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They did not say why the event — announcing millions of dollars in donations to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and local public schools — was not simply moved indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff has since said that his comments were intended to suggest that San Francisco needs the same level of policing that takes place during Salesforce’s flagship conference, Dreamforce, happening this week in downtown San Francisco. Homeless advocates have also criticized the way the city increases encampment sweeps and policing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966960/san-francisco-is-clearing-homeless-encampments-ahead-of-apec\">during major public events\u003c/a>, rather than putting more resources toward seeking long-term solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037910 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250424_UCSFFILE_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay in San Francisco on April 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Benioff’s comments shocked some city officials and were immediately seized on by other tech giants close to Trump, like Elon Musk, who echoed Benioff’s call to bring the National Guard to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only solution at this point,” Musk \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1977277765415321926\">posted Sunday on X\u003c/a>. “Nothing else has or will work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the Salesforce CEO elaborated on his remarks on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was recently asked about federal resources, my point was this: each year, to make Dreamforce as safe as possible for 50,000 attendees, we add 200 additional law-enforcement professionals — coordinated across city, state, and other partners,” he said in the lengthy post. “It’s proof that collaboration works and a reminder that the city needs more resources to keep San Franciscans safe year-round.”[aside postID=news_11977506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/waimea-2_custom-3e3b796df19537131158318566195b4713aae87c-1020x674.jpg']Mayor Daniel Lurie, a moderate Democrat who has refrained from speaking out against Trump or his allies in tech, declined to respond to Benioff’s National Guard comments but defended the city’s law enforcement capabilities, saying crime is down 30% citywide compared to last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to keep people safe during Salesforce and Dreamforce this week, and we will keep people safe 365 days a year,” Lurie said when asked by reporters about Benioff’s comments at the city’s Italian Heritage Festival on Sunday. “We have work to do, there is no doubt about that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2024, as the city was debating a new policy to ban pretextual traffic stops, which data show disproportionately affect Black drivers, Benioff said San Francisco should continue the controversial practice and increase police funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our police need to be empowered now — not this new terrible decision to end pretext stops,” he posted on X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear exactly what’s prompted Benioff’s pivot toward Trump, but Salesforce does business with the federal government and tech moguls from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have spoken favorably of the president in what many analysts say is an attempt to preserve their own business interests in the face of a commander-in-chief who has sought to punish his enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s latest comments signal to Keally McBride, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco, that Benioff, who has largely relocated in recent years to Hawaii, “is probably not in touch with what life in San Francisco really is like these days. And he’s not thinking very clearly about the human costs that are associated with bringing in the National Guard to police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks also pose a challenge for Lurie, who, while steering clear of criticizing Trump, has also sought to foster relationships with tech leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Benioff coming out and saying, ‘I think the National Guard should come in,’ makes it clear that there are political costs for San Franciscans, but also for Lurie in associating himself with these people,” McBride said. “Lurie’s trying to be like, ‘We’re the good rich people,’ and this is not going to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, a Levi Strauss heir, is walking a tightrope in trying to court business interest in the city, at a time when the city has had to cut millions of dollars from its annual budget and is increasingly looking to private philanthropy to fill in the gaps. Angering Benioff, who has poured millions of dollars into various San Francisco causes, could have serious repercussions. The Salesforce CEO has already threatened in the past to move Dreamforce to another city, like Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is doing more philanthropy in San Francisco this year than I am,” Benioff said in an \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/13/publicly-turning-san-francisco-marc-benioff-had-privately-left/\">interview with \u003cem>the San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “We are the largest philanthropist in San Francisco by the company and individually. Nobody has given more than my family. Nobody has given more than my company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of Lurie’s term this year, McBride said she hoped Lurie’s keep-quiet approach, “would mean that San Francisco would dodge the ire of Donald Trump, and that his affiliation with the tech industry leaders would help in that regard,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">remained silent as Trump\u003c/a> has sent the National Guard to crack down on protests against increased immigration raids and arrests, and as the president said he will continue to send troops to Democratic strongholds like San Francisco to fight a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058130/san-francisco-officials-respond-to-trump-telling-us-generals-were-under-invasion-from-within\">war from within\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that approach is being tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Benioff’s statements, if anything, serve as encouragement to the Trump Administration. It could be decisive,” McBride said. “But, it’s really hard to know what the White House will do. I’m way beyond trying to predict what’s going to happen next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent weekend, a Morgan Hill home’s two-car garage was transformed into something dazzling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fingers grazed sequined saris and embroidered chaniya cholis lining the walls, and reached for the gold and silver jewelry that shimmered from the center table. Shoppers chattered in Hindi and Gujarati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aunty, you are sparkling,” one woman called across the room to an elderly woman trying on a patterned salwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Nivy’s Nook, the homegrown boutique Nimisha Jadav runs out of her garage. In between hangers and clothing racks, she pulled options for shoppers and peeled away packaging, excitedly showing Rakhee Mohanty what she brought back for Mohanty’s daughter from India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I was shopping for my daughter,” laughed Jadav, holding up a multicolored sharara with a sequined crop top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00237_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00237_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00237_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00237_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00237_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nimisha Jadav measures a top for a customer at her home-based business Nivy’s Nook in Morgan Hill on September 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s so beautiful,” replies Mohanty. “Perfect for Diwali.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the festival of lights and new beginnings approaches, Nivy’s Nook stands as a cultural anchor in the South Bay: a gathering place, and a touchstone of culture, memory and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking in a mirror, Pooja Sharma held an earring up to her ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you move out of India, you really want to embrace the roots more,” she explained. “The fact that [Jadav] is even conducting this [pop-up shop] close to the festival shows that we all want to be connected. 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But the shop is more than a marketplace — every thread carries a memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my tradition,” she said. “It’s something I’ve seen our mothers wear, our grandmothers wear and I feel like when I wear a sari, it takes me back home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of belonging is what Jadav craved when she first immigrated to the U.S. as a young adult in 1986. She lived in Washington and Texas before moving to the Bay Area. She recalled being ridiculed for her skin color, food and clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was picked upon because I was brown-skinned. 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Ritika Kumar, who grew up in San José, said Jadav — who she also affectionately calls “Aunty” — holds generational knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these different prints that come from different parts of India, and Nimisha Aunty, whether or not she carries it directly, has access to getting those, which as a first generation, I could have never dreamt of having access to,” Kumar said. “I want to stay connected to my roots and it matters to me because it is my identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Srinivas adds that Jadav has to be well-versed in the diverse traditions of India to source the right materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knows for [the Hindu festival] Sankranti, usually for South Indians, that’s the only time we wear black,” Srinivas described. “So she will have a range of black with different prints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deepali Khullar, who recently visited for the first time, said she was struck by the energy in the room.[aside postID=news_12055649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-JackieKeliiaa-01-BL_qed.jpg']“People are chit-chatting, catching up with each other. Some know each other, some don’t,” Khullar said. “I really appreciate somebody like Nimisha who’s taking that commitment to really converting her home into a place where community members can come and find good things and feel pretty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharma stressed the role Jadav plays in local festivals. Sharma, who helps organize South Bay Diwali events, said: “[Nivy’s Nook] was one of the sponsors [of our annual festival] and they supported the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nimisha Jadav is building community piece by piece, showing up for her friends, and sometimes precious moments are just facilitated by her space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jadav brushes off the idea that her work is unusual. “I think somewhere in our Desi culture … there is always willingness to help and step up and be there for someone in time of need,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nivy’s Nook is a place for refuge, a mirror of cultural pride and sometimes even a shoulder to cry on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many times, as her friend Srinivas put it: “It starts with one sari.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Each year Jadav returns to her home country of India, gathering textiles and jewelry to bring back to the Bay Area. But the shop is more than a marketplace — every thread carries a memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my tradition,” she said. “It’s something I’ve seen our mothers wear, our grandmothers wear and I feel like when I wear a sari, it takes me back home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of belonging is what Jadav craved when she first immigrated to the U.S. as a young adult in 1986. She lived in Washington and Texas before moving to the Bay Area. She recalled being ridiculed for her skin color, food and clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was picked upon because I was brown-skinned. I was picked upon because I was eating this weird food that the normal American people don’t eat,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she moved to San José in 1999, she said she felt welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I dressed was not an issue, putting a bindi on was not an issue and wearing Indian clothes and going to the grocery store is not a weird thing,” she said. “So that is where you feel like you belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00487_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056085\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00487_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00487_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00487_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00487_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpa Nagarsheth (left) shops with the help of Nimisha Jadav (right) at Jadav’s home-based clothing business, Nivy’s Nook, in Morgan Hill on September 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her experience is part of a much longer history of South Asians making a home in California. The first documented Indian immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/echoes-of-freedom\">arrived as early as 1857\u003c/a>, possibly working in the gold fields. But it wasn’t until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 — which removed quotas on Asian immigrants — that South Asians increasingly made their way to California, drawn by educational opportunities and high-tech jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many settled in Silicon Valley, helping make California one of the \u003ca href=\"https://saalt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SAALT-Demographic-Snapshot-2019.pdf\">top three\u003c/a> states for South Asian immigrants. By 1993, Indians made up \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/content/pubs/report/R_699ASR.pdf\">23%\u003c/a> of the Bay Area’s foreign-born engineers. Today, Asians account for \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/data/people/talent-flows-diversity/racial-and-ethnic-composition/population-share-by-race-ethnicity/\">37%\u003c/a> of the population in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, with a large share of that growth driven by Chinese and Indian communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business that became a lifeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The connections forged at Nivy’s Nook rarely end with a sale. For Vidya Srinivas of Los Banos, a sari she bought from Jadav ten years ago marked the beginning of a relationship that still endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a family,” Srinivas said. “I’ve seen her kids grow up, she knows my kids [and] they know Nimisha Aunty.