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"content": "\u003cp>It's been more than a year since the pandemic began. And while some Californians are looking back at a year of working from home and ordering groceries online, essential workers are marking a year of risking their lives to stock grocery shelves, work in restaurant kitchens or to harvest crops. And COVID-19 has taken an especially heavy toll on migrant farmworkers in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This time has been more difficult,\" says Nicolasa González, an Indigenous Mixteca farmworker who lives in Fresno. \"We need to protect ourselves, but some of my co-workers have gotten sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like González, musician Lila Downs has Indigenous roots in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 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Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://cerch.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ucb_csvs_white_paper_12_01_20_final_compressed.pdf\">a study from UC Berkeley\u003c/a> that followed 1,091 participants in the Salinas Valley found that farmworkers with lower levels of education or who spoke an Indigenous language had a higher test positivity rate of 23% for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says that language accessibility is key to keeping people safe. Proceeds from the song have helped CBDIO provide workers with information on testing and vaccine sites, in Indigenous languages like Zapoteco and Mixteco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11866140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker named Petra tosses the pluots into a bag held on her shoulders by a harness. When the bag is full, it can weigh 40 to 50 pounds. In July, the temperature rises to over 105 degrees. It seems counterintuitive, but farmworkers dress in multiple layers of clothing because it provides insulation from the heat. \u003ccite>(David Bacon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you think of farmworkers, you think of folks that speak Spanish,\" Martinez said. \"But Indigenous farmworkers have very different linguistic and cultural needs that we keep forgetting about. The song really helps us to bring visibility to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez attributes the high COVID-19 rates for farmworkers to factors like substandard housing, a lack of reliable transportation and the exploitation of undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping that as we go through the pandemic, we reflect on [working conditions],” Martinez says. “And really paint not only us as farmworkers as heroes, but [also people who deserve] respect and dignity. 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Ortiz came to the U.S. from Mexico as a bracero in the late 1950s, and spent decades working on farms in California and Washington. \u003ccite>(David Bacon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, farmworkers like González worry about getting sick on the job and losing wages as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that happens to me, how will I make enough to pay rent?\" says González, who harvests bell peppers and table grapes each season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cirsinc.org/phocadownload/farmworker_vulnerability_covid-19_research-report_final_villarejo_07-26-2020.pdf\">study last year by the California Institute for Rural Studies\u003c/a>, agricultural workers in Monterey County were infected by COVID-19 at rates three times higher than non-agricultural workers. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://cerch.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ucb_csvs_white_paper_12_01_20_final_compressed.pdf\">a study from UC Berkeley\u003c/a> that followed 1,091 participants in the Salinas Valley found that farmworkers with lower levels of education or who spoke an Indigenous language had a higher test positivity rate of 23% for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez says that language accessibility is key to keeping people safe. Proceeds from the song have helped CBDIO provide workers with information on testing and vaccine sites, in Indigenous languages like Zapoteco and Mixteco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11866140\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/02-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker named Petra tosses the pluots into a bag held on her shoulders by a harness. When the bag is full, it can weigh 40 to 50 pounds. In July, the temperature rises to over 105 degrees. It seems counterintuitive, but farmworkers dress in multiple layers of clothing because it provides insulation from the heat. \u003ccite>(David Bacon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you think of farmworkers, you think of folks that speak Spanish,\" Martinez said. \"But Indigenous farmworkers have very different linguistic and cultural needs that we keep forgetting about. The song really helps us to bring visibility to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez attributes the high COVID-19 rates for farmworkers to factors like substandard housing, a lack of reliable transportation and the exploitation of undocumented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hoping that as we go through the pandemic, we reflect on [working conditions],” Martinez says. “And really paint not only us as farmworkers as heroes, but [also people who deserve] respect and dignity. And that that translates into adequate policies that ensure that we have a living wage for farmworkers and full labor rights at the workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11866141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/01-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika, a farmworker in Tulare County, California, carries her ladder from one row of pluot trees to the next. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent afternoon in a citrus orchard west of Fresno, 34-year-old Yoni Carrillo used clippers to swiftly cut mandarins from a branch and drop them into a large canvas bag strapped to his waist. Other workers climbed ladders to reach higher fruit and made conversation between the treetops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is, we all need (legal status). Because now with the pandemic, we can’t shelter at home,” Carrillo said. “Who does the work? We do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For every large plastic bin he can fill with mandarins, Carrillo will make $53. He and the other workers are out in the orchard, or in another field, nearly every day, he said. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Yoni Carrillo']'If we shelter in place, the crop goes to waste. Who harvests it? The food, the vegetables ... who is going to put it on the table, if not us?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t stop unless it rains,” Carrillo said. “If we shelter in place, the crop goes to waste. Who harvests it? The food, the vegetables ... who is going to put it on the table, if not us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo has worked on U.S. farms, without legal status, for five years, he said. Another man nearby said he has worked in the country for 18 years. When asked about a bill to grant legal status to undocumented farmworkers, Carrillo said the law should already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why they are delaying,” he said. “It’s not just in California. In every state you see immigrant farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a bipartisan bill now headed to the Senate, more than a million \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/#size\">undocumented farmworkers\u003c/a> like Carrillo, almost half a million in California, could gain legal status in the U.S. — and, eventually, a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1603\">Farm Workforce Modernization Act\u003c/a> passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last week — with 30 Republicans joining and all but one Democrat voting yes. It’s the latest attempt in a decades-long effort to stabilize the agricultural workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866535\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866535 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48100_Box-1-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For every large plastic bin he can fill with mandarins, Carrillo will make $53, he said. (Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, farmworkers who have lived in the U.S. without authorization and worked in agriculture for years, could qualify for green cards. The legislation would also reform the visa program for agricultural \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/programs/h-2a\">guest workers\u003c/a> and eventually require all agricultural employers to use \u003ca href=\"https://www.e-verify.gov/\">E-Verify\u003c/a>, an electronic system for checking authorization to work in the U.S., when hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to other immigration bills in Congress, the Farm Workforce Modernization bill has significant support from Republicans. By contrast, the American Dream and Promise Act, which would create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, passed in the House on the same day with support from just nine Republican representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the farm workforce bill still faces an uphill battle. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho are expected to introduce a companion bill in the Senate soon. But they’ll need support from at least nine other Republican senators to avoid a filibuster and move the legislation forward. [aside tag=\"farmworkers\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of farm labor and agricultural businesses \u003ca href=\"https://newhouse.house.gov/sites/newhouse.house.gov/files/Letter%20of%20Support%20for%20Farm%20Workforce%20Modernization%20Act%20.pdf\">have backed\u003c/a> the legislation. Many consider the bill to be an overdue compromise necessary for keeping the country’s farms running and eliminating the fear of deportation for workers and their employers. Backers include Farmworker Justice and the United Farm Workers union, in addition to numerous county and state farm bureaus, including that of California — the country’s leading producer of milk, fruits, nuts and vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is the first agriculture immigration comprehensive reform bill to come out of the House in over 30 years,” said Jamie Johansson, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation. “So we’re excited that first and foremost it takes care of our existing workforce but also begins the work on a future flow program for those labor needs that agriculture’s going to need in the future.” [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'We Have to Make Sure It’s Something That Functions for Our Farmers'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Democrats supporting the bill have highlighted the importance of farmworkers, even those who lack legal status, as essential workers in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the House floor last week, California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who introduced the bill, pointed out how throughout the pandemic Americans were still able to find food at the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for that, we need to thank the farmers of this country, but we also need to thank the farmworkers of this country — a majority of whom are undocumented, a majority of whom have been here more than 10 years,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Republicans argued that the bill would only encourage more migrants to come to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have a piece of legislation that says just come work on a farm and we’re gonna give you amnesty!” said Republican U.S. Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia. “1.5 million people are going to become citizens for working minimal time on farms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, only people already working in agriculture would qualify for legal status under the bill. To be eligible for citizenship, they’d need to remain in agriculture for a number of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making sure that people actually understand what’s a part of the bill is the most important part of getting support for it,” said Republican Congressman David Valadao, who represents California’s 21st District, not far from the citrus grove where Carrillo was working. Valadao is a key co-sponsor of the bill who’s working to bring other Republicans on board — specifically, senators from large agriculture-producing states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of states with Republican senators that have a lot of ag. I mean you’ve got Florida, you’ve got South Carolina, you’ve got North Carolina,” Valadao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1914px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866561 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1914\" height=\"1022\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut.jpg 1914w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut-800x427.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut-1020x545.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut-160x85.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48121_Lofgren-qut-1536x820.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1914px) 100vw, 1914px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who introduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, delivers comments during debate over the bill on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. (C-SPAN)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, farmworkers who have worked on U.S. farms for \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1603/text#HDE84527D71D3470D8159CF0778D46B83\">at least six months\u003c/a> over the past two years could apply for “Certified Agricultural Worker” status, a 5.5-year work permit that could be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ spouses and children could also obtain legal status, and workers could leave the country to travel home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmworkers who have lived, unauthorized, in the U.S. for at least 10 years would be eligible for a green card if they continued working on farms for another four. Those with less than 10 years work history would need to put in eight more years in agriculture to get a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also seeks to streamline the H-2A guest worker visa, a program that’s long been criticized by growers as too expensive and burdensome. Under the proposal, employers would apply to hire guest workers through an online system, and a certain number of H-2A visas would be available for workers to fill year-round jobs, such as those in the dairy industry. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Allison Crittenden, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation']'We cannot achieve a lasting solution without addressing both the seasonal and year-round needs of all agriculture.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security would also pilot a program allowing H-2A workers to look for work on a different farm after finishing their first contract, rather than requiring them to leave the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valadao said he hopes the Senate can adjust the bill to make the H-2A visa program even more business-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially when you come to smaller farms, they don’t have the ability to hire the office personnel needed to get through the regulatory process of hiring H-2A folks,” Valadao said. “You also have some of the regulations when it comes to housing, transportation. We have to make sure it’s something that functions for our farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole H-2A component, they do modernize it a little bit in this bill. I don’t believe it goes far enough and I hope that in the Senate that there are some Republicans that will help make that more doable for our farming community,” Valadao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866616 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48097_Workers-2-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mandarin orchard west of Fresno. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'It Eliminates the Fear'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite support from farm labor and business groups, the bill has critics on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Farm Bureau Federation has raised concerns the bill won't allow enough guest workers for year-round jobs. Under the bill, a maximum of 20,000 H-2A visas for year-round employment would be granted to workers each year for the first three years. Half would be reserved for dairy farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot achieve a lasting solution without addressing both the seasonal and year-round needs of all agriculture,” said Allison Crittenden, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We already experience a labor shortage, and unfortunately, the FWMA cap on year-round visas would limit program access for growers with employment needs after the cap is met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employer advocates also fear the required wage rate for guest workers will be too high for farmers to remain competitive.\u003cbr>\nMeanwhile, some labor groups say the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, executive director of the California Institute for Rural Studies, called the bill “problematic.” [aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"more immigration coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It forces existing workers to work a very long [eight] years (in a physically demanding industry) before citizenship is an option and it trades away rights for farmworkers who are here in exchange for the rights of future workers who will be imported through the H-2A program,” Carlisle-Cummins said. “Farmworkers who feed us all deserve much better immigration reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pat Ricchiuti, a third-generation Central Valley farmer of olives, grapes and fruit and nut trees, the bill makes sense because it allows growers to legalize their existing workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is there aren’t many people that will actually do the labor that’s required in agriculture,” Ricchiuti said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricchiuti now uses E-verify, after he got caught employing undocumented workers, so he knows all of his workers are legally employed. 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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday released photos and video of South Texas immigrant processing centers that have become a renewed focus of criticism for continued poor conditions despite President Biden's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912060869/biden-pledges-to-dismantle-trumps-sweeping-immigration-changes-but-can-he-do-tha\">promises to fix Trump-era problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6566913/temporary-processing-facilities\">images appear\u003c/a> partly in response to photos released by Rep. Henry Cuellar and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/photos-overcrowded-border-patrol-migrant-tents-0525a96b-0dc8-473f-b59c-38b0b3e52760.html\">published by Axios\u003c/a> on Monday showing migrants crammed into \"pods\" divided only by plastic sheathing. Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border town of Laredo, Texas, said he recently witnessed \"terrible conditions for the children\" at the Donna Processing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1404px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg 1404w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the photos released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows detained families and unaccompanied children sit in areas divided by plastic sheathing at a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas. \u003ccite>(Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said the \"pods\" were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. He said the children needed to be quickly moved from the facility into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ought to take care of those kids like they're our own kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes barely two months into the Biden presidency, amid a surge in migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America that began late last year. The new administration says it sees ending a Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico while their cases adjudicated as \"a moral imperative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More has to be done to address this growing humanitarian crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant children need our help right now. Not later. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\">https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. Henry Cuellar (@RepCuellar) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepCuellar/status/1374090306392580097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said one reason he released the photos was because the Biden administration had refused media access to the facility in Donna, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new White House says the Trump administration handed it a crumbling immigration and asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) released a series of photos this Monday that show migrant families and unaccompanied minors detained in a temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas on March 20, 2021. Cuellar has said the some spaces were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images appear to show migrants undergoing processing and general living conditions, such as rows of migrants sleeping on mattresses on the ground, covered in silver emergency blankets. Other images show unaccompanied minors and families in line for processing or to receive meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief statement accompanying their release, Customs and Border Protection said it \"continues to transfer unaccompanied minors to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as quickly and efficiently as possible after they are apprehended on the Southwest Border.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut\"]'The rise in children coming to the border has happened so quickly that it has been difficult to move them out of these detention facilities in under three days.'[/pullquote]In apparent response to journalists being denied access to the facilities, CBP said that in order \"to protect the health and safety of our workforce and those in our care we continue to discourage external visitors in our facilities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, blamed COVID-19 for restricting access by the news media. \"Let's be clear here, we are in the midst of a pandemic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/979014713/hundreds-of-migrant-children-held-in-border-detention-for-more-than-10-days\">NPR reported\u003c/a> that a DHS document indicated more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children and teens had been held in detention centers for more than 10 days in violation of a policy that says they should be moved within 72 hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1599px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1599\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85.jpg 1599w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566900-edit_custom-23e65f4c7da67889850a9eda3dee2fbb692b06da-s1600-c85-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1599px) 100vw, 1599px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unaccompanied minors and families wait in line for processing at the temporary processing facilities in Donna, Texas on March 17, 2021. \u003ccite>(Jaime Rodriguez Sr/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about the report, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/20/979491354/senators-visit-southern-border-amidst-increase-of-unaccompanied-minors\">speaking on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday\u003c/a>, defended the administration's efforts to address the problems at facilities and to speed up the processing of minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rise in children coming to the border has happened so quickly that it has been difficult to move them out of these detention facilities in under three days,\" said Murphy, who recently returned from a visit to the Southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, as we speak, they are building new capacity to help house these children and filling new slots in the HHS system,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy said that the Biden administration had \"inherited an absolute mess and wreck\" of an immigration system from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about conditions in the facilities, Murphy said they are \"better than what we saw in 2019.