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Low turnout in the past in communities like Watts, however, has blunted their political standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 17 percent of Latinos voted in most of Watts’ precincts during the 2014 general election. That’s about 5 percentage points lower than the total population’s turnout in most areas of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Mery Alvarez said she feels like politicians have left Watts behind. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As get-out-the-vote efforts ramp up in California ahead of the primary election, the influence of women, even those who like Salas can’t cast a ballot, could prove key in fulfilling the promise of the Latino vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119568-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norma Salas (L) talks with Keshia Mills at a home in Watts where a lunch discussion focused on voting on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With over 6.9 million eligible Latino voters in the state, their collective influence could be substantial if participation is high. Low turnout in the past in communities like Watts, however, has blunted their political standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 17 percent of Latinos voted in most of Watts’ precincts during the 2014 general election. That’s about 5 percentage points lower than the total population’s turnout in most areas of Watts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Mery Alvarez said she feels like politicians have left Watts behind. She’d like to see more of them reach out to residents and provide civic education to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobilizing the Vote\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the women chatting over lunch here are Latina mothers and, although some are ineligible to vote since they’re not U.S. citizens, they are a secret weapon of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They care about Watts deeply and they’re telling their family members why voting matters, and in some cases, who and what they should vote for.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leticia Martinez pays attention to the newspapers and candidates, but she can’t vote. Her husband, who can vote, doesn’t read up on the candidates or the issues. “When it’s time to vote, I tell him, ‘This is who you’re going to vote for,'” she said, speaking in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Latino families, such influence is not unusual, according to Angelica Peña, California deputy director of civic engagement for the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.naleo.org/\">National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund\u003c/a> (NALEO).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked which family members folks felt would be best to engage them, we heard a lot of responses that were female — so my mother, my grandmother, my sister,” Peña said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña calls these people the “messengers,” those most likely to motivate other Latinos to get out and vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this misconception that there’s apathy among our community members and that people don’t want to vote because they just don’t care. And that’s actually untrue,” she said. “It’s not for a lack of interest or not understanding the importance of an election but just the feeling like they couldn’t relate to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10913477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/119577-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leticia Martinez attends a discussion on the upcoming 2016 elections in Watts on Feb. 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NALEO conducted research in 2014 to uncover what practices proved most effective in mobilizing Latino voters. The group found that it’s not celebrities nor community leaders who are best at convincing citizens to vote, but rather family members, including the women closest to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside Peña’s NALEO office recently, about a dozen workers were busy answering phone calls at the group’s call center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the desks will be filled with phone canvassers working the phones to get out the vote as part of a nonpartisan campaign. They will be putting the insights from NALEO’s voter research to the test, refining exactly who and what message works best to get Latinos to cast their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime hotline worker is Lillian Meza. A mother and a messenger herself, Meza regularly encourages others to register to vote, jumping on social media platforms like Facebook to spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza has even done this work within her own family. She recently convinced her 19 and 21-year-old daughters to register to vote. This year will be the first time they’ll participate in a presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in California we have online registration. So their morning breakfast, [I ask] did you register to vote already. Did you register to vote already? It only takes five minutes online,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meza’s oldest daughter, Shirley Guzman, said in hindsight, she’s glad her mother pressed her to register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would bring it up every single time,” she said. “It was almost frustrating, but we understood like the importance of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Meza, she said she doesn’t care who her daughters pick in the upcoming presidential election, just as long as they vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 KPCC. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPCC.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Eighty-two percent of California's adults are eligible to vote, but only half will bother to cast ballots in 2016. And those who do vote will not reflect the state's diversity. That's a key takeaway of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=705\" target=\"_blank\">California's Exclusive Electorate\u003c/a>, a new report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) examining voter participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC study found that the half of adults who vote tend to be older, whiter, more affluent and better educated than non-voters, who tend to be younger, Latino, renters and less wealthy than those who cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California's population is 42 percent white and 36 percent Latino, six in 10 California voters are white and only 18 percent are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The divide between voters and non-voters appears to be deep, persistent, and difficult to bridge.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The result, PPIC researchers say, is that the \"haves\" are making important decisions for the \"have nots,\" and in a state that often makes critical public policy decisions at the ballot box, that creates the risk of undermining confidence in elections and government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, PPIC found that when it comes to issues like bridging the gap between rich and poor, seven in 10 Californians who are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> registered to vote think the government should do more to help low-income people. For \u003cem>likely voters\u003c/em>, a little over 5 in 10 believe government should do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The divide between voters and non-voters appears to be deep, persistent and difficult to bridge,\" said Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO. \"It will have far-reaching consequences this fall, when issues as important as the minimum wage, school bonds and the death penalty are likely to be on the ballot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is taking steps to increase voter participation. There are more than 7 million eligible voters who have not bothered to register and soon, under AB-1461, the California Department of Motor Vehicles will begin automatically registering eligible voters who come into the DMV for a drivers license, unless they deliberately opt out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H9oSXAAwDmXDowTTGUpFqLlw1FkGMtgw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the PPIC report finds that's only part of the battle. Once they're registered they have to be motivated to actually cast a ballot. The key, according to PPIC researchers, is civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When registered voters are asked why they do not always vote, their top reasons are also a lack of interest and time as well as little confidence and trust,\" the PPIC report said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public and private efforts, including targeted drives to increase civics education, voter registration and voting among underrepresented groups (such as Latino, Asian, low-income, renters and youth communities) could result in more diversity in the electorate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of voter participation is partly explained by immigration. Immigrants who come from places with military dictatorships or corrupt elections may not trust democracy or the electoral process. In return, they may not become citizens, register to vote or even talk with their children about the importance of civic engagement at home around the kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the more reason, PPIC says, for schools and other public institutions to encourage participation in our democracy.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">last visited the Central Valley farm town of Lindsay\u003c/a>, Amy Huerta and her brother, Luis, were in the middle of a pretty intense dinnertime conversation about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are things that matter,” says Luis, who can’t vote because he’s undocumented. Amy is 18, and she could be the first in her family to vote, so he’s putting a lot of pressure on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t always take his side,” laughs Amy. “I don’t always do what he tells me to do, because we both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255017454″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other potential young voters in Lindsay come from families where politics are not a main course during family dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘It Doesn’t Matter If I Vote or Not’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town from the Huerta household, 22-year-old Cassandra Baca’s daughter, Amoriee, just woke up from a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca says she hasn’t really thought at all about voting. She’s got enough on her plate as a single mom with a baby. She works as a kitchen assistant in a facility for senior citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if I vote or not. I don’t think it would count. It really doesn’t have anything to do with me,” she says, as she tries to distract the baby by jangling her car keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra’s dad migrated from Mexico to work in the fields. After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘It Doesn’t Matter If I Vote or Not’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town from the Huerta household, 22-year-old Cassandra Baca’s daughter, Amoriee, just woke up from a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca says she hasn’t really thought at all about voting. She’s got enough on her plate as a single mom with a baby. She works as a kitchen assistant in a facility for senior citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if I vote or not. I don’t think it would count. It really doesn’t have anything to do with me,” she says, as she tries to distract the baby by jangling her car keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra’s dad migrated from Mexico to work in the fields. After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maria Trujillo cleaned buildings for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, she was leading a chant at a rally outside the state Capitol, calling for an end to abusive working conditions and sexual harassment for janitors like herself who have experienced sexual assault on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the beginning, I felt really worthless,\" said Trujillo. \"I felt like I was worth nothing. I felt like as an immigrant woman, I had to take this, and anyone could step all