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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union leader federal agents detained at an immigration protest in Los Angeles last week is well known to California’s Democratic leadership from his years of activism in and out of the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason so many leading Democrats jumped to his defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Huerta, the 58-year-old president of a statewide janitor’s union and of the \u003ca href=\"https://seiu503.org/member_news/statement-condemning-the-detention-of-seiu-california-president-david-huerta/\">Service Employees International Union California\u003c/a>, was arrested by federal agents Friday outside a Los Angeles garment warehouse where \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles/\">protesters gathered to watch and oppose\u003c/a> an apparent workplace immigration raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denouncements poured in quickly after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“David Huerta is a respected leader, a patriot, and an advocate for working people,”\u003cbr>\nGov. 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Video posted Friday on social media by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Culver City Democrat, appears to show agents in law enforcement vests pushing Huerta to the ground as protesters cry out nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043255 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250608-ICE-OUT-OF-THE-BAY-AC-13-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, wrote on social media that Huerta had “deliberately obstructed” federal agents who had a judicial warrant by blocking their car. Ciaran McEvoy, spokesperson for Essayli’s office, would not share the warrant, saying only that the agents were “targeting employers and businesses believed to not be in compliance with federal immigration laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union leader is detained at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA and is scheduled to make an initial appearance Monday afternoon on charges of impeding a federal agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals,” Huerta said in a statement released by SEIU California after he was treated in the hospital for injuries during the arrest on Friday. “We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is planning a protest Monday to call for his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He represents a union that is a lot of immigrant women,” Gonzalez said. “He’s a constant and consistent voice for immigrant workers, and he’s been at the forefront of fighting for a path to citizenship and to stop deportations and workplace raids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the warehouse where Huerta was arrested Friday, a crowd of workers’ advocates and other protesters had gathered to watch federal agents at Ambiance Apparel; an immigration raid \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/immigration-sweeps-across-los-angeles\">was also reported\u003c/a> at Ambiance’s storefront in downtown LA’s garment district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE reported that it served four search warrants that day, arresting 44 immigrants who were in the U.S. without authorization, all during worksite raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/seiu-leader-detained-immigration-protest/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came over the objections of Newsom, who accused Trump of a “complete overreaction.” It marked the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions/\">directive\u003c/a> Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 300 National Guard members were deployed Sunday to three separate locations in the greater Los Angeles area, according to military officials. Several protests and marches were scheduled to kick off Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Bay Area leaders condemned President Trump’s decision to deploy the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s unwarranted and unwise deployment of California’s National Guard over the objections of California officials is likely intended to inflame the situation,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in a written statement. “Our citizen soldiers, members of California’s National Guard, should not be abused in this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Rep. Mike Thompson called Trump’s move “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the president that wouldn’t call in the National Guard on January 6th when there was an insurrection at the Capitol, and then later pardoned everyone who was tried in court and found guilty,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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He called Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision “unnecessary and counterproductive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To follow [the deployment] with a threat to order additional active duty Marines to the city is an inflammatory escalation,” said Bonta in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigrant rights activists also spoke out against President Trump’s response to protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The enforcement tactics being used by the Trump administration to attempt and terrorize our communities are morally unacceptable,” said Renee Saucedo, an organizer with the Northern California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform. “Immigrant communities have always held peaceful protests … law enforcement, including local police and ICE agents, have unfortunately been the ones to instigate violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DKn5F4-Mnjd/?hl=en\">solidarity protest\u003c/a> in San Francisco is scheduled to take place outside an ICE facility Sunday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043225\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158725476549-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters kick the side of a Border Patrol vehicle during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom called Trump on Friday night and they spoke for about 40 minutes, according to the governor’s office. It was not clear if they spoke Saturday or Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some confusion surrounding the exact timing of the guard’s arrival. Shortly before midnight local time, Trump congratulated the National Guard on a “job well done.” But less than an hour later, Bass said troops had yet to arrive in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that the purpose of the deployment was to “provide security for operations and to make sure that there are peaceful protests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2026px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2026\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201.jpg 2026w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158838294201-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2026px) 100vw, 2026px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police detain a man during a protest in the Paramount section of Los Angeles, Saturday, June 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USNorthernCmd/status/1931728687772098645/photo/2\">social media post\u003c/a> from the Department of Defense that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armored vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a signal of the administration’s aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty Marines “if violence continues” in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, described Trump’s decision to call in the National Guard as a “provocative show of force” that would only escalate tensions, adding that Hegseth’s threat to deploy Marines on American soil was “deranged behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” Newsom wrote. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House called the governor’s leadership “feckless,” accusing him of refusing to stop violent attacks on law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,” said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson. “Everyone saw the chaos, violence, and lawlessness – unless, of course, Gavin Newsom doesn’t think any of that is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles Sunday, tear gas was fired at protesters when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and shouted insults at them, hours after President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-a842f79e1c0e244039be274a6f266a7a\">extraordinary decision to deploy them. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confrontation broke out as hundreds of people protested in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where several of the newly-arrived National Guard troops stood shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25158746934704-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border Patrol personnel deploy tear gas during a demonstration over the dozens detained in an operation by federal immigration authorities a day earlier in Paramount section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video showed uniformed officers shooting off the smoke-filled canisters as they advanced into the street, forcing protesters to retreat. It was not immediately clear what prompted the use of chemical irritants or which law enforcement agency fired them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, loud popping sounds erupted again, as some protesters chanted “go home” and “shame.” One person was taken to the ground by uniformed officers. Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move came over the objections of Newsom, who accused Trump of a “complete overreaction.” It marked the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions/\">directive\u003c/a> Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 300 National Guard members were deployed Sunday to three separate locations in the greater Los Angeles area, according to military officials. Several protests and marches were scheduled to kick off Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local Bay Area leaders condemned President Trump’s decision to deploy the troops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s unwarranted and unwise deployment of California’s National Guard over the objections of California officials is likely intended to inflame the situation,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren in a written statement. “Our citizen soldiers, members of California’s National Guard, should not be abused in this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Rep. Mike Thompson called Trump’s move “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the president that wouldn’t call in the National Guard on January 6th when there was an insurrection at the Capitol, and then later pardoned everyone who was tried in court and found guilty,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>The text message sent to NPR came in early May:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x59.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1536x566.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In early May, NPR began receiving desperate messages from family members of detainees in Florida. \u003ccite>(Jasmine Garsd/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was accompanied by a screenshot of a photo of a man with swollen red eyes, with another screenshot of his full detainee information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please help me. Im desperate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman who sent it, Maria, was texting about her brother at the Krome Detention Center in Miami. She requested their last name be withheld for fear of retaliation against her brother, who has been held in detention for more than two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told NPR he had a fever, a serious eye infection for almost two weeks, and says he was denied medication for both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of sick people there, and they aren’t getting medical attention,” she said in a phone interview. “They are sleeping on the floor and sometimes don’t get meals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043009\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a May 1 press conference at the ICE-Enforcement and Removal Operation office in Miramar, Fla. DeSantis talked about an immigration enforcement effort called Operation Tidal Wave that officials say resulted in more than 1,100 arrests in a week in Florida. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Getty Images North America)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Florida has pledged to be a national model for state cooperation with President Trump’s immigration crackdown. As detention centers here and across the country fill up, NPR has received an outpouring of messages about severe overcrowding and inhumane conditions in immigration facilities across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen detainees, family members and lawyers described similar issues as Maria, including detainees underfed and in ill health. Krome, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-04/OIG-24-21-Apr24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which is run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, has been dogged for years by allegations of inhumane conditions and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/us/sexual-abuse-reported-at-an-immigration-center.html\">investigated by the Department of Justice in 2000\u003c/a> on accusations of sexual abuse. This year alone, there have been two deaths at the facility: Ukrainian immigrant \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddrMaksymChernyak.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maksym Chernayak\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddr-GenryRuizGuillen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genry Ruiz Guillen\u003c/a> of Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, a group of Krome detainees assembled in the patio to form a human “SOS” sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, ICE told NPR that “a group of detainees at the Krome Service Processing Center (Krome) decided to stage a peaceful sit-in in the center’s recreation area. There has been no injuries or use of force of any kind during this demonstration.” It added, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is committed to ensuring that all those in the agency’s custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments under appropriate conditions of confinement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a client who was at Krome,” says Miami based lawyer Jeff Botelho, who adds the client recently told him that “they had been sleeping on the floor for a week or two. For food, he said they were given a cup of rice and a glass of water a day. It was very concerning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers, advocates and experts are warning that overcrowding is the new normal across the country. The federal government is holding more than 48,000 people in immigration detention, about a 20% increase since January. But deportations are not keeping pace. Experts say that’s largely what’s driving the overcrowding in detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s incredible pressure to ramp up arrests inside the interior of the United States,” says Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group. He estimates that ICE is at 125% detention capacity. “And so far, there has been, if anything, just a slight increase in the capacity to actually deport people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE told NPR that “some ICE facilities are experiencing temporary overcrowding due to recent increases in detention populations. We are actively implementing measures to manage capacity while maintaining compliance with federal standards and our commitment to humane treatment. The reality is that these accusations do not reflect ICE’s policies or practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do the detention and deportation numbers say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The increase to nearly 50,000 detainees marks a sharp increase from the number of detentions during the Biden administration, which climbed to \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/reports/753/\">39,703 in January 2025\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syracuse University \u003ca href=\"https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/people/austin-kocher\">professor Austin Kocher\u003c/a>, who tracks immigration statistics, notes that immigration arrest numbers are simply not made available by local or federal officials.