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Vanessa Perez Rojas began her first year at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, she recalled feeling a bit lost and out of place. Growing up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> with parents who migrated from Mexico and El Salvador, she said she wasn’t exposed to much information about college.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I had no idea how to even declare a major. I didn’t really even know where to look,” said the 21-year-old speaking from campus, where graduation celebrations often include mariachi bands and taco bars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas knew of Saint Mary’s because her older brother had attended — which gave her the confidence that she could find support as a first-generation college student. More than one-third of St. Mary’s students are Latino, and the school is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution, a federal program that allows colleges to apply for grants if at least 25% of their students identify as Hispanic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I’ve been able to meet great mentors who also fit that description of being first generation, and far beyond being able to see myself through them, they want to see people like myself succeed,” Perez Rojas said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 171 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in California — the most of any state — and they have long relied on federal funding to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057033/california-faces-steepest-cuts-as-trump-ends-diversity-grants-how-one-college-is-faring\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pay for programs, staff, and support services\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now, those schools are worried about \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the program’s future. Last month, the U.S. Department of Education pulled $350 million that had been allocated to HSIs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-funding-racially-discriminatory-discretionary-grant-programs-minority-serving-institutions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the HSI program amounts to “discrimination based upon race or ethnicity,” as the Trump administration scales back initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The Department will no longer award Minority-Serving Institution grants that discriminate by restricting eligibility to institutions that meet government-mandated racial quotas,” McMahon said.[aside postID=news_12057037 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904_K-ONDA-SEPTEMBER-NAIL-ARTIST-_GH-2-KQED.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program’s existence was already under threat. In June, the state of Tennessee and Students for Fair Admissions,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools, filed\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2025/6/11/pr25-33.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a federal lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claiming HSI funding is unconstitutional. The Trump administration declined to contest the case.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea that the program is discriminatory is misleading, said Gina Ann Garcia, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Education who studies HSIs and hosts a podcast about them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“A lot of campuses do benefit, including our community college system in California, and have had a good success rate of getting those HSI grants to advance programs that we know are serving students,” Garcia said. “It would be detrimental to California if we no longer have access to those funds.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSIs were created in the 1990s to ensure that colleges enrolling large numbers of Latino students received adequate funding to help those students graduate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster reading “Hispanic Culture and Heritage” is displayed in the Intercultural Center at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In California, more than 90% of community colleges, and 21 out of 22 California State Universities and seven of nine University of California undergraduate campuses qualify as HSIs. Community colleges in the state estimate they\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-community-colleges-to-lose-20-million-next-year-amid-hispanic-serving-institution-grant-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will lose at least $20 million this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The mission of our colleges is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have the opportunity to succeed,” California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian said in a statement after the Education Department pulled HSI funding. “We are deeply troubled that this action could limit access to resources that support their educational advancement and economic mobility.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSI funds have helped pay for high school students to take community college classes, cover students’ living expenses and provide mentorship — efforts shown to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65399/how-some-colleges-are-working-to-engage-and-better-recruit-latino-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> increase graduation rates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and long-term socioeconomic mobility for Latinos, Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Perez Rojas, a fourth-year student, prays in the chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, the school will not see an immediate financial hit because it doesn’t currently have active HSI grants, but participation in the program signals a commitment to serving Latino students, Provost Carol Ann Gittens said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What that says to students and families is that if you come to Saint Mary’s College, you’re going to be supported,” Roger Thompson, president of Saint Mary’s, told KQED. “Latino students are the fastest growing demographic in the state and the country, but it’s also one of the least likely to go to college. We are leaning in in every way possible to try to build and increase our Hispanic student population.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas is on track to graduate next spring with a degree in business administration. Her path wasn’t always certain. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, she had to transfer after her high school closed. Her new school offered little college guidance, so she relied on her brother for help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, admissions and financial aid counselors met with her parents in person — in Spanish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Just sitting down and explaining things really made a difference,” Perez Rojas said. “I don’t think I would be in college if that wasn’t the case.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A combination of financial aid and scholarships, including one for students with family alumni, made her education possible.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But once she arrived on campus, Perez Rojas said she still struggled to adapt. She recalled attending a panel discussion about imposter syndrome at the college’s Intercultural Center that had a profound impact. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I realized that there are other people on this campus that feel that same way. It definitely changed my perspective on being worthy of having a bachelor’s degree,” said Perez Rojas, who hopes to use her business background to serve the Latino community. “I want to promote, hopefully, more Latinx students to come to Saint Mary’s, but also to foster that idea that you are important, you are known and you can be safe here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Community colleges in the state estimate they\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/updates/california-community-colleges-to-lose-20-million-next-year-amid-hispanic-serving-institution-grant-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will lose at least $20 million this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The mission of our colleges is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have the opportunity to succeed,” California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian said in a statement after the Education Department pulled HSI funding. “We are deeply troubled that this action could limit access to resources that support their educational advancement and economic mobility.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HSI funds have helped pay for high school students to take community college classes, cover students’ living expenses and provide mentorship — efforts shown to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65399/how-some-colleges-are-working-to-engage-and-better-recruit-latino-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> increase graduation rates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and long-term socioeconomic mobility for Latinos, Garcia said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058487\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058487\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-7-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Perez Rojas, a fourth-year student, prays in the chapel at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, the school will not see an immediate financial hit because it doesn’t currently have active HSI grants, but participation in the program signals a commitment to serving Latino students, Provost Carol Ann Gittens said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“What that says to students and families is that if you come to Saint Mary’s College, you’re going to be supported,” Roger Thompson, president of Saint Mary’s, told KQED. “Latino students are the fastest growing demographic in the state and the country, but it’s also one of the least likely to go to college. We are leaning in in every way possible to try to build and increase our Hispanic student population.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez Rojas is on track to graduate next spring with a degree in business administration. Her path wasn’t always certain. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, she had to transfer after her high school closed. Her new school offered little college guidance, so she relied on her brother for help.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Saint Mary’s, admissions and financial aid counselors met with her parents in person — in Spanish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Just sitting down and explaining things really made a difference,” Perez Rojas said. “I don’t think I would be in college if that wasn’t the case.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A combination of financial aid and scholarships, including one for students with family alumni, made her education possible.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But once she arrived on campus, Perez Rojas said she still struggled to adapt. She recalled attending a panel discussion about imposter syndrome at the college’s Intercultural Center that had a profound impact. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I realized that there are other people on this campus that feel that same way. It definitely changed my perspective on being worthy of having a bachelor’s degree,” said Perez Rojas, who hopes to use her business background to serve the Latino community. “I want to promote, hopefully, more Latinx students to come to Saint Mary’s, but also to foster that idea that you are important, you are known and you can be safe here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bimonthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">threat\u003c/a> President Trump has made before:\u003c/strong> He first publicly mused about using military troops to quell civilian protests in 2020, during his first term, when demonstrations roiled the nation after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t send troops across the country, but did dispatch National Guard troops from 11 states to Washington, D.C., where they controversially helped clear protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of a presidential photo-op in front of a church. (An \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004832399/watchdog-report-says-police-did-not-clear-protesters-to-make-way-for-trump-last-\">investigation\u003c/a> later found that the park police and Guard members decided to disperse the crowd — using tear gas — independently of the president’s plans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that Washington, D.C., unlike cities in sovereign states, falls under greater federal control — the president commands the D.C. National Guard. Still, even before Trump’s reelection, pro-democracy experts saw the threats to use troops against civilians as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991317/protect-democracy-warns-how-trump-2-0-could-lead-to-authoritarianism\">troubling pattern of authoritarian tendencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things escalated in June, when Trump sent troops to L.A.:\u003c/strong> Trump said he was responding to “out-of-control” immigration protests when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043221/protesters-and-immigration-authorities-face-off-for-a-2nd-day-in-la-area-after-arrests\">seized control of the California National Guard\u003c/a> from Gov. Gavin Newsom and deployed Guard members — and eventually 700 U.S. Marines — to the nation’s second largest city. State and local officials disputed that the protests were beyond their control and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">quickly sued\u003c/a>, asking a court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043548/california-asks-court-to-stop-national-guard-marines-from-patrolling-la-streets\">remove the troops\u003c/a> from the streets. While the state has