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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-119512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/MEC.jpg\" alt=\"First grade teacher Mario Chang tries to keep his students quiet as they wait for the rest of the school to assemble for a Thanksgiving meal.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First grade teacher Mario Chang tries to keep his students quiet as they wait for the rest of the school to assemble for a Thanksgiving meal. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tables in the cafeteria at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/schools/school-information/mission-education-center.html\">Mission Education Center\u003c/a> (MEC) are carefully laid with pine cone turkey decorations, bright-colored tablecloths and big pieces of pumpkin pie. Students at this San Francisco public school are \"newcomer\" children, recently arrived to the United States from various Latin American countries. The Thanksgiving meal — actually during lunch on the Friday before Thanksgiving — is the first time many of them have tasted turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the holiday is brand new to the children, the concept of gratitude is well understood. Teachers at MEC use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to ask their students to reflect on why they are grateful, and to share their life experiences with classmates. It is a moving experience for the teachers, many of whom have taught at MEC for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">When I no longer had her near, I felt my heart was splitting and I’d cry so much that I couldn’t even breathe, just thinking that she had abandoned me and that I would never see her again….\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Our kids have gone through a lot,\" said first grade teacher Mario Chang. \"Some of them have not seen their parents for many many years — I teach first grade and I have a student who has never seen her mom before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many MEC families have experienced being apart for lengthy periods of time. Parents left their children with relatives in their home countries while they immigrated to the U.S. After settling, they found ways to bring their children to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119514\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-119514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/I-am-a-turkey-300x300.jpg\" alt='First grade Mission Education Center students sang \"I Am A Turkey\" as part of the Thanksgiving festivities. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)' width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First grade Mission Education Center students sang \"I Am A Turkey\" as part of the Thanksgiving festivities. (Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Thanksgiving event, fourth and fifth grade students read essays about what they are thankful for. Mario Castro wrote about his family. His excerpt was translated from the original Spanish by teacher Lilly Chow:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is the very first time that I am going to celebrate Thanksgiving Day; in my country, Honduras, I never heard of this special day...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to give thanks with all my heart because I am finally living with my mom. When I was four years old, my mom came to the United States. Nobody told me anything and so when my aunt arrived at the house, I asked her where my mom was, my aunt answered me that my mom had to leave because she couldn't find any work to support our family. I felt so very sad because my mom was my light, the one who took care of me and who gave me all of her love and affection. When I no longer had her near, I felt my heart was splitting and I'd cry so much that I couldn't even breathe, just thinking that she had abandoned me and that I would never see her again....It has been a few months since I came here to live with my mom. At first I felt very confused but then little by little I got used to her.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another student, Daniela Renderos, wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I give thanks for all the meals and food that my parents give me and for those which I receive at school. I consider myself very fortunate because I know that there are millions of people in the world who do not have anything and they starve to death. That's why food is such a treasure to me and it hurts me to see when others waste it throwing it away in the garbage. Finally, I give thanks for having the opportunity to learn in this school and for advancing more — well, in the school where I used to be, I didn't get to read every day nor did they teach me how to divide.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Teachers at the Mission Education Center face many challenges when trying to prepare their students for other district elementary schools, where most instruction is in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really, really hard not only for the academic background, because some of them have never been in school before, but also the emotional impact,\" said fourth and fifth grade teacher Lilly Chow. She said her students often act out in class because they are frustrated or confused not only about school work, but also about being in a new country with families they haven't seen in a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district recommends the Mission Education Center to families if language and placement exams show that the student has few English skills and little academic experience. Chow says some of her students are in fourth or fifth grade, but have only completed first grade in their home countries. The school district operates a similar newcomer school for Chinese-speaking children in the Financial District called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfusd.edu/en/schools/school-information/chinese-education-center.html\">Chinese Education Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Katrina Schwartz's story from November 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\u003ciframe width=\"900\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F122237319&show_artwork=true&maxwidth=900\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fkqed%2Fchildren-new-to-thanksgiving\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112581\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/in-immigration-debate-allies-divided-on-strategy/rs987_zoe-lofgren-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112581\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112581\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS987_Zoe-Lofgren-scr-e1380058535264.