[aside postID=news_12002260 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240828-ICEDETAINEES-15-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']ICE did not respond to NPR’s questions about Florida’s detention numbers so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deportation numbers are even trickier to come by. The government claims it has deported more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-conducts-single-adult-family-unit-removal-flights-nov-1-0#:~:text=Since%20the%20Presidential%20Proclamation%20and,airports%20or%20the%20northern%20border.\">160,000 people\u003c/a> since Trump took office for a second term in January. Some experts are skeptical that those figures are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Up until about three weeks ago or so, things were pretty consistent with what they were in terms of the end of the Biden Administration,” says \u003ca href=\"https://witnessattheborder.org/\">Tom Cartwright\u003c/a>, who has been tracking deportation flights for years. “Typically four to five deportation flights per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cartwright says that number has increased in the last few weeks to six to seven flights a day, mostly to Central America. And while he has no way of knowing how many people are in each airplane, he calculates each plane has the capacity to carry between 120 and 150 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At most, that’s an estimated 1,050 people being deported every day out of the 50,000 or so who are detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Overcrowding, illness and hunger reported in detention facilities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“They’re serving rotten food. People are getting sick. My spouse is not eating,” J. told NPR in May. His loved one was being held at Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Fla. He asked that we refer to him by his first initial because he fears retaliation against his loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. is one of the many family members of detainees who called NPR to report their loved ones not receiving meals or getting rotten food. Detainees who NPR spoke to over the phone confirmed this, and many said they’d had to sleep on the floor for weeks.[aside postID=forum_2010101909406 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/immigration-1020x574.jpg']The situation at Krome Detention Center is believed to have gotten so dire, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-05-29/krome-miami-wasserman-schultz\">a surprise visit\u003c/a> there last week. She told NPR that in the intake area, two to three dozen men are “crammed into the perimeter of a very tiny room for up to 48 hours. They defecate in front of each other, they eat, they sleep on stone floors. It’s really inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say this situation is playing out nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen a rapid deterioration over the last few months,” says Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Detention Watch Network. “We’re hearing reports … that there isn’t enough food.” She says she’s increasingly been hearing accounts from people in detention going hungry. “I’ve heard people use the word ‘starving.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ice-acting-director-says-9-people-died-in-custody-since-january/3567956\">nine deaths in ICE detention since January\u003c/a>, which is on track to be the deadliest year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">since 2020\u003c/a>. At least three of those deaths have been in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Major expansion of detention facilities coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is promising to increase the rate of arrests of immigrants to 3,000 people a day. “President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJNXsOqFSZs&list=RDNSMJNXsOqFSZs&start_radio=1\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller was discussing the sweeping budget bill passed by the House and now before the Senate. It would provide $75 billion over the next couple of years in additional funding for ICE, including $45 billion for detention facilities and $14.4 billion for removal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have, permanently, the safest, strongest, most secure system in American history,” Miller told the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates warn the measure will expand mass detention and surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is not designed to increase the removals of people who are not legally allowed to be here,” says Deborah Fleischaker, former acting chief of staff for ICE during the Biden administration. “It is designed to hold more people for longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischaker believes ICE has historically been underfunded. But she says the bill as written “is so significant and so extreme. What they’re trying to enable … I don’t think it is within the imagination of the American people when they voted for Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isacson of WOLA adds that the actions occurring now will multiply. “Plainclothes people using rough tactics and covering their faces to take people off the streets and sort of muscle them into vehicles,” he says. “This is going to be common. And it’s going to become much more common to see that all around the country military bases may have detention facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What are the chances my deportation flight will make a wrong turn?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am anguished. I have not heard anything about my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in May, NPR began receiving messages from Vivian Ortega, a mother in Venezuela, regarding her son, Jhonkleiver Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jhonkleiver Ortega came to the U.S. three years ago and was working in construction. He was picked up while driving in November 2024 for not having a license, which under Florida state law is not available to immigrants without legal status. She told us she had sold her house in Venezuela to pay for his $7,000 bond in January. When he went to his next court hearing in February, he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian had heard from him infrequently, and she was terrified “he was barely eating in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data trackers and policy experts say the Trump administration’s goal of deporting one million migrants a year is so high that encouraging self-deportation is paramount. “The fact that [detention] is often so unsafe and unhealthy leads me to believe that there’s also a desire to wear people down,” says Isacson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-profile flights — with migrants sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and to El Salvador’s notorious detention center CECOT and, more recently, a flight headed to South Sudan — have sent a strong message. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The situation at Krome Detention Center is believed to have gotten so dire, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-05-29/krome-miami-wasserman-schultz\">a surprise visit\u003c/a> there last week. She told NPR that in the intake area, two to three dozen men are “crammed into the perimeter of a very tiny room for up to 48 hours. They defecate in front of each other, they eat, they sleep on stone floors. It’s really inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say this situation is playing out nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen a rapid deterioration over the last few months,” says Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at the nonprofit advocacy group Detention Watch Network. “We’re hearing reports … that there isn’t enough food.” She says she’s increasingly been hearing accounts from people in detention going hungry. “I’ve heard people use the word ‘starving.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ice-acting-director-says-9-people-died-in-custody-since-january/3567956\">nine deaths in ICE detention since January\u003c/a>, which is on track to be the deadliest year \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">since 2020\u003c/a>. At least three of those deaths have been in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Major expansion of detention facilities coming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is promising to increase the rate of arrests of immigrants to 3,000 people a day. “President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every single day,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJNXsOqFSZs&list=RDNSMJNXsOqFSZs&start_radio=1\">last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller was discussing the sweeping budget bill passed by the House and now before the Senate. It would provide $75 billion over the next couple of years in additional funding for ICE, including $45 billion for detention facilities and $14.4 billion for removal operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have, permanently, the safest, strongest, most secure system in American history,” Miller told the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates warn the measure will expand mass detention and surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that it is not designed to increase the removals of people who are not legally allowed to be here,” says Deborah Fleischaker, former acting chief of staff for ICE during the Biden administration. “It is designed to hold more people for longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischaker believes ICE has historically been underfunded. But she says the bill as written “is so significant and so extreme. What they’re trying to enable … I don’t think it is within the imagination of the American people when they voted for Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isacson of WOLA adds that the actions occurring now will multiply. “Plainclothes people using rough tactics and covering their faces to take people off the streets and sort of muscle them into vehicles,” he says. “This is going to be common. And it’s going to become much more common to see that all around the country military bases may have detention facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What are the chances my deportation flight will make a wrong turn?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am anguished. I have not heard anything about my son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late in May, NPR began receiving messages from Vivian Ortega, a mother in Venezuela, regarding her son, Jhonkleiver Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jhonkleiver Ortega came to the U.S. three years ago and was working in construction. He was picked up while driving in November 2024 for not having a license, which under Florida state law is not available to immigrants without legal status. She told us she had sold her house in Venezuela to pay for his $7,000 bond in January. When he went to his next court hearing in February, he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivian had heard from him infrequently, and she was terrified “he was barely eating in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data trackers and policy experts say the Trump administration’s goal of deporting one million migrants a year is so high that encouraging self-deportation is paramount. “The fact that [detention] is often so unsafe and unhealthy leads me to believe that there’s also a desire to wear people down,” says Isacson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-profile flights — with migrants sent to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and to El Salvador’s notorious detention center CECOT and, more recently, a flight headed to South Sudan — have sent a strong message. For Vivian, the possibility was a source of constant anguish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 3, NPR was able to locate Jhonkleiver Ortega at Glades Detention Center in Florida. He had been to immigration court the day before. NPR was given permission by the family to record his conversation with his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me they had to review my asylum case,” Ortega told his mother. “They told me I have to send proof that I was tortured in Venezuela. And in four months they would give me an answer. And I said I can’t anymore. It’s been months of this. They barely feed us here. I can’t anymore. I asked to be deported. This week or next I will be on a flight to Venezuela. If they give me a call from Louisiana I’ll call you before the flight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What?” his mother asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked the judge what are the chances that my flight will get lost and accidentally end up in another country? And she said if that happens you call the deporter. 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"content": "\u003cp>Immigrant-serving groups across the Bay Area condemned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032046/as-anxiety-mounts-possible-new-trump-travel-ban-community-leaders-speak-out\">a new Trump administration travel ban\u003c/a> that — with a handful of exceptions — will bar most citizens of nineteen countries from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban, announced in a proclamation by\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/\"> President Donald Trump\u003c/a> on Wednesday night, will “fully restrict and limit the entry” of nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It will partially restrict entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People who hold a U.S. green card and immediate family members of U.S. citizens are among those exempted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aarti Kohli, executive director of San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus, called the ban “draconian” and said it echoed other episodes of discriminatory profiling, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the surveillance of Muslim Americans after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of us, there is nothing we wouldn’t do to make sure our families are safe and together … This policy will tear families apart worldwide,” Kohli said. “This sweeping travel ban is just one tool in a broader strategy to consolidate power by scapegoating communities and manufacturing fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘We don’t want them’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The president’s proclamation revives, in altered form, a travel ban Trump imposed in his first term. And it comes as part of a broader crackdown on immigrants, including arrests at immigration courts and routine immigration check-ins, an attempt to revoke thousands of international student visas, suspension of the nation’s refugee program and a shutdown of asylum consideration at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he relied on guidance from advisers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, a homeland security adviser, to compile a list of countries with deficient security vetting, “a significant terrorist presence” and a high rate of nationals who overstay U.S. visas, among other factors. He said countries could be added to or removed from the list, based on whether they comply with U.S. security requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proclamation, Trump reiterated part of a Jan. 20 executive order, saying “it is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHm8XZ0Nvo\">a video message\u003c/a>, Trump tied the ban to the recent attack by an Egyptian man on a group of people holding a vigil in Boulder, Colorado, for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Egypt is not on the travel ban list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted,” he said. “We don’t want them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban is set to take effect Monday, June 9, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Our