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"content": "\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People eligible for compassionate release or parole because they are older or suffering severe medical conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for early parole after serving a set amount of time because their crimes were committed in their youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People whose crimes were a direct result of having been victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for release because they demonstrate that racial bias affected their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People, like Castañeda, eligible for resentencing because they were originally convicted under the felony murder rule but did not kill anyone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bill would also protect people whose sentences were commuted by the governor. And, where the unsuccessful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923465/immigrant-advocates-make-final-push-to-pass-bill-ending-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california\">VISION Act also would have banned transfers from local jails to ICE\u003c/a>, the HOME Act only focuses on restricting transfers by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration agents could still track people down once they are back in their communities, take them into custody and initiate deportation proceedings. But California authorities would be limiting their participation in the process. Illinois, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have already ended prison-to-ICE transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law enforcement concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for ICE said the agency does not comment on pending legislation. But on background, she added that immigration detainers, leading to transfers within the controlled environment of a prison or jail, are “a critical public safety tool” that conserves government resources and protects the public from the risk that the person will reoffend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">nearly 1,600 people come out of state prison each year with an immigration detainer\u003c/a> that leads to their transfer to ICE to be deported, according to an estimate by state Senate staff.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo\"]‘[T]he state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home. It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.’[/pullquote]Police and sheriffs’ groups opposed the broader VISION Act in the last legislative session. In \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/21blobs/58984f34-e091-4208-93db-4e804b666038\">a joint statement\u003c/a>, they said, “We are also not arguing that immigrants somehow pose any more threat than citizens or asking to involve immigration authorities in low-level offenses. However, there should be a point, in the most egregious cases, where we do not provide protections for dangerous persons from enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Peace Officers Research Association of California said the group’s board had not yet considered its stance on the HOME Act, which generally would not shield people deemed “dangerous” from ICE, but he expected board members to take it up at their next meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VISION Act failed in the state Senate last year by three votes, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against it, as well as nine Democrats who did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the three Senate Democrats who opposed the VISION Act — Susan Eggman, Steve Glazer and Bill Dodd — would comment on the HOME Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ending double punishment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carrillo, author of both the VISION Act and the HOME Act, noted that this year’s version is much more narrowly focused, and that she’s hopeful it will win widespread support with last year’s holdouts and newly elected lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we are saying that the state of California will treat all people equally, regardless of where they were born,” she said. “We also want the Biden administration to acknowledge what we’re doing in the state of California and figure out a way in which ICE is not being used as a tool to further incarcerate immigrants.”[aside postID=news_11938736 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS57626_007_KQED_AnoopPrasad_08052022-qut-1020x680.jpg']Angela Chan, an immigration expert at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office who helped craft the bill, said the Legislature overwhelmingly supported the recent criminal justice reforms with a recognition that excessive sentencing was harming Black and Latino communities — and she hoped they would see that turning immigrants over to ICE subjects them to a double punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill “gets our legislative members and the governor to really think about these individuals that are being turned over to ICE as human beings, as people who have gone through a lot … domestic violence survivors, young refugees, elderly folks, people with medical conditions,” she said. “And [it’s cause] for them to think about the harm to both these individuals and to their families and communities, when we allow our state resources to turn them over to ICE once they’ve earned release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda took time off from her job in a reentry program run by Homeboy Industries to catch a ride from LA to the state Capitol on Monday with Tin Nguyen, whose life sentence also was commuted by Newsom and who is also scheduled to address the Assembly Public Safety Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working, helping my community as much as I can,” said Castañeda, who hopes to study and become an immigration law paralegal. “It’s sad that they want to go after people like that. We messed up and we’re trying to give back and fix it and help other people. I get it that not everybody comes with that mentality, but a lot of us do … We had to work hard to be able to get a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People eligible for compassionate release or parole because they are older or suffering severe medical conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for early parole after serving a set amount of time because their crimes were committed in their youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People whose crimes were a direct result of having been victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for release because they demonstrate that racial bias affected their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People, like Castañeda, eligible for resentencing because they were originally convicted under the felony murder rule but did not kill anyone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bill would also protect people whose sentences were commuted by the governor. And, where the unsuccessful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923465/immigrant-advocates-make-final-push-to-pass-bill-ending-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california\">VISION Act also would have banned transfers from local jails to ICE\u003c/a>, the HOME Act only focuses on restricting transfers by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Police and sheriffs’ groups opposed the broader VISION Act in the last legislative session. In \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/21blobs/58984f34-e091-4208-93db-4e804b666038\">a joint statement\u003c/a>, they said, “We are also not arguing that immigrants somehow pose any more threat than citizens or asking to involve immigration authorities in low-level offenses. However, there should be a point, in the most egregious cases, where we do not provide protections for dangerous persons from enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Peace Officers Research Association of California said the group’s board had not yet considered its stance on the HOME Act, which generally would not shield people deemed “dangerous” from ICE, but he expected board members to take it up at their next meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VISION Act failed in the state Senate last year by three votes, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against it, as well as nine Democrats who did not vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the three Senate Democrats who opposed the VISION Act — Susan Eggman, Steve Glazer and Bill Dodd — would comment on the HOME Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ending double punishment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carrillo, author of both the VISION Act and the HOME Act, noted that this year’s version is much more narrowly focused, and that she’s hopeful it will win widespread support with last year’s holdouts and newly elected lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we are saying that the state of California will treat all people equally, regardless of where they were born,” she said. “We also want the Biden administration to acknowledge what we’re doing in the state of California and figure out a way in which ICE is not being used as a tool to further incarcerate immigrants.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Angela Chan, an immigration expert at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office who helped craft the bill, said the Legislature overwhelmingly supported the recent criminal justice reforms with a recognition that excessive sentencing was harming Black and Latino communities — and she hoped they would see that turning immigrants over to ICE subjects them to a double punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill “gets our legislative members and the governor to really think about these individuals that are being turned over to ICE as human beings, as people who have gone through a lot … domestic violence survivors, young refugees, elderly folks, people with medical conditions,” she said. “And [it’s cause] for them to think about the harm to both these individuals and to their families and communities, when we allow our state resources to turn them over to ICE once they’ve earned release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda took time off from her job in a reentry program run by Homeboy Industries to catch a ride from LA to the state Capitol on Monday with Tin Nguyen, whose life sentence also was commuted by Newsom and who is also scheduled to address the Assembly Public Safety Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m working, helping my community as much as I can,” said Castañeda, who hopes to study and become an immigration law paralegal. “It’s sad that they want to go after people like that. We messed up and we’re trying to give back and fix it and help other people. I get it that not everybody comes with that mentality, but a lot of us do … We had to work hard to be able to get a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When José Luis Ruiz Arévalos left the U.S. in May 2019, he thought he would be gone six days. Instead, he was forced to stay out of the country for almost four years. His absence created emotional and financial burdens for his entire family and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-immigration-policy-forced-a-california-family-apart-and-disrupted-their-education/659357\" data-reader-unique-id=\"7\">derailed some of his children’s college plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return, full of joy and tears, lifts a heavy burden on his children and allows them to continue their academic journeys toward college degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/-NKn8WmgGfo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, our struggle of almost four years has come to an end,” said his wife, Armanda Ruiz, in Spanish. “I have the moral support and the economic support I didn’t have, and my daughter who left college can continue her studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus carrying Ruiz Arévalos home pulled up in a grocery store parking lot in the small Central Valley city of Los Banos on a cold Friday evening. Waiting anxiously were his wife and their four children, bearing red, white and blue balloons and a handmade sign with the words, “Bienvenido a casa José” and “1,366” — the number of days Ruiz Arévalos was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he got off the bus, his four children rushed forward to hug him, holding on as long as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw him on the bus, I was like, ‘Wow, this is real,’” said Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, 22. “Everything I hoped that would happen, it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A man hugs two girls who are holding balloons near a bus with two other people watching and holding a sign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos hugs his kids after arriving in Los Banos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center\"]‘This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos missed four of the children’s graduations while he was gone. The youngest, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 13, graduated from elementary school. Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 20, and Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19, graduated from high school. Elena graduated from community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Priscila, now in seventh grade, heard he was coming back, the first thing she said was, “Papi, I want you to come to my graduation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos met his wife when her three oldest children were 8, 6 and 5 years old, and he has helped raise them ever since. They later had another daughter together, Priscila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz, who is a U.S. citizen, applied for a green card for her husband. Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant since he was 17. He went to Mexico in May 2019 for the last step in his application, an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he left, he had already cleared one hurdle. People who crossed the border without papers and then lived here for more than a year can’t get a green card easily, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They can be banned from the country for 10 years unless they can get a waiver by proving that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver for Ruiz Arévalos. He and his wife had argued that it would be an extreme hardship for her to care alone for their four children, especially Priscila, who was born prematurely, has developmental delays and requires continuous medical care, including speech, occupational and physical therapy. In addition, Nathan suffered from severe depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Ruiz Arévalos’ appointment at the consulate, the Trump administration had changed the rules for something called the “public charge” policy. Under the Trump administration, consulate officers had begun asking whether an applicant’s family members, including U.S. citizens, had ever used public benefits, including food stamps and Medicaid. While Ruiz Arévalos had never used benefits, his youngest daughter, Priscila, has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to lower-income disabled people — since she was born. All the children have used food stamps and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before President Donald Trump changed the “public charge” policy, benefits used by U.S. citizen children wouldn’t have counted against Ruiz Arévalos, and having a fiscal sponsor — a friend who agreed to support him if needed — would have been enough proof he wouldn’t become a burden on the government. But under the new policy, the consulate officers told Ruiz Arévalos he was ineligible for a green card because he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on the government. They said he would need another sponsor, preferably a relative, but instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, they canceled his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people\u003c/a> applying for immigrant visas based on the revised public charge policy. Under the prior policy, only about 3,000 people a year had been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cspq1/3/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, under President Joe Biden, the State Department restored the public charge policy in place before 2018: Non-cash benefits like Medicaid and food stamps cannot be counted against a green card applicant, nor can any benefits used by children or other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that summer Ruiz Arévalos applied again. The process, which used to take a few months, now takes more than a year, due to backlogs that were aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Armanda Ruiz appealed to as many elected officials as she could, including meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s staff in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, Ruiz Arévalos finally received another waiver and then an appointment at the U.S. Consulate for a second green card interview in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he entered the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez for his second green card interview, Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t sure what to expect.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101892520,news_11942414,news_11937017\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“I was scared they would come up with something I wasn’t expecting again, and it would be delayed again,” Ruiz Arévalos said in Spanish. “My wife told me, ‘It’s set.’ But I told her, no, not until I’m at the border will I be able to say it’s over. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his passport arrived in the mail a few weeks later, he stared in shock. There, pasted into the passport was the proof that he had permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing he did was go buy a bus ticket to Los Banos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return brings relief especially to Elena, who dropped out of college after freshman year so she could work to help provide for her younger siblings. She joined the Army Reserve and worked part time as a cashier and at a tomato-packing plant while continuing to take classes part time at community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Ruiz Arévalos had been able to come back in 2019, Elena would likely have graduated from UC Merced last year. Instead, she earned an associate degree at Merced College. She’s been putting off continuing her studies at a four-year college. Now that her dad is back, she’s finally considering studying for a bachelor’s degree in communications or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s like, now I don’t have to stress out this year and be like, OK, let’s just jump into law enforcement, let’s just jump into construction,” said Elena. “Now I can slow down, think about what I like before I jump in. Because honestly, I was panicking. But right now I’m like, OK, I can slow down and not rush myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan is now finishing up an associate degree and has applied to transfer to UC Merced in the fall, to major in psychology or sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really have a specific goal with that in mind, but I do want to help other people,” Nathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black t-shirt and sun glasses has his arm around a younger man wearing an orange t-shirt who is holding a cooking tool over a grill outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez grills with his dad, José Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ignacio was a top student in high school, courted by Harvard and Yale. But he chose to stay close to home and attend UC Merced, in part because Ruiz Arévalos was gone. He won multiple scholarships, including from the California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation. He’s planning on majoring in psychology as well and hopes to become a therapist for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what got them through this separation was staying united and pushing forward together despite the difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show how persistence is kind of key for these kinds of things,” said Ignacio. “You always just got to keep striving for it, even if you fail. And that goes for a lot of things, even maybe persisting and going after changing immigration laws to improve others’ conditions. Because it’s not just us that’s going through this, it’s a lot of other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, said Ruiz Arévalos’ case highlights the impact of Trump’s changes to public charge policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said most immigrant families are not aware that the Biden administration rolled back the Trump administration’s changes to the public charge rule. In fact, one poll showed that only a quarter of immigrant families were aware, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve really seen is a long-term impact from the rhetoric and negative policies under the Trump administration,” Quinn said. “Combating the chilling effect that it has had on our communities here will take decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many undocumented immigrants are now less comfortable leaving the United States to finalize their permanent residency applications, because they are uncertain what the outcome will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, families are less willing to apply for services that their U.S. citizen children are eligible for, such as subsidized housing, food stamps and health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first morning back, Ruiz Arévalos woke up in the family trailer in Los Banos for the first time in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had never left, like it had all been a nightmare,” said Ruiz Arévalos. “It wasn’t a problem to be in Mexico. The problem was I wasn’t with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that first weekend back, they drove to visit a cousin in San José, Oscar Rodríguez, who submitted paperwork for Ruiz Arévalos’ immigration case, agreeing to be his fiscal sponsor. Ruiz Arévalos’ aunt made pozole to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands with three girls near a grill in a backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan, Priscila and Elena with their dad, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy he’s back,” said Rodríguez. “Knowing him, a responsible parent and hard worker who takes care of his children and his wife, I thought he wouldn’t have problems. But unfortunately he did. It felt like an injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos is slowly getting back into the family routine. On his first morning back, he got up and made pancakes. He’s been spending time with his kids — putting together puzzles, taking a CPR class with Nathan, helping Elena remove extensions from her hair. Weekday mornings, he walks Priscila out to wait for her school bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s these little things that Ruiz Arévalos missed most — the day-to-day of parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up and you see they’ve grown a little bit, or they did something new, or they learned something new,” he said. “They’re just little details, but they stay with you as a father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was in Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos said he felt he had “clipped his children’s wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can’t ever get those four years back, but now, he hopes to finally watch his children fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jennifer Molina produced the video in this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was scared they would come up with something I wasn’t expecting again, and it would be delayed again,” Ruiz Arévalos said in Spanish. “My wife told me, ‘It’s set.’ But I told her, no, not until I’m at the border will I be able to say it’s over. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his passport arrived in the mail a few weeks later, he stared in shock. There, pasted into the passport was the proof that he had permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing he did was go buy a bus ticket to Los Banos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return brings relief especially to Elena, who dropped out of college after freshman year so she could work to help provide for her younger siblings. She joined the Army Reserve and worked part time as a cashier and at a tomato-packing plant while continuing to take classes part time at community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Ruiz Arévalos had been able to come back in 2019, Elena would likely have graduated from UC Merced last year. Instead, she earned an associate degree at Merced College. She’s been putting off continuing her studies at a four-year college. Now that her dad is back, she’s finally considering studying for a bachelor’s degree in communications or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s like, now I don’t have to stress out this year and be like, OK, let’s just jump into law enforcement, let’s just jump into construction,” said Elena. “Now I can slow down, think about what I like before I jump in. Because honestly, I was panicking. But right now I’m like, OK, I can slow down and not rush myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan is now finishing up an associate degree and has applied to transfer to UC Merced in the fall, to major in psychology or sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really have a specific goal with that in mind, but I do want to help other people,” Nathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black t-shirt and sun glasses has his arm around a younger man wearing an orange t-shirt who is holding a cooking tool over a grill outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez grills with his dad, José Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ignacio was a top student in high school, courted by Harvard and Yale. But he chose to stay close to home and attend UC Merced, in part because Ruiz Arévalos was gone. He won multiple scholarships, including from the California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation. He’s planning on majoring in psychology as well and hopes to become a therapist for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what got them through this separation was staying united and pushing forward together despite the difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show how persistence is kind of key for these kinds of things,” said Ignacio. “You always just got to keep striving for it, even if you fail. And that goes for a lot of things, even maybe persisting and going after changing immigration laws to improve others’ conditions. Because it’s not just us that’s going through this, it’s a lot of other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, said Ruiz Arévalos’ case highlights the impact of Trump’s changes to public charge policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said most immigrant families are not aware that the Biden administration rolled back the Trump administration’s changes to the public charge rule. In fact, one poll showed that only a quarter of immigrant families were aware, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve really seen is a long-term impact from the rhetoric and negative policies under the Trump administration,” Quinn said. “Combating the chilling effect that it has had on our communities here will take decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many undocumented immigrants are now less comfortable leaving the United States to finalize their permanent residency applications, because they are uncertain what the outcome will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, families are less willing to apply for services that their U.S. citizen children are eligible for, such as subsidized housing, food stamps and health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first morning back, Ruiz Arévalos woke up in the family trailer in Los Banos for the first time in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had never left, like it had all been a nightmare,” said Ruiz Arévalos. “It wasn’t a problem to be in Mexico. The problem was I wasn’t with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that first weekend back, they drove to visit a cousin in San José, Oscar Rodríguez, who submitted paperwork for Ruiz Arévalos’ immigration case, agreeing to be his fiscal sponsor. Ruiz Arévalos’ aunt made pozole to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands with three girls near a grill in a backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan, Priscila and Elena with their dad, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy he’s back,” said Rodríguez. “Knowing him, a responsible parent and hard worker who takes care of his children and his wife, I thought he wouldn’t have problems. 