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Or more precisely, the message on the front: “I just look illegal.” Already lionized for his Sunday performance closing out the Giants’ Series clincher against the Detroit Tigers, the 29-year-old won even more attention Wednesday as he sported the provocative message while parading through the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_21898155/richmond-san-rafael-bridge-killer-has-outbursts-insults\">Richmond-San Rafael Bridge murder defendant insults victims’ families during trial\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Nathan Burris, who admittedly killed two people at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in 2009, wants his death penalty trial to “hurry up” so he can “go watch basketball.” The 49-year-old Richmond man, who is acting as his own attorney in his ongoing Contra Costa County Superior Court trial, has indicated several times that he wishes to plead guilty. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/visas-crime-victims-surge-oakland/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo6.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79314\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Linda Mendoza says her life began changing for the better the day she was robbed at gunpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Mendoza had just opened her beauty salon on International Boulevard in East Oakland when three men walked through the door, pointed a gun at her pregnant belly and demanded cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79315\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/undocumented-immigrants1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-79315\" title=\"undocumented immigrants\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/undocumented-immigrants1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented immigrants Misael Amrocio (L) and Jose Augustine, both of Guatemala.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event left her shaken. Mendoza, a Mexican national who had lived in Oakland since she was 4, packed up her salon and moved away from her childhood neighborhood. But the 22-year-old said the crime also produced a gift: Last year, she was granted temporary residency in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza applied for a U visa through an immigration program that gives victims of serious crimes temporary residency status in exchange for cooperation in catching the perpetrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, immigration authorities have seen a substantial increase in U visa applications. In the Bay Area, the Oakland Police Department has seen the number of visas for immigrant victims skyrocket.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the Oakland department processed three applications. In 2011, it processed 502.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration rights advocates applaud the help for victims, but law enforcement authorities say the main success of the program is in breaking down barriers between police and communities that often are hesitant to contact them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite shrinking staffing levels and resources at the beleaguered department, Oakland police officials said they have expanded the program because they believe it builds trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We offer U visas as a way to assure them that they don’t have to have any fear of us trying to get them deported out of the country,” said Capt. Johnny Davis, who oversaw the program until July. “We want to help them solve their crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. 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Dennis Kahane, who reviews U visa applications for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, said a large portion of its applications come from immigrants with older cases who are in the midst of deportation proceedings. The sheriff’s office, like most Bay Area agencies, does not have a dedicated staff member or a written policy guiding investigators who review applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahane said he often disagrees with the applicants’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law is somewhat ambiguous,” he said. “Most of the guidance on U visa law interpretation comes from U visa advocates. And they, of course, want it interpreted in the most broad manner possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, with a continually shrinking staff, is itself sorting through a backlog of cases. In recent months, the task was reassigned to a lieutenant who is also overseeing Operation Ceasefire, a new strategy that involves identifying and intervening with violent offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also are not enough visas to go around. Earlier this year, the U.S. House rejected a measure that would have increased the annual allowance from 10,000 to 15,000. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the Department of Homeland Security ran out of U visas in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, the Oakland police captain who previously oversaw the program, said its success is in the progress he sees in the community, such as more people calling the police for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendoza’s case, the three suspects had robbed several other stores in the neighborhood, but no one had ever called the police. She said a salon client who was there during the robbery had been held up at an ATM weeks earlier but never reported it. The fear extended to the court system. For weeks, Mendoza begged a woman from a nearby sandwich shop to testify in her case against the robbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t speak English at all. She was terrified,” Mendoza recalled. “I myself speak English, so I kind of understand. People who don’t speak English, they just have no idea what they’re getting into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, Mendoza’s grandmother happened to meet someone on a bus who told her about the U visa. Mendoza reached out to a local nonprofit and eventually found Susan Bowyer, directing attorney of the Immigration Center for Women and Children’s San Francisco office, who previously helped Oakland establish its policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza is now pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles and plans to start taking college classes in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never, ever experienced something like that before,” she said, recalling the day of the holdup. “When they left, I was terrified. 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"content": "\u003cp>Parents who don’t get their kids vaccinated will need permission from their doctor’s office before enrolling them in school. Psychotherapists can’t try to convert gay teenagers into straight ones. And some undocumented immigrants can get driver’s licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77228\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/vaccination.