had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043935/how-solid-is-californias-legal-case-against-trump-deploying-troops-to-la\">success\u003c/a> in a district court, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043920/judge-weighs-californias-lawsuit-over-trumps-troop-deployment-in-la\">an appeals court halted\u003c/a> the lower judge’s order to remove the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051797/california-argues-trumps-use-of-troops-in-l-a-violated-federal-law\">three-day trial\u003c/a> in August, a judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">ruled in favor of California\u003c/a>, ruling that Trump had violated federal law and ordering him to stop using troops for policing, but an appeals court paused that decision. The case is still pending and is expected to be heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, some judges have appeared \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044621/appeals-court-hears-newsoms-case-against-trumps-national-guard-mobilization\">reticent to second-guess\u003c/a> the president’s authority on an issue related to national security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2220483644-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents surround federal and Border Patrol agents as they plan their exit after an immigration raid on Atlantic Boulevard in Bell, California, on June 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Washington, D.C., then an escalation with Oregon and Illinois:\u003c/strong> Trump argued that he needed troops in D.C. to combat crime — a rationale that shifted as he began sending forces to Portland and Chicago. He has claimed the troops are needed to protect immigration facilities and agents from protesters, though he often conflates crime and immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployments have turned into a partisan showdown between blue states and red states, now playing out in multiple courts. California joined Oregon’s lawsuit after Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058677/newsom-says-trump-is-sending-300-california-national-guard-members-to-oregon\">tried to send California Guard members to Portland\u003c/a>, successfully securing a temporary order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058715/trumps-order-to-deploy-california-national-guard-to-oregon-sparks-legal-showdown\">blocking that deployment\u003c/a>. Chicago and Illinois were not successful. Both cases are moving through appeals court.[aside postID=news_12058715 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/AP25278748416734-scaled.jpg']Both cases are moving through appeals courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats are telling starkly different stories and military experts are concerned. The Trump administration insists the deployments are about public safety and the rule of law. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said ICE facilities in Portland had been “under siege by these anarchists” for months and accused protesters of inciting violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, see Trump’s moves as a precursor to potentially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">more frightening uses of the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump does think that the military is his personal police force and his personal army. And he wants that force behind his policy decisions,” Bonta said. “He wants to weaponize the military against blue states and blue cities…. he’s also, I think, socializing the idea of the military in American cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other Democrats have warned that Trump may use the troops to intimidate voters in blue states and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/proposition-50-election-newsom-trump-21088506.php\">suppress the vote\u003c/a> in November’s special election and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, though, said that the U.S. “is a nation that will never accept military rule.” And some former military leaders are speaking out. Retired Gen. Randy Manner, who will join Political Breakdown on Thursday, has warned that the president’s actions risk driving a wedge between the armed forces and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Both cases are moving through appeals courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans and Democrats are telling starkly different stories and military experts are concerned. The Trump administration insists the deployments are about public safety and the rule of law. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said ICE facilities in Portland had been “under siege by these anarchists” for months and accused protesters of inciting violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, see Trump’s moves as a precursor to potentially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">more frightening uses of the military\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump does think that the military is his personal police force and his personal army. And he wants that force behind his policy decisions,” Bonta said. “He wants to weaponize the military against blue states and blue cities…. he’s also, I think, socializing the idea of the military in American cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and other Democrats have warned that Trump may use the troops to intimidate voters in blue states and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/proposition-50-election-newsom-trump-21088506.php\">suppress the vote\u003c/a> in November’s special election and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, though, said that the U.S. “is a nation that will never accept military rule.” And some former military leaders are speaking out. Retired Gen. Randy Manner, who will join Political Breakdown on Thursday, has warned that the president’s actions risk driving a wedge between the armed forces and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The videos have become almost routine: men in dark clothing and vests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044570/california-bill-would-prohibit-ice-officers-from-wearing-masks-in-the-state\">often wearing masks\u003c/a>, wrestling people to the ground and whisking them away in unmarked vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could look like a kidnapping or a scene from a movie, but they are American immigration officers, and some of the people being swept up are U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s happening in the United States of America. Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC71635to-I\">said recently on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he said, citing incidents where federal officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/immigration-agents-los-angeles-detention-damages-claim\">pointed guns\u003c/a> at a teenager. “We had a 15-year-old disabled kid in Los Angeles who was waiting for his sister to come out of high school and they pulled out guns on this kid. They pulled out guns and handcuffed this young child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the scenes, Newsom signed a bill last month barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing masks while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new law quickly drew fire from federal officials. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli instructed federal officers to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1971625330722119843\">disregard\u003c/a> what he called a dangerous and unconstitutional law. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbtGwPLi6E\">interview\u003c/a> on KCRA, Essayli accused California officials of passing the law because they “don’t want our immigration laws being enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re dehumanizing, and they’re delegitimizing the federal government. They call ICE agents kidnappers. They’re saying they’re making people disappear,” he said. “People are being arrested in compliance with federal law and the Constitution. … And all they’re doing with this bill and this rhetoric is putting the lives of our agents in danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s latest immigration battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The masking bill is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between California and the Trump administration over how federal law enforcement agencies operate in the state — a fight likely headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">pending federal lawsuit\u003c/a> over President Donald Trump’s decision to seize control of the California National Guard earlier this summer and deploy guard troops and U.S. Marines to assist in immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058608 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, California also joined a lawsuit in Oregon challenging the president’s move to send National Guard troops into Portland. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again\">legal battles over the state’s sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, which prohibit state and local police from assisting in immigration enforcement, date back to Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli and other federal prosecutors have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli\">aggressively pursued criminal charges\u003c/a> against people who come into contact with federal officers, though many cases have been dismissed or reduced after grand juries \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/trump-dc-national-guard-grand-juries-crime.html\">declined to hand down indictments\u003c/a>. In some cases, evidence \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims\">contradicted\u003c/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents’ claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the aggressive tactics and lack of identification by immigration officers raise questions about both the rights of Americans and the accountability of federal law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000985 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), barring law enforcement from wearing masks. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the bill barring law enforcement from wearing masks. He said ICE’s “authoritarian tactics” are creating a combustible situation that makes law enforcement less safe by eroding trust with the public and opening the door to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/25/ice-agent-impersonate-kidnapping-florida-woman/83271541007/\">impersonating law enforcement\u003c/a>. It also makes it nearly impossible for Americans to know whether the people detaining them are actually law enforcement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San José also passed a policy last week aimed at forcing federal immigration agents to unmask and identify themselves when they are working in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire ICE operation, essentially secret police, is terrifying and scary. Having ICE agents, and lord knows who else, vigilantes, bounty hunters, having them patrolling, roving around neighborhoods and grabbing people out of bus stops, out of their front yards, out their workplaces — it’s absolutely terrifying,” Wiener said. “You can’t even see the face of the person you’re dealing with. You don’t know who you’re interacting with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens, including George Retes, are among those being caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and security guard, was arrested in July during a raid on the Ventura County cannabis farm where he works as a security guard. He was held for three days before being released without charges. After he wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ice-racial-profiling-21045429.php\">op-ed\u003c/a> about his experience, DHS accused him of assault on the social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1968378912326697368\">X\u003c/a>. No charges have been filed, according to his lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes said he tried to comply with orders as he approached the farm in his vehicle, but federal agents gave him contradictory commands before using tear gas, smashing his car window, pepper-spraying his face, pulling him out of the car and pinning him to the ground with their knees. He was transferred to a Los Angeles County facility and released without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents block a field and road during an ICE raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retes has filed a claim alleging unconstitutional detention — the precursor to a lawsuit — but his lawyers have been unable to identify the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying to get to work. I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong,” he said. “I thought everything was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday during his detention, and was suspended from work for three weeks until he could prove he wasn’t charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institute for Justice attorney Anya Bidwell, who represents Retes, alleged that his arrest and detention — and the threat of assault charges now being leveled at him — illustrate how ICE officers are comfortable acting with impunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192084195592-scaled-e1759878934178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Michael Owen Baker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bidwell said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8%28c%29\">federal regulations\u003c/a> already require immigration officers to identify themselves when making arrests — a point noted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-push-ice-to-require-agents-identify-themselves-limit-use-of-masks-and-face-coverings-during-enforcement-operations\">a letter earlier this year\u003c/a> from Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who demanded ICE agents unmask and identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration is kind of just exploiting the cracks that we have in the system,” Bidwell said. “Federal officials have such a high degree of immunity that they essentially don’t even care if they break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not following their own regulations,” she added. “But again, it doesn’t matter that they’re not following their own regulations, at least in their mind, because like, go ahead, sue me. What are you going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local police caught in the middle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By contrast, local and state police in California are legally required to identify themselves in most cases, said Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, or PORAC. The group represents 87,000 rank-and-file police officers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have either a badge or a name or identification indicating that you’re a peace officer in the state of California,” Marvel said, adding that after someone is arrested,” their name, their ID number and the agency they work for will be all available to that individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person is detained as clashes break out after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers attempted to raid a store in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PORAC opposed the masking bill, arguing that it unfairly entangles local police in a broader political fight that’s really about federal authorities. Marvel said no California agency uses masks to conceal identity, but the law could expose officers to lawsuits even if they cover their faces for legitimate reasons, like cold weather or to protect their health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have made clear they will not comply. Before Newsom signed the bill, Department of Homeland Security officials called on the governor to veto it. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/16/dhs-calls-governor-newsom-veto-californias-no-secret-police-act\">a statement\u003c/a>, DHS insisted federal agents do identify themselves but wear masks to prevent doxing and retaliation from “highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin went on to blame Wiener for violence against ICE agents, saying that his legislation “and rhetoric comparing them to ‘secret police’ — likening them to the Gestapo — is despicable.”[aside postID=news_12058586 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/IMG_1173-2000x1500.jpg']Wiener, who has himself been frequently targeted and doxed, said McLaughlin’s comments are meant to silence critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us want anyone to be doxed,” he said. “Being a law enforcement officer has certain risks. Just like being an elected official has certain risks … Anyone who says, ‘I can only be a law enforcement officer on patrol if I wear a ski mask,’ I think that person needs to do some introspection and decide if law enforcement is really the right calling for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wiener and others acknowledged that the public runs the risk of criminal charges if they don’t comply with a federal agent. Marvel, from PORAC, recommended compliance even if an agent refuses to show identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in America, the likelihood of that actually being a legitimate kidnapping is pretty slight. So I would assume that they are legitimate law enforcement officers,” he said. “Compliance is the best route because it’s less likely to escalate a situation, less likely to turn into a violent altercation or an officer-involved shooting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said police have a clear obligation to identify themselves when arresting someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If law enforcement personnel take somebody and arrest them, law enforcement personnel need to let them know that they have been arrested,” he said. “It’s the only way for somebody to know that they haven’t been kidnapped. And so when ICE agents in masks without identification are taking people into custody, that shouldn’t be deemed a lawful arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chemerinsky acknowledged the only recourse is a lawsuit or asking a judge to dismiss charges. Neither, he said, is a sure bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he said, citing incidents where federal officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/immigration-agents-los-angeles-detention-damages-claim\">pointed guns\u003c/a> at a teenager. “We had a 15-year-old disabled kid in Los Angeles who was waiting for his sister to come out of high school and they pulled out guns on this kid. They pulled out guns and handcuffed this young child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the scenes, Newsom signed a bill last month barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing masks while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted an emergency temporary restraining order to stop President Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard, on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new law quickly drew fire from federal officials. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli instructed federal officers to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1971625330722119843\">disregard\u003c/a> what he called a dangerous and unconstitutional law. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbtGwPLi6E\">interview\u003c/a> on KCRA, Essayli accused California officials of passing the law because they “don’t want our immigration laws being enforced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they’re dehumanizing, and they’re delegitimizing the federal government. They call ICE agents kidnappers. They’re saying they’re making people disappear,” he said. “People are being arrested in compliance with federal law and the Constitution. … And all they’re doing with this bill and this rhetoric is putting the lives of our agents in danger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s latest immigration battle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The masking bill is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between California and the Trump administration over how federal law enforcement agencies operate in the state — a fight likely headed to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">pending federal lawsuit\u003c/a> over President Donald Trump’s decision to seize control of the California National Guard earlier this summer and deploy guard troops and U.S. Marines to assist in immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058608 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, California also joined a lawsuit in Oregon challenging the president’s move to send National Guard troops into Portland. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again\">legal battles over the state’s sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, which prohibit state and local police from assisting in immigration enforcement, date back to Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essayli and other federal prosecutors have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/protester-charges-essayli\">aggressively pursued criminal charges\u003c/a> against people who come into contact with federal officers, though many cases have been dismissed or reduced after grand juries \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/trump-dc-national-guard-grand-juries-crime.html\">declined to hand down indictments\u003c/a>. In some cases, evidence \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims\">contradicted\u003c/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents’ claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the aggressive tactics and lack of identification by immigration officers raise questions about both the rights of Americans and the accountability of federal law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12000985 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), barring law enforcement from wearing masks. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, wrote the bill barring law enforcement from wearing masks. He said ICE’s “authoritarian tactics” are creating a combustible situation that makes law enforcement less safe by eroding trust with the public and opening the door to people \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/25/ice-agent-impersonate-kidnapping-florida-woman/83271541007/\">impersonating law enforcement\u003c/a>. It also makes it nearly impossible for Americans to know whether the people detaining them are actually law enforcement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San José also passed a policy last week aimed at forcing federal immigration agents to unmask and identify themselves when they are working in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This entire ICE operation, essentially secret police, is terrifying and scary. Having ICE agents, and lord knows who else, vigilantes, bounty hunters, having them patrolling, roving around neighborhoods and grabbing people out of bus stops, out of their front yards, out their workplaces — it’s absolutely terrifying,” Wiener said. “You can’t even see the face of the person you’re dealing with. You don’t know who you’re interacting with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m a citizen. I am not doing anything wrong’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens, including George Retes, are among those being caught up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and security guard, was arrested in July during a raid on the Ventura County cannabis farm where he works as a security guard. He was held for three days before being released without charges. After he wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ice-racial-profiling-21045429.php\">op-ed\u003c/a> about his experience, DHS accused him of assault on the social media platform \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1968378912326697368\">X\u003c/a>. No charges have been filed, according to his lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes said he tried to comply with orders as he approached the farm in his vehicle, but federal agents gave him contradictory commands before using tear gas, smashing his car window, pepper-spraying his face, pulling him out of the car and pinning him to the ground with their knees. He was transferred to a Los Angeles County facility and released without explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/CamarilloCannabisFarmICEGetty-1536x1004.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents block a field and road during an ICE raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Retes has filed a claim alleging unconstitutional detention — the precursor to a lawsuit — but his lawyers have been unable to identify the officers involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just trying to get to work. 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I am not doing anything wrong,” he said. “I thought everything was going to be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday during his detention, and was suspended from work for three weeks until he could prove he wasn’t charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institute for Justice attorney Anya Bidwell, who represents Retes, alleged that his arrest and detention — and the threat of assault charges now being leveled at him — illustrate how ICE officers are comfortable acting with impunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192084195592-scaled-e1759878934178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Michael Owen Baker/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bidwell said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8%28c%29\">federal regulations\u003c/a> already require immigration officers to identify themselves when making arrests — a point noted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-push-ice-to-require-agents-identify-themselves-limit-use-of-masks-and-face-coverings-during-enforcement-operations\">a letter earlier this year\u003c/a> from Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who demanded ICE agents unmask and identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration is kind of just exploiting the cracks that we have in the system,” Bidwell said. “Federal officials have such a high degree of immunity that they essentially don’t even care if they break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not following their own regulations,” she added. “But again, it doesn’t matter that they’re not following their own regulations, at least in their mind, because like, go ahead, sue me. What are you going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local police caught in the middle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By contrast, local and state police in California are legally required to identify themselves in most cases, said Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, or PORAC. The group represents 87,000 rank-and-file police officers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to have either a badge or a name or identification indicating that you’re a peace officer in the state of California,” Marvel said, adding that after someone is arrested,” their name, their ID number and the agency they work for will be all available to that individual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/ICECMGETTY-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person is detained as clashes break out after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers attempted to raid a store in Bell, just south of Los Angeles, on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>PORAC opposed the masking bill, arguing that it unfairly entangles local police in a broader political fight that’s really about federal authorities. Marvel said no California agency uses masks to conceal identity, but the law could expose officers to lawsuits even if they cover their faces for legitimate reasons, like cold weather or to protect their health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have made clear they will not comply. Before Newsom signed the bill, Department of Homeland Security officials called on the governor to veto it. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/16/dhs-calls-governor-newsom-veto-californias-no-secret-police-act\">a statement\u003c/a>, DHS insisted federal agents do identify themselves but wear masks to prevent doxing and retaliation from “highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin went on to blame Wiener for violence against ICE agents, saying that his legislation “and rhetoric comparing them to ‘secret police’ — likening them to the Gestapo — is despicable.