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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent morning at the Concord office of \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay\u003c/a>, staff members filled an enormous laundry cart with basic supplies for a new household — a family of seven, just arrived from Afghanistan. They loaded up new pillows, sheets, comforters, towel sets, pots and pans, and a microwave oven still in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he helped wheel the cart to an elevator and out to the street, the father of the family looked bleary. He said they had gotten on a flight out of Kabul on Aug. 27, the day after a suicide bombing at the airport killed at least 175, and then spent over a week in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he had worked for U.S. Army Special Forces as an interpreter, and asked not to be identified because he feared the Taliban could harm his relatives back home if they knew he had left the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, his wife and their five children are among at least 2,000 Afghan evacuees who have arrived in California since July — most coming to the Bay Area and Sacramento. The East Bay office of JFCS has resettled 137.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the new arrivals begin to put the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help. It turns out Afghans who call Northern California home know a lot about what the newcomers are going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them, the same as if they were our family or our friends,” said Ashraf Hussain, the JFCS case manager who pushed the cart to the curb. “I feel so happy when I’m helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890515 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask pulls against a doorframe to help himself pull a massive laundry cart on wheels laden with items in black garbage bags through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walid Aziz (L) and Ashraf Hussain from Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay bring household goods from the organization's offices in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021, to a family who recently arrived from Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hussain loaded the bedding and kitchenware into a U-Haul, along with donated mattresses and furniture. He says when he arrived from Afghanistan in 2017, he did not get connected with a resettlement agency and had to fend for himself. Now, he wants his clients to have an easier path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hussain also was a U.S. Army interpreter. And, like this new family, he arrived on a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a>, which qualifies recipients for refugee benefits. Hussain’s job is to help this new family apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal, find housing in the costly Bay Area and enroll the kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Establishing stability for families fleeing chaos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Typically, Afghans airlifted out of Kabul were flown to Qatar and then to U.S. military bases in Germany, Italy or Uganda, says Fouzia Azizi, JFCS's director of refugee services. From there they travel to bases in the U.S. where they get medical screenings, coronavirus vaccinations and paperwork processed. Jewish Family and Community Services estimates that there are currently more than 53,000 Afghan evacuees at military bases in the U.S. and at least another 12,000 who will eventually arrive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi says all the practical help Hussain and other staff members provide is the first step to establishing stability for families who have fled chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890505 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women and a man sit at a table in a conference room, two with papers in front of them and one on a laptop. On the wall is a large framed print of a bouquet in a vase.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi (R), director of refugee services, meets with her team at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There's trauma involved. There’s fear involved. And the anxiety level is so high,” she said. “Folks that are getting here, they are extremely overwhelmed due to the long process. ... And also, they left their loved ones at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new arrivals need more than beds and kitchenware. They need a sense of connection and emotional support, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887630,news_11889134,news_11885170\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be in touch with somebody that has a similar culture and also went through a similar experience,” she said. “It's a huge difference when you come and you have community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff at Jewish Family and Community Services works with refugees from Guatemala, Burma, Eritrea and elsewhere around the globe. But many case managers in the agency’s Concord office are Afghans who came to the Bay Area over the past four decades of war and upheaval in their homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi herself knows firsthand what these new families are feeling. She was a refugee once, too, fleeing Afghanistan with her family in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Islamic regime came to power and my house was put on fire. We left our house in the middle of the night,” she said. “And when I see my clients, and sometimes they are trying to explain their situation, I just say, ‘You don't need to tell me. I have been there ... And I know exactly what you feel.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Afghan diaspora steps up to support new arrivals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just refugee resettlement agencies that are reaching out to help the new arrivals. Across the Bay Area’s Afghan diaspora, community groups are raising money and organizing volunteers. And the cities of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/4058/Afghan-Refugee-Help\">Fremont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\">Hayward\u003c/a>, home to long-established Afghan communities, are collecting donations and coordinating legal aid and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the Afghans that have been working with me have slept very little in the last couple of weeks,” said Aisha Wahab, a Hayward city councilmember who is the daughter of Afghan refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aisha Wahab, Hayward city councilmember\"]'Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women. Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s seeing dozens of young Afghan Americans like herself taking time off from their jobs to pitch in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a friend who right now is volunteering with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.afghancoalition.org/\">Afghan Coalition\u003c/a>. She is taking a solid month off. I have another friend who took two months off providing mental health services and translation,” Wahab said. “You have a lot of these young Afghans who have been deeply affected by their parents’ story ... and are saying that we are going to ease the arrival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the Afghans now arriving on special immigrant visas are here because they worked for the U.S. And Wahab says that means many men, at least, already speak English, but their wives and children may not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids bounce back pretty quickly. The concern that a lot of us tend to have is with the women,” she said. “Women still have to be under these rigid cultural norms. ... They may not be able to potentially get a job or they may not have been educated even in Afghanistan. So the acclimation for Afghan women coming to the U.S. is going to be far more important and far more difficult than for pretty much anybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Assisting new refugees by drawing on personal displacement experiences\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Nazia Gabar arrived in the Bay Area in 2017 with her husband and baby, she did speak English. She was a professional woman who had worked for the U.S. government in Kabul. But the transition was still tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning earlier this month, Gabar perched on the sofa in her small, tidy apartment in a San Leandro housing development right