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77228 \" title=\"vaccination\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/vaccination.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes in California law came about over the weekend as Gov. Jerry Brown signed some 191 bills into law and vetoed nearly as many, in a flurry of legislative action. Brown was in a rush to beat the deadline of midnight, Sunday, when the bills would have expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get a complete list from the \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/home.php\">governor’s website\u003c/a>. But here are some of the most controversial or far-reaching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vaccination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB2109 will require parents who enroll students who have not received the required public school vaccines to get a waiver from a physician or a nurse practitioner saying they have received information about the benefits and risks of immunization.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown signed the vaccination bill amid what Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, called the largest national whooping cough epidemic in 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/home.php\">See the complete list of new laws and vetoes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Preventable diseases can spread not only to those who choose not to be vaccinated, but to those who can’t be immunized, including infants, cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, AIDS patients or those who are allergic to vaccines, Pan said in a \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a05/newsroom/press-releases/item/2856-governor-brown-signs-dr-pan-bill-to-increase-immunization-education-in-california\">statement\u003c/a>. The new requirement will go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including former “Saturday Night Live” actor \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/09/actor-rob-schneider-urges-gov-brown-to-veto-vaccination-bill.html\">Rob Schneider\u003c/a> of Pacifica, said it infringes on parental rights and increases medical costs for families, according to the Sacramento Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There shouldn’t be government coercion to force parents to jump another hoop to have to make decisions on … what’s the best interest of their child,” Schneider said, according to the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gay ‘Conversion Therapy’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective Jan. 1, mental health practitioners are prohibited from trying to change the sexual orientation of anyone under 18, in what’s known as “reparative or conversion therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The therapies “have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery,” Brown said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists and psychologists have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades. A number of mental health associations in California — including the state’s Board of Behavorial Sciences, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the California Psychological Association — supported the legislation, the Associated Press reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some organizations and ministries continue to use counseling and prayer to try to help conflicted Christians rid themselves of unwanted homosexual inclinations. Gay rights activists have said the damage they inflict on individuals can be deep and lasting and can put youth at higher risk of depression and suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservative religious groups and some Republicans have argued that banning conversion therapy would hinder parents’ right to provide psychological care for children experiencing gender confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Domestic Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown vetoed a bill Sunday to regulate overtime and meal breaks for nannies, maids and other domestic workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto message, the governor said he wants the state Department of Industrial Relations to study the potential impacts of new rules before they are drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What will be the economic and human impact on the disabled or elderly person and their family of requiring overtime, rest and meal periods for attendants who provide 24 hour care?” Brown wrote. “What would be the additional costs and what is the financial capacity of those taking care of loved ones in the last years of life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veto drew criticism from Sylvia Lopez, a worker with the California Domestic Workers Coalition, which sponsored the bill, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/09/gov-jerry-brown-veto-breaks-overtime-nannies.html\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>. “It is a huge disappointment that Gov. 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The bill has been dubbed “anti-Arizona” legislation, a reference to that state’s controversial immigrant identification law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/07/23/103289/bill_would_restrict_secure_communities_enforcement?category=bay+area\">TRUST Act\u003c/a> would have let California opt out of some parts of a federal program that requires local law enforcement officers to check the fingerprints of people they arrest against a federal immigration database and to hold those who are in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would have barred local law enforcement officers from detaining suspects for possible deportation unless they are charged with serious or violent felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Brown signed AB2189 by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, letting the Department of Motor Vehicles issue licenses to undocumented immigrants eligible for work permits under a new Obama administration policy. 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"content": "\u003cp>Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/immigrant-integration-varies-across-california-17987\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a change to federal law meant many immigrants would lose access to certain welfare benefits, Santa Clara County faced having to absorb thousands of residents in local safety net programs. So the county pursued a way to keep immigrants eligible for federal benefits: citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76221\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/immigrant.