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But she acknowledged USCIS had had to deal with a technical problem and had shifted resources to address a staffing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency spokeswoman told KQED that an additional challenge was the much higher demand from first-time DACA applicants. After a three-year hiatus, the agency resumed accepting those requests last December under orders from another federal judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"USCIS knows that policies and procedures have a direct impact on the lives of DACA recipients and we are committed to minimizing processing delays to help facilitate access to benefits and restore confidence in the system,\" said spokeswoman Sharon Rummery, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hong, a Hayward resident, signed up for DACA in 2012 when the program first started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It changed my life,\" said Hong, who was born in South Korea and grew up undocumented since age 11 in the city of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong earned a master’s degree in public administration at San Francisco State University and achieved his life-long dream of a career in government. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency was working diligently to ensure a swift resolution for the applications that had been pending for more than four months, Renaud told the Senators. But she acknowledged USCIS had had to deal with a technical problem and had shifted resources to address a staffing shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agency spokeswoman told KQED that an additional challenge was the much higher demand from first-time DACA applicants. After a three-year hiatus, the agency resumed accepting those requests last December under orders from another federal judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"USCIS knows that policies and procedures have a direct impact on the lives of DACA recipients and we are committed to minimizing processing delays to help facilitate access to benefits and restore confidence in the system,\" said spokeswoman Sharon Rummery, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ju Hong, a Hayward resident, signed up for DACA in 2012 when the program first started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It changed my life,\" said Hong, who was born in South Korea and grew up undocumented since age 11 in the city of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong earned a master’s degree in public administration at San Francisco State University and achieved his life-long dream of a career in government. At his latest job at the Alameda County Public Health Department, Hong oversaw contracts with nonprofit organizations providing mental health and substance abuse treatment services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A photo ID for Ju Hong\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS50307_001_JuHong_IMG_0119-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card identifies Ju Hong as an employee of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, which includes the Public Health Department. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ju Hong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He had never had any problems renewing the two-year DACA permit, he said, until this month. After losing his job and health coverage, Hong said he felt anguished over how to cover his mortgage payments and the expensive medical treatment he needs for an auto-immune disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was so frustrated, he said, that he went public with his story and contacted elected representatives, including Sen. Padilla’s office, for help to speed up his request. In the process, he heard from other immigrants in a similar situation as his, who feared losing their jobs and facing the risk of deportation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Going back to completely out of status, it’s a scary thing. You're going back to square one,\" said Hong, who also serves on the leadership council at the nonprofit Immigrants Rising. \"I’m really tired of living in this limbo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. are in limbo, after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled last Friday against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program launched in 2012 by former President Barack Obama. The program provides temporary protection from deportation, and work authorization, to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Hanen, based in Texas, argued that DACA was created illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision does not end legal protections for the roughly 616,000 current DACA participants. However, the legal decision does suspend approvals of new applications and leaves the door open for DACA to be terminated in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged to appeal the ruling\u003c/a> and called on Congress to protect so-called Dreamers and create a path to citizenship for millions of people who lack legal status in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, KQED Forum host Mina Kim spoke with the following guests to get an overview of the legal decision and what happens next, and also to hear from immigrants who could be affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/wong-profile.html\">Tom K. Wong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>associate professor of political science and founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.borderangels.org/dulce-garcia.html\">Dulce García\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigration attorney, executive director of Border Angels and a DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/story/denea-joseph-i-am-my-grandmothers-child/\">Denea Joseph\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigrants rights advocate and DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/leadership-council/ju-hong/\">Ju Hong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising, an organization that helps undocumented young people achieve educational and career goals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Understanding the Ruling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was the basis Judge Andrew Hanen used in ruling that the creation of DACA was unlawful?