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1347px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566912-edit_wide-07ed586d2c56bce79b623b033676fa35bcaad59c-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1347\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566912-edit_wide-07ed586d2c56bce79b623b033676fa35bcaad59c-s1600-c85.jpg 1347w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566912-edit_wide-07ed586d2c56bce79b623b033676fa35bcaad59c-s1600-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566912-edit_wide-07ed586d2c56bce79b623b033676fa35bcaad59c-s1600-c85-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566912-edit_wide-07ed586d2c56bce79b623b033676fa35bcaad59c-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children and families arrive at a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas, on March 17. \u003ccite>(Jaime Rodríguez Sr./U.S. Customs and Border Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']\"These are not kids in so-called cages. They are not being separated from their family at the border,\" he said, acknowledging, \"But these are facilities that you wouldn't want your child in for more than 10 minutes. They are big rooms. Kids are sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor. They are sort of bunched about six inches to a foot from each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans have been quick to blame Biden for the rise in migrants at the border, saying his promise to end Trump-era policies invited a massive influx.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting the border earlier this month, Rep. John Katko, R-New York, the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://katko.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/katko-mccarthy-lead-delegation-southern-border\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that his experience as a federal prosecutor of organized crime taught him \"that the cartels know when to exploit the southern border, and they're doing it now masterfully. They're doing it because President Biden rolled back a lot of the orders of the previous administration that were working.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday released photos and video of South Texas immigrant processing centers that have become a renewed focus of criticism for continued poor conditions despite President Biden's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912060869/biden-pledges-to-dismantle-trumps-sweeping-immigration-changes-but-can-he-do-tha\">promises to fix Trump-era problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6566913/temporary-processing-facilities\">images appear\u003c/a> partly in response to photos released by Rep. Henry Cuellar and \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/photos-overcrowded-border-patrol-migrant-tents-0525a96b-0dc8-473f-b59c-38b0b3e52760.html\">published by Axios\u003c/a> on Monday showing migrants crammed into \"pods\" divided only by plastic sheathing. Cuellar, a Democrat who represents the border town of Laredo, Texas, said he recently witnessed \"terrible conditions for the children\" at the Donna Processing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1404px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85.jpg 1404w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/6566898-edit_custom-f2755c4f91fdb7308eba9a226dae5f7f74331cd8-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the photos released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows detained families and unaccompanied children sit in areas divided by plastic sheathing at a temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas. \u003ccite>(Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said the \"pods\" were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. He said the children needed to be quickly moved from the facility into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ought to take care of those kids like they're our own kids,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy comes barely two months into the Biden presidency, amid a surge in migrants coming to the U.S. from Central America that began late last year. The new administration says it sees ending a Trump-era policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico while their cases adjudicated as \"a moral imperative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More has to be done to address this growing humanitarian crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant children need our help right now. Not later. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\">https://t.co/hbeLnfIxNF\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Rep. Henry Cuellar (@RepCuellar) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepCuellar/status/1374090306392580097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cuellar said one reason he released the photos was because the Biden administration had refused media access to the facility in Donna, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new White House says the Trump administration handed it a crumbling immigration and asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866047\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ap21081535252917-ae89aa29f0df959b069a3eadecd501bafb6b6007-s1600-c85-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar (D) released a series of photos this Monday that show migrant families and unaccompanied minors detained in a temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas on March 20, 2021. Cuellar has said the some spaces were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Office of Congressman Henry Cuellar via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images appear to show migrants undergoing processing and general living conditions, such as rows of migrants sleeping on mattresses on the ground, covered in silver emergency blankets. 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That chamber's 50 Democrats will need at least 10 GOP supporters to break Republican filibusters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outlook was even grimmer for Biden's more ambitious goal of legislation making citizenship possible for all 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally, easing visa restrictions, improving border security technology and spending billions in Central America to ease problems that prompt people to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress has deadlocked over immigration for years, and the issue once again seemed headed toward becoming political ammunition. Republicans could use it to rally conservative voters in upcoming elections, while Democrats could add it to a stack of House-passed measures languishing in the Senate to build support for abolishing that chamber's bill-killing filibusters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said their measures were aimed not at border security but at addressing groups of immigrants who deserve to be helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're so much of our country,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said of Dreamers, who like many immigrants have held front-line jobs during the pandemic. \"These immigrant communities strengthen, enrich and ennoble our nation, and they must be allowed to stay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither House measure would directly affect those trying to cross the boundary from Mexico. 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Neither would have been signed by Trump, who spent his four years as president constricting legal and illegal immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Biden has suspended work on Trump’s wall along the Mexican border, ended his separation of young children from migrant families and allowed apprehended minors to stay in the U.S. as officials decide if they can legally remain. He has also turned away most single adults and families. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden supports both bills as “critical milestones toward much needed relief for the millions of individuals who call the United States home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dreamer bill would grant conditional legal status for 10 years to many immigrants up to age 18 who were brought into the U.S. illegally before this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864513/rent-relief-in-california-how-to-apply-and-what-you-could-get\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>¿No tienes tiempo para leer la guía entera? Aquí tiene una breve lista de los contenidos. Haga clic en el tema que más le interese para visitar esa sección.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#soy\">¿Soy elegible para recibir esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#inmigrantes\">¿Califican los inmigrantes indocumentados?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#como\">¿Cómo aplico para recibir esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#arrendador\">Soy un arrendador, ¿tengo que solicitar esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cuanto\">¿Cuánto dinero podría recibir?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La pandemia ha puesto a muchos inquilinos de bajos recursos entre la espada y la pared. Y para sus arrendadores, ha provocado dificultades financieras a causa de que estos no han podido cobrar el alquiler para pagar sus propias deudas. Las moratorias contra desalojos a nivel local y estatal han permitido que mucha gente siga en su hogar, pero pronto tendrán que pagar la renta que deben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero pronto llegará ayuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde el 15 de marzo comenzó el periodo para aplicar al programa estatal de ayuda financiera para la renta. Esta iniciativa cuenta con $2.6 mil millones en fondos federales,este monto podría aumentar luego de que se aprobara el más reciente paquete de estímulo económico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales crearon este fondo de ayuda en enero cuando aprobaron la ley SB 91, la cual \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850145/with-looming-threat-of-evictions-california-bill-would-extend-renter-protections-through-2021\">extiende las protecciones en contra de desalojos de inquilinos hasta el 30 de junio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los arrendadores ahora pueden solicitar ayuda financiera, siempre y cuando hospeden a inquilinos de bajos recursos que se hayan atrasado en sus pagos de renta debido a la pandemia. Estos arrendadores pueden recibir hasta el 80% de todo la renta que no recibieron del 1 de abril de 2020 hasta el 31 de marzo de 2021. Pero tendrán que perdonar el 20% restante y no podrán intentar desalojar a su inquilino a causa de que este no pudo pagar renta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sabemos que tanto los inquilinos como los arrendadores han experimentado mucho estrés. Ambos están preocupados de lo que va a pasar. Y ahora podemos ofrecerles un programa que promete un camino para resolver esta situación muy lamentable en la cual muchas personas se han atrasado en sus pagos de renta\", dijo Geoffrey Ross, director asistente de ayuda federal en el Departamento de vivienda y desarrollo comunitario de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto es lo que sabemos ahora sobre cómo solicitar la ayuda financiera para la renta en California. Tenemos respuestas a las siguientes preguntas:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"soy\">\u003c/a>'¿Soy elegible para recibir esta ayuda?