beside the freeway and talked about those early days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890528 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing an orange salwar kameez and black hijab sits at a kitchen table typing on a laptop. A boy, age 4, sits right behind her on the chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, one of her sons sits behind her at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. We didn't have any money and the rent was very high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, some friends from Kabul had made the move a couple of years earlier and helped them get established. Gabar says even Afghans they had barely met were generous, offering rides and sharing suggestions about where to find a job or an apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gabar works part time as a bookkeeper and teaches English classes to other Afghan women for Refugee & Immigrant Transitions, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her husband, Hassam Gabar, played with their two little boys, age 2 and 4, Gabar set up her laptop at the kitchen table and started her first Zoom class of the day. She composed a short dialogue about how to make a doctor’s appointment and then asked the students to take turns playing the roles of patient and receptionist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, the classes met in the Gabars’ living room. A dozen or so women from the neighborhood gathered around the whiteboard, and they brought their children, too. Gabar says it helped break the isolation — for her students and herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The women were happy. They were meeting and talking to each other and the kids were playing,” she said. “We were supporting each other. Sometimes they were sharing their stories. We were talking about all that while learning English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many Afghan refugees arriving now, Gabar says she has been asked to take on more classes. She says she’ll try to fit them in, for the women’s sake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890507 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a curtained sliding glass door, a man holds a 2-year-old, as a 4-year-old moves toward the door as if to join them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/015_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, her husband Hassam plays with their two children at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Afghan woman, they always have headaches because they are away from their families,” she said. “We are used to living in a full, big family, with siblings and parents, everyone. But then when you come here, you are just alone with your husband and your husband goes to work and you are all day alone at home. They get depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mastering English is a kind of cure, Gabar says, because it offers these refugee women independence — the chance to drive, work and connect with the wider world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Hassam has been able to mind the kids while she teaches, because he’s been out of work. In Afghanistan, he worked in finance. When he got here, he drove for Uber, worked as a security guard and studied automotive engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, though, he landed a job with a refugee agency. He says it’s not what he was expecting to do, but it’s actually very familiar — because he came of age in a United Nations refugee camp in Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fouzia Azizi, Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay's director of refugee services\"]'It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there's a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work is actually the work I grew up with,” he said. “My father was working with the UNHCR [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees], in children’s rights, community education and health. So I observed how he worked. He was doing the same thing that people do in refugee organizations here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Gabars, assisting new refugees draws on what they’ve learned through their own displacement experience. And it’s a way of paying forward the help they got from more established Afghans when they were newcomers to the Bay Area a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'I have the power to help humans'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pausing to reflect in her office at Jewish Family and Community Services, Azizi said watching the news last month as Kabul fell to the Taliban brought back the pain she felt 27 years earlier when her own family fled the Taliban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Kabul collapsed, that night and the nights after that, I was getting nightmares,” Azizi said. “The hurt is so deep, it's deep to my core. The disappointment level was so high that I felt numb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has kept her going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890500 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands right next to a window, which shines light on a painting of a hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/031_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi, director of refugee services, holds artwork from Afghanistan in her office at the Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It gave me energy every day when I woke up to see that I have the power to help humans, disregard if they are Afghans or not. But right now, there’s a crisis in Afghanistan and our clients happen to be Afghans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a refugee is a journey, said Azizi, regardless of what country a person has fled. The fact that so many of her staff were themselves forced to leave their homes, she believes, is a strength because they can serve as models for the newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them the hope that, ‘Oh, they are refugees as well ... and now they are in a position to be able to help us,’” she said. “When there’s a hope, the healing process is a possibility.”\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>\u003cp>On a recent morning at the Concord office of \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay\u003c/a>, staff members filled an enormous laundry cart with basic supplies for a new household — a family of seven, just arrived from Afghanistan. They loaded up new pillows, sheets, comforters, towel sets, pots and pans, and a microwave oven still in the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he helped wheel the cart to an elevator and out to the street, the father of the family looked bleary. He said they had gotten on a flight out of Kabul on Aug. 27, the day after a suicide bombing at the airport killed at least 175, and then spent over a week in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he had worked for U.S. Army Special Forces as an interpreter, and asked not to be identified because he feared the Taliban could harm his relatives back home if they knew he had left the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, his wife and their five children are among at least 2,000 Afghan evacuees who have arrived in California since July — most coming to the Bay Area and Sacramento. The East Bay office of JFCS has resettled 137.