over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez attended the same rally, where she \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-plan-is-emerging-to-fight-the-sexual-abuse-of-janitors-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced that her office is working on a bill\u003c/a> to increase protections for female janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251051351\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said she was moved to tears by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift,\"\u003c/a> a collaboration between Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, KQED, Frontline and Univision, and that it inspired her to improve conditions for women who are subject to abuse while cleaning buildings alone at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's rallies -- which also marked International Women's Day -- came as a \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2016/Race-to-the-Bottom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new study\u003c/a> released by UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> linked subcontracting work to lower wages, fewer benefits, risk of sexual assault and other employment law violations, compared with non-subcontracted workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at janitorial and security service workers in California over a 30-year period to examine the impact of subcontract work on job quality outcomes for more than 200,000 service workers laboring under a subcontract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found that wages within the property services industry have declined or remained stagnant, even as employment in the janitorial and security industry has increased faster than other sectors of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contracted janitors earned 20 percent less than noncontracted janitors, while contracted security officers earned 18 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time we’ve been able to look specifically at this industry and confirm that the trend of low wages and poor work incomes is associated with subcontracting over time,\" said Sara Hinkley, a postdoctoral fellow at the\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Labor Center at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and an author the study. \"We're talking about a significant number of workers that really represent the archetype of subcontracting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also shows that contracted workers are significantly less likely to have health insurance. Thirty-five percent of contracted janitors had health insurance through their employer or union, while 62 percent of noncontracted janitors had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Risk of Sexual Harassment and Assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, researchers repeatedly cited reporting from \"Rape on the Night Shift.\" They found that the property services industry is structured in a way that leaves workers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable\u003c/a> to sexual assault and afraid to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Janitors and security officers tend to work alone at night in empty buildings and are isolated from almost everyone except their immediate supervisor,\" said Helen Chen, co-author of the study and coordinator of public programs at the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program. \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">This isolation is a major risk factor \u003c/a>for sexual harassment, particularly when the harasser is their supervisor, which is a common occurrence in this industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other factors that researchers found increase the risk of sexual harassment include lack of accountability and lack of resources for prevention services on the part of smaller employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers add that a workplace culture that does not support survivors, coupled with a high number of immigrant and undocumented female workers, leaves many in fear of retribution. Thus, many incidents go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to one janitor who was sexually propositioned by her supervisor and harassed for a year,\" said Chen. \"That same supervisor harassed other women in the workplace and was never reprimanded. Employers generally do not have sexual harassment policies in place, and if they do, those policies are inadequate or are not enforced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disproportionately Affecting Immigrants, People of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos make up 37 percent of California's overall workforce, they make up 82 percent of contracted janitors and 41 percent of those who are not contracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oQktQM16n0yp7JDEd8B58VzE3wImXj8R\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of contracted janitors are also immigrants, with 75 percent of them being foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have a situation where contractors use the situation of immigrant status and gender as a means to create an environment of exploitation and harassment,\" said David Huerta, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu-usww.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West\u003c/a>, which represents 45,000 service workers throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security officers are less likely to be immigrants because of the English-language requirements for the job. However, they are more likely to be African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are things we've been talking about for some time now,,\" said Huerta. \"And as we start talking about the issue of racial justice and immigrant justice in this country, more and more we're going to see that this dysfunction within subcontract industries exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Competition, Lower wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking with employers and industry experts, researchers found that the intense competition between contract companies, coupled with the labor-intensive nature of contract work, is what puts wages and working conditions on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because labor cost accounts for the largest percentage of a contractor's cost of doing business, companies often find themselves unable to compete if their prices don't remain competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most room that they have to cut costs is in the group of expenditures associated with hiring workers,\" said Hinkley. \"They're continually competing with companies that are offering lower and lower costs based on being able to reduce the amount of money they spend on labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conducting her research, Hinkley did find that there are employers out there who were genuine about wanting to offer their workers good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These employers want to compete based on offering quality services, innovation and productivity enhancements. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Maria Trujillo cleaned buildings for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, she was leading a chant at a rally outside the state Capitol, calling for an end to abusive working conditions and sexual harassment for janitors like herself who have experienced sexual assault on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the beginning, I felt really worthless,\" said Trujillo. \"I felt like I was worth nothing. I felt like as an immigrant woman, I had to take this, and anyone could step all over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez attended the same rally, where she \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-plan-is-emerging-to-fight-the-sexual-abuse-of-janitors-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced that her office is working on a bill\u003c/a> to increase protections for female janitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251051351&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251051351'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said she was moved to tears by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift,\"\u003c/a> a collaboration between Reveal, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, KQED, Frontline and Univision, and that it inspired her to improve conditions for women who are subject to abuse while cleaning buildings alone at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's rallies -- which also marked International Women's Day -- came as a \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2016/Race-to-the-Bottom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new study\u003c/a> released by UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> linked subcontracting work to lower wages, fewer benefits, risk of sexual assault and other employment law violations, compared with non-subcontracted workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers looked at janitorial and security service workers in California over a 30-year period to examine the impact of subcontract work on job quality outcomes for more than 200,000 service workers laboring under a subcontract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18732_JanitorsRally-960x588.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally in support of janitors, and to bring attention to issues of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace at the state Capitol on March 8, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They found that wages within the property services industry have declined or remained stagnant, even as employment in the janitorial and security industry has increased faster than other sectors of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contracted janitors earned 20 percent less than noncontracted janitors, while contracted security officers earned 18 percent less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the first time we’ve been able to look specifically at this industry and confirm that the trend of low wages and poor work incomes is associated with subcontracting over time,\" said Sara Hinkley, a postdoctoral fellow at the\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/\" target=\"_blank\"> Labor Center at UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and an author the study. \"We're talking about a significant number of workers that really represent the archetype of subcontracting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also shows that contracted workers are significantly less likely to have health insurance. Thirty-five percent of contracted janitors had health insurance through their employer or union, while 62 percent of noncontracted janitors had health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Risk of Sexual Harassment and Assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In looking at sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, researchers repeatedly cited reporting from \"Rape on the Night Shift.\" They found that the property services industry is structured in a way that leaves workers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable\u003c/a> to sexual assault and afraid to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Janitors and security officers tend to work alone at night in empty buildings and are isolated from almost everyone except their immediate supervisor,\" said Helen Chen, co-author of the study and coordinator of public programs at the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program. \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">This isolation is a major risk factor \u003c/a>for sexual harassment, particularly when the harasser is their supervisor, which is a common occurrence in this industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other factors that researchers found increase the risk of sexual harassment include lack of accountability and lack of resources for prevention services on the part of smaller employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers add that a workplace culture that does not support survivors, coupled with a high number of immigrant and undocumented female workers, leaves many in fear of retribution. Thus, many incidents go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We talked to one janitor who was sexually propositioned by her supervisor and harassed for a year,\" said Chen. \"That same supervisor harassed other women in the workplace and was never reprimanded. Employers generally do not have sexual harassment policies in place, and if they do, those policies are inadequate or are not enforced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disproportionately Affecting Immigrants, People of Color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos make up 37 percent of California's overall workforce, they make up 82 percent of contracted janitors and 41 percent of those who are not contracted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of contracted janitors are also immigrants, with 75 percent of them being foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have a situation where contractors use the situation of immigrant status and gender as a means to create an environment of exploitation and harassment,\" said David Huerta, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu-usww.