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) (L) says the Republican leadership is blocking a vote on immigration reform. (Alex Wong/Montala Support) \" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) says the Republican leadership is blocking a vote on immigration reform. (Alex Wong/Montala Support)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Is immigration reform dead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is a blunt question. But House Democrats and Republicans who seem to agree on the most controversial questions -- like a pathway to citizenship -- are not forging a bipartisan alliance. Instead they're pointing fingers at each other. And California Democrats are leading the effort to introduce a comprehensive bill with or without GOP support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOP to Dems: Introduce our bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republican \u003ca href=\"http://denham.house.gov/\">Jeff Denham \u003c/a>of the San Joaquin Valley said he’s ready to support a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented people. But, according to him, Democrats are getting in their own way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the Democrats that have not only written the bill but are holding onto the bill,” Denham said. “I want to support it. I want to get others to show their support. I think that will help us to get an overall comprehensive solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats have been working on a compromise bill for years now -- ever since they lost the immigration reform campaign in 2007. Last week the group of seven who supported that bill shrank, when two Republicans withdrew their support.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denham said his friends across the aisle need to push out that bill so it has a chance of garnering new support. The GOP has introduced three bills of its own focused on enforcement and high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the democratic process,” Denham said. “You release a bill, you get support from the American people and you demand a hearing, you demand floor time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dems to GOP: Agree to a vote already\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Zoe Lofgren of San Jose said Republicans won't give any floor time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, which has to generate proposals. She said the problem isn’t a lack of bills. It’s that Republican leadership is blocking a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With due respect to Denham, he’s a freshman member on committees that have nothing to do with immigration,” Lofgren said. She wants him to organize senior Republican members to get the speaker to make commitments. “Because you could have the best plan in the world. If it doesn’t go to the floor for a vote, it doesn’t matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren toiled for years over the bill that Denham wants. She says it was designed to be bipartisan with equal support from both parties. If Republicans are stepping away, she's ready to abandon it, too. “The bill was not a Democratic bill. It was a compromise bill. It’s nothing I would introduce as my first choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated, Lofgren is moving not far left, but a bit farther left. Three months back, the Senate passed an immigration bill. Lofgren said House Democrats are introducing their own version of it in the coming days. Fellow Californian Nancy Pelosi is leading strategy talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with Lofgren's old compromise bill\u003cem>, \u003c/em>the Senate version makes it easier for undocumented people to get green cards and citizenship -- and, she said, they’ve got the simple majority needed to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren estimates “we would have almost all the Democrats and probably in the range of 40 to 50 Republicans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor say they won't allow a vote until enough Republicans are on board, that there is a supermajority in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they know they've got to court Latino voters for whom immigration reform is important. So, the Republican leadership released \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3nR3OMNAUE\">this video\u003c/a> to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Momentum in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with other states, California has built a lot of bipartisan support. Fifteen Republicans in the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/AD44/?p=article&sid=426&id=256305\">recently wrote to Congress\u003c/a>, telling them to move already and \"put this challenge behind us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to state Sen. Anthony Cannella, who signed the letter, it hasn't made a real dent.\"So far there hasn't been much of a response, but in their defense they're also thinking about Syria and the debt ceiling and all of that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local celebrity for immigration reform, Mark Zuckerberg, doesn't sound too passionate. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-zuckerberg\">a recent Silicon Valley event\u003c/a> organized by TechCrunch, the Facebook founder hesitated when interviewer Michael Arrington asked the question: \"So, zero chance of anything happening this year, next year?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg shrugged: \"I don't know. It's hard for me to say. It's not my job to get it done. It's my job to help provide support for the people who are going to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later Zuckerberg did go to Washington to meet with House leaders. But neither Facebook nor his political action committee, FWD.us, would give details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam organizes tech CEOs with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. 