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"content": "\n\u003cp>Francisco, a 52-year-old window installer, couldn’t sleep. He burst into tears during family dinners. The sight of an unfamiliar black Suburban parked near his longtime apartment in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, California, sent him rushing to lock the doors and hide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His employer threatened to report him to federal immigration authorities this spring, Francisco said, to discourage him from collaborating with state labor officials investigating a co-worker’s complaint against the business. KQED is not using Francisco’s full name or naming their employer because he lacks legal immigration status and fears retaliation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was afraid,” Francisco said. “I tried to not show it to my family so they wouldn’t get nervous or upset. But inside, I was afraid. It’s traumatic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening immigration consequences is nothing new in industries with a large noncitizen workforce and lower-wage jobs, such as construction, hospitality and in-home care. But as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, bad-faith employers are taking advantage of the political climate to exploit vulnerable workers, who are now more fearful of deportation, according to state officials and employment attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s hard to estimate the extent of this kind of workplace intimidation, which is generally unlawful, because relatively few people report it to labor regulators. Still, state figures point to a spike in immigration-related threats during both the first and current Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Construction workers rebuild a house that was destroyed in the Palisades Fire on June 25, 2026, in Pacific Palisades, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg and that there are many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Ruth Silver Taube, supervising attorney at the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Legal Advice Line. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco, who has worked in California for 25 years, mostly in construction, said he had never before faced an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-related threat. Francisco worried his wife and two older children, who also don’t have legal status, could be detained and separated from a younger son, a U.S. citizen by birth. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The father of three became so anxious, imagining that he was being watched or followed, that his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco eventually found a different job and is seeking legal aid to figure out next steps. A spokesperson for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates retaliation complaints, identified two open investigations against Francisco’s former employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” Francisco said, adding that more construction workers he knows are facing similar rhetoric. “Unfortunately, it is the price we pay — those of us who are undocumented here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency, which tracks reports of employers threatening workers, has received nearly 200 immigration-related complaints since 2025, almost as many as during President Joe Biden’s entire administration, according to agency figures. Similarly, an analysis of the office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSEreports.htm#RCReports\">data\u003c/a> indicates more than 460 immigration-threat allegations during Trump’s first term, a significant increase from years prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The increase comes as the Trump administration has weakened or discarded protections aimed at encouraging immigrant workers to report potential workplace violations. Trump rescinded a Biden-era program that offered temporary protection from deportation and a work permit to people who collaborated with labor investigators. And an agreement that largely kept immigration authorities out of workplaces the U.S. Department of Labor was investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096562/trump-administration-nixes-longstanding-deal-to-help-investigate-labor-abuses\">is no longer in effect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Worker advocates in Southern and Northern California said workplace immigration threats are on the rise across the state, part of an effort to silence immigrants during disputes over wages or other job conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yunuen Trujillo, who directs the workers’ rights program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, related the story of an in-home caregiver in Los Angeles County. Trujillo said a former employer sought the caregiver out at her new job and threatened to go to ICE against her — and her school-age son — unless the worker withdrew a wage complaint she had filed with state regulators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That kind of emboldened attitude, we’re seeing more and more,” said Trujillo, who assisted the L.A. caregiver in reaching a settlement. “Bad actors who are employers are using the opportunity to engage in wage theft, to retaliate, to coerce workers into doing what they want by using immigration-related threats.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Middle housing units under construction in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trujillo’s team has documented dozens of reports of veiled or explicit threats this year, though most workers decline to pursue the cases or seek redress, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Silver Taube believes just one of dozens of clients has been arrested and deported after reporting immigration threats and wage theft to state regulators during the first Trump term. The Labor Commissioner’s Office recovered unpaid wages for the man and ensured he received them in Mexico, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency also intervenes to stop retaliation from happening or continuing by promptly informing employers that they could be on the hook for up to $10,000 in penalties per violation if the allegations of immigration threats against them are corroborated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Counterintuitively, if [workers] speak up, there might be less of a likelihood that it’ll happen because the eyes of the government are on the employer,” said Silver Taube, who recommends workers document the perceived threat in writing, perhaps via text message or email to the same supervisor who made it, as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Labor Commission will prioritize the case … and call the employer to inform them about the civil and criminal penalties for threats to call ICE, which may deter the employer from acting on the threat,” she said. “But that’s part of the calculus for workers who are undocumented. Will the employer call ICE?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For every person who speaks up about the issue, many others don’t, deciding it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage theft, unsafe conditions, harassment or other workplace issues, worker advocates and labor officials said. The dynamic has been exacerbated by the federal government’s focus on aggressive immigration enforcement, said Jaime Arteaga, a labor compliance investigator with the North Coast States Carpenters Union. Immigration authorities conducted about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-50-thousand-people-august-continuing-record-rcna595510\">100,000 arrests\u003c/a> nationwide just over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Somebody might say, ‘We might get deported,’ and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward,” said Arteaga, who regularly speaks with nonunionized laborers at construction sites in San José. “It doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said, and the people are fearful. It can be a rumor.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, declined to comment on advocates’ concerns about a chilling effect on the reporting of labor abuses, or whether employers are actually identifying current or former employees for arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to protect public safety, national security and economic stability while rescuing individuals who may be victims of labor trafficking or exploitation,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “These operations target illegal employment networks that undermine American workers, destabilize labor markets, and threaten American communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employing noncitizens without work authorization also incentivizes “dangerous and illegal practices, including social security fraud,” the spokesperson said, because those immigrants often use stolen, fabricated or expired social security numbers to get jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have a right to minimum wage, overtime, a safe workplace and other protections, regardless of their immigration status. Punishing a worker for trying to exercise those rights is unlawful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">a bill\u003c/a> last week that would clarify the law to explicitly say that all immigration-related threats, including preemptive ones to dissuade employees from exercising their rights, are illegal. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yet, managers may ignore the rules. Threats can be made in the heat of the moment, and not as a well-thought-out management tool, said Paul DeCamp, who represents employers with the firm Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing or they’re complaining about working conditions, the supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation, may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp, a former administrator of the wage and hour division at the U.S. Department of Labor. “But the supervisor may not understand that or may think that the workers would be afraid to do anything about the threat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said her agency anticipated that Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants would have a chilling effect on undocumented and other noncitizen workers. The labor commissioner has expanded its education and outreach efforts, including by partnering closely with advocacy organizations and community leaders who have workers’ trust. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/\">1.5 million undocumented\u003c/a> immigrants make up less than 10% of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government. We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for Social Security numbers. And it is safe for them to proceed in cooperating with us,” Garcia-Brower said. “I don’t need a statistic to reiterate that there is a significant amount of fear in the community. What I want to make sure that I am continuously communicating: worker protections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12001145\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael, California. 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It is something very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She had never been threatened with deportation in the 35 years she’s worked in the state cleaning homes and in restaurants, she said. Eventually, Edith and co-workers sought advice from the California Fast Food Workers Union. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By then, the manager had also told employees that they should “hide in the garbage” or “jump out of the window” if ICE agents came to the workplace, according to two age-discrimination complaints against the business with the California Civil Rights Department that were reviewed by KQED. The department also \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/10/Immigration-Rights-Fact-Sheet_ENG.pdf\">investigates immigration threats\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You have to do something,” said Edith, referring to her complaint, which she hopes will lead the restaurant owners to ensure employees are treated fairly. “We do have rights, and we shouldn’t be treated this way.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Francisco, a 52-year-old window installer, couldn’t sleep. He burst into tears during family dinners. The sight of an unfamiliar black Suburban parked near his longtime apartment in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, California, sent him rushing to lock the doors and hide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His employer threatened to report him to federal immigration authorities this spring, Francisco said, to discourage him from collaborating with state labor officials investigating a co-worker’s complaint against the business. KQED is not using Francisco’s full name or naming their employer because he lacks legal immigration status and fears retaliation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was afraid,” Francisco said. “I tried to not show it to my family so they wouldn’t get nervous or upset. But inside, I was afraid. It’s traumatic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening immigration consequences is nothing new in industries with a large noncitizen workforce and lower-wage jobs, such as construction, hospitality and in-home care. But as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, bad-faith employers are taking advantage of the political climate to exploit vulnerable workers, who are now more fearful of deportation, according to state officials and employment attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s hard to estimate the extent of this kind of workplace intimidation, which is generally unlawful, because relatively few people report it to labor regulators. Still, state figures point to a spike in immigration-related threats during both the first and current Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Construction workers rebuild a house that was destroyed in the Palisades Fire on June 25, 2026, in Pacific Palisades, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg and that there are many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Ruth Silver Taube, supervising attorney at the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Legal Advice Line. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco, who has worked in California for 25 years, mostly in construction, said he had never before faced an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-related threat. Francisco worried his wife and two older children, who also don’t have legal status, could be detained and separated from a younger son, a U.S. citizen by birth. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The father of three became so anxious, imagining that he was being watched or followed, that his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco eventually found a different job and is seeking legal aid to figure out next steps. A spokesperson for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates retaliation complaints, identified two open investigations against Francisco’s former employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” Francisco said, adding that more construction workers he knows are facing similar rhetoric. “Unfortunately, it is the price we pay — those of us who are undocumented here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency, which tracks reports of employers threatening workers, has received nearly 200 immigration-related complaints since 2025, almost as many as during President Joe Biden’s entire administration, according to agency figures. Similarly, an analysis of the office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSEreports.htm#RCReports\">data\u003c/a> indicates more than 460 immigration-threat allegations during Trump’s first term, a significant increase from years prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The increase comes as the Trump administration has weakened or discarded protections aimed at encouraging immigrant workers to report potential workplace violations. Trump rescinded a Biden-era program that offered temporary protection from deportation and a work permit to people who collaborated with labor investigators. And an agreement that largely kept immigration authorities out of workplaces the U.S. Department of Labor was investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096562/trump-administration-nixes-longstanding-deal-to-help-investigate-labor-abuses\">is no longer in effect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Worker advocates in Southern and Northern California said workplace immigration threats are on the rise across the state, part of an effort to silence immigrants during disputes over wages or other job conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yunuen Trujillo, who directs the workers’ rights program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, related the story of an in-home caregiver in Los Angeles County. Trujillo said a former employer sought the caregiver out at her new job and threatened to go to ICE against her — and her school-age son — unless the worker withdrew a wage complaint she had filed with state regulators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That kind of emboldened attitude, we’re seeing more and more,” said Trujillo, who assisted the L.A. caregiver in reaching a settlement. “Bad actors who are employers are using the opportunity to engage in wage theft, to retaliate, to coerce workers into doing what they want by using immigration-related threats.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Middle housing units under construction in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trujillo’s team has documented dozens of reports of veiled or explicit threats this year, though most workers decline to pursue the cases or seek redress, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Silver Taube believes just one of dozens of clients has been arrested and deported after reporting immigration threats and wage theft to state regulators during the first Trump term. The Labor Commissioner’s Office recovered unpaid wages for the man and ensured he received them in Mexico, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency also intervenes to stop retaliation from happening or continuing by promptly informing employers that they could be on the hook for up to $10,000 in penalties per violation if the allegations of immigration threats against them are corroborated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Counterintuitively, if [workers] speak up, there might be less of a likelihood that it’ll happen because the eyes of the government are on the employer,” said Silver Taube, who recommends workers document the perceived threat in writing, perhaps via text message or email to the same supervisor who made it, as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Labor Commission will prioritize the case … and call the employer to inform them about the civil and criminal penalties for threats to call ICE, which may deter the employer from acting on the threat,” she said. “But that’s part of the calculus for workers who are undocumented. Will the employer call ICE?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For every person who speaks up about the issue, many others don’t, deciding it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage theft, unsafe conditions, harassment or other workplace issues, worker advocates and labor officials said. The dynamic has been exacerbated by the federal government’s focus on aggressive immigration enforcement, said Jaime Arteaga, a labor compliance investigator with the North Coast States Carpenters Union. Immigration authorities conducted about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-50-thousand-people-august-continuing-record-rcna595510\">100,000 arrests\u003c/a> nationwide just over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Somebody might say, ‘We might get deported,’ and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward,” said Arteaga, who regularly speaks with nonunionized laborers at construction sites in San José. “It doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said, and the people are fearful. It can be a rumor.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, declined to comment on advocates’ concerns about a chilling effect on the reporting of labor abuses, or whether employers are actually identifying current or former employees for arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to protect public safety, national security and economic stability while rescuing individuals who may be victims of labor trafficking or exploitation,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “These operations target illegal employment networks that undermine American workers, destabilize labor markets, and threaten American communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employing noncitizens without work authorization also incentivizes “dangerous and illegal practices, including social security fraud,” the spokesperson said, because those immigrants often use stolen, fabricated or expired social security numbers to get jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have a right to minimum wage, overtime, a safe workplace and other protections, regardless of their immigration status. Punishing a worker for trying to exercise those rights is unlawful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">a bill\u003c/a> last week that would clarify the law to explicitly say that all immigration-related threats, including preemptive ones to dissuade employees from exercising their rights, are illegal. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yet, managers may ignore the rules. Threats can be made in the heat of the moment, and not as a well-thought-out management tool, said Paul DeCamp, who represents employers with the firm Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing or they’re complaining about working conditions, the supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation, may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp, a former administrator of the wage and hour division at the U.S. Department of Labor. “But the supervisor may not understand that or may think that the workers would be afraid to do anything about the threat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said her agency anticipated that Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants would have a chilling effect on undocumented and other noncitizen workers. The labor commissioner has expanded its education and outreach efforts, including by partnering closely with advocacy organizations and community leaders who have workers’ trust. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/\">1.5 million undocumented\u003c/a> immigrants make up less than 10% of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government. We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for Social Security numbers. And it is safe for them to proceed in cooperating with us,” Garcia-Brower said. “I don’t need a statistic to reiterate that there is a significant amount of fear in the community. What I want to make sure that I am continuously communicating: worker protections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12001145\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Edith, a fast food worker in the San José area, said she decided to come forward with a complaint because she is desperate for relief. Her manager has discriminated against her and other older employees, unfairly cutting their work hours, she said. Edith said that when she asked the manager about it last summer, they replied that anyone complaining about their schedule would be reported to ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Edith stopped asking questions, even after her work hours were slashed again. KQED is not using Edith’s full name or naming her employer because she fears losing her job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know that was illegal — what she told us. I was afraid of going to work. But I have to work because I need to,” the 56-year-old said in Spanish. “It has been, and still is, a huge deal. It is something very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She had never been threatened with deportation in the 35 years she’s worked in the state cleaning homes and in restaurants, she said. Eventually, Edith and co-workers sought advice from the California Fast Food Workers Union. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By then, the manager had also told employees that they should “hide in the garbage” or “jump out of the window” if ICE agents came to the workplace, according to two age-discrimination complaints against the business with the California Civil Rights Department that were reviewed by KQED. 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Our partner\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/09/driver-license-database-subpoena/\"> CalMatters has reported \u003c/a>the Department of Homeland Security was actively pursuing driver data from the group that manages the database, at the same time California was weighing concerns that information of non-citizens would be vulnerable in a national database.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, worker advocates and state officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097644/complaints-of-employer-ice-threats-on-the-rise-in-california\">some employers are taking advantage\u003c/a> of the political climate to exploit immigrant workers in lower-wage jobs. \u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/09/driver-license-database-subpoena/\">Gov. Newsom Office Calls Complaints Over License-Data Sharing Overblown\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/driver-license-sharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer\u003c/a>: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exposing more than a million people to immigration\u003c/a> and law enforcement agencies? Ultimately, amid fears that state IDs wouldn’t be accepted at airports and federal buildings, they voted to let the DMV share driver data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Non-citizens are legally allowed to obtain driver’s licenses in California, and immigration and privacy advocates worried that information would be vulnerable in a national database.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.603338/gov.uscourts.vaed.603338.1.2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first requested, then subpoenaed\u003c/a>, bulk commercial driver data from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, or AAMVA, a nonprofit that acts as a clearinghouse for information from state motor vehicle departments nationwide. That’s the same organization California plans to entrust with all its driver records by next year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s license-data demands appear to be part of a broader and escalating \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigrant-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crackdown on non-citizen truck drivers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration began in May 2025 strictly enforcing English proficiency standards. The agency also in February 2026 finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/13/2026-02965/restoring-integrity-to-the-issuance-of-non-domiciled-commercial-drivers-licenses-cdl\">a new rule\u003c/a> that would block immigrants with work permits, like asylum seekers, Temporary Protected Status holders or DACA recipients, who are in the United States legally, from qualifying for commercial driver’s licenses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Basically, the fears of some of the advocates came to fruition here,” says reporter Wendy Fry with CalMatters, who has been following this story. “So the Trump administration was already seeking access to information about 17 million commercial drivers. The Department of Homeland Security said in their subpoena they specifically want these records because they want to do immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CalMatters reports that subpoena from DHS came to light because of a recent lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the national driver database that got the subpoena declined to comment. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, which backed the data sharing, has said the concerns from advocates are overblown — much as it did this summer after critics warned that any California data shared with AAMVA was at risk of federal subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097644/complaints-of-employer-ice-threats-on-the-rise-in-california\">‘Bad Faith’ Employers Taking Advantage of Workers’ Deportation Fears\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco has made and installed windows in the Bay Area for more than 16 years, and he’s a proud father of three. But earlier this year, he couldn’t sleep. He’d burst out crying during family meals. One day, when he saw a black suburban parked near his apartment, he rushed to lock all the doors and hide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He says his boss threatened to report him to ICE if Francisco spoke with state regulators investigating claims the company underpaid workers. KQED is withholding his full name because he does not have a legal immigration status and fears retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tenía miedo. Pues es traumático todo eso. Es traumatico.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco says he was afraid and traumatized. He was so stressed out, his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco ended up finding a new job. But he’s still angry about the emotional toll on him and his family.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sí, me da coraje por todo eso, por todas las amenazas que estuve recibiendo ahí, que me iban a echar a Migración.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening to call ICE? That’s nothing new. But with federal agents dramatically detaining so many people under the Trump Administration, workers are taking the threat seriously. And many decide it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage-theft, harassment or other workplace issues. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But it doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said and the people are fearful,” said Jaime Arteaga with the North Coast States Carpenters’ Union. “It can be a rumor. Somebody might say we might get deported and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State figures show complaints of retaliation involving immigration threats have spiked under the first and current Trump administration. Relatively few workers will go to the authorities, but the California Labor Commissioner’s Office reports about 200 complaints involving immigration threats since 2025. That’s nearly as many as during the entire four years of President Joe Biden’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employment attorney Ruth Silver Taube supervises a legal advice line in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. She’s also supervising attorney of the workers’ rights practice at Santa Clara University’s School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg, and that there’s many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Silver Taube. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have the right to minimum wage and other workplace protections regardless of their immigration status. Threatening a worker for trying to exercise those rights is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some managers don’t know that, says Paul DeCamp, an attorney in Washington D.C. who represents employers. He’s a former administrator at the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a manager or supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing, or they’re complaining about working conditions, or otherwise asserting their rights, the manager or a supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government,” said California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia Brower. She says her agency collaborates closely with advocates and community leaders to educate employers and workers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for social security numbers. And it is safe for them to proceed in cooperating with us.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That said, every worker is making an individual calculation as to how safe they actually are.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">A bill that just landed\u003c/a> on the Governor’s desk would clarify the law to say that ALL threats to call immigration – even if preemptive – are illegal, and punishable with up to $10,000 dollars in penalties per violation. The governor has until the end of September to sign or veto the measure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003c/h2>\n",
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Our partner\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/09/driver-license-database-subpoena/\"> CalMatters has reported \u003c/a>the Department of Homeland Security was actively pursuing driver data from the group that manages the database, at the same time California was weighing concerns that information of non-citizens would be vulnerable in a national database.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, worker advocates and state officials say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097644/complaints-of-employer-ice-threats-on-the-rise-in-california\">some employers are taking advantage\u003c/a> of the political climate to exploit immigrant workers in lower-wage jobs. \u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/09/driver-license-database-subpoena/\">Gov. Newsom Office Calls Complaints Over License-Data Sharing Overblown\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/driver-license-sharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrestled with a difficult question earlier this summer\u003c/a>: Could the state safely share driver’s license data with a national group, as the federal government demanded, without \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exposing more than a million people to immigration\u003c/a> and law enforcement agencies? Ultimately, amid fears that state IDs wouldn’t be accepted at airports and federal buildings, they voted to let the DMV share driver data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Non-citizens are legally allowed to obtain driver’s licenses in California, and immigration and privacy advocates worried that information would be vulnerable in a national database.