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the new arrivals begin to put the pieces of their lives together, the established Afghan community here is stepping up to help. It turns out Afghans who call Northern California home know a lot about what the newcomers are going through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them, the same as if they were our family or our friends,” said Ashraf Hussain, the JFCS case manager who pushed the cart to the curb. “I feel so happy when I’m helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890515 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a mask pulls against a doorframe to help himself pull a massive laundry cart on wheels laden with items in black garbage bags through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/012_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walid Aziz (L) and Ashraf Hussain from Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay bring household goods from the organization's offices in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021, to a family who recently arrived from Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hussain loaded the bedding and kitchenware into a U-Haul, along with donated mattresses and furniture. He says when he arrived from Afghanistan in 2017, he did not get connected with a resettlement agency and had to fend for himself. Now, he wants his clients to have an easier path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hussain also was a U.S. Army interpreter. And, like this new family, he arrived on a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a>, which qualifies recipients for refugee benefits. Hussain’s job is to help this new family apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal, find housing in the costly Bay Area and enroll the kids in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Establishing stability for families fleeing chaos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Typically, Afghans airlifted out of Kabul were flown to Qatar and then to U.S. military bases in Germany, Italy or Uganda, says Fouzia Azizi, JFCS's director of refugee services. From there they travel to bases in the U.S. where they get medical screenings, coronavirus vaccinations and paperwork processed. Jewish Family and Community Services estimates that there are currently more than 53,000 Afghan evacuees at military bases in the U.S. and at least another 12,000 who will eventually arrive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azizi says all the practical help Hussain and other staff members provide is the first step to establishing stability for families who have fled chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11890505 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women and a man sit at a table in a conference room, two with papers in front of them and one on a laptop. On the wall is a large framed print of a bouquet in a vase.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/020_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouzia Azizi (R), director of refugee services, meets with her team at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay in Concord on Sept. 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There's trauma involved. There’s fear involved. And the anxiety level is so high,” she said. “Folks that are getting here, they are extremely overwhelmed due to the long process. ... And also, they left their loved ones at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new arrivals need more than beds and kitchenware. They need a sense of connection and emotional support, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A boy, age 4, sits right behind her on the chair.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/004_SanLeandro_GabarFamily_09082021.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Nazia Gabar teaches English classes to women from Afghanistan who have resettled in the United States, one of her sons sits behind her at their home in San Leandro on Sept. 8, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At first it's very difficult to adapt to a new culture, a new environment, new people,” she said. “At that time when we came, we were very stressful about everything because there was no home and no jobs. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are reminders of José Luis Ruiz Arévalos everywhere in the three-bedroom trailer where his wife and four children live in the small Central Valley city of Los Baños: the family photos along the hallway, the triple bunk bed he built to accommodate a growing family, the fence he installed out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]‘There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore.’[/pullquote]But Ruiz Arévalos isn’t there. After he was forced to stay in Mexico two years ago, the college plans for the three oldest children have unraveled. The oldest dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Army Reserve. The second oldest is prioritizing work while studying. And their younger brother, a senior in high school, caught the eye of Harvard recruiters but instead is considering vocational school closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore,” said Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19. “And like, every time you come home, you’re just like, ‘Oh, I feel like something’s missing.’ You always feel that someone’s missing, that he’s missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family of six, with the parents sitting on the couch and four children standing behind, most smiling at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armanda Ruiz (front left) with her husband, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, and children Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May 2019, Ruiz Arévalos — also known as José, Dad or Papa, depending on whom you ask — went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card: an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family — the rest of whom all are U.S. citizens — expected he would be able to come back in a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was unexpectedly refused a green card when U.S. Consulate officials decided that under Trump administration guidance he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to the U.S., he remains in Hermosillo, Sonora, a thousand miles from his family, while he tries to appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-business-f440cbe61eb642c99f4d9a47e437c526\">changes to the “public charge” immigration policy made headlines\u003c/a> the year of Ruiz Arévalos’s green card interview in 2019. What was less publicized is that in January 2018, the Trump administration had already made changes to the public charge policy at consulates outside the country.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe changes gave consulate officers more discretion to scrutinize applicants’ age, education, job skills, and health insurance and whether they or their family members received any type of public benefits.\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 applying for immigrant visas\u003c/a> based on the revised public charge policy. That was seven times as many people as had been refused under the same policy two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes that were made have now been reversed under President Joe Biden. But the effects still remain, not only for immigrants, but also for their spouses and children. When Ruiz Arévalos couldn’t return home, it triggered economic hardship and emotional grief for his wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also disrupted the education of his oldest stepchild, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena, 21, dropped out of the University of California, Merced so she could work to support the family. The decision was gut-wrenching and scary. Elena thought she might never return to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been helping her pay for her college expenses not covered by financial aid with his income as a handyperson. Without his help, not only could she not afford to stay in school, but she also needed to help the rest of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888944 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white T-shirt and jeans holds hands with an 11-year-old girl, amid pink and white balloons and decorations.\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg 767w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos dances with daughter Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, at her birthday party in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Armanda Ruiz, has a full-time job taking care of her little sister, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 11, who was born prematurely and has had four surgeries and multiple health issues her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priscila has developmental delays and is under continuous medical care with speech, occupational and physical therapy. Her other two siblings, Ignacio and Nathan, were still in high school at the time Ruiz Arévalos was told he could not return from Mexico. Nathan had been struggling with severe depression. Elena felt she had no other choice but to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counselors usually advised me to, like, try to stay in school, but they didn’t really understand that I was the only one that was able to work,” Elena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other thing motivating her decision: If she stayed in college, she reasoned, the burden to support the family would fall on her younger siblings. She wanted them to follow their dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwGywQnW88s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest three have always excelled in school. Nathan, 19, got A’s and B’s at Merced College last year. Ignacio, 17, just finished his junior year at Los Baños High School with a 4.6 grade point average — all A’s, including four in Advanced Placement classes. He recently received a letter from Harvard, encouraging him to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt,” Elena said. “With my dad out of the country and with no family but ourselves, I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go and get their degree in what they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Elena applied for dozens of jobs. She worked at a tomato-packing plant, at Big 5 Sporting Goods as a cashier, and with the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]‘Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt … I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go.’