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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/next-storm-atmospheric-river-california-impacts-17843272.php\">another atmospheric river storm approaches California\u003c/a>, thousands of farmworkers could be left with no income for months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943316/pajaro-river-levee-breached-where-to-find-evacuation-shelters\">a disastrous flood\u003c/a> submerged an “alarming” acreage of agricultural land in California’s Central Coast, according to Monterey County officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community of Pajaro, where many farmworkers live, became \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/departments-a-h/administrative-office/office-of-emergency-services/incidents/2023-pineapple-express\">the emergency\u003c/a>’s ground zero after a nearby river levee broke last week and residents were forced to evacuate their homes. Emergency crews have since patched up the Pajaro River levee breach, allowing floodwaters to recede from streets, homes and businesses. But all \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0655044-pajaro-ca/\">3,000 residents\u003c/a> continue to be displaced and are under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have nothing. No money. No home,” said Juana Juarez, a longtime farmworker and single mother of three, in Spanish, as tears streamed down her face. “I feel like I’ve reached rock bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez, 41, worried about how to pay for rent and food for her kids. She planned to start working this month, the usual start to harvesting season for strawberries — the county’s top crop. But now an overwhelming economic and housing uncertainty keeps her up at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two Latina women packing clothes in a park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63697_IMG_7224-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Juana Juarez (left) packs donated clothes for her family in Watsonville, on March 15, 2023. Juarez, a single mother of three, said she worries about the prospect of no work due to flooding damage. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The devastation in the mostly lower-income Latino community was clear earlier this week. Trucks sat partly inundated in parking lots, while tires, metal pots and other debris littered the deserted roads. A blue beauty salon on Main Street was missing part of its front wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Rosa Dolores Rodriguez returned to her nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.casadelaculturacenter.org/\">Casa de la Cultura Center\u003c/a>, to find that water had left a mark on the brick walls more than 2 feet up from the ground. She carefully opened the building’s front door to find a thick, shiny layer of mud covering the ground floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m OK. I’m OK,” she slowly assured herself. And then, “That’s going to require a lot of help to clean out the mud,” she said, as she began considering the impacts. The piano and some electronics would be damaged, she said. Mold might be growing in the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the town, expansive farmlands looked like shimmering lakes. County officials have started the long process of assessing losses to the local agricultural industry, with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/113214/637970560105830000\">production gross value of $4.1 billion\u003c/a> in 2021.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11943316,news_11943845,news_11943590\"]Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner Juan Hidalgo said the current flood damage will be more extensive than the havoc wreaked during a series of storms last January, when roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-county-agriculture-storm-losses/43068481\">15,000 acres of farmland were affected\u003c/a>, at an estimated cost of $336 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the damages that we are seeing are quite alarming,” particularly for strawberry and raspberry fields that had already been planted, Hidalgo told reporters earlier this week. “From experience in previous flooding, we’re looking at anywhere from 30% to 50% yield losses” for those crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of food safety requirements, submerged farmlands will likely stay fallow for at least 60 days, he said. Regrowing harvests could take even longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the region’s agricultural workforce, the economic impact could be devastating, particularly for Pajaro residents who are also facing additional losses due to flooded homes, said Luis Alejo, who chairs the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have so little but have lost so much,” said Alejo. “We need to get resources for those who don’t have any other means to pay the rent, put food on the table, provide for their families.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Luis Alejo, chair, Monterey County Board of Supervisors\"]‘They have so little but have lost so much. We need to get resources for those who don’t have any other means to pay the rent, put food on the table, provide for their families.’[/pullquote]About \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/blog/post/?id=2770\">half of the farmworkers in California are undocumented\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That means they are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/DisasterAssistanceGuideforImmigrantCaliforniansFinal.pdf\">households with U.S. citizens or legal residents may apply (PDF)\u003c/a> for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touring the disaster area earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that he recognized the vulnerability of Pajaro and other disaster-stricken communities in the region. During his tenure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/19/medi-cal-expansion-provided-286000-undocumented-californians-with-comprehensive-health-care/#:~:text=The%20next%20step%20in%20California's,%2C%20effective%20January%201%2C%202024.\">Newsom has expanded the public health insurance program Medi-Cal\u003c/a> to cover hundreds of thousands of undocumented Californians. But the governor also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Gov-Newsom-vetoed-a-program-to-offer-17478927.php\">vetoed\u003c/a> a bill last year that would have set up temporary unemployment benefits for undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a state in America, not one state, that does more for farmworkers than the state of California. And we don’t do enough,” said Newsom, standing by flooded farmlands outside Pajaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor touted a $42 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the nonprofit United Way to provide financial assistance for farmworkers hit with flood losses, regardless of immigration status. People could readily start applying for the aid, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, United Ways of California representatives \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943845/gov-newsom-touts-42-million-in-aid-for-flooded-farmworkers-turns-out-its-months-old-covid-funding\">clarified\u003c/a> that only $300,000 of those funds — which were actually awarded months ago to the organization for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/press-releases/610-usda-farmerworker-grant\">COVID relief\u003c/a> — will be distributed in Monterey County, including to storm victims. Applications for the $600 one-time cash cards are not open yet, said Katy Castagna, president of United Way Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944020\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina woman with white hair stands outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister Rosa Dolores Rodriguez surveys the damage at her nonprofit, Casa de la Cultura, in Pajaro on March 15, 2023. The floodwaters left a mark on the walls more than 2 feet from the ground. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For farmworker Juana Juarez, that cash amount won’t be nearly enough to cover the cost of replacing belongings she lost in the flooding, which she believes include her car, furniture, electronics and clothes. She didn’t know the total amount of her losses, as most Pajaro residents have not been allowed into town yet to survey their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just too little … the governor should try to help us with more money,” said Juarez, who has been staying with her children at a relatives’ crowded home in the adjacent town of Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom’s office said the administration is pursuing “additional support” for storm-affected residents who are ineligible for FEMA assistance due to immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional $300,000 in flood relief has been raised by local foundations and nonprofits for affected residents in the Pajaro Valley, said MaríaElena De La Garza, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://cabinc.org/\">Community Action Board\u003c/a> of Santa Cruz County, one of the organizations tasked with distributing those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a critical situation,” De La Garza said. “We are working in collaboration to get out economic relief to families not only at the shelters, but anybody who’s been displaced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before residents can return to their homes, Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto said several agencies must first check the safety of buildings, running water and other infrastructure — a process that could take weeks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/departments-a-h/administrative-office/office-o%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dnts/2023-pineapple-express/2023-pineapple-express-recovery\">Cal Fire damage assessment teams have already started working\u003c/a> in Pajaro and other affected areas, according to a county spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944021\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11944021 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A white semi facing the camera drives along a partially flooded road with completely submerged fields to both sides, alongside electric lines. In the background is a ranch-style house and thick tree cover.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck drives on a flooded road between agricultural fields near Pajaro on March 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farmworkers from Watsonville whose homes were not flooded also are responding to the crisis. A group of volunteers raised donations through social media and dropped off bags of clothes and food to displaced residents near one of the blocked street entrances to Pajaro this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yessica Ortiz, a strawberry picker who fears she won’t have work either, said she paid out of her own pocket for chicken and rice, pizza boxes and cookies that she offered to families with young children on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to try to help people in whatever way we can,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>To give money:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cfmco.org/impact/montereycountystormrelieffund/\">Community Foundation for Monterey County: Storm Relief Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cfscc.org/funds/disaster-fund\">Community Foundation Santa Cruz County: Santa Cruz County Disaster Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allinmonterey\">ALL IN in Monterey County: Donation distribution center at Monterey Fairgrounds\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>To volunteer:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://allinmonterey.org/2023-pineapple-express-storm-relief\">Monterey County is seeking volunteers to sort donated items.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/local/california/northern-california-coastal/volunteer.html\">The Red Cross is accepting volunteer applications.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Additional organizations:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysc.org/\">United Way of Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaymcca.org/\">United Way of Monterey County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cabinc.org/\">Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/blog/post/?id=2770\">half of the farmworkers in California are undocumented\u003c/a>, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That means they are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/13/DisasterAssistanceGuideforImmigrantCaliforniansFinal.pdf\">households with U.S. citizens or legal residents may apply (PDF)\u003c/a> for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touring the disaster area earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that he recognized the vulnerability of Pajaro and other disaster-stricken communities in the region. During his tenure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/19/medi-cal-expansion-provided-286000-undocumented-californians-with-comprehensive-health-care/#:~:text=The%20next%20step%20in%20California's,%2C%20effective%20January%201%2C%202024.