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal agencies \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.603338/gov.uscourts.vaed.603338.1.2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first requested, then subpoenaed\u003c/a>, bulk commercial driver data from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, or AAMVA, a nonprofit that acts as a clearinghouse for information from state motor vehicle departments nationwide. That’s the same organization California plans to entrust with all its driver records by next year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s license-data demands appear to be part of a broader and escalating \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/11/immigrant-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crackdown on non-citizen truck drivers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration began in May 2025 strictly enforcing English proficiency standards. The agency also in February 2026 finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/13/2026-02965/restoring-integrity-to-the-issuance-of-non-domiciled-commercial-drivers-licenses-cdl\">a new rule\u003c/a> that would block immigrants with work permits, like asylum seekers, Temporary Protected Status holders or DACA recipients, who are in the United States legally, from qualifying for commercial driver’s licenses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Basically, the fears of some of the advocates came to fruition here,” says reporter Wendy Fry with CalMatters, who has been following this story. “So the Trump administration was already seeking access to information about 17 million commercial drivers. The Department of Homeland Security said in their subpoena they specifically want these records because they want to do immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CalMatters reports that subpoena from DHS came to light because of a recent lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the national driver database that got the subpoena declined to comment. Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, which backed the data sharing, has said the concerns from advocates are overblown — much as it did this summer after critics warned that any California data shared with AAMVA was at risk of federal subpoena.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097644/complaints-of-employer-ice-threats-on-the-rise-in-california\">‘Bad Faith’ Employers Taking Advantage of Workers’ Deportation Fears\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco has made and installed windows in the Bay Area for more than 16 years, and he’s a proud father of three. But earlier this year, he couldn’t sleep. He’d burst out crying during family meals. One day, when he saw a black suburban parked near his apartment, he rushed to lock all the doors and hide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He says his boss threatened to report him to ICE if Francisco spoke with state regulators investigating claims the company underpaid workers. KQED is withholding his full name because he does not have a legal immigration status and fears retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tenía miedo. Pues es traumático todo eso. Es traumatico.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco says he was afraid and traumatized. He was so stressed out, his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco ended up finding a new job. But he’s still angry about the emotional toll on him and his family.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sí, me da coraje por todo eso, por todas las amenazas que estuve recibiendo ahí, que me iban a echar a Migración.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening to call ICE? That’s nothing new. But with federal agents dramatically detaining so many people under the Trump Administration, workers are taking the threat seriously. And many decide it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage-theft, harassment or other workplace issues. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But it doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said and the people are fearful,” said Jaime Arteaga with the North Coast States Carpenters’ Union. “It can be a rumor. Somebody might say we might get deported and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State figures show complaints of retaliation involving immigration threats have spiked under the first and current Trump administration. Relatively few workers will go to the authorities, but the California Labor Commissioner’s Office reports about 200 complaints involving immigration threats since 2025. That’s nearly as many as during the entire four years of President Joe Biden’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employment attorney Ruth Silver Taube supervises a legal advice line in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. She’s also supervising attorney of the workers’ rights practice at Santa Clara University’s School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg, and that there’s many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Silver Taube. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have the right to minimum wage and other workplace protections regardless of their immigration status. Threatening a worker for trying to exercise those rights is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some managers don’t know that, says Paul DeCamp, an attorney in Washington D.C. who represents employers. He’s a former administrator at the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a manager or supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing, or they’re complaining about working conditions, or otherwise asserting their rights, the manager or a supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government,” said California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia Brower. She says her agency collaborates closely with advocates and community leaders to educate employers and workers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for social security numbers. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is at risk of losing nearly $12 billion in federal funding for public assistance programs after the Trump administration threatened to cut off grants to states unless they report every known unauthorized immigrant to immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The threat came in the form of a new legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-clarifies-duty-states-report-known-illegal-aliens-under-welfare-reform\">opinion\u003c/a> this month reinterpreting a 1990s welfare-reform law to mean that all agencies in states receiving welfare funding — which is every state in the nation — must report all “individuals known to be not lawfully present” to the federal government or risk losing grants that aid low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a dramatic reversal from the Clinton-era interpretation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which said that only state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office was defiant in its opposition to the threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a statement. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In fact, people who are not lawfully present in the U.S. are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/ofa/policy-guidance/acf-ofa-im-25-01\">not eligible\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm\">either program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If California were to comply with the new federal requirements, however, it would spotlight for federal immigration enforcement many of the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cmsny.org\">estimated 2.6 million people\u003c/a> in the state without legal status, including those who have lived in the U.S. for years and have U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has information on a lot of residents without legal immigration status because, over the past two decades, lawmakers have made them eligible for public resources, including driver’s licenses, emergency health care and in-state tuition, UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The risk is bigger in California because California has been willing, in exercising its legislative judgment, to provide more services and benefits to undocumented immigrants than many other states,” Johnson said. “It’s done so legally, and it’s done so without the knowledge that it might be required to share information with the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is at risk of losing nearly $12 billion in federal funding for public assistance programs after the Trump administration threatened to cut off grants to states unless they report every known unauthorized immigrant to immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The threat came in the form of a new legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-clarifies-duty-states-report-known-illegal-aliens-under-welfare-reform\">opinion\u003c/a> this month reinterpreting a 1990s welfare-reform law to mean that all agencies in states receiving welfare funding — which is every state in the nation — must report all “individuals known to be not lawfully present” to the federal government or risk losing grants that aid low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a dramatic reversal from the Clinton-era interpretation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which said that only state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office was defiant in its opposition to the threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a statement. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In fact, people who are not lawfully present in the U.S. are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/ofa/policy-guidance/acf-ofa-im-25-01\">not eligible\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm\">either program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If California were to comply with the new federal requirements, however, it would spotlight for federal immigration enforcement many of the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cmsny.org\">estimated 2.6 million people\u003c/a> in the state without legal status, including those who have lived in the U.S. for years and have U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has information on a lot of residents without legal immigration status because, over the past two decades, lawmakers have made them eligible for public resources, including driver’s licenses, emergency health care and in-state tuition, UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The risk is bigger in California because California has been willing, in exercising its legislative judgment, to provide more services and benefits to undocumented immigrants than many other states,” Johnson said. “It’s done so legally, and it’s done so without the knowledge that it might be required to share information with the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla, during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\">More than a million\u003c/a> unauthorized immigrants have California driver’s licenses, thanks to a 2013 law known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/assembly-bill-ab-60-driver-licenses/\">AB 60\u003c/a> that allows residents to obtain a license regardless of their immigration status. And more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/\">100,000 students\u003c/a> without status are enrolled in California public universities, where they qualify for in-state tuition and some state financial aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/california-nonresident-tuition-exemption\">under AB 540\u003c/a>, passed by the Legislature in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, who helped spearhead AB 60 when he was a state lawmaker, called the administration’s move an effort to vilify immigrants by holding hostage aid to seniors, people with disabilities and struggling families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Instead of doing anything to make life more affordable, this administration is choosing to distract from their disastrous policies by sowing chaos and fear,” Padilla told KQED in a statement. “Kids and working families will pay an even greater price because of their cruelty, and I won’t stop fighting for the justice they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Johnson called the Department of Justice’s new opinion unusual from a legal standpoint, and he said he expects it to be challenged in court by states such as California on the grounds that it is arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t consider the interests of those who’ve relied on the Clinton-era understanding of the law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very rare to reinterpret an interpretation that was put into place a quarter-century ago and has never been questioned or undermined by legislation or a court decision in any way,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Johnson cautioned that the opinion was carefully written and could be challenging to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the office is reviewing it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is continuing to try to coerce states into its hateful agenda, this time by attempting to rewrite decades-old law,” spokesperson Nina Sheridan said. “We’re evaluating the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>California’s Legislature this week sent a slew of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that aim to increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention in the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislation comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">record number of Californians\u003c/a>, and six people have died at ICE facilities in the state — among at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">56 nationwide\u003c/a> — since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills, all authored by Democrats, include measures to increase transparency into the conditions inside immigration jails, expand the state’s power to enforce detention standards and restrict construction of new detention facilities. One bill would impose a tax on for-profit detention companies. Another would cap the profits companies can make from marking up items sold in commissaries.