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It also temporarily shuts down America's refugee program, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/06/516408650/trump-signs-new-order-blocking-arrivals-from-6-majority-muslim-countries\" target=\"_blank\">reduces the number of refugees it will admit\u003c/a> this fiscal year to 50,000, instead of the 110,000 the Obama administration had planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii's \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3512780-Hawaii-vs-Trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit\u003c/a> argues that while the language in Trump's revised executive order has changed, it is merely the president's latest effort to enact what he promised early in his campaign: a Muslim ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit brings Trump's campaign promises into the courtroom, in order to illustrate the way that Trump has consistently linked Muslim immigration to terrorism, and his explicit desire to implement a Muslim ban. Among the statements cited in the lawsuit is \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">a press release\u003c/a> then-candidate Trump sent out on Dec. 7, 2015, titled \"Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration\", which said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on. According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii's lawsuit names Ismail Elshikh as a co-plaintiff, \"because the Executive Order inflicts a grave injury on Muslims in Hawai'i, including Dr. Elshikh, his Family, and members of his Mosque.\" Elshikh is the imam of the Muslim Association of Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that a portion of Hawaii's population is now subject to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Discrimination and second-class treatment, in violation of both the Constitution and the Immigration and Nationality Act. The Order denies them their right to associate with family members overseas on the basis of their religion and national origin. And it results in their having to live in a country and in a State where there is the perception that the Government has established a disfavored religion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by disfavoring a religion, the suit argues, Trump's executive order is establishing a state religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawaii's economy leans heavily on tourism, and the lawsuit cites both economic and familial hindrances caused by the ban. \"It is damaging Hawaii's institutions, harming its economy, and eroding Hawaii's sovereign interests in maintaining the separation between church and state as well as in welcoming persons from all nations around the world into the fabric of its society.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs seek an order that would invalidate the portions of the executive order that they challenge in the lawsuit, and have proposed a hearing for March 15 — the day before the order is to go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order \"is infected with the same legal problems as the first Order — undermining bedrock constitutional and statutory guarantees,\" the state argues. \"The Executive Order purports to protect the country from terrorism, but sweeps in millions of people who have absolutely no connection to terrorism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. 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Her mother has heart problems, and uses the money to survive in the southern Mexican state of Jalisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I send her $400 every two weeks,” said Gomez, who lives in San Diego and has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. \"I provide for my mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families.'\u003ccite>Teresa Gomez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that money -- known as remittances -- may soon be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">threatened to target remittances\u003c/a> as a way of forcing Mexico to pay for his planned border wall, which will cost anywhere between $5 billion and $25 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez doesn’t think that would be fair. She’s a U.S. citizen as well as a Mexican one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you going to punish so many citizens who come as workers, with good thoughts and acts in this country?” Gomez asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.' \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remittances to Mexico reached a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/remittances-to-mexico-hit-record-27-billion-in-2016-1485978810\"> record $27 billion\u003c/a> last year, representing the largest source of foreign income for the country after auto exports. Immigrants in California sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/may/06/california-leads-increase-remittances-mexico-us/\">the largest chunk\u003c/a>, $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a single woman, said she wouldn’t be able to afford a tax on remittances. She rents a small room in a Barrio Logan apartment, where she lives with her talkative conure parrot, Kiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MbA9H8q0GiRL6GdNdB2b0EqfsDXG0f4q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is one of millions of Mexicans in the U.S. who send money to relatives south of the border. She sends the money through a small money-transfer shop, El Frijolito, which charges a fee of $5 or $10, depending on the desired exchange rate. Others use larger transfer organizations such as Western Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent surge in remittances was due in part to fears about Trump’s threats. The owner of El Frijolito, Mariceli Castro, said money transfers surged the day after Trump became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lines were all the way to the door. People were sending large quantities of money. A lot of people were selling everything they had in the bank,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump targets remittances, it would be devastating for her business and her clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of (my customers) have an honest job, earning money with the sweat of their foreheads just so they can send it home,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Hu-b__o0Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Targeting remittances may be trickier than Trump has outlined \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">in his campaign memos.\u003c/a> Policy experts have said that a tax on remittances would unnecessarily hurt all money transfers to Mexico, including those by Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have to be broadly applied -- it would be, basically, a tax on electronic transfers,” said Gordon Hanson, dean of UC San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://gps.ucsd.edu/\">School of Global Policy and Strategy\u003c/a>. “The thing is, what’s the difference between an electronic transfer that is a remittance versus a transfer between two business entities? On paper, they look identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said a tax or ban on remittances would be devastating for Mexican-Americans and the San Diego economy in general, not just people who are in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"E8kjIDUyr0x10HKePS2t4VsikJolrlpI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at our construction industry, you look at bars and restaurants and hotels (in) the San Diego tourist industry, go into any San Diego neighborhood, who is caring for yards, who is cleaning houses and providing child care?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said she will find a way to send her mother the money she needs for medicines and food -- no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a human being, or rather, as a Mexican, nothing is impossible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If need be, Gomez could cross the border to transfer the money in Tijuana. She would have to contend with three- to four-hour wait times at the ports of entry, but she said it would be worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For immigrants who live far from the border, or who lack legal immigration status in the U.S., it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marina is a 37-year-old immigrant who asked us to keep her identity secret for fear of deportation. She cleans houses and takes care of a 2-year-old girl, sending about $500 a month to her mother in Mexico City. She is also single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never go out -- it’s rare for me to go watch a movie or eat with a friend because I’m always working,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she moved to the U.S. when she was 21 years old, in 1999, to support her mother, and that Trump’s threats scare her because her mother depends on her. She said she is afraid of going back to Mexico, where homicides rose by 22 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my family, they tell me every day it’s worse. They’re even afraid to go out into the street because they killed someone here, they killed someone there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump wants to build a wall, he should build one. But she hopes he finds another way to pay for it, because she can’t afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I respect the new president because this is simply not my country,” she said. “But I’m not robbing money as some people say. I work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of California Counts, a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez doesn’t think that would be fair. She’s a U.S. citizen as well as a Mexican one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you going to punish so many citizens who come as workers, with good thoughts and acts in this country?” Gomez asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantMomPhoneKPBS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Gomez shows a picture of her mother, Carmen. 'I send her $400 every two weeks,' said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. 'I provide for my mother.' \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remittances to Mexico reached a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/remittances-to-mexico-hit-record-27-billion-in-2016-1485978810\"> record $27 billion\u003c/a> last year, representing the largest source of foreign income for the country after auto exports. Immigrants in California sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/may/06/california-leads-increase-remittances-mexico-us/\">the largest chunk\u003c/a>, $8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez, a single woman, said she wouldn’t be able to afford a tax on remittances. She rents a small room in a Barrio Logan apartment, where she lives with her talkative conure parrot, Kiko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came here with the American Dream, not to be millionaires, but simply to live decently and help our families,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez is one of millions of Mexicans in the U.S. who send money to relatives south of the border. She sends the money through a small money-transfer shop, El Frijolito, which charges a fee of $5 or $10, depending on the desired exchange rate. Others use larger transfer organizations such as Western Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent surge in remittances was due in part to fears about Trump’s threats. The owner of El Frijolito, Mariceli Castro, said money transfers surged the day after Trump became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lines were all the way to the door. People were sending large quantities of money. A lot of people were selling everything they had in the bank,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if Trump targets remittances, it would be devastating for her business and her clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of (my customers) have an honest job, earning money with the sweat of their foreheads just so they can send it home,” Castro said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/P-Hu-b__o0Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/P-Hu-b__o0Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Targeting remittances may be trickier than Trump has outlined \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-explains-how-donald-trump-plans-to-pay-for-border-wall/2007/?tid=a_inl\">in his campaign memos.\u003c/a> Policy experts have said that a tax on remittances would unnecessarily hurt all money transfers to Mexico, including those by Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have to be broadly applied -- it would be, basically, a tax on electronic transfers,” said Gordon Hanson, dean of UC San Diego’s \u003ca href=\"https://gps.ucsd.edu/\">School of Global Policy and Strategy\u003c/a>. “The thing is, what’s the difference between an electronic transfer that is a remittance versus a transfer between two business entities? On paper, they look identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said a tax or ban on remittances would be devastating for Mexican-Americans and the San Diego economy in general, not just people who are in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at our construction industry, you look at bars and restaurants and hotels (in) the San Diego tourist industry, go into any San Diego neighborhood, who is caring for yards, who is cleaning houses and providing child care?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said she will find a way to send her mother the money she needs for medicines and food -- no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a human being, or rather, as a Mexican, nothing is impossible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If need be, Gomez could cross the border to transfer the money in Tijuana. She would have to contend with three- to four-hour wait times at the ports of entry, but she said it would be worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For immigrants who live far from the border, or who lack legal immigration status in the U.S., it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11350266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11350266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-1180x708.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-960x576.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ImmigrantSkyKPBS-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marina moved to the U.S. in 1999, to support her mother. She said Trump's threats scare her because her mother depends on the money she sends home to Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Kris Arciaga/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marina is a 37-year-old immigrant who asked us to keep her identity secret for fear of deportation. She cleans houses and takes care of a 2-year-old girl, sending about $500 a month to her mother in Mexico City. She is also single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never go out -- it’s rare for me to go watch a movie or eat with a friend because I’m always working,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she moved to the U.S. when she was 21 years old, in 1999, to support her mother, and that Trump’s threats scare her because her mother depends on her. She said she is afraid of going back to Mexico, where homicides rose by 22 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my family, they tell me every day it’s worse. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen his three young children woke up in their small house in Oakland one morning a few weeks ago, Maguiber wasn’t home. That wasn’t so unusual. The 27-year-old dad worked long hours, juggling three different jobs cleaning in two hotels and a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the children’s mother told Kevin, 8, Gabriela, 4, and Christopher, 2, that their father had been taken away to jail. Before dawn that morning, two officers had knocked on the door. They said they were investigating a hit-and-run, and they asked to see Maguiber. (His attorney asked that we not use his last name until his immigration status is resolved.) He walked out to the driveway, while Yibi Heras, his wife, watched from the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after Maguiber took out his car registration that he realized the officers were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, not local police, she said. There had been no hit-and-run. The agents handcuffed Maguiber and put him into their SUV. They told Heras that her husband could call her later, after he had been booked into immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”C4ITOQRcIe3FHuEqVzNlmBwj11UN7tic”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order greatly expanding the categories of undocumented people that law enforcement officials should prioritize for deportation. Since then, thousands of people have been detained around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has promised to deport 2 million to 3 million people this year alone. For comparison, President Barack Obama deported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016\" target=\"_blank\">2.75 million people\u003c/a> over the course of eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to deport people, the government typically must detain them first. But if the system is already at capacity, where will all these new detainees go? A KQED investigation found the government can likely ramp up detention capacity quickly — and California’s jails could play a key part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-09c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-672x372.jpg\" Title=\"Trump Wants to Detain More Immigrants. He Could -- With California's Help\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president has inherited a deportation system already straining to remove historically high numbers of people — though illegal immigration is just a fraction of what it was 10 or 15 years ago. On one typical day in November, 40,875 people in the United States were being held in detention — though ICE is budgeted for just \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY_2016_DHS_Budget_in_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">34,000 detention beds\u003c/a>, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE officials declined repeated requests to comment or answer questions for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480644-17-0220-S1-Enforcement-of-the-Immigration-Laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo\u003c/a> that fleshes out President Trump’s executive order, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly specified that the default for the new administration will be detention, rather than allowing people to be released, for example, on bond or with an ankle-worn GPS monitor, while they await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wait can take years, because immigration courts are so understaffed and there has been an increase in asylum cases. On average, all immigrants, detained and not, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">were waiting\u003c/a> for 677 days as of January 2017 for their case to be resolved in immigration court. In California, the average was 718 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The California facility is managed by the private prison company GEO Group. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Detention of Maguiber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguiber was born in Guatemala and has been living in the United States illegally for about a decade. His one offense (and the thing that may have put him on ICE’s radar) is a recent misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving. His lawyer believes that he may have come to ICE agents’ attention after he was booked or appeared in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That morning, Feb. 8, ICE agents took Maguiber to the West County Detention Facility, a county jail in Richmond, California. Like any other jail, its primary purpose is to hold people awaiting trial and inmates serving short sentences for low-level crimes. But Contra Costa County also rents 318 jail beds here to ICE. That makes the West County facility a small part of a vast and growing immigration detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE operates the largest federal detention system in the country. In 2015, it held almost twice as many people as the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. ICE runs its own detention centers in some parts of the country, but mostly it contracts out to private prison companies and local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 16 different jails and private prisons had contracts with ICE, and held 5,269 ICE detainees on a day in late 2016. Nationally, California holds the second-highest number of detainees, after Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive orders are meant to deter people from coming into the country illegally and discourage people like Maguiber, who was previously deported as a teenager, from returning again. Jessica Vaughan, director of \u003ca href=\"http://cis.org/\" target=\"_blank\">policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies\u003c/a>, a think tank that favors restricting immigration, believes that Trump’s plan for stronger immigration enforcement will prevent people from returning to the United States illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was necessary to do these executive orders to let these government agencies do their job and do the job that Americans expect them to do, which is to enforce the immigration laws we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many attorneys say it makes little sense to hold immigrants in prolonged detention. The vast majority, especially when they have an immigration lawyer, do appear for their day in immigration court as required, according to data from \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> (known as TRAC) and a\u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9502&context=penn_law_review\" target=\"_blank\"> study by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review\u003c/a>. And attorneys emphasize that immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to remember that these individuals are not serving time pursuant to a criminal conviction. Most of them have absolutely no criminal history at all,” said Denise L. Gilman, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Clinic\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas Law School\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yibi Heras says her husband is not a criminal. “Like all of us, he has made mistakes,” she said. “But he’s not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras is working hard to keep life as normal as possible for her children. Maguiber manages to call from jail almost every day, but the children are confused about why he can’t video chat with them as he used to do between his jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras said her 4-year-old daughter, Gabriela, asked to move in with her father recently, saying she was ready to go as soon as she gathered up her toys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber lived in the United States for more than 10 years. He was detained by ICE in February.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber has lived in the United States for more than a decade. He was detained by ICE in February. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is poised to be a key part of ICE’s detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think California’s going to be ground zero when it comes to immigration removals during the Trump administration,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE may have reached the limits of its budgeted detention space, the KQED investigation found that, if new funds are made available, the agency could quickly expand detention to take advantage of idle bed space in jails and private prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private Detention Companies See Profits in Trump Policies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe majority of immigrant detainees in California and nationwide wind up in facilities run by for-profit companies, according to data from ICE released in December 2016. And, with President Trump’s heightened focus on deportation, these companies are seeing opportunities for expansion and profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the expansion began last year, as the Obama administration sought to respond to a continuing flow of children and families fleeing to the U.S. from Central America. \u003ca href=\"http://www.corecivic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoreCivic\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">GEO Group\u003c/a> and Emerald Correctional Management signed contracts in 2016 to open more facilities for immigrant detainees, which will supply an additional 3,087 beds.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”GHhn8ekEkX5x6qPzPdgcPMzGQ1K8wnqK”]\u003cbr>\n“Our financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2016 was well above our initial forecast due, in large part, to heightened utilization by ICE across the portfolio,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in February, executives at the two largest companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, told their shareholders that they had many empty beds nationally — totaling 13,700 — into which ICE could move detainees immediately. (Roughly 500 of those beds are in California.) A vacant 3,000-bed detention center in Texas, owned by Management and Training Corp., could also reopen for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason bed space is available is that the federal government last year determined that private prisons had inferior safety and security, and began phasing out their use. Three private prison companies currently hold contracts with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for 27,000 beds — 2,200 of those are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516916688/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\" target=\"_blank\">has since rescinded\u003c/a> the Obama administration’s decision not to use private prisons for federal inmates. But the number of federal inmates held in private prisons has been declining in recent years, so some of those beds could still become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates question why prisons that were found to be substandard for federal prisoners can be considered safe for immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is [for-profit companies’] desperate interest to keep costs as low as possible, and they do that by skimping on food, on health care, on mental health care and anything else so that they can maximize their profits for every individual detained,” said Gilman, of the University of Texas Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, three people have died while detained at the Adelanto Correctional Facility, run by GEO Group in San Bernardino, California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480649-adelantoCorrectionalFac-Adelanto-CA-Sept-18-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICE investigators\u003c/a> found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping, bad communication between staff and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490498158/justice-department-will-phase-out-its-use-of-private-prisons\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Prisons decided\u003c/a> to stop using private prisons, Homeland Security officials asked an advisory council composed of government officials, attorneys, advocates and private prison executives to examine ICE’s reliance on private prisons. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480651-DHS-HSAC-PIDF-Final-Report.html\" target=\"_blank\">council’s report concluded\u003c/a> that despite problems with private, for-profit detention, DHS must continue to rely on it to control costs and “handle sudden increases in detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about three-quarters of the members who approved the report took issue with that central recommendation. In a dissenting opinion they said the review showed conditions in private prisons were inferior to ICE-run detention, and suggested shifting away from a private prison model. The dissenters also encouraged further investigation to find “the most effective and humane approach,” to detention, including looking at alternatives to physically jailing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Where Were People Detained in Fiscal Year 2016?\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/9cb4f780-827c-412a-96f1-d29ccf160b1b/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14px;\">Data from ICE. Fiscal year 2016 ran from Oct.1 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. | Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Detained in Local Jails\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the same report, the council recommended that ICE reduce its reliance on another type of facility: local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are, in general, the most problematic facilities for immigration detention,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jails, like the one on Richmond, California, where Maguiber is in custody, held 25 percent of immigrant detainees last year, according to ICE. And, despite the council’s recommendation to avoid them, ICE is likely to rely more heavily on jails, as it seeks to lock up more people in the deportation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would expect them to also look at expanding capacity by using space that’s not currently used in local jails that are already inspected and certified by ICE to be appropriate for immigration detention,” said Vaughan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greater expansion into jails is likely to take place in many states, but California, in particular, has plenty of available jail beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California county jails with ICE contracts had, on average, nearly 2,500 open beds in 2015, but ICE had specifically contracted only for 530 of them, according to data from ICE and the state agency that regulates county jails. That doesn’t include open jail beds in local cities with ICE contracts, including Glendale, Pomona and Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California is likely to have more jail space sitting empty soon. That’s because a 2012 criminal justice reform known as “realignment” gave counties money to expand their jails so they could accept some inmates from state prisons. Then, just as that building boom got underway, voters passed a measure in 2014 that reduced penalties for some crimes and led to a decrease of 9,000 inmates. So California counties are in the process of adding an estimated 10,000 beds, just as their jail populations are declining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\" src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/agxRB/8/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"oallowfullscreen\" msallowfullscreen=\"msallowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript type=\"text/javascript\">if(\"undefined\"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"]={},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas={\"100\":1212,\"200\":829,\"300\":689,\"400\":675,\"500\":600,\"600\":600,\"700\":586,\"800\":586,\"900\":586,\"1000\":586},window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-agxRB\"),window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.offsetWidth/100),100))]+\"px\",window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(\"undefined\"!