country is better than this’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla called the plan discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This senseless, prejudicial policy is an abuse of power that also threatens U.S. citizen relatives from the targeted countries,” he said in a statement. “Our country is better than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates said that — while the list of banned countries is broader than the one announced in the early days of Trump’s first term, which focused on predominantly Muslim countries — this ban targets countries with “Black and Brown” inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same administration that deports Black immigrants only to import White refugees from South Africa under the false claim of genocide,’’ said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Once again, U.S. immigration policy is being weaponized to deny entry, dignity and basic human rights to people from countries that have long borne the brunt of colonialism, Western intervention and economic extraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The libertarian Cato Institute said the annual chance of being murdered by a terrorist from one of the banned countries from 1975 to the end of 2024 was vanishingly small — about 1 in 13.9 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cato analyst Alex Nowrasteh called the ban ineffective and a waste of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government has a responsibility to keep terrorists and criminals out of the country and to remove those who make it through,” he said. “However, the government should pursue a rational and evidence-based approach when evaluating the threat posed by foreign nationals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant advocates and resettlement organizations were especially concerned about the impact of the ban on the tens of thousands of Afghans the U.S. admitted on temporary parole after airlifting them out of Kabul as the Taliban took over in 2021. Some have received asylum, which provides a path to legal permanent residence, but many others are still in the process of applying. And most are still desperately trying to bring their spouses and children to join them in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The travel ban will break our country’s promise for a safe future in the United States for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe United States military personnel in Afghanistan,” said Robin Mencher, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay, which has resettled more than 2,300 Afghans since 2021, with many applications still in the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paris Etemadi Scott, legal director with the Pars Equality Center in San Jose, said she is hearing from many Afghan asylees by email and phone, anxious to know how the travel ban will affect their relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immediate biggest fear right now is for families of Afghans who are still stuck in Afghanistan,” she said. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I have families who, finally, after three or four years’ wait, just got their interview to be processed to come and join their spouse here. I have a family of seven, a spouse and six children, who don’t know whether they fall within this ban or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal challenges\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first travel ban, which Trump implemented by executive order in January 2017 with no advance notice, caused chaos at airports, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/homeland-security-travel-ban-inspector-general.html\">border officials were caught off guard\u003c/a> and travelers with valid visas were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11301672/girl-12-caught-in-trump-ban-to-reunite-with-california-family\">stuck in transit\u003c/a>, turned back or stranded inside airports. By the time a federal judge stayed the order on Feb. 3,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\"> 60,000 visas\u003c/a> had been provisionally revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of court challenges led\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11459169/9th-circuit-focuses-on-trumps-muslim-statements-in-travel-ban-hearing\"> the Trump administration\u003c/a> to revise the order twice before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban\">U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> upheld a third version in June 2018. That version applied to individuals from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus government officials from Venezuela. It was supposed to include a mechanism for citizens from banned countries to request a waiver permitting them to travel to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763562/federal-judge-in-s-f-allows-challenge-to-travel-ban-visa-waiver-program-to-proceed\">the process was unclear, and most applications were denied\u003c/a>. Pars Equality Center sued and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">rescinded the ban o\u003c/a>n his first day in office in 2021, calling it “a stain on our national conscience.” But it wasn’t until last May that \u003ca href=\"https://parsequalitycenter.org/2024/05/15/travel-ban-victims-reach-landmark-agreement-for-redress/\">a federal judge cleared the way\u003c/a> for 25,000 people from affected countries to submit new visa applications, with fees waived, as a result of the Pars lawsuit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigrant-serving groups across the Bay Area condemned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032046/as-anxiety-mounts-possible-new-trump-travel-ban-community-leaders-speak-out\">a new Trump administration travel ban\u003c/a> that — with a handful of exceptions — will bar most citizens of nineteen countries from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban, announced in a proclamation by\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/\"> President Donald Trump\u003c/a> on Wednesday night, will “fully restrict and limit the entry” of nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It will partially restrict entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People who hold a U.S. green card and immediate family members of U.S. citizens are among those exempted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aarti Kohli, executive director of San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus, called the ban “draconian” and said it echoed other episodes of discriminatory profiling, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the surveillance of Muslim Americans after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of us, there is nothing we wouldn’t do to make sure our families are safe and together … This policy will tear families apart worldwide,” Kohli said. “This sweeping travel ban is just one tool in a broader strategy to consolidate power by scapegoating communities and manufacturing fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said countries could be added to or removed from the list, based on whether they comply with U.S. security requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proclamation, Trump reiterated part of a Jan. 20 executive order, saying “it is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHm8XZ0Nvo\">a video message\u003c/a>, Trump tied the ban to the recent attack by an Egyptian man on a group of people holding a vigil in Boulder, Colorado, for Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Egypt is not on the travel ban list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted,” he said. “We don’t want them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban is set to take effect Monday, June 9, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Our country is better than this’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla called the plan discriminatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This senseless, prejudicial policy is an abuse of power that also threatens U.S. citizen relatives from the targeted countries,” he said in a statement. “Our country is better than this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many advocates said that — while the list of banned countries is broader than the one announced in the early days of Trump’s first term, which focused on predominantly Muslim countries — this ban targets countries with “Black and Brown” inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the same administration that deports Black immigrants only to import White refugees from South Africa under the false claim of genocide,’’ said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the San Diego-based Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Once again, U.S. immigration policy is being weaponized to deny entry, dignity and basic human rights to people from countries that have long borne the brunt of colonialism, Western intervention and economic extraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The libertarian Cato Institute said the annual chance of being murdered by a terrorist from one of the banned countries from 1975 to the end of 2024 was vanishingly small — about 1 in 13.9 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cato analyst Alex Nowrasteh called the ban ineffective and a waste of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government has a responsibility to keep terrorists and criminals out of the country and to remove those who make it through,” he said. “However, the government should pursue a rational and evidence-based approach when evaluating the threat posed by foreign nationals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, immigrant advocates and resettlement organizations were especially concerned about the impact of the ban on the tens of thousands of Afghans the U.S. admitted on temporary parole after airlifting them out of Kabul as the Taliban took over in 2021. Some have received asylum, which provides a path to legal permanent residence, but many others are still in the process of applying. And most are still desperately trying to bring their spouses and children to join them in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The travel ban will break our country’s promise for a safe future in the United States for all Afghans who worked alongside and kept safe United States military personnel in Afghanistan,” said Robin Mencher, executive director of Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay, which has resettled more than 2,300 Afghans since 2021, with many applications still in the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paris Etemadi Scott, legal director with the Pars Equality Center in San Jose, said she is hearing from many Afghan asylees by email and phone, anxious to know how the travel ban will affect their relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immediate biggest fear right now is for families of Afghans who are still stuck in Afghanistan,” she said. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I have families who, finally, after three or four years’ wait, just got their interview to be processed to come and join their spouse here. I have a family of seven, a spouse and six children, who don’t know whether they fall within this ban or not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal challenges\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first travel ban, which Trump implemented by executive order in January 2017 with no advance notice, caused chaos at airports, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/homeland-security-travel-ban-inspector-general.html\">border officials were caught off guard\u003c/a> and travelers with valid visas were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11301672/girl-12-caught-in-trump-ban-to-reunite-with-california-family\">stuck in transit\u003c/a>, turned back or stranded inside airports. By the time a federal judge stayed the order on Feb. 3,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/03/513306413/state-department-says-fewer-than-60-000-visas-revoked-under-travel-order\"> 60,000 visas\u003c/a> had been provisionally revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of court challenges led\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11459169/9th-circuit-focuses-on-trumps-muslim-statements-in-travel-ban-hearing\"> the Trump administration\u003c/a> to revise the order twice before the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban\">U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> upheld a third version in June 2018. That version applied to individuals from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus government officials from Venezuela. It was supposed to include a mechanism for citizens from banned countries to request a waiver permitting them to travel to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763562/federal-judge-in-s-f-allows-challenge-to-travel-ban-visa-waiver-program-to-proceed\">the process was unclear, and most applications were denied\u003c/a>. Pars Equality Center sued and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">rescinded the ban o\u003c/a>n his first day in office in 2021, calling it “a stain on our national conscience.” But it wasn’t until last May that \u003ca href=\"https://parsequalitycenter.org/2024/05/15/travel-ban-victims-reach-landmark-agreement-for-redress/\">a federal judge cleared the way\u003c/a> for 25,000 people from affected countries to submit new visa applications, with fees waived, as a result of the Pars lawsuit. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042012/farmworkers-in-sonoma-county-win-settlement-after-alleged-retaliation\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sólo unos metros de hoteles de lujo y salas de degustación, trabajadores agrícolas y activistas laborales se manifestaron el 28 de mayo en Healdsburg, el núcleo de la multimillonaria industria vinícola del condado de Sonoma, para anunciar un acuerdo con Redwood Empire Vineyard Management (o REVM por sus siglas en inglés), una empresa de gestión de viñedos con sede en Geyserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¿Tienen miedo? ¡No! ¿Están cansados? ¡No!”, gritaban los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM pagará 33 mil 548 dólares a siete empleados después de que la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas (o ALRB por sus siglas en inglés) del estado determinara que la empresa se negó a ofrecerles trabajo por haber formado parte de iniciativas para mejorar las condiciones laborales. La ALRB también descubrió que REVM obligó a los trabajadores agrícolas el año pasado a firmar un contrato en el que se comprometían a ser despedidos inmediatamente si intentaban renegociar su sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#algo\">\u003cstrong>Ir directo a: Qué hacer si le ocurre algo similar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según funcionarios estatales, las acciones de la empresa se consideran prácticas laborales injustas que violan la \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\">Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos tenemos derecho a organizarnos con nuestros compañeros de trabajo para exigir mejores condiciones laborales y no sufrir represalias”, afirmó Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la ALRB. “En este caso, los trabajadores asistían a protestas y marchas para exigir mejores salarios. Eso es una condición laboral”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM no respondió a las múltiples solicitudes de comentarios por parte de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB), habla en una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la ALRB por represalias y acciones ilegales por parte de la gerencia, esto en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>José Alejandro Cuevas Fuentes y Yolanda Prida González son algunos de los trabajadores agrícolas que colaboraron con la investigación de la ALRB. Ambos trabajaron para REVM durante varios años, ayudando a cuidar y cosechar los numerosos viñedos que la empresa gestiona en la región. Pero las cosas cambiaron cuando asistieron a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997877/farmworkers-remain-in-the-fields-during-wildfires-now-theyre-marching-for-hazard-pay\">una marcha el 28 de julio en Healdsburg\u003c/a>, cuando cientos trabajadores agrícolas salieron a las calles a reclamar salarios más altos que tomen en cuenta