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-76221\" title=\"immigrant\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/immigrant-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Melgarejo is one of nearly 65,000 undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area who could qualify for the Obama Administration's deferred action program. (Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 1996, Santa Clara County has encouraged legal permanent residents to become naturalized citizens and has worked to\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>integrate immigrants in the region. A new report by the University of Southern California's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration says those efforts are lessons for the rest of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a clear need for a statewide body to invest in immigrant integration,\" Vanessa Carter, a data analyst at the center and an author of the report, said in a call with reporters. \"This body could help coordinate immigrant integration efforts and, in the end, could help build a more resilient California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants constitute about 27 percent of California's population, and nearly half of the children in the state have at least one immigrant parent, according to the center. How successfully immigrants and their families integrate in California \"is something in everyone's interest,\" said Manuel Pastor, director of the center.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara ranks first out of 10 major regions in the state in immigrant integration, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://csii.usc.edu/CAimmSCORECARD.html\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a>. The analysis, released last week and the first of its kind, measured immigrants' economic mobility and civic participation. It also considered how welcoming their adopted regions were, based on indicators such as the availability of immigrant-serving organizations, civic infrastructure for naturalization and availability of English courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers used 28 indicators – including demographic and economic census figures, test scores from the California High School Exit Exam, school performance data and news media coverage of immigration – to compare immigrants with their U.S.-born, non-Hispanic white counterparts in each region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor said that while some regional variations in part reflect differences in the composition of immigrants, the immigrant population throughout California generally is very diverse. Regional differences also were the product of local policies and practices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis found the smallest economic gaps between immigrants and their native-born white counterparts in Santa Clara, San Diego and Sacramento counties. Immigrants' economic standing over time improved most in San Joaquin, Orange and Santa Clara counties. And although San Francisco and Los Angeles were among the most welcoming regions in the state, immigrants there faced grim economic situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That San Joaquin offered a rosier economic trajectory than San Francisco was not surprising, researchers said. Immigrants who arrive in San Francisco and make economic gains might leave for more affordable locales, while others who are more affluent or poor may remain so and stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The very high cost of living showed us that immigrants are having trouble around economics\" in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a five-point scale, only Santa Clara scored perfectly in one category: civic engagement. The score is a reflection of the county's high rate of naturalization and English-speaking immigrants. But because regions' scores are relative to one another, researchers said there is still room for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara, 46 percent of adults are immigrants, and nearly 1 in 4 is a naturalized immigrant. By comparison, in Fresno, which ranked lowest in civic engagement, 29 percent of adults are immigrants, and 9 percent are naturalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara encourages all eligible immigrants to become citizens, said Teresa Castellanos, lead program coordinator for the county's Immigration Relations and Integration Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castellanos' office holds an annual event in 14 languages to teach immigrants about and help them through the naturalization process. The biggest barriers to naturalization are lack of understanding of the process and language, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Language-specific programs are about not just luxury, but about access,\" Castellanos said. \"If people don't understand what exists, they can't access it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county maintains an \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigrantinfo.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">online list of classes\u003c/a> teaching citizenship and English as a second language. In recent years, the number of classes has shrunk from 1,200 to about 700 or fewer, Castellanos said. At the same time, the number of immigrants seeking those classes has increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English learners are falling behind academically in every region of California, the report found. Researchers said immigrants need greater opportunities to learn English in the state.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Yahoo-fires-David-Chalian-over-GOP-remark-3826164.php\">Yahoo fires David Chalian over GOP remark\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yahoo said Wednesday that it had fired David Chalian, the website's Washington bureau chief, after he was recorded at the Republican National Convention saying convention officials were \"happy to have a party with black people drowning.\" Yahoo said the reference Chalian made to the flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac was \"inappropriate and does not represent the views\" of the company. In a statement, Yahoo also said, \"We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\t\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21429688/california-lawmakers-debate-changes-teacher-evaluations\">California lawmakers debate changes to teacher evaluations\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A major showdown in Sacramento has pitted education allies against each other, with school reformers and school districts desperately trying to fend off union attempts to water down teacher evaluations and accountability. Assembly Bill 5 is backed by teachers unions, one of the most powerful lobbies in Sacramento. On the other side, the California State PTA, reformers such as Education Trust-West and EdVoice, plus the organizations representing school administrators, districts and trustees argued the bill would harm students. Wednesday afternoon, the bill was being debated by the Senate Education Committee.