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El programa se enfoca en los inquilinos de escasos recursos y sus arrendadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para calificar a esta ayuda, un inquilino debe de reportar menos del 80% del ingreso promedio de su vecindario. El ingreso medio es el número que representa el punto medio del rango ingresos, donde una mitad de la población gana más y la otra mitad gana menos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿No sabe cuál es el ingreso medio (o AMI por sus siglas en inglés) de su zona? Aquí tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\">una guía útil del estado\u003c/a> donde puede encontrar los detalles para su condado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además, los inquilinos deben de reportar que al menos una persona en su hogar haya perdido su trabajo, ingreso u horas durante la pandemia y también tendrán que comprobar que corren riesgo de caer en la indigencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estado quiere mandar este apoyo a los inquilinos vulnerables lo más rápido posible y ha comenzado a enviar cheques a los hogares que ganen menos del 50% del AMI de su área o a personas que sigan desempleados luego de 90 días o más. Personas con ingresos más altos, pero que no excedan el 80% del AMI, son quienes siguen en la fila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas ciudades, como Oakland, decidieron dirigir sus propios programas y por eso darán prioridad a familias que ganen menos del 30% del AMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"inmigrantes\">\u003c/a>'¿Califican los inmigrantes indocumentados?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí. La ciudadanía o un estatus legal migratorio no es un requisito para recibir esta ayuda del gobierno federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por esa razón, este programa está disponible a todos los que tengan el ingreso indicado, sin importar que sean o no residentes legales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un letrero que dice 'Se Renta' cuelga de un edificio de apartamentos en la calle Market de San Francisco el 6 de diciembre del 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"como\">\u003c/a>'¿Cómo aplico?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los inquilinos y arrendadores que califiquen podrán aplicar para este apoyo a través de la página del estado, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index_esp.html\">\u003cem>Housing Is Key\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Si se aprueba su aplicación y el inquilino gana el ingreso requerido, el programa podría pagar hasta el 80% de los pagos atrasados de la renta directamente al arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanto el inquilino como el arrendador participan en este proceso. Hay partes de la solicitud que requieren de ambos para que el trámite siga adelante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el inquilino aplica primero, el arrendador recibirá una notificación para que comience a trabajar en la parte que le corresponde. Si el propietario aplica primero, el gobierno estatal se comunicará con el inquilino para recolectar más información, como su ingreso, por ejemplo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Asociación de apartamentos de California (o CAA por sus siglas en inglés) está pidiendo a los dueños de propiedades que tengan inquilinos que se comuniquen con ellos para saber si califican para el programa y decidir si aplicaran juntos para la ayuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tú y el inquilino deben de trabajar juntos\", dijo Debra Carlton, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de relaciones gubernamentales y cumplimiento de la CAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Jonas Di Gregorio, inquilino de San Francisco, espera con mucha emoción la llegada de la ayuda. Él perdió su trabajo como camarero en un restaurante cuando comenzó la pandemia y ahora debe más de $10,000 a su arrendador en pagos atrasados. Ha podido evitar un desalojo pagando 25% de lo que debe en renta para el estudio en donde vive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Creo que este apoyo para la renta es muy importante. Espero que mi arrendador aplique\", dijo Di Gregorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si tiene preguntas específicas para su situación o necesita asistencia para llenar el formulario, puede llamar a la línea telefónica del estado: (833) 430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si requiere ayuda individual para completar el proceso, el estado también puede conectarlo con un trabajador social que agendará una cita con usted para asistirlo. La lista completa de las organizaciones que ofrecen este servicio está disponible \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/partner_resources.html\">a través de la página\u003c/a> y línea telefónica de \u003cem>Housing Is Key\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'¿El proceso es el mismo para todos los californianos?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No siempre. Como muchos otros programas que se han desarrollado para enfrentar los efectos de la pandemia, todo depende de donde vivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas ciudades y condados recibieron sus propios fondos del estímulo económico federal y han creado sus propios programas aparte. Si vives en esas zonas, el trámite podría ser un poco distinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En esta lista se incluye a las grandes ciudades del Área de la Bahía, como San Francisco, Oakland y San José. Algunas de estas ciudades aún no finalizan el proceso para distribuir estos fondos de ayuda y es probable que no estén disponibles hasta abril o mayo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, si eres un inquilino o arrendador que vive en esas ciudades, todavía puedes aplicar para la ayuda estatal a través de la solicitud que se hizo disponible este lunes, 15 de marzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para más información sobre los programas locales de apoyo para el alquiler, puede visitar este mapa de \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/rental-assistance\">\u003cem>National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (o la 'Coalición nacional de la vivienda para personas de bajos ingresos de asistencia).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"¿Qué documentos o información voy a necesitar?\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los arrendadores \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_renter_checklist_sp.pdf\">necesitarán tener a la mano documentación\u003c/a> para comprobar que son los dueños de la propiedad. Esto podría ser las escrituras de la propiedad, un registro de la hipoteca, la declaración de impuestos o un contrato de arrendamiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no tiene un contrato de alquiler ya que hospeda a su inquilino de manera informal, también puede presentar los estados de cuenta que comprueban pagos de renta. Los gerentes de la propiedad también pueden aplicar en representación del arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los inquilinos deben de comprobar que fueron impactados económicamente por el coronavirus. La solicitud ofrece \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_renter_checklist_sp.pdf\">la oportunidad de proveer documentos que verifiquen su situación\u003c/a>, como un talón de cheque reciente o una carta de pérdida de empleo. Pero esto no es requisito ya que basta con escribir un testimonio sobre sus experiencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El inquilino también debe de demostrar que se encuentra en una situación de vivienda inestable, por ejemplo, pagos atrasados de renta o una factura atrasada de servicios.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"arrendador\">\u003c/a>'Soy un arrendador, ¿tengo que solicitar esta ayuda?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No es necesario. Pero probablemente deberías. \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/kb/frequently-asked-questions-state-rental-assistance-program/\">Eso también lo recomienda la CAA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Esta es la mejor oportunidad que tienen los arrendadores para que reciban una parte significativa de los pagos de renta que no han recibido\", dijo Debra Carlton de CAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un arrendador hasta puede ser castigado por no aplicar para este alivio si es que intentan en el futuro presentar una demanda contra sus inquilinos en una corte de desalojos. Además, es posible que un propietario infringe las leyes de vivienda justa de California si se niega apoyar a sus inquilinos en este trámite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todo esto es especialmente relevante para los pequeños dueños de propiedad que dependen del pago de rentas como una manera de ingreso y que han visto grandes pérdidas financieras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Todos nosotros tenemos facturas que hay que pagar y no podemos dejar que se amontonen\", dijo Jenny Zhao, una pequeña propietaria en San José que tiene a inquilinos que le deben miles de dólares en pagos atrasados de renta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especialmente cuando hablamos de una hipoteca, hay que pagar eso\", ella agregó.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'¿Qué puedo hacer si mi arrendador no quiere participar?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Algunas organizaciones sin fines de lucro defensoras de inquilinos de bajos ingresos se preocupan que habrá inquilinos que escojan cuales inquilinos van apoyar llenar la aplicación ya que el programa depende de que los propietarios acepten formar parte del trámite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si un inquilino empieza una aplicación para recibir ayuda financiera, el estado afirma que intentará tres veces contactar a su arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el propietario aún así se rehúsa, el propietario todavía puede recibir suficiente dinero para cubrir el 25% de los pagos atrasados. Ese es el monto mínimo que se necesita pagar para evitar un desalojo, según la moratoria estatal contra desalojos la cual termina el 1 de julio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"cuanto\">\u003c/a>'¿Cuánto dinero podría recibir?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Es posible que recibas todo lo que necesites. Por ahora no existe una cantidad máxima de lo que puede recibir un individuo que cumpla con todos los requisitos del programa estatal. Por su parte, las autoridades estatales han dicho que seguirán aceptando solicitudes y distribuyendo cheques de ayuda hasta que los fondos se acaben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En algunos casos, por ejemplo si el arrendador se niega a aceptar los fondos, el inquilino puede usar el dinero para hacer futuros pagos de renta pero siempre y cuando ya que se hagan todos los pagos atrasados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California le tocó $2.6 mil millones de fondos federales para esta iniciativa, un número que probablemente podría publicar luego de que se aprobara el más reciente paquete de estímulo económico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por el periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Haga clic en el tema que más le interese para visitar esa sección.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#soy\">¿Soy elegible para recibir esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#inmigrantes\">¿Califican los inmigrantes indocumentados?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#como\">¿Cómo aplico para recibir esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#arrendador\">Soy un arrendador, ¿tengo que solicitar esta ayuda?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#cuanto\">¿Cuánto dinero podría recibir?