\">Newsom has expanded the public health insurance program Medi-Cal\u003c/a> to cover hundreds of thousands of undocumented Californians. But the governor also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Gov-Newsom-vetoed-a-program-to-offer-17478927.php\">vetoed\u003c/a> a bill last year that would have set up temporary unemployment benefits for undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a state in America, not one state, that does more for farmworkers than the state of California. And we don’t do enough,” said Newsom, standing by flooded farmlands outside Pajaro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor touted a $42 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the nonprofit United Way to provide financial assistance for farmworkers hit with flood losses, regardless of immigration status. People could readily start applying for the aid, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, United Ways of California representatives \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943845/gov-newsom-touts-42-million-in-aid-for-flooded-farmworkers-turns-out-its-months-old-covid-funding\">clarified\u003c/a> that only $300,000 of those funds — which were actually awarded months ago to the organization for \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysca.org/press-releases/610-usda-farmerworker-grant\">COVID relief\u003c/a> — will be distributed in Monterey County, including to storm victims. Applications for the $600 one-time cash cards are not open yet, said Katy Castagna, president of United Way Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944020\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina woman with white hair stands outside a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63695_IMG_7203-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister Rosa Dolores Rodriguez surveys the damage at her nonprofit, Casa de la Cultura, in Pajaro on March 15, 2023. The floodwaters left a mark on the walls more than 2 feet from the ground. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For farmworker Juana Juarez, that cash amount won’t be nearly enough to cover the cost of replacing belongings she lost in the flooding, which she believes include her car, furniture, electronics and clothes. She didn’t know the total amount of her losses, as most Pajaro residents have not been allowed into town yet to survey their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just too little … the governor should try to help us with more money,” said Juarez, who has been staying with her children at a relatives’ crowded home in the adjacent town of Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Newsom’s office said the administration is pursuing “additional support” for storm-affected residents who are ineligible for FEMA assistance due to immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An additional $300,000 in flood relief has been raised by local foundations and nonprofits for affected residents in the Pajaro Valley, said MaríaElena De La Garza, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://cabinc.org/\">Community Action Board\u003c/a> of Santa Cruz County, one of the organizations tasked with distributing those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a critical situation,” De La Garza said. “We are working in collaboration to get out economic relief to families not only at the shelters, but anybody who’s been displaced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before residents can return to their homes, Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto said several agencies must first check the safety of buildings, running water and other infrastructure — a process that could take weeks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/departments-a-h/administrative-office/office-o%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dnts/2023-pineapple-express/2023-pineapple-express-recovery\">Cal Fire damage assessment teams have already started working\u003c/a> in Pajaro and other affected areas, according to a county spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944021\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11944021 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A white semi facing the camera drives along a partially flooded road with completely submerged fields to both sides, alongside electric lines. In the background is a ranch-style house and thick tree cover.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63692_IMG_1243-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck drives on a flooded road between agricultural fields near Pajaro on March 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farmworkers from Watsonville whose homes were not flooded also are responding to the crisis. A group of volunteers raised donations through social media and dropped off bags of clothes and food to displaced residents near one of the blocked street entrances to Pajaro this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yessica Ortiz, a strawberry picker who fears she won’t have work either, said she paid out of her own pocket for chicken and rice, pizza boxes and cookies that she offered to families with young children on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to try to help people in whatever way we can,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>To give money:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cfmco.org/impact/montereycountystormrelieffund/\">Community Foundation for Monterey County: Storm Relief Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cfscc.org/funds/disaster-fund\">Community Foundation Santa Cruz County: Santa Cruz County Disaster Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allinmonterey\">ALL IN in Monterey County: Donation distribution center at Monterey Fairgrounds\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>To volunteer:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://allinmonterey.org/2023-pineapple-express-storm-relief\">Monterey County is seeking volunteers to sort donated items.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcross.org/local/california/northern-california-coastal/volunteer.html\">The Red Cross is accepting volunteer applications.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Additional organizations:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaysc.org/\">United Way of Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedwaymcca.org/\">United Way of Monterey County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cabinc.org/\">Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At a press conference in the flood-stricken Monterey County town of Pajaro on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom talked up a plan, paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and managed by United Way, to provide financial aid to farmworkers affected by floods and recent winter storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a state in America, not one state, no other state that does more for farmworkers than the state of California,” Newsom said. “I want folks to know … it’s important to reinforce today, March 15th, the United Way was able to get $42 million from USDA, and they’re starting to send out $600 checks for farmworkers, regardless of their immigration status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not referring to a new program for farmworkers who are in financial straits due to recent flooding and severe weather. Rather, as KAZU, KQED and The California Newsroom have learned, Newsom was referring to a $42 million farmworker grant managed by United Way that was announced in October of 2022, and has nothing to do with economic hardships due to recent storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943858\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248353374-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man stands in front of press microphones with various uniformed officials standing behind him and a river in the background, with the far banks of the river visible in the distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248353374-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248353374-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248353374-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1248353374.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a press conference near Pajaro flooding after he toured damaged areas in Pajaro of Monterey County, on March 15, 2023, as atmospheric river storms hit California. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The existing $42 million grant was created to provide “a one-time direct relief payment of $600 … to qualifying frontline farm, grocery, and meatpacking workers for expenses incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to the USDA’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office confirmed the $42 million he referred to in the press conference was in fact from the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program, which is funded under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/133/text\">Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether waivers would be granted to flood-stricken farmworkers who do not meet the pandemic hardship requirements, USDA spokesperson Marissa Perry reiterated that the FFWR program was specific to those suffering COVID-related economic hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference yesterday, Newsom also said money from the $42 million in aid would be available immediately. “Those dollars start going out today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Katy Castagna, president of United Way Monterey County, the application is not yet open in Monterey. And, of the $42 million, $300,000 has been allocated to Monterey County, which would amount to 500 cash cards worth $600 each.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11943590,news_11943316,news_11943713\"]In a Zoom meeting on Thursday, Castagna addressed questions about Newsom’s reference to FFWR funds being available to storm victims. The $42 million grant, she confirmed, “completely predated the current winter storm situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, she acknowledged that there is likely significant overlap between flood-stricken farmworkers and those experiencing pandemic-related hardships. “The good news about this really is I think it’s a pretty broad qualification for COVID impact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for comment, a spokesperson for Newsom said, “The administration is also pursuing additional supports for individuals recovering from January storms who are ineligible for FEMA assistance due to immigration status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo described the community of Pajaro as “mostly Latino, low-income farmworkers and immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a week after the county issued evacuation notices due to the failing Pajaro levee, residents are still unable to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a packed shelter full of Pajaro evacuees,” Alejo said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katy Castagna, president, United Way Monterey County\"]‘The good news about this really is I think it’s a pretty broad qualification for COVID impact.’[/pullquote]The displaced residents weren’t just forced out of their homes — they may be out of work, too: Tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been flooded in the Salinas and Pajaro valleys. Alejo says the fields will need to remain fallow for at least 60 days due to potential contamination from floodwaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take months to regrow harvests on these fields,” Alejo said. “So we also need to get resources for those who don’t have any other means to pay the rent, put food on the table and provide for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town of Pajaro has a population of under 3,000 and is mostly Hispanic, according to 2020 census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alejo described area residents as “people who are salt of the earth, but the people who have the most to lose here. They have so little but have lost so much,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting by KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As an orphaned child in rural southern Mexico, Abraham Salazar said he began working when he was just 10 years old. He helped to plow fields and grow corn and beans in the municipality of Constancia del Rosario, in the state of Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he settled in California’s wine country in 1990, Salazar kept toiling in agriculture. He tore roots and rocks out to prepare fields for planting. He pruned and harvested miles of vines, sometimes during grueling all-night shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 62 years old, Salazar said his lower back hurts, sometimes intensely. His heavily calloused hands are becoming arthritic. 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That means undocumented workers help fund the monthly retirement checks of U.S. citizens and legal residents, but likely won’t receive the payments when they themselves become seniors.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Angelica Salas, director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\"]‘If we do not create a system for this population, we are going to have a severe crisis of individuals who have labored and contributed to California, but who will then live in severe poverty in the very same state where they left their youth.’[/pullquote]“It’s tragic, it’s unjust,” said Salas. “They worked hard in some of the hardest and most backbreaking jobs in this country. They contributed. And now they’re completely locked out of benefits as they reach their golden years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar, who worked in agriculture for about three decades, said it was impossible to save any money on the low wages he earned, while taking care of his family and bills. Getting access to a regular stipend as he ages would be a “huge help” to reach his dream of retiring one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be magnificent because we work a lot but don’t get any help,” said Salazar, who recently launched a landscaping business. He hopes that, by working for himself, he’ll earn enough to start saving for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11943071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63167_02242023_agingundocumented-051-qut-1020x678.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits on a bet facing toward a window, smiling, with light on his face. He wears a button down collared shirt with a long sleeve underneath and dark pants. 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Salazar, 62, is one of thousands of undocumented California farmworkers who are reaching or past retirement age but must continue working because they are ineligible for Social Security benefits. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Growing number of undocumented workers reaching retirement age\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/clc.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/a_golden_age.pdf\">165,000 undocumented workers in California were age 55 and older in 2019\u003c/a>, according to an analysis of census figures published Tuesday by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. That figure is about 680,000 across the country, said the center’s co-director, Edward Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these workers were unable to legalize their status because they arrived in the U.S. in the years after eligibility for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890914/out-of-the-shadows-explores-the-complicated-history-of-the-1986-amnesty-law-that-changed-the-lives-of-millions\">last federal amnesty for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, which passed during the Reagan administration in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said the statistics point to a growing demographic wave, and that the country has not yet begun to reckon with the implications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you do with a significant proportion of our workforce who has been laboring for decades, without access to a social and economic safety net?” he asked. “Now that they are aging and can’t work, they will be in a much more vulnerable position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Abraham Salazar\"]‘I may be 80 or 90, but I won’t get anything of what I paid into Social Security during all those years of work. Absolutely nothing.’[/pullquote] In California’s agricultural industry, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/10cafacts_v3.pdf\">most productive in the nation (PDF)\u003c/a> with about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/\">$50 billion in annual revenue\u003c/a>, almost 85% of crop workers were born in Mexico. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/blog/post/?id=2770\">half don’t have legal authorization to work\u003c/a>, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor. As migration flows from Mexico slowed down in the mid-2000s, the age distribution of California agricultural workers shifted, with farmworkers age 55 to 64 increasing by 64% over the last decade, the UC Merced analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aging workforce has left agricultural employers grappling with a shortage of labor for years, especially in areas like the state’s Central Coast, where strawberries, lettuce and other top crops are not harvested mechanically, said Norm Groot, executive director at the Monterey County Farm Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not replacing those who are aging out of the workforce with new immigrant labor. Nor are we seeing that the children of the current farmworkers are interested in working in the fields,” said Groot. “So we are rapidly coming to a tipping point where we are not going to have enough labor supply on hand to harvest our crops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I still feel like I have the strength to do this work’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One older farmworker who continues to see demand for his services is Asuncion Ponce, who lives in Fresno. The 77-year-old said he still wakes up at 4:30 to calmly drink his coffee and get a ride to seasonal jobs pruning orchard trees or harvesting nectarines, peaches and pears in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still feel like I have the strength to do this work,” said Ponce proudly, in Spanish. “In Mexico, I was a farmworker and here I’m still doing the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naturalized U.S. citizen said he worries that the Social Security benefits he’s eligible for won’t cover all of his expenses once he retires. But he acknowledges he’s less physically able to climb ladders up fruit trees or carry heavy crates all day. He’s considering quitting work in two or three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ponce arrived undocumented from Mexico in the early 1980s, but was able to benefit from the Reagan-era amnesty and obtain a green card, allowing him to work legally in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-time member of United Farm Workers, Ponce continues to attend marches and rallies supporting legislation that could aid workers who migrated to the U.S. in the years after him, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FarmWorkforceModernizationAct-FactSheet-FJ-2021.pdf\">Farm Workforce Modernization Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. That said, immigration policy experts say a new path to legalization for immigrants is unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just really unfortunate, because older farmworkers who are undocumented and at retirement age or very close, they can’t afford to wait,” said Antonio De Loera-Brust, communications director for the United Farm Workers. “The clock is really ticking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Lawyers for the hunger strikers have asked a judge to order ICE not to relocate the men or retaliate against them.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Edwin Carmona-Cruz, spokesperson, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice\"]‘People are very afraid, very shaken up. In fact, one of the individuals said that it was literally like a terror scene out of a movie.’[/pullquote]“It’s evident that ICE operates as a rogue agency and does whatever they want,” said Edwin Carmona-Cruz, spokesperson for the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ), which represents Pedro Figueroa, one of the four men who were transferred. “If they were really concerned about our client’s safety, they would have paid attention and listened to his grievances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transfer of the men out of the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield began Tuesday morning and was partially captured on a video call between Figueroa and attorney, Eva Umejido, who in a legal declaration said she spotted several officers in military gear walking around the dorm. Then the screen shook and the video paused but the audio stream continued, Umejido said, and she could hear Figueroa screaming, “You’re hurting my wrist,” and “I am not resisting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the attorney-client phone line was inoperable for several hours while the men were being seized, so other detainees were unable to reach their lawyers and tell them what was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 309px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Captura-de-Pantalla-2023-03-07-a-las-12.32.38-p.-m..png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Captura-de-Pantalla-2023-03-07-a-las-12.32.38-p.-m..png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a video call, showing a blurred faced of a detained man, with a glimpse of a guard in military gear in the background.\" width=\"309\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Captura-de-Pantalla-2023-03-07-a-las-12.32.38-p.-m..png 472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Captura-de-Pantalla-2023-03-07-a-las-12.32.38-p.-m.-160x203.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hunger striker in the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center participates in a video call on March 7, 2023, just before he and three other men are handcuffed and removed from the dormitory and transferred to a facility in El Paso, Texas. An ICE agent in tactical gear can be seen in the background. The detained man’s face has been blurred to protect his identity because he fears retaliation by ICE officials. \u003ccite>(Photo obtained by KQED from a hunger-strike supporter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours later, lawyers for the four men received emails from ICE saying their clients were “being transferred based on the recommendation by the onsite medical authority to the IHSC facility located in El Paso, Texas, for a higher level of medical care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, one of the men transferred to El Paso told advocates he was shocked and profoundly demoralized by what he called inhumane treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They dragged [one of us] out of the cell. What are we? If we’re not human beings, then what are we to them?” said the man, who declined to be identified out of fear of further retaliation. “If there’s a law that protects us to do a peaceful protest, where is that law now? I’ve never experienced anything like that. I had never been touched like that, treated like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José), who have called on ICE to investigate conditions at the Mesa Verde facility and the nearby Golden State Annex, asked the agency on Tuesday for information about the transfers but had not received a response as of midday Thursday, according to their offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren has also said she wants ICE to conduct a case-by-case review of each of the hunger strikers’ requests to be released while their cases proceed through immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, if somebody goes on a hunger strike, it’s not for a frivolous reason,” she told KQED. “To refuse all food — people don’t do that for no reason. 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They also complain of black mold, spoiled food, sexually abusive pat-downs and the use of solitary confinement as retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesperson last week confirmed the hunger strike, saying it became official under agency policy as of the evening of Feb. 19, after detainees had missed nine consecutive meals. Under ICE standards, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2019/4_2.pdf\">medical staff are required to carefully monitor the health of hunger strikers in detention (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials declined to comment for this story or to say how many people it considers to be on hunger strike at the two facilities.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Aseem Mehta, attorney, Asian Law Caucus\"]'For almost one year now, the individuals in these facilities have been attempting to negotiate with ICE for better treatment ... And ICE and GEO have stonewalled them all along the way.'[/pullquote]On Thursday, roughly 40 of the men were continuing to refuse food and had only consumed liquids for 14 days, according to Aseem Mehta, attorney with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco who is representing the hunger strikers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941677/until-we-drop-hunger-strike-enters-second-week-as-immigrants-in-ice-detention-protest-conditions\">a lawsuit filed last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class-action suit alleges that ICE and The GEO Group, the company that owns and operates the prisons, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Mendez_v._ICE_Complaint.pdf\">tried to punish the hunger strikers (PDF)\u003c/a> by placing them in solitary confinement and denying them family visits, yard time and access to church and the law library. The retaliation violates the detainees’ First Amendment right to protest their conditions, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn't have to get to this point,” said Mehta. “For almost one year now, the individuals in these facilities have been attempting to negotiate with ICE for better treatment, better conditions and better care at the facilities. And ICE and GEO have stonewalled them all along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men ultimately decided that the only thing they would accept is release from detention and that they would stop eating until they are released, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accordingly, 38 of the men have filed petitions with the help of lawyers — and dozens of others submitted them on their own — asking to be released while their cases proceed through the immigration courts, said Mehta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. law, certain asylum seekers, and noncitizens convicted of certain crimes, are subject to \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11343\">mandatory detention while they are in deportation proceedings (PDF)\u003c/a>. But immigration attorneys argue — and ICE's own guidance states — that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/opla/prosecutorial-discretion\">ICE has inherent “prosecutorial discretion” to release individuals on a case-by-case basis\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941677,news_11938736\"]“ICE has the discretion and the authority to release every single one of these individuals,” said Mehta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter to ICE, the advocates asserted that the agency “can and must use its professional judgment to evaluate enforcement decisions in every individual case.” But they say ICE has denied nearly all of the hunger strikers’ release requests, so quickly, in many cases, that ICE could not have reviewed the evidence submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example given, an individual submitted more than 200 pages of evidence in favor of release, but the request was denied just 19 minutes after it was filed. In another, a request was denied after 77 minutes, despite the fact that it included more than 100 pages of documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE has summarily denied or ignored every one of those requests, and this letter is calling upon ICE to follow the law and follow their own guidance to take an individualized review of every single request that's made to them,” said Mehta. “At bottom [ICE detainees] have a constitutional right to fair treatment and due process, and that right overrides any other consideration under the immigration laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Louisiana, an estimated 300 immigrants detained at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center launched a hunger strike Thursday, demanding improved conditions and calling for their own release, according to Detention Watch Network, a coalition that seeks to end ICE detention. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940316/fear-of-deportation-keeps-some-workers-from-reporting-labor-abuses-a-new-biden-program-aims-to-change-that\">Leer en inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ir a:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"#funciona\">\u003cstrong>Cómo funciona la solicitud de acción diferida\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A medida que progresan las investigaciones sobre posibles violaciones laborales en las dos granjas de hongos de Half Moon Bay donde se produjo un tiroteo masivo el mes pasado, los abogados laborales y de inmigración del Área de la Bahía dicen que están tratando de correr la voz sobre las nuevas protecciones federales anunciadas recientemente por la administración del presidente Biden que podrían proteger a los trabajadores indocumentados de la deportación si hablan sobre los abusos en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando el gobernador Gavin Newsom visitó Half Moon Bay tras la matanza del 23 de enero, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938972/7-killed-in-monday-shooting-massacre-in-half-moon-bay\">la cual cobró la vida de siete trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes,\u003c/a> expresó su conmoción al enterarse que los empleados vivieran en contenedores de transporte y dijo que algunos le habían contado que ganaban sólo 9 dólares la hora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Patricia Ortiz, Directora jurídica del programa de inmigración, California Rural Legal Assistance\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable. Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que tienen acceso las personas en otras partes del estado, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"¿Quieren saber el salario mínimo de California? No es de 9 dólares la hora\", dijo Newsom. \"Sin atención sanitaria, sin ayudas, sin servicios. Pero ellos cuidan de nuestra salud. Prestando un servicio a todos y cada uno de nosotros, todos los días\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales comenzaron inmediatamente a recabar información sobre California Terra Garden y Concord Farms, las dos granjas atacadas, y consiguieron entrar dos horas después de que las fuerzas del orden abrieron de nuevo los sitios el 25 de enero, según Peter Melton, portavoz del Departamento de Relaciones Industriales del estado. Confirmó que su agencia está investigando a ambas empresas por posibles infracciones en el lugar de trabajo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melton subrayó que la agencia no solicita ni rastrea el estatus migratorio de los trabajadores, y añadió: \"En California, los trabajadores agrícolas y de la mayoría de las demás industrias están protegidos por las leyes laborales y las normas de seguridad y salud en el lugar de trabajo de California, independientemente de su estatus migratorio\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por una cuestión de política, el Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. no quiso confirmar si también está investigando las granjas. Pero el vicealcalde de Half Moon Bay, Joaquín Jiménez Ureña, dijo que la semana anterior investigadores federales estuvieron en la ciudad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con ellos\", dijo. \"Compartieron conmigo lo que están investigando. Quieren colaborar con nosotros para asegurarse de que los trabajadores agrícolas estén bien atendidos con salarios y vivienda, y que se les comunique cualquier incidente que ocurra en las granjas.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vulnerables a la explotación\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A pesar de las protecciones laborales de California, los trabajadores inmigrantes suelen tener miedo a denunciar por temor a las represalias de los empleadores y a la amenaza de la deportación, afirman los defensores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casi el 60% de los trabajadores agrícolas del estado \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">son inmigrantes indocumentados\u003c/a> (enlace sólo en inglés), según los últimos datos del Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incluso los trabajadores agrícolas que trabajan legalmente, con \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/espanol\">visados agrícolas temporales H-2A\u003c/a>, pueden ser reacios a quejarse \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">porque dependen de sus empleadores para mantener sus visados de trabajo\u003c/a>. Y para los inmigrantes indocumentados, el temor es aún mayor, dice Patricia Ortiz, directora legal del programa de inmigración de la organización sin fines de lucro California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11919450\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarmworkersIlloVignet-1020x659-1.jpg\"]\"Los trabajadores agrícolas se encuentran en una situación muy vulnerable\", dijo Ortiz. \"Están en zonas rurales, donde tal vez están aislados de la información a la que la gente en otras partes del estado tiene acceso, en cuanto a sus derechos y qué recursos tienen para hacerlos valer\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/13/dhs-anuncia-mejoras-en-los-procesos-para-apoyar-las-investigaciones-de-cumplimiento\">un nuevo programa simplificado y acelerado de solicitud de \"acción diferida\"\u003c/a>, destinado a ayudar al gobierno a acabar con los empleadores abusivos, podría animar a más trabajadores indocumentados a denunciar condiciones injustas o inseguras, dijo Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores que demuestren que están cooperando con una investigación laboral pueden solicitar un permiso de trabajo y dos años de protección contra la deportación a través de un proceso acelerado anunciado en enero por el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés), Alejandro Mayorkas. 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Y un grupo de abogados del Área de la Bahía programaron una videollamada para debatir cómo podrían beneficiar a sus clientes estas protecciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Un giro de 180 grados\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sergio Benavides, un abogado de inmigración de Hayward dijo que ya hace tiempo es que la administración Biden debería haberse enfocado en las protecciones laborales para los inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Para mí representa un giro completo de 180 grados con respecto a la era del expresidente Trump\", dijo. \"La administración Biden está diciendo, 'Oigan, trabajadores, queremos ayudarlos. Queremos protegerlos. Queremos investigar las violaciones de la ley. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Joaquín Jiménez Ureña climbs into the cab of his 1992 Chevrolet pickup truck, he’s often heading out to one of the farms along the San Mateo County coast — to talk with farmworkers and deliver donations of food, rain gear or blankets. But on a recent sunny morning, Jiménez Ureña was setting off for a meeting of local business leaders concerned with a growing sense of crisis over farmworker housing.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"David Canepa, supervisor, San Mateo County\"]'This is a systemic, generational problem, not unique to San Mateo County, and one that can only be solved with state and federal help. We owe it to the victims of this tragedy to improve the conditions under which they live for the betterment of our farmworkers.'[/pullquote]In the month since the Jan. 23 mass shooting — in which seven workers at a pair of mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay were shot and killed, allegedly by a 66-year-old co-worker — farmworker housing has been a central concern here. And Jiménez Ureña and other community leaders — as well as farmworkers themselves — are aiming to transform the tragedy into urgently needed investments in decent, affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom arrived after the shooting rampage to console survivors, only to discover that some were living in uninsulated shipping containers, he expressed outrage and vowed investigations. The next day, San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, who toured the shooting scenes, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ray_Mueller_/status/1618694092506152960\">tweeted photos\u003c/a> of what he called “deplorable, heartbreaking living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña knows how hard life can be for the estimated 2,000 farmworkers who power the county’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/agwm/agricultural-crop-report\">$100 million agriculture industry\u003c/a>. He’s vice mayor of Half Moon Bay. But he also runs the farmworker outreach program for \u003ca href=\"https://www.alasdreams.com\">Ayudando Latinos a Soñar\u003c/a>, or ALAS, a local nonprofit serving the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jiménez Ureña and his team make visits on a couple of dozen farms along this region known as the Coastside, he said they not only bring donations in the pickup truck, known as Big Blue, but they teach farmworkers about their rights and connect them with health services and other resources. In the process, they hear about the financial stresses workers face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a group of farmworkers that actually were sleeping in their cars,” he said. “They couldn’t find housing, so they moved on, migrated to other farming communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A yellow painted house with a porch, a man walking in.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2498-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joaquín Jiménez Ureña walks into the offices of Ayudando Latinos a Sonar, or ALAS, a Half Moon Bay nonprofit group where he runs the farmworker program, on Feb. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Reid Cramer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most farmworkers here in the Coastside earn little more than the minimum wage of $15.50/hour, said Jiménez Ureña. But in San Mateo County, a \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu\">living wage\u003c/a> that covers the basics can be well over twice that, depending on how many children a worker is supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other agricultural regions of the state, which have housing challenges of their own, San Mateo’s farming communities are smack in the middle of the expensive Bay Area, just over the hill from Silicon Valley and tucked between beachfront homes and luxury resorts, making the affordability crisis especially acute.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up in crowded housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña, 49, has lived in Half Moon Bay for 34 years. His family left a small town in Jalisco, Mexico, when he was in middle school. And his parents settled the family here and found work in one of the local plant nurseries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his family coped with high rents the way many families do, by sharing costs — and living space — with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember one year during my high school years, we had a three-bedroom house, one bathroom, and there were 21 of us,” he said. “So I know what it feels like to be in a crowded home.”[aside postID=news_11940316 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1456240028-1020x656.jpg']As a teenager, Jiménez Ureña says, he managed by building a life for himself outside the house: playing sports, working an after-school job, studying at the library and even showering at the school gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At home there was really not much space to do anything,” he recalled. “I had a place on the floor in the living room to sleep, and a closet where I could keep some of my clothes and my books.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña went off to college, then came back home to work as a teacher, in juvenile probation, and eventually as director of the ALAS farmworker program. In 2020 he was elected as the first Latino on the Half Moon Bay City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Our essential workers can't afford to live here'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On this day, he strode into the Mezza Luna Italian Restaurant in ranch boots and jeans for a Coastside Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting, settling in the back as Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose addressed the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a hell of a month,” she said. “Each and every one of you has suffered the loss of those seven lives … I get it. I’m in pain, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Penrose said, the deplorable conditions the mushroom workers were living in served as a reminder of a much larger problem: “It has put back into the spotlight the lack of affordable housing — period — on the coast. The fact that our essential workers can't afford to live here and we are losing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said county officials have pledged to work with Half Moon Bay to try to purchase land to build housing for farmworkers and others. The local economy also depends on the labor of low-wage hospitality workers at the area’s many hotels and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the 38 workers who were displaced from the two mushroom farms recently moved into Airbnb lodging — donated for a month. And officials are scrambling to find a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted to spend $750,000 of federal pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan toward housing the survivors of the shooting for the coming year. And county officials said they hope those dollars will be matched with philanthropic donations.