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four of the bills have the backing of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said the measures are a response to the Trump administration’s push for mass detention and deportation of immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-2290506003-1-scaled-e1787755545663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096824\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters at a press conference after opening arguments took place in the Meta trial over a lawsuit brought by U.S. states about social media addiction, at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18, 2026. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These all help address the cruel and inhumane approach, and sometimes the unlawful conduct in terms of treatment, that’s been directed toward immigrants in California,” Bonta said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new legislation builds on a series of laws California lawmakers passed during the first Trump administration, said Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates, which helped craft several of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has really led the nation now for more than a decade with respect to providing meaningful avenues to try to push back on the expansion of immigration detention and also to try to find ways to support immigrant communities that are targeted by ICE enforcement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In July, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">arrested nearly 50,000 immigrants\u003c/a> across the country, including close to 4,300 in California, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley. Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. María Elena Durazo, would extend the existing power of the state Department of Justice to inspect immigration detention facilities in California beyond 2027, when the inspection program established by an earlier law, AB 103, was due to sunset. The bill is co-sponsored by Attorney General Bonta.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB942\">\u003cstrong>SB 942\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights\u003c/strong>, from Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would establish a bill of rights for people held for civil immigration proceedings in any state, local or private detention facility in California. For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Caballero would build on a legal fellowship program that trains new attorneys in immigration law and places them in nonprofits located in rural areas of the state that lack sufficient immigration legal services. Attorney General Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. 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Gavin Newsom’s desk that aim to increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention in the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislation comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">record number of Californians\u003c/a>, and six people have died at ICE facilities in the state — among at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">56 nationwide\u003c/a> — since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills, all authored by Democrats, include measures to increase transparency into the conditions inside immigration jails, expand the state’s power to enforce detention standards and restrict construction of new detention facilities. One bill would impose a tax on for-profit detention companies. Another would cap the profits companies can make from marking up items sold in commissaries.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four of the bills have the backing of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said the measures are a response to the Trump administration’s push for mass detention and deportation of immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-2290506003-1-scaled-e1787755545663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096824\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters at a press conference after opening arguments took place in the Meta trial over a lawsuit brought by U.S. states about social media addiction, at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18, 2026. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These all help address the cruel and inhumane approach, and sometimes the unlawful conduct in terms of treatment, that’s been directed toward immigrants in California,” Bonta said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new legislation builds on a series of laws California lawmakers passed during the first Trump administration, said Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates, which helped craft several of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has really led the nation now for more than a decade with respect to providing meaningful avenues to try to push back on the expansion of immigration detention and also to try to find ways to support immigrant communities that are targeted by ICE enforcement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In July, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">arrested nearly 50,000 immigrants\u003c/a> across the country, including close to 4,300 in California, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley. Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. María Elena Durazo, would extend the existing power of the state Department of Justice to inspect immigration detention facilities in California beyond 2027, when the inspection program established by an earlier law, AB 103, was due to sunset. The bill is co-sponsored by Attorney General Bonta.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB942\">\u003cstrong>SB 942\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights\u003c/strong>, from Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would establish a bill of rights for people held for civil immigration proceedings in any state, local or private detention facility in California. For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Caballero would build on a legal fellowship program that trains new attorneys in immigration law and places them in nonprofits located in rural areas of the state that lack sufficient immigration legal services. Attorney General Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener has authored a bill, dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB747\">No Kings Act\u003c/a>, that would allow people to sue local, state and federal officers, including immigration agents, in state court if they believe their rights have been violated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky said he believes the bill would stand up in court: “I think that is clearly constitutional because it’s not targeting just the federal government.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2760\">bill\u003c/a> from San Diego Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins would bar law enforcement officers from using any wearable device that can deliver electric shocks, and it would block the use of state funds to purchase them. That comes in response to recent news that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097332/california-democrats-race-to-ban-electric-shock-gloves-before-ice-buys-them\">ICE was planning to buy thousands\u003c/a> of Taser-like gloves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor has until the end of September to sign or veto the bills on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta said he had not spoken directly with the governor about the bills he has sponsored, but was optimistic that Newsom would sign them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the bills become law, Chemerinsky said he expects swift legal challenges by the Trump administration and the private prison companies. The Berkeley dean called state legislation an important tool at a time when, as he sees it, the Trump administration is violating constitutional laws to a degree that’s never been seen in U.S. history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“One of the genius aspects of the American system of government, of federalism, is that, if one level of government fails, another can step in,” he said. “What California is trying to do is to step in so as to protect the rights of people in the state where the federal government is infringing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Alina Ta/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Morgan Hill Unified School District Superintendent Carmen Garcia speaks at a press conference, opposing the construction of an immigration detention facility near her school district, at the Santa Clara County Government Center on Sept. 2, 2026. (Alina Ta/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098234\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-02.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260902-SJ-ICE-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gilroy Unified School District Board President Tuyen Fiack speaks during a press conference, opposing the construction of an immigration detention facility, at the Santa Clara County Government Center on Sept. 2, 2026. (Alina Ta/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When basic needs are not met, when students do not feel safe, they’re chronically stuck at the stress level, and there is an effective filter that literally covers their brain that prevents them from learning,” García said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090807/ice-will-pause-construction-on-controversial-south-bay-detention-facility\">agreed to pause construction\u003c/a> on the Gilroy facility until Sept. 9, one day after a federal judge is set to hear arguments from both the county and the Department of Homeland Security to decide if the project will continue. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The court will decide in October if construction can resume, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.docketbird.com/court-documents/County-of-Santa-Clara-et-al-v-United-States-Immigration-Customs-Enforcement-et-al/ORDER-Granting-AS-MODIFIED-40-Stipulation-Regarding-Briefing-Schedule-for-Preliminary-Injunction-Motion-Signed-by-Judge-Eumi-K-Lee-Main-Document-41-replaced-on-7-13-2026/cand-5:2026-cv-05604-00041\">court\u003c/a> records.