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West\u003c/a>, which represents 45,000 service workers throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security officers are less likely to be immigrants because of the English-language requirements for the job. However, they are more likely to be African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are things we've been talking about for some time now,,\" said Huerta. \"And as we start talking about the issue of racial justice and immigrant justice in this country, more and more we're going to see that this dysfunction within subcontract industries exist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Competition, Lower wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In talking with employers and industry experts, researchers found that the intense competition between contract companies, coupled with the labor-intensive nature of contract work, is what puts wages and working conditions on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because labor cost accounts for the largest percentage of a contractor's cost of doing business, companies often find themselves unable to compete if their prices don't remain competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most room that they have to cut costs is in the group of expenditures associated with hiring workers,\" said Hinkley. \"They're continually competing with companies that are offering lower and lower costs based on being able to reduce the amount of money they spend on labor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conducting her research, Hinkley did find that there are employers out there who were genuine about wanting to offer their workers good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These employers want to compete based on offering quality services, innovation and productivity enhancements. 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"content": "\u003cp>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251017007\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ietcPzhokMQnz3LuWWdAGRKbzcr2BIZN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdop.net/\">San Diego Organizing Project\u003c/a> also organizes the community around social justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said for her to vote, the system would have to look a lot different. And she said it will be those she organizes — the Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrant \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/25/central-valley-teen-familys-only-vote-will-she-cas/\">DREAMers\u003c/a> and refugees like Ali — who will shape it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to empower people and create this mass of people that can make change,\" Green said. \"Because it's going to take a mass movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PANA believes refugees are that mass to push for change — at the ballot box. San Diego has resettled an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/21/san-diego-marks-world-refugee-day/\">estimated 100,000 refugees\u003c/a> since 1975. To PANA, that's 100,000 potential super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit www.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">kpbs.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CORRECTION: The original version of this story said DMV is already registering drivers automatically to vote. That's not happening yet. The story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what's important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts\">Read more in this series\u003c/a> and let us know your thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamsouthla&src=typd\">#\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CACounts&src=typd\">CACounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>People up and down the state are trying to crack the code on California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jan/28/why-dont-more-californians-vote/\">dismal voter turnout\u003c/a>, which reached a record low for general elections in 2014. Just 42.2 percent of registered voters cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is getting ready to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/oct/14/will-californias-new-motor-voter-law-boost-turnout/\" target=\"_blank\">register drivers automatically to vote\u003c/a>, and there's talk of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/01/26/46056/ca-secretary-of-state-alex-padilla-s-plan-to-get-m/\" target=\"_blank\">sending mail-in ballots\u003c/a> to every registered voter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a San Diego nonprofit, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.panasd.org/\">Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans\u003c/a>, sees untapped potential in one voting bloc: refugees. The group noticed that refugees who do vote tend to never miss an election. They’re super voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251017007&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251017007'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How big is the opportunity? California has resettled \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugee-resettlement-metropolitan-america\">about 300,000 refugees\u003c/a> since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramla Sahid is PANA's executive director and a U.S.-born daughter of Somali refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grow, we have children, children get married, they have more children. So I think former refugees and new refugees are sort of an underengaged, overlooked, potentially huge voter base that could, I think, impact the way we do things,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889865\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889865 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg\" alt=\"Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\" width=\"800\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-800x955.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-400x478.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-1180x1409.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/VoterDemogsTeralta-960x1146.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demographics for San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood in the City Heights area shows 47 percent of voters there are foreign born.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sahid is working this election year to replicate on a larger scale what's happening in Mariam Ali's home. Ali lives in San Diego's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/10/san-diego-neighborhoods-close-distance-miles-apart/\">Teralta\u003c/a> neighborhood, where just 27 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From War to Ballot Box\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, Ali was cooking pasta for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids, they love this stuff,\" she said. \"'Mommy, make the alfredo sauce!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the store-bought kind but spiked with curry and ground African peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five years ago, Ali was begging nomadic tribes for a pot to boil what little food she had. She and her family had fled \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094503\">civil war in Somalia\u003c/a> and were walking to a refugee camp about 200 miles from their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They took my house, they took my money, they took my belongings and I escaped with nothing,\" Ali said. Rebels were seizing towns amid the fighting between Somalia's Hawiye and Darod clans, of which Ali's family and ousted Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre were members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali went from seeing a government toppled in Somalia to living for years in a Kenyan refugee camp with no civic structure — just United Nations workers keeping things running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, in the United States, Ali is a super voter. That means she's voted in every election since becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003. Her first vote for president went to Democrat John Kerry, who lost to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10889854 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in Diego’s Teralta neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AliCooking-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariam Ali cooks pasta in her home in San Diego’s Teralta neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Oh, my God.' We went to the county office and I didn't know what to do,\" Ali said, recalling that first vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali has since encouraged her three older sons to vote. She said they fill out their mail-in ballots as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Small But Mighty Voting Bloc\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most refugee families are not like Ali's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, about 32 percent of foreign-born residents vote, compared with 46 percent of those born in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census and \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/\">Political Data Inc.\u003c/a>, a company that analyzes voter information for campaigns and others. Turnout among refugees is hard to pinpoint — foreign-born also includes people who voluntarily left home, immigrants who are living in the country illegally and cannot vote, and legal residents who aren't yet citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a survey by PANA of 953 East Africans in San Diego shows 30 percent of those registered are super voters, or voted in at least eight of the past 10 elections. That's compared with 20 percent of the state's voting population, according to data from the U.S. Census and Political Data Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democrat:\u003c/strong> 45 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Republican:\u003c/strong> 40 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>African-American:\u003c/strong> 3 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Asian:\u003c/strong> 7 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Latino:\u003c/strong> 10 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Age 65 or older:\u003c/strong> 58 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Earns $100,000 or more:\u003c/strong> 37 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Homeowner:\u003c/strong> 78 percent\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: Political Data Inc.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the refugees surveyed, 75 percent are also active voters, meaning they don't show up only for presidential elections, like a lot of U.S.-born voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether this phenomenon is seen elsewhere in the state. According to Political Data Inc., 13 percent of California's foreign-born voters are super voters. The data don't account for refugees alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sahid said it would make sense to see staunch refugee voters throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when you're kicked out of your home, you're persecuted, you've fled wars, and you have to start over and rebuild your entire life, it means something more when you can actually engage in decision-making,\" Sahid said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she votes because she wants her community's needs addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to vote because my voice will be heard,\" Ali said. \"If I need something and I don't vote, who knows me? Who knows my needs? No one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali cares a lot about empowering women — her father pushed her into an abusive marriage at age 14. She said her vote in this year's presidential race is going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am very excited,\" Ali said. \"Women can do what the men do, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she also cares about rising college tuition and racial inequality. She said she's surprised those issues don't draw more U.S.