=typeof a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var b in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])if(\"agxRB\"==b)window.datawrapper[\"agxRB\"].iframe.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][b]+\"px\"});\u003c/script>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.6255em;\">Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local counties say they depend financially on their contracts with ICE. Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston said that the county receives about $2 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money goes to defray the cost of running the jail and reduce the operating cost to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not always easy mixing immigrant detainees with jail inmates, however. ICE’s standards are higher for detainee health care and recreation time, for example. And the Homeland Security advisory council found that local officials are sometimes “resistant to changes” that require treating ICE detainees differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration Court Slowdown Leaves Detainees in Detention for Longer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons so many immigrants are detained in California is that the state has the largest immigration court workload in the country, analysts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And part of the reason that ICE needs more bed space is because it’s taking longer for detainees to get a court date. Sending more people into deportation proceedings — and declining to release them on bond — will exacerbate the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently just 301 immigration judges nationwide — and they’re handling more than 542,000 pending cases, according to the Department of Justice and data from Syracuse University’s \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\">TRAC\u003c/a> research center. Even if the immigration courts didn’t accept a single additional case, it would take 2½ years to go through the backlog, according to TRAC. (The Department of Justice, which oversees immigration courts, is trying to speed up the system. It is working to fill 61 open positions, and requesting that Congress fund an additional 25 immigration judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting months or years for a hearing in detention can be extremely hard for detainees — and also for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11345541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11345541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi and Maguiber’s 8-year-old son, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner’s detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yibi Heras cares for her disabled 8-year-old son, Kevin, and her two preschoolers. With Maguiber in detention, Heras is worried about how she will support her family. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now Heras is trying to figure out how to support her family while her husband is detained. Her younger children, Gabriela and Christopher, are not yet in school, and her oldest, Kevin, has cerebral palsy and needs extra care. So Heras has her hands full as a stay-at-home mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stopped working because my oldest son had to have an operation,” she said. “But now I have to look for other resources to keep surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of a \u003cem>pro bono\u003c/em> lawyer, Heras and her husband are trying to keep him from being deported. An asylum officer found that Maguiber has grounds to request protection from deportation. His attorney has asked ICE to release him while he awaits his first hearing, which is scheduled for March 29. Heras says the court should not worry that Maguiber will flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband has three children,” she said. “He wasn’t going to run away from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Deportation Method: Expedited Removal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Trump administration has another tool to deport some undocumented immigrants, one that would put less strain on immigration courts and detention facilities, but that civil liberties advocates say will unfairly deprive people of their right to due process of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy, called expedited removal, is a fast-track deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge. It was formerly applied only to unauthorized immigrants encountered within 100 miles of the border who had been in the country less than two weeks. Recently, Kelly expanded expedited removal to include people caught by agents anywhere in the United States who cannot prove that they have been in the country at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expedited removal would not apply to the majority of people living in the country illegally. The Pew Research Center estimates that two-thirds of the estimated 11.1 million undocumented people in the United States have been here for more than a decade. Maguiber is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason that the Trump administration may be increasing expedited removals is to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security is already budgeted to spend $2.6 billion a year on ICE detention. Congress would have to appropriate more to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, the policy director for Detention Watch Network, says that Congress has a track record of paying for this type of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the entirety of the Obama administration, Congress gave ICE more money than the president asked for in the president’s budget,” Small said. “There is a real willingness to throw large amounts of money at locking immigrants up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaughan believes that while the initial cost to carry out Trump’s policies may be high, over time it will deter illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get the message that you’re not necessarily home free if you make it to the United States,” she said, “I think it’s pretty clear fewer people are going to come here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, people who are already here illegally may think about going home — when faced with these tougher consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maguiber is ready to fight to stay in the country. His father named him after the hero of the 1980s TV show, “MacGyver,” that was popular across Latin America. Angus MacGyver was famous for his knack at getting himself out of tricky situations. Maguiber’s family isn’t looking for him to bust out of jail like an action hero, but they are hoping he’ll find a way out of this bind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Tyche Hendricks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new president has inherited a deportation system already straining to remove historically high numbers of people — though illegal immigration is just a fraction of what it was 10 or 15 years ago. On one typical day in November, 40,875 people in the United States were being held in detention — though ICE is budgeted for just \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY_2016_DHS_Budget_in_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">34,000 detention beds\u003c/a>, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data. ICE officials declined repeated requests to comment or answer questions for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480644-17-0220-S1-Enforcement-of-the-Immigration-Laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo\u003c/a> that fleshes out President Trump’s executive order, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly specified that the default for the new administration will be detention, rather than allowing people to be released, for example, on bond or with an ankle-worn GPS monitor, while they await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wait can take years, because immigration courts are so understaffed and there has been an increase in asylum cases. On average, all immigrants, detained and not, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">were waiting\u003c/a> for 677 days as of January 2017 for their case to be resolved in immigration court. In California, the average was 718 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\" Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS17233_GettyImages-450371241-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrants prepare to be unshackled and set free from the Adelanto Detention Facility. The California facility is managed by the private prison company GEO Group. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Detention of Maguiber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguiber was born in Guatemala and has been living in the United States illegally for about a decade. His one offense (and the thing that may have put him on ICE’s radar) is a recent misdemeanor conviction for reckless driving. His lawyer believes that he may have come to ICE agents’ attention after he was booked or appeared in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That morning, Feb. 8, ICE agents took Maguiber to the West County Detention Facility, a county jail in Richmond, California. Like any other jail, its primary purpose is to hold people awaiting trial and inmates serving short sentences for low-level crimes. But Contra Costa County also rents 318 jail beds here to ICE. That makes the West County facility a small part of a vast and growing immigration detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE operates the largest federal detention system in the country. In 2015, it held almost twice as many people as the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. ICE runs its own detention centers in some parts of the country, but mostly it contracts out to private prison companies and local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, 16 different jails and private prisons had contracts with ICE, and held 5,269 ICE detainees on a day in late 2016. Nationally, California holds the second-highest number of detainees, after Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive orders are meant to deter people from coming into the country illegally and discourage people like Maguiber, who was previously deported as a teenager, from returning again. Jessica Vaughan, director of \u003ca href=\"http://cis.org/\" target=\"_blank\">policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies\u003c/a>, a think tank that favors restricting immigration, believes that Trump’s plan for stronger immigration enforcement will prevent people from returning to the United States illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was necessary to do these executive orders to let these government agencies do their job and do the job that Americans expect them to do, which is to enforce the immigration laws we have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many attorneys say it makes little sense to hold immigrants in prolonged detention. The vast majority, especially when they have an immigration lawyer, do appear for their day in immigration court as required, according to data from \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/438/\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a> (known as TRAC) and a\u003ca href=\"http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9502&context=penn_law_review\" target=\"_blank\"> study by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review\u003c/a>. And attorneys emphasize that immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to remember that these individuals are not serving time pursuant to a criminal conviction. Most of them have absolutely no criminal history at all,” said Denise L. Gilman, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Clinic\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://law.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas Law School\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yibi Heras says her husband is not a criminal. “Like all of us, he has made mistakes,” she said. “But he’s not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras is working hard to keep life as normal as possible for her children. Maguiber manages to call from jail almost every day, but the children are confused about why he can’t video chat with them as he used to do between his jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heras said her 4-year-old daughter, Gabriela, asked to move in with her father recently, saying she was ready to go as soon as she gathered up her toys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maguiber lived in the United States for more than 10 years. He was detained by ICE in February.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24471_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maguiber has lived in the United States for more than a decade. He was detained by ICE in February. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is poised to be a key part of ICE’s detention expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think California’s going to be ground zero when it comes to immigration removals during the Trump administration,” said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE may have reached the limits of its budgeted detention space, the KQED investigation found that, if new funds are made available, the agency could quickly expand detention to take advantage of idle bed space in jails and private prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private Detention Companies See Profits in Trump Policies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe majority of immigrant detainees in California and nationwide wind up in facilities run by for-profit companies, according to data from ICE released in December 2016. And, with President Trump’s heightened focus on deportation, these companies are seeing opportunities for expansion and profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the expansion began last year, as the Obama administration sought to respond to a continuing flow of children and families fleeing to the U.S. from Central America. \u003ca href=\"http://www.corecivic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoreCivic\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.geogroup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">GEO Group\u003c/a> and Emerald Correctional Management signed contracts in 2016 to open more facilities for immigrant detainees, which will supply an additional 3,087 beds.