los riesgos que corren durante la temporada de incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahí fue cuando las cosas empezaron a ponerse feas”, dijo Cuevas Fuentes, y añadió que un compañero le avisó de que los jefes \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/farmworkers-march-wages-healdsburg/?artslide=10\">habían visto una foto suya en la marcha\u003c/a> tomada por el periódico The Press Democrat. El 14 de agosto, Cuevas Fuentes intentó asistir a una reunión organizada por REVM para quienes iban a trabajar en la cosecha del otoño de 2024, pero fue impedido por la dirección de la empresa, que le señaló que su nombre ya no aparecía en la lista del equipo de trabajo a pesar de sus años de experiencia en la cosecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Alejandro me dijo que lo habían rechazado para la cosecha, Ese fue el impacto para mí que me dio la depresión”, dijo Prida González, pareja de Cuevas Fuentes. Juntos están criando a dos hijas. Para entonces, ella también había sido despedida por REVM. “Estaba muy decepcionada con mis jefes porque había trabajado con ellos durante muchos años, pero lo único que recibí de ellos fue su rechazo e indiferencia”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con la ayuda del grupo de derechos laborales North Bay Jobs With Justice, la pareja, junto con cinco compañeros de trabajo, presentaron denuncias ante la ALRB, que inició una investigación de varios meses que incluyó entrevistas con empleados y directivos de REVM. La pareja aún tenía que encontrar una forma de pagar las facturas y mantener a sus hijas mientras continuaba la investigación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todo esto hizo que mi depresión fuera mucho más difícil. No quiero que los compañeros sufran lo mismo”, dijo Prida González. “Quiero que todos mis compañeros comprendan que tienen estos derechos y que dejen de lado el miedo a alzar la voz”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El miedo, la falta de información y la \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">intimidación por parte de la dirección\u003c/a> son factores que dificultan enormemente que los trabajadores agrícolas busquen ayuda, según Armando Elenes, secretario tesorero de United Farm Workers, quien habla con trabajadores de todo el estado sobre sus derechos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque California cuenta con mecanismos para exigir a los empleadores que sigan la ley, Elenes añadió: “Muchos trabajadores simplemente aceptan las represalias y se van a otro empleador”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuantos más trabajadores se unan y formen sindicatos o emprendan acciones conjuntas, más podremos hacer frente a estos problemas”, afirmó. “La clave está en que los trabajadores participen y formen parte del proceso, eso es lo que hace que todo lo demás funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como parte del acuerdo, REVM ya no exigirá a los empleados que firmen un contrato con cláusulas que amenacen con el despido por solicitar salarios más altos. Además, la empresa se ha comprometido con la ALRB a respetar los derechos de sus empleados a organizarse para mejorar sus condiciones laborales. En las próximas semanas, funcionarios de la ALRB hablarán con los trabajadores agrícolas de REVM sobre los derechos que les protegen y cómo identificar posibles represalias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los siete trabajadores del caso también tienen la oportunidad de volver a REVM. Por el momento, Cuevas Fuentes no volverá, pero Prida González sí ha regresado para asegurarse de que la empresa cumple su parte del acuerdo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores necesitamos ver cambios”, afirmó, y añadió que cree que su regreso a la empresa demostrará a sus compañeros que arriesgarse a alzar la voz tiene resultados. “Las cosas tienen que mejorar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vecinos y activistas laborales asisten a una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas contra Redwood Empire Vineyard Management por represalias, en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"algo\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pasaría si a usted le ocurre algo similar en su trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960536/trabaja-en-los-campos-de-california-que-hacer-si-sufre-represalias\">una guía disponible sobre qué hacer si usted es trabajador agrícola\u003c/a> y su empleador ha tomado represalias contra usted por denunciar sus condiciones laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no es trabajador agrícola, siga leyendo para conocer la opinión de abogados expertos en derecho laboral en California y saber qué derechos y protecciones tienen todos los trabajadores cuando solicitan un aumento salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Los riesgos de hacer algo por su cuenta\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>¿Quiere hablar con su jefe sobre cuánto le pagan? Por lo general, estará más protegido si lo hace junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, según Juan Villalvazo, abogado especializado en derechos laborales de La Raza Centro Legal, un grupo de asistencia jurídica en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se dirige a su jefe por su cuenta con el único objetivo de hablar sobre su salario, la situación podría ser muy diferente, afirma Villalvazo. En California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TerminationOfEmployment.pdf\">tener un trabajo se considera de “voluntad propia”\u003c/a>, lo que significa que un empleador puede despedir a un trabajador en cualquier momento. Por supuesto, el empleo de voluntad propia también significa que un empleado puede renunciar en cualquier momento, pero le da “al empleador mucha deferencia y protección”, dice Villalvazo, y “su empleador tiene derecho a despedirlo por cualquier motivo, siempre y cuando el motivo subyacente no sea ilegal”.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']¿Qué sería ilegal en este caso? Un empleador podría tener problemas si el motivo por el que despide a alguien es discriminatorio (por motivos de raza, religión, género, discapacidad, orientación sexual u otra categoría protegida) o para tomar represalias contra un empleado que haya participado en una “actividad protegida”, como denunciar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002744/trabaja-en-interiores-durante-una-ola-de-calor-descubra-como-le-protegen-las-leyes-de-california\">condiciones de trabajo inseguras\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero cuando la conversación que quiera tener con su jefe es solo sobre su salario individual, la ley le da a su empleador mucho más poder. Podría acudir a su jefe y pedirle un aumento, dijo Villalvazo, pero “no solo no están obligados a concedérselo, sino que podrían despedirle y decirle: ‘Bueno, voy a contratar a alguien que esté contento con el salario'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Palmer, socio de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, un bufete que ofrece servicios jurídicos a los trabajadores, coincidió en que los empleados son más vulnerables cuando actúan solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los empleados se encuentran en una posición mucho más sólida desde el punto de vista jurídico si plantean sus preocupaciones sobre su sueldo, no solo en nombre propio, sino también en nombre de los demás”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cientos de trabajadores agrícolas de North Bay Jobs With Justice y simpatizantes de la comunidad marchan por el puente Healdsburg Memorial Bridge para exigir salarios más altos y pagos por desastre, el 28 de julio de 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>La unión hace la fuerza\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Acudir a su jefe para hablar sobre el salario, esta vez acompañado de sus compañeros de trabajo que tienen las mismas preocupaciones sobre su propia remuneración, no solo le coloca en una posición más fuerte para negociar, sino que también le proporciona una capa de protección legal, afirma Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que las leyes estatales y federales protegen el derecho de los trabajadores a participar en “actividades concertadas”, lo que se define como cualquier acción emprendida por los empleados en nombre de un grupo, no solo en nombre propio, explica Palmer. “Puede tratarse de una acción emprendida como grupo, o puede ser un individuo que toma la iniciativa y plantea las inquietudes en nombre de otras personas”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un ejemplo muy conocido de actividad concertada es la formación de un sindicato por parte de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, la \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/espanol\">Ley Nacional de Relaciones Laborales\u003c/a> protege los derechos de todos los empleados a buscar mejores condiciones, no solo los que forman parte de un sindicato. La \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">Ley nacional de relaciones laborales\u003c/a>, aprobada por el Congreso tras \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-labor-relations-act\">décadas de organización liderada por los trabajadores\u003c/a>, protege el derecho de los trabajadores a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hablar entre sí sobre sus salarios y condiciones laborales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hacer circular una petición para solicitar mejores horarios.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participar en un rechazo colectivo a trabajar en condiciones inseguras.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hablar, junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, con su empleador, con organismos gubernamentales o con los medios de comunicación sobre los problemas en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La Junta Nacional de Relaciones Laborales, que vela por el cumplimiento de las leyes laborales a nivel federal, advierte que los empleados \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">podrían perder sus protecciones\u003c/a> si se comunican con su empleador de una manera que pueda considerarse “gravemente ofensiva o deliberadamente falsa” o si “desprestigian públicamente” los productos del empleador de una manera que no esté relacionada con los asuntos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por eso, Palmer recomienda a los empleados que siempre “planteen sus inquietudes con respeto” pero a la misma vez, “con seguridad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores sostienen carteles en español en una rueda de prensa organizada por North Bay Jobs with Justice en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Puede un contrato prohibirle hablar sobre un aumento salarial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En el caso de los trabajadores agrícolas del condado de Sonoma, su empleador incluyó una cláusula en su contrato que amenazaba con el despido inmediato si los empleados hablaban sobre sus salarios. Los funcionarios de la ARLB determinaron que la cláusula violaba la ley estatal que protege los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas a negociar colectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese contrato básicamente les impide siquiera empezar a organizarse o hablar sobre ello”, dijo De Luna, de la ALRB.[aside postID=\"news_12002744\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Cooks-in-Kitchen.jpg\"]Pero si usted trabaja en otro sector que no es el agrícola, ¿puede su empleador añadir una cláusula en su contrato de trabajo que le impida a usted o a sus compañeros pedir un aumento de sueldo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eso seguiría siendo una violación de la ley, afirmó Villavalzo, de La Raza Centro Legal. “Como grupo, tienen derecho a discutir entre ustedes los salarios, las prestaciones y las condiciones en el lugar de trabajo”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer, de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, dijo que el contrato que REVM ofreció a los trabajadores en 2024 restringe a los empleados la posibilidad de participar en una amplia gama de acciones, incluidas las actividades en grupo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un intento claro de impedir que los empleados se comuniquen con sus compañeros sobre las preocupaciones que tienen”, afirmó Palmer. Si bien los empleadores pueden despedir a los trabajadores que inician peleas o crean un entorno de trabajo inseguro, “eso no es lo que pretende este tipo de disposición”, señaló. En cambio, “se trata simplemente de una exigencia clara de que los empleados no participen en ningún tipo de actividad concertada ni se comuniquen sobre las condiciones de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cómo hablar con su jefe sobre el sueldo: lo que sugieren los expertos legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según Palmer, es importante que los trabajadores se sientan cómodos expresando “que conocen su valor”, pero afirma que “siempre existe un riesgo” al pedir un aumento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted y otros compañeros creen que lo que se les paga no equivale el trabajo que realizan y piensan que tienen argumentos sólidos, hay cosas que pueden hacer para protegerse durante y después de las conversaciones con su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En primer lugar, recuerde que estará más protegido si solicita un aumento “como parte de una acción concertada en la que hace la solicitud junto con otros”, dijo Palmer. Pero también es una buena idea comprobar con antelación qué remuneración reciben otras personas por realizar un trabajo similar en otros lugares, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo destaca la importancia de mantener buenas relaciones con los compañeros de trabajo. “Si es amigo de sus compañeros de trabajo, será más fácil trabajar en equipo”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo también recomienda llevar un registro escrito de las conversaciones que mantenga con sus compañeros de trabajo, cuando decidan entre todos qué solicitar, y con su empleador cuando presente la solicitud. La comunicación escrita no tiene por qué ser muy formal, afirma, “puede ser simplemente un mensaje de texto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si utiliza WhatsApp para hablar de asuntos laborales, tenga en cuenta que la aplicación permite a un usuario individual eliminar mensajes y chats para todas las demás personas que forman parte del grupo. Puede considerar la posibilidad de hacer capturas de pantalla del chat para mantener un registro de las conversaciones, o incluso proponer a sus compañeros que se comuniquen a través de otra aplicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo señala que, en muchos lugares de trabajo de California, algunos empleados trabajan con un estatus migratorio legal, mientras que otros pueden no tenerlo. “Mantenga la solidaridad con todos sus compañeros de trabajo, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, porque al fin y al cabo, todos ustedes \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/factsheet/immigration-related-retaliation-in-the-workplace/\">comparten muchos de los mismos derechos\u003c/a>”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted y sus colegas creen que su empleador les redujo el salario o los despidió por solicitar un aumento de manera colectiva, pueden presentar una queja ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofileretaliationcomplaint.htm\">Puede presentar una queja por represalias en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 714-558-4913.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede tomar varios meses para que una queja sea procesada por la Oficina del Comisionado de Trabajo, la agencia tiene la autoridad para investigar a los empleadores, imponer sanciones y restituir a ciertos trabajadores sus salarios perdidos o sus empleos.