-born voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want my community members to vote and come out of the shell that they (are) hiding in,\" Ali said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Casting Doubt on 'Every Vote Counts'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noreen H. Green lives down the street from Ali. She said racial inequality is exactly why she hasn't voted since the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I talk to refugees and they think this is the greatest country on Earth,\" Green said. \"I see it from a different perspective because I'm a black American and my ancestors were brought here as slaves and worked 400 years for free, and that's how a lot of the wealth of this country was built. So I see it from that lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green comes from a family of super voters. In fact, the last time she went to the polls was in 2014 to drop off a ballot for her mother, who had a stroke that year and was paralyzed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was that important to her,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10889861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/GreenPortrait-960x611.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noreen H. Green works for a San Diego nonprofit that promotes voting and social justice issues. \u003ccite>(Brian Myers/Media Arts Center San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green's husband is also a super voter. But not Green. She said casting a ballot would mean supporting a system she considers unjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From young black men and women being killed — and there really have been no consequences for that — to the fact that you have to have millions, sometimes billions, to run for president. And our county Board of Supervisors sat on a huge \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpisandiego.org/debate_erupts_over_county_s_reserve_funds\">reserve\u003c/a> during the recession.\" Green said. \"I don't vote because I don't believe anyone deserves my vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whichever candidate squares off with Republican Donald Trump if he wins the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's another thing. It's like watching a circus,\" Green said, referring to this year’s GOP presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Green is interning with a nonprofit that works to get out the vote during election years. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdop.net/\">San Diego Organizing Project\u003c/a> also organizes the community around social justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said for her to vote, the system would have to look a lot different. And she said it will be those she organizes — the Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrant \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/feb/25/central-valley-teen-familys-only-vote-will-she-cas/\">DREAMers\u003c/a> and refugees like Ali — who will shape it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important to empower people and create this mass of people that can make change,\" Green said. \"Because it's going to take a mass movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PANA believes refugees are that mass to push for change — at the ballot box. San Diego has resettled an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/21/san-diego-marks-world-refugee-day/\">estimated 100,000 refugees\u003c/a> since 1975. 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"content": "\u003cp>Subhi Nahas remembers the exact day when he knew he’d have to leave Syria. It was in the spring of 2012. He was 24, on a bus, going to his university to take a final exam. It was the last exam he needed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says they came up to a checkpoint, and a group of soldiers stopped the bus. They checked the IDs of all the young men, and then they singled out Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what happened next. “They take you to a room, and put you in a chair, where you’re all alone,” he recalls. “The chairs, and the table, and the ground, they’re full of blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250266753″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were Syrian government soldiers. They were cracking down on rebels who opposed the president, Bashar al-Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Nahas had nothing to do with the civil war, these soldiers decided to pick on him anyway. They’d noticed that he looked different. He acted effeminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says for 30 minutes they harassed him and called him homophobic names. He was scared for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that moment I was like, feeling that — yeah, that’s the end of it,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t. They let him go without hurting him. But after that, Nahas was too afraid to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back home I was saying to myself, ‘What’s the point of staying in Syria, while you cannot complete your studies?’ Without this you cannot do anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dangers at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soldiers who messed with Nahas were from the Assad regime. But a few months later, rebels opposing Assad took root in Nahas’ city, Maarat al-Numan. They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings … except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not safe outside and you’re not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you’re doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VFWhWLxAbUZbF0wRZRDw0g0HaFRo6MXy”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. They can travel to a country like Germany, hoping they receive asylum, or they can petition the U.N. for resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. resettles only people who are part of a persecuted group. One of those groups is LGBT people. But there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\">4.5 million\u003c/a> Syrian refugees. And less than \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/559ce97f9.html\">1 percent\u003c/a> of them are resettled by the U.N.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my case would be, like, really accepted,” says Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process took almost a year. He did interview after interview, screening after screening, until one day the Department of Homeland Security sent him a letter saying, effectively, “Your case has been deferred for further investigation, thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas says this was the hardest part — not knowing if they’d ever get back to him. His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with — an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why — especially for LGBT refugees — creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you’re escaping from your own community, or you’re escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM — the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says “You Are Safe Here” in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. And like almost everybody in the refugee program, Nahas is on track to eventually get a green card and U.S. citizenship. But what sets his case apart is the bond he made with Hertz and the local gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good feeling when you really know that somebody cares and loves you this much,” says Nahas. “It’s life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first appeared at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/gay-and-syrian-one-refugee-s-journey-san-francisco\">\u003cem>KALW.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings … except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not safe outside and you’re not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody’s going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you’re doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. 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His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with — an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn’t come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why — especially for LGBT refugees — creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you’re escaping from your own community, or you’re escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM — the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says “You Are Safe Here” in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. And like almost everybody in the refugee program, Nahas is on track to eventually get a green card and U.S. citizenship. But what sets his case apart is the bond he made with Hertz and the local gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good feeling when you really know that somebody cares and loves you this much,” says Nahas. “It’s life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here by saying it’s been a wacky presidential primary season. And while reasonable minds can disagree on immigration policy, we can all agree that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi33KkhKRWs\">lots of ugly things\u003c/a> are being said about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some insight, I turned to an unlikely source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fox.com/watch/594219587792/7765855488\">“Bordertown.”\u003c/a> It’s an animated sitcom on Fox, set in the fictional bordertown of Mexifornia. It’s basically a comedy about immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249017415″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fox.com/watch/598904899611/7765855488\">second episode\u003c/a>, Mexifornia residents congregate at a town hall meeting to discuss what to do with a $10 million windfall to the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it should go toward building a border wall,” suggests Bud Buckwald, a border patrol agent and one of the show’s main characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sound familiar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.fox.com/watch/598904899611/7765855488\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wrote the show two years ago, before Donald Trump,” says \u003ca href=\"http://laloalcaraz.com/\">Lalo Alcaraz\u003c/a>, a writer and consultant on “Bordertown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America has been going through a huge demographic shift, and this election season is bringing the huge rifts it’s created into stark relief. Alcaraz, a longtime political cartoonist in Los Angeles, says animated comedy could be the best way for us to address these controversial topics head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wouldn’t be the first time Americans turned to comedy during times of social upheaval. “Bordertown” creator \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378262/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Hentemann\u003c/a> modeled his animated sitcom on \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066626/\">“All in the Family.”\u003c/a> The legendary sitcom was set in the 1970s, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883078\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10883078\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-800x940.jpg\" alt='Lalo Alcaraz, writer, cartoonist and consultant on \"Bordertown.\"' width=\"436\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-800x940.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-400x470.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-1180x1387.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-960x1128.