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Our financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2016 was well above our initial forecast due, in large part, to heightened utilization by ICE across the portfolio,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger told shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in February, executives at the two largest companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, told their shareholders that they had many empty beds nationally — totaling 13,700 — into which ICE could move detainees immediately. (Roughly 500 of those beds are in California.) A vacant 3,000-bed detention center in Texas, owned by Management and Training Corp., could also reopen for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason bed space is available is that the federal government last year determined that private prisons had inferior safety and security, and began phasing out their use. Three private prison companies currently hold contracts with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for 27,000 beds — 2,200 of those are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump Justice Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/23/516916688/private-prisons-back-in-mix-for-federal-inmates-as-sessions-rescinds-order\" target=\"_blank\">has since rescinded\u003c/a> the Obama administration’s decision not to use private prisons for federal inmates. But the number of federal inmates held in private prisons has been declining in recent years, so some of those beds could still become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates question why prisons that were found to be substandard for federal prisoners can be considered safe for immigrant detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is [for-profit companies’] desperate interest to keep costs as low as possible, and they do that by skimping on food, on health care, on mental health care and anything else so that they can maximize their profits for every individual detained,” said Gilman, of the University of Texas Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, three people have died while detained at the Adelanto Correctional Facility, run by GEO Group in San Bernardino, California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480649-adelantoCorrectionalFac-Adelanto-CA-Sept-18-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICE investigators\u003c/a> found problems at the facility, including health care delays, poor record keeping, bad communication between staff and failures to properly report sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480650-Ddr-Morales.html\" target=\"_blank\">federal investigation\u003c/a> into one of the California deaths, inspectors noted that the person who died had waited more than a year to see a specialist, that the high turnover of medical staff led to inadequate care and that a dearth of laboratory services led to delays in treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490498158/justice-department-will-phase-out-its-use-of-private-prisons\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Prisons decided\u003c/a> to stop using private prisons, Homeland Security officials asked an advisory council composed of government officials, attorneys, advocates and private prison executives to examine ICE’s reliance on private prisons. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480651-DHS-HSAC-PIDF-Final-Report.html\" target=\"_blank\">council’s report concluded\u003c/a> that despite problems with private, for-profit detention, DHS must continue to rely on it to control costs and “handle sudden increases in detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about three-quarters of the members who approved the report took issue with that central recommendation. In a dissenting opinion they said the review showed conditions in private prisons were inferior to ICE-run detention, and suggested shifting away from a private prison model. The dissenters also encouraged further investigation to find “the most effective and humane approach,” to detention, including looking at alternatives to physically jailing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Where Were People Detained in Fiscal Year 2016?\u003c/span>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/9cb4f780-827c-412a-96f1-d29ccf160b1b/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size:14px;\">Data from ICE. Fiscal year 2016 ran from Oct.1 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016. | Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Detained in Local Jails\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn the same report, the council recommended that ICE reduce its reliance on another type of facility: local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are, in general, the most problematic facilities for immigration detention,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jails, like the one on Richmond, California, where Maguiber is in custody, held 25 percent of immigrant detainees last year, according to ICE. And, despite the council’s recommendation to avoid them, ICE is likely to rely more heavily on jails, as it seeks to lock up more people in the deportation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would expect them to also look at expanding capacity by using space that’s not currently used in local jails that are already inspected and certified by ICE to be appropriate for immigration detention,” said Vaughan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greater expansion into jails is likely to take place in many states, but California, in particular, has plenty of available jail beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California county jails with ICE contracts had, on average, nearly 2,500 open beds in 2015, but ICE had specifically contracted only for 530 of them, according to data from ICE and the state agency that regulates county jails. That doesn’t include open jail beds in local cities with ICE contracts, including Glendale, Pomona and Alhambra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California is likely to have more jail space sitting empty soon. That’s because a 2012 criminal justice reform known as “realignment” gave counties money to expand their jails so they could accept some inmates from state prisons. Then, just as that building boom got underway, voters passed a measure in 2014 that reduced penalties for some crimes and led to a decrease of 9,000 inmates. 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Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston said that the county receives about $2 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money goes to defray the cost of running the jail and reduce the operating cost to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not always easy mixing immigrant detainees with jail inmates, however. ICE’s standards are higher for detainee health care and recreation time, for example. And the Homeland Security advisory council found that local officials are sometimes “resistant to changes” that require treating ICE detainees differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration Court Slowdown Leaves Detainees in Detention for Longer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main reasons so many immigrants are detained in California is that the state has the largest immigration court workload in the country, analysts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And part of the reason that ICE needs more bed space is because it’s taking longer for detainees to get a court date. Sending more people into deportation proceedings — and declining to release them on bond — will exacerbate the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently just 301 immigration judges nationwide — and they’re handling more than 542,000 pending cases, according to the Department of Justice and data from Syracuse University’s \u003ca href=\"http://<a%20href=\" target=\"_blank\">TRAC\u003c/a> research center. Even if the immigration courts didn’t accept a single additional case, it would take 2½ years to go through the backlog, according to TRAC. (The Department of Justice, which oversees immigration courts, is trying to speed up the system. It is working to fill 61 open positions, and requesting that Congress fund an additional 25 immigration judges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting months or years for a hearing in detention can be extremely hard for detainees — and also for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11345541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11345541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi and Maguiber’s 8-year-old son, Kevin, is disabled and Yibi is worried about the financial burden her partner’s detention is causing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24469_ICE_2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yibi Heras cares for her disabled 8-year-old son, Kevin, and her two preschoolers. With Maguiber in detention, Heras is worried about how she will support her family. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Right now Heras is trying to figure out how to support her family while her husband is detained. Her younger children, Gabriela and Christopher, are not yet in school, and her oldest, Kevin, has cerebral palsy and needs extra care. So Heras has her hands full as a stay-at-home mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stopped working because my oldest son had to have an operation,” she said. “But now I have to look for other resources to keep surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of a \u003cem>pro bono\u003c/em> lawyer, Heras and her husband are trying to keep him from being deported. An asylum officer found that Maguiber has grounds to request protection from deportation. His attorney has asked ICE to release him while he awaits his first hearing, which is scheduled for March 29. Heras says the court should not worry that Maguiber will flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband has three children,” she said. “He wasn’t going to run away from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Deportation Method: Expedited Removal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe Trump administration has another tool to deport some undocumented immigrants, one that would put less strain on immigration courts and detention facilities, but that civil liberties advocates say will unfairly deprive people of their right to due process of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy, called expedited removal, is a fast-track deportation without a hearing before an immigration judge. It was formerly applied only to unauthorized immigrants encountered within 100 miles of the border who had been in the country less than two weeks. Recently, Kelly expanded expedited removal to include people caught by agents anywhere in the United States who cannot prove that they have been in the country at least two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expedited removal would not apply to the majority of people living in the country illegally. The Pew Research Center estimates that two-thirds of the estimated 11.1 million undocumented people in the United States have been here for more than a decade. Maguiber is one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason that the Trump administration may be increasing expedited removals is to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security is already budgeted to spend $2.6 billion a year on ICE detention. Congress would have to appropriate more to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Small, the policy director for Detention Watch Network, says that Congress has a track record of paying for this type of enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the entirety of the Obama administration, Congress gave ICE more money than the president asked for in the president’s budget,” Small said. “There is a real willingness to throw large amounts of money at locking immigrants up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaughan believes that while the initial cost to carry out Trump’s policies may be high, over time it will deter illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people get the message that you’re not necessarily home free if you make it to the United States,” she said, “I think it’s pretty clear fewer people are going to come here illegally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she says, people who are already here illegally may think about going home — when faced with these tougher consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maguiber is ready to fight to stay in the country. His father named him after the hero of the 1980s TV show, “MacGyver,” that was popular across Latin America. Angus MacGyver was famous for his knack at getting himself out of tricky situations. Maguiber’s family isn’t looking for him to bust out of jail like an action hero, but they are hoping he’ll find a way out of this bind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/06/presidential-executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry\" target=\"_blank\">revised executive order\u003c/a> limiting travel to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries appears to address key legal concerns with his original order, but it hasn't mollified California congressional critics and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the original order struck down by federal courts, the new order signed this morning removes Iraq from the travel ban, applies only to non-visa holders and deletes the preference for \"religious minorities\" that had created the appearance of illegally targeting Muslims. But it retains a 120-day ban on refugees worldwide. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Fresno County Jail, Sgt. Elisa Magallanes walks a newly arrested man from a holding cell to a small locked booth where she’ll book him. She talks to him through a glass barrier with a small window in it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Where were you born at?” Magallanes asks.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He says Mexico. “Are you a U.S. citizen?” He says he is. “I gotta give you this consent form,” she says, passing him a slip of paper. “It’s pertaining to ICE,” as in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magallanes explains that ICE agents may come into the jail to interview the man, but he has the right not to speak with them. On the other side of the glass, the man nods. He doesn’t have any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11342775 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sergeant Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3281-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Elisa Magallanes holds a consent form provided to inmates at the Fresno County Jail\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s still getting used to explaining this — the jail only started using the consent forms Jan. 1, when a state law requiring them went into effect. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes they ask me questions as far as: ‘Am I getting deported?’ ” Magallanes says. “I explain to them, ‘At this time, no. But I do have to advise you that it is a possibility.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s more of a possibility here than in many California jails. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnosheriff.org/645\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department has a special partnership with ICE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Immigration agents have unfettered access to the jail’s database. So the info that Magallanes collected at booking? They can see that — plus any details about charges or criminal history in the database.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on what agents find there, they decide who to question and who they’ll eventually put in deportation proceedings. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department isn’t privy to how these decisions are made. And ICE didn’t provide any details about how the program works for this story. Correctional officers at the Fresno jail say ICE agents come into the jail at least twice per week with lists of inmates to interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Edgar Torres was one of those inmates. He was lying in his bunk when he heard his inmate number blaring from a loudspeaker. He had a visitor, but he wasn’t expecting anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A guard escorted him from his cell to an interview room — an uncomfortably tight space; it just fits two chairs and a small metal table attached to the wall.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the room, a man wearing a badge was waiting for him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He said ‘Do you know who I am?’ ” Torres explains, “I said ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m ICE.’ ”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-03b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/151341-full-800x534.jpeg\" Title=\"Fresno Sheriff's ICE Partnership May Give a Glimpse of Trump-Era Deportations\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres was floored. This was before the jail started handing out those consent forms, so he didn’t know ICE might approach him in the jail, and he didn’t know he had a right to refuse the interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres says the agent handed him a paper to sign and told him, “I want you to sign this so you leave the country. You don’t belong in this county. We know you came in illegally.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was right. Torres had been caught crossing the border almost a decade ago. He crossed again soon after and didn’t get caught. The agent was trying to get him to sign a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/voluntary-departure\">voluntary departure\u003c/a> order. Despite the pressure, Torres says he wanted to fight to stay with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has only one misdemeanor conviction on his record — but it’s a serious one: domestic violence. He and his wife have had a rocky relationship. They got in some bad fights and she got a restraining order. A judge ordered him to attend classes, but when he and his wife got back together he stopped going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife were working things out. They’d just had a baby last summer when Torres got pulled over for a broken tail light. He had a warrant because of the missed classes and ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU attorney Angelica Salceda says this is a common scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the biggest flaws of this program is that you can have someone who committed a mistake and they paid the price for it and turned their lives around. Then they get arrested for something minor,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re undocumented, or even a legal permanent resident, the consequence isn’t just jail time — it can mean deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salceda also worries people who get arrested — but are never actually charged or convicted — can end up getting deported. “Those are the types of practices that we think are incredibly problematic and that lead to separation of families and fear in our communities,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ICE defended its practices in jails: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When criminal custody transfers occur outside the secure confines of a jail or prison, regardless of the security precautions we take, there are greater safety risks for all concerned — our arrest target, ICE officers, and the general public. It needlessly puts our personnel and innocent bystanders in harm’s way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Torres was in jail, he says ICE agents met with him three times. Every time the pressure to sign himself out of the country got worse. “They would grab me hard by the arm and sit me down,” he says. “They’d slam the papers down in front of me, making loud sounds to intimidate me. They’d say ‘You’re gonna sign, because if not you’re gonna be in prison. Do it for your own good. We’re coming for you anyway — we know your release date.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t bluffing. When Torres got out of jail, ICE representatives were waiting for him. He spent six months at a detention center. Eventually it was clear he wasn’t going to win his case. On the advice of his lawyer, Torres finally signed a voluntary removal order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”HRivJpoXYTzl64X6SvDbtdNu7AAqJ6nC”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective it truly is a win-win,” says Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims. “It keeps people from being released back into our communities that have committed crimes — many times multiple crimes — and it keeps ICE in our jail and they don’t have to go out into the community, which raises fear among people that ICE may not be looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mims launched her program in 2015, other California sheriffs followed her lead, including in Kern and Stanislaus Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the only way police in our state work with ICE. Today, every jail in California — and around the country — shares fingerprints with immigration authorities. But local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities to different degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a very complex framework around California because there’s a lack of uniformity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> attorney Saira Hussain. “People don’t always know, ‘If I end up in jail here, how will ICE try to access me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one extreme, there are \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/oceia/sanctuary-city-ordinance-0\" target=\"_blank\">counties like San Francisco with its strong sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>. ICE is allowed into the jails to conduct interviews only in rare instances there. Orange County sits at the other end of the spectrum. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/287g\" target=\"_blank\">the only county in California that empowers sheriff’s deputies in jails to act as immigration agents\u003c/a> under a federal partnership called the 287(g) program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”2cBLJH43J267Vv1z2ggHNdDoy70UsBC6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, there are counties like Fresno. Hussain says they may be a sign of what’s to come in the Trump age. “When the message from the administration to local law enforcement is, ‘We want you to help us deport people,’ I’d say that Fresno is already sort of setting that path to really just unfettered cooperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edgar Torres is back in Mexico now. His mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter are still in Fresno, and they’re undocumented. His 5-month-old daughter, who’s also with her mom, is a U.S. citizen. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” Torres says. “I’m thinking about them all the time. I can’t move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Maria, is now the sole breadwinner for six people. She’s paying off more than $7,000 in legal fees for her son. Torres’ wife is severely depressed and his younger daughter is seeing a therapist, because she had started gnawing her fingertips raw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I’m just asking God for things to get better,” says Maria. “I know so many people are going through the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already limits how police can work with immigration authorities. But the state Legislature is weighing a bill that would tighten things further. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\">The California Values Act\u003c/a> would bar Fresno — or any sheriff’s department — from dedicating any resources to immigration enforcement. And it would stop them from letting ICE into jails to do interviews.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres was floored. This was before the jail started handing out those consent forms, so he didn’t know ICE might approach him in the jail, and he didn’t know he had a right to refuse the interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres says the agent handed him a paper to sign and told him, “I want you to sign this so you leave the country. You don’t belong in this county. We know you came in illegally.” \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was right. Torres had been caught crossing the border almost a decade ago. He crossed again soon after and didn’t get caught. The agent was trying to get him to sign a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/voluntary-departure\">voluntary departure\u003c/a> order. Despite the pressure, Torres says he wanted to fight to stay with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has only one misdemeanor conviction on his record — but it’s a serious one: domestic violence. He and his wife have had a rocky relationship. They got in some bad fights and she got a restraining order. A judge ordered him to attend classes, but when he and his wife got back together he stopped going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife were working things out. They’d just had a baby last summer when Torres got pulled over for a broken tail light. He had a warrant because of the missed classes and ended up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU attorney Angelica Salceda says this is a common scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the biggest flaws of this program is that you can have someone who committed a mistake and they paid the price for it and turned their lives around. Then they get arrested for something minor,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re undocumented, or even a legal permanent resident, the consequence isn’t just jail time — it can mean deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11342773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11342773\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/IMG_3268-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interview rooms where ICE agents question inmates at the Fresno County Jail \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salceda also worries people who get arrested — but are never actually charged or convicted — can end up getting deported. “Those are the types of practices that we think are incredibly problematic and that lead to separation of families and fear in our communities,” she says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ICE defended its practices in jails: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When criminal custody transfers occur outside the secure confines of a jail or prison, regardless of the security precautions we take, there are greater safety risks for all concerned — our arrest target, ICE officers, and the general public. It needlessly puts our personnel and innocent bystanders in harm’s way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Torres was in jail, he says ICE agents met with him three times. Every time the pressure to sign himself out of the country got worse. “They would grab me hard by the arm and sit me down,” he says. “They’d slam the papers down in front of me, making loud sounds to intimidate me. They’d say ‘You’re gonna sign, because if not you’re gonna be in prison. Do it for your own good. We’re coming for you anyway — we know your release date.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren’t bluffing. When Torres got out of jail, ICE representatives were waiting for him. He spent six months at a detention center. Eventually it was clear he wasn’t going to win his case. On the advice of his lawyer, Torres finally signed a voluntary removal order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my perspective it truly is a win-win,” says Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims. “It keeps people from being released back into our communities that have committed crimes — many times multiple crimes — and it keeps ICE in our jail and they don’t have to go out into the community, which raises fear among people that ICE may not be looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mims launched her program in 2015, other California sheriffs followed her lead, including in Kern and Stanislaus Counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the only way police in our state work with ICE. Today, every jail in California — and around the country — shares fingerprints with immigration authorities. But local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities to different degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a very complex framework around California because there’s a lack of uniformity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> attorney Saira Hussain. “People don’t always know, ‘If I end up in jail here, how will ICE try to access me?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one extreme, there are \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/oceia/sanctuary-city-ordinance-0\" target=\"_blank\">counties like San Francisco with its strong sanctuary ordinance\u003c/a>. ICE is allowed into the jails to conduct interviews only in rare instances there. Orange County sits at the other end of the spectrum. It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/287g\" target=\"_blank\">the only county in California that empowers sheriff’s deputies in jails to act as immigration agents\u003c/a> under a federal partnership called the 287(g) program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, there are counties like Fresno. Hussain says they may be a sign of what’s to come in the Trump age. “When the message from the administration to local law enforcement is, ‘We want you to help us deport people,’ I’d say that Fresno is already sort of setting that path to really just unfettered cooperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edgar Torres is back in Mexico now. His mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter are still in Fresno, and they’re undocumented. His 5-month-old daughter, who’s also with her mom, is a U.S. citizen. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” Torres says. “I’m thinking about them all the time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Plenty of small grocery stores in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood cater to the area's heavily Latino population: corn tortillas and dried chilies abound on stands, while colorful piñatas hang from the ceiling. But the Spanish-speaking shop owners working behind the register often hail from another part of the world: Yemen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogeeb Alomri's family has owned Mi Ranchito Market for about 25 years. The U.S. citizen has spent so much time working at this store serving immigrants from Mexico and Central America that he feels more comfortable speaking Spanish than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This business is basically all Latino,\" Alomri says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other Yemeni-American shop owners in the area, Alomri strongly disagrees with President Donald Trump's recent orders aimed at both stepping up deportations of undocumented immigrants and suspending the entry into the U.S. of travelers from Yemen and other Muslim-majority countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's two problems we have. We worry a lot about people in Yemen and Latinos living here,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-02c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/YemeniGrocer-800x523.jpg\" Title=\"Yemeni-Americans Worry for Latino Clientele, Halt Trips Abroad\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alomri worries that long-term customers and friends could be swept up by new Department of Homeland Security guidelines that greatly expand the pool of undocumented immigrants who could be deported. Meanwhile, he says, a new travel ban from the administration could make it harder for his wife and four children, who are in the process of applying for U.S. visas, to leave war-torn Yemen to rejoin him here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/16/trump-says-he-will-issue-new-executive-action-related-to-travel-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">expected to issue a new travel ban\u003c/a> in the coming days, after the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/09/9th-circuit-denies-reinstatement-of-trump-travel-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">courts halted his original order\u003c/a> suspending the entry into the U.S. of refugees worldwide and most people from seven Muslim-majority nations. Alomri expects Yemen will remain on the list of targeted countries in a new executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids probably won't be able to come,\" said Alomri, who has been a U.S. citizen for eight years, but now fears traveling to Yemen to visit family could cause him additional problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"EXlyBRpjeo4b3MHsKRl6CXQvww0ojY3s\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the street, store owner Abdul Taleb -- who also has a U.S. passport -- canceled his vacation plans to Mexico as he waits to learn the details of a new travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are postponing their travel,\" says Taleb of other Yemeni-Americans. \"They don’t want to go right now because there’s so much uncertainty of what’s going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taleb says flying for him was already a headache under the Obama administration. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump has pushed aggressively against illegal immigration, while his specific plans for legal immigration — including the popular but troubled H-1B work visa — remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has said he wants to crack down on abuses and protect American workers, but it's Congress that holds the power to fundamentally reform the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Broken System\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For months last year, California lawmakers Darrell Issa and Zoe Lofgren tried to hash out a joint bipartisan bill to reform the H-1B visa, the popular program that lets thousands of highly skilled foreigners work in the U.S., particularly in tech jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as immigration reforms go, high-skilled immigration programs are some of the least controversial. The H-1B program covers many fields, but is especially known to benefit tech companies. Its description often invokes a recurring line about America's interest in attracting the world's \"best and brightest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But H-1B also has elements known to be broken: A lottery decides who gets the visa; the demand has far eclipsed the quota; and options for permanent stay differ by country of origin. And the biggest complaint is that Indian IT companies like Wipro, Infosys and Tata have hijacked the system. They are three of the top H-1B employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/517496648/517779845\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're taking the H-1B visas a real U.S. tech company needs,\" says Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Technology Association. \"And they're using them ... to basically replace American workers at a cheaper rate by having people come here temporarily, not paid well, not housed well, not on any way to becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone loses under the system today,\" he says, \"so it's part of the reason we need an H-1B overhaul.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to do that kind of overhaul have been undertaken by federal legislators over recent years, but haven't progressed. The latest concerted effort came under President Barack Obama — but stalled in Congress, folded into a massive, broad immigration reform bill, Shapiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Obama meant well, but ... he had the chance and he lost it,\" he says. \"Now we have another chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attempted Joint Effort\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the top Democrat on the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where Issa is one of her Republican colleagues. Her district covers a chunk of Silicon Valley; his is in San Diego County. She is, by profession, an immigration lawyer. He is a former electronics executive with family members from Lebanon balancing lives in several countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We tried to work before the election with the ranking member on the subcommittee and she pulled out of it, preferring partisan politics,\" Issa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked for probably six, seven months ... every day it was a new\" thing, says Lofgren. \"I tried to work with Darrell, but it's impossible to work with Darrell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/gettyimages-457785174-37b8d050f4d5ab580deca4b967b285e0dd7691fe-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each says the other kept moving the goal post or altering the bill. In the end, the two of them introduced separate bills. With Republicans controlling the majority, Issa's has more potential — at least he says he's got the votes to pass it in the House. Shapiro's CTA supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>This piece of legislation is small, it's focused, and it's highly bipartisan,\" Issa says, \"and that gives it an opportunity to break a logjam that has gone on for approaching two decades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dueling Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's bill is small indeed. Without reaching for changes to the quota or how the system operates, \u003ca href=\"https://issa.house.gov/news-room/press-releases/issa-introduces-bill-stop-outsourcing-american-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Issa's legislation\u003c/a> — in simplest terms — raises the bar for companies with more than 15 percent of H-1B employees to \"attest\" that they could not hire Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, these \"H-1B-dependent\" companies have to certify this only if a foreigner displaces an American worker for a job that pays less than $60,000 — far less than an average tech wage. Under Issa's bill, the threshold would rise to $100,000 and holders of master's degrees would lose an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lofgren and other critics — which include \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2017/10617.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the engineering group IEEE-USA\u003c/a> — say that this won't do much. They argue companies have figured out how to game the so-called attestation process, and in a highly paid field of tech work, even the new wage threshold would allow for displacement of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-960x633.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-375x247.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Lofgren-520x343.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., says the H-1B program needs a broad reform, including changes to the lottery process that awards the visas. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Some people think (attestation) works, but my observation is it doesn't work and it hasn't worked,\" Lofgren says. \"I think if we place all eggs in that basket, we're going to be disappointed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren's \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/uploadedfiles/high_skilled_bill_sxs_and_analysis_-1-2017__final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bill sweeps wider\u003c/a>. It proposes replacing the lottery process with a system that prioritizes the highest-paying companies. Then it goes beyond H-1B, suggesting changes to work-based immigration and other types of visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa sees merit in Lofgren's bill — he says parts of it came from their joint effort. But, he says, the time for broader legislation is \u003cem>after \u003c/em>a narrow bill passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support comprehensive high-skilled reform,\" Issa says. \"But there's a difference between plugging a leak and building a better ship. ... In this particular structure of Republicans and Democrats, simplicity may be the best way to at least get a partial fix.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential Power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's and Lofgren's bills aren't the only ones \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159596/it-careers/new-senate-bill-seeks-sweeping-h-1b-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">under consideration\u003c/a> in Congress. And Trump \u003cem>is \u003c/em>expected to weigh in on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leaked \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/30/technology/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-reform/?iid=EL\" target=\"_blank\">draft of his executive order\u003c/a> earlier this year took aim at H-1B and other work visas, but with few specifics. It recommended a review of the programs to ensure protections for American workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1A1S0qJztrjWxNHvCNbrADUmrR7KZJhk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president made it clear when he was asked by [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and other tech leaders to put a priority on this that he would and they agreed with him,\" Issa says about Trump's \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-immigration-tech-idUSKBN14W1CZ\" target=\"_blank\">December meeting\u003c/a> with tech executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked about plans for legal immigration earlier this month. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/22/press-briefing-press-secretary-sean-spicer-2222017-14\" target=\"_blank\">replied that they would shape up\u003c/a>, but for now illegal immigration was a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, experts say that key elements of the program, including the number of the visas that get issued, are written into statute, meaning Congress holds the power to change them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The latest concerted effort came under President Barack Obama — but stalled in Congress, folded into a massive, broad immigration reform bill, Shapiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Obama meant well, but ... he had the chance and he lost it,\" he says. \"Now we have another chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attempted Joint Effort\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lofgren is the top Democrat on the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where Issa is one of her Republican colleagues. Her district covers a chunk of Silicon Valley; his is in San Diego County. She is, by profession, an immigration lawyer. He is a former electronics executive with family members from Lebanon balancing lives in several countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We tried to work before the election with the ranking member on the subcommittee and she pulled out of it, preferring partisan politics,\" Issa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked for probably six, seven months ... every day it was a new\" thing, says Lofgren. \"I tried to work with Darrell, but it's impossible to work with Darrell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/gettyimages-457785174-37b8d050f4d5ab580deca4b967b285e0dd7691fe-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., says he's got the votes to pass his narrow H-1B bill in the House and hopes for support in the Senate. \u003ccite>(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each says the other kept moving the goal post or altering the bill. In the end, the two of them introduced separate bills. With Republicans controlling the majority, Issa's has more potential — at least he says he's got the votes to pass it in the House. Shapiro's CTA supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>This piece of legislation is small, it's focused, and it's highly bipartisan,\" Issa says, \"and that gives it an opportunity to break a logjam that has gone on for approaching two decades.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dueling Bills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's bill is small indeed. Without reaching for changes to the quota or how the system operates, \u003ca href=\"https://issa.house.gov/news-room/press-releases/issa-introduces-bill-stop-outsourcing-american-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Issa's legislation\u003c/a> — in simplest terms — raises the bar for companies with more than 15 percent of H-1B employees to \"attest\" that they could not hire Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, these \"H-1B-dependent\" companies have to certify this only if a foreigner displaces an American worker for a job that pays less than $60,000 — far less than an average tech wage. Under Issa's bill, the threshold would rise to $100,000 and holders of master's degrees would lose an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lofgren and other critics — which include \u003ca href=\"http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2017/10617.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the engineering group IEEE-USA\u003c/a> — say that this won't do much. 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But, he says, the time for broader legislation is \u003cem>after \u003c/em>a narrow bill passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support comprehensive high-skilled reform,\" Issa says. \"But there's a difference between plugging a leak and building a better ship. ... In this particular structure of Republicans and Democrats, simplicity may be the best way to at least get a partial fix.