when Marco began searching for Tess on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Marco got the idea to search for his high school class. “Ping! Voila,” he grins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hi. Remember me?’ That’s what he said.” Tess recalls. He sent her a few more messages after that: “‘I’m adding you as a friend. You’re not accepting yet.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Tess a few days to confirm this was the Marco she knew from high school decades ago. So much time had passed and she wanted to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got Marco’s message, Tess was in Los Angeles working as a caregiver and domestic worker for the sick and elderly. Marco was in Saudi Arabia, managing a printing press for an Arabic newspaper. Though they were 8,000 miles apart, they began messaging each other or having online video chats almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marco sifts through their old Facebook messages and reads them aloud. “I told her, ‘Take care always and bear in mind always that I love you very much.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt like we’re in high school again,” says Tess. “But it was so corny. So corny because we’re already old!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco translates another message and laughs. “I told her, ‘You look old!’ She told me, ‘What do you expect? \u003cem>Sa hirap ng pinagdaanan ko\u003c/em>?’ (After the difficulties I’ve been through?)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess’s life was troubled after high school. Before coming to America, she was married to an abusive husband in Manila. Tess says he was possessive, hit her and was emotionally abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her husband left his job and gambled away their savings, Tess was forced to look for overseas caregiver jobs to support their kids and make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these jobs were in the U.S., where she was forced to work long hours. Tess recalls a harrowing experience in which one employer refused to feed her, and she was forced to eat dog food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11429835 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess rarely saw the money she was paid for these jobs. It wasn’t until much later that she realized she’d been a victim of labor trafficking. When she finally escaped her last abusive employer, she followed one of her daughters, who had moved to Los Angeles. It wasn’t an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked job after job,” Tess recalls. “I was homeless that time, trying to establish myself alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess got a divorce and wanted to restart her life. Marco was in a similar rut. He grew tired of living so far from friends and family in Saudi Arabia. That’s when he sent Tess that fateful friend request. And after months of chatting, he saved up some money to visit her in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess remembers the moment she saw Marco at the airport, the first time she laid eyes on him after 37 years. “I said, ‘This is for real? Wow, he’s still cute!’ ” She beats her chest and voices the sound of a fast-beating heart: “Boog-boog! Boog-boog!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just meet at the middle and then I kiss her,” Marco recalls, smacking his lips together. “Muah! Only in cheek. I whisper her, ‘I’m going to kneel and then propose with you to marry me.’ And then she told me, ‘No, no! 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Though most people are in good spirits, there are many scared and anxious faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an old saying in Tagalog: “\u003cem>Bahala na\u003c/em>.” It means “come what may” or “whatever happens, happens.” It’s how Tess and Marco look at their situation. Fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America, they say, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have established a good life here in America. We built our dream after 37 years,” Tess says. “But if I’ll be deported, I’ll fight for my rights. Until the last breath. I’ll fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Looking back at the 1992 Los Angeles riots, people often remember tensions between African-Americans, white law enforcement officers and Korean small-business owners. That story gets even more complicated when you step into Pico-Union — a neighborhood that was, and still is, predominantly Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Rodney King verdict, riots broke out around the city. The first day, they erupted in South Central; by the second, they had spread north to Pico-Union. And while people all over the city had to deal with looting, fires and general chaos, many residents of Pico Union had to deal with an additional fear — the threat of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Lfts020aCRBQQPItCHFHG6sHK0BAyGmz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Hernandez was the neighborhood's city councilman in 1992. He said that in the 25 years since the riots, Pico-Union hasn't changed that much. The area is still more than 80 percent Latino, with lots of immigrant families from Mexico and Central America. And, in 1992, a majority of Pico-Union constituents were living below the poverty line in crowded conditions. Hernandez said he knew long before the riots started that Pico-Union was just as combustible as South Central L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had twice the density here of Manhattan,\" Hernandez said. \"And our fire station here, Fire Station 11, was the busiest fire station in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the midst of the burning and looting, Hernandez said the few law enforcement officers who made it to Pico-Union were not protecting and serving. He partially blamed it on the fact that in the early 1990s, \"Latino\" was often synonymous with \"illegal\" in California. In a 1992 interview, he told NPR that his request for reinforcement during the unrest didn't get him the results he wanted. \"The response to me when I said I needed the National Guard to protect the people of the area and I needed to protect the businesses and protect the homes, they gave me the Border Patrol. It was totally an insult,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/pico-union-img_2240_custom-bd719b7fd8a74479207699263dadd75c74b67218-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former City Councilman Mike Hernandez visits the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles 25 years after the riots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former City Councilman Mike Hernandez visits the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles 25 years after the riots. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez doesn't deny that people in Pico-Union were among the looters, but he said he saw people taking basics, like food and diapers. The vast majority of his constituents were scared out of their minds and hiding in their homes. The rioting and chaos, he said, triggered past trauma for many of the Central American immigrants who had fled civil war. And the presence of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which included the Border Patrol back then, seemed to be fueling that fear — with good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WOK5TDFsZXVkbT3fxGLptGo4tOk1Qi3o\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents gathered during the Webster Commission, the FBI's months-long investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's response to the riots, included \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-20/local/me-325_1_police-commission\">declarations\u003c/a> from Pico-Union residents. Many of them were arrested by the LAPD for illegally residing in the U.S. and turned over to the INS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the L.A. riots, Madeline Janis ran a Pico-Union based non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/press\">CARECEN\u003c/a> (Central American Resource Center), which is still in the neighborhood and provides multiple services to immigrants. In the aftermath of the unrest, Janis, an attorney, helped a couple of dozen people facing deportation — people like Martha Campos, a Salvadoran woman arrested by the LAPD at 3 in the afternoon on April 30, 1992, while drinking a fruit juice in front of a convenience store. At the time, Campos was 18 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An officer demanded to know my name, if I had any immigration papers and what country I was from,\" Campos said in her declaration, taken after two weeks in immigration detention at Terminal Island in San Pedro. She added that the LAPD questioned her about her immigration status. \"I responded that I had no papers and I told him what country I was from...I was then taken to a police station with many other people. Immigration arrived in several vans and took me and many other people away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said that in detention she slept on narrow concrete benches, was fed dry meat and old bread, and not allowed to bathe. She was seven months pregnant. Campos said that she was afraid that the treatment she endured while in INS custody could cause serious harm to her or her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BNY2Cxfg8jEPv685CcquZWSfVrB1kPU8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madeline Janis said she's almost positive she was able to get Campos a hearing in immigration court, even though the 18-year old signed a voluntary departure document the day of her arrest. (NPR tried to find Campos and other detainees who gave declarations, but was unable to locate anyone 25 years after the incident.) Janis said the entire ordeal was so upsetting that it was hard for her to recall the events after our initial interview request. \"This was so awful, I think I blocked it out of my memory. I think it's because people suffered so much that I really ... just blocked it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"The Pathfinder bookstore on Pico Blvd. burns in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pathfinder bookstore on Pico Boulevard burns in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happened to Martha Campos shouldn't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a rule called Special Order 40, which has been around since the late '70s, the Los Angeles Police Department wasn't, and still isn't, allowed to \"initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person.\" They can involve immigration enforcement only when an unauthorized person has been arrested for serious misdemeanors or a felony. Among the Webster Commission documents archived in 40 cardboard boxes at the USC library, there were Immigration and Naturalization Service documents that show 86 percent of more than 1,200 undocumented \"riot aliens\" they received from the L.A. County Jail, the LAPD and other law enforcement were deported. Those documents cover only May 1 to May 4, 1992 (the unrest began on April 29th); and they do not specify what crimes those detained and deported were charged with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Moschorak was the district director of the INS in Los Angeles during the unrest. He remembers the riots differently than people like Hernandez and Janis. Moschorak, who has been retired for 23 years, said the riots were an all-hands-on-deck situation, and he sent in agents to help as requested, sometimes to just interpret for LAPD officers. As for Special Order 40, he told me he wasn't aware of it then, and doesn't agree with the policy now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's ridiculous,\" Moschorak said. \"You know, many people don't realize that illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor in and of itself, a violation of 8USC1325 and re-entry is a felony. How long are we going to accept that in our society?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-643900306_custom-1426e7db8bf989029bc727dfeb6621bedab99b9e-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a town hall on the Affordable Care Act in Los Angeles on Feb. 22. Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in the city's immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a town hall on the Affordable Care Act in Los Angeles on Feb. 22. Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in the city's immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not everyone shares Moschorak's contempt for the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Beck, the current LAPD chief, said he has accepted that there are a couple of hundred thousand immigrants living in Los Angeles who don't have legal status. \"And I got to be their police chief, too,\" Beck said. \"I'm not just a police chief to property owners. I'm not just a police chief to business owners. We're in charge of everybody's safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Beck has been at the LAPD as long as Special Order 40 has been around, and said he can't recall a time it wasn't followed, even after learning about the Webster Commission documents that show otherwise. Regardless, Beck said it has long been crucial that the LAPD isn't thought of as immigration enforcement, because it erodes trust and immigrants stop reporting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti expanded Special Order 40 to include firefighters, port and airport police. At the event where Garcetti signed the executive directive, Beck told the audience that crime reporting has dropped significantly in Latino communities this year over fear that interacting with local law enforcement may lead to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/525188083/525188084\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights activists in 1992, and a new generation of activists today, don't think the order goes far enough to protect L.A.'s immigrants — no matter how it's implemented. Many in California's immigrant rights movement are calling for zero cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement. (And a bill under consideration in the state Legislature may decide that issue statewide.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in L.A.'s immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. \"So to make our city safer, we're focused on keeping those bridges from being burned down right now,\" Garcetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 years ago, when Los Angeles was burning, Special Order 40 appears to have been an afterthought amid the chaos. Garcetti said that this new generation of police officers understand the need for Special Order 40 from both moral and practical terms. Garcetti said that it's one thing to have a policy on the books, \"but it's another thing to make sure that it's enforced, and enforced by \u003cem>everybody\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor added that we continue to learn lessons from the L.A. riots 25 years later. \"We're not perfect, but in this imperfect paradise that we call Los Angeles, I think we're better and more resilient because of what we went through in 1992.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Parker Yesko of the National Desk and Leah Donnella of Code Switch contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=As+Los+Angeles+Burned%2C+The+Border+Patrol+Swooped+In&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Looking back at the 1992 Los Angeles riots, people often remember tensions between African-Americans, white law enforcement officers and Korean small-business owners. That story gets even more complicated when you step into Pico-Union — a neighborhood that was, and still is, predominantly Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Rodney King verdict, riots broke out around the city. The first day, they erupted in South Central; by the second, they had spread north to Pico-Union. And while people all over the city had to deal with looting, fires and general chaos, many residents of Pico Union had to deal with an additional fear — the threat of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Hernandez was the neighborhood's city councilman in 1992. He said that in the 25 years since the riots, Pico-Union hasn't changed that much. The area is still more than 80 percent Latino, with lots of immigrant families from Mexico and Central America. And, in 1992, a majority of Pico-Union constituents were living below the poverty line in crowded conditions. Hernandez said he knew long before the riots started that Pico-Union was just as combustible as South Central L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had twice the density here of Manhattan,\" Hernandez said. \"And our fire station here, Fire Station 11, was the busiest fire station in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the midst of the burning and looting, Hernandez said the few law enforcement officers who made it to Pico-Union were not protecting and serving. He partially blamed it on the fact that in the early 1990s, \"Latino\" was often synonymous with \"illegal\" in California. In a 1992 interview, he told NPR that his request for reinforcement during the unrest didn't get him the results he wanted. \"The response to me when I said I needed the National Guard to protect the people of the area and I needed to protect the businesses and protect the homes, they gave me the Border Patrol. It was totally an insult,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430116\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430116\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/pico-union-img_2240_custom-bd719b7fd8a74479207699263dadd75c74b67218-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former City Councilman Mike Hernandez visits the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles 25 years after the riots.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former City Councilman Mike Hernandez visits the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles 25 years after the riots. \u003ccite>(Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hernandez doesn't deny that people in Pico-Union were among the looters, but he said he saw people taking basics, like food and diapers. The vast majority of his constituents were scared out of their minds and hiding in their homes. The rioting and chaos, he said, triggered past trauma for many of the Central American immigrants who had fled civil war. And the presence of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which included the Border Patrol back then, seemed to be fueling that fear — with good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents gathered during the Webster Commission, the FBI's months-long investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's response to the riots, included \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-20/local/me-325_1_police-commission\">declarations\u003c/a> from Pico-Union residents. Many of them were arrested by the LAPD for illegally residing in the U.S. and turned over to the INS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the L.A. riots, Madeline Janis ran a Pico-Union based non-profit called \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/press\">CARECEN\u003c/a> (Central American Resource Center), which is still in the neighborhood and provides multiple services to immigrants. In the aftermath of the unrest, Janis, an attorney, helped a couple of dozen people facing deportation — people like Martha Campos, a Salvadoran woman arrested by the LAPD at 3 in the afternoon on April 30, 1992, while drinking a fruit juice in front of a convenience store. At the time, Campos was 18 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An officer demanded to know my name, if I had any immigration papers and what country I was from,\" Campos said in her declaration, taken after two weeks in immigration detention at Terminal Island in San Pedro. She added that the LAPD questioned her about her immigration status. \"I responded that I had no papers and I told him what country I was from...I was then taken to a police station with many other people. Immigration arrived in several vans and took me and many other people away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said that in detention she slept on narrow concrete benches, was fed dry meat and old bread, and not allowed to bathe. She was seven months pregnant. Campos said that she was afraid that the treatment she endured while in INS custody could cause serious harm to her or her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madeline Janis said she's almost positive she was able to get Campos a hearing in immigration court, even though the 18-year old signed a voluntary departure document the day of her arrest. (NPR tried to find Campos and other detainees who gave declarations, but was unable to locate anyone 25 years after the incident.) Janis said the entire ordeal was so upsetting that it was hard for her to recall the events after our initial interview request. \"This was so awful, I think I blocked it out of my memory. I think it's because people suffered so much that I really ... just blocked it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"The Pathfinder bookstore on Pico Blvd. burns in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-539923592-edit_custom-c2c02f9731fbecf0095d6fbc402bf336261ed529-s800-c85-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pathfinder bookstore on Pico Boulevard burns in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles during the riots in 1992. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What happened to Martha Campos shouldn't have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a rule called Special Order 40, which has been around since the late '70s, the Los Angeles Police Department wasn't, and still isn't, allowed to \"initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person.\" They can involve immigration enforcement only when an unauthorized person has been arrested for serious misdemeanors or a felony. Among the Webster Commission documents archived in 40 cardboard boxes at the USC library, there were Immigration and Naturalization Service documents that show 86 percent of more than 1,200 undocumented \"riot aliens\" they received from the L.A. County Jail, the LAPD and other law enforcement were deported. Those documents cover only May 1 to May 4, 1992 (the unrest began on April 29th); and they do not specify what crimes those detained and deported were charged with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Moschorak was the district director of the INS in Los Angeles during the unrest. He remembers the riots differently than people like Hernandez and Janis. Moschorak, who has been retired for 23 years, said the riots were an all-hands-on-deck situation, and he sent in agents to help as requested, sometimes to just interpret for LAPD officers. As for Special Order 40, he told me he wasn't aware of it then, and doesn't agree with the policy now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's ridiculous,\" Moschorak said. \"You know, many people don't realize that illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor in and of itself, a violation of 8USC1325 and re-entry is a felony. How long are we going to accept that in our society?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11430117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11430117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/gettyimages-643900306_custom-1426e7db8bf989029bc727dfeb6621bedab99b9e-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a town hall on the Affordable Care Act in Los Angeles on Feb. 22. Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in the city's immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a town hall on the Affordable Care Act in Los Angeles on Feb. 22. Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in the city's immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not everyone shares Moschorak's contempt for the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie Beck, the current LAPD chief, said he has accepted that there are a couple of hundred thousand immigrants living in Los Angeles who don't have legal status. \"And I got to be their police chief, too,\" Beck said. \"I'm not just a police chief to property owners. I'm not just a police chief to business owners. We're in charge of everybody's safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Beck has been at the LAPD as long as Special Order 40 has been around, and said he can't recall a time it wasn't followed, even after learning about the Webster Commission documents that show otherwise. Regardless, Beck said it has long been crucial that the LAPD isn't thought of as immigration enforcement, because it erodes trust and immigrants stop reporting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last month, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti expanded Special Order 40 to include firefighters, port and airport police. At the event where Garcetti signed the executive directive, Beck told the audience that crime reporting has dropped significantly in Latino communities this year over fear that interacting with local law enforcement may lead to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/525188083/525188084\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights activists in 1992, and a new generation of activists today, don't think the order goes far enough to protect L.A.'s immigrants — no matter how it's implemented. Many in California's immigrant rights movement are calling for zero cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement. (And a bill under consideration in the state Legislature may decide that issue statewide.