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lalo Alcaraz, writer, cartoonist and consultant on “Bordertown.” \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Back in the ‘All In the Family’ days in the ’70s, Archie Bunker was complaining about Black Power, feminism, the emerging gay rights movement,” Alcaraz says. “This is an updated version, and set in a place where we can talk about those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “All In the Family” was based in Queens and focused on urban issues, “Bordertown” is set on the outskirts of America. But the issues it raises are at the center of our political debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is based on two families, the Buckwalds and Gonzalezes. They are next-door neighbors. The Buckwalds are headed by Bud, who is a border patrol agent. And Ernesto, a gardener, is the patriarch of his clan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bud Buckwald, who’s kind of a bigoted Archie Bunker-ish white guy,” Alcaraz says. “He feels out of sorts. He feels like his world has changed and can’t cope with the new reality that is the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one episode, Bud Buckwald bemoans what he sees, as his status declines in an increasingly diverse America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I was always told if I worked for the man long enough, eventually I’d become the man,” Buckwald says. “Well, I’ve been working at that station for 20 years but I ain’t the man. Steve is. Even Ernesto is the boss of his grass thingy. It’s like the Mexican has become the man and I’ve become the Mexican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bud’s Mexican immigrant neighbor, Ernesto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883241\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Bud (L) is enraged when he finds out that his daughter is engaged to J.C., Ernesto’s nephew.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-400x255.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-960x612.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bud (L) is enraged when he finds out that his daughter is engaged to J.C., Ernesto’s nephew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ernesto Gonzalez has been in the U.S. for 25 years or so and is doing a little bit better than Bud, and Bud cannot deal with that,” Alcaraz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like all the characters in “Bordertown,” and really, in much of America, Ernesto’s views on immigration are not easily understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the episode about the border wall, Ernesto’s nephew urges him to speak out against it. Ernesto obliges and starts by telling the crowd, “I came to the U.S. where everybody’s voice can be heard and counted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz says you think Ernesto is going to give an inspiring speech about how great America is, but it quickly devolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernesto hails America’s democratic process. It might not be perfect, he says, but it’s better than the government he left behind. And then he ends his speech by saying, “So in conclusion, Gonzalez landscaping, we love you lawn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz says the scene is a riff on how immigrants may have a political point of view, but at the end of the day they’re very practical people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.fox.com/watch/592630339703/7765855488\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In animation and cartoons, I firmly believe you can say so much more that you can’t in live action or boring old essays,” Alcaraz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out as to whether audiences agree, and there’s no word yet if “Bordertown” will get a second season. But a Trump presidency might make a second season too irresistible to pass up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Alcaraz, a longtime political cartoonist in Los Angeles, says animated comedy could be the best way for us to address these controversial topics head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wouldn’t be the first time Americans turned to comedy during times of social upheaval. “Bordertown” creator \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378262/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Hentemann\u003c/a> modeled his animated sitcom on \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066626/\">“All in the Family.”\u003c/a> The legendary sitcom was set in the 1970s, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883078\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 436px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10883078\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-800x940.jpg\" alt='Lalo Alcaraz, writer, cartoonist and consultant on \"Bordertown.\"' width=\"436\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-800x940.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-400x470.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-1180x1387.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/LaloAlcaraz-960x1128.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lalo Alcaraz, writer, cartoonist and consultant on “Bordertown.” \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Back in the ‘All In the Family’ days in the ’70s, Archie Bunker was complaining about Black Power, feminism, the emerging gay rights movement,” Alcaraz says. “This is an updated version, and set in a place where we can talk about those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “All In the Family” was based in Queens and focused on urban issues, “Bordertown” is set on the outskirts of America. But the issues it raises are at the center of our political debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is based on two families, the Buckwalds and Gonzalezes. They are next-door neighbors. The Buckwalds are headed by Bud, who is a border patrol agent. And Ernesto, a gardener, is the patriarch of his clan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bud Buckwald, who’s kind of a bigoted Archie Bunker-ish white guy,” Alcaraz says. “He feels out of sorts. He feels like his world has changed and can’t cope with the new reality that is the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one episode, Bud Buckwald bemoans what he sees, as his status declines in an increasingly diverse America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know I was always told if I worked for the man long enough, eventually I’d become the man,” Buckwald says. “Well, I’ve been working at that station for 20 years but I ain’t the man. Steve is. Even Ernesto is the boss of his grass thingy. It’s like the Mexican has become the man and I’ve become the Mexican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bud’s Mexican immigrant neighbor, Ernesto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10883241\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"Bud (L) is enraged when he finds out that his daughter is engaged to J.C., Ernesto’s nephew.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10883241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-400x255.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/BordertownDriving-960x612.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bud (L) is enraged when he finds out that his daughter is engaged to J.C., Ernesto’s nephew. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Fox)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ernesto Gonzalez has been in the U.S. for 25 years or so and is doing a little bit better than Bud, and Bud cannot deal with that,” Alcaraz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like all the characters in “Bordertown,” and really, in much of America, Ernesto’s views on immigration are not easily understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the episode about the border wall, Ernesto’s nephew urges him to speak out against it. 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And then he ends his speech by saying, “So in conclusion, Gonzalez landscaping, we love you lawn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcaraz says the scene is a riff on how immigrants may have a political point of view, but at the end of the day they’re very practical people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.fox.com/watch/592630339703/7765855488\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In animation and cartoons, I firmly believe you can say so much more that you can’t in live action or boring old essays,” Alcaraz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury is still out as to whether audiences agree, and there’s no word yet if “Bordertown” will get a second season. But a Trump presidency might make a second season too irresistible to pass up.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, who's been moonlighting as national finance co-chair for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's failed presidential bid, on Sunday issued a statement blasting Christie for endorsing Republican front-runner Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman's statement was issued via NBC's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-february-28-2016-n527506\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the Press\u003c/a>\" program Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump is an astonishing display of political opportunism. Donald Trump is unfit to be President. He is a dishonest demagogue who plays to our worst fears. Trump would take America on a dangerous journey. Christie knows all that and indicated as much many times publicly. The governor is mistaken if he believes he can now count on my support, and I call on Christie's donors and supporters to reject the Governor and Donald Trump outright. I believe they will. For some of us, principle and country still matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Christie was on ABC's \"\u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-chris-christie-ted-cruz-bernie-sanders/story?id=37242166\" target=\"_blank\">This Week\u003c/a>.\" His response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, listen, I love Meg Whitman. She's a great friend to me and to Mary Pat [Christie's wife], always has been. We obviously, from that statement, have a difference of political opinion. And that's OK. That's what makes this country great is that people can have differences of political opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Meg has always been free to express her views and I honor her. 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He's backed off of that position over the course of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEPHANOPOULOS: Only for citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTIE: Over the -- well, but that's a big difference, George. That's a big difference from what his position...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEPHANOPOULOS: He's still banning Muslims...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTIE: -- was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEPHANOPOULOS: -- from coming into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTIE: It's a big difference from where the position was and -- and what we need to do for...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STEPHANOPOULOS: So you endorse the one he has now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHRISTIE: -- (INAUDIBLE) excuse me. Let me answer, George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we need to do is have a coherent national security policy that's very clear, that says that we need to go after folks who want to do harm to this country. And having good, competent law enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cp>When it came time for Dominic Lim to pick a language to study in high school, he chose French. He chose it not because he was particularly interested in the language, but because the only other option was Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I consciously picked French because I didn't want to learn Spanish and then feel bad that I was learning Spanish, which was so similar to Tagalog ...\" said Lim. \"I know that's very bizarre but it's like, if I learned French then I wouldn't feel so bad that I didn't learn Tagalog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim, 41, is first-generation Filipino-American. He never learned to speak his family's native language, Tagalog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102122\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loves adobo, sinigang and lumpia. 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It's the most emotional component, for me, of being Filipino.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10761085 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Lim, 41, is first generation Filipino-American. He grew up never learning to speak his family's native dialect, Tagalog. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Lim, 41, is first-generation Filipino-American. He grew up never learning to speak his family's native dialect, Tagalog. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was this language barrier that made him question what it meant to be Filipino in America, a situation \u003ca href=\"http://www.herculture.org/blog/2014/6/18/z7a2iwaic5tevj28pxt4uu8hd4pm7c#.VjqxIyuYHaI\">not uncommon\u003c/a> among Filipino-Americans (including me). According to the most recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/system/files/Communities_of_Contrast_California_2013.pdf\"> U.S. Census data\u003c/a>, only about half of the 1.4 million Filipinos in California speak Tagalog, Ilocano or Visayan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’ve always been proud of being Filipino, I had never really questioned the facets of one's own racial identity,” said Lim. “But I always thought that the language component of it was sort of the one piece I was lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he can understand the language, he often wondered about the stories or conversations he missed out on with his family because he couldn’t speak it back. He tried learning on his own in his 20s, but nothing ever really stuck. He wondered, for a long time, why his parents never taught him the language in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 'Benefits' of Speaking English\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim now works as a paralegal at a biotech firm in Emeryville. He was a successful student, in part because his mother was very keen on perfecting his English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Consuelo Tokita, is a small woman with a strong Filipino accent. She taught English in the Philippines before the family moved to the United States in 1975, but knew that there was no way that she'd be allowed to teach it here because of her accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know for everybody coming here to the United States, it's always a struggle,\" said Tokita. \"There’s always that portion of being scared. Will my husband get a job? Will I be able to get a job myself? How will I take care of my baby? How will I feed him? Things like that came to my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10754897\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10754897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-400x275.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right: Dominic's brother John, Connie, and Dominic at 8 years old.\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1920x1318.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Dominic's brother Joseph, Consuelo and Dominic at 8 years old. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Consuelo Tokita)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Tokita, being tough about learning English was all about assimilating, and protecting her four kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that I could read, even before I went into kindergarten, really set in motion my academic track throughout my entire life. ... It was really important for my mom to do that for me,” said Lim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon arriving to the United States, the family settled down in Newport News, Virginia, where Tokita said she experienced discrimination everywhere from the streets to church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tokita's husband, who passed away in 2005, lost his job 13 times, partly because he had difficulty socializing and speaking English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were regrets also on my part, and I had wished that I had exposed (the kids) to Tagalog,” she said. “But the benefits of talking in English are larger than speaking to them in our language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Wong Fillmore, a professor emerita of education at the University of California at Berkeley, studies the benefits of bilingualism. She says there is a lot to gain from knowing more than one language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children are naturally endowed with the capacity to learn as many languages as they have opportunity and social support for learning,\" said Fillmore. \"Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/feb/18/bilingual-alzheimers-brain-power-multitasking\">research\u003c/a> in Canada indicates that full bilingualism may even confer some protection against memory loss in old age. The evidence is very strong that bilingualism endows children with greater intellectual flexibility and advantages that may last throughout their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A \u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Residual\u003c/strong> \u003cb>Effect of Colonialism \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Ann Villaraza is a historian who specializes in Philippine and Southeast Asian history. She is also the chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/school-and-departments/school-of-behavioral-and-social-sciences/philippine-studies.html\">Philippine Studies Department\u003c/a> at City College of San Francisco, the only department in the country with faculty and a department chair solely focused on the study of the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Listening to my grandmother speak to me in Tagalog and having to sit there and be like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ kind of gave me this sense of disconnection with culture.' \u003ccite>Vicenta Asuncion\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Villaraza said that a Filipino immigrant family's reluctance to teach a native language is a residual effect of American colonialism, whereby Filipinos were taught to believe that English was the only linguistic gateway to success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents and grandparents who’ve come here have been convinced that their children and grandchildren only need to know English to be successful,” said Villaraza. “(But) if you learn the language and are able to communicate with people in their primary language, whether it be Tagalog, Ilonggo or whatever, there’s an immediate 'Oh!' and there's an opening up, and a greater willingness to share. And I think that’s what a lot of Fil-Ams are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Language and Identity \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niel Calara, 18, was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the United States when he was 15. He knows how to speak Tagalog, but generally chooses not to speak it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“English became a big part of me,” said Calara, who is in his first year at City College of San Francisco. \"Apparently people think I'm whitewashed because I speak English at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calara was overwhelmed by the United States when he arrived, but he was also fascinated by it. He watched American movies all his life and even contemplated majoring in English. He shifted to English as his primary language, even at home, where his parents continued to speak their native dialect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the process of learning about American culture, the undeniable aspects of his Filipino identity only became more apparent to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What I think (people) need to realize is that language is one of the most important gateways for people to have a deeper understanding of who they are and the cultures that they come from.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lily Ann Villaraza, department chair of Philippine Studies at City College of San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I started to imitate them and participate in their culture. But like, if I think about it, I look so different from them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his attempt to assimilate in the way that Lim’s mother hoped her children would, Calara found himself realizing the differences he \u003cem>couldn't\u003c/em> hide from, no matter how good his English was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do I represent, you know? Because I can't just say 'I’m white' because I know how to speak English properly. I can't just say that because I represent something. There's something about me that's original. And I began to question that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was here that Calara began to appreciate those differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, I feel like I valued my culture once I arrived here,” said Calara. “I never got to learn the actual value we had, and I thought it was beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Language as a Bridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicenta Asuncion, 25, sat in the front of Villaraza’s Filipino Family class at City College of San Francisco. A second-generation Filipina-American, Asuncion lived in Alabama for a few years, where she had something of an identity crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know who I was, because I was the only one with chinky eyes,” she said. “Growing up, I thought I was just a brown white girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she moved back to Daly City with her grandparents, whose primary language was Tagalog. It was there that her grandparents would teach her about Filipino culture. But in order to learn from them, she said, she knew she had to be able to communicate with them in their language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to my grandmother speak to me in Tagalog and having to sit there and be like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ kind of gave me this sense of disconnection with culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asuncion began taking Tagalog classes in the second grade. Now, she speaks Ilocano, Tagalog and Visayan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'But if there has been any regret, it’s because I couldn’t talk to the people I probably should’ve talked to, about the things that might have been important.' \u003ccite>Dominic Lim\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Finally being able to communicate with my grandmother, instead of her getting frustrated trying to explain stuff to me in English because she doesn't speak English very well, being able to hear her and understand everything she's saying and being able to articulate my answers to her just made everything so much better for me,\" Asuncion said. \"Language is how you get a foot in the door with culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Dominic Lim, he doesn’t think that there’s enough cultural support from the Filipino-American community that stresses learning native Filipino languages. Villaraza is working to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think (people) need to realize is that language is one of the most important gateways for people to have a deeper understanding of who they are and the cultures that they come from,” said Villaraza. “And to not discount that, to believe that there is value in learning Filipino but also retaining the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim said he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to reconcile never learning his parents' native language. His mother reminds him that it’s never too late to learn. But in some ways, he says, it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the politics and the relationship between the Philippines and the United States is a long one, and that's not really our job to sort that out,\" Lim said. \"But if there has been any regret, it’s because I couldn't talk to the people I probably should've talked to, about the things that might have been important.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Going to all these family parties and weddings and everything, you know you hear the older cousins talking to aunts and uncles, but you can't really join in,\" said Lim. \"I felt like they probably didn't respect the kids as much because we couldn't talk to them in their own language. That was, for me, the biggest,\u003ca href=\"http://theracecardproject.com/i-cant-speak-my-own-language/\"> most emotional regret\u003c/a> that I have. It's the most emotional component, for me, of being Filipino.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761085\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10761085 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Lim, 41, is first generation Filipino-American. He grew up never learning to speak his family's native dialect, Tagalog. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_85971-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Lim, 41, is first-generation Filipino-American. He grew up never learning to speak his family's native dialect, Tagalog. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was this language barrier that made him question what it meant to be Filipino in America, a situation \u003ca href=\"http://www.herculture.org/blog/2014/6/18/z7a2iwaic5tevj28pxt4uu8hd4pm7c#.VjqxIyuYHaI\">not uncommon\u003c/a> among Filipino-Americans (including me). According to the most recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/system/files/Communities_of_Contrast_California_2013.pdf\"> U.S. Census data\u003c/a>, only about half of the 1.4 million Filipinos in California speak Tagalog, Ilocano or Visayan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I’ve always been proud of being Filipino, I had never really questioned the facets of one's own racial identity,” said Lim. “But I always thought that the language component of it was sort of the one piece I was lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he can understand the language, he often wondered about the stories or conversations he missed out on with his family because he couldn’t speak it back. He tried learning on his own in his 20s, but nothing ever really stuck. He wondered, for a long time, why his parents never taught him the language in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 'Benefits' of Speaking English\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim now works as a paralegal at a biotech firm in Emeryville. He was a successful student, in part because his mother was very keen on perfecting his English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother, Consuelo Tokita, is a small woman with a strong Filipino accent. She taught English in the Philippines before the family moved to the United States in 1975, but knew that there was no way that she'd be allowed to teach it here because of her accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know for everybody coming here to the United States, it's always a struggle,\" said Tokita. \"There’s always that portion of being scared. Will my husband get a job? Will I be able to get a job myself? How will I take care of my baby? How will I feed him? Things like that came to my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10754897\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10754897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-400x275.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right: Dominic's brother John, Connie, and Dominic at 8 years old.\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1920x1318.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/IMG_9608-e1447698778981-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Dominic's brother Joseph, Consuelo and Dominic at 8 years old. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Consuelo Tokita)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Tokita, being tough about learning English was all about assimilating, and protecting her four kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that I could read, even before I went into kindergarten, really set in motion my academic track throughout my entire life. ... It was really important for my mom to do that for me,” said Lim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon arriving to the United States, the family settled down in Newport News, Virginia, where Tokita said she experienced discrimination everywhere from the streets to church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tokita's husband, who passed away in 2005, lost his job 13 times, partly because he had difficulty socializing and speaking English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were regrets also on my part, and I had wished that I had exposed (the kids) to Tagalog,” she said. “But the benefits of talking in English are larger than speaking to them in our language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Wong Fillmore, a professor emerita of education at the University of California at Berkeley, studies the benefits of bilingualism. She says there is a lot to gain from knowing more than one language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children are naturally endowed with the capacity to learn as many languages as they have opportunity and social support for learning,\" said Fillmore. \"Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/feb/18/bilingual-alzheimers-brain-power-multitasking\">research\u003c/a> in Canada indicates that full bilingualism may even confer some protection against memory loss in old age. The evidence is very strong that bilingualism endows children with greater intellectual flexibility and advantages that may last throughout their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A \u003c/b>\u003cstrong>Residual\u003c/strong> \u003cb>Effect of Colonialism \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Ann Villaraza is a historian who specializes in Philippine and Southeast Asian history. She is also the chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/school-and-departments/school-of-behavioral-and-social-sciences/philippine-studies.html\">Philippine Studies Department\u003c/a> at City College of San Francisco, the only department in the country with faculty and a department chair solely focused on the study of the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Listening to my grandmother speak to me in Tagalog and having to sit there and be like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ kind of gave me this sense of disconnection with culture.' \u003ccite>Vicenta Asuncion\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Villaraza said that a Filipino immigrant family's reluctance to teach a native language is a residual effect of American colonialism, whereby Filipinos were taught to believe that English was the only linguistic gateway to success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents and grandparents who’ve come here have been convinced that their children and grandchildren only need to know English to be successful,” said Villaraza. “(But) if you learn the language and are able to communicate with people in their primary language, whether it be Tagalog, Ilonggo or whatever, there’s an immediate 'Oh!' and there's an opening up, and a greater willingness to share. And I think that’s what a lot of Fil-Ams are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Language and Identity \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niel Calara, 18, was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the United States when he was 15. He knows how to speak Tagalog, but generally chooses not to speak it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“English became a big part of me,” said Calara, who is in his first year at City College of San Francisco. \"Apparently people think I'm whitewashed because I speak English at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calara was overwhelmed by the United States when he arrived, but he was also fascinated by it. He watched American movies all his life and even contemplated majoring in English. He shifted to English as his primary language, even at home, where his parents continued to speak their native dialect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the process of learning about American culture, the undeniable aspects of his Filipino identity only became more apparent to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What I think (people) need to realize is that language is one of the most important gateways for people to have a deeper understanding of who they are and the cultures that they come from.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lily Ann Villaraza, department chair of Philippine Studies at City College of San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I started to imitate them and participate in their culture. But like, if I think about it, I look so different from them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his attempt to assimilate in the way that Lim’s mother hoped her children would, Calara found himself realizing the differences he \u003cem>couldn't\u003c/em> hide from, no matter how good his English was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do I represent, you know? Because I can't just say 'I’m white' because I know how to speak English properly. I can't just say that because I represent something. There's something about me that's original. And I began to question that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was here that Calara began to appreciate those differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, I feel like I valued my culture once I arrived here,” said Calara. “I never got to learn the actual value we had, and I thought it was beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Language as a Bridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicenta Asuncion, 25, sat in the front of Villaraza’s Filipino Family class at City College of San Francisco. A second-generation Filipina-American, Asuncion lived in Alabama for a few years, where she had something of an identity crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know who I was, because I was the only one with chinky eyes,” she said. “Growing up, I thought I was just a brown white girl.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she moved back to Daly City with her grandparents, whose primary language was Tagalog. It was there that her grandparents would teach her about Filipino culture. But in order to learn from them, she said, she knew she had to be able to communicate with them in their language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to my grandmother speak to me in Tagalog and having to sit there and be like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ kind of gave me this sense of disconnection with culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asuncion began taking Tagalog classes in the second grade. Now, she speaks Ilocano, Tagalog and Visayan.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'But if there has been any regret, it’s because I couldn’t talk to the people I probably should’ve talked to, about the things that might have been important.' \u003ccite>Dominic Lim\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Finally being able to communicate with my grandmother, instead of her getting frustrated trying to explain stuff to me in English because she doesn't speak English very well, being able to hear her and understand everything she's saying and being able to articulate my answers to her just made everything so much better for me,\" Asuncion said. \"Language is how you get a foot in the door with culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Dominic Lim, he doesn’t think that there’s enough cultural support from the Filipino-American community that stresses learning native Filipino languages. Villaraza is working to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think (people) need to realize is that language is one of the most important gateways for people to have a deeper understanding of who they are and the cultures that they come from,” said Villaraza. “And to not discount that, to believe that there is value in learning Filipino but also retaining the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim said he doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to reconcile never learning his parents' native language. His mother reminds him that it’s never too late to learn. But in some ways, he says, it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The soundtrack of Luis Medellin’s childhood was the sound of the orange and lemon harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early mornings, he’d hear the clink of farmworkers setting up tall ladders in the orchards to pick the fruit. On cold nights, giant wind machines would whirr to life, as farmers scrambled to warm up the trees. All day long, trucks would rumble past his house, hauling loads of fresh fruit to one of the nearby packinghouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248688389\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medellin grew up in \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/\">Lindsay\u003c/a>, a largely Latino town in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s citrus belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The streets are all battered because of the heavy trucks that come by with oranges,” says Medellin, as he drives me around town in his minivan. “When I was little, I’d stand on the sidewalk, and hopefully they’d honk. There’s just so many trucks in this town, it’s crazy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874616\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874616\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874616 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg\" alt=\"Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-800x1346.