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Presidential Power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Issa's and Lofgren's bills aren't the only ones \u003ca href=\"http://www.computerworld.com/article/3159596/it-careers/new-senate-bill-seeks-sweeping-h-1b-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">under consideration\u003c/a> in Congress. And Trump \u003cem>is \u003c/em>expected to weigh in on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leaked \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/30/technology/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-reform/?iid=EL\" target=\"_blank\">draft of his executive order\u003c/a> earlier this year took aim at H-1B and other work visas, but with few specifics. It recommended a review of the programs to ensure protections for American workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president made it clear when he was asked by [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and other tech leaders to put a priority on this that he would and they agreed with him,\" Issa says about Trump's \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-immigration-tech-idUSKBN14W1CZ\" target=\"_blank\">December meeting\u003c/a> with tech executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House spokesman Sean Spicer was asked about plans for legal immigration earlier this month. 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"content": "\u003cp>Toward the end of a special Youth Day service at the Anaheim Convention Center last Thursday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.angelusnews.com/articles/on-the-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez\u003c/a> paused to address the several thousand Catholic celebrants in the arena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to ask you one special favor,” Gomez said. “And that is, let us especially pray for our brothers and sisters who are immigrants and refugees. It is a challenging time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archbishop’s comments, received with a roar of applause, came on the opening day of the annual archdiocese-sponsored \u003ca href=\"http://www.recongress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Religious Education Congress\u003c/a>. Immigration was a major theme this year with special masses and workshops dedicated to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sat down with L.A. Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who on Saturday led a forum on how the archdiocese is responding to President Donald Trump’s executive orders that aim to dramatically increase the deportation of noncriminal undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/02/2017-02-24c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/OConnell-960x589.jpg\" Title=\"L.A. Catholic Leaders Resist Trump Immigration Crackdowns\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What steps is the archdiocese taking to assist immigrants in response to the heightened risk now of detention and deportation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re trying to form these groups in the parishes, who will talk to the moms and dads who come to Catechism, the moms and dads involved in the prayer groups and whatever groups so that people know their rights as immigrants. We hope for the best, but we prepare for the worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you hearing from parishioners who are undocumented, what kind of fears or anxieties are they sharing with you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, there’s a lot of anxiety, and I think it’s growing as we get these (presidential) executive orders coming out. Children are afraid because they’re wondering: When I come home from school will my mom be there? Will my dad get detained, will he get deported?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And what do you tell them, how do you reassure someone who comes to you? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-pope-noel-diaz-20160212-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noel Diaz\u003c/a> (Los Angeles parishioner invited this month to travel from the Vatican to Mexico with Pope Francis) from Los Angeles here, he had an interview with the pope and he asked him: Any words for the people of the United States who are so nervous now about their immigration status? And the pope said: We return to our faith in Our Lady of Guadalupe who is very special for the people of Mexico, for all of the Americas. (We) put our confidence in her, that she will help us and protect us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I would say, we are with you as a church. We are part of the same family, part of the same body of Christ. Your suffering is our suffering. And what we are trying to do also is create these networks where people can have a phone number to call if they need help. We’re taking all these steps to try and help and make sure people know that they are not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve seen a big rise in nationalism and a real backlash against immigrants, against refugees and people of certain faiths. Not just here in the U.S. but in parts of Europe and elsewhere. So what message does the archdiocese have in response to this phenomenon, not only for people here in L.A. but globally? Because I think the archdiocese has a pretty outsized influence internationally. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I came here from Ireland way back almost 40 years ago. I started working in South Los Angeles; I was certainly a stranger in South Los Angeles when I moved in as a pastor. But I know also that I was received with great love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You would have been a real minority.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a minority of one! Someone said, ‘So how many Irish are there in South L.A.?’ I said about one. They said, ‘Oh 1 percent? I said; no, one!’ Except for maybe a few other Irish priests around the place here and there. But this is what I want to say to the world, and that is not to be afraid of the stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The church is taking a fair amount of criticism for its stance on this issue of immigration. I have had anti-illegal immigration activists tell me it’s a ploy to keep the pews filled on Sunday, to get money in the collection plate. Because a large part of the Catholic Church’s denomination, especially here in the L.A. area, is Latino. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, it makes me sad to hear that. All my years working in South Los Angeles, working with immigrants, it never once crossed my mind to help another human being just so that I would have somebody else in my church. We are not here really to serve the church; we’re here to serve the world, to serve the people, especially those who are suffering. And we certainly respect the laws of our country and our borders and the right of a country to form borders. But in any way we can, we also have to help those who are in need. And that’s not partisan, not left or right. It’s the Gospel. It goes back to who we are. We can’t ignore the suffering of the people around us. Because then we are less human, we’re less Christian. And we are breaking that covenant we have with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As you have been saying, a lot of immigrants are pretty panicked right now, they are anxious. I’ve heard some religious leaders express this willingness to open their places of worship as sanctuary. Is this something that is discussed seriously among those in church leadership?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, we have talked a little bit about this. We’re doing what we know how to do right now. We’re meeting with Archbishop Gomez, with the mayor, helping people get their papers organized, helping them to have some ability to get legal representation. These are kind of practical ways in which we can give sanctuary right now, without moving to the issue of bringing a few families into church property. They can’t live there indefinitely in some parking lot. We’ll do whatever practical things we can do right now, and then just be open to whatever (may happen). But, I’m sure if it came to that (providing sanctuary) I’m sure we’d be open to looking at that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>We know that in times of heightened stress, human instincts tell us to fight or flee. For some American Muslims, the current political climate has created a need for more Muslims to stand up and fight by seeking political office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Muslims didn't ask to be dragged into the spotlight, but now that we're there and we need to push back, getting into elected office is one of the best means,\" said Robert McCaw, director of government affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2017/02/20170223_me_american_muslims_respond_to_islamophobia_by_running_for_office.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/nadeem_education_1024_wide-393e59e74492e253b37ace133b089bacebc141b7-800x450.png\" Title=\"In Response to Rising Biased Rhetoric, Muslims Run for Office\" program=\"NPR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCaw pointed out that there are only two Muslims serving in Congress: Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who over the weekend was appointed deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, and André Carson of Indiana. Local races, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2017/01/26/bias-rise-muslims-turn-elected-office/97087000/\">ones in New Jersey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2016-10-21/austin-community-college-board-of-trustees/\">Austin\u003c/a>, have seen an increase in mostly Democratic Muslim candidates running for office. And Sayu Bhojwani, the executive director of the New American Leaders Project (NALP), which helps politically involved immigrants run for office, said her organization has seen more South Asian, Arab-American and Muslim people emerge from their trainings and run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When your civil rights are under attack,\" McCaw said, \"grab hold of the Constitution and assert yourself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need to make their presence known has been largely due to a rise in open aggression against Muslim-Americans. The latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502036699/hate-crimes-rose-in-2015-with-religious-bias-a-growing-motivation-fbi-data-shows\">FBI figures show a 67 percent increase\u003c/a> in anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2014 and 2015 (184 to 257). That is the highest total of anti-Muslim hate crimes since the aftermath of 9/11, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/11/14/fbi-hate-crimes-against-muslims-percent/9bRSjP5PrtL6nCvc0PFyvM/story.html\">Associated Press\u003c/a>. This spike in Islamophobia over the past decade, along with recent anti-Muslim political rhetoric and policies, including an attempt to ban travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, has motivated a noticeable number of Muslims to step into the political ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since Sept. 11, there's been an evolution of engagement with these communities,\" Bhojwani said. \"Initially, there might've been a sense of, 'It's going to be difficult for me to overcome some of ... the public perceptions that I might experience as an American Muslim or Arab-American or South-Asian American.'\" But now, she said, the generation of folks who grew up during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent increase in Islamophobia have started mobilizing. \"I think there was a moment in recent years, where there was a sense of, 'This isn't going to change ... but I can be part of that change as part of that dialogue.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-800x1072.jpg\" alt=\"Farrah Khan ran for a seat on Irvine's City Council in 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-800x1072.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-1020x1367.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-1180x1581.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-960x1287.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-240x322.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-375x503.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-520x697.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farrah Khan ran for a seat on Irvine's City Council in 2016. \u003ccite>(Gunindu Abeysekera/Courtesy of Farrah Khan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, a business owner who also heads an interfaith group in Irvine, was helping someone else run their City Council race when she took a NALP training in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan, who is Pakistani-American and Muslim, told NPR that prior to the training, she'd considered running for a City Council seat, and had mentioned that possibility to her peers. Khan said she was told by her local Democratic Party members that the timing wasn't right, and that she'd have to wait her turn to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the NALP training, Khan recalled that she listened to another woman mention how her local party had also told her to wait her turn. Bhojwani said that many of NALP's participants who have wanted to run for local office have been told by party members to hold off on pursuing a local seat. That's why, Bhojwani said, \"it's really important that we're affirming for people of all backgrounds that ... someone who has their immigration background, their religious status, our skin color, our names, can be in a leadership position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Khan completed her training, she went back to her local elected officials. \"I said, 'Hey, you know what? Next year, I'm thinking of running,' \" Khan recalled. Their response was a lot like the first time she tried to inquire about running for office and filing the paperwork to do so: \"They were like, 'Oh! No, no. Maybe not right now. You know, we're still deciding what to do the next two years.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, after the NALP training, Khan said she stood her ground: \"I was like, 'No, no. I'm \u003cem>telling\u003c/em> you. I'm running.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What’s happening at the national level can be used against you by your own party members because they think people will buy into it.'