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San José City Council advanced a policy that would make it unlawful for federal immigration officers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">conceal their identities while working in the city\u003c/a>, moving toward enacting it as law and teeing up a potential legal showdown with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the council directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would bar all law enforcement officers, including federal agents, from “wearing any mask or personal disguise” while on duty within San José’s borders, with limited exceptions. Mayor Matt Mahan was absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also require that all law enforcement officers “wear visible identification and clear agency affiliation while interacting with the public” in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney is expected to return to the council with the draft within 60 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These protections are not just about procedure. They are about dignity, fairness and public trust,” District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who has spearheaded the proposal since introducing it earlier this month, said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057528\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José District 5 City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at a local nonprofit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The vote comes amid months of escalating immigration enforcement tactics in cities around the nation, with federal agents often making arrests while wearing plain clothing or generic uniforms with the word “police” printed on them, without clear indication of their agency affiliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council’s full-throated support of the proposed policy brings San José in league with the state legislature, which passed SB 627, called the “No Secret Police Act,” from Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, earlier this month. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SB-627-Signing-Message.pdf\">signed\u003c/a> the bill into law on Sept. 20, though he asked lawmakers to bring back follow-up legislation next year to further clarify the scope of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of other governments across cities, counties and states are pushing similar laws, including in Los Angeles, New York and Pennsylvania. However, it remains unclear whether any state or local law could — or would — compel federal officers to change their tactics to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By doing this, we put ourselves on record as standing with other agencies and the state of California that are calling for federal agents to display visible identification and the prohibition of the use of face coverings unless necessary,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the authority of such laws is to be determined, several council members said at the meeting, it’s important to back the proposal to address the growing distress in a city where roughly 40% of residents are foreign-born, as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign continues.[aside postID=news_12057384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg']“During a time where our families continue to live in fear, we need to do everything in our power to protect our community, not just folks who are citizens or folks who have their immigration papers,” District 8 Councilmember Domingo Candelas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have your papers or your legal ability to be here, but you speak with an accent, you may be targeted,” he said. “We’re showing our neighbors, our community members, where we as leaders stand with what’s going on at the federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to the state bill, San José’s law would include exemptions for officers for health and safety reasons, “including the use of gas masks, fire/smoke protection masks, or medical grade masks, when necessary,” according to city staff reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials and political analysts have suggested the laws are likely to end up the subject of a court fight against the Trump administration, as have many other challenges President Donald Trump has made to states’ rights and the authority of governors or mayors, such as when he sent Marines into Southern California and National Guard troops into other cities like Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this, too, will trickle up the judicial system and at some point get some sort of clarity by the Supreme Court,” Larry Gerston, a professor emeritus of political science at San José State University, told KQED. “In the meantime, the states and local governments are fighting tooth and nail to make their case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerston said it could be tough for states and cities that are fighting to win a case on the issue of how police should identify themselves, if a case were to make it to the highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the Supreme Court has been extremely generous with President Trump in terms of allowing him and, by extension, agencies such as ICE to use their powers in ways that other courts would not have allowed,” Gerston said.[aside postID=news_12057368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS24077_Courthouse-closeup-qut-1180x664.jpg']The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement earlier this month, called California’s bill “despicable,” and condemned the term secret police, which she said wrongfully likened federal agents to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said federal officers are facing “a 1000% increase” in assaults against them, and said they use masks to “protect themselves from being doxed and targeted by known and suspected terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting on Tuesday, Ortiz invoked an incident last week at ConXión to Community, a community resource hub and day laborer center in San José’s Little Saigon neighborhood, where a man was taken out of the building by a federal immigration officer in plain clothes before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057384/south-bay-day-laborer-center-staff-devastated-over-immigration-arrest\">being arrested\u003c/a>, causing panic among staff and other clients of the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t know who these individuals were or whether they had any authority to be there. 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A federal judge later ruled that deployment violated federal law, and the Trump administration has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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Nine arrests were made on Monday, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by reporters for a response at a press conference on Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said crime rates are falling and general welfare in the city is rebounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crime in San Francisco is down 30%, it’s down 40% in our financial district, and we are continuing to drive those numbers down,” Lurie said. “People are feeling better here in San Francisco. And that’s what I can control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">avoided uttering Trump’s name\u003c/a> and repeatedly said he can only focus on San Francisco, not what happens in Washington, D.C. The mayor’s approach has marked a stark contrast to that of other Democratic leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054630/in-picking-a-fight-with-trump-newsom-gambles-on-his-own-political-future\">like Newsom\u003c/a>, who has staked out a position as a leader of the Trump resistance movement and sought opportunities to spar with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This speech should terrify anyone who cares about our country. Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do,” Newsom posted on X on Tuesday. “This man cares about nothing but his own ego and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump, known for his off-the-cuff remarks, has previously made threats that don’t transpire and his comments on Tuesday were met with lackluster applause from military leaders. But arrests by ICE outside San Francisco’s immigration court have increased this year already and his comments on Tuesday appear to mark an escalation in his fight against Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration advocates across the state said the president’s words amplify fear in communities and should be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Far from making our neighborhoods safer, the militarization of our streets brought fear, violence and separation of families,” said Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigration Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fouladi pointed to events such as the National Guard rolling military vehicles through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in July in a dramatic show of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deployment led to the detention and deportation of permanent residents … including family members of military veterans. This is not public safety. It is state-sponsored violence and harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local leaders in Los Angeles, including Mayor Karen Bass, fired back at the president at the time, saying local police were capable of keeping peace in protests and that federal law enforcement was overreaching and stirring fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities and the state should not take this passively,” Fouladi said. “They should be thinking proactively about how to prepare so that if what happened in L.A. happens in our region, that we protect those who are going to be most vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Training the military to ‘quell civil disturbances’ is another step toward authoritarianism,” Wiener posted on social media platform X. “Linking it to ‘the enemy from within’ is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable. He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s remarks come amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">an ongoing court battle over his decision\u003c/a> to deploy the National Guard and military to Los Angeles in June in the wake of protests against raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A federal judge later ruled that deployment violated federal law, and the Trump administration has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He has repeatedly targeted cities with sanctuary policies, which prohibit local law enforcement from aiding ICE. Federal officers can still carry out immigration enforcement in these cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Trump called out San Francisco as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/trump-san-francisco-troops-20883072.php\">cities he’d like to “clean up”\u003c/a> by sending in the National Guard. This week, the president said he would deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to protect immigration enforcement officials. The city of Portland and the state of Oregon have since sued the Trump administration to stop the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s speech on Tuesday, however, was the first time Trump publicly alluded to cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as war zones, according to the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, and directed military officials to be “a major part” in fighting on the ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They’re very unsafe places,” Trump said. “We’re gonna straighten them out one by one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An operation is currently underway in Memphis, Tennessee, where 219 officers have been “special deputized,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1973000379185938582\">post on X\u003c/a> from Attorney General Pamela Bondi. Nine arrests were made on Monday, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by reporters for a response at a press conference on Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said crime rates are falling and general welfare in the city is rebounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crime in San Francisco is down 30%, it’s down 40% in our financial district, and we are continuing to drive those numbers down,” Lurie said. “People are feeling better here in San Francisco. And that’s what I can control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">avoided uttering Trump’s name\u003c/a> and repeatedly said he can only focus on San Francisco, not what happens in Washington, D.C. The mayor’s approach has marked a stark contrast to that of other Democratic leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054630/in-picking-a-fight-with-trump-newsom-gambles-on-his-own-political-future\">like Newsom\u003c/a>, who has staked out a position as a leader of the Trump resistance movement and sought opportunities to spar with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This speech should terrify anyone who cares about our country. Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do,” Newsom posted on X on Tuesday. “This man cares about nothing but his own ego and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump, known for his off-the-cuff remarks, has previously made threats that don’t transpire and his comments on Tuesday were met with lackluster applause from military leaders. But arrests by ICE outside San Francisco’s immigration court have increased this year already and his comments on Tuesday appear to mark an escalation in his fight against Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration advocates across the state said the president’s words amplify fear in communities and should be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Far from making our neighborhoods safer, the militarization of our streets brought fear, violence and separation of families,” said Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigration Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fouladi pointed to events such as the National Guard rolling military vehicles through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in July in a dramatic show of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deployment led to the detention and deportation of permanent residents … including family members of military veterans. This is not public safety. It is state-sponsored violence and harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local leaders in Los Angeles, including Mayor Karen Bass, fired back at the president at the time, saying local police were capable of keeping peace in protests and that federal law enforcement was overreaching and stirring fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities and the state should not take this passively,” Fouladi said. “They should be thinking proactively about how to prepare so that if what happened in L.A. happens in our region, that we protect those who are going to be most vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sept. 19, panic struck an evening Emirates flight on the runway at SFO International Airport that was about to depart for India — as news spread in the cabin of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911349/trump-dropped-a-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visas-and-sent-silicon-valley-spinning\">President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning H-1B visas.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-silicon-valley-tech-hiring-2025-9\">Business Insider\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/fl360aero/status/1969474540674720093?