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The proposal would apply to undocumented immigrants arrested for local offenses who become the subject of 48-hour \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/news/library/factsheets/detainer-faqs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">detainer requests\u003c/a> under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/secure_communities/\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board delayed a vote because of concerns voiced by Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr that the measure doesn't adequately address how felony suspects or those with a record of violent crime should be handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, the proposal's sponsor, said he's disappointed with the postponement but hopeful that a vote will take place next week. Supervisor Jane Kim, a co-sponsor, said she will put forth a compromise that will allow authorities to use their discretion in detaining undocumented individuals arrested for a violent felony and who have convictions for such crimes in the past seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's our original post on the proposal, from reporter Emily Green:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote today on an ordinance that would bar police from holding undocumented immigrant suspects for federal authorities. The proposal would apply to undocumented immigrants arrested for local offenses who become the subject of 48-hour \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/news/library/factsheets/detainer-faqs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">detainer requests\u003c/a> under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u003ca href=\"http://www.ice.gov/secure_communities/\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several jurisdictions, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/10/31/berkeley-officials-say-no-to-federal-immigration-detainers/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a>, Richmond, and \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2011/10/santa-clara-county-ends-collaboration-with-ice.php\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, have directed local law enforcement to decline ICE's civil immigration detainers if suspects have been arrested for low-level crimes. Last week, the Legislature sent Gov. Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\" target=\"_blank\">a bill\u003c/a> that would implement a similar policy statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco measure bars police from holding suspects for ICE if they're otherwise eligible for release from custody, either through posting bail, having charges dropped, being acquitted, or serving their sentence. The ordinance does not distinguish between those picked up for lower-level offenses and those taken into custody for felonies and those with a history of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag091713_130764.pdf\">ordinance\u003c/a> has strong support at City Hall, including from District Attorney George Gascon. But Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr want it amended to give law enforcement some discretion to turn over immigrants with a violent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It's really about overall human rights and public safety.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposal's supporters say Secure Communities erodes community trust, makes it harder for victims to report crimes and breaks up families. Supervisor John Avalos, the measure's sponsor, says, “It's really about overall human rights and public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->“We feel that public safety is based on cooperation and trust between communities and law enforcement,” Avalos said. “If there is a fear of deportation based on that you’re going to make a phone call and you could get caught up in the deportation system, that puts a chilling effect on public safety.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arrest Leads to Deportation Threat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure point to stories like that of Fatima Torres to underscore why San Francisco should stop holding immigrants at the request of federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undocumented immigrant, Torres moved to the United States from Mexico when she was 20. She is a single mother who has three children, ages 5, 6 and 9. The two youngest are U.S. citizens. Three months ago, Torres spent an evening out dancing and was arrested and charged after a man she rebuffed accused her of assaulting him with a glass bottle. On her fifth day in custody, she was transferred to federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that moment, I felt like my world was falling apart,” she said in Spanish. “I didn’t know what was going to happen to my kids. I didn’t know what was going to happen to me. I was scared. From one night out, all of this happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Torres was charged with a felony — assault with a deadly weapon — San Francisco sheriff's deputies held her for questioning by immigration officials. Charges against Torres were ultimately dropped. Immigration officials released her from custody but started deportation proceedings against her. Her next hearing is in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was traumatic. I am scared,” Torres said. “Every time I see a police officer I’m scared. I don’t have a desire to leave, to go out and have a drink, to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting 'Worst of the Worst'? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Suhr agrees that individuals like Torres shouldn’t be turned over to federal immigration officials. But he opposes a policy that would prohibit local law enforcement officials from turning over undocumented immigrants with violent histories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think it does a disservice to the law-abiding, undocumented immigrant community that we seem stuck on protecting the worst of the worst,” Suhr said. “As chief of police, I don’t care if you are a citizen or not a citizen. If you are a convicted violent felon, sex offender or weapons possessor I don’t want you in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At today’s hearing, the board will consider the amendments sought by Suhr and Mayor Lee. 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Jerry Brown has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/10/california-legislature-passes-trust-act\" target=\"_blank\">a bill\u003c/a> that would implement a similar policy statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco measure bars police from holding suspects for ICE if they're otherwise eligible for release from custody, either through posting bail, having charges dropped, being acquitted, or serving their sentence. The ordinance does not distinguish between those picked up for lower-level offenses and those taken into custody for felonies and those with a history of violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag091713_130764.pdf\">ordinance\u003c/a> has strong support at City Hall, including from District Attorney George Gascon. But Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr want it amended to give law enforcement some discretion to turn over immigrants with a violent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"It's really about overall human rights and public safety.