\u003ccite>Farrah Khan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khan \u003ca href=\"http://www.theliberaloc.com/2015/09/30/farrah-khan-announces-run-for-irvine-city-council/\">announced \u003c/a>she was entering Irvine's crowded City Council race in 2015; there would ultimately be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/council-725876-election-mayor.html\">15 other candidates\u003c/a> competing for two slots. She quickly became a strong contender in the Democrat-leaning city, even garnering the much-coveted endorsement of young Democrats at the University of California, Irvine. The city of Irvine is known for its rapidly-growing, diverse — \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/irvine-729359-asian-city.html\">and more than 45 percent Asian\u003c/a> — population, and has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofirvine.org/about-irvine/demographics\">median household income\u003c/a> of more than $90,000. A little more than 25,000 people in Orange County identify as Muslim, according to a 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/11/56162/socal-s-muslim-community-geographically-ethnically/\">estimate\u003c/a> from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Irvine's racially diverse demographics, Khan said she saw the Islamophobic rhetoric from the presidential election reflected in her own race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You might not run on your immigration status, or that you're an American Muslim, but you can't run from it,\" Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theliberaloc.com/2016/11/03/developer-super-pac-use-trump-style-attacks-on-irvine-mom-and-her-family/\">local liberal-leaning blog\u003c/a>, a political action committee (PAC) sent out \u003ca href=\"http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2016/11/farrah-khan-slaps-back-at-disgusting-dishonest-degrading-dave-gilliard-his-irvine-clients/\">fliers\u003c/a> that attacked her religious faith. Khan said that an opponent even made lawn signs that falsely accused her of being anti-Israel. She said party members, religious leaders and friends reached out to her to express their shock at that sort of politicking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338159\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11338159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-800x600.jpg\" alt='Farrah Khan said that during her city council campaign in Irvine, Calif., an opponent made a sign falsely accusing her of being \"anti-Israel.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farrah Khan said that during her City Council campaign in Irvine, Calif., an opponent made a sign falsely accusing her of being \"anti-Israel.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Farrah Khan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was kind of like a self-check for me, to see ... [that] what's happening at the national level can be used against you by your own party members because they think people will buy into it,\" Khan said. She eventually lost the election, coming in fourth place out of 16, with over 11 percent of the votes \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/results-734757-county-election.html\">(more than 16,487)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>Orange County Register\u003c/em> reporter noted that Irvine's City Council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/asian-737839-irvine-council.html\">now completely white\u003c/a> in an increasingly diverse city. A New York Times article \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/world/americas/venom-of-us-election-seeps-down-to-city-council-race-in-california.html?_r=0\">used the word \"venom\"\u003c/a> to describe the conditions in Irvine's 2016 City Council race, outlining a particularly contentious rivalry and slew of politicking between Khan and another Democratic City Council front-runner, Anila Ali, who is also a Pakistani-American and Muslim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nadeem Mazen, who became Massachusetts' first elected Muslim official when he won a City Council seat in 2013 by only six votes, has seen that political and Islamophobic \"venom\" seep to the local level, too. \"If you're a visible Muslim ... you'll be a target 100 percent of the time,\" said Mazen. After winning his seat in 2015 by \u003ca href=\"http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151104/NEWS/151108371\">landing the most votes\u003c/a> of any of the candidates seeking re-election, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.jet-pac.com/\">JetPac\u003c/a>, which helps Muslims get more involved politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, JetPac's training focuses on teaching potential candidates to lead canvassing and phone campaigns, to analyze local issues and to respond to vitriol that targets their race or religion. Some of these skills Mazen learned on the job. Last year, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/16/hamas-on-the-charles-cambridge-ma-reelects-cair-leader-to-city-council/\">platform of the white nationalist movement\u003c/a> commonly referred to as the \"alt-right\" incorrectly \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/breitbart-news-cambridge-city-council-217444\">accused Mazen of being associated with Hamas\u003c/a> and so-called \"extremist operatives.\" He has \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/29/first-muslim-city-councilor-cambridge-would-rather-talk-about-affordable-housing/tOBUJWblu2ox2aHt05L7EJ/story.html\">received violent threats\u003c/a>, including being told that \"Christians are coming\" for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For 20 years I've seen people who are in the limelight get the same attacks or the same questions,\" Mazen said. \"When someone isn't attacking you, they're asking 'Why aren't Muslims doing a better job controlling the narrative?' When someone is attacking you personally, they say, 'Why are you associated with this, that or the other thing that the American public has heard about, but doesn't like?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazen teaches his JetPac trainees that \"operating on the positive\" is the most effective way a candidate can respond to such criticisms. For a candidate, that could mean \"facing the hate speech head on, and then flipping the conversation back to the actual service to the community and back to the actual [elected] role in question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Irvine, Farrah Khan also tries to operate on the positive. \"I'm just as good as the people that are in office right now,\" she said. \"I want people to see that there is another side to ... this whole Muslim narrative that's kind of being spun out of control right now.\" Khan plans to run for her town's City Council a second time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need to make their presence known has been largely due to a rise in open aggression against Muslim-Americans. The latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502036699/hate-crimes-rose-in-2015-with-religious-bias-a-growing-motivation-fbi-data-shows\">FBI figures show a 67 percent increase\u003c/a> in anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2014 and 2015 (184 to 257). That is the highest total of anti-Muslim hate crimes since the aftermath of 9/11, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/11/14/fbi-hate-crimes-against-muslims-percent/9bRSjP5PrtL6nCvc0PFyvM/story.html\">Associated Press\u003c/a>. This spike in Islamophobia over the past decade, along with recent anti-Muslim political rhetoric and policies, including an attempt to ban travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, has motivated a noticeable number of Muslims to step into the political ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since Sept. 11, there's been an evolution of engagement with these communities,\" Bhojwani said. \"Initially, there might've been a sense of, 'It's going to be difficult for me to overcome some of ... the public perceptions that I might experience as an American Muslim or Arab-American or South-Asian American.'\" But now, she said, the generation of folks who grew up during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent increase in Islamophobia have started mobilizing. \"I think there was a moment in recent years, where there was a sense of, 'This isn't going to change ... but I can be part of that change as part of that dialogue.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11338153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-800x1072.jpg\" alt=\"Farrah Khan ran for a seat on Irvine's City Council in 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-800x1072.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-160x214.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-1020x1367.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-1180x1581.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-960x1287.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-240x322.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-375x503.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Khan-520x697.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farrah Khan ran for a seat on Irvine's City Council in 2016. \u003ccite>(Gunindu Abeysekera/Courtesy of Farrah Khan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrah Khan, a business owner who also heads an interfaith group in Irvine, was helping someone else run their City Council race when she took a NALP training in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan, who is Pakistani-American and Muslim, told NPR that prior to the training, she'd considered running for a City Council seat, and had mentioned that possibility to her peers. Khan said she was told by her local Democratic Party members that the timing wasn't right, and that she'd have to wait her turn to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the NALP training, Khan recalled that she listened to another woman mention how her local party had also told her to wait her turn. Bhojwani said that many of NALP's participants who have wanted to run for local office have been told by party members to hold off on pursuing a local seat. That's why, Bhojwani said, \"it's really important that we're affirming for people of all backgrounds that ... someone who has their immigration background, their religious status, our skin color, our names, can be in a leadership position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Khan completed her training, she went back to her local elected officials. \"I said, 'Hey, you know what? Next year, I'm thinking of running,' \" Khan recalled. Their response was a lot like the first time she tried to inquire about running for office and filing the paperwork to do so: \"They were like, 'Oh! No, no. Maybe not right now. You know, we're still deciding what to do the next two years.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, after the NALP training, Khan said she stood her ground: \"I was like, 'No, no. I'm \u003cem>telling\u003c/em> you. I'm running.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What’s happening at the national level can be used against you by your own party members because they think people will buy into it.'\u003ccite>Farrah Khan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Khan \u003ca href=\"http://www.theliberaloc.com/2015/09/30/farrah-khan-announces-run-for-irvine-city-council/\">announced \u003c/a>she was entering Irvine's crowded City Council race in 2015; there would ultimately be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/council-725876-election-mayor.html\">15 other candidates\u003c/a> competing for two slots. She quickly became a strong contender in the Democrat-leaning city, even garnering the much-coveted endorsement of young Democrats at the University of California, Irvine. The city of Irvine is known for its rapidly-growing, diverse — \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/irvine-729359-asian-city.html\">and more than 45 percent Asian\u003c/a> — population, and has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofirvine.org/about-irvine/demographics\">median household income\u003c/a> of more than $90,000. A little more than 25,000 people in Orange County identify as Muslim, according to a 2010 \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/11/56162/socal-s-muslim-community-geographically-ethnically/\">estimate\u003c/a> from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Irvine's racially diverse demographics, Khan said she saw the Islamophobic rhetoric from the presidential election reflected in her own race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You might not run on your immigration status, or that you're an American Muslim, but you can't run from it,\" Bhojwani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theliberaloc.com/2016/11/03/developer-super-pac-use-trump-style-attacks-on-irvine-mom-and-her-family/\">local liberal-leaning blog\u003c/a>, a political action committee (PAC) sent out \u003ca href=\"http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2016/11/farrah-khan-slaps-back-at-disgusting-dishonest-degrading-dave-gilliard-his-irvine-clients/\">fliers\u003c/a> that attacked her religious faith. Khan said that an opponent even made lawn signs that falsely accused her of being anti-Israel. She said party members, religious leaders and friends reached out to her to express their shock at that sort of politicking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11338159\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11338159 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-800x600.jpg\" alt='Farrah Khan said that during her city council campaign in Irvine, Calif., an opponent made a sign falsely accusing her of being \"anti-Israel.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/NoFarrah-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farrah Khan said that during her City Council campaign in Irvine, Calif., an opponent made a sign falsely accusing her of being \"anti-Israel.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Farrah Khan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was kind of like a self-check for me, to see ... [that] what's happening at the national level can be used against you by your own party members because they think people will buy into it,\" Khan said. She eventually lost the election, coming in fourth place out of 16, with over 11 percent of the votes \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/results-734757-county-election.html\">(more than 16,487)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003cem>Orange County Register\u003c/em> reporter noted that Irvine's City Council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/asian-737839-irvine-council.html\">now completely white\u003c/a> in an increasingly diverse city. A New York Times article \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/world/americas/venom-of-us-election-seeps-down-to-city-council-race-in-california.html?_r=0\">used the word \"venom\"\u003c/a> to describe the conditions in Irvine's 2016 City Council race, outlining a particularly contentious rivalry and slew of politicking between Khan and another Democratic City Council front-runner, Anila Ali, who is also a Pakistani-American and Muslim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nadeem Mazen, who became Massachusetts' first elected Muslim official when he won a City Council seat in 2013 by only six votes, has seen that political and Islamophobic \"venom\" seep to the local level, too. \"If you're a visible Muslim ... you'll be a target 100 percent of the time,\" said Mazen. After winning his seat in 2015 by \u003ca href=\"http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151104/NEWS/151108371\">landing the most votes\u003c/a> of any of the candidates seeking re-election, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://www.jet-pac.com/\">JetPac\u003c/a>, which helps Muslims get more involved politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, JetPac's training focuses on teaching potential candidates to lead canvassing and phone campaigns, to analyze local issues and to respond to vitriol that targets their race or religion. Some of these skills Mazen learned on the job. 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