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/28/local/la-me-0829-college-survey-20120829\">Survey offers dire picture of California's two-year colleges\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>More than 470,000 community college students are beginning the fall semester on waiting lists, unable to get into the courses they need, according to a survey of California's two-year colleges that captures a system struggling amid severe budget cuts. The survey, to be released Wednesday, quantified the myriad problems affecting the system, many of which have been anecdotally reported by students on many campuses. 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No one was injured. Philip Penn, 37, of Pinole, was arrested about 9 p.m. in a trailer in the driveway of a home on the 2200 block of Simas Avenue, police said. Police surrounded the home and used a loudspeaker to order Penn to surrender, which he did without incident.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Legislature-passes-flurry-of-bills-3826194.php\">Legislature passes flurry of bills\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Farmworkers in California would have the right to sue their employers if they are repeatedly deprived of water and shade under a bill sent to Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. Author Betsy Butler, a Democratic assemblywoman from Los Angeles, said that lack of access to safe conditions have resulted in 16 preventable farmworker deaths since 2005, despite the fact that stricter regulations were instated then. 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Photo Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Image.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting Wednesday, an estimated 1.2 million undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children will be able to apply to live and work in the U.S. legally for at least the next two years. Up to 440,000 young people who live in California could benefit under this \u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\">historic program\u003c/a> that President Obama announced two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A young man--who asked to be identified by the name \"Ish\"--hopped off the trolley near his apartment in downtown San Diego. He was coming home from a day at work. Ish isn’t his real name, but that’s what he’d like us to call him because he's concerned about his undocumented status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took me about two hours to get home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To learn more about the Deferred Action program, \u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>His trip would take about 15 minutes by car. But, Ish can’t get a driver's license because he doesn’t have the proper papers. He got his bachelor’s degree in political science from San Diego State University. He wanted to go to graduate school but couldn’t, because it required legal status. Instead, he works illegally managing a construction company. But, he said he hopes this all will change soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And everything will be good and it’s gonna be great,\" Ish said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ish plans to apply for the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2012/06/15/secretary-napolitano-announces-deferred-action-process-young-people-who-are-low\" target=\"_blank\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a>, or DACA, program. It’s the largest immigration relief since President Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to about three million people in 1986. DACA will allow people who were brought to the U.S. illegally when they were under the age of 16, to avoid being deported for at least the next two years, with the possibility of an extension. 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There was everything from his childhood vaccination records, to his college diploma, to his good citizenship award from the fifth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Man, that is really ironic,\" Ish laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting the lid back on the box, Ish said he thinks he has everything. In fact, he does. Federal authorities recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=f2ef2f19470f7310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD#evidence\">announced which documents\u003c/a> they'll accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, while Ish seems well poised to take advantage of DACA, federal authorities and immigration rights activists around the state fear that unscrupulous immigration attorneys and \"notarios,\" or consultants, could take advantage of applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The amount of money that folks think they will make off of these young people is staggering,\" said Andrea Guerrero, Executive Director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.equalitysandiego.org/\">Alliance San Diego\u003c/a>, a member of an immigrants rights consortium. It has held town hall meetings and recently launched a \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/a/equalitysandiego.org/san-diego-dreamer-resource-center/\">web site\u003c/a> to warn of fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Attorneys and \u003cem>notarios\u003c/em> charging exorbitant prices for an application that the government itself is deeming a low effort application. And the kinds of prices that we’re seeing are equivalent to full court cases,\" she said. Like up to $4,000 to help people fill out the application. The actual cost to file it with the government is $465. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in San Diego said her agency is already investigating a handful of alleged swindlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many undocumented immigrants are concerned their DACA applications will be used to deport them. Authorities promise they won’t, unless an applicant has a serious criminal history or lies on the application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities expect a deluge of applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doris Meissner is with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.migrationpolicy.org/\">Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>. She’s spent a lot of time analyzing problems with how the government handled Reagan’s massive amnesty in 1986. She says new technology should make the job a lot easier this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Automated background checks, the ability to take fingerprints electronically, the sophistication of the service centers. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/courts/story/immigration-deportation-prosecutorial/?utm_source=BayCitizen&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=twitter\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrique Candia lives a quiet life. When he's not working, he takes care of his ailing wife and his three grandkids and makes sure his son is on track to finish college. Although he has no criminal record, the 56-year-old is facing a court battle that could take him away from his family for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo5.