[/pullquote]Then the coronavirus pandemic hit California, and work became even harder to find. Determined to continue toward a college degree, she began taking classes at Merced College. As the months dragged on and the family continued to struggle financially, she became increasingly worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos felt that his world had broken into a million pieces. He has been part of this blended family for 12 years. When he first met his wife, Armanda Ramírez, her name before she married him, her daughter Elena was 8. Nathan was 6, and Ignacio was 5. The children have their father’s last name and their mother’s maiden name: Gutiérrez Ramírez. Later the couple had Priscila together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he talks about his children, his voice becomes soft with love as he recalls each of their personalities. Little Priscila is his treasure, his spoiled baby. Elena is loving and noble, he said, a “super daughter.” Nathan is both tough and affectionate. Ignacio, he said, could do anything he wants — studying comes easily to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the worst thing is that my kids really put their heart into their studies,” he said in Spanish. “I feel like I am clipping their wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 968px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888946 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family stands in a line for a picture amid pink and white birthday decorations. 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Since 1996, immigration law makes it difficult for anyone who crossed the border illegally and stayed in the U.S. for more than a year to get a green card, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They have to leave the country to apply, and if they lived here without immigration papers, they are banned from reentering the country for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858316\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/gettyimages-1230936271-66a4f28f0f4c76f8936d96115f8be7f11c103ec7-1020x765.jpg\"]There is one way around the 10-year ban: You can apply for a waiver if you can prove 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>Before going to his interview appointment in Ciudad Juárez, Ruiz Arévalos applied for a waiver, arguing that his absence would cause severe hardship for his wife. In the documents they submitted, they detailed how hard it would be for her to be left alone to care for their four children, including Priscila, with her medical issues and developmental delays, and Nathan, with severe depression and panic attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver. The couple believed they had all their paperwork in order. They secured a fiscal sponsor — a family friend who agreed to support Ruiz Arévalos and his family. The sponsor made far more than the minimum income required by federal regulations, which is 125% of the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Ruiz Arévalos showed up for his appointment, the consulate official questioned whether his fiscal sponsor would actually support the family if needed and asked Ruiz Arévalos whether his family had used welfare. Priscila has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to disabled people in lower-income families — since she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other children in the family had received food stamps. The consulate told him he would need an additional fiscal sponsor to prove he wouldn’t become dependent on the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, the consulate told him he was inadmissible to the U.S. because he was likely to become a public charge, and canceled his waiver of the 10-year ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department declined to say how many other applicants for green cards had their waivers revoked because of the new public charge policy that was in place from 2018 to 2020. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the data was not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Quinn, Immigrant Legal Resource Center\"]‘They can overcome the public charge issue … but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.’[/pullquote]Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>, said likely thousands of the people denied entry under “public charge” in 2018 and 2019 had previously lived in the U.S. and had waivers to show that being separated from their families would cause extreme hardship, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that guidance came out, officers had clearly gotten marching orders to go on this fishing expedition, as a way to begin denying cases that were otherwise clearly eligible for their permanent resident status,” Quinn said. “They can overcome the public charge issue by turning in the information requested, but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos submitted the names of three different fiscal sponsors to the consulate. But the process slowed almost to a halt because of the pandemic. While he waited, he tried his best to stay connected to his family across the border. They do regular video calls so the kids can talk with their dad. Ignacio even calls Ruiz Arévalos for help when he has to fix something at home — how to change the oil in the car, how to unclog the toilet, how to fix the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888941\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 534px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888941 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a dress embraces a high school graduate in a yellow cap and gown with a red \"2020\" sash.' width=\"534\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg 534w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, right, at high school graduation with mom Armanda Ruiz. José Luis Ruiz Arévalos had to miss Nathan’s graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before Ruiz Arévalos went to Mexico, the Gutiérrez Ramírez kids’ biological father died. They didn’t have much contact with him the last few years he was alive, but when they found out he died, it was painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a dad, and I didn’t get along very well with him. We had problems. Then I get another dad, and they take him away,” Nathan told Ruiz Arévalos recently. “It’s not fair. I want my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit us all very hard that he wasn’t able to come back,” Ruiz said. She said Priscila especially didn’t understand why her dad was in Mexico. “Why is my dad over there?” Ruiz said she would ask. “Why doesn’t he come here? Why doesn’t he sleep here with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t there to see Nathan’s graduation from high school, or Priscila’s ceremony for “reclassification” to show she is no longer considered an English-language learner at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s missed two years of birthdays and movie watching and countless dance sessions in the family living room. He wasn’t there to see them all stuff eggshells with confetti for Easter, or to watch how they made distance learning work, with all five of them learning from home — Elena and Nathan in college classes, Ignacio in high school, Priscila in special education, and their mother taking an English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it feels different not having a father figure,” Ignacio said. “’Cause you know, there’s a different kind of relationship with your dad than your mother, I’d say, if you’re a guy, ’cause like, you know, guys just understand each other. Like you don’t even have to say something, you already know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Elena met with a college counselor and decided to join the Army Reserve. She went to basic training in July and will be there until November, so she won’t be able to attend college classes in the fall. She’s hoping she can return to college in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this time of uncertainty, at least the Army will bring some form of certainty,” Elena said. “In addition, if something were to happen to my mom, I will be the one taking care of my siblings, and without a stable job, I can’t guarantee that. That’s why the Army sounds like a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may finally be some hope in Ruiz Arévalos’s case. 