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La pandemia ha puesto a muchos inquilinos de bajos recursos entre la espada y la pared. Y para sus arrendadores, ha provocado dificultades financieras a causa de que estos no han podido cobrar el alquiler para pagar sus propias deudas. Las moratorias contra desalojos a nivel local y estatal han permitido que mucha gente siga en su hogar, pero pronto tendrán que pagar la renta que deben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero pronto llegará ayuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde el 15 de marzo comenzó el periodo para aplicar al programa estatal de ayuda financiera para la renta. Esta iniciativa cuenta con $2.6 mil millones en fondos federales,este monto podría aumentar luego de que se aprobara el más reciente paquete de estímulo económico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las autoridades estatales crearon este fondo de ayuda en enero cuando aprobaron la ley SB 91, la cual \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850145/with-looming-threat-of-evictions-california-bill-would-extend-renter-protections-through-2021\">extiende las protecciones en contra de desalojos de inquilinos hasta el 30 de junio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los arrendadores ahora pueden solicitar ayuda financiera, siempre y cuando hospeden a inquilinos de bajos recursos que se hayan atrasado en sus pagos de renta debido a la pandemia. Estos arrendadores pueden recibir hasta el 80% de todo la renta que no recibieron del 1 de abril de 2020 hasta el 31 de marzo de 2021. Pero tendrán que perdonar el 20% restante y no podrán intentar desalojar a su inquilino a causa de que este no pudo pagar renta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sabemos que tanto los inquilinos como los arrendadores han experimentado mucho estrés. Ambos están preocupados de lo que va a pasar. Y ahora podemos ofrecerles un programa que promete un camino para resolver esta situación muy lamentable en la cual muchas personas se han atrasado en sus pagos de renta\", dijo Geoffrey Ross, director asistente de ayuda federal en el Departamento de vivienda y desarrollo comunitario de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto es lo que sabemos ahora sobre cómo solicitar la ayuda financiera para la renta en California. Tenemos respuestas a las siguientes preguntas:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"soy\">\u003c/a>'¿Soy elegible para recibir esta ayuda?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El programa se enfoca en los inquilinos de escasos recursos y sus arrendadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para calificar a esta ayuda, un inquilino debe de reportar menos del 80% del ingreso promedio de su vecindario. El ingreso medio es el número que representa el punto medio del rango ingresos, donde una mitad de la población gana más y la otra mitad gana menos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿No sabe cuál es el ingreso medio (o AMI por sus siglas en inglés) de su zona? Aquí tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-and-federal-income-limits/docs/income-limits-2020.pdf\">una guía útil del estado\u003c/a> donde puede encontrar los detalles para su condado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además, los inquilinos deben de reportar que al menos una persona en su hogar haya perdido su trabajo, ingreso u horas durante la pandemia y también tendrán que comprobar que corren riesgo de caer en la indigencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estado quiere mandar este apoyo a los inquilinos vulnerables lo más rápido posible y ha comenzado a enviar cheques a los hogares que ganen menos del 50% del AMI de su área o a personas que sigan desempleados luego de 90 días o más. Personas con ingresos más altos, pero que no excedan el 80% del AMI, son quienes siguen en la fila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas ciudades, como Oakland, decidieron dirigir sus propios programas y por eso darán prioridad a familias que ganen menos del 30% del AMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"inmigrantes\">\u003c/a>'¿Califican los inmigrantes indocumentados?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sí. La ciudadanía o un estatus legal migratorio no es un requisito para recibir esta ayuda del gobierno federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por esa razón, este programa está disponible a todos los que tengan el ingreso indicado, sin importar que sean o no residentes legales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un letrero que dice 'Se Renta' cuelga de un edificio de apartamentos en la calle Market de San Francisco el 6 de diciembre del 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"como\">\u003c/a>'¿Cómo aplico?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los inquilinos y arrendadores que califiquen podrán aplicar para este apoyo a través de la página del estado, \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index_esp.html\">\u003cem>Housing Is Key\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Si se aprueba su aplicación y el inquilino gana el ingreso requerido, el programa podría pagar hasta el 80% de los pagos atrasados de la renta directamente al arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanto el inquilino como el arrendador participan en este proceso. Hay partes de la solicitud que requieren de ambos para que el trámite siga adelante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el inquilino aplica primero, el arrendador recibirá una notificación para que comience a trabajar en la parte que le corresponde. Si el propietario aplica primero, el gobierno estatal se comunicará con el inquilino para recolectar más información, como su ingreso, por ejemplo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Asociación de apartamentos de California (o CAA por sus siglas en inglés) está pidiendo a los dueños de propiedades que tengan inquilinos que se comuniquen con ellos para saber si califican para el programa y decidir si aplicaran juntos para la ayuda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tú y el inquilino deben de trabajar juntos\", dijo Debra Carlton, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de relaciones gubernamentales y cumplimiento de la CAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jonas Di Gregorio, inquilino de San Francisco, espera con mucha emoción la llegada de la ayuda. Él perdió su trabajo como camarero en un restaurante cuando comenzó la pandemia y ahora debe más de $10,000 a su arrendador en pagos atrasados. Ha podido evitar un desalojo pagando 25% de lo que debe en renta para el estudio en donde vive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Creo que este apoyo para la renta es muy importante. Espero que mi arrendador aplique\", dijo Di Gregorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si tiene preguntas específicas para su situación o necesita asistencia para llenar el formulario, puede llamar a la línea telefónica del estado: (833) 430-2122.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si requiere ayuda individual para completar el proceso, el estado también puede conectarlo con un trabajador social que agendará una cita con usted para asistirlo. La lista completa de las organizaciones que ofrecen este servicio está disponible \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/partner_resources.html\">a través de la página\u003c/a> y línea telefónica de \u003cem>Housing Is Key\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'¿El proceso es el mismo para todos los californianos?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No siempre. Como muchos otros programas que se han desarrollado para enfrentar los efectos de la pandemia, todo depende de donde vivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunas ciudades y condados recibieron sus propios fondos del estímulo económico federal y han creado sus propios programas aparte. Si vives en esas zonas, el trámite podría ser un poco distinto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En esta lista se incluye a las grandes ciudades del Área de la Bahía, como San Francisco, Oakland y San José. Algunas de estas ciudades aún no finalizan el proceso para distribuir estos fondos de ayuda y es probable que no estén disponibles hasta abril o mayo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, si eres un inquilino o arrendador que vive en esas ciudades, todavía puedes aplicar para la ayuda estatal a través de la solicitud que se hizo disponible este lunes, 15 de marzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Para más información sobre los programas locales de apoyo para el alquiler, puede visitar este mapa de \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/rental-assistance\">\u003cem>National Low Income Housing Coalition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (o la 'Coalición nacional de la vivienda para personas de bajos ingresos de asistencia).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"¿Qué documentos o información voy a necesitar?\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Los arrendadores \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_renter_checklist_sp.pdf\">necesitarán tener a la mano documentación\u003c/a> para comprobar que son los dueños de la propiedad. Esto podría ser las escrituras de la propiedad, un registro de la hipoteca, la declaración de impuestos o un contrato de arrendamiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no tiene un contrato de alquiler ya que hospeda a su inquilino de manera informal, también puede presentar los estados de cuenta que comprueban pagos de renta. Los gerentes de la propiedad también pueden aplicar en representación del arrendador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los inquilinos deben de comprobar que fueron impactados económicamente por el coronavirus. La solicitud ofrece \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/covid19_renter_checklist_sp.pdf\">la oportunidad de proveer documentos que verifiquen su situación\u003c/a>, como un talón de cheque reciente o una carta de pérdida de empleo. Pero esto no es requisito ya que basta con escribir un testimonio sobre sus experiencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El inquilino también debe de demostrar que se encuentra en una situación de vivienda inestable, por ejemplo, pagos atrasados de renta o una factura atrasada de servicios.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"arrendador\">\u003c/a>'Soy un arrendador, ¿tengo que solicitar esta ayuda?'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No es necesario. Pero probablemente deberías. \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/kb/frequently-asked-questions-state-rental-assistance-program/\">Eso también lo recomienda la CAA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Esta es la mejor oportunidad que tienen los arrendadores para que reciban una parte significativa de los pagos de renta que no han recibido\", dijo Debra Carlton de CAA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un arrendador hasta puede ser castigado por no aplicar para este alivio si es que intentan en el futuro presentar una demanda contra sus inquilinos en una corte de desalojos. Además, es posible que un propietario infringe las leyes de vivienda justa de California si se niega apoyar a sus inquilinos en este trámite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todo esto es especialmente relevante para los pequeños dueños de propiedad que dependen del pago de rentas como una manera de ingreso y que han visto grandes pérdidas financieras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Todos nosotros tenemos facturas que hay que pagar y no podemos dejar que se amontonen\", dijo Jenny Zhao, una pequeña propietaria en San José que tiene a inquilinos que le deben miles de dólares en pagos atrasados de renta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Especialmente cuando hablamos de una hipoteca, hay que pagar eso\", ella agregó.