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71837\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>In June 2010, federal agents arrested Candia for working in the United States without proper authorization. A Mexican national who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, Candia was sent to an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the first time it ever happened to me,\" he said during a recent telephone interview. \"In that moment, I felt they were really going to deport me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney thought Candia would not face prosecution. Last year, ICE Director John Morton asked prosecutors to consider a number of factors – including an individual’s length of time in the United States, educational pursuits, family ties, contributions to the community and criminal history – before deciding whether to proceed with a deportation case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71838\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/undocumented-immigrants.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-71838\" title=\"undocumented immigrants\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/undocumented-immigrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented immigrants lay out a patio on May 23, 2007 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images )\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By urging prosecutors to use greater discretion, Morton hoped to reduce the strain on the immigration court system and place more of a focus on higher-priority criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since then, prosecutors have opted to close 1.9 percent of the nearly 300,000 cases in the immigration court system, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email.120723.html\">latest data\u003c/a> released last week by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, at Syracuse University. 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The closed cases include 3,302 people with “a long-term presence” in the country and a close family member who is a U.S. citizen; 303 children who had been in the U.S. for more than five years; 10 individuals with good records from the Coast Guard or Army; and 91 victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other serious crimes, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously ICE disagrees with those who are characterizing this ongoing effort as a failure,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice wrote in an email to The Bay Citizen. “The ongoing case-by-case review is helping to alleviate backlogged immigration courts and enabling ICE to more quickly remove those individuals who pose the greatest threat to public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an initial review, prosecutors declined to drop Candia's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His case appears to highlight a problem that immigrant rights advocates say has beset ICE’s prosecutorial discretion program. Unlike the criminal court system, defendants in the immigration courts are not entitled to legal representation. Advocates say that without adequate representation, individuals often receive only cursory reviews. In many cases, prosecutors review files without asking for materials that might better showcase an individual's track record in the U.S. The latest TRAC data shows that an overwhelming majority of defendants whose cases are closed through prosecutorial discretion have legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government says it’s reviewing all the cases, but oftentimes, what they’re reviewing is just the file they have, which is why the person got put into proceedings in the first place,” Shull-Gonzalez said. “Their ties to the community, their children – that’s just not in a government file, if it’s not given to (the prosecutor). It’s not a meaningful review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo last year, Morton said prosecutors \"may request\" additional information to “assist in reaching a final decision.” But such requests are not required, and several immigration attorneys consulted by The Bay Citizen said prosecutors did not make that attempt for their clients. Immigrants without representation likely do not know that prosecutorial reviews are an option, Shull-Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candia told The Bay Citizen that he didn’t have a lawyer until his second court hearing, after prosecutors already had reviewed and denied closing his case. That attorney, provided pro bono by The Bar Association of San Francisco, listened to Candia's story and referred him to Shull-Gonzalez, who requested another prosecutorial review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candia then began collecting materials to send to prosecutors, such as tax records and information about his family, including his brother-in-law, a U.S. citizen who has petitioned for the family to remain in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candia said he hopes to learn at his next hearing in August that his case is being dropped. In the meantime, he remains in Oakland, where he takes care of his wife and grandchildren. His 22-year-old son also lives at home while going to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle to stay in the U.S. has taken a toll on him and his family, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a saying in Spanish, ‘Me cortaron las alas,' \" he said. \"It’s like clipping your wings, your ability to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> When we first published this blog post, we mistakenly identified Ju Hong as part of a group protesting at Obama’s campaign headquarters in Oakland. Hong wasn’t part of that protest nor was he at the campaign headquarters. We regret the error. This blog post has since been corrected.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:21 P.M\u003c/strong> The private security guards who have been watching over the student protestors in Obama's Oakland campaign headquarters are no longer allowing the students to use the restroom. One student, Luis Serrano, left to use the bathroom and was not allowed back into the office. 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To expel these young people who want to staff our labs or start new businesses or defend our country simply because of the actions of their parents, or because the inaction of politicians.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He also emphasized what this is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Now let's be clear this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship. This is not a permanent fix. 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