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Parents and children who were previously reunited also qualify for Task Force benefits and should register.' width=\"1347\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg 1347w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the qualifications to be eligible for the together.gov portal for parents seeking to be reunited with their children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The IOM will help with the logistics of reuniting families, explained Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, who welcomed the Biden administration’s expanded efforts as “an important first step,” though he believes migrants should get more than three years of residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IOM will also be tasked with “allowing the family to get passports more easily, [getting them] to the U.S. embassy, [getting] travel documents, [making] plane reservations, but also simply to get them from one place to another,” said Gelernt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parents are believed to be in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Brazil. 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Only one registration is needed per family and should include all family members who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.\" width=\"1043\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg 1043w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1043px) 100vw, 1043px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the list of eligibility requirements from together.gov for parents separated from their children at the border to receive assistance from the federal government. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A new strategy for an ongoing problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bringing the IOM on board to help with the often-complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the U.S., is a reflection of just how difficult it has been for President Joe Biden’s administration to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">a chapter in U.S. immigration history\u003c/a> that drew widespread condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885260\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/BhaiFamily-1020x732.jpg\"]The task force has reunited about 50 families since starting its work in late February, but there are hundreds of parents, and perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000, who were separated from their children and have not been located. A lack of accurate records from the Trump administration makes it difficult to say for certain, said Brané from the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a huge challenge that we are absolutely committed to following through to meet and to do whatever we can to reunify these families,” she said as she outlined the new program in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868475/task-force-investigates-whether-trump-separated-families-earlier-than-known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">separated thousands of migrant parents from their children in 2017 and 2018\u003c/a> as it moved to criminally prosecute people for crossing the southwest border, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">including those seeking asylum\u003c/a>. Minors, who could not be held in criminal custody with their parents, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS faced allegations that, in some shelters, caregivers were instructed not to touch or comfort the children, and in others, children suffered sexual abuse, including by staff members. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Welcome to America!” That’s how Mohammad, a special immigrant visa (SIV) holder, remembers being greeted upon his arrival in the Bay Area from Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fondly recalls the volunteers and others from \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a> who first greeted him when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will always remember that,” he says. “My kids remember and ask, ‘Where is that lady?’ ” It was one of the volunteers from JFCS who first welcomed him and his family to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Taliban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028117811/taliban-takeover-kabul-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">takeover of Kabul in mid-August\u003c/a>, JFCS has resettled 77 Afghans in the East Bay – about as many people as it typically resettles in six months. JFCS said in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">update\u003c/a> that it expects September to be about the same. The organization has received an outpouring of community support for Afghan refugees in the form of volunteers, with 2,800 people in the Bay Area signing up to support resettlement efforts, from greeting families at the airport to connecting families to needed services – everything that goes into creating a new life in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mohammad, SIV holder now living in Concord\"]‘We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights.’[/pullquote]Mohammad, whose name KQED has changed due to fears of violence against his family still in Afghanistan, is now based in Concord with his wife, a former teacher, and their three kids. Prior to coming to the U.S., he worked as a technical advisor for an international organization doing development work in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked a lot to build our country,” he told KQED. “We struggled to develop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last year, Mohammad said the security situation was very bad. His organization was attacked and he was stopped several times and asked who he worked for. While he says he might have been able to continue working, Mohammad wanted to provide a better life for his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to immigrate here. We are now happy that at least my kids will have a bright future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885170 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885908 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Demonstrators-Marching-East-on-Thorton-Ave-copy-1020x574.jpg']Christopher Cambises, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/racial-equity/immigrant-affairs/afghanistan-refugee-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immigrant affairs manager at the Office of Racial Equity\u003c/a> for the city of San Jose, helps ensure refugees and immigrants are welcomed and able to connect to services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now a major need is housing, and everyone recognizes that housing is a challenge in Silicon Valley, in California as a whole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond housing, there’s a need for everything else that comes with starting a new life in a new country — getting kids into schools, getting connected to mental health resources, and basic furniture and household goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambises, himself an immigrant from the United Kingdom, said there’s a shared sense of belonging amid displacement. “This is a city that has an extremely long history of welcoming refugees from around the world and fostering that sense of community belonging for new arrivals,” he said. “We’re tied together by a shared sense of displacement, relocation and resettlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From California to Afghanistan, and back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“When I think about refugee resettlement, I think about housing,” said Shawn VanDiver, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanproject.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman National Security Project\u003c/a> San Diego chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a major housing crisis here,” VanDiver said. “But also California is a welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver, a 12-year Navy veteran, said he wants to make sure Afghans, specifically those who served the U.S., are welcomed. One of the people he worked with on civic engagement projects is a former Afghan interpreter named Lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky, a nickname given to him because he survived two improvised explosive device blasts (he prefers this name, for fear of what the Taliban might do to his family still in Afghanistan), received his SIV in 2016 after working as an interpreter for the U.S. for nearly 10 years. He now has a green card. Lucky had been living in San Diego for the past several years, but went back to Afghanistan in May to see his aging mother and to help her with care. While visiting his mother in the hospital, his brother told him the Taliban were attempting to take their village. Around Aug. 13, he went to help. Without enough people or ammunition to support the village, he said they had to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stuck there,” Lucky said. He ended up pretending to be a truck driver to make his way back to Kabul, and then spent 12 hours at the airport, waiting for a flight with his wife and their 4-year-old and 7-month-old children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, with the assistance of \u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Evac\u003c/a>, a San Diego-based initiative started by veterans, Lucky arrived back in the U.S. at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids, they just can’t sleep,” he said. “They have nightmares. … My daughter, she’s not letting me go. She’s still scared, she thinks she’s still in Afghanistan, and there’s going to be bombing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky told KQED he was planning to move to Texas to be closer to family and because the cost of living is high in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bay Area organizations assisting with refugee services\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christopher Cambises, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/racial-equity/immigrant-affairs/afghanistan-refugee-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immigrant affairs manager at the Office of Racial Equity\u003c/a> for the city of San Jose, helps ensure refugees and immigrants are welcomed and able to connect to services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now a major need is housing, and everyone recognizes that housing is a challenge in Silicon Valley, in California as a whole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond housing, there’s a need for everything else that comes with starting a new life in a new country — getting kids into schools, getting connected to mental health resources, and basic furniture and household goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambises, himself an immigrant from the United Kingdom, said there’s a shared sense of belonging amid displacement. “This is a city that has an extremely long history of welcoming refugees from around the world and fostering that sense of community belonging for new arrivals,” he said. “We’re tied together by a shared sense of displacement, relocation and resettlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From California to Afghanistan, and back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“When I think about refugee resettlement, I think about housing,” said Shawn VanDiver, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanproject.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman National Security Project\u003c/a> San Diego chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a major housing crisis here,” VanDiver said. “But also California is a welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver, a 12-year Navy veteran, said he wants to make sure Afghans, specifically those who served the U.S., are welcomed. One of the people he worked with on civic engagement projects is a former Afghan interpreter named Lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky, a nickname given to him because he survived two improvised explosive device blasts (he prefers this name, for fear of what the Taliban might do to his family still in Afghanistan), received his SIV in 2016 after working as an interpreter for the U.S. for nearly 10 years. He now has a green card. Lucky had been living in San Diego for the past several years, but went back to Afghanistan in May to see his aging mother and to help her with care. While visiting his mother in the hospital, his brother told him the Taliban were attempting to take their village. Around Aug. 13, he went to help. Without enough people or ammunition to support the village, he said they had to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stuck there,” Lucky said. He ended up pretending to be a truck driver to make his way back to Kabul, and then spent 12 hours at the airport, waiting for a flight with his wife and their 4-year-old and 7-month-old children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, with the assistance of \u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Evac\u003c/a>, a San Diego-based initiative started by veterans, Lucky arrived back in the U.S. at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids, they just can’t sleep,” he said. “They have nightmares. … My daughter, she’s not letting me go. She’s still scared, she thinks she’s still in Afghanistan, and there’s going to be bombing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky told KQED he was planning to move to Texas to be closer to family and because the cost of living is high in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bay Area organizations assisting with refugee services\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco joined more than 40 cities and 17 countries around the globe on Saturday in a day of protest for Afghan lives. Beginning at 2 p.m. at United Nations Plaza, more than 200 marchers took to Market Street chanting “from Kabul to Kandahar, our freedom is not too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have come here today to protest against the killing of Afghans,” said Yasmine Ebrat, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyASA/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Student Association\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley and one of the rally’s co-organizers. Ebrat said the rally was intended to pressure the international community to protect the rights of all Afghans, and to pressure the U.S. to end quota limits for fleeing refugees and open up its borders to Afghans more broadly.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alia Rasoully, founder, Wise Afghanistan\"]‘At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war are the ones that are the victims.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worldwide rallies are an effort to make civilian voices heard in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031649747/kabul-airport-explosions-afghanistan-dead-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly bombing at the Kabul airport\u003c/a> Thursday, and amid the United States’ struggle to evacuate U.S. citizens and Afghan people seeking refuge. Evacuations are still ongoing, but the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-afghanistan-islamic-state-group-2f53babc274f912fa2c3a2a611aed07c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now numbers fewer than 4,000\u003c/a>, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military began its final withdrawal ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. Since mid-August, the U.S. has evacuated roughly 110,000 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/pentagon-officials-hank-taylor-john-kirby-press-briefing-transcript-august-27-afghanistan-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Pentagon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco Saturday, Ebrat said seeing the worldwide protest commence in European cities earlier in the day has “been a beam of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebrat was born and raised in Fremont, and said the plight of Afghans “is something that’s really near and dear to my heart because my parents are refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds hold up signs and Afghan flags as SFPD officers walk alongside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others, like Shabnam Hasani, 22, traveled from San José to show support. “I’m Afghan myself, and I’m out here to support my people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to continue to have hope,” she added. “I’m very proud of us for coming together as Afghans and for standing up for what we believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday’s protest was hosted by the United Afghan Association, a joint project of human rights activists in over 30 countries, including Bay Area students. [aside postID=news_11885170,news_11885908]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Alia Rasoully has been involved with previous protests in the Bay Area to raise awareness of the situation in Afghanistan. The organization she founded, \u003ca href=\"https://wiseafghanistan.