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcetti said he's trying to quell fears stoked in L.A.'s immigrant communities by President Trump's calls for more cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. \"So to make our city safer, we're focused on keeping those bridges from being burned down right now,\" Garcetti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 25 years ago, when Los Angeles was burning, Special Order 40 appears to have been an afterthought amid the chaos. Garcetti said that this new generation of police officers understand the need for Special Order 40 from both moral and practical terms. Garcetti said that it's one thing to have a policy on the books, \"but it's another thing to make sure that it's enforced, and enforced by \u003cem>everybody\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor added that we continue to learn lessons from the L.A. riots 25 years later. \"We're not perfect, but in this imperfect paradise that we call Los Angeles, I think we're better and more resilient because of what we went through in 1992.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The agency has identified more detention beds for immigrants in the country illegally, set aside money to start designing the border wall and sped up the hiring of thousands of federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"bKKksVIBhsq4UYtlHwnp5wrxGJnRGpYc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's an effort now to deter, to terrify,\" says Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies, a think tank in New York devoted to protecting the rights of migrants. Kerwin says even Trump's own rhetoric is aimed at deterring immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What they're trying to do are very splashy, draconian enforcement efforts that are really meant to tell people: nobody is safe, and nobody should come that's not documented,\" Kerwin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[RefugeeAdmissions]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message may be getting through. Apprehensions at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\">southern border fell dramatically\u003c/a> from more than 40,000 per month late last year to 18,754 in February, and just 12,193 in March. The administration is going out of its way to highlight those numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last month was the lowest month for immigration illegally into our country in 17 years,\" said Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a news conference in El Paso, Texas, last week. \"That is a remarkable thing to accomplish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from the border, arrests by immigration agents were up by about a third during the first three months of the year, to 21,362, compared with 16,104 during the same period in 2016, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/documents/2017/apr/detainers_arrests.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">data provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>. The data also show that federal agents are arresting more unauthorized immigrants who don't have criminal records: 5,441 during the first few months of the year, compared with 2,278 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells NPR that the agency has been able to \"open the aperture\" on the types of immigrants it can target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/525584236/525833294\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reactions across the country reflect a divided America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing mothers and fathers torn away from their families, many with no criminal histories at all, or with just minor past convictions,\" says Tom Jawetz, a vice president at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Hvidston sees it differently. She's the director of We the People Rising, an organization in California that advocates tougher enforcement. \"I have not heard a presidential candidate in my lifetime address this topic,\" Hvidston says. \"And I think he does want to take action against more criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d9XrXgxS2wMNQ7pXOsa9tcPJvsDGPbfT\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have twice blocked Trump's effort to suspend the U.S. refugee program. In the meantime, the administration has simply stopped accepting as many refugees. 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"content": "\u003cp>Labor and immigrant advocates are planning to mark May Day on Monday with walkouts and protests opposing the Trump administration's immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday, also called International Workers' Day, has become a day for action on behalf of undocumented workers in recent years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Labor and immigrant advocates are planning to mark May Day on Monday with walkouts and protests opposing the Trump administration's immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The holiday, also called International Workers' Day, has become a day for action on behalf of undocumented workers in recent years. In San Francisco, participants will march from Justin Herman Plaza to the Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87 and the May 1st Coalition of San Francisco held a press conference Monday announcing their planned actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their coalition will lead a walkout to highlight the rights of immigrant workers, called \"Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes.\" In a press release, they demanded \"immediate comprehensive immigration reform,\" and called for an end to ICE raids and deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425330 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra, who declined to give her last name, is a member of traditional dance troupe Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. They performed before a press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017 that was organized by members of the May 1st Coalition, who were announcing their participation in the upcoming May Day protest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25032_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra, who declined to give her last name, is a member of traditional dance troupe Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. They performed before the May 1st Coalition's press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Olga Miranda, president of SEIU Local 87, invited local residents to join the demonstrations, but asked for calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ask everybody to wear white. We want to make sure that it's a day of peace and nonviolence in our respective communities,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Miranda said she hopes immigrants will be joined by U.S. citizens who support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stand up for the people who don't have their papers in order, but that have children that are waiting to become somebody great,\" she said, adding that immigrants \"are contributing to this country. They are not taking anybody’s jobs. In fact they are doing the jobs that nobody wants to do but everybody wants to be served on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11425334 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Estrella, a member of SEIU Local 87, held a banner during a press conference in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. He appeared with members of the May 1st Coalition, who were announcing their participation in the upcoming May Day protest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS25030_20170424_May1presser_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Estrella, a member of SEIU Local 87, held a banner that said \"Off your laptops & onto the streets\" in front of San Francisco City Hall on April 24, 2017. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miranda also believes that the Trump administration is creating an atmosphere of hatred, and it is important for citizens to come out in solidarity. She hopes the May Day march will be an opportunity for immigrants and their families to unify: \"We are trying to demonstrate that we will not be pushed into fear, and that we are standing together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations and work stoppages are also planned in Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Concord.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Yibi\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png\" alt=\"50_Yibi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saber\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png\" alt=\"50_Saber\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roya\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png\" alt=\"50_Roya\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Daniel\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png\" alt=\"50_Daniel\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Anonymous\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png\" alt=\"50_Anonymous\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Nicole\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png\" alt=\"50_Nicole\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enrique\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png\" alt=\"50_Enrique\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Janet\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png\" alt=\"50_Janet\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Olivia\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png\" alt=\"50_Olivia\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Erika\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png\" alt=\"50_Erika\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Judy\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png\" alt=\"50_Judy\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sara\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png\" alt=\"50_Sara\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saradha\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png\" alt=\"50_Saradha\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sergio\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png\" alt=\"50_Sergio\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Max\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png\" alt=\"50_Max\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"50_Elizabeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We reached out to as many of the people who'd completed the form as we could (some asked not to be contacted, some did not reply and some stories were so similar that we decided not to duplicate them), and took portraits of some of those who could meet up with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fun note to share: A human geography teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco offered extra credit to his students who completed our form (and 24 of them did). We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24993_TCR-Mag-Immigration-Banner-qut-1920x628.jpg\" Title=\"Living in Limbo: California Immigrant Stories in Trump's America\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. I believe that this type of profiling is a fundamental violation of my rights as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Salceda, Firebaugh\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salceda with her niece, Sophia Marie Salceda, in Chowchilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angelica Salceda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Angelica\">\u003c/a>Angelica Salceda, child of immigrants, Firebaugh (Fresno County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mom came on a travel visa in the 1980s and extended her stay. She later become a LPR (lawful permanent resident). But many other family members came here undocumented and continue to lack status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For undocumented and LPR family members, I fear that any encounter with law enforcement may result in grave immigration consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interviews were edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Sasha Khokha, Ryan Levi, Vanessa Rancano and Julie Small contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This story has been corrected to reflect the number of green cards is 140,000, not 150,000 as previously reported.