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: Judge Hanen ruled that DACA is unlawful because the creation of DACA violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires public comment before changing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by Hanen based on the APA is a bit ironic because the last several years of the battle over DACA in the courts saw DACA being preserved mostly because of the APA as well. The Trump administration tried to end (DACA). DACA advocates [then] made a legal argument that the way that the Trump administration tried to end DACA violated the APA. Therefore, district courts all the way up to the Supreme Court said that DACA should stay. And now we have Judge Hanen relying on the same Administrative Procedure Act to essentially rule that DACA is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What is the immediate impact of this decision?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: The immediate impact is already being felt. Those who are first-time applicants, they should have received text notification from USCIS saying that biometrics appointments are now canceled. So part of applying for DACA not only includes a paper application, but once that's received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), then individuals go in for biometrics, for example, to provide their fingerprints. So those appointments are already being canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the approximately 600,000 active DACA recipients, this means more uncertainty and more limbo. We essentially had four years of uncertainty over DACA under the Trump administration. And this particular ruling — although it does not say that current active DACA recipients will lose their status — adds to the sort of uncertainty that the recipients are living with on a day to day [basis] and makes more vivid the importance of a permanent legislative solution for not just DACA recipients, but for undocumented immigrants more generally.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experiences of DACA Recipients\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was your reaction to the ruling?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ju Hong, DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising\"]'I'm really tired and I cannot live like this anymore with this fear ... I'm 31 years old and I want to have peace of mind.'[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Ju Hong: \u003c/strong> When I heard the news, I was devastated and frustrated and honestly, I was sick and tired. I was tired of hearing this news all over again. I just had to let out the frustration with other DACA recipients who are applying for it, and they all felt frustrated and angry, and this gave another affirmation that DACA is temporary and we cannot live in this limbo every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, I'm really tired and I cannot live like this anymore with this fear and this anxiety and the stress, I think enough is enough. I've had DACA since 2012. I've been undocumented since 2001. And I'm 31 years old and I want to have peace of mind and live a normal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> Sad, tired, frustrated and exhausted. All of these attacks in our communities have taken a toll on us physically and emotionally. The last few years have been very difficult. We were physically at the steps of the Supreme Court and we celebrated a victory last year when we received the opinion of the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We thought with the change of administration, perhaps there was new hope renewed. This takes us back. It's unbelievable that we're in this place yet again where our livelihoods are compromised, where the uncertainty is still there and our lives are still very much in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA allowed so many of us to apply for opportunities we never even imagined. As an attorney, I'm able to step into ... immigration courts and represent clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What are the impacts that are often less known on DACA recipients?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> The emotional toll that we have every time that we have to send our application, and hope that it gets processed in time before we lose our jobs, is a big one. When I applied in 2014, I was hesitant. I didn't trust the government. I wasn't sure whether it would be approved and we would be turning over all of our information, that on its own is a little bit scary to apply for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand why some folks hesitated to apply. Once you apply, we know that the program can be destroyed at any moment, as it was during the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I applied in 2014, they told me it would be political suicide for anyone to attack the program. Yet here we are. Where not only the prior administration attacked it and we had to step up and sue the federal government ourselves, but now the state of Texas is doing its own lawsuit and we don't know what's going to happen with the program yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing facemasks hold up signs that say, 'Immigrant rights are human rights!' and 'No human is illegal. Protect DACA.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Parish Moreno, 20, and Fiama Vilagrana-Ocasio, 20, participate in a demonstration outside of the U.S. District Courthouse on July 19, 2021 in Houston, Texas. \u003ccite>(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Possible Paths Forward\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why was DACA was established the way it was in 2012?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> If folks think back to 2010, the DREAM Act was in Congress. It narrowly failed, not because of Republicans who typically are opposed to legal status for undocumented immigrants, but because the Democratic caucus couldn't hold the line. And so the failure of the DREAM Act in 2010, followed by a looming reelection of President Obama in early 2012, combined with potential Republican DREAM Act legislation being introduced by then-Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. That was the political backdrop for the announcement of DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration'][Budget reconciliation] seems to be the most viable path forward right now. We know that there are 50 Democrats in the Senate and 50 Republicans. With Vice President (Kamala) Harris being the tiebreaker. The filibuster makes it difficult to imagine getting 60 votes, which is needed to invoke cloture, which ends a filibuster. So it's hard to imagine 60 votes for something like legal status, even for undocumented young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we're going to see any action from Congress on immigration, [we should look for] something before the end of summer, before August recess, or if there is some kind of continuing resolution which kind of punts the ball a few months down the road, then the next opportunity would be in fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To get something into a budget reconciliation bill, you're required to show that DACA has more than incidental budgetary impact. What's the status of that? Is there a strong argument there?