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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La ALRB también descubrió que REVM obligó a los trabajadores agrícolas el año pasado a firmar un contrato en el que se comprometían a ser despedidos inmediatamente si intentaban renegociar su sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#algo\">\u003cstrong>Ir directo a: Qué hacer si le ocurre algo similar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según funcionarios estatales, las acciones de la empresa se consideran prácticas laborales injustas que violan la \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\">Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos tenemos derecho a organizarnos con nuestros compañeros de trabajo para exigir mejores condiciones laborales y no sufrir represalias”, afirmó Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la ALRB. “En este caso, los trabajadores asistían a protestas y marchas para exigir mejores salarios. Eso es una condición laboral”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM no respondió a las múltiples solicitudes de comentarios por parte de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB), habla en una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la ALRB por represalias y acciones ilegales por parte de la gerencia, esto en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>José Alejandro Cuevas Fuentes y Yolanda Prida González son algunos de los trabajadores agrícolas que colaboraron con la investigación de la ALRB. Ambos trabajaron para REVM durante varios años, ayudando a cuidar y cosechar los numerosos viñedos que la empresa gestiona en la región. Pero las cosas cambiaron cuando asistieron a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997877/farmworkers-remain-in-the-fields-during-wildfires-now-theyre-marching-for-hazard-pay\">una marcha el 28 de julio en Healdsburg\u003c/a>, cuando cientos trabajadores agrícolas salieron a las calles a reclamar salarios más altos que tomen en cuenta los riesgos que corren durante la temporada de incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahí fue cuando las cosas empezaron a ponerse feas”, dijo Cuevas Fuentes, y añadió que un compañero le avisó de que los jefes \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/farmworkers-march-wages-healdsburg/?artslide=10\">habían visto una foto suya en la marcha\u003c/a> tomada por el periódico The Press Democrat. El 14 de agosto, Cuevas Fuentes intentó asistir a una reunión organizada por REVM para quienes iban a trabajar en la cosecha del otoño de 2024, pero fue impedido por la dirección de la empresa, que le señaló que su nombre ya no aparecía en la lista del equipo de trabajo a pesar de sus años de experiencia en la cosecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Alejandro me dijo que lo habían rechazado para la cosecha, Ese fue el impacto para mí que me dio la depresión”, dijo Prida González, pareja de Cuevas Fuentes. Juntos están criando a dos hijas. Para entonces, ella también había sido despedida por REVM. “Estaba muy decepcionada con mis jefes porque había trabajado con ellos durante muchos años, pero lo único que recibí de ellos fue su rechazo e indiferencia”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con la ayuda del grupo de derechos laborales North Bay Jobs With Justice, la pareja, junto con cinco compañeros de trabajo, presentaron denuncias ante la ALRB, que inició una investigación de varios meses que incluyó entrevistas con empleados y directivos de REVM. La pareja aún tenía que encontrar una forma de pagar las facturas y mantener a sus hijas mientras continuaba la investigación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todo esto hizo que mi depresión fuera mucho más difícil. No quiero que los compañeros sufran lo mismo”, dijo Prida González. “Quiero que todos mis compañeros comprendan que tienen estos derechos y que dejen de lado el miedo a alzar la voz”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El miedo, la falta de información y la \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">intimidación por parte de la dirección\u003c/a> son factores que dificultan enormemente que los trabajadores agrícolas busquen ayuda, según Armando Elenes, secretario tesorero de United Farm Workers, quien habla con trabajadores de todo el estado sobre sus derechos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque California cuenta con mecanismos para exigir a los empleadores que sigan la ley, Elenes añadió: “Muchos trabajadores simplemente aceptan las represalias y se van a otro empleador”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuantos más trabajadores se unan y formen sindicatos o emprendan acciones conjuntas, más podremos hacer frente a estos problemas”, afirmó. “La clave está en que los trabajadores participen y formen parte del proceso, eso es lo que hace que todo lo demás funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como parte del acuerdo, REVM ya no exigirá a los empleados que firmen un contrato con cláusulas que amenacen con el despido por solicitar salarios más altos. Además, la empresa se ha comprometido con la ALRB a respetar los derechos de sus empleados a organizarse para mejorar sus condiciones laborales. En las próximas semanas, funcionarios de la ALRB hablarán con los trabajadores agrícolas de REVM sobre los derechos que les protegen y cómo identificar posibles represalias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los siete trabajadores del caso también tienen la oportunidad de volver a REVM. Por el momento, Cuevas Fuentes no volverá, pero Prida González sí ha regresado para asegurarse de que la empresa cumple su parte del acuerdo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores necesitamos ver cambios”, afirmó, y añadió que cree que su regreso a la empresa demostrará a sus compañeros que arriesgarse a alzar la voz tiene resultados. “Las cosas tienen que mejorar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vecinos y activistas laborales asisten a una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas contra Redwood Empire Vineyard Management por represalias, en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"algo\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pasaría si a usted le ocurre algo similar en su trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960536/trabaja-en-los-campos-de-california-que-hacer-si-sufre-represalias\">una guía disponible sobre qué hacer si usted es trabajador agrícola\u003c/a> y su empleador ha tomado represalias contra usted por denunciar sus condiciones laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no es trabajador agrícola, siga leyendo para conocer la opinión de abogados expertos en derecho laboral en California y saber qué derechos y protecciones tienen todos los trabajadores cuando solicitan un aumento salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Los riesgos de hacer algo por su cuenta\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>¿Quiere hablar con su jefe sobre cuánto le pagan? Por lo general, estará más protegido si lo hace junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, según Juan Villalvazo, abogado especializado en derechos laborales de La Raza Centro Legal, un grupo de asistencia jurídica en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se dirige a su jefe por su cuenta con el único objetivo de hablar sobre su salario, la situación podría ser muy diferente, afirma Villalvazo. En California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TerminationOfEmployment.pdf\">tener un trabajo se considera de “voluntad propia”\u003c/a>, lo que significa que un empleador puede despedir a un trabajador en cualquier momento. Por supuesto, el empleo de voluntad propia también significa que un empleado puede renunciar en cualquier momento, pero le da “al empleador mucha deferencia y protección”, dice Villalvazo, y “su empleador tiene derecho a despedirlo por cualquier motivo, siempre y cuando el motivo subyacente no sea ilegal”.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>¿Qué sería ilegal en este caso? Un empleador podría tener problemas si el motivo por el que despide a alguien es discriminatorio (por motivos de raza, religión, género, discapacidad, orientación sexual u otra categoría protegida) o para tomar represalias contra un empleado que haya participado en una “actividad protegida”, como denunciar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002744/trabaja-en-interiores-durante-una-ola-de-calor-descubra-como-le-protegen-las-leyes-de-california\">condiciones de trabajo inseguras\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero cuando la conversación que quiera tener con su jefe es solo sobre su salario individual, la ley le da a su empleador mucho más poder. Podría acudir a su jefe y pedirle un aumento, dijo Villalvazo, pero “no solo no están obligados a concedérselo, sino que podrían despedirle y decirle: ‘Bueno, voy a contratar a alguien que esté contento con el salario'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Palmer, socio de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, un bufete que ofrece servicios jurídicos a los trabajadores, coincidió en que los empleados son más vulnerables cuando actúan solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los empleados se encuentran en una posición mucho más sólida desde el punto de vista jurídico si plantean sus preocupaciones sobre su sueldo, no solo en nombre propio, sino también en nombre de los demás”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cientos de trabajadores agrícolas de North Bay Jobs With Justice y simpatizantes de la comunidad marchan por el puente Healdsburg Memorial Bridge para exigir salarios más altos y pagos por desastre, el 28 de julio de 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>La unión hace la fuerza\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Acudir a su jefe para hablar sobre el salario, esta vez acompañado de sus compañeros de trabajo que tienen las mismas preocupaciones sobre su propia remuneración, no solo le coloca en una posición más fuerte para negociar, sino que también le proporciona una capa de protección legal, afirma Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que las leyes estatales y federales protegen el derecho de los trabajadores a participar en “actividades concertadas”, lo que se define como cualquier acción emprendida por los empleados en nombre de un grupo, no solo en nombre propio, explica Palmer. “Puede tratarse de una acción emprendida como grupo, o puede ser un individuo que toma la iniciativa y plantea las inquietudes en nombre de otras personas”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un ejemplo muy conocido de actividad concertada es la formación de un sindicato por parte de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, la \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/espanol\">Ley Nacional de Relaciones Laborales\u003c/a> protege los derechos de todos los empleados a buscar mejores condiciones, no solo los que forman parte de un sindicato. La \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">Ley nacional de relaciones laborales\u003c/a>, aprobada por el Congreso tras \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-labor-relations-act\">décadas de organización liderada por los trabajadores\u003c/a>, protege el derecho de los trabajadores a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hablar entre sí sobre sus salarios y condiciones laborales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hacer circular una petición para solicitar mejores horarios.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participar en un rechazo colectivo a trabajar en condiciones inseguras.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hablar, junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, con su empleador, con organismos gubernamentales o con los medios de comunicación sobre los problemas en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La Junta Nacional de Relaciones Laborales, que vela por el cumplimiento de las leyes laborales a nivel federal, advierte que los empleados \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">podrían perder sus protecciones\u003c/a> si se comunican con su empleador de una manera que pueda considerarse “gravemente ofensiva o deliberadamente falsa” o si “desprestigian públicamente” los productos del empleador de una manera que no esté relacionada con los asuntos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por eso, Palmer recomienda a los empleados que siempre “planteen sus inquietudes con respeto” pero a la misma vez, “con seguridad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores sostienen carteles en español en una rueda de prensa organizada por North Bay Jobs with Justice en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Puede un contrato prohibirle hablar sobre un aumento salarial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En el caso de los trabajadores agrícolas del condado de Sonoma, su empleador incluyó una cláusula en su contrato que amenazaba con el despido inmediato si los empleados hablaban sobre sus salarios. Los funcionarios de la ARLB determinaron que la cláusula violaba la ley estatal que protege los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas a negociar colectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese contrato básicamente les impide siquiera empezar a organizarse o hablar sobre ello”, dijo De Luna, de la ALRB.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pero si usted trabaja en otro sector que no es el agrícola, ¿puede su empleador añadir una cláusula en su contrato de trabajo que le impida a usted o a sus compañeros pedir un aumento de sueldo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eso seguiría siendo una violación de la ley, afirmó Villavalzo, de La Raza Centro Legal. “Como grupo, tienen derecho a discutir entre ustedes los salarios, las prestaciones y las condiciones en el lugar de trabajo”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer, de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, dijo que el contrato que REVM ofreció a los trabajadores en 2024 restringe a los empleados la posibilidad de participar en una amplia gama de acciones, incluidas las actividades en grupo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un intento claro de impedir que los empleados se comuniquen con sus compañeros sobre las preocupaciones que tienen”, afirmó Palmer. Si bien los empleadores pueden despedir a los trabajadores que inician peleas o crean un entorno de trabajo inseguro, “eso no es lo que pretende este tipo de disposición”, señaló. En cambio, “se trata simplemente de una exigencia clara de que los empleados no participen en ningún tipo de actividad concertada ni se comuniquen sobre las condiciones de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cómo hablar con su jefe sobre el sueldo: lo que sugieren los expertos legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según Palmer, es importante que los trabajadores se sientan cómodos expresando “que conocen su valor”, pero afirma que “siempre existe un riesgo” al pedir un aumento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted y otros compañeros creen que lo que se les paga no equivale el trabajo que realizan y piensan que tienen argumentos sólidos, hay cosas que pueden hacer para protegerse durante y después de las conversaciones con su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En primer lugar, recuerde que estará más protegido si solicita un aumento “como parte de una acción concertada en la que hace la solicitud junto con otros”, dijo Palmer. Pero también es una buena idea comprobar con antelación qué remuneración reciben otras personas por realizar un trabajo similar en otros lugares, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo destaca la importancia de mantener buenas relaciones con los compañeros de trabajo. “Si es amigo de sus compañeros de trabajo, será más fácil trabajar en equipo”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo también recomienda llevar un registro escrito de las conversaciones que mantenga con sus compañeros de trabajo, cuando decidan entre todos qué solicitar, y con su empleador cuando presente la solicitud. La comunicación escrita no tiene por qué ser muy formal, afirma, “puede ser simplemente un mensaje de texto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si utiliza WhatsApp para hablar de asuntos laborales, tenga en cuenta que la aplicación permite a un usuario individual eliminar mensajes y chats para todas las demás personas que forman parte del grupo. Puede considerar la posibilidad de hacer capturas de pantalla del chat para mantener un registro de las conversaciones, o incluso proponer a sus compañeros que se comuniquen a través de otra aplicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo señala que, en muchos lugares de trabajo de California, algunos empleados trabajan con un estatus migratorio legal, mientras que otros pueden no tenerlo. “Mantenga la solidaridad con todos sus compañeros de trabajo, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, porque al fin y al cabo, todos ustedes \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/factsheet/immigration-related-retaliation-in-the-workplace/\">comparten muchos de los mismos derechos\u003c/a>”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted y sus colegas creen que su empleador les redujo el salario o los despidió por solicitar un aumento de manera colectiva, pueden presentar una queja ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofileretaliationcomplaint.htm\">Puede presentar una queja por represalias en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 714-558-4913.