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Want to share your immigration story? Complete our form:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ImmigrationForm]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When President Trump's first immigration order temporarily went into effect on Jan. 27, and we began to see its impact at airports and hear stories about how it was touching many people's lives nationwide, we decided to try to capture some of those tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We created a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/kqed-wants-your-immigration-stories/\">form\u003c/a>, asking people to share their immigration stories, and people did — 56 of them. They mostly weren't stories about the impact of the travel ban. Rather, they were stories that reflect the rich diversity California is known for. They were stories of people whose families had immigrated a generation prior from the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, India and more. They were tales of people whose parents settled in the U.S. because of conflict in their home country, such as in Iran and El Salvador. They were stories of undocumented youth, known as Dreamers, who had signed up for former President Obama's DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program — and in one case, a young man who didn't, because he didn't want to be a \"sitting duck\" if Obama's successor didn't keep the program. And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Yibi\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png\" alt=\"50_Yibi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saber\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png\" alt=\"50_Saber\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roya\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png\" alt=\"50_Roya\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Daniel\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png\" alt=\"50_Daniel\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Anonymous\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png\" alt=\"50_Anonymous\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Nicole\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png\" alt=\"50_Nicole\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enrique\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png\" alt=\"50_Enrique\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Janet\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png\" alt=\"50_Janet\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Olivia\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png\" alt=\"50_Olivia\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Erika\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png\" alt=\"50_Erika\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Judy\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png\" alt=\"50_Judy\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sara\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png\" alt=\"50_Sara\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saradha\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png\" alt=\"50_Saradha\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sergio\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png\" alt=\"50_Sergio\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Max\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png\" alt=\"50_Max\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"50_Elizabeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We reached out to as many of the people who'd completed the form as we could (some asked not to be contacted, some did not reply and some stories were so similar that we decided not to duplicate them), and took portraits of some of those who could meet up with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fun note to share: A human geography teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco offered extra credit to his students who completed our form (and 24 of them did). We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. I believe that this type of profiling is a fundamental violation of my rights as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Salceda, Firebaugh\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salceda with her niece, Sophia Marie Salceda, in Chowchilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angelica Salceda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Angelica\">\u003c/a>Angelica Salceda, child of immigrants, Firebaugh (Fresno County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mom came on a travel visa in the 1980s and extended her stay. She later become a LPR (lawful permanent resident). But many other family members came here undocumented and continue to lack status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For undocumented and LPR family members, I fear that any encounter with law enforcement may result in grave immigration consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interviews were edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Sasha Khokha, Ryan Levi, Vanessa Rancano and Julie Small contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This story has been corrected to reflect the number of green cards is 140,000, not 150,000 as previously reported.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Want to share your immigration story? Complete our form:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump's surprising rise to the White House was fueled in large part by his hard-line stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He promised to end protections for children brought to the United States illegally, build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and increase immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months into his presidency, Trump has followed through on these plans to varying degrees, leaving millions of immigrants in California and across the country still trying to figure out what his policies will mean for them and their loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 21, \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em> produced a special edition highlighting the stories of four Californians whose lives are stuck in limbo as they wait to see what the future holds for them and their families in Trump's America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the full special:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24993_TCR-Mag-Immigration-Banner-qut-1920x628.jpg\" Title=\"Living in Limbo: California Immigrant Stories in Trump's America\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came from Yemen, Guatemala, Macau and Mexico. Two came with visas; two came without. Their stories and lives are different, but they're all in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Maguiber\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber was detained by ICE on Febuary 9. His wife, Yiby, is unemployed and now watches their three children by herself. Their 8-year-old, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner's detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber was detained by ICE on Febuary 9. His wife, Yibi, is unemployed and now watches their three children by herself. Their 8-year-old, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner's detention is causing. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">Maguiber\u003c/a> (asked not to use last name while deportation case is pending)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Country: \u003c/strong>Guatemala\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>2008\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>unknown\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">Detained in West County Detention Facility\u003c/a> in Richmond, awaiting deportation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'We’re optimistic that everything comes out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, Magubier's wife on her husband's pending deportation case\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Maher\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher stands in front of a pile of recycling at the Berkeley Ecology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher stands in front of a pile of recycling at the Berkeley Ecology Center, where he directs the fleet and mentors at-risk youth. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Maher\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Macau (former Portuguese colony, now Chinese autonomous territory)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Hayward\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1977\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>With green card, accompanied by parents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Deportable because of a past crime, but China won't accept U.S. deportees\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'Does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term, or can we change it for the better; give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, on deportation fears 16 years after getting out of prison\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11396793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11396793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia looks at pictures of dogs on Instagram to help her de-stress and keep her mind off of the news surrounding immigration policy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia looks at pictures of dogs on Instagram to help her relieve stress and keep her mind off of the news surrounding immigration policy. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia\u003c/a> (asked not to use real name out of fear of deportation)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Mexico\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home:\u003c/strong> San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year immigrated: \u003c/strong>1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>Crossed U.S.-Mexico border at age 10 without documentation\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Uncertainty surrounding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and whether her marriage will allow her to adjust her status\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'There's so much uncertainty, and it just makes you feel so helpless that you just have to sit back and wait. It's not a nice way to live. There isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.'\u003ccite>Olivia, DACA recipient\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\" target=\"_blank\">Moe\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar, better known as "Moe," stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. He is a U.S. citizen, and he's struggling to bring his family to the United States from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar, better known as \"Moe,\" stands outside his apartment in East Porterville in the Central Valley. He is a U.S. citizen, and he's struggling to bring his family to the United States from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\" target=\"_blank\">Saber Askar (\"Moe\")\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Country: \u003c/strong>Yemen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>East Porterville\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1988\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>As a lawful permanent resident through an application by his U.S. citizen father\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Trying to bring his family over from war-torn Yemen\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came from Yemen, Guatemala, Macau and Mexico. Two came with visas; two came without. Their stories and lives are different, but they're all in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Maguiber\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418398 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber was detained by ICE on Febuary 9. His wife, Yiby, is unemployed and now watches their three children by herself. Their 8-year-old, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner's detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Maguiber-and-Family-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber was detained by ICE on Febuary 9. His wife, Yibi, is unemployed and now watches their three children by herself. Their 8-year-old, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner's detention is causing. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">Maguiber\u003c/a> (asked not to use last name while deportation case is pending)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Country: \u003c/strong>Guatemala\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>2008\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>unknown\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">Detained in West County Detention Facility\u003c/a> in Richmond, awaiting deportation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'We’re optimistic that everything comes out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, Magubier's wife on her husband's pending deportation case\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Maher\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher stands in front of a pile of recycling at the Berkeley Ecology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Daniel-Maher-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher stands in front of a pile of recycling at the Berkeley Ecology Center, where he directs the fleet and mentors at-risk youth. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Maher\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Macau (former Portuguese colony, now Chinese autonomous territory)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Hayward\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1977\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>With green card, accompanied by parents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Deportable because of a past crime, but China won't accept U.S. deportees\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'Does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term, or can we change it for the better; give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, on deportation fears 16 years after getting out of prison\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11396793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11396793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia looks at pictures of dogs on Instagram to help her de-stress and keep her mind off of the news surrounding immigration policy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia-Hands-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia looks at pictures of dogs on Instagram to help her relieve stress and keep her mind off of the news surrounding immigration policy. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia\u003c/a> (asked not to use real name out of fear of deportation)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Mexico\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home:\u003c/strong> San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year immigrated: \u003c/strong>1999\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>Crossed U.S.-Mexico border at age 10 without documentation\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Uncertainty surrounding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and whether her marriage will allow her to adjust her status\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'There's so much uncertainty, and it just makes you feel so helpless that you just have to sit back and wait. It's not a nice way to live. There isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.'\u003ccite>Olivia, DACA recipient\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\" target=\"_blank\">Moe\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar, better known as "Moe," stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. He is a U.S. citizen, and he's struggling to bring his family to the United States from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar, better known as \"Moe,\" stands outside his apartment in East Porterville in the Central Valley. He is a U.S. citizen, and he's struggling to bring his family to the United States from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\" target=\"_blank\">Saber Askar (\"Moe\")\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Country: \u003c/strong>Yemen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>East Porterville\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1988\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How entered country: \u003c/strong>As a lawful permanent resident through an application by his U.S. citizen father\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reason for limbo: \u003c/strong>Trying to bring his family over from war-torn Yemen\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">'They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they [won't] answer anymore.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Moe, on trying to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 30, 2018, 5:13 p.m:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown announced today that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Daniel Maher and 55 other people. Maher served five years in prison for armed robbery and attempted kidnapping when he was 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conviction cost Maher, who moved to the United States legally from Macau when he was three, his green card and made him deportable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Maher has “lived an honest and upright life” since his release from custody 18 years ago and deserved \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2018/03/30/governor-brown-grants-executive-clemency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive clemency\u003c/a>. With the pardon, Maher can now ask an immigration judge to toss out his deportation order because the pardon removes the grounds for that immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great surprise. I just can’t believe it,” said Maher, 44. “This actually opens up a lot of doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various immigration attorneys agreed the governor’s executive clemency can significantly help Maher regain his legal permanent resident status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You really get a sense of how many plastic bottles Americans use -- even in an eco-friendly city like Berkeley -- when you hang out at an open-air recycling facility like the\u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/\"> Ecology Center. \u003c/a>Trucks pull in every few minutes, dumping loads of plastic onto an enormous pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a big push, to collect all the plastics,” says Daniel Maher, who supervises the fleet of trucks that pick up Berkeley’s curbside recycling. “Yeah, we can collect everything. But what’s going to be done with it? Is it going to turn into fuel for somebody’s cook fire? Is it going to be something that’s filling up the river?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says most of the plastic ends up getting sent to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s kind of ironic, since Maher is doing his best not to get shipped to China himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s technically on a list of deportees, because of a crime he committed more than two decades ago. And he’s worried that with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://templates.legal/13768-executive-order/\">push to deport immigrants with criminal records\u003c/a>, he could get picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher is originally from Macau, a former Portuguese colony that became part of China long after he left. He and his parents came to California when he was three to join his grandparents, who had a flower farm in Union City. They moved around: San Francisco, San Jose. As a teenager, he fell in with the wrong crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were, you know, looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education,” says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21b-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS24990_20170420_DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1920x1280.jpg\" Title=\"Should a Mistake Made Long Ago Doom This Immigrant’s Future?\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those same friends started to turn their energies in another direction after they graduated from high school. They came up with a plan to rob drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what made it easier for me to go along with it was the fact that we were actually going after drug dealers. People that were preying on others,\" he says. \"So that was our way of rationalizing what we did. Clearly that didn't work out very well for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 21, Maher was charged with a felony, convicted of armed robbery, attempted kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was totally out of character,” he says. “It was a real jumbled, bad time. I totally regretted it afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's another big regret: Since he came to the U.S. with a green card, he could have applied for his U.S. citizenship when he turned 18. But he was too distracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After serving five years in prison (he was released early for good behavior), he was put in immigration custody. It came as a shock. Daniel thought of himself as American. But to the U.S. government, he was a violent immigrant felon. That meant they could take away his green card and deport him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418414 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS24987_20170420_DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s where it gets complicated. Years after Daniel’s family immigrated, Macau became part of China. So the plan was to deport him to China -- even though he doesn’t identify as Chinese culturally. Nor does he speak the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But China doesn’t have an agreement to accept deportees from the U.S. So after a year and a half in a detention center, Daniel was released in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t have a green card anymore. But as long as he agreed to keep checking in with immigration officials and staying out of trouble, he could get a temporary work permit. He learned web design, then found a job at a recycling center. His life really turned around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the 43-year-old Daniel I meet, the one with the close-cropped hair and the easy giggle, doesn’t seem like the same guy. Daniel tells me I wouldn’t even recognize his 21-year-old self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to walk around with a scowl,” he laughs. “Not anymore. I can't even picture that life anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Redemption Through Recycling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Daniel has won accolades from his peers for his work with at-risk youth interested in green-collar jobs. He's become a manager in charge of the fleet, the go-to guy for computer fixes and managing the routes for recycling drivers. For years, his prison term and his potential deportation felt like a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until one day in 2015, when ICE came looking for him at work. His name was on a list of Chinese nationals, including some corrupt government officials China was hoping to extradite under an agreement with the U.S. government. This was 15 years after he was released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was the last thing on my mind,\" says Maher. \"I didn't have any reason to believe that something in the past would come back to haunt me like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says ICE put him in a holding cell, without food or water for 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they transferred him to a private detention center in Southern California. His co-workers and his parents had no idea where he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to be deported, I’d at least like my family to be prepared,” says Maher. “But I was unable to make any phone calls out for about a week and a half.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, Maher says, immigration detention was different from when he was held 15 years ago in a center run by the U.S. government. This time, he was in a private facility that felt more like a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s where a lot of my troubles began. It took a month for me to get [medication] I was supposed to take daily. You know, if you’re really in that system, it's really the twilight zone,” recalls Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bundles of recycled material at the Ecology Center in Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bundles of recycled material at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Chinese government officials came to interview him, he couldn’t communicate with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they pretty much shook their heads,” says Maher. “'What are we going to do with this guy? He doesn’t speak the language. He's definitely not one of the corrupt government officials we're looking for.' So it's like, 'Why are we having this conversation?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a lot of\u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/blog/immigrants-are-notdisposable-rally-81215-to-demand-release-of-daniel-maher-ecology-center-recycling-director/\"> advocacy from his co-workers\u003c/a> at the Ecology Center, his lawyers and even some elected officials, Daniel was released from immigration custody after three months. But he’s still in limbo. ICE knows he’s here. They just don’t know what to do with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Starting a Family Life After Years On Hold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than 15 years, Daniel was unsure when or if he’d be deported. By the time he reached his early 40s, he finally felt free to give himself permission to live his life, to get into a relationship. A few weeks before he was picked up by ICE in 2015, he had just started dating a woman named Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’d actually just started to let go,\" says Maher. \"It just came at that time where I said, 'You know, if I keep waiting I'll never have a chance at a family or in any kind of happiness.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Daniel plans to get married to Katrina, and become a stepdad to 7-year-old Kyle. He attends Kyle's Cub Scout meetings, trying to impart some of the lessons about honesty and good moral character he says he’s learned over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina says Daniel has been a big part of their happiness. Until she met him, she raised Kyle as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I asked him, ‘What do you want for your present on your birthday?’ He's like, ‘I want a dad.’ And I said, ‘Where are we going to get a dad?' He’s like, 'Toys R Us.' He’s always wanted a dad. So Daniel’s kind of like the cherry on top of our lives,” she smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WPmcnxSYGGTpNyoWL9HSDTj85xMTl9rN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as they start their new life together, Daniel is on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still technically on a list of deportees and could be detained again at any time. Even though there’s no place to send him. But what if things change? President Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> authorizing the secretary of Homeland Security and the secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/like-obama-before-him-trump-is-freeing-foreign-born-criminals/2017/04/06/d9776a3c-149c-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.6f739b9b9309\">sanction countries\u003c/a> that refuse to take deportees from the U.S., which could potentially change China's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on my mind all the time,\" sighs Daniel. “Every time I sleep at night it's like, you know, I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says he always has money in his pocket, so he can buy a toothbrush and phone card if he gets put in detention again. He's set up a password manager so Katrina can access his bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Daniel plans to marry his fiancee, Katrina, and become a stepson to seven-year old Kyle. "He's the cherry on top of our lives right now," says Katrina. They didn't want to show their faces in a photo, to protect Kyle's privacy at school. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel plans to marry his fiancee, Katrina, and become a stepfather to 7-year-old Kyle. \"He's the cherry on top of our lives,\" says Katrina. They didn't want to show their faces in a photo, to protect Kyle's privacy at school. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I even have a schedule of all my bills, when they're due,” explains Maher. “Now I have to make it easier for somebody else to take over my life from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one possible solution for Daniel. But it’s a long shot. He’s petitioning a state court to reduce his 23-year-old felony charge to a misdemeanor, and give him a certificate of rehabilitation. That would allow him to ask for a pardon from the governor. He could then go to an immigration judge and argue that he’s no longer deportable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says he knows just what he would say to Gov. Jerry Brown if he had a chance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'Hey, here’s a guy who's definitely spent his youth doing bad things. But look at what he's done since, you know, he's turned his life around. He stayed out of trouble. He's a family man now. He's teaching at-risk youth, he’s a positive force in the community.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons,” says Maher. “I just feel that there should be considerations based on those that are clearly not going to change their path. And those that actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term, or can we change it for the better, give that person a second chance, because he's shown that he's changed?\" asks Maher. \"I'm all for that second chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various immigration attorneys agreed the governor’s executive clemency can significantly help Maher regain his legal permanent resident status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You really get a sense of how many plastic bottles Americans use -- even in an eco-friendly city like Berkeley -- when you hang out at an open-air recycling facility like the\u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/\"> Ecology Center. \u003c/a>Trucks pull in every few minutes, dumping loads of plastic onto an enormous pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a big push, to collect all the plastics,” says Daniel Maher, who supervises the fleet of trucks that pick up Berkeley’s curbside recycling. “Yeah, we can collect everything. But what’s going to be done with it? Is it going to turn into fuel for somebody’s cook fire? Is it going to be something that’s filling up the river?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says most of the plastic ends up getting sent to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s kind of ironic, since Maher is doing his best not to get shipped to China himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s technically on a list of deportees, because of a crime he committed more than two decades ago. And he’s worried that with President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://templates.legal/13768-executive-order/\">push to deport immigrants with criminal records\u003c/a>, he could get picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher is originally from Macau, a former Portuguese colony that became part of China long after he left. He and his parents came to California when he was three to join his grandparents, who had a flower farm in Union City. They moved around: San Francisco, San Jose. As a teenager, he fell in with the wrong crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were, you know, looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education,” says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those same friends started to turn their energies in another direction after they graduated from high school. They came up with a plan to rob drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what made it easier for me to go along with it was the fact that we were actually going after drug dealers. People that were preying on others,\" he says. \"So that was our way of rationalizing what we did. Clearly that didn't work out very well for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 21, Maher was charged with a felony, convicted of armed robbery, attempted kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was totally out of character,” he says. “It was a real jumbled, bad time. I totally regretted it afterwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's another big regret: Since he came to the U.S. with a green card, he could have applied for his U.S. citizenship when he turned 18. But he was too distracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After serving five years in prison (he was released early for good behavior), he was put in immigration custody. It came as a shock. Daniel thought of himself as American. But to the U.S. government, he was a violent immigrant felon. That meant they could take away his green card and deport him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418414 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS24987_20170420_DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here’s where it gets complicated. Years after Daniel’s family immigrated, Macau became part of China. So the plan was to deport him to China -- even though he doesn’t identify as Chinese culturally. Nor does he speak the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But China doesn’t have an agreement to accept deportees from the U.S. So after a year and a half in a detention center, Daniel was released in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t have a green card anymore. But as long as he agreed to keep checking in with immigration officials and staying out of trouble, he could get a temporary work permit. He learned web design, then found a job at a recycling center. His life really turned around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the 43-year-old Daniel I meet, the one with the close-cropped hair and the easy giggle, doesn’t seem like the same guy. Daniel tells me I wouldn’t even recognize his 21-year-old self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to walk around with a scowl,” he laughs. “Not anymore. I can't even picture that life anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Redemption Through Recycling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Daniel has won accolades from his peers for his work with at-risk youth interested in green-collar jobs. He's become a manager in charge of the fleet, the go-to guy for computer fixes and managing the routes for recycling drivers. For years, his prison term and his potential deportation felt like a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until one day in 2015, when ICE came looking for him at work. His name was on a list of Chinese nationals, including some corrupt government officials China was hoping to extradite under an agreement with the U.S. government. This was 15 years after he was released from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was the last thing on my mind,\" says Maher. \"I didn't have any reason to believe that something in the past would come back to haunt me like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says ICE put him in a holding cell, without food or water for 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they transferred him to a private detention center in Southern California. His co-workers and his parents had no idea where he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to be deported, I’d at least like my family to be prepared,” says Maher. “But I was unable to make any phone calls out for about a week and a half.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, Maher says, immigration detention was different from when he was held 15 years ago in a center run by the U.S. government. This time, he was in a private facility that felt more like a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s where a lot of my troubles began. It took a month for me to get [medication] I was supposed to take daily. You know, if you’re really in that system, it's really the twilight zone,” recalls Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bundles of recycled material at the Ecology Center in Berkeley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/ecology-center-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bundles of recycled material at the Ecology Center in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Chinese government officials came to interview him, he couldn’t communicate with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they pretty much shook their heads,” says Maher. “'What are we going to do with this guy? He doesn’t speak the language. He's definitely not one of the corrupt government officials we're looking for.' So it's like, 'Why are we having this conversation?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a lot of\u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/blog/immigrants-are-notdisposable-rally-81215-to-demand-release-of-daniel-maher-ecology-center-recycling-director/\"> advocacy from his co-workers\u003c/a> at the Ecology Center, his lawyers and even some elected officials, Daniel was released from immigration custody after three months. But he’s still in limbo. ICE knows he’s here. They just don’t know what to do with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Starting a Family Life After Years On Hold\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For more than 15 years, Daniel was unsure when or if he’d be deported. By the time he reached his early 40s, he finally felt free to give himself permission to live his life, to get into a relationship. A few weeks before he was picked up by ICE in 2015, he had just started dating a woman named Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’d actually just started to let go,\" says Maher. \"It just came at that time where I said, 'You know, if I keep waiting I'll never have a chance at a family or in any kind of happiness.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Daniel plans to get married to Katrina, and become a stepdad to 7-year-old Kyle. He attends Kyle's Cub Scout meetings, trying to impart some of the lessons about honesty and good moral character he says he’s learned over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katrina says Daniel has been a big part of their happiness. Until she met him, she raised Kyle as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I asked him, ‘What do you want for your present on your birthday?’ He's like, ‘I want a dad.’ And I said, ‘Where are we going to get a dad?' He’s like, 'Toys R Us.' He’s always wanted a dad. So Daniel’s kind of like the cherry on top of our lives,” she smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as they start their new life together, Daniel is on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s still technically on a list of deportees and could be detained again at any time. Even though there’s no place to send him. But what if things change? President Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united\">signed an executive order\u003c/a> authorizing the secretary of Homeland Security and the secretary of State to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/like-obama-before-him-trump-is-freeing-foreign-born-criminals/2017/04/06/d9776a3c-149c-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.6f739b9b9309\">sanction countries\u003c/a> that refuse to take deportees from the U.S., which could potentially change China's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on my mind all the time,\" sighs Daniel. “Every time I sleep at night it's like, you know, I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says he always has money in his pocket, so he can buy a toothbrush and phone card if he gets put in detention again. He's set up a password manager so Katrina can access his bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Daniel plans to marry his fiancee, Katrina, and become a stepson to seven-year old Kyle. "He's the cherry on top of our lives right now," says Katrina. They didn't want to show their faces in a photo, to protect Kyle's privacy at school. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/family-from-behind-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel plans to marry his fiancee, Katrina, and become a stepfather to 7-year-old Kyle. \"He's the cherry on top of our lives,\" says Katrina. They didn't want to show their faces in a photo, to protect Kyle's privacy at school. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I even have a schedule of all my bills, when they're due,” explains Maher. “Now I have to make it easier for somebody else to take over my life from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one possible solution for Daniel. But it’s a long shot. He’s petitioning a state court to reduce his 23-year-old felony charge to a misdemeanor, and give him a certificate of rehabilitation. That would allow him to ask for a pardon from the governor. He could then go to an immigration judge and argue that he’s no longer deportable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher says he knows just what he would say to Gov. Jerry Brown if he had a chance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“'Hey, here’s a guy who's definitely spent his youth doing bad things. But look at what he's done since, you know, he's turned his life around. He stayed out of trouble. 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"content": "\u003cp>La Buena Vista is a corner store with a butcher in the back, a taco truck out front and a stray dog for a mascot. It’s the type of place that sells everything from lotto scratchers to engine oil to cilantro. It’s in East Porterville, a small farmworker town at the edge of the Central Valley where there aren’t any sidewalks, and there are as many dirt roads as paved streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an agricultural town in Tulare County, home to plenty of undocumented farmworkers who are feeling vulnerable nowadays. The guy behind the register at La Buena Vista, though, is an immigrant whose life has been turned upside down by recent changes in immigration policy. And he's an American citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a big guy with weary eyes and a warm smile. He's from Yemen. His real name is Saber Askar, but he saves that for the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, he’s \"Moe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My family] cannot find enough food to eat and every week it's getting worse. They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.'\u003ccite>Moe\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was 15 when he immigrated. Moe's dad had been living in the U.S. for a while when he sent for him. Moe spent more than a decade working in factories in Indiana, then moved to East Porterville to help his cousin with the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been here eight years now, and picked up a lot of Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como estamos, hermano?” (How you doing, brother?) he asks a guy in a cowboy hat. “Trabajar hoy o no?” (Working today or no?) He’s also taught his customers some Arabic, so the store’s official language is a kind of patois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shouts a greeting in Arabic as customers walk in. “Halahala!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respond in kind, putting their own accented gloss on the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market everyone knows Moe as the goofy guy behind the cash register. But the cheerful demeanor masks another side of Moe -- one I saw when I visited him at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moe has a wife and three daughters in Yemen. He calls them most nights. He says he always planned to bring them to the U.S. He wanted to save up money and buy a house so they’d have a nice place to live. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\" target=\"_blank\">since the civil war started two years ago\u003c/a>, he’s been desperate to get them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he calls his family in Sanaa, Yemen, his 16-year-old daughter answers. He asks how she’s doing. Moe interprets for me: \"She says the airplanes is all the time in the air and they scared they’re gonna drop stuff to them. She said she cannot sleep at nighttime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe is especially worried about his 10-year-old daughter. The bombing has taken a toll, physically and psychologically. She has a hard time keeping her food down, so she’s lost a lot of weight. Moe says she has to go to a clinic for IV treatments regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www1.wfp.org/yemen-emergency\" target=\"_blank\">They cannot find enough food to eat\u003c/a> and every week it’s getting worse,\" Moe says. \"They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/i-130\" target=\"_blank\">the applications to bring his family to America\u003c/a> about two years ago. Because of the war in Yemen, it’s been difficult to provide all the required documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to [my family], just give me a little time and then you guys gonna be here, then you guys gonna be OK,” Moe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/521999595/federal-judge-in-hawaii-extends-his-block-on-trump-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\">the Trump administration’s looming travel ban\u003c/a>, though, it’s hard for them to believe that. Moe and his family are left praying it won’t go into effect -- or that they get approval to come before it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the phone call, Moe looks crushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They make me bleed inside,\" he says. \"I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they not answer anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qjlQWVMYf4C4AD8qk6gbxr65iu1BnXcx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day at the local mosque, people are gathered for Friday prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mosque manager, Basem Aqra, says it draws more than 100 families from Porterville and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re from all over, from Yemen, Palestine, from Egypt, from Jordan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some came as refugees or asylum seekers fleeing conflicts. Others, like Moe, followed family members here. The weather and agricultural lifestyle in the valley are familiar, and some started out working in farming. Aqra says today most of them are business owners, and he says recently they’re scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen anything like that,” he says, referring to the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era. “People even they worry if they’re stopped with a traffic ticket or something they’re gonna be targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Aqra says,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mosque-letters-trump-20161126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this mosque hasn’t gotten any threats like others around the state\u003c/a>. But that doesn’t give Moe much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get afraid, you know, if something’s going to happen,\" he says. “They’re shooting people when they pray in mosques, stuff like that. So I think about this kind of stuff, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe lived through 9/11 in the U.S., and it was hard. He says the climate today feels worse. For more than a year Moe watched the presidential campaign whip up anti-immigrant feeling among some of his fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple months I feel different,” he says. “They make me feel different. Even if you're an American citizen, you're nothing. That hurts my feelings bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0068-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after 17 years as a citizen, Moe’s place in this country feels precarious. He’s not just worried for himself, his family and fellow Muslims. He's also worried for his customers: the vulnerable farmworker families that keep his market in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through all of this he has one solid source of support: his best friend, Darla. She’s been helping him with the immigration paperwork for his family. But even this friendship is strained now. Darla voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a dinner of chicken and orange rice one night, Moe broaches the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At least say you’re sorry, you know,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I did anything wrong!” she responds. But before she can explain, Moe butts in. “Yes you did! Do you feel it now? He’s not good!” Moe shouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darla is quiet for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I do feel bad,” she says finally. “I feel bad if you feel insulted that I would choose a president who is so discriminating and so racist. I had no idea. I had no idea that he was going to do any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe's face softens a little as he listens, and Darla continues, \"I just have total faith that everything will be OK,” she says. “Inshallah\" (God willing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe replies softly, “Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>La Buena Vista is a corner store with a butcher in the back, a taco truck out front and a stray dog for a mascot. It’s the type of place that sells everything from lotto scratchers to engine oil to cilantro. It’s in East Porterville, a small farmworker town at the edge of the Central Valley where there aren’t any sidewalks, and there are as many dirt roads as paved streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an agricultural town in Tulare County, home to plenty of undocumented farmworkers who are feeling vulnerable nowadays. The guy behind the register at La Buena Vista, though, is an immigrant whose life has been turned upside down by recent changes in immigration policy. And he's an American citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a big guy with weary eyes and a warm smile. He's from Yemen. His real name is Saber Askar, but he saves that for the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, he’s \"Moe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My family] cannot find enough food to eat and every week it's getting worse. They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.'\u003ccite>Moe\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was 15 when he immigrated. Moe's dad had been living in the U.S. for a while when he sent for him. Moe spent more than a decade working in factories in Indiana, then moved to East Porterville to help his cousin with the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been here eight years now, and picked up a lot of Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como estamos, hermano?” (How you doing, brother?) he asks a guy in a cowboy hat. “Trabajar hoy o no?” (Working today or no?) He’s also taught his customers some Arabic, so the store’s official language is a kind of patois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shouts a greeting in Arabic as customers walk in. “Halahala!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respond in kind, putting their own accented gloss on the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market everyone knows Moe as the goofy guy behind the cash register. But the cheerful demeanor masks another side of Moe -- one I saw when I visited him at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moe has a wife and three daughters in Yemen. He calls them most nights. He says he always planned to bring them to the U.S. He wanted to save up money and buy a house so they’d have a nice place to live. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\" target=\"_blank\">since the civil war started two years ago\u003c/a>, he’s been desperate to get them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he calls his family in Sanaa, Yemen, his 16-year-old daughter answers. He asks how she’s doing. Moe interprets for me: \"She says the airplanes is all the time in the air and they scared they’re gonna drop stuff to them. She said she cannot sleep at nighttime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe is especially worried about his 10-year-old daughter. The bombing has taken a toll, physically and psychologically. She has a hard time keeping her food down, so she’s lost a lot of weight. Moe says she has to go to a clinic for IV treatments regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www1.wfp.org/yemen-emergency\" target=\"_blank\">They cannot find enough food to eat\u003c/a> and every week it’s getting worse,\" Moe says. \"They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/i-130\" target=\"_blank\">the applications to bring his family to America\u003c/a> about two years ago. Because of the war in Yemen, it’s been difficult to provide all the required documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to [my family], just give me a little time and then you guys gonna be here, then you guys gonna be OK,” Moe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/521999595/federal-judge-in-hawaii-extends-his-block-on-trump-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\">the Trump administration’s looming travel ban\u003c/a>, though, it’s hard for them to believe that. Moe and his family are left praying it won’t go into effect -- or that they get approval to come before it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the phone call, Moe looks crushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They make me bleed inside,\" he says. \"I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they not answer anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day at the local mosque, people are gathered for Friday prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mosque manager, Basem Aqra, says it draws more than 100 families from Porterville and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re from all over, from Yemen, Palestine, from Egypt, from Jordan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some came as refugees or asylum seekers fleeing conflicts. Others, like Moe, followed family members here. The weather and agricultural lifestyle in the valley are familiar, and some started out working in farming. Aqra says today most of them are business owners, and he says recently they’re scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen anything like that,” he says, referring to the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era. “People even they worry if they’re stopped with a traffic ticket or something they’re gonna be targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Aqra says,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mosque-letters-trump-20161126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this mosque hasn’t gotten any threats like others around the state\u003c/a>. But that doesn’t give Moe much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get afraid, you know, if something’s going to happen,\" he says. “They’re shooting people when they pray in mosques, stuff like that. So I think about this kind of stuff, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe lived through 9/11 in the U.S., and it was hard. He says the climate today feels worse. For more than a year Moe watched the presidential campaign whip up anti-immigrant feeling among some of his fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple months I feel different,” he says. “They make me feel different. Even if you're an American citizen, you're nothing. That hurts my feelings bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0068-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after 17 years as a citizen, Moe’s place in this country feels precarious. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has made going after so-called sanctuary cities a cornerstone of his tenure, \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/justice-departments-letter-states-sanctuary-cities/\">sent a letter\u003c/a> Friday to California correctional leaders threatening to cut off $18 million a year in public safety grants if the state can’t prove it is cooperating with federal immigration law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of nine letters sent to jurisdictions across the nation on Friday with policies that restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration actions. The letter asks the California Board of State and Community Corrections — an agency in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that oversees an $18 million a year federal grant program — to prove by June 30 that the state complies with a federal law that \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373\">requires local governments to communicate with\u003c/a> federal immigration officials about the immigration status of people they come in contact with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these jurisdictions are … crumbling under the weight of illegal immigration and violent crime,” the Justice Department said in a news release, despite the fact that\u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-26/us-crime-rate-rises-slightly-remains-near-20-year-low\"> violent crime rates in the U.S. are near record lows\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2mLv47RLRO5pJ0MDFsFi29BQkFJAu8Py”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news release also stated, “Just several weeks ago in California’s Bay Area, after a raid captured 11 MS-13 members on charges including murder, extortion and drug trafficking, city officials seemed more concerned with reassuring illegal immigrants that the raid was unrelated to immigration than with warning other MS-13 members that they were next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracie Cone, a spokeswoman for the Board of State and Community Corrections, said in a written statement that the board complies with the federal law cited in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, California officials at both the state and local level have argued that while their sanctuary laws prevent them from participating in immigration raids or holding people in jails or prison who would otherwise be released, they \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/\">do communicate with federal officials and therefore follow the law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, an immigrants rights attorney who has helped draft sanctuary laws, said the letter is nothing more than posturing by Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There’s no teeth in this whatsoever,” she said. “\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">There’s still nothing in this letter that says we are going to pull funding, nothing in this letter that says we believe you are violating this federal statute, and nothing in this letter that says the federal government has the power to pull funding.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3675426-Justice-Department-4-21-letters-to-sanctuary\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Trust Act prohibits local jails from holding most undocumented immigrants strictly for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they should otherwise be released, and many of the counties that receive the money under the grant program at issue — known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bja.gov/jag/\">Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program\u003c/a>, or JAG — have their own sanctuary policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But threats by Sessions and President Trump have inspired many Democrats in California to push for even stronger protections for undocumented immigrants, ever since Trump issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/30/2017-02102/enhancing-public-safety-in-the-interior-of-the-united-states\">Jan. 25 executive order\u003c/a> directing the Justice Department to strip funding from sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/13/california-debates-whether-to-become-a-sanctuary-state/\">weighing a bill that would expand\u003c/a> the statewide restrictions even further. Senate President Kevin de León, who is authoring the legislation, lashed out Friday over the letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has become abundantly clear that Attorney General Sessions and the Trump Administration are basing their law enforcement policies on principles of white supremacy — not American values,” he said in a written statement. “Their constant and systematic targeting of diverse cities and states goes beyond constitutional norms and will be challenged at every level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, de León said that whether the letter is simply posturing or not, “when they make threats to withhold needed police officers, we take that seriously.” He compared the threat to “holding a gun to the head” of cities, counties and states that want to protect “hard-working immigrants” and said he remains committed to his legislation, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">Senate Bill 54\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León noted that the bill has been amended to allow law enforcement officials to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they come across people with serious and violent criminal histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco — which has a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/06/long-history-of-sanctuary-laws-debate-in-san-francisco/\">long history of protecting undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> — and Santa Clara counties already sued the federal government over the executive order, saying it is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/31/s-f-files-suit-against-trump-saying-punishing-sanctuary-cities-is-illegal/\">unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want a court to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/09/s-f-city-attorney-asks-court-to-block-trump-order-stripping-sanctuary-city-funding/\">block the order\u003c/a> from taking effect; a judge considering the case \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/14/trumps-plan-to-cut-sanctuary-funds-threatens-s-f-santa-clara-counties-judge-says/\">seems inclined to side with the counties \u003c/a>while the case plays out in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/downloads/2016%20JAG%20Project%20Descriptions%20-%20Rev%202.3.17.pdf\">counties that receive JAG grants\u003c/a> to pay for programs in the areas of education and crime prevention, law enforcement and prosecution, and courts, including indigent defense:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contra Costa County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kern County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Diego County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco City and County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Joaquin County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ventura County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Butte County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Merced County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Placer County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Cruz County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Stanislaus County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tulare County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yolo County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Calaveras County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Humboldt County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Imperial County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kings County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lassen County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Madera County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mariposa County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mendocino County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Modoc County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mono County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Plumas County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Benito County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shasta County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tehama County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuolumne County\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yuba County\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro is one of the highest-profile American individuals to disappear in a country where officials estimate more than 10,000 people are missing. Mexico's attorney general is investigating. According to some estimates, only about 1 percent of those who go missing are ever found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Angels founder Enrique Morones told KPBS that Castro had received multiple death threats in recent months due to his work to protect Haitian migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people that threatened him were trying to take advantage of the Haitians and Hugo was defending them,\" Morones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, drug cartels regularly profit off of migrants. 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