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">passengers began to stand up\u003c/a> and leave the plane after receiving alerts and calls on their phones. Zarna Joshi, a U.S. citizen on the flight, said passengers had “already been onboard for two hours, and there were no updates — just more people leaving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/\">Trump’s executive order \u003c/a>had demanded companies pay $100,000 to supplement a single H-1B visa — a type of temporary visa category that allows employers to hire foreign workers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h1b-visa-program-fact-sheet/\">“specialty occupations”\u003c/a> that usually require at least a bachelor’s degree. Previously, companies usually paid around \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-100000-fee-h1b-visa/\">$2,000 to $5,000\u003c/a> per H-1B visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Microsoft began \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/read-memos-sent-big-tech-trump-h-1b-changes-2025-9\">sending urgent memos to their employees\u003c/a>, recommending H-1B visa holders cancel any upcoming international travel and remain in the United States, or return immediately if they were currently abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a day for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5548568/h1b-visa-fee-trump-tech\">the White House to clarify\u003c/a> that the $100,000 fee only applied to new visas, and would not actually affect current visa holders or renewals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confusion, concern and $100,000\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The White House claimed the measures would address what it called a “large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse” of the H-1B program, which “has undermined both our economic and national security.” Many economists have historically pushed back on this claim, emphasizing that visa restrictions actually encourage companies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h1b-visa-program-fact-sheet/\">expand operations\u003c/a> in other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Trump’s order is another part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">anti-immigration policies\u003c/a> enacted since his inauguration in January.[aside postID=news_12057638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg']The H-1B visa system is \u003ca href=\"https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/the-h-1b-visa-explained/\">notoriously difficult\u003c/a> for applicants to navigate. There is also a limit to the number of visas given out in a year, resulting in long waits and a major backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order has already had a major impact in California, a state with the most visa approvals at nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub\">62,000 visa beneficiaries\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year. According to the \u003cem>Wall Street Journal, \u003c/em>nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/h1b-visas-workers-charts-cb81493c\">two-thirds of visa holders\u003c/a> work in tech companies like Amazon and Google — with Amazon alone approving over \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub\">10,000 visa beneficiaries\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast majority of visa holders also come from India. In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/h1b-visas-workers-charts-cb81493c\">71% of approved H-1B visa petitions\u003c/a> were for people born in India. In comparison, people from China made up almost 12% of approved applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how communities in the Bay are reacting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911349/trump-dropped-a-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visas-and-sent-silicon-valley-spinning\">KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> spoke with lawyer Emily Neumann and journalists Pranav Dixit and Tanay Gokhale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The scale and scope of the H-1B program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Neumann:\u003c/strong> We’re talking about 85,000 visas per year. Every year, that’s the cap: We have 65,000 for regular or bachelor’s degree holders and an extra 20,000 for master’s degree holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, we do have a larger population than that, because these visas are granted for three-year increments and can be extended for a total of six years. So we have six years’ worth of people in the country on this visa.[aside postID=news_12057368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS24077_Courthouse-closeup-qut-1180x664.jpg']On top of that, because of green card problems [and] backlogs, because there’s a \u003cem>per-country\u003c/em> cap, we have certain countries where H-1B holders can extend beyond that six-year limit because they’re waiting for their green card. And that is a very large population. There are hundreds of thousands of people in that situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where it seems like there are so many H-1B holders out there, even though we only give out 85,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pranav Dixit:\u003c/strong> There are certain rules that even the H-1Bs are subject to. It’s not just “hire whoever you want on an H-1B.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H-1B workers still have to be paid what is known as a prevailing wage. They can’t be paid way less than anybody else in that field makes. So there are already checks and balances in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central argument that tech companies have always made is: “This kind of visa gives us the freedom to hire for roles that we just cannot find American workers for.” Some of that has been challenged in the last couple of years with the thousands of layoffs across the tech industry. There are certainly lots of Americans who are out of jobs in the tech industry. But [there] has always been the central argument that these visas are used to fill roles that there’s just not enough STEM talent in this country for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanay Gokhale\u003c/strong>: There \u003cem>are \u003c/em>legitimate problems with the H-1B visa system: the way the lottery is run, the way outsourcing has become a bigger problem over the past few years. In fact, before the current administration’s attack on H-1B started, Bernie Sanders wrote about it in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sensanders/status/1874918027982172626?s=46\">a Senate report\u003c/a> in February, speaking about the same issues that the current administration is speaking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11848802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"Biometric passport with visa stamp for United States\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An H-1B visa issued Nov. 30, 2010. KQED’s Forum spoke to experts about how H-1B visa holders in the Bay Area are reacting to the latest White House order. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on the flip side … if there really is a shortage of domestic workers — and I’ve been hearing that in some cases there is — [it’s] really a sort of supply issue. [If] tomorrow, you just cut off all foreign workers [from] being able to work in these tech companies, these companies will have a hard time. It is really a bigger issue for firms that do not have the resources of the really big tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand that there are legitimate concerns. But the sheer volume of workers that are staffing firms in the US, the volume of foreign workers … it just demands a little more thought and a little bit more concerted policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the H-1B executive order unfolded\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> It definitely came as a big shock, right when everyone was trying to wrap up their week and get ready for the weekend. I think the initial chaos stemmed from the way the proclamation was written originally. Everyone felt that even current visa holders might be banned from reentry unless their employers paid $100,000. It was effectively a travel ban for anybody on an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-clarifies-100k-h-1b-visa-fee-wont-apply-to-existing-holders-as-trump-stirs-anxiety\">Within a day\u003c/a>, the White House clarified that the fee doesn’t apply to anyone with an existing visa or anybody who’s renewing a visa, and then things calmed down a little.[aside postID=news_12055606 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The first email I got was from an HR director saying, “Hey, our CEO is hearing something about a $100,000 fee. How is this going to impact us? Is this true?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so then we’re scrambling to find out what is going to be in this executive order. We’re listening live, as he’s signing this order, and we have someone saying that this is going to apply to everyone, every H-1B, every year. And \u003cem>then \u003c/em>a few minutes later, we get the actual text of it, which sounds quite different, but also sounds like it applies to everyone. And \u003cem>then \u003c/em>we start getting these clarifications, coming on Twitter of all places, rather than anything official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>then \u003c/em>we have three different agencies posting fact sheets and FAQs, and still we have questions. But at least we know: People who are outside the U.S. could still travel back in. And those that were in the U.S., leaving, were still safe to go out and come back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my mind, what [Trump’s] done just now is just the beginning. This is not the only restriction they have planned. We’ve got more coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley’s reaction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I thought that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/reedhastings/status/1969828972688248953\">Reed Hastings’ comment\u003c/a> was really interesting, but I feel like he may also have been a bit of an outlier. [The Netflix chairman and co-founder called the $100,000 fee \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/reedhastings/status/1969828972688248953\">“a great solution”\u003c/a> and said that H-1B will be “used just for very high value jobs.”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H-1B visas are central to the way that most tech companies have hired international workers for more than three decades at this point, for roles that they say they just can’t fill with American workers alone.[aside postID=news_12056762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg']Most H-1B visas are used by the big tech companies: the Microsofts, the Googles, the Apples, and the Amazons. But also a large chunk of them go to the IT consulting and outsourcing firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of sentiment in the Valley that, “Hey, there are genuine problems with this program right now.” But in the long term, if this fee sticks, it is going to impact the ability of almost everyone to hire for roles that they may not find American workers for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The companies I work with constantly talk about how we have these positions that are going unfilled. Not necessarily the big tech companies, but small, mid-sized companies. They do hire engineers, not just in tech, and all the time we hear about, “We can’t find someone to do this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process itself, the fact that we’re choosing people based on a lottery … because we have these caps that were set before the internet even existed. We also have this green card backlog that impacts the H-1B, because people are stuck on an H-1B for years and years and years based on their country of birth. There are a lot of problems with the program, but I think companies are not happy about this $100,000 fee for sure. I don’t know of any company I’ve come across that is willing to pay it. I think they will hopefully be looking for an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, they will look at only sponsoring individuals who are in the U.S., who we think would not be subject to this fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The H-1B impact on health care in the US — and who might be exempt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trumps-h-1b-visa-fee-increase-raises-us-doctor-shortage-concerns-2025-09-24/\">Universities, hospitals, medical facilities tend to sponsor people\u003c/a> who are outside the U.S. Because most of these are cap-exempt institutions, they can file all year round. They don’t have to worry about this lottery in March and filing in April. And so they do bring a lot of people in [who] are outside the country.[aside postID=news_12055552 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/kvcr-mental-health-68c2d0da5f736.jpg']This $100,000 fee applies to \u003cem>any \u003c/em>petition being filed for someone who’s outside the county. The only filings happening right now are going to be these cap-exempt institutions. Which are for our doctors, for our nurses, for our researchers. So it’s really shooting us in the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I did hear about an exemption for people like doctors. I think this stuff is changing so rapidly at this point that it’s really hard to tell. I think it’s a wait-and-watch at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The Secretary of Homeland Security will get to decide whether an individual is going to be in the national interest, or a particular company, or a particular industry. We have zero information on what factors they will consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a little bit of prior experience with these national interest exemptions from the previous travel ban, but we don’t know if they’re going to be the same. We don’t know if maybe the companies that are liking this provision have already been told behind the scenes that they’re going to get an exemption. We don’t know what the factors are going to be, and there’s no guidance yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legalities — and possible long-term impacts — of the executive order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> [Trump’s] authority comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/understanding-ina-section-212f-president-authority-suspend-entry-migrants/\">the Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212F\u003c/a>. That’s an entry ban. He can block anyone from entering if he feels it’s in the national interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>have the ability to impose a $100,000 fee. Fees are set by Congress. And they can be adjusted based on inflation through the regulatory process, but it’s not something the president can unilaterally impose. There’s going to be litigation on that for sure.