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The proposal's supporters say Secure Communities erodes community trust, makes it harder for victims to report crimes and breaks up families. 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They are still functional, but the bigger project Boeing tried to create -- an elaborate virtual fence called SBInet that would have integrated radar, cameras and sensors all along the Southwest border -- was deemed a failure. Thad Bingel, a Washington-based security consultant who used to be the chief of staff at Customs and Border Protection, explains the problems with the virtual fence like this: “The issue with SBInet was that it was overly ambitious,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were missed deadlines, system bugs and escalating costs. After pouring a billion dollars into it without success, then-Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano canceled SBInet in 2011. 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Instantly, a camera senses his movement, spins around to record him and detects he is a human, not wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Border agents “are all going to have to use a restroom at some point or another, and our products are perfect for that.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>An alarm would alert agents at a command center. They would get video of the intruder and his geographic coordinates. As it turns out, a Phoenix-based company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.puretechsystems.com/\">PureTech Systems\u003c/a>, makes software that does exactly this. Larry Bowe is the company president. “You’ll notice that as this target moves, this person, the camera is panning, tilting and zooming simultaneously to keep him in the center of the image,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Bowe’s software isn’t being used at the border. But he is keeping a close eye on potential new opportunities there. So are other companies, mostly huge defense contractors but also small niche companies. Some make products you never would think of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Selling ‘Pee Bags and Poo Bags’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Chiba works for \u003ca href=\"http://briefrelief.com/\">Brief Relief\u003c/a>, a company in the northern San Diego County town of Escondido. He shows off what he describes as a “pee bag or a poo bag.” Brief Relief makes sanitary baggies with chemicals inside to neutralize odors and prevent the spread of bacteria. One of its main customers has been the military. But Chiba says if there are more Border Patrol agents on the ground in the Southwest border region, “after a while they are all going to have to use a restroom at some point or another, and our products are perfect for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major military contractors are vying right now for current border equipment contracts. And immigration reform negotiations in Washington are driving industry hopes for even more border spending in the future. The Senate’s immigration bill would add an additional $46 billion for border enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent town hall meeting, Arizona’s Sen. Jeff Flake explained that the bill’s drafters went to the heads of each border sector and asked: “What new technology do you need, what manpower, what infrastructure? And they gave us a punch list: Here is what we need to achieve 90 percent effectiveness. And that is in the legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Border Protection’s High-Tech Shopping List\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list in the Senate bill names over 25 categories of technology, and the exact number of units to be purchased. For example, the San Diego sector would get precisely 393 ground sensors and 41 remote video surveillance systems, among other items. The bill also calls for four new drones for use along the border. One businessman who has high hopes of such a tech-heavy bill passing is Laurie Pane. He works in the Burbank office of \u003ca href=\"http://grabba.com/\">Grabba Inc. \u003c/a>— which is a subsidiary of an Australian company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the funding for extra border security gets passed, we can expect orders in the range of several million dollars to be placed with us. That is our expectation,” Pane says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grabba makes a gadget that lets law enforcement use smartphones or tablets to check IDs, passports and fingerprints. 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"content": "\u003cp>Filipinos constitute the largest Asian-American population in California. Surprised? According to the last \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-11.pdf\">U.S. Census\u003c/a>, there are nearly 1.5 million Filipino-Americans living in the Golden State, most in Southern California and the Bay Area. It’s a fascinating story, but it doesn’t get a lot of play in our history books. San Francisco State Associate Professor of History Dawn Mabalon is keen to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the early 20th century, the center of Filipino-American life was in Stockton. Surprised about that, too? This makes sense when you consider that initially, most Filipinos crossing the Pacific came to work in the fields of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when she was an undergraduate at UCLA, Mabalon had an Oprah-style “aha!” moment, realizing that her own family history was History, with a capital H. That diner her grandfather, Pablo Mabalon, owned for 50 years? It was a cornerstone of the Filipino community in downtown Stockton, when “Little Manila” was home to the largest population of Filipinos outside the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a personal, political and academic journey, culminating in Mabalon's new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47141\">Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California\u003c/a>.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/little-manila-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109458\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-109458 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Little-Manila-31.jpeg\" alt='Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" Filipinos dressed up for photos headed back home, in order to send the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)' width=\"410\" height=\"517\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking good sends the message \"Doing well here in California!