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-400x673.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-1180x1986.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/select-960x1616.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Medellin, 29, with his sister, Amy Huerta, 18, in their backyard in Lindsay, California. Amy is the only one in her family who can cast a ballot this fall. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a clear day in winter, Lindsay boasts a spectacular view of the snow-covered Sierra and lush green foothills. But Medellin says Lindsay is a hardscrabble place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sure, it’s beautiful in the front, but on the backside there are people that go home late at night because they have to pay bills, or their kids go to school next to orange fields any given day when they’re spraying pesticides,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medellin became a community activist when he was a teenager. He lobbied the county to help keep \u003ca href=\"http://www.pesticidereform.org/article.php?id=317\">pesticide drift\u003c/a> away from schools, and spoke up about air and water quality for people in Lindsay, which is now more than 85 percent Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for all his passion about community issues, Luis Medellin can’t vote. He’s undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His three younger sisters were born in the United States. The oldest, Amy Huerta, is 18. We meet up over a dinner of Hamburger Helper in the family's kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey donut!” greets his sister, as Luis comes in the door from work. “Hey ugly!” he retorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a really open family,” he laughs. “We joke and do the occasional back-of-the-head slap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when we sit down to eat, Luis wants to talk about something serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I feel is that in my household, Amy is our family’s voice. Because myself, I don’t have legal status, my parents don’t have legal status,” says Luis. “[We] depend on her, for our vote to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure you’re registered to vote, ’cuz you turned 18 last year,” he says, looking at Amy across the table.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"HsgQ52zlCeK8hgfqE0ScnS2oXmdtIl0i\"]\u003cbr>\n“Yeah, I did register to vote, when I got my California ID,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And are you going to vote?” Luis asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” laughs Amy. “I feel like sometimes my vote doesn’t count. Especially ’cuz right now, the generation is at a point where they don’t care. Most of us are not going to vote, we don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy does care about art. She draws fantasy characters like dragons and aliens. She eventually wants to leave this farm town and go to Hollywood to do special effects. Now, she’s studying fine art at community college. She’s the first in her family to go to college, and she could be the first to vote. But she’s not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really well informed in some of the laws, what’s going down,” she tells Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issues are what get you guys?” Luis asks. \"The issues of who’s running, what measures -- that’s what confuses this generation. But yet, there’s so much information. I think it’s just not to be lazy. The information is there. Read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy says she’s used to Luis and other people in her family giving her advice and urging her to pay attention to politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been growing up in this whole environment, going to community meetings and protests with my brother,\" she says. \"He always speaks the truth about what he feels. Sometimes, I reflect, and realize he has a point. But I don’t always take his side. We both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that young people like Amy Huerta may chose not to vote upsets the city’s first Latina mayor, Ramona Villarreal-Padilla. She won her place on the City Council in the 2012 election, when just 949 voters in Lindsay, a town of 12,000, cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10874563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10874563\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10874563 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg\" alt=\"registered-turnout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-400x211.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-800x423.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-1180x624.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/registered-turnout-960x508.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulare County is one of California’s most impoverished regions. 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We meet up over a dinner of Hamburger Helper in the family's kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey donut!” greets his sister, as Luis comes in the door from work. “Hey ugly!” he retorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a really open family,” he laughs. “We joke and do the occasional back-of-the-head slap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when we sit down to eat, Luis wants to talk about something serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I feel is that in my household, Amy is our family’s voice. Because myself, I don’t have legal status, my parents don’t have legal status,” says Luis. “[We] depend on her, for our vote to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure you’re registered to vote, ’cuz you turned 18 last year,” he says, looking at Amy across the table.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Yeah, I did register to vote, when I got my California ID,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And are you going to vote?” Luis asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” laughs Amy. “I feel like sometimes my vote doesn’t count. Especially ’cuz right now, the generation is at a point where they don’t care. Most of us are not going to vote, we don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy does care about art. She draws fantasy characters like dragons and aliens. She eventually wants to leave this farm town and go to Hollywood to do special effects. Now, she’s studying fine art at community college. She’s the first in her family to go to college, and she could be the first to vote. But she’s not sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not really well informed in some of the laws, what’s going down,” she tells Luis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the issues are what get you guys?” Luis asks. \"The issues of who’s running, what measures -- that’s what confuses this generation. But yet, there’s so much information. I think it’s just not to be lazy. The information is there. Read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy says she’s used to Luis and other people in her family giving her advice and urging her to pay attention to politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been growing up in this whole environment, going to community meetings and protests with my brother,\" she says. \"He always speaks the truth about what he feels. Sometimes, I reflect, and realize he has a point. But I don’t always take his side. We both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that young people like Amy Huerta may chose not to vote upsets the city’s first Latina mayor, Ramona Villarreal-Padilla. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:24 p.m. on Feb. 17:\u003c/strong> Pedro Figueroa was released on bail from an ICE detention center on Feb. 3. Also, the San Francisco Police Department initially denied that it had cooperated with federal immigration agents. But an internal ICE document shows that the police and sheriff were in direct communication with ICE about Figueroa.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Figueroa recently reported to San Francisco police that his car had been stolen. When it was recovered, the police summoned Figueroa to a neighborhood station, where they asked for proof that he owned the car. They also ran his name to check for warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And they come up with a hit on a warrant in the criminal justice system,\" San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police had called her agency for help to check for what's known as a failure-to-appear warrant issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It turned out that Figueroa, 31, was in this country illegally. So a sheriff's clerk called the feds. But Hennessy said no one seemed to know what the warrant was for. Since the police didn't have enough information to hold Figueroa, they decided to release him. And that's when Figueroa's story really got complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then my understanding is, there was an agent outside the police station that then picked him up,\" Hennessy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/465278302/466898745\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This situation has brought San Francisco's sanctuary city law under scrutiny again. Local law enforcement officials are forbidden from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, except in the cases of violent felons. The law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/06/kate-steinle-shooting-opens-can-of-worms-on-san-francisco-immigration-policy\">came under fire\u003c/a> from critics after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/kate-steinle\" target=\"_blank\">shooting death of Kate Steinle\u003c/a> last July at the hands of a man who was in this country illegally and had been deported multiple times. In the curious case of Figueroa, supporters of the law say the police may have undermined it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local law enforcement wasn't supposed to contact the feds about Figueroa, says his attorney, Zachary Nightingale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that Pedro went into the police station honestly believing he had nothing to worry about, that he would collect his stolen car as a crime victim,\" Nightingale says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department was adamant that his agency did not cooperate with federal immigration agents. In a statement released by ICE, the agency said Figueroa was arrested based on his conviction for a misdemeanor DUI and an outstanding deportation order dating back to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'He expected a notice. They didn't have a notice to send him. But they ordered him deported anyways, even though they knew they had never sent him a notice.'\u003ccite>Attorney Zachary Nightingale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But when Figueroa's lawyers looked into why he was ordered deported, they found an odd and complex story. In 2005, Figueroa came to the United States seeking asylum after being threatened by gangs in his native El Salvador. Immigration authorities released him from custody pending a hearing. But his case fell through the cracks. Figueroa never knew that ICE tried to deport him because the government never called him to a hearing. And apparently he didn't ask why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nightingale says the immigration system is riddled with due process problems. \"He expected a notice. They didn't have a notice to send him. 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San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos worried that the Figueroa case could dissuade unauthorized immigrants from ever talking with the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And we know that if a person who is an immigrant, undocumented, is a witness or victim of a crime, if he or she feels that by talking to law enforcement they'll get caught up in the justice system, they're going to be silent,\" Avalos says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Pedro Figueroa sits in an ICE detention center just east of San Francisco. The immigration court considers his case to be such a priority that it has scheduled a hearing, based on his original asylum claim, for November 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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