[aside postID=news_12057569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/healthcare-68d54870be6a1.jpg']We’re also going to have to see how these exemptions work. If they allow for a lot of exemptions where this isn’t that big of an issue for most U.S. companies, it might be workable. But it definitely impacts the overall path for people who are currently in the U.S., as well as those who might be considering the U.S. as a destination. We saw, during the previous Trump administration, that people were looking to Canada, looking to other countries to make their home because of such uncertainty with the H-1B and the path to the green card. So I think we’re going to see that again, we’re going to start losing talent if we continue these types of restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I think people who would have looked at immigrating as a complete no-brainer are increasingly rethinking that decision. They’re increasingly choosing to spend their lives in Canada or Mexico or India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies are responding to that. We’ve seen lots of offshoring to these countries in the last few years. I remember it was 2023, when Canada opened a special visa for 10,000 U.S. H-1B workers, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27lj39e99o\">it filled up in [24] hours\u003c/a>. People are increasingly getting tired of the constant instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this sticks — and I think there is a big “if” [around] this $100,000 fee, with litigation and everything — I think companies are going to rethink hiring in the U.S. More than hiring locally, it’s going to lead to an offshoring of jobs to Canada, Mexico, India and maybe other places around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The effect on Bay Area communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gokhale: \u003c/strong>In the short term, there was obviously panic among visa holders who are outside the country or planning to travel outside the country. And even after the clarification — though there was some amount of relief that “we are not in immediate danger” — the big emotion that has emerged from this is uncertainty and confusion among international workers, [and also] international students, many of whom hope to apply next year for the H-1B.[aside postID=news_12057384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg']There is definitely concern about, “Even if they haven’t come for us right now, will they eventually come for us in the next few months, in the next year?” It’s thrown a lot of things into a tailspin for a lot of people who have planned to live their life here, to set up a family, to set up a career in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve had conversations in the past few days that signaled to me that there’s a sense of disillusionment with the “H-1B, green card, citizenship” pipeline of the American dream. There just seems to be a massive reevaluation of whether the United States is still a good option to invest your future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I definitely see a lot of anti-Indian hate in general on social media. Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, any social media channel of your choice. There’s a lot of new, sometimes really wild, disturbing stuff coming out about Indians, Indian stereotypes — which I thought were on the way out — are suddenly making a resurgence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve personally covered hate crimes where there’s some \u003ca href=\"https://indiacurrents.com/ca-v-hate-crime-racism-islamophobia-homphobia/\">pretty graphic anti-H-1B graffiti on a public park bathroom\u003c/a>, which is something that I think can only happen in Silicon Valley or in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think the U.S. is the only place where this is happening. We’re seeing an anti-immigrant sort of sentiment in Australia, specifically targeted toward South Asians, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/northern-ireland/2025/06/irelands-anti-immigrant-rage-will-not-go-away\">Ireland\u003c/a>, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-12-12/housing-crisis-economic-woes-and-trump-how-canada-turned-against-immigrants\">Canada\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a global trend that we’re seeing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/anti-immigration-mood-sweeping-eu-capitals-puts-strain-on-blocs-unity\">anti-immigrant sentiment\u003c/a> in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>South Bay officials are working to reassure immigrant communities they are supported following the startling arrest of a man by a plainclothes federal immigration officer at a day laborer center in San José on Tuesday and condemning what they say is a departure from the way detentions have typically been carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders from the city of San José, Santa Clara County and a host of local immigrant rights organizations and nonprofits on Wednesday decried the arrest as a violation of the trust they have built with local immigrant communities, and said it could spread more fear throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José will not tolerate tactics that endanger or intimidate our immigrant neighbors,” District 5 Councilmember Peter Ortiz said during a press conference on Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said he and other council members are working on a memo that asks the city of San José, Santa Clara County and community-based organizations to work together “to create a comprehensive immigrant support plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said the plan would be aimed at boosting local coordination and response around targeted arrests like those seen in the city throughout the year, or potential raids like those playing out in Los Angeles and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes as the Trump administration ramps up mass immigration enforcement efforts against people in the U.S. who lack permanent legal status. Immigration and border authorities are using increasingly aggressive tactics, such as targeting locations that have previously been off limits, including immigration courts, check-in centers and state courthouses. Last week, officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057368/unprecedented-ice-arrest-inside-oakland-courthouse-draws-backlash\">detained a man\u003c/a> at an Alameda County courthouse in apparent violation of California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057528\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José District 5 City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at a local nonprofit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, city officials said a federal immigration officer wearing street clothes came into the open side door of ConXión to Community, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit resource center in the city’s Little Saigon neighborhood, near East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer said he was “police” and there to arrest a man who was a “fugitive,” according to Rose Amador, the retiring president and CEO of the center, who talked with her staff about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the organization said he didn’t identify himself as a federal agent, and only after he took the other man outside did he handcuff him with the support of other officers who were in the parking lot, some wearing uniforms.[aside postID=news_12054668 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2220320695-2000x1334.jpg']A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said that in her 43 years at the nonprofit, she has never heard of an immigration arrest being made on the property, and said it was shocking to everyone there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was startling. It was devastating to our staff to have one of our clients taken like that,” Amador told KQED. “We’re a big family with all of our clients and our programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said the center has served as a deeply trusted community resource for decades, offering help to people in need of work, along with other programs for people seeking food assistance, classes and job training, laundry services, showers and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz called the arrest a “disturbing event” for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When federal officers conceal their identity or impersonate local law enforcement, it spreads fear, it spreads confusion and it spreads distrust across our neighborhoods. That is unacceptable in our city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz, with the support of other council members, is pushing to enact a local law that would require federal agents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">clearly identify\u003c/a> themselves and ban them from wearing masks or face coverings in most instances, similar to a state bill that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056972/newsom-signs-laws-to-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown-including-ban-on-masks-for-ice-agents\">signed into law\u003c/a> by Gov. Newsom just days ago. It’s unclear whether immigration agents would abide by the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Amador, the retiring president and CEO of nonprofit ConXión to Community, speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at the organization’s building. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ortiz and other local leaders hope to ensure residents don’t recede further from public life out of concern about immigration enforcement, noting the arrest appeared to be a targeted one, and that the day laborer center was not raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Socorro Montaño, a co-director of the nonprofit Latinos United for New America, and a lead dispatcher with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">Rapid Response Network\u003c/a> of Santa Clara County — a coalition that works to verify reports of ICE in cities and provide legal support to people who are arrested — said the community is better protected when it’s organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a critical moment for all local businesses and organizations to review their safety protocol. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said that in her 43 years at the nonprofit, she has never heard of an immigration arrest being made on the property, and said it was shocking to everyone there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was startling. It was devastating to our staff to have one of our clients taken like that,” Amador told KQED. “We’re a big family with all of our clients and our programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador said the center has served as a deeply trusted community resource for decades, offering help to people in need of work, along with other programs for people seeking food assistance, classes and job training, laundry services, showers and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz called the arrest a “disturbing event” for the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When federal officers conceal their identity or impersonate local law enforcement, it spreads fear, it spreads confusion and it spreads distrust across our neighborhoods. That is unacceptable in our city,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz, with the support of other council members, is pushing to enact a local law that would require federal agents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">clearly identify\u003c/a> themselves and ban them from wearing masks or face coverings in most instances, similar to a state bill that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056972/newsom-signs-laws-to-resist-trumps-immigration-crackdown-including-ban-on-masks-for-ice-agents\">signed into law\u003c/a> by Gov. Newsom just days ago. It’s unclear whether immigration agents would abide by the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250924-SJICE-JG-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Amador, the retiring president and CEO of nonprofit ConXión to Community, speaks during a Sept. 24, 2025, press conference about an immigration arrest at the organization’s building. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ortiz and other local leaders hope to ensure residents don’t recede further from public life out of concern about immigration enforcement, noting the arrest appeared to be a targeted one, and that the day laborer center was not raided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Socorro Montaño, a co-director of the nonprofit Latinos United for New America, and a lead dispatcher with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">Rapid Response Network\u003c/a> of Santa Clara County — a coalition that works to verify reports of ICE in cities and provide legal support to people who are arrested — said the community is better protected when it’s organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a critical moment for all local businesses and organizations to review their safety protocol. Employees should be trained to identify ICE agents, know when to call the Rapid Response Network, demand warrants and exercise their rights,” Montaño said during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who was arrested and his family are being assisted by an attorney and the staff of the Rapid Response Network, Montaño said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz said he hopes the latest memo he and his colleagues are working on for immigrant support plans, in addition to past efforts to allocate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043787/as-ice-fears-grow-san-jose-approves-1-5-million-to-support-immigrants\">more city money\u003c/a> for legal aid and other services, along with the de-masking law, will help residents see their local officials are working to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José has always been a city of immigrants. Our immigrant neighbors built this city, they keep our economy moving…and they enrich every part of our culture,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our residents are not safe, our entire city suffers. We cannot allow this fear to define our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Our democracy cannot function if this continues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client of the public defender’s office was detained in the hallways of Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 15, Woods said Monday. Two plainclothes agents who said they worked for ICE reportedly ushered him into an unmarked vehicle and took him to a detention center, where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office did not disclose any details of the client’s pending case or say whether or not the man had legal status in the U.S. He does not appear to have any criminal convictions, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11357784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE has been making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unprecedented arrests\u003c/a> at California’s immigration courthouses — controlled by the federal government — since the spring, but arrests in state courts are still much more rare and, in most cases, illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators barred immigration enforcement officers from conducting arrests inside state courthouses in most cases in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057278/california-law-forbids-ice-from-making-arrests-at-courthouses-officers-are-showing-up-anyway\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> report\u003c/a> found that in some jurisdictions, ICE has been skirting these rules in recent months by waiting just outside the buildings, where the legality of conducting an arrest is more hazy. But Tuesday’s arrest inside the Alameda County Superior Court building is a clearer violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a judge called the man’s case and issued him a new court date, he reportedly stepped into the hall while his public defender remained inside the courtroom. He was arrested in the hallway, according to the public defender’s office.