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The decrease is due in part to Trump administration policies that essentially closed down the border to asylum seekers, as well as court orders forcing ICE to release detainees to allow for social distancing during the pandemic inside facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE detention centers should work with local health jurisdictions to get allocations of doses and arrange vaccinations, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, during a call with reporters last week. “The exact approach is going to be provider specific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A limited number of detainees nationwide have begun to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but that has depended largely on availability and the vaccination priorities of each state, ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccines at detention facilities are administered by either the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/ice-health-service-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE Health Services Corps\u003c/a>, contracted medical staff or “through other processes as defined by the state and/or local vaccination implementation plan,” Moor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jackie Gonzalez, policy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates\"]‘This is a very long overdue inclusion of immigrants in detention in the state’s plan.’[/pullquote]A spokesman for CoreCivic, the for-profit company that runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816707/man-dies-of-covid-19-in-san-diego-ice-detention-center-lawyers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Otay Mesa Detention Center\u003c/a> near San Diego, said the facility was working to provide the vaccine to detainees “as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re following the plan and protocols established by the state of California and the San Diego Health Department health officials, for prioritizing recipients and administering the vaccine,” said Ryan Gustin, a spokesman with CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group and Management & Training Corporation, the two other private companies that operate detention facilities in the state, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates, including members of an advisory group tasked with helping California public health officials distribute the vaccine equitably, say local health departments or other trusted community medical providers should be the entities informing detainees and providing them with shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t expect folks that are detained to be receptive to getting the vaccine from the detention facility staff or from people associated with ICE,” said Kiran Savage-Sangwan, who directs the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and also sits on CDPH’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Community-Vaccine-Advisory-Committee.aspx/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Vaccine Advisory Committee\u003c/a>. “And that’s because of the really poor track record of medical care in these facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health confirmed to KQED that the vaccine eligibility expansion includes ICE detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who campaigned since last winter for California officials to include detained immigrants in vaccination plans welcomed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that this is a very long overdue inclusion of immigrants in detention in the state’s plan,” said Jackie Gonzalez, policy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates. “And what we would like to see is clear guidance for how local public health departments should roll out the vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has swept through all seven detention centers in California, infecting more than 600 people held in the facilities since the pandemic began. More than a dozen detainees diagnosed with COVID-19 are currently in isolation or being monitored, according to ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#detStat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nationwide average daily population in detention centers has dropped dramatically from nearly 40,000 a year ago, to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14,000\u003c/a> last month. The decrease is due in part to Trump administration policies that essentially closed down the border to asylum seekers, as well as court orders forcing ICE to release detainees to allow for social distancing during the pandemic inside facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE detention centers should work with local health jurisdictions to get allocations of doses and arrange vaccinations, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, during a call with reporters last week. “The exact approach is going to be provider specific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859436/el-arduo-camino-de-una-abogada-hondurena-para-reunir-a-las-familias-separadas-en-la-frontera-sur-de-los-ee-uu\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and 42-year-old Dora Melara is packing a bag. She grabs some clothes and important documents, and then makes some sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, she will begin her search for a Honduran father who was separated from his teenage son at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018. Their names are being withheld because the case is sensitive and still in legal limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how long Melara may be away from home — one night, perhaps more. She has learned that this work is unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families\">Melara\u003c/a> is an attorney working for \u003ca href=\"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/72-1597864\">Justice in Motion\u003c/a>, a U.S.-based nonprofit that has been tasked with trying to find and reunify families. They work in tandem with the American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant advocacy organizations as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/ms-l-v-ice-complaint\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the federal government in response to the Trump administration’s family separation policy. This week, the ACLU and the Biden administration agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864249/family-separations-lawsuit-u-s-and-aclu-start-settlement-talks\">enter settlement negotiations\u003c/a> in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, much of the burden of finding the parents of separated children has been on nonprofits and lawyers coordinating across borders, particularly in Honduras and Guatemala, the home countries of many of the families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Biden signed an executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858316/biden-signs-immigration-executive-orders-establishes-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families\">establish a task force\u003c/a> focused on reunifying families separated by the Trump administration. But the details are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing on March 1, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that parents may be able to choose to reunite with their children either in their country of origin or in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States and to address the family needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, federal officials have not laid out concrete policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they act, it’s up to people like Melara to make these trips, looking for people who were separated from their children and then deported by the U.S. government. Melara focuses on cases close to home, in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m. Monday, and Melara and a colleague who usually accompanies her on these searches head out. Their destination is a mountain town near the border with Guatemala. The drive should take four hours, on a good day. But today, it’s rainy and cold, and the traffic is piling up with everyone heading to work. It’s slowing things down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Melara’s second time making this trip in the past four months. Since 2019, she has performed more than three dozen searches, many of them successful. She said the harm done to people who sought asylum in the U.S. motivates her to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5-160x284.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dora Melara stops to get gas during her trip. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were humiliated, who had their rights violated,” Melara said. “They have the opportunity to know that they can have justice for everything they’ve lived through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also a parent herself. The work can be personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every interview and story I hear from the parents is sad, and it moves me,” she said. “As parents, we want to protect [our children].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>. And while a majority of families have been reunited, hundreds of parents are still unaccounted for. That’s in part because the administration did not keep track of where the parents went. And contact information for them is often outdated or incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melara begins these searches, she usually has very little information — a name, maybe a location. Often, she finds that families have moved, or the information was inaccurate, and searching through government documents and online can only take her so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has to rely on the kindness of strangers — family members of the parent, or their neighbors — to point her in the right direction. But getting this information requires building trust, in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why she drives long distances for even the slimmest chance of finding parents, despite any challenges — and there have been many. She has performed searches during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, government-enforced curfews prevented her from traveling. It was only in August that she was able to restart the searches in person, but fears of contracting the coronavirus have made building trust more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, two deadly hurricanes — Eta and Iota — swept through Honduras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/americas/guatemala-hurricanes-mudslide-migration.html\">leaving more than 150,000 people displaced and hundreds dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage from the hurricanes has touched Melara directly. Her home in San Pedro Sula was hit by heavy floods, and while it wasn’t destroyed, nearly everything inside of it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The house can’t be entered right now — it’s filled with mud,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she has stayed with relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two hours into her drive, Melara has already counted four rockslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are warnings on the road that the roads are damaged and that we must drive with caution,” she said. “There are homemade signs that people have put up themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brake often to avoid large potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the numerous rockslides Melara has to navigate around on her journey. They were caused in part by hurricanes that devastated parts of Honduras in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around noon, she finally arrives at the first town. With the bad weather and damaged roads, Melara’s trying to make this trip go quickly since driving can be dangerous after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/honduras#34b6ed\">2021 report from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> found that “violent organized crime continues to disrupt Honduran society,” and has pushed many to attempt to leave the country. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G19/005/53/PDF/G1900553.pdf?OpenElement\">2018 report\u003c/a> from a United Nations special rapporteur, human rights defenders and lawyers are some of the most at-risk of that violence, with the vast majority “unable to work in a safe, supportive environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindful that night will fall soon, she meets with local community leaders. She tells them the father’s name and explains why she is looking for him. They say the only people they know with that surname are in another town, about 40 minutes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet she has no address or contact there. So, once she arrives at the next town, she tracks down local leaders, once again. They tell her to go check yet another town, two hours away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the sun is getting low and the weather is bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need to stay the night here,” she said. “The rain won’t stop, and the fog is thick. The road isn’t good right now, parts of it have washed away because of the hurricanes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing left to do but sleep and hope for more luck in the morning..