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wise Afghanistan\u003c/a>, has helped women and girls in Afghanistan since 2013. Rasoully said it’s important to focus on the almost 39 million people who still remain in Afghanistan and don’t have the privilege to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really focus on the women and girls that are left there and make sure that they continue to have the opportunities that they’ve been struggling for, for the last twenty years,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, the innocent Afghans not even involved in this war — are the ones that are the victims,” Rasoully said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those new to Afghanistan’s history, she advises looking at it from a humanitarian perspective. “Look at what Afghans are going through right now. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/taliban-fighter-stands-guard-at-the-site-of-the-august-26-news-photo/1234889373?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You see a pool of blood.\u003c/a> You see thousands of people that are trying to escape,” she said. “There are people that are handing their children over to military officers. … That’s how scared they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that situation may become more violent. On Saturday, President Biden warned that another attack on the Kabul airport was “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/28/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-evacuation-mission-in-kabul/\">highly likely.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1431276649744502788\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State on Saturday, Biden pledged more attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISIS-K\u003c/a>, the group responsible for the Kabul airport bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, more than 200 marchers convened at U.N. Plaza to focus on peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event began with organizers playing the song “Sarzamine Man,” or “My Homeland,” followed by several speakers, including Mary Steiner, president of the United Nations Association San Francisco Chapter; Nahid Aria, Dari translator and Afghan community outreach coordinator at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office; and Shahid Buttar, a lawyer and candidate for California’s 12th Congressional district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11886761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd marching with a long black, red, and green Afghan flag across them, amid protest signs and other Afghan flags\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Finney_AfghanistanProtest2-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A solidarity protest marches down Market Street in San Francisco Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aziza Popal, who attended the rally, said she fled Afghanistan many years before because she was not able to practice Islam under the then-rule of the Soviet Union. On Saturday, she came to protest on behalf of voiceless people in her former home. “I’m here to raise my voice on behalf of all men and women. We are very upset with what is going on in Afghanistan right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marena Habibi, a rally organizer, said the thousands of refugees coming to the Bay Area now may not receive food assistance, cash aid or housing, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885170/how-you-can-support-the-afghan-community-in-the-bay-area-and-beyond\">pushed for protesters to demand more support from their representatives in government\u003c/a>. Afghans arriving in the U.S. may qualify for services, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/poverty/2016/03/refugees_immigrants_asylees_parolees_difference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refugees, asylees, migrants\u003c/a> and parolees all are entitled to different programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden, you have not ended the war, you’ve caused global chaos and we are now seeing the consequences,” she said. “These Afghans have been betrayed by the world, and now they need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said war waged by the United States has disintegrated Afghan society. “Afghan citizens are left with no choice but to flee their homes or stay and risk death at the hands of these forces,” organizers wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In remarks to the crowd, organizer Nagar Nawabi called on the U.S. to promote social equity among genders and among marginalized groups and to establish a committee to investigate the actions of the U.S., Pakistan and others in Afghanistan over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not asking for much, but we are asking for human rights. 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But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a ruthless mob attacked his home one night, bashing in doors and windows, and kidnapped him for days over his involvement with a rival political campaign. When authorities told him they couldn’t protect him or his wife and three kids, he said he knew he had to get them to safety. 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It could also make the experience more humane for migrants fleeing persecution, like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The trauma is hard to shake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three hours into his last hearing, Herrera broke down sobbing on the witness stand, recalled his pro bono lawyer, Abby Sullivan Engen, a supervising immigration attorney with Oakland-based Centro Legal de la Raza. She said she asked the judge for a break but was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The judge] instead helped him to focus on his breathing and asked that he keep recounting his traumatic story,” said Sullivan Engen, who found the experience disturbing. “The prosecutor’s sight remained fixed on her computer and desk, never once looking at this man crying profusely on the witness stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just recounting the hostile questioning he experienced in immigration court, and his inability to satisfy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor with every detail of the violence he suffered, was agitating for Herrera. 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She said they’re still haunted by memories of watching the angry mob kidnap their father and threaten to burn them alive in their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children ask, ‘Mami, what’s going to happen if we have to go back there? Are we going to have to go live there again?'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Different systems for different asylum seekers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Herrera was one of almost 64,000 people who applied for asylum in 2015 after reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2020, the number was close to 200,000. And all of those cases must go through the immigration court system, where overstretched judges are often rushed and hearings are routinely delayed for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every asylum seeker goes through immigration court — only people who seek refuge at the time they are entering the country. The process is different for those who request protection after they’re already in the U.S. — on a student visa or as a tourist, for example. Those applicants are interviewed in an office setting by an asylum officer employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">proposed rule\u003c/a> by the Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration courts, and the Department of Homeland Security, where U.S.C.I.S. is located, was published Aug. 20 in the Federal Register. It would send everyone who claims asylum at the border to the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office as well. One primary objective: Officials say adjudications would move faster