[aside postID=news_12057278 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/calmatters_091825_Fresno-Courthouse_LV_10.jpg']There’s only been one other known instance of an arrest inside a courthouse in California this year, according to the \u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>report. ICE agents arrested a person inside the Oroville courthouse in Butte County on July 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both actions appear to directly violate the 2019 law, which says that if people fear they will be arrested while attending judicial proceedings, they will be less likely to show up, threatening the function of California’s government and Californians’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the immigration crackdown of Trump’s first term, the state prohibited law enforcement agencies from making civil arrests, including immigration arrests, in courthouses when people are attending a court proceeding or conducting other legal business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be punished for obeying a court’s request for a personal appearance,” said Alameda County deputy public defender Raha Jorjani, who supervises the office’s immigration unit. “By appearing before the criminal court, our client was obeying the rules. This is about more than one arrest. It’s about whether we are building a system rooted in justice — or one rooted in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear what legal action the state or county could take over the apparent violation of California law, but Woods said he would work with the sheriff, district attorney and local judges to protect the county’s courts from future ICE action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on the agencies to commit to not cooperating with ICE and notifying each other if they learn of planned enforcement near a courthouse or jail in the county — policies included in many local sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda County does not have a countywide ordinance, it adheres to California’s sanctuary state law, and multiple cities, including Oakland, have their own sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods also asked that the county post signage requiring ICE and law enforcement officers to identify themselves upon entering courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow a racist, authoritarian regime to interfere with our local courts like this,” he said. “It’s time to pick a side. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A client of the public defender’s office was detained in the hallways of Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 15, Woods said Monday. Two plainclothes agents who said they worked for ICE reportedly ushered him into an unmarked vehicle and took him to a detention center, where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s office did not disclose any details of the client’s pending case or say whether or not the man had legal status in the U.S. He does not appear to have any criminal convictions, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11357784\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS24598_GettyImages-492659324-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE has been making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unprecedented arrests\u003c/a> at California’s immigration courthouses — controlled by the federal government — since the spring, but arrests in state courts are still much more rare and, in most cases, illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California legislators barred immigration enforcement officers from conducting arrests inside state courthouses in most cases in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057278/california-law-forbids-ice-from-making-arrests-at-courthouses-officers-are-showing-up-anyway\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> report\u003c/a> found that in some jurisdictions, ICE has been skirting these rules in recent months by waiting just outside the buildings, where the legality of conducting an arrest is more hazy. But Tuesday’s arrest inside the Alameda County Superior Court building is a clearer violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a judge called the man’s case and issued him a new court date, he reportedly stepped into the hall while his public defender remained inside the courtroom. He was arrested in the hallway, according to the public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There’s only been one other known instance of an arrest inside a courthouse in California this year, according to the \u003cem>CalMatters \u003c/em>report. ICE agents arrested a person inside the Oroville courthouse in Butte County on July 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both actions appear to directly violate the 2019 law, which says that if people fear they will be arrested while attending judicial proceedings, they will be less likely to show up, threatening the function of California’s government and Californians’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the immigration crackdown of Trump’s first term, the state prohibited law enforcement agencies from making civil arrests, including immigration arrests, in courthouses when people are attending a court proceeding or conducting other legal business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should be punished for obeying a court’s request for a personal appearance,” said Alameda County deputy public defender Raha Jorjani, who supervises the office’s immigration unit. “By appearing before the criminal court, our client was obeying the rules. This is about more than one arrest. It’s about whether we are building a system rooted in justice — or one rooted in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear what legal action the state or county could take over the apparent violation of California law, but Woods said he would work with the sheriff, district attorney and local judges to protect the county’s courts from future ICE action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called on the agencies to commit to not cooperating with ICE and notifying each other if they learn of planned enforcement near a courthouse or jail in the county — policies included in many local sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Alameda County does not have a countywide ordinance, it adheres to California’s sanctuary state law, and multiple cities, including Oakland, have their own sanctuary ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods also asked that the county post signage requiring ICE and law enforcement officers to identify themselves upon entering courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow a racist, authoritarian regime to interfere with our local courts like this,” he said. “It’s time to pick a side. Either you allow this to happen to members of our community, or you take action to prevent it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer isn’t saying her brother is a saint. Far from it. He was convicted of domestic violence last year and entered a one-year intervention program. He graduated on July 23 in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fresno\">Fresno\u003c/a> County courtroom, where a judge told him he had done a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, while leaving the courthouse, five men and one woman in plain clothes approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone came up to him, got in his face and said his name,” said Jennifer, who did not want CalMatters to use her last name because she was concerned about immigration enforcement agents targeting other relatives. “And they grabbed him, and I tried to get between them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12055651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1020x603.jpg']Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Bay Area congressperson said he remains deeply concerned over possible mistreatment of detained immigrants after a visit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">an immigration holding facility in San Francisco\u003c/a> on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, a North Bay Democrat, said he scheduled the visit to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 630 Sansome St. in San Francisco after getting reports that detainees were mistreated there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His inspection comes on the heels of a class action \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/32.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed last week, that alleged conditions at the facility are so inhumane they violate the U.S. Constitution. The suit accused ICE of turning 12-hour holding cells in the downtown office building into a jail where people are detained for days with no beds, hygiene or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said he did not observe egregious conditions on Monday, but he noted that his visit was planned in advance. It was not a response to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the conditions shown to me appeared orderly and maintained, leadership at the facility was given prior notice of my visit,” he told KQED in a statement. “I will continue to closely monitor reports of undue detainments and improper conditions at the immigration facilities near our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St. in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ47/PLAW-118publ47.pdf\">law\u003c/a>, members of Congress have the right to conduct inspections of immigration detention facilities without providing advance notice. However, in recent months, ICE has repeatedly\u003ca href=\"https://www.pogo.org/analysis/ice-barring-congress-from-detention-facilities-is-illegal\"> blocked \u003c/a>members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pogo.org/analysis/ice-barring-congress-from-detention-facilities-is-illegal\">Congress \u003c/a>from entering detention facilities. In July, a dozen lawmakers who were denied access \u003ca href=\"https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/1-Neguse-v.-ICE-Complaint.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, the sixth-floor cells at the Sansome Street ICE office were intended for temporary custody while immigrants awaited transfer or processing for release, according to the lawsuit. But in January, ICE rescinded a national policy that limited the use of such temporary “hold rooms” to a maximum of 12 hours.[aside postID=news_12056762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg']Since then, people arrested at Northern California immigration courts, at ICE check-in appointments and elsewhere have been locked up overnight — some as long as six days — and have nowhere to sleep but a metal bench or the floor, with the lights on around the clock, the suit alleged. They must share a toilet with no privacy, have nowhere to bathe and are denied soap and toothpaste, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of several people who were held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants do not conduct a medical intake or use a medical questionnaire to identify the needs of people being detained in the hold rooms,” the suit said. “Defendants routinely fail to provide for the proper administration of prescription medications, and they do not allow detained people to make arrangements to access their prescription medications or keep medication with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied the charges in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any claim that there are subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are false,” she wrote. “In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most US prisons that hold actual US citizens. All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their family members. It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an alien enters ICE custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, which also challenged ICE’s recent practice of arresting people at immigration courthouses, was brought by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central American Resource Center of San Francisco and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, as well as attorneys with the firm Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240828-ICEDetainees-04-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Lucas rallies outside the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement offices in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 2024, in support of labor and hunger strikers inside two detention centers in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her statement, ICE’s McLaughlin wrote: “The ACLU should just change its name. It’s clear they only care about illegal aliens—not Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson said he would continue to work with immigrant service organizations “to ensure members of our immigrant community know their rights and are treated with dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged anyone in his 4th Congressional District who has faced inhumane treatment in ICE custody to contact his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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