\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day Two\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melara wakes up early, checks out of the hotel and hits the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the new town — the third in two days — she, again, meets with local officials to explain her mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, she’s in luck: Someone knows the area the father is living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an address!” Melara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the final road is steep and covered with mud. Eventually, Melara has to ditch her car and continue by foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the top of the hill, there’s a cluster of small homes. A young boy runs up to greet her. He’s curious about why she’s there, and Melara explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, finally — after two days of searching — a man steps out of one of the homes. It’s the father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-10-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The weather is bad on her trip, with dense fog and rain. Making the drive even more dangerous. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lost and Found\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, when she meets the father, he’s surprised to see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was completely unaware that we were looking for him,” Melara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dora Melara\"]‘There are parents who’ve told me, ‘I felt the desire to die. I felt a desire not to return to my land. I was ashamed to see my wife and know that I took my son and returned without him.”[/pullquote]After a while, and some explanation, he relaxes and invites her to sit. She asks if he knows where his son is and if he has any contact with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has an idea of where his son is, but he is not in contact with him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Melara, that’s not uncommon. Parents might not have a phone, or have to walk long distances to get a cell signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Melara and the father talk for more than an hour. She listens to his story, they talk about his son and exchange information. She hopes they will remain in touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Melara reflects on what parents have told her about being turned back at the U.S.-Mexico border without their kids. She says some parents feel shame. Some don’t want to go home at all to face their spouses without their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parents who’ve told me, ‘I felt the desire to die. I felt a desire not to return to my land. I was ashamed to see my wife and know that I took my son and returned without him. What will my wife think of me?’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if she cannot change anything right away, Melara said that meeting the parents, listening to them, can be meaningful. When they talk, she said, parents know that someone cares about their family, perhaps brings them some hope — and acknowledgment — of what happened to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t feel so alone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858657\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-800x599.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-1020x763.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-8-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A church stands in one of the areas that Dora Melara searched for the father. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘He Needs Me With Him’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One father said that when lawyers from Justice in Motion found him, it came as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, whose name we’re not using due to threats against this life, fled to the United States in April 2018, seeking asylum with his 5-year-old son. Gangs in the area had recently killed someone close to him and were targeting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I fled] because of fear,” he said through a translator. “I was very scared because they had killed my cousin, he was like my brother, and my friend. So, I didn’t want that to happen to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he crossed over into the U.S., border agents took him and his son to the hielera, a cold room where people seeking asylum were often held. The man said immigration officials told him they would take him to court and that he would likely be deported, but his son would be staying behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him, ‘Please, deport me with my child.’ The officer said, ‘No, your child will stay here in this country and you’ll be deported,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer told the man that his son would make it to his sister’s, where the two intended to stay, but that he would not be able to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son was taken from him while he appeared in court. The father said he never got a chance to say goodbye. It was 20 days before he knew where his son was, and it wasn’t until he was deported back to Central America that he was able to make contact with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys said that when the boy’s mother found out he had been taken from his father, she was so desperate to get him back that she journeyed to the border and crossed into the U.S. herself, to be with her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy is now 7 years old and living with his mother and an aunt. The father said when they talk on the phone, his son often asks why he isn’t there with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He misses me a lot,” he said. “He talks to me, and he is always asking me when I’m going to get there, and he has told me that I’m a bad father because I abandoned him in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sometimes, the father thinks so, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11831289 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/child-separations4-1038x576.jpg']Despite the fact that the U.S. government is responsible for the conditions of their separation, and that he did everything he could to prevent it, the man still feels like it’s his fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I felt and I still feel sometimes like I failed as a father,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried to adjust to this new life, with the pain of loss in the backdrop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a little more than a year ago, an attorney called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not expecting anything. I really did not know what was happening,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney explained who they were working with and his possible options. They helped put him in touch with Justice in Motion and Melara who has been working on his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very, very great to hear from her because it’s only, really, a few people helping and I am still very thankful to her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was because of this meeting that the man eventually got connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/jobs/item.9742-Staff_Attorney_Al_Otro_Lado#:~:text=Al%20Otro%20Lado%20is%20a,violate%20the%20rights%20of%20migrants.&text=Current%20litigation%20includes%20Al%20Otro%20Lado%20v.\">Al Otro Lado,\u003c/a> a California-based binational advocacy and legal organization that is currently helping him pursue asylum. While he waits, he is in hiding in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/02/executive-order-the-establishment-of-interagency-task-force-on-the-reunification-of-families/\">executive order aims\u003c/a> to address some of the harm caused by separating families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='family-separation']But advocates say the order \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-effort-reunite-migrant-families-separated-under-trump-not-enough-n1256495\">doesn’t go far enough\u003c/a>. The order focuses mainly on reunifying families who are still separated. It doesn’t specifically address remedies for parents who were pressured to accept deportation with their child rather than being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, they say, some families may be wary of interacting again with the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any reason to believe the U.S. government is going to do anything to help them. Why should they, right?” said Cathleen Caron, founder and executive director of Justice in Motion. She says the government should rely on people like Melara, who’ve already established connections and trust in the communities, and make sure they take the family’s preferences into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s order also does not guarantee any legal immigration status for those affected or ensure social services will be provided, though it does recommend the task force look into these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the father’s case that Melara is working on — the issue of legal status is especially pressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Flores, communications manager at Al Otro Lado, said that without a guarantee of protection, the father could risk applying for asylum and being turned away again, “resulting in a doubly traumatic re-separation from his child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the father said — with the help he now has from Al Otro Lado and others — he can imagine a future where his family is together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to be able to reunify with my son because he’s so little, and he needs me with him,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The World’s Monica Campbell contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated March 12. It was originally published on Feb. 4, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, much of the burden of finding the parents of separated children has been on nonprofits and lawyers coordinating across borders, particularly in Honduras and Guatemala, the home countries of many of the families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, President Biden signed an executive order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858316/biden-signs-immigration-executive-orders-establishes-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families\">establish a task force\u003c/a> focused on reunifying families separated by the Trump administration. But the details are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press briefing on March 1, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that parents may be able to choose to reunite with their children either in their country of origin or in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States and to address the family needs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, federal officials have not laid out concrete policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until they act, it’s up to people like Melara to make these trips, looking for people who were separated from their children and then deported by the U.S. government. Melara focuses on cases close to home, in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s 5 a.m. Monday, and Melara and a colleague who usually accompanies her on these searches head out. Their destination is a mountain town near the border with Guatemala. The drive should take four hours, on a good day. But today, it’s rainy and cold, and the traffic is piling up with everyone heading to work. It’s slowing things down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Melara’s second time making this trip in the past four months. Since 2019, she has performed more than three dozen searches, many of them successful. She said the harm done to people who sought asylum in the U.S. motivates her to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858652\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5.jpeg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-5-160x284.