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2023, over 300,000 residents living in Santa Clara County were undocumented or lived with an undocumented family, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantdataca.org/indicators/mixed-status-families?geo=04000000000006085\">California Immigrant Data Portal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tuyen Fiack, president of the Gilroy Unified School District, said increased ICE activity also decreases parent engagement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When parents are afraid to attend a school meeting, participate in a conference, access services or engage with their child’s school, that affects the entire educational community,” Fiack said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said this facility impacts students and parents in her community, as well as those in neighboring cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our students do not live their lives according to district boundaries,” Fiack said. “Families live in Gilroy and work in San José. 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It requires mandatory detention for immigrants who are accused of certain crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Under the law I’m signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer or any crime that results in death,” Trump said before signing the act into law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thirteen Democratic Senators and 46 Democrats in the House voted for the act, \u003ca href=\"https://levin.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mike-levins-statement-on-recent-votes-on-the-laken-riley-act-and-agent-raul-gonzalez-officer-safety-act\">including San Diego Congressman Mike Levin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin justified his vote by citing an increase in retail thefts in his North County district. However, civil rights organizations said the new law would deny people due process protections because Laken Riley imposes mandatory detention of people after an arrest, even if they aren’t charged or convicted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After his vote in 2025, Levin said he did not believe the law took away due process protections or targeted innocent immigrants. But immigration lawyers say that’s what happened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carlos Barrios is an immigration lawyer based in Los Angeles\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“And in that respect, Laken Riley has been a problem because a basic arrest is enough. Even if the person wasn’t convicted. I thought it was absurd when I heard this was on the table and then I thought it was incredibly absurd when people voted for it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barrios represented a man who was arrested for receiving stolen property. A county judge dismissed his case in criminal court, but that didn’t matter in immigration court, where a judge used the Laken Riley Act as justification to keep him locked up.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“But it became a major issue that this person was delayed and stuck in jail for a month and a half,” said Barrios. “This person owns his own business, now he’s at risk of losing everything because he had to shut down the business for a month and a half. Bills had to be paid. They’re backed up on their mortgage payments and everything else. It creates a major impact.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, there are currently more than 65,000 people in immigration detention. 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Yet, the judge invoked Laken Riley.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“There’s been no arrest for this crime, there’s been no conviction, my client has maintained that he didn’t try to do this. And the only context that this came up is a report by an ICE officer that’s actually unsigned.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Montague describes the Laken Riley Act as just one piece of Trump’s mass deportation machine. Others include courthouse arrests, travel bans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/08/18/liberia-agrees-to-take-1-200-third-country-deportees-from-the-u-s\"> third-country deportations\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">aggressive immigration enforcement raids\u003c/a>. All with the ultimate goal of making life so difficult for immigrants that they will self deport.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“They’re kind of piecemeal pulling this policy, this policy, they just make it so unbearable that people decide they don’t want to “play the game” or go through the process,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin’s office declined multiple interview requests by KPBS. In a statement, Levin acknowledges that an arrest is not a finding of guilt and should not be allowed to become a shortcut around due process. But the text of the law he voted for specifically requires DHS to detain immigrants after an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since voting for that law, Levin has become an outspoken critic of Trump’s deportation agenda. He’s voted to withhold funding for ICE, demanded more transparency from detention centers, and advocated for families of deported constituents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">Will Newsom Let Immigrant College Students Without Legal Status Work at Their Campuses?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab713\">AB 713\u003c/a>, is from Lakewood Democrat José Luis Solache, and it sailed through the\u003cbr>Legislature to Newsom’s desk despite GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It says California’s public college campuses cannot disqualify students without legal\u003cbr>status from campus employment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC, CSU, and community college systems enroll an estimated 60,000\u003cbr>students without legal status. While these students can get state-backed financial aid,\u003cbr>they’re ineligible for most federal grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Leading the charge for this right to work on campuses are students without legal status, immigration rights groups and legal scholars. Access to safe working conditions for students without legal status is a high priority because they’re ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders. California awards eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of immigration status, so many students without legal status can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed a similar bill in 2024, echoing a chief worry put forward by the University of California: Any effort to employ students without proper status would incur the wrath of the Trump administration, which could attempt to pull some or all of the $17 billion in annual federal support the system gets.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The state’s Department of Finance is recommending a no vote on Solache’s bill. The fear of federal litigation and budget cuts are the \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/15647\">main reasons why\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its own review of employing students without legal status in 2024 for those reasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a hearing earlier this year, Solache said, “While California has a long standing commitment to expanding access, affordability and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This bill and previous pushback has been rooted in an untested legal theory. That\u003cbr>theory says a 1980s federal law that banned employing immigrants without legal\u003cbr>status did not directly mention state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/detention-facility-transparency-act-heads-to-the-governors-desk/\">Detention Facility Transparency Act Heads to the Governor’s Desk\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb423\">bill that could give the public more access\u003c/a> to information about emergencies inside private immigrant detention centers is on its way to becoming a law. It just needs Governor Newsom’s signature. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 423 would require local agencies to share audio of 9-1-1 calls and written reports from inside detention centers. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-08-19/ie-latino-voices-paloma-esquivel-on-why-its-hard-to-get-information-from-ice-detention-centers\">prompted by questions \u003c/a>about medical care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092950/a-judge-sent-a-doctor-to-evaluate-californias-largest-ice-detention-center-what-he-found\">allegations of sexual abuse and violence\u003c/a> against immigrants being detained.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/data-911-calls-ice-detention-centers-must-be-released-under-bill-going-gov-newsom\">State Sen. Lena Gonzalez\u003c/a>, D-Long Beach, said she introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 423\u003c/a> because the number of people in ICE detention in California has grown dramatically during President Donald Trump’s second term, to \u003ca href=\"https://sd33.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd33.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/SB%20423%20(Gonzalez)%20Private%20Detention%20Facility%20Fact%20Sheet_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 6,000 people\u003c/a>, and many are held for long periods in sometimes inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I hope Governor Newsom signs because it really gives us a signal that he means business as it pertains to really pushing back against this Trump administration,” said Gonzalez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There’s also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">six deaths inside the state’s detention centers\u003c/a> since last September. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, September 2, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>During his second term, president Donald Trump has done very little that can be considered even remotely bi-partisan. But one thing stands out … \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5/text\">The Laken Riley Act\u003c/a>. We explore t\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/08/31/immigrants-are-losing-due-process-rights-because-of-laken-riley-act-lawyers-say\">he impacts of this immigration legislation\u003c/a> more than a year after trump signed it into law.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A bill that could give the public \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/detention-facility-transparency-act-heads-to-the-governors-desk/\">more access to information about emergencies inside private immigrant detention centers\u003c/a> is on its way to becoming a law. It just needs Governor Newsom’s signature.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Students without legal status aren’t allowed to work for California’s public colleges or universities. That’s despite years of efforts by state lawmakers and advocates. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">A bill that could change that\u003c/a> is now on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/08/31/immigrants-are-losing-due-process-rights-because-of-laken-riley-act-lawyers-say\">“I Thought It Was Absurd When I Heard This Was On The Table.” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The first bill that Trump signed into law this term was a bi-partisan law targeting immigrants without legal status. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5/text\">The law was named\u003c/a> after a college student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant. It requires mandatory detention for immigrants who are accused of certain crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Under the law I’m signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer or any crime that results in death,” Trump said before signing the act into law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thirteen Democratic Senators and 46 Democrats in the House voted for the act, \u003ca href=\"https://levin.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mike-levins-statement-on-recent-votes-on-the-laken-riley-act-and-agent-raul-gonzalez-officer-safety-act\">including San Diego Congressman Mike Levin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin justified his vote by citing an increase in retail thefts in his North County district. However, civil rights organizations said the new law would deny people due process protections because Laken Riley imposes mandatory detention of people after an arrest, even if they aren’t charged or convicted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After his vote in 2025, Levin said he did not believe the law took away due process protections or targeted innocent immigrants. But immigration lawyers say that’s what happened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carlos Barrios is an immigration lawyer based in Los Angeles\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“And in that respect, Laken Riley has been a problem because a basic arrest is enough. Even if the person wasn’t convicted. I thought it was absurd when I heard this was on the table and then I thought it was incredibly absurd when people voted for it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barrios represented a man who was arrested for receiving stolen property. A county judge dismissed his case in criminal court, but that didn’t matter in immigration court, where a judge used the Laken Riley Act as justification to keep him locked up.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“But it became a major issue that this person was delayed and stuck in jail for a month and a half,” said Barrios. “This person owns his own business, now he’s at risk of losing everything because he had to shut down the business for a month and a half. Bills had to be paid. They’re backed up on their mortgage payments and everything else. It creates a major impact.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, there are currently more than 65,000 people in immigration detention. More than 70% of them do not have criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There is no publicly available data that would tell us how many people have been subject to mandatory detention under Laken Riley. But individual cases show the law’s impact.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In San Diego, Noah Montague represented a man who was never even arrested for a crime. While not a lawyer, Montague is accredited to represent people in immigration court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My client has never been arrested for any kind of crime relating to assault on a police officer. However what happened, when he was picked up by ICE, the narrative that ICE wrote said that he basically resisted arrest and that resulted in assault of a police officer,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No arrest, no charge, no conviction. Just the words of a federal officer. Yet, the judge invoked Laken Riley.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“There’s been no arrest for this crime, there’s been no conviction, my client has maintained that he didn’t try to do this. And the only context that this came up is a report by an ICE officer that’s actually unsigned.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Montague describes the Laken Riley Act as just one piece of Trump’s mass deportation machine. Others include courthouse arrests, travel bans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/08/18/liberia-agrees-to-take-1-200-third-country-deportees-from-the-u-s\"> third-country deportations\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">aggressive immigration enforcement raids\u003c/a>. All with the ultimate goal of making life so difficult for immigrants that they will self deport.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“They’re kind of piecemeal pulling this policy, this policy, they just make it so unbearable that people decide they don’t want to “play the game” or go through the process,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin’s office declined multiple interview requests by KPBS. In a statement, Levin acknowledges that an arrest is not a finding of guilt and should not be allowed to become a shortcut around due process. But the text of the law he voted for specifically requires DHS to detain immigrants after an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since voting for that law, Levin has become an outspoken critic of Trump’s deportation agenda. He’s voted to withhold funding for ICE, demanded more transparency from detention centers, and advocated for families of deported constituents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">Will Newsom Let Immigrant College Students Without Legal Status Work at Their Campuses?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab713\">AB 713\u003c/a>, is from Lakewood Democrat José Luis Solache, and it sailed through the\u003cbr>Legislature to Newsom’s desk despite GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It says California’s public college campuses cannot disqualify students without legal\u003cbr>status from campus employment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC, CSU, and community college systems enroll an estimated 60,000\u003cbr>students without legal status. While these students can get state-backed financial aid,\u003cbr>they’re ineligible for most federal grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Leading the charge for this right to work on campuses are students without legal status, immigration rights groups and legal scholars. Access to safe working conditions for students without legal status is a high priority because they’re ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders. California awards eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of immigration status, so many students without legal status can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed a similar bill in 2024, echoing a chief worry put forward by the University of California: Any effort to employ students without proper status would incur the wrath of the Trump administration, which could attempt to pull some or all of the $17 billion in annual federal support the system gets.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The state’s Department of Finance is recommending a no vote on Solache’s bill. The fear of federal litigation and budget cuts are the \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/15647\">main reasons why\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its own review of employing students without legal status in 2024 for those reasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a hearing earlier this year, Solache said, “While California has a long standing commitment to expanding access, affordability and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This bill and previous pushback has been rooted in an untested legal theory. That\u003cbr>theory says a 1980s federal law that banned employing immigrants without legal\u003cbr>status did not directly mention state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/detention-facility-transparency-act-heads-to-the-governors-desk/\">Detention Facility Transparency Act Heads to the Governor’s Desk\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb423\">bill that could give the public more access\u003c/a> to information about emergencies inside private immigrant detention centers is on its way to becoming a law. It just needs Governor Newsom’s signature. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 423 would require local agencies to share audio of 9-1-1 calls and written reports from inside detention centers. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-08-19/ie-latino-voices-paloma-esquivel-on-why-its-hard-to-get-information-from-ice-detention-centers\">prompted by questions \u003c/a>about medical care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092950/a-judge-sent-a-doctor-to-evaluate-californias-largest-ice-detention-center-what-he-found\">allegations of sexual abuse and violence\u003c/a> against immigrants being detained.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/data-911-calls-ice-detention-centers-must-be-released-under-bill-going-gov-newsom\">State Sen. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">arrested more people\u003c/a> in Northern California in July than at any point since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. 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These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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The judge also cited retaliation against people who were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\"> critical of Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> after the Turning Point USA co-founder was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd\">assassinated last September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like,” the judge in San Jose said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely,” she added. “Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it. Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Justice Department did not respond Saturday to a message seeking comment on the decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>George Porteous, the editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily, responded to the ruling by saying on X: “The reporters in our newsroom shouldn’t have to fear that writing a story will result in their deportation. Today’s victory means they won’t have to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the lawsuit, praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with,” Fitzpatrick said in a release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11986286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestine encampment outside of Sproul hall in Berkeley, Calif. on May 11, 2024. 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The judge also cited retaliation against people who were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\"> critical of Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> after the Turning Point USA co-founder was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd\">assassinated last September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like,” the judge in San Jose said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely,” she added. “Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it. Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Justice Department did not respond Saturday to a message seeking comment on the decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>George Porteous, the editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily, responded to the ruling by saying on X: “The reporters in our newsroom shouldn’t have to fear that writing a story will result in their deportation. Today’s victory means they won’t have to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the lawsuit, praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with,” Fitzpatrick said in a release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11986286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestine encampment outside of Sproul hall in Berkeley, Calif. on May 11, 2024. 