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tom K. Wong, U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego\"]'DACA recipients are in fact, exceptional ... What we see in the data, DACA recipients are using their education to make tremendous contributions to the economy.'[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> My colleagues and I at the Center for American Progress, the National Immigration Law Center and United We Dream, have been surveying recipients like Dulce and Ju — sometimes with the help of Dulce and Ju — since the inception of DACA. What we've been able to show are DACA's fiscal and economic impacts and they are overwhelmingly positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have asked DACA recipients to be exceptional based on the requirements for receiving DACA in the first place. And our survey data show that DACA recipients are, in fact, exceptional. Part of what we are seeing is that DACA recipients are among the most educated subgroup of the population in the United States, and part of DACA requires at least a high school diploma, GED or equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we see in the data, DACA recipients are using their education to make tremendous contributions to the economy. We see that 63% have moved to a job with a better pay post-DACA, that 53% have moved to jobs with better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar percentages report moving to jobs that better fit their education and training and their long-term career goals. We have seen 110% in our latest 2020 survey increase in hourly wages because of DACA. With those hourly wages, we're seeing increased tax contributions both at federal, state and local levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experiences of Black Dreamers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some advocates point out that Dreamers are not often seen as Black or Asian. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. are in limbo, after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled last Friday against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program launched in 2012 by former President Barack Obama. The program provides temporary protection from deportation, and work authorization, to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Hanen, based in Texas, argued that DACA was created illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision does not end legal protections for the roughly 616,000 current DACA participants. However, the legal decision does suspend approvals of new applications and leaves the door open for DACA to be terminated in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-daca-and-legislation-for-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged to appeal the ruling\u003c/a> and called on Congress to protect so-called Dreamers and create a path to citizenship for millions of people who lack legal status in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 19, KQED Forum host Mina Kim spoke with the following guests to get an overview of the legal decision and what happens next, and also to hear from immigrants who could be affected:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://polisci.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/currently-active-faculty/wong-profile.html\">Tom K. Wong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>associate professor of political science and founding director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.borderangels.org/dulce-garcia.html\">Dulce García\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigration attorney, executive director of Border Angels and a DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/story/denea-joseph-i-am-my-grandmothers-child/\">Denea Joseph\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>immigrants rights advocate and DACA recipient.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/leadership-council/ju-hong/\">Ju Hong\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>DACA recipient and member of Immigrants Rising, an organization that helps undocumented young people achieve educational and career goals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Understanding the Ruling\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What was the basis Judge Andrew Hanen used in ruling that the creation of DACA was unlawful?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: Judge Hanen ruled that DACA is unlawful because the creation of DACA violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires public comment before changing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by Hanen based on the APA is a bit ironic because the last several years of the battle over DACA in the courts saw DACA being preserved mostly because of the APA as well. The Trump administration tried to end (DACA). DACA advocates [then] made a legal argument that the way that the Trump administration tried to end DACA violated the APA. Therefore, district courts all the way up to the Supreme Court said that DACA should stay. And now we have Judge Hanen relying on the same Administrative Procedure Act to essentially rule that DACA is illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What is the immediate impact of this decision?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong\u003c/strong>: The immediate impact is already being felt. Those who are first-time applicants, they should have received text notification from USCIS saying that biometrics appointments are now canceled. So part of applying for DACA not only includes a paper application, but once that's received by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), then individuals go in for biometrics, for example, to provide their fingerprints. So those appointments are already being canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the approximately 600,000 active DACA recipients, this means more uncertainty and more limbo. We essentially had four years of uncertainty over DACA under the Trump administration. And this particular ruling — although it does not say that current active DACA recipients will lose their status — adds to the sort of uncertainty that the recipients are living with on a day to day [basis] and makes more vivid the importance of a permanent legislative solution for not just DACA recipients, but for undocumented immigrants more generally.