\" (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The book really begins here,” Mabalon says, standing at the corner of Lafayette and El Dorado, outside a mini-mall that was part of an urban redevelopment scheme in the 1990s. Over the roar of a Highway 4 exit, the result of another urban redevelopment in the 1960s, Mabalon acknowledges that it’s hard to imagine this was the heart of Filipino America in the 1920s and '30s. It took her years of digging through records, photos and letters to build a picture of a world lost to all but a few people old enough to remember personally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. took the Philippines as a colony in 1902, many young people made their way over the Pacific to seek their fortunes closer to the heart of the empire. Some came for a university education, only to discover professional fields were not open to “brown people” at the time. Others answered promotional campaigns promising farmers fortunes for the taking in the sugarcane fields of Hawaii. Those who tried to organize for better working conditions, once they got wise to the scam, soon found themselves unable to get hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/10-october-larry-itliong-fanhs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109207\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/10-OCTOBER-Larry-Itliong-FANHS-e1377887439189.jpg\" alt=\"School children learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about the people like Larry Itliong who started the boycott.\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California schoolchildren learn about Cesar Chavez and the grape boycott he became famous for, but not about his Filipino-American partner-in-arms, Larry Itliong. (Courtesy: Filipino American National Historical Society)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it was that a growing number of Filipinos began to travel a seasonal path between the agricultural heartland of California north to the salmon canneries of Alaska. They made a name for themselves as hard workers, especially cutting asparagus in the Delta. “They were considered some of the most skilled, highly efficient workers,” Mabalon says. She goes on to muse drolly that “farmers had some racist reasons why they wanted Filipinos. They said, 'Well, we’re shorter, we’re closer to the ground, and our skin is impervious to the peat dust that’s here in the Delta.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown Stockton became a community center for this peripatetic population. Mabalon says a farmworker could list her granddad’s diner as a permanent address and collect his mail there. Foremen roamed the streets, putting together crews to harvest crops like \u003ca href=\"http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ%28@FIELD%28DOCID+@LIT%28fsa2000000876/PP%29%29+@FIELD%28COLLID+fsa%29%29\">lettuce\u003c/a>, celery, tomatoes and peaches. “People would come here to find out where their cousins or relatives had gone,” Mabalon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1920s, this was the heart of Filipino America. You have almost 100,000 living on the West Coast on the eve of World War II.” From February through May, asparagus season in the Delta and San Joaquin Valley, you might find 15,000 Filipinos living in single-resident-occupancy hotels in Stockton, attending local churches, or hanging out at union halls, pool halls and taxi dance halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_dance_hall\">Taxi dance halls\u003c/a>? Originally developed in San Francisco, these were private clubs where taxi dancers (women) were paid to dance with patrons (men). Most Filipinos in Stockton were young men, sent by their families on the presumption they'd send money back to the hometown for a few years, then return. Thanks to segregation -- and ethnic tensions with Chinese- and Japanese-Americans -- many Filipino men found themselves hard up for a date on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a place like the Rizal Social Club (see photo), they could dress to the nines and dance with White and Mexican women. What about \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws\">anti-miscegenation\u003c/a> laws? Mabalon says a club owner in those days could pay off local police to look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were Filipino bands, of course, playing all the big hits of the Jazz Age, but if they cut records, it would be news to Professor Mabalon. One tantalizing hint of that era: the great Nat King Cole took up the iconic love song \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahil_Sa_Iyo\">Dahil Sa'yo\u003c/a>,\" or \"Because of you.\" Cole wasn't the only non-Filipino to tackle the Tagalog lyrics, but I dare you to get the song out of your head after listening to this beautiful rendition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrD_FSdRzRU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they had in Hawaii, Filipinos fought against racial and economic oppression in the fields. Stockton local \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Itliong\">Larry Itliong\u003c/a> was among those who started organizing agricultural workers in the 1930s. The first major agricultural strike after World War II was an asparagus strike in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, he helped organize what was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482\">Delano Grape Strike\u003c/a>, demanding the federal minimum wage. In the past, farmers used ethnic groups against each other to crush labor actions, but this time, Mexicans under the leadership of Cesar Chavez joined the Filipinos, and the rest is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many groups that started picking fruit and produce in California, Filipinos eventually moved up and out. After U.S. immigration laws were liberalized in 1965, many more Filipinos immigrated from the Old Country, and most of them settled in big cities on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/29/little-manila-the-heart-of-filipino-california/img_2235/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109060\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-109060 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are all that's left. Professor Mabalon hopes to see these buildings restored, housing museum space that tells of the neighborhood's history.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign marks the spot where three derelict buildings are about all that's left of Little Manila. 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