than in immigration court, allowing cases to be decided in months, rather than years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\"]‘We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals who are eligible will receive relief more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be expeditiously removed,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a statement. “We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would help restore credibility to an immigration system that’s “pretty badly broken,” says Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., who has advocated for such a reform for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Biden administration’s new rule represents a fundamental retooling of the asylum system that preserves asylum as a bedrock element of the U.S. immigration system while also recognizing that a secure border and deterring unlawful crossings are legitimate and necessary attributes of an effective, credible immigration system,” Meissner wrote in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/biden-asylum-processing-proposed-rule\">commentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All asylum seekers must prove they meet the legal definition of a refugee: that they have suffered persecution, or fear that they will suffer persecution, in their home country due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having your case heard by a U.S.C.I.S. asylum officer doesn’t mean you’re more likely to be granted asylum, though. The annual approval rate from 2012 to 2020 in immigration court ranged from 26% to 53%. At U.S.C.I.S., it ranged from 27% to 48%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But asylum officers have more specialized training on asylum law and country conditions around the world, according to Meissner. And supervision in the U.S.C.I.S. asylum division leads to greater consistency in asylum decisions compared to immigration courts, where the \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2020/denialrates.html\">approval rates\u003c/a> of individual judges can vary from 0.9% of all cases to 96.7%, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"asylum-seeker\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would only affect future cases, not those currently in immigration court. But Sullivan Engen says if Herrera could have made his case to an asylum officer, rather than before a judge and a prosecutor, it would have been much less harrowing for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t say that it’s completely non-adversarial because sometimes the officers do ask questions in a manner that’s a little bit more like a prosecutor. But as a general rule, the asylum officer’s task is to elicit the story,” she said. “The applicant doesn’t feel like they’re being grilled in the same way. A lot of the officers have training in trauma-informed approaches to interviewing … It’s just night and day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diego Aranda-Teixeira is a supervising attorney with Al Otro Lado, a cross-border legal services agency with offices in San Diego, Los Angeles and Tijuana. He says another important aspect of the Biden plan is that it would also allow the government to release some asylum seekers who’d otherwise be locked up while their cases proceed. The rule doesn’t require releasing detainees, but it gives officials leeway to decide that “detention is unavailable or impracticable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are actively harmed by detention,” said Aranda-Teixeira. “It’s bad for their mental health and really bad for their immigration case, because if you’re new to the country and you’re detained, who are you going to call? There are no public defenders for immigration … When people get released, that really improves the chances they will get some kind of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions of due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not all immigrant advocates are convinced the new system would be an improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulce Garcia, a San Diego immigration attorney and executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels, has seen the work of U.S.C.I.S. asylum officers up close when they perform another of their functions: conducting initial screenings, called “credible fear interviews,” of people who ask for asylum at the border. She said she often finds problems with those screenings, and that makes her skeptical about expanding the role of asylum officers further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen on the ground, those of us that work at the border, when you give so much power to someone in an arbitrary system, things usually go wrong and they don’t favor migrants,” she said. “If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dulce Garcia, Director of Border Angels\"]‘If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said she would rather see a broader overhaul to make the immigration courts independent of the Department of Justice and to build in greater due process protections. That’s a plan that has been endorsed by the American Bar Association and others, but would require Congress to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human Rights First, a U.S.-based international human rights nonprofit, has also raised concerns. The group said it welcomed the proposal to allow asylum seekers to present their claims in the “less traumatizing, non-adversarial setting” of the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office. However, it criticized the government’s plan to continue to subject unauthorized migrants at the border to a fast-track deportation process known as “expedited removal,” unless they pass their initial asylum screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed rule could be used and abused to rush asylum seekers through adjudications without sufficient time to secure legal representation, gather evidence or prepare their cases, leading U.S. agencies to return to persecution people who actually do qualify for asylum,” said Eleanor Acer, the group’s senior director for refugee protection, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/human-rights-first-expresses-concern-some-proposed-asylum-changes\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Immigration Stories\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision that allows people to request an administrative review — but not a full appeal in immigration court — if their claim is denied by U.S.C.I.S. also raised a red flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal’s restriction on access to immigration court hearings … could limit their ability to present crucial evidence,” Acer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism also came from groups that favor further restrictions on immigration. The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/DHSDOJ-Propose-Changes-Asylum-Process-Border\">argued\u003c/a> that the proposed rule would give asylum seekers too much of a right to appeal and found fault with the rule for expanding discretion to release asylum seekers from detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public have until Oct. 19 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">submit comments\u003c/a> on the proposed rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New funding for asylum officers needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the new plan goes into effect, the job of the nation’s nearly 800 asylum officers would expand by perhaps 150,000 claims per year, according to U.S.C.I.S. The agency currently has 350,000 pending cases, and the only way to actually speed up asylum adjudications under the new system would be to hire more staff. U.S.C.I.S. has announced plans to add 1,000 more asylum officers and 1,000 support staff to meet the workload. But that will depend on new funding, something Biden has requested of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S.C.I.S. asylum offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and nine other major cities. Asylum officers also travel to perform interviews at additional U.S.C.I.S. field offices around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Biden proposal makes its way through the federal rulemaking process, those currently seeking asylum through the overtaxed immigration courts must continue to wait. For Herrera, the six long years have been hard to bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult,” he said. “For me personally, I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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