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ju Hong: \u003c/strong> When I heard the news, I was devastated and frustrated and honestly, I was sick and tired. I was tired of hearing this news all over again. I just had to let out the frustration with other DACA recipients who are applying for it, and they all felt frustrated and angry, and this gave another affirmation that DACA is temporary and we cannot live in this limbo every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honestly, I'm really tired and I cannot live like this anymore with this fear and this anxiety and the stress, I think enough is enough. I've had DACA since 2012. I've been undocumented since 2001. And I'm 31 years old and I want to have peace of mind and live a normal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> Sad, tired, frustrated and exhausted. All of these attacks in our communities have taken a toll on us physically and emotionally. The last few years have been very difficult. We were physically at the steps of the Supreme Court and we celebrated a victory last year when we received the opinion of the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We thought with the change of administration, perhaps there was new hope renewed. This takes us back. It's unbelievable that we're in this place yet again where our livelihoods are compromised, where the uncertainty is still there and our lives are still very much in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA allowed so many of us to apply for opportunities we never even imagined. As an attorney, I'm able to step into ... immigration courts and represent clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What are the impacts that are often less known on DACA recipients?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dulce García:\u003c/strong> The emotional toll that we have every time that we have to send our application, and hope that it gets processed in time before we lose our jobs, is a big one. When I applied in 2014, I was hesitant. I didn't trust the government. I wasn't sure whether it would be approved and we would be turning over all of our information, that on its own is a little bit scary to apply for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand why some folks hesitated to apply. Once you apply, we know that the program can be destroyed at any moment, as it was during the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I applied in 2014, they told me it would be political suicide for anyone to attack the program. Yet here we are. Where not only the prior administration attacked it and we had to step up and sue the federal government ourselves, but now the state of Texas is doing its own lawsuit and we don't know what's going to happen with the program yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing facemasks hold up signs that say, 'Immigrant rights are human rights!' and 'No human is illegal. Protect DACA.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1329566422-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Parish Moreno, 20, and Fiama Vilagrana-Ocasio, 20, participate in a demonstration outside of the U.S. District Courthouse on July 19, 2021 in Houston, Texas. \u003ccite>(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Possible Paths Forward\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Why was DACA was established the way it was in 2012?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> If folks think back to 2010, the DREAM Act was in Congress. It narrowly failed, not because of Republicans who typically are opposed to legal status for undocumented immigrants, but because the Democratic caucus couldn't hold the line. And so the failure of the DREAM Act in 2010, followed by a looming reelection of President Obama in early 2012, combined with potential Republican DREAM Act legislation being introduced by then-Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. That was the political backdrop for the announcement of DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>[Budget reconciliation] seems to be the most viable path forward right now. We know that there are 50 Democrats in the Senate and 50 Republicans. With Vice President (Kamala) Harris being the tiebreaker. The filibuster makes it difficult to imagine getting 60 votes, which is needed to invoke cloture, which ends a filibuster. So it's hard to imagine 60 votes for something like legal status, even for undocumented young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we're going to see any action from Congress on immigration, [we should look for] something before the end of summer, before August recess, or if there is some kind of continuing resolution which kind of punts the ball a few months down the road, then the next opportunity would be in fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To get something into a budget reconciliation bill, you're required to show that DACA has more than incidental budgetary impact. What's the status of that? Is there a strong argument there?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tom K. Wong:\u003c/strong> My colleagues and I at the Center for American Progress, the National Immigration Law Center and United We Dream, have been surveying recipients like Dulce and Ju — sometimes with the help of Dulce and Ju — since the inception of DACA. What we've been able to show are DACA's fiscal and economic impacts and they are overwhelmingly positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have asked DACA recipients to be exceptional based on the requirements for receiving DACA in the first place. And our survey data show that DACA recipients are, in fact, exceptional. Part of what we are seeing is that DACA recipients are among the most educated subgroup of the population in the United States, and part of DACA requires at least a high school diploma, GED or equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we see in the data, DACA recipients are using their education to make tremendous contributions to the economy. We see that 63% have moved to a job with a better pay post-DACA, that 53% have moved to jobs with better working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar percentages report moving to jobs that better fit their education and training and their long-term career goals. We have seen 110% in our latest 2020 survey increase in hourly wages because of DACA. With those hourly wages, we're seeing increased tax contributions both at federal, state and local levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experiences of Black Dreamers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some advocates point out that Dreamers are not often seen as Black or Asian. Why is it important for Black Dreamers to be more visible?