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It would also block California police departments from purchasing the devices with state money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/lashae-sharp-collins-187430\">LaShae Sharp-Collins\u003c/a>, a Democrat, introduced the bill only last week, with days remaining in the legislative session, in a process known as a “gut and amend,” in which an unrelated bill is rewritten and fast–tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eleventh-hour move \u003ca href=\"https://apfs-cloud.dhs.gov/record/74524/public-print/\">follows a notice\u003c/a> published earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security that said ICE is seeking to spend up to $20 million to buy thousands of taser-like gloves from Compliant Technologies, a Kentucky-based company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The product, called G.L.O.V.E. for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, is marketed as a non-lethal, de-escalation device on the company’s website. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252\">The Associated Press\u003c/a> first reported about the notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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Just this week, Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb938\">passed a bill\u003c/a> that would ban federal agents from working for state or local police agencies and another to make it easier for people to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb747\">sue agents for civil rights\u003c/a> violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/04/immigration-mask-ban-9th-circuit/\">federal court struck down\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb627\">2025 law\u003c/a> forcing masked immigration agents to identify themselves. Judges ruled the state had stepped out of bounds when it tried to enforce rules against federal officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070630\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>A flight attendant last month found a gun belonging to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-international-airport\">San Francisco International Airport\u003c/a> bathroom, a SFO spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After finding the gun in a men’s bathroom stall past the Terminal 2 security checkpoint, the attendant notified security, who closed the restroom and called 911. San Francisco police responded within five minutes and were on scene when the ICE agent returned to retrieve his gun. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if the gun was loaded and if the ICE agent was at the airport to board a flight or as part of an operation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Pablo Lastra, an immigration attorney with law firm Fellom & Solorio in San Francisco, questioned why the officer was armed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12067210\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even if they were getting on a plane to do an operation in Chicago, you don’t need a gun,” he said. “You can put it in your luggage. There is an element of a lack of training and carelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The incident, first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/ice-agents-gun-found-in-sfo-bathroom/4133652/\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>, took place one day before the high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092491/it-wasnt-right-woman-arrested-by-ice-at-sfo-is-a-san-francisco-photographer-barista\">arrest of Iryna Gorb, a Ukrainian woman\u003c/a> who was returning home to San Francisco from out of state. It comes as part of a growing presence of immigration agents at airports, as the Trump administration opens up new fronts in its aggressive immigration crackdown. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates say more than a dozen travelers have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092697/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-warn-noncitizens-to-avoid-air-travel-after-ice-arrests\">detained at Bay Area airports\u003c/a> since June 27, some of which have played out in dramatic and public arrests captured on video, like Gorb’s July 22 arrest. A photographer and barista who has lived in the U.S. since 2010, Gorb remains in detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency that handles airport security, has increasingly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">shared passenger information\u003c/a> with ICE, which is also part of the Department of Homeland Security. 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Today, we’re diving deeper into how immigration arrests are affecting children and their communities in Los Angeles with Cora Cervantes, a reporter with MindSite News.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Nearly 300,000 K-12 students \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/student-homelessness-increases-10-percent-california\">experienced homelessness last school year\u003c/a>, a 10% increase since the last recorded peak in 2019.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/12/immigration-mask-ban-new-law/\">bill that would make it easier for people to sue\u003c/a> federal agents for civil rights violations has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb747\">advanced in the legislature. \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2026/08/20/high-schooler-agonizes-that-her-parents-will-be-seized-ice-arrests/\">Children in Separated Families Struggle to Feel Secure, Build Trust, and Learn\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s deportation policies are separating families across the country. And for some children left behind, that separation can take a serious toll on their mental health and wellbeing. Here in California, nearly 5 million people live in mixed status households where at least one family member is undocumented. Today, we’re diving deeper into how immigration arrests are affecting children and their communities in Los Angeles with Cora Cervantes, a reporter with MindSight News.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview had been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLANOS: You spoke with children directly affected by the immigration raids and arrests. What has their experience been like living through these mass deportation policies?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CERVANTES: Yes, I did, I spoke to children, from toddlers all the way to teenagers. And despite being so young, the impact that the raids have had on toddlers is very apparent. Like in the case of one little boy, he is very aware that his dad is not with him. 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I got to sit down with him and watch him play and the entire play time, \u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2026/08/19/ice-detention-a-three-year-old-tries-to-cope-without-his-papi/\">he kept on talking about Papi the whole time.\u003c/a> “Donde esta Papi? Where is Papi?” So you see the absence. And in teenagers, I noticed a state of what some experts called parentification. So them trying to parent their younger siblings or parent their parents, in terms of keeping them calm and reassuring them that things are going to be okay. And so I saw a mix of a lot of things, but basically a lot anxiety, signs of depression, and decreased sense of security and self.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLANOS: It sounds like that’s taking a real toll on their mental health, but you also report about their physical health as well.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CERVANTES: Well, it has an impact on their physical health as well, because they’re interrelated. The stress and anxiety that we feel, it translates to the way that our body operates, from like our heart rate to the quality of our sleep. And obviously that not only impacts their physical health, \u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2026/08/20/high-schooler-agonizes-that-her-parents-will-be-seized-ice-arrests/\">but that translates to their learning outcomes\u003c/a>, their everyday quality of life. And so you do see that in them as well.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLANOS: And you’ve touched on it briefly, but when kids don’t feel safe in their communities, what are some of the consequences of that?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CERVANTES: I spoke to psychiatrists and social workers that work with these families. And so one of the things that really stayed on my mind, especially for younger children, is as they’re starting to build attachment, they don’t build secure attachment in a community that feels unsafe. And that translates to their ability to relate to others, to build relationships with others. So it really ruptures a complete sense of trust in others and themselves. And so this impacts \u003ca href=\"https://mindsitenews.org/2026/08/21/schools-get-creative-to-protect-youth-from-ice-raids/\">their ability to open up to learning new things\u003c/a>, whether it be at school or simple things like maybe a sport they might play or an art activity they could have engaged in that completely closes them off.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLANOS: And you mentioned kind of some of the short term impacts, but what are longer term impacts of these immigration raids on kids and their families?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CERVANTES: These children are potentially at long-term risk of not just the toxic stress, but the physical and mental illness that emerges from it. They will face higher risks of substance abuse, depression, higher suicide rates, difficulty establishing relationships in their lives. And so, all of that’s compounded with already existing challenges that they may face in relation to poverty, or safety issues in their community. So it’s just this layer on top of layer that then yields an adult that will have a lot of challenges, both economically and emotionally, in the way they navigate the world. All of this is leaving a long-term, potentially multi-generational impact on these families. And on a very human level, that’s just enough for people to be concerned from a community standpoint. 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That understanding prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, and the Labor Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OASP/DHS-DOL-MOU_4.19.18.pdf\">to agree\u003c/a> more than a decade ago to essentially separate their enforcement activities and share information to combat abusive employment practices. 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Federal labor regulators have told workers for years that they have the right to minimum wage, safe job sites and other safeguards, no matter their citizenship status.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorandum of understanding “concerning enforcement activities at worksites” was later \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OASP/MOU-Addendum_4.19.18.pdf\">expanded in 2016\u003c/a> to include the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, agencies tasked with protecting employees’ rights to unionize and be free from discrimination. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the agreement has quietly been terminated, a Labor Department spokesperson confirmed to KQED. They declined to answer follow-up questions about when the change took place and why. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Until last week, several employment attorneys in California, as well as former federal labor officials, doubted the worksite enforcement deal was still being vigorously enforced, but believed the administration had not officially rescinded it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12013823\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael. 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