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede tomar varios meses para que una queja sea procesada por la Oficina del Comisionado de Trabajo, la agencia tiene la autoridad para investigar a los empleadores, imponer sanciones y restituir a ciertos trabajadores sus salarios perdidos o sus empleos.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The arrests come after ICE officers ramped up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">enforcement actions at immigration courts\u003c/a> around the Bay Area and across the country in recent weeks. ICE reportedly made more arrests on June 4 than any other day in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ice-arrests-record-number-immigrants-single-day-rcna210817\">agency’s history\u003c/a>, NBC reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrests made during routine check-in appointments represent an escalation of ICE’s tactics, said Sanika Mahajan, an organizer with the community organization Mission Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These operations, along with misleading messaging, are an attempt to intimidate our communities, undermine due process, prevent them from attending their mandated hearings and check-ins and carry out racist schemes for mass deportation,” Mahajan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people detained Wednesday was described by her sister at a press conference Thursday as a 25-year-old woman who was previously assigned an ankle monitor by ICE as an alternative to detention. The woman and her two children slept on the floor of the ICE offices, where they were hungry and cold, the sister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi lambasted ICE’s arrests as “stupid,” in a statement Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The traumatic impact these detainments will have on these families — including a 3-year-old child — who are being detained for obeying the law is outrageous and unforgivable,” Pelosi said. “This menacing conduct will instill fear in immigrants who have scheduled future check-ins with ICE officials and their trepidation may deter them from pursuing lawful pathways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal aid groups are encouraging immigrants to speak to attorneys, and to continue to attend court dates and ICE check-ins, ideally with a U.S. citizen advocate accompanying them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:44 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Chunli Zhao, the man accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">killing seven co-workers in a 2023 mass shooting\u003c/a> at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said in a court hearing on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The death penalty has become increasingly rare in California, and the case against Zhao is the first time Wagstaffe has pursued capital punishment since becoming district attorney in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of a gag order in the case, Wagstaffe told KQED he couldn’t provide details on why he’s seeking the death penalty. In 2023, however, Wagstaffe told KQED that he was open to pursuing capital punishment depending on what the sheriff’s investigation revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making that decision on the death penalty is something that will take place over the course of the next many, many months as we have so much more to learn about this individual, about the victims and their families and the harm that’s been inflicted here,” Wagstaffe said at the time. “So we have a long way to go before we make that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao, 68, has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the Jan. 23, 2023, mass shooting, the deadliest in San Mateo County’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954145\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831.jpg\" alt=\"A row of dilapidated trailers are seen from above in a dirt lot.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/GettyImages-1459869831-1920x1301.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trailers are seen from above at the California Terra Gardens mushroom farm just after the mass shooting in January 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zhao was believed to have acted alone when he opened fire at California Terra Garden — the mushroom farm where he lived and worked for seven years — killing four and leaving one other seriously wounded, sheriff’s officials said. According to authorities, he then drove to a nearby farm where he had previously worked and killed three more people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack allegedly stemmed from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">a dispute between Zhao and his boss\u003c/a>, who had tried to charge him $100 for damaged construction equipment, Wagstaffe told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em> in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe also previously confirmed reporting by NBC Bay Area that Zhao had confronted his boss and a co-worker, whom he blamed for a workplace accident, just before the shootings. The co-worker and boss were reportedly among those shot.[aside postID=news_12037511 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246581187-1020x765.jpg']The killings shed light upon Half Moon Bay farmworkers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">deplorable workplace and living conditions\u003c/a>. In a visit to the mourning community after the shootings, Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for sub-minimum wage at just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for Zhao and some of the shooting victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months after the rampage, questions swirled about whether Wagstaffe would seek to execute the man officials have said is responsible for it. However, Wagstaffe, who told KQED he supports the use of the death penalty, has long been an advocate for the use of capital punishment in extreme cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe was working as a prosecutor in the 1980s, during an unusual wave of death penalty cases in San Mateo County. From 1983 through 1994, his office sought the death penalty 18 times, winning verdicts in 14 of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Wagstaffe was the trial prosecutor in the last case that resulted in a capital conviction in the county, following the 2006 slaying of an East Palo Alto Police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, as top prosecutor in the county, he joined the Riverside and San Bernardino County district attorneys in asking California’s First District Court of Appeal to lift the state’s stays of execution, arguing that they have the right to pursue the execution of those sentenced to death in their jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to enforce the law — not to make it — but it is still the law,” Wagstaffe told KQED. “In my 14-and-a-half years as the district attorney, I have said no in so many dozens of cases where it’s technically eligible. This one here, while I can’t go in front of the desk, I had to weigh and balance it, because [the death penalty] is still on the books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, the death penalty still exists in California, and prosecutors can seek it. But no one has been put to death in the state in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital-punishment/inmates-executed-1978-to-present/executed-inmate-summary-clarence-ray-allen/%20\">nearly 20 years\u003c/a>. In 2019, Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938061/california-will-dismantle-death-row-some-cheer-but-others-are-outraged\"> imposed a moratorium on executions\u003c/a> and closed the death chamber at San Quentin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943855/were-turning-a-new-page-infamous-san-quentin-prison-to-be-transformed-into-rehabilitation-center\">the recently renovated \u003c/a>19th-century prison overlooking San Francisco Bay. However, the moratorium ends with the governor’s term, and his successor could choose not to reinstate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a 2021 poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when an effort to repeal it failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a\u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5qq8v6c1/qt5qq8v6c1.pdf\"> 2021 poll\u003c/a> by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11097442/death-penalty-propositions-divide-voters\">an effort to repeal it failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of November’s election raised further questions about whether voters are souring on progressive criminal justice policy. Californians overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035165/california-officials-warn-prop-36-may-drain-resources-from-successful-community-programs\">Proposition 36\u003c/a>, which increased penalties for drug and theft crimes, and rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing\">Proposition 6\u003c/a>, which would have banned forced labor in prisons and jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">district attorneys in Alameda\u003c/a> and Los Angeles counties were also voted out of office, leading some to speculate about a potential sea change in attitudes toward reform efforts of previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s new district attorney, Nathan Hochman, has begun seeking the death penalty again. In Alameda County, Ursula Jones Dickson has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">quietly withdrawn death row resentencing\u003c/a> efforts for at least four people — petitions that had been championed by former DA Pamela Price to correct decades of unconstitutional conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Kate DeLucco, a spokesperson for the Sacramento abolitionist group Death Penalty Focus, said the changes in California mirror wider political shifts that have happened since the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing in California is reflective of what we’re seeing in the United States as a whole. There has been, clearly, a backlash to what people perceive as liberal dogma,” DeLucco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLucco reiterated common criticisms of the death penalty: that the sentence does not impact crime rates, and that the death penalty system is vastly more expensive to taxpayers than life in prison, due to the length of proceedings and number of appeals — up to $4 billion more since 1978, according to a USC Law School \u003ca href=\"https://gould.usc.edu/news/the-high-cost-of-a-death-sentence/\">study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also criticized the DA’s decision to pursue the charges in the case against Zhao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge disappointment that Wagstaffe would choose to do this,” DeLucco said. “Everything about this is a tragedy, and a continuation of this cycle of violence. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The killings shed light upon Half Moon Bay farmworkers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939470/deplorable-heartbreaking-officials-pledge-to-investigate-labor-conditions-at-mushroom-farms-targeted-in-half-moon-bay-shootings\">deplorable workplace and living conditions\u003c/a>. In a visit to the mourning community after the shootings, Newsom noted that farmworkers, many of whom are migrants, often labor for sub-minimum wage at just $9 an hour and are forced to live in on-site shipping containers, as was the case for Zhao and some of the shooting victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months after the rampage, questions swirled about whether Wagstaffe would seek to execute the man officials have said is responsible for it. However, Wagstaffe, who told KQED he supports the use of the death penalty, has long been an advocate for the use of capital punishment in extreme cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe was working as a prosecutor in the 1980s, during an unusual wave of death penalty cases in San Mateo County. From 1983 through 1994, his office sought the death penalty 18 times, winning verdicts in 14 of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Wagstaffe was the trial prosecutor in the last case that resulted in a capital conviction in the county, following the 2006 slaying of an East Palo Alto Police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, as top prosecutor in the county, he joined the Riverside and San Bernardino County district attorneys in asking California’s First District Court of Appeal to lift the state’s stays of execution, arguing that they have the right to pursue the execution of those sentenced to death in their jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to enforce the law — not to make it — but it is still the law,” Wagstaffe told KQED. “In my 14-and-a-half years as the district attorney, I have said no in so many dozens of cases where it’s technically eligible. This one here, while I can’t go in front of the desk, I had to weigh and balance it, because [the death penalty] is still on the books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, the death penalty still exists in California, and prosecutors can seek it. But no one has been put to death in the state in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/capital-punishment/inmates-executed-1978-to-present/executed-inmate-summary-clarence-ray-allen/%20\">nearly 20 years\u003c/a>. In 2019, Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938061/california-will-dismantle-death-row-some-cheer-but-others-are-outraged\"> imposed a moratorium on executions\u003c/a> and closed the death chamber at San Quentin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943855/were-turning-a-new-page-infamous-san-quentin-prison-to-be-transformed-into-rehabilitation-center\">the recently renovated \u003c/a>19th-century prison overlooking San Francisco Bay. However, the moratorium ends with the governor’s term, and his successor could choose not to reinstate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a 2021 poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when an effort to repeal it failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support for capital punishment has historically been low among Californians. In a\u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/content/qt5qq8v6c1/qt5qq8v6c1.pdf\"> 2021 poll\u003c/a> by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, a plurality of voters favored abolishing the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those surveyed, 44% said they would vote yes on a potential amendment to the state constitution to repeal the death penalty, while 35% favored allowing executions and 21% were undecided. The death penalty has not gone before state voters since 2016, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11097442/death-penalty-propositions-divide-voters\">an effort to repeal it failed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of November’s election raised further questions about whether voters are souring on progressive criminal justice policy. Californians overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035165/california-officials-warn-prop-36-may-drain-resources-from-successful-community-programs\">Proposition 36\u003c/a>, which increased penalties for drug and theft crimes, and rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing\">Proposition 6\u003c/a>, which would have banned forced labor in prisons and jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">district attorneys in Alameda\u003c/a> and Los Angeles counties were also voted out of office, leading some to speculate about a potential sea change in attitudes toward reform efforts of previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s new district attorney, Nathan Hochman, has begun seeking the death penalty again. In Alameda County, Ursula Jones Dickson has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">quietly withdrawn death row resentencing\u003c/a> efforts for at least four people — petitions that had been championed by former DA Pamela Price to correct decades of unconstitutional conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Kate DeLucco, a spokesperson for the Sacramento abolitionist group Death Penalty Focus, said the changes in California mirror wider political shifts that have happened since the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing in California is reflective of what we’re seeing in the United States as a whole. There has been, clearly, a backlash to what people perceive as liberal dogma,” DeLucco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLucco reiterated common criticisms of the death penalty: that the sentence does not impact crime rates, and that the death penalty system is vastly more expensive to taxpayers than life in prison, due to the length of proceedings and number of appeals — up to $4 billion more since 1978, according to a USC Law School \u003ca href=\"https://gould.usc.edu/news/the-high-cost-of-a-death-sentence/\">study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also criticized the DA’s decision to pursue the charges in the case against Zhao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge disappointment that Wagstaffe would choose to do this,” DeLucco said. “Everything about this is a tragedy, and a continuation of this cycle of violence. I just think it’s counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kmizuguchi\">\u003cem>Keith Mizuguchi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In President Donald Trump’s second term, one phrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038481/may-day-thousands-bay-area-take-streets-immigrant-worker-rights\">keeps showing up\u003c/a>: “due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Trump’s critics claim that many actions taken by his administration violate due process, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/oversight-agency-finds-trumps-federal-worker-firings-unlawful-asks-some-employees-be-reinstated/403218/\">terminating federal workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372214/harvard-sues-trump-administration-research\">freezing federal grants for universities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5385355/perkins-coie-trump-executive-order-law-firms\">targeting law firms the White House sees as its enemies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the president is testing his ability to challenge due process most frequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/g-s1-63187/trump-courts-immigration-judges-due-process\">in the area of immigration\u003c/a>. The administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy871w21d3vo\">invoked a wartime power\u003c/a> to rush deportations of alleged gang members, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">stripped thousands of foreign students of their visas\u003c/a> and is quietly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041326/this-ethiopian-woman-was-tortured-by-her-government-the-us-is-sending-her-home-anyway\">whittling away legal protections for torture survivors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both legal scholars and immigration advocates say that disregarding due process for immigrants could have serious consequences for the civil liberties of everyone else, and potentially, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-constitution-abrego-garcia/682487/\">the country’s democracy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what exactly is due process?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution — the document that establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">the powers and limitations of government\u003c/a> — first mentions \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-v\">due process in the Fifth Amendment\u003c/a>: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this simply means is that the government can’t impose harm on somebody unless there are fair procedures,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1920x1318.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky at his home in Oakland, California, on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The government has tremendous power: the power to take away somebody’s property, their freedom, even their life,” he said — but due process of law dictates that “the government shouldn’t be able to do that without notice, hearings, a fair decision maker, appeals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet recent declarations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">several White House officials\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">even Trump himself\u003c/a> suggest that this administration believes some immigrants are not actually entitled to due process. If the government believes an individual is undocumented or part of a gang or terrorist organization, due process “is going to look different,” a top spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who does due process actually protect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the federal government, it’s the Supreme Court that is tasked with \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx\">interpreting the Constitution\u003c/a> — not the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Supreme Court has established multiple times that every person \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Boumediene-v-Bush\">on U.S. soil\u003c/a> — regardless of their immigration status — is entitled to due process. In the 1976 case, \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/426/67/\">\u003cem>Mathews v. Diaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the court declared that the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protects the millions of non-citizens living in the U.S. “from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trump administration and due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these rulings from the Supreme Court, the White House insists on its own definition of due process. The case of Kilmar Abrego García — a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/g-s1-61475/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation\">was deported to a prison in El Salvador last April\u003c/a> — shows what can happen when the administration’s interpretation is put into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision\">pulled over Abrego García\u003c/a> on his way home from work in Baltimore. At the time, Abrego García was living in the U.S. with a legal status protecting him from deportation, but when ICE officials detained him, they told his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708\">that his “status had changed.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-scaled-e1745537471811.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men wearing suits shake hands while seated in chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days later, the administration placed Abrego García on a deportation flight to El Salvador — before a judge could actually hold a new hearing to review his immigration status. The Salvadoran government now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-prison-rcna203429\">has custody over Abrego García\u003c/a> and has refused to return him to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House, for its part, acknowledged that Abrego García’s deportation \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-mistake-el-salvador-ed94130580412b81d5ff5c86aea5c0c7\">was an “administrative error,”\u003c/a> but has since then insisted he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58709/trump-immigration-dhs-maryland-el-salvador\">involved with the gang MS-13\u003c/a> — something his lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-trump-state-secrets-privilege/\">have repeatedly denied\u003c/a>. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15.[aside postID=news_12034742 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']On social media, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1919377123266937140\">wrote that\u003c/a> due process “guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.” But the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">has criticized the administration’s actions\u003c/a> and stated that the government “must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with ‘due process of law,’ including notice and an opportunity to be heard, in any future proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">by NBC journalist Kristen Welker\u003c/a> if he thought citizens and non-citizens alike deserve due process, Trump said, “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” Welker then reminded the president that due process was enshrined by the Fifth Amendment, to which Trump replied, “It might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But having too many legal cases is not a good enough reason to ignore due process, said Matt Coles, professor of practice at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The due process clause results in a lot of cases all the time,” he said. “Every single criminal case we have in the United States in a sense exists because we require due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Habeas corpus: The White House’s latest focus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past few weeks, judges around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html\">have frozen many of the White House’s immigration plans\u003c/a>, slowing down what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants\">Trump promised to be\u003c/a> “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House has become even more defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Miller \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo\">told reporters\u003c/a> that the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: a legal right that allows individuals held by the government to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/habeas-corpus-trump-migrants-deportations-constitution-28a598363d03bfc9448b5132c72f2b3d\">challenge their detention\u003c/a> in court. This term originally comes from the Latin phrase “you should have the body” because the detained person has to be brought to court so a court can review their situation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043762/can-trump-suspend-habeas-corpus\">a form of due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump who is expected to join the incoming administration, speaks during a rally for the president-elect in Coachella on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mike Blake/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through habeas corpus, multiple individuals detained by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nd0dwlpgo\">have been able to regain their freedom\u003c/a> and avoid deportation after a court decided the federal government broke the law when arresting them. Without habeas corpus, the administration could move even faster with certain deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the administration eyes this new target, some officials have shown a lack of knowledge about what habeas corpus actually entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noem-homeland-security-habeas-corpus-trump-338604206f40fed32c2790608d3e5da6\">a congressional hearing last month\u003c/a>, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated that habeas corpus allows “the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.”[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire quickly pushed back and described habeas corpus as “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The writ of habeas corpus is available to anyone who’s been held by the government and who says that they’re being held illegally,” said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky, who added that the Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/\">only allows one part of government to suspend habeas corpus\u003c/a>: Congress — not the president — and only when “cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration, however, insists that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-immigration.html\">there is a historical precedent\u003c/a> for the president to freeze habeas corpus: In 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without permission from Congress during the Civil War. And although Lincoln argued that this only impacted suspected Confederate spies and sympathizers, the courts soon decided that the president’s actions were unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lincoln had no authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,” Chemerinsky said. “The fact that this was a constitutional violation back in the mid-19th century certainly doesn’t justify one now in the early 21st century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Due process: A final failsafe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/\">signed a proclamation\u003c/a> claiming that the gang Tren de Aragua — founded in a Venezuelan prison in 2011 — is cooperating with the regime of Nicolás Maduro to perpetrate “an invasion of and predatory incursion” into the U.S. Any Venezuelan immigrant the administration believes to be a TDA member, according to the proclamation, is “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed” from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind this aggressive deportation policy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts#:~:text=Be%20it%20enacted%20by%20the%20Senate%20and%20House%20of%20Representatives,attempted%2C%20or%20threatened%20against%20the\">Alien Enemies Act of 1798\u003c/a> — a law that’s only been invoked before when the U.S. was at war with a foreign nation. On April 7, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf\">ruled that the administration could move forward\u003c/a> with its plan as long as suspected gang members were given “reasonable time” to challenge their deportations in court — due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People fill a plaza holding signs in front of a large ornate building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold signs at a rally held by immigrant and union groups as they march to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations at the San Francisco City Hall on May 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by the time the court announced its ruling, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-el-salvador-9988b667199e1b02fc0a6a83570225c1\">had already deported hundreds of Venezuelan citizens\u003c/a> without a hearing. Many of these individuals are now held in prisons in El Salvador, per an agreement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038872/what-us-taxpayers-getting-6-million-deal-salvadoran-mega-prison\">between the U.S. and the government of Nayib Bukele\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that 50 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s maximum security CECOT prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law\">came to the U.S. legally, with advanced government permission\u003c/a>. “Because these men were denied due process, the public had no opportunity to obtain a real accounting of any evidence against them,” the Cato Institute report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New evidence also puts into question Trump’s claim that the Venezuelan government is collaborating with TDA. The Freedom of the Press Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/SOCM_2025-11374_Redacted.pdf\">obtained last month an internal memo\u003c/a> from the administration’s own intelligence agencies that states the Maduro regime “probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement” into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government can still make mistakes, Chemerinsky said. “The only way we can check the government is to have a fair process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rewriting — or eliminating completely due process — for one group could make everyone else vulnerable in the future, added Coles. “The guarantees of individual rights are only meaningful if the government doesn’t get to pick and choose who’s got the rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what exactly is due process?