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11939603,forum_2010101892120,news_11939470\"]During the meeting, Supervisor David Canepa said the county has also committed another $3.3 million over two years for farmworker housing. And he pointed to a county loan program for farm owners to build or repair homes for workers. But he said the county can’t do it alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a systemic, generational problem, not unique to San Mateo County, and one that can only be solved with state and federal help,” said Canepa. “We owe it to the victims of this tragedy to improve the conditions under which they live for the betterment of our farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the Newsom administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/state-awards-428-million-spur-local-affordable-housing-including-farmworkers\">grants totaling $42.8 million to three housing developers\u003c/a> to build more than 200 affordable units across San Mateo County — though just 18 of them are reserved for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Ray Mueller said he has been meeting with multiple state agencies, as well as state legislators and members of Congress, to discuss additional solutions for farmworker housing, though he didn’t share details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moment here in San Mateo County to really do something that will strengthen our agricultural economy, that will treat farmworkers with the respect and dignity that they deserve and hopefully be a beacon to the rest of the state of what can be accomplished coming out of a tragedy like this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stable year-round home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yesenia García has worked at Cabrillo Farms for over a decade, planting, harvesting and packing Brussels sprouts, artichokes, fava beans and peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She counts herself lucky, because her employer provides good housing. She and her husband and two kids share a four-bedroom home on the farm with her in-laws. They are 11 in all, she said, but comfortable enough, with two bathrooms and their own laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And García — the daughter of migrant farmworkers, who grew up following the ripening crops up and down California — values the fact that she has a stable, year-round home. She said when work on the farm dries up for a couple of months each year, her boss encourages the crew to stay on and take temporary jobs nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A Latina woman with a pink hoodie smiles at the camera while working on a farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia García, 29, packs vegetables at Cabrillo Farms just north of Half Moon Bay. García counts herself lucky that her employer provides housing on the farm for her family and many others. As a member of San Mateo County's Farmworker Advisory Commission, she knows how tough it is for low-wage agricultural workers to afford housing in such an expensive Bay Area county. \u003ccite>(Reid Cramer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all come back … He's always there for us, and we are always there for him,” García said. “But I see other farms. They don't have good housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo Farms owner David Lea didn’t return KQED’s requests for comment. But Jiménez Ureña said Lea provides the kind of farmworker housing that could be a model for growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García sits on the county’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/farmworker-advisory-commission\">Farmworker Advisory Commission\u003c/a>, established last fall. She says housing on the San Mateo coast costs so much, it has forced people she knows to move away and take agricultural jobs in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my friends have already left because they couldn't afford it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says when workers find themselves in unsafe or unsanitary conditions, they’re often afraid to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them, they’re just scared, they don't want to say anything,” she said. “Probably the immigration status and all that. They don't want to get in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">Nearly 60% of the state’s agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, according to the latest federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When housing is tied to employment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Complaining about substandard housing can mean risking one’s job, says Lucia Lin, an organizer with the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco who has been helping the Mandarin-speaking farmworkers who survived the attack at the Half Moon Bay mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says workers told her that when they saw the jobs listed in Bay Area Chinese newspapers, the fact that lodging was included made the positions appealing. But the shooting exposed how tricky it can be for workers when their housing is tied to their employment.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joaquín Jiménez Ureña, vice mayor, Half Moon Bay\"]'The county can reach out to all the farms, all the places that offer housing and check them. But you also have to think about what can happen to the people that live there if that place gets red-tagged. Where are they going to go?'[/pullquote]“They're afraid to not go to work because that also means maybe they wouldn't have that job and then maybe they wouldn't have housing,” said Lin. “So there are all of these big things when you have all your eggs in one basket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Mateo County officials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-launches-task-force-improve-living-conditions-farm-laborers\">launching an inspection task force\u003c/a>, to force farmers to upgrade housing that doesn’t meet building codes or health and safety regulations. County Executive Mike Callagy said the multiagency team will work with farm owners to bring housing into compliance, but they will get tough on bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that we do find conditions that are not conducive to healthy, dignified living, we will take action,” he told county supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña applauded the effort but worries that a crackdown could leave workers homeless. He said he’s seen too many cases where landlords ignore problems until they get complaints, then force the tenants out, renovate the units and put them back on the market at double the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county can reach out to all the farms, all the places that offer housing and check them,” he said. “But you also have to think about what can happen to the people that live there if that place gets red-tagged. Where are they going to go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jiménez Ureña believes that the attention the shooting has brought to the needs of farmworkers has the potential to unlock the resources and political will to create more decent housing that agricultural workers can afford, in Half Moon Bay and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña said he was proud that his boss, ALAS Executive Director Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, was the guest of U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t represent just Half Moon Bay. She represents the farmworkers across the United States because it is the same thing happening [everywhere],” he said. “And this is going to put a spotlight on the farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better conditions are essential, Jiménez Ureña said, not just for farmworkers and their families, but for the larger economy. Over the years, he said, he’s seen at least 1,000 acres of Coastside farmland go out of production, as the workforce dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally like corn chips. I don't like computer chips to eat,” he laughed. “Right now everybody's focused on healthy eating, you know? Fresh salads, organic eggs. Think about it: Who do you think is producing that? A farmer can only do so much. So the farmer needs working hands, the farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the meeting, Supervisor David Canepa said the county has also committed another $3.3 million over two years for farmworker housing. And he pointed to a county loan program for farm owners to build or repair homes for workers. But he said the county can’t do it alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a systemic, generational problem, not unique to San Mateo County, and one that can only be solved with state and federal help,” said Canepa. “We owe it to the victims of this tragedy to improve the conditions under which they live for the betterment of our farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the Newsom administration announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/state-awards-428-million-spur-local-affordable-housing-including-farmworkers\">grants totaling $42.8 million to three housing developers\u003c/a> to build more than 200 affordable units across San Mateo County — though just 18 of them are reserved for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Ray Mueller said he has been meeting with multiple state agencies, as well as state legislators and members of Congress, to discuss additional solutions for farmworker housing, though he didn’t share details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a moment here in San Mateo County to really do something that will strengthen our agricultural economy, that will treat farmworkers with the respect and dignity that they deserve and hopefully be a beacon to the rest of the state of what can be accomplished coming out of a tragedy like this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stable year-round home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yesenia García has worked at Cabrillo Farms for over a decade, planting, harvesting and packing Brussels sprouts, artichokes, fava beans and peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She counts herself lucky, because her employer provides good housing. She and her husband and two kids share a four-bedroom home on the farm with her in-laws. They are 11 in all, she said, but comfortable enough, with two bathrooms and their own laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And García — the daughter of migrant farmworkers, who grew up following the ripening crops up and down California — values the fact that she has a stable, year-round home. She said when work on the farm dries up for a couple of months each year, her boss encourages the crew to stay on and take temporary jobs nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A Latina woman with a pink hoodie smiles at the camera while working on a farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2525-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia García, 29, packs vegetables at Cabrillo Farms just north of Half Moon Bay. García counts herself lucky that her employer provides housing on the farm for her family and many others. As a member of San Mateo County's Farmworker Advisory Commission, she knows how tough it is for low-wage agricultural workers to afford housing in such an expensive Bay Area county. \u003ccite>(Reid Cramer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all come back … He's always there for us, and we are always there for him,” García said. “But I see other farms. They don't have good housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrillo Farms owner David Lea didn’t return KQED’s requests for comment. But Jiménez Ureña said Lea provides the kind of farmworker housing that could be a model for growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García sits on the county’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/farmworker-advisory-commission\">Farmworker Advisory Commission\u003c/a>, established last fall. She says housing on the San Mateo coast costs so much, it has forced people she knows to move away and take agricultural jobs in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my friends have already left because they couldn't afford it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says when workers find themselves in unsafe or unsanitary conditions, they’re often afraid to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them, they’re just scared, they don't want to say anything,” she said. “Probably the immigration status and all that. They don't want to get in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/national-agricultural-workers-survey/research/data-tables\">Nearly 60% of the state’s agricultural workers are undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>, according to the latest federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When housing is tied to employment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Complaining about substandard housing can mean risking one’s job, says Lucia Lin, an organizer with the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco who has been helping the Mandarin-speaking farmworkers who survived the attack at the Half Moon Bay mushroom farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says workers told her that when they saw the jobs listed in Bay Area Chinese newspapers, the fact that lodging was included made the positions appealing. But the shooting exposed how tricky it can be for workers when their housing is tied to their employment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They're afraid to not go to work because that also means maybe they wouldn't have that job and then maybe they wouldn't have housing,” said Lin. “So there are all of these big things when you have all your eggs in one basket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Mateo County officials are \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-launches-task-force-improve-living-conditions-farm-laborers\">launching an inspection task force\u003c/a>, to force farmers to upgrade housing that doesn’t meet building codes or health and safety regulations. County Executive Mike Callagy said the multiagency team will work with farm owners to bring housing into compliance, but they will get tough on bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that we do find conditions that are not conducive to healthy, dignified living, we will take action,” he told county supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña applauded the effort but worries that a crackdown could leave workers homeless. He said he’s seen too many cases where landlords ignore problems until they get complaints, then force the tenants out, renovate the units and put them back on the market at double the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county can reach out to all the farms, all the places that offer housing and check them,” he said. “But you also have to think about what can happen to the people that live there if that place gets red-tagged. Where are they going to go?