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dora Melara stops to get gas during her trip. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were people who were humiliated, who had their rights violated,” Melara said. “They have the opportunity to know that they can have justice for everything they’ve lived through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also a parent herself. The work can be personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every interview and story I hear from the parents is sad, and it moves me,” she said. “As parents, we want to protect [our children].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>. And while a majority of families have been reunited, hundreds of parents are still unaccounted for. That’s in part because the administration did not keep track of where the parents went. And contact information for them is often outdated or incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melara begins these searches, she usually has very little information — a name, maybe a location. Often, she finds that families have moved, or the information was inaccurate, and searching through government documents and online can only take her so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has to rely on the kindness of strangers — family members of the parent, or their neighbors — to point her in the right direction. But getting this information requires building trust, in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why she drives long distances for even the slimmest chance of finding parents, despite any challenges — and there have been many. She has performed searches during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, government-enforced curfews prevented her from traveling. It was only in August that she was able to restart the searches in person, but fears of contracting the coronavirus have made building trust more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, two deadly hurricanes — Eta and Iota — swept through Honduras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/americas/guatemala-hurricanes-mudslide-migration.html\">leaving more than 150,000 people displaced and hundreds dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage from the hurricanes has touched Melara directly. Her home in San Pedro Sula was hit by heavy floods, and while it wasn’t destroyed, nearly everything inside of it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The house can’t be entered right now — it’s filled with mud,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she has stayed with relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two hours into her drive, Melara has already counted four rockslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are warnings on the road that the roads are damaged and that we must drive with caution,” she said. “There are homemade signs that people have put up themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They brake often to avoid large potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11858654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11858654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Photo-6-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the numerous rockslides Melara has to navigate around on her journey. They were caused in part by hurricanes that devastated parts of Honduras in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dora Melara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around noon, she finally arrives at the first town. With the bad weather and damaged roads, Melara’s trying to make this trip go quickly since driving can be dangerous after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/honduras#34b6ed\">2021 report from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a> found that “violent organized crime continues to disrupt Honduran society,” and has pushed many to attempt to leave the country. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G19/005/53/PDF/G1900553.pdf?OpenElement\">2018 report\u003c/a> from a United Nations special rapporteur, human rights defenders and lawyers are some of the most at-risk of that violence, with the vast majority “unable to work in a safe, supportive environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindful that night will fall soon, she meets with local community leaders. She tells them the father’s name and explains why she is looking for him. They say the only people they know with that surname are in another town, about 40 minutes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet she has no address or contact there. So, once she arrives at the next town, she tracks down local leaders, once again. They tell her to go check yet another town, two hours away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the sun is getting low and the weather is bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need to stay the night here,” she said. “The rain won’t stop, and the fog is thick. The road isn’t good right now, parts of it have washed away because of the hurricanes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s nothing left to do but sleep and hope for more luck in the morning..\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Day Two\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melara wakes up early, checks out of the hotel and hits the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the new town — the third in two days — she, again, meets with local officials to explain her mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time, she’s in luck: Someone knows the area the father is living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an address!” Melara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the final road is steep and covered with mud. Eventually, Melara has to ditch her car and continue by foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she gets to the top of the hill, there’s a cluster of small homes. A young boy runs up to greet her. He’s curious about why she’s there, and Melara explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, finally — after two days of searching — a man steps out of one of the homes. 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Counties only recently started offering vaccinations to this hard-hit workforce, but agricultural workers are so far accepting the vaccine at high rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diana Tellefson Torres, executive director, United Farm Workers Foundation\"]‘We want to make sure the process is accessible. 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Just having something on a website isn’t going to get farmworkers somewhere because there is limited digital literacy and that limitation has been a huge barrier,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties like Riverside have sent mobile clinics to agricultural worksites. Tulare County has opened its large \u003ca href=\"https://www.internationalagricenter.com/\">International Agri-Center\u003c/a>, well known in its farming community, where growers can send their employees for vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmworkers, like other essential employees, can also get vaccinated at other distribution sites, like pharmacies, but that often requires taking time off work, navigating a county or pharmacy website or the My Turn online form and getting lucky finding an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nationwide United Farm Workers Foundation survey of 10,149 farmworkers – the vast majority of them in California – 73% said they would get the vaccine as soon as possible while only 5% said they would not. Twenty-two percent said they were neutral. That’s slightly more pro-vaccine than the 69% of all Americans who say they have been or will be vaccinated and the 30% who say they would not, according to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/03/05/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-plan-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine--or-already-have/\">Pew Research Center survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Higher Infection Rates\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/FoodandAgVulnerabilityIndex.aspx?_ga=2.152868540.4695762.1607534115-582371292.1607534115\">46,000\u003c/a> agricultural workers in California have been infected with COVID-19, according to estimates from Purdue University researchers. Their infection rates tend to run higher than the general population – 13% of farmworkers recruited for a study in the Salinas Valley tested positive for COVID-19 between July and November, compared to 5% of the general population, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/12/02/california-farmworkers-hit-hard-by-covid-19-study-finds/\">UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> published in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Cruz, Mauricio Chavez of Hollister got his COVID-19 shot at Monterey Mushrooms. Although he works at a different, neighboring mushroom farm, its workers were invited to the vaccine clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At work they told us this wasn’t mandatory, it was voluntary,” he said. But he didn’t think twice about it. “I haven’t seen my parents in a year, they’re 80 and 82 … that’s a year we don’t get back.” Because his parents were also recently immunized, “this opens up the opportunity for me to see them again soon,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860883 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SanJose_COVIDTesting-1038x576.jpg']Chavez said agricultural workers may be more inclined to get the vaccine because so many have either been infected or know someone who was. He has coworkers who have fallen ill, although not necessarily at work, but likely at home because they live in crowded housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have 10 or 15 people living in one house, and all you need is one person to get infected,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About four in 10 Californians who live with an agricultural or food processing worker live in an overcrowded home – defined as having more people than rooms, according to a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/08/guest-worker-covid-outbreak-california/\">analysis\u003c/a> of census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Rumors and Misinformation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite some concerns about vaccine misinformation and hesitancy among farmworkers, if there is education and access, farmworkers will generally accept the vaccine, de Barraicua said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, rumors and misinformation are common. 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According to a second UFW Foundation survey of nearly 15,000 farmworkers, 78% of respondents said they did not have health insurance, and 34% had medical conditions that put them at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farmworkers']There is also a fear about sharing any type of personal information because of their immigration status, de Barraicua said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s attended events where some farmworkers said they didn’t get any advanced notice about the vaccination events, giving them little time to ask questions and ease their doubts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like the UFW Foundation and Lideres Campesinas have been working with health officials across the state to provide vaccine education to workers in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the worksite vaccination clinics are a partnership between a county and employers. 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