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution — the document that establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">the powers and limitations of government\u003c/a> — first mentions \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-v\">due process in the Fifth Amendment\u003c/a>: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this simply means is that the government can’t impose harm on somebody unless there are fair procedures,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1920x1318.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky at his home in Oakland, California, on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The government has tremendous power: the power to take away somebody’s property, their freedom, even their life,” he said — but due process of law dictates that “the government shouldn’t be able to do that without notice, hearings, a fair decision maker, appeals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet recent declarations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">several White House officials\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">even Trump himself\u003c/a> suggest that this administration believes some immigrants are not actually entitled to due process. If the government believes an individual is undocumented or part of a gang or terrorist organization, due process “is going to look different,” a top spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who does due process actually protect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the federal government, it’s the Supreme Court that is tasked with \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx\">interpreting the Constitution\u003c/a> — not the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Supreme Court has established multiple times that every person \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Boumediene-v-Bush\">on U.S. soil\u003c/a> — regardless of their immigration status — is entitled to due process. In the 1976 case, \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/426/67/\">\u003cem>Mathews v. Diaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the court declared that the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protects the millions of non-citizens living in the U.S. “from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trump administration and due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these rulings from the Supreme Court, the White House insists on its own definition of due process. The case of Kilmar Abrego García — a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/g-s1-61475/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation\">was deported to a prison in El Salvador last April\u003c/a> — shows what can happen when the administration’s interpretation is put into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision\">pulled over Abrego García\u003c/a> on his way home from work in Baltimore. At the time, Abrego García was living in the U.S. with a legal status protecting him from deportation, but when ICE officials detained him, they told his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708\">that his “status had changed.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-scaled-e1745537471811.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men wearing suits shake hands while seated in chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days later, the administration placed Abrego García on a deportation flight to El Salvador — before a judge could actually hold a new hearing to review his immigration status. The Salvadoran government now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-prison-rcna203429\">has custody over Abrego García\u003c/a> and has refused to return him to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House, for its part, acknowledged that Abrego García’s deportation \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-mistake-el-salvador-ed94130580412b81d5ff5c86aea5c0c7\">was an “administrative error,”\u003c/a> but has since then insisted he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58709/trump-immigration-dhs-maryland-el-salvador\">involved with the gang MS-13\u003c/a> — something his lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-trump-state-secrets-privilege/\">have repeatedly denied\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On social media, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1919377123266937140\">wrote that\u003c/a> due process “guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.” But the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">has criticized the administration’s actions\u003c/a> and stated that the government “must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with ‘due process of law,’ including notice and an opportunity to be heard, in any future proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">by NBC journalist Kristen Welker\u003c/a> if he thought citizens and non-citizens alike deserve due process, Trump said, “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” Welker then reminded the president that due process was enshrined by the Fifth Amendment, to which Trump replied, “It might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But having too many legal cases is not a good enough reason to ignore due process, said Matt Coles, professor of practice at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The due process clause results in a lot of cases all the time,” he said. “Every single criminal case we have in the United States in a sense exists because we require due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Habeas corpus: The White House’s latest focus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past few weeks, judges around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html\">have frozen many of the White House’s immigration plans\u003c/a>, slowing down what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants\">Trump promised to be\u003c/a> “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House has become even more defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Miller \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo\">told reporters\u003c/a> that the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: a legal right that allows individuals held by the government to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/habeas-corpus-trump-migrants-deportations-constitution-28a598363d03bfc9448b5132c72f2b3d\">challenge their detention\u003c/a> in court. This term originally comes from the Latin phrase “you should have the body” because the detained person has to be brought to court so a court can review their situation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043762/can-trump-suspend-habeas-corpus\">a form of due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump who is expected to join the incoming administration, speaks during a rally for the president-elect in Coachella on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mike Blake/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through habeas corpus, multiple individuals detained by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nd0dwlpgo\">have been able to regain their freedom\u003c/a> and avoid deportation after a court decided the federal government broke the law when arresting them. Without habeas corpus, the administration could move even faster with certain deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the administration eyes this new target, some officials have shown a lack of knowledge about what habeas corpus actually entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noem-homeland-security-habeas-corpus-trump-338604206f40fed32c2790608d3e5da6\">a congressional hearing last month\u003c/a>, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated that habeas corpus allows “the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire quickly pushed back and described habeas corpus as “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The writ of habeas corpus is available to anyone who’s been held by the government and who says that they’re being held illegally,” said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky, who added that the Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/\">only allows one part of government to suspend habeas corpus\u003c/a>: Congress — not the president — and only when “cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration, however, insists that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-immigration.html\">there is a historical precedent\u003c/a> for the president to freeze habeas corpus: In 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without permission from Congress during the Civil War. And although Lincoln argued that this only impacted suspected Confederate spies and sympathizers, the courts soon decided that the president’s actions were unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lincoln had no authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,” Chemerinsky said. “The fact that this was a constitutional violation back in the mid-19th century certainly doesn’t justify one now in the early 21st century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Due process: A final failsafe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/\">signed a proclamation\u003c/a> claiming that the gang Tren de Aragua — founded in a Venezuelan prison in 2011 — is cooperating with the regime of Nicolás Maduro to perpetrate “an invasion of and predatory incursion” into the U.S. Any Venezuelan immigrant the administration believes to be a TDA member, according to the proclamation, is “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed” from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind this aggressive deportation policy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts#:~:text=Be%20it%20enacted%20by%20the%20Senate%20and%20House%20of%20Representatives,attempted%2C%20or%20threatened%20against%20the\">Alien Enemies Act of 1798\u003c/a> — a law that’s only been invoked before when the U.S. was at war with a foreign nation. On April 7, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf\">ruled that the administration could move forward\u003c/a> with its plan as long as suspected gang members were given “reasonable time” to challenge their deportations in court — due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People fill a plaza holding signs in front of a large ornate building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold signs at a rally held by immigrant and union groups as they march to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations at the San Francisco City Hall on May 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by the time the court announced its ruling, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-el-salvador-9988b667199e1b02fc0a6a83570225c1\">had already deported hundreds of Venezuelan citizens\u003c/a> without a hearing. Many of these individuals are now held in prisons in El Salvador, per an agreement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038872/what-us-taxpayers-getting-6-million-deal-salvadoran-mega-prison\">between the U.S. and the government of Nayib Bukele\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that 50 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s maximum security CECOT prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law\">came to the U.S. legally, with advanced government permission\u003c/a>. “Because these men were denied due process, the public had no opportunity to obtain a real accounting of any evidence against them,” the Cato Institute report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New evidence also puts into question Trump’s claim that the Venezuelan government is collaborating with TDA. The Freedom of the Press Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/SOCM_2025-11374_Redacted.pdf\">obtained last month an internal memo\u003c/a> from the administration’s own intelligence agencies that states the Maduro regime “probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement” into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government can still make mistakes, Chemerinsky said. “The only way we can check the government is to have a fair process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rewriting — or eliminating completely due process — for one group could make everyone else vulnerable in the future, added Coles. “The guarantees of individual rights are only meaningful if the government doesn’t get to pick and choose who’s got the rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042452/algunas-familias-separadas-en-la-frontera-recibieron-asistencia-juridica-gratuita-ee-uu-acaba-de-rescindir-ese-contrato\">\u003cem>Leer en español \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Mendoza Pablo said he still remembers the day in early 2018, while being held in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration-detention\">immigration detention\u003c/a> facility near the U.S.-Mexico border, when the officials came to take his daughter away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was only 4 years old, I couldn’t give her to them. She was just starting to talk, but in our dialect. She didn’t know Spanish or English,” Mendoza, who is Mayan from Guatemala and speaks an indigenous dialect called Mam at home, said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he refused to give them his daughter, Mendoza said eight officials grabbed the pair and pushed them up against a wall. Some pried his arms open while others spread his legs, and finally, his daughter was pulled from his chest and taken away screaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Mendoza did not know where his daughter Catalina was or when he would see her again. When he asked the detention center officials about her, he said they’d insist that he had been detained alone and that they did not have his daughter in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Guatemalan Consulate, Mendoza learned that his daughter had been taken to El Paso, Texas, hundreds of miles away. It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. The two sides are set to meet again in court on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>, which is now running the program, declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza at her home in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court filings, lawyers for ICE have laid out some of their plans. They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.[aside postID=news_12042197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']Border Patrol rounded them up with others that were caught, Hernandez said, and they were loaded into separate vehicles: adults in one, children in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was deported, and Celina was sent to live with a family member in Florida. The pair would talk over the phone, but they would not see each other in person for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her, ‘It’s OK, daughter, it is OK. You see how we suffered [in detention], and we were there for a long time. Only God knows if one day we’ll see each other. And if not, you’re there so give it your all,’” Hernandez said. “‘Value what happened to us, I want you to behave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the time apart was difficult and even traumatizing, Hernandez said he thanks God and the legal aid program for how far his family has come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his sons graduated from high school last week, and another daughter will be heading for college soon, but by then, they will need help renewing their parole again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he hopes the program is still around to offer that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Mendoza did not know where his daughter Catalina was or when he would see her again. When he asked the detention center officials about her, he said they’d insist that he had been detained alone and that they did not have his daughter in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Guatemalan Consulate, Mendoza learned that his daughter had been taken to El Paso, Texas, hundreds of miles away. It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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