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jiménez Ureña believes that the attention the shooting has brought to the needs of farmworkers has the potential to unlock the resources and political will to create more decent housing that agricultural workers can afford, in Half Moon Bay and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jiménez Ureña said he was proud that his boss, ALAS Executive Director Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, was the guest of U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t represent just Half Moon Bay. She represents the farmworkers across the United States because it is the same thing happening [everywhere],” he said. “And this is going to put a spotlight on the farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better conditions are essential, Jiménez Ureña said, not just for farmworkers and their families, but for the larger economy. Over the years, he said, he’s seen at least 1,000 acres of Coastside farmland go out of production, as the workforce dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally like corn chips. I don't like computer chips to eat,” he laughed. “Right now everybody's focused on healthy eating, you know? Fresh salads, organic eggs. Think about it: Who do you think is producing that? A farmer can only do so much. So the farmer needs working hands, the farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Five detainees on an ongoing hunger strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/hunger-strikers-central-valley-immigration-detention-facilities-file-class-action-lawsuit\">have sued\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a private prison company for alleged retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several dozen men have refused meals for more than a week, protesting what they call “inhumane” living and working conditions at the two for-profit detention centers in Kern County where they are held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Mendez_v._ICE_Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> accuses ICE and its detention contractor The GEO Group of punishing hunger strikers by taking away their yard time, family visitation and other recreational activities, and by threatening them with solitary confinement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GEO staffers have also made dormitory temperatures “uncomfortably cold” and tried to halt the detainees’ strike by leaving food on their beds for long periods of time, according to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We filed this lawsuit to protect the First Amendment rights of a group of people who have put their bodies on the line to protest the injustice of their detention,” said Bree Bernwanger, senior attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they should draw is the attention of ICE and GEO to the horrendous conditions that they are detained under,” she added. “Instead, they were deprived for no reason except to punish them. That violates the Constitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for ICE and GEO have denied the alleged retaliation, but declined to comment further on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five plaintiffs, who have been detained for lengths ranging from 10 months to more than two years, are asking the court to let them represent about 80 detainees who began the hunger strike on Feb. 17, in a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>More than 70 people locked up at two for-profit immigration detention centers in Kern County have refused to eat any meals for a week now, according to interviews with detainees and legal assistance organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson confirmed that the hunger strike became official as of last Sunday evening, after detainees missed nine consecutive meals at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield and the nearby Golden State Annex in McFarland.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oscar Rodriguez Picazo, ICE detainee and hunger striker\"]'We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us.'[/pullquote]Hunger strikers said they will risk their lives as a last resort to pressure ICE officials to improve the “\u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/pressroom_posts/breaking-seventy-seven-detained-immigrants-launch-hunger-strike-at-two-central-valley-facilities-protest-unpaid-labor-and-inhumane-conditions/\">soul-crushing\u003c/a>” working and living conditions at the facilities they’ve complained repeatedly about, to no avail. The detainees \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/opla/prosecutorial-discretion\">argue officials should also use their prosecutorial discretion to release those who don’t pose a safety threat or flight risk\u003c/a>, but are jailed long-term while they fight deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not being heard. Our basic needs are not being met. So we are asking ICE to release us,” Oscar Rodriguez Picazo told KQED by phone from Mesa Verde, where he has been held for more than a year. The 36-year-old said he felt weak after skipping all meals since last Friday, but that he and others would continue the hunger strike “until we drop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde staffers have responded by taking away yard time and other recreational activities, as well as access to the law library, said Rodriguez Picazo and another hunger striker, Jose Hernandez. That has left protesters confined to their dorm 24/7, they said, except for trips to get medical checkups elsewhere in the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we asked an officer, she told us, ‘You guys don’t get no visits, no rec, nothing of nothing, because you are on a hunger strike,’” said Rodriguez Picazo, who grew up in California’s Tulare County after emigrating from Mexico.[aside postID=news_11938736 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS57626_007_KQED_AnoopPrasad_08052022-qut-1020x680.jpg']Medical personnel must carefully monitor the health, as well as food and water intake, of detainees on hunger strike, which ICE considers as such \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2019/4_2.pdf\">only after detainees have not eaten for 72 hours (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the agency’s standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference. ICE does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” said an agency spokesperson in a statement. “ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency’s custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency did not confirm how many detainees it considers on hunger strike at the two facilities. But commissary food items remain available for purchase by detainees, the spokesperson added, saying “ICE explains the negative health effects of not eating to our detainees, and they are under close medical observation by ICE or contract medical providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike represents an escalation of an ongoing, months-long work stoppage that detainees say they are waging to protest expired food, substandard medical care and overpriced commissary items that have pushed Rodriguez Picazo and others to work at the facilities for well below minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex are overseen by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officials stationed in San Francisco. The agency contracts with the multinational prison company The GEO Group to operate those detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, more than a dozen supporters of the hunger strikers sang chants on megaphones and rallied outside ICE headquarters in downtown San Francisco, as dozens of people looked on while they waited in line to enter the agency offices, clutching paper forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Esperanza Cuautle, an organizer with the nonprofit Pangea Legal Services, told the crowd on the street. Hunger strikers “are tired of the mistreatment, tired of the violation of their human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941702\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman speaks into a megaphone with male and female protesters behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63125_02222023_detaineehungerstrike-014-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esperanza Cuautle, 30, an organizer with the Mesa Verde-Golden State Annex Hunger Strike Support Committee, speaks outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown San Francisco on Feb. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group pays detainees $1 per day for eight-hour shifts to scrub bathrooms, do laundry, work as barbers and do other tasks to maintain the facilities, per \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/5-8.pdf\">ICE guidelines that require compensation of “at least” $1 per day (PDF)\u003c/a>. Yet the company has engaged in “unlawful wage theft, unjust enrichment and forced labor” by coercing detainees to work, according to a \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft#:~:text=GEO%20pays%20the%20paltry%20daily,facilities%2C%20according%20to%20the%20lawsuit.\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the suit was filed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11925791/california-lawmakers-call-for-investigation-into-detainee-complaints-of-solitary-confinement\">more than a dozen California members of Congress urged top immigration authorities to investigate\u003c/a> alleged “disturbing conditions and abusive and retaliatory behavior” toward detainees — including the use of solitary confinement — for participating in the peaceful labor strike at the two detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-to-chair-senate-judiciary-subcommittee-on-immigration/\">Senator Alex Padilla of California\u003c/a>, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety, did not immediately return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José) led the request six months ago for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate detention conditions at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am hoping they can address the issues my colleagues and I highlighted in our September 2022 letter as soon as possible. I also hope the Administration has already begun the thorough investigation we requested,” said Lofgren, a senior member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement and a former immigration lawyer, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards,” she added.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José)\"]'As disturbing reports of inhumane conditions, retaliation, and abusive behavior continue at Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex, I am renewing my call for a national phase-out of all private detention facility and jail contracts and for ICE to ensure humane detention standards.'[/pullquote]KQED obtained a copy of ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson’s recent response to Lofgren, Padilla and the other California members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE was made aware of the allegations against the Geo Group,” said Johnson in his letter. “On July 7, 2022, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) submitted all documentation related to the allegations to the ICE Joint Intake Center for further review and investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS’ Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which also received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/laf-09-12-2022-mv-gsa\">complaint from nine detainees at the two facilities last September\u003c/a>, is investigating reports “related to conditions of detention” at Golden State Annex, said Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A GEO Group spokesperson rejected allegations of retaliation against detainees or substandard detention conditions at the facilities. Both detention centers provide round-the-clock medical care, nutritional meals approved by a registered dietician and enhanced recreational amenities, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it relates to allegations regarding retaliation, GEO has a grievance process in place for use by persons housed at our facilities that is grounded in accessibility, confidentiality, fairness, objectivity and integrity, without fear of retaliation,” the GEO spokesperson said. “GEO has a zero-tolerance policy with respect to staff misconduct. Any alleged misconduct by GEO staff is promptly investigated and addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is also contesting fines of more than $104,000 issued last December by California workplace health and safety regulators for \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1609228.015\">several violations\u003c/a>, after worker detainees filed a complaint and Cal/OSHA inspectors visited Golden State Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit Freedom for Immigrants documented that at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hunger-strikes\">1,600 people went on hunger strike while held at 20 detention centers nationwide\u003c/a> between May 2015 and early 2020. The incidence of such actions surged early on in the pandemic, with nearly 2,500 detainees waging COVID-related hunger strikes between March and July 2020, according to Detention Watch Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials and facility staffers have commonly responded with abuse and retaliation against people protesting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cruelty-and-coercion-how-ice-abuses-hunger-strikers\">refusing to eat — a First Amendment-protected right\u003c/a>, according to a report by the ACLU and Physicians for Human Rights. The groups analyzed hundreds of hunger strikes in immigration detention between 2013 and 2017. The authors of the report said those responses included use of force, solitary confinement and involuntary medical procedures.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11924388,news_11934879\"]“Since the issuance of our report in 2021, ICE has not changed its policies or practices with respect to its treatment of hunger strikes. ICE’s failure to do so is of obvious concern,” said Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">Immigration detention\u003c/a> is legally classified as civil and should be nonpunitive, unlike in the criminal justice setting. 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