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denea Joseph:\u003c/strong> Black undocumented people in the United States of America, out of the 11.5 million undocumented people that exist in this country, only 619,000 that we know of are actually undocumented and Black. And the reason that that number matters is it might not completely be accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for you to be counted, you must first have a seat at the table. And for many Black immigrants, [they] tend not to want to share their stories because of a fear of what might happen if we do share our stories. It took me more than a decade in order to share my own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important that we highlight the intersectionality of being both Black and undocumented because of the way in which Black immigrants are disproportionately impacted by this immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a \u003ca href=\"https://www.raicestexas.org/2020/07/22/black-immigrant-lives-are-under-attack/\">RAICES count\u003c/a>, Black immigrants tend to have a 50% higher bond when placed in detention centers, not to mention more susceptible to deportation as a result of their status. We saw a letter come out of the T. Don Hutto (Detention Center) around last year by Cameroonian women in which they spoke about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.texasobserver.org/following-a-protest-ice-transfers-dozens-of-asylum-seekers-to-an-isolated-laredo-facility/\">horrid conditions they were facing\u003c/a> at the hands of people who were detaining them. So they're more susceptible to violence as a result, not only of status, but as a result of our race and our ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Supporting Dreamers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How can someone help individuals directly affected by the ruling?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denea Joseph:\u003c/strong> I would say check out organizations like the \u003ca href=\"https://baji.org/\">Black Alliance for Just Immigration\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://haitianbridge.org/\">Haitian Bridge Alliance\u003c/a>, Inc, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a> and the incredible work that they're doing in order to support undocumented entrepreneurs who might not now be given the opportunity to work by way of their employment authorization cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decision to support organizations, I think it's crucial if you see a way for you to support monetarily by way of giving to the mutual aid funds that you might have within your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884494/after-texas-court-ruling-whats-the-future-for-young-immigrants-and-daca-recipients\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> to hear the full episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As part of their ambitious $3.5 trillion budget plan to support families and spur job growth, top Senate Democrats included an immigration reform provision that could potentially offer a pathway to citizenship to millions of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmakers hope to pass the massive spending framework through a budget process called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/introduction-to-budget-reconciliation\">reconciliation\u003c/a>, which only needs a simple majority in the evenly split Senate. But some observers question whether a citizenship bill could be enacted through a procedure that skirts the possibility of a filibuster in that chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current plan, supported by the White House, would pay for clean energy projects to fight climate change, as well as “human infrastructure” programs including universal pre-kindergarten, community college grants and an expansion of health care for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of including immigration provisions in what is primarily a budget package argue that obtaining legal status is a key that opens opportunities for undocumented people, who are often low-income essential workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lorella Praeli, We Are Home co-chair\"]'We will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship is essential infrastructure for immigrant families. For many, it's a gateway to a driver's license, to health care, to higher education,” said Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, during a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is pushing to pass a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, \"Dreamers\" and other undocumented immigrants as part of the spending bill — a move he said would benefit all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creating new paths to citizenship will grow our economy and improve workplaces for all. And that's exactly the purpose of the infrastructure investments that we are developing,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad budget deal includes about $120 billion to grant green cards to immigrants and fund border management, according to a staffer in Padilla’s office. But details will still be worked out in coming months by the senator and other members of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes after bills to legalize more than 4 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866519/nearly-half-a-million-california-farmworkers-could-gain-legal-status-under-new-bill\">farmworkers\u003c/a>, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878192/senate-democrats-rally-for-dreamers-bill-facing-stiff-gop-opposition\">Dreamers\u003c/a>\" and immigrants eligible for temporary humanitarian protections were approved in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. But those measures would need at least 60 votes to succeed in the Senate, where they face a wall of opposition by Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why for months now, immigrant advocates have pressured Democrats to use reconciliation to adopt immigration reforms that have proven elusive for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our year. We expect — and demand — the inclusion of citizenship for undocumented youth, TPS holders, farmworkers and essential workers in the reconciliation package,” said Lorella Praeli, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearehome.us/about\">We Are Home\u003c/a> campaign.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"More immigration coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, we will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year,” warned Praeli, a formerly undocumented immigrant, adding that Democrats will lose credibility among Latino and immigrant voters if they don’t enact promised reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legalization program would create jobs and increase wages, with major economic benefits to the U.S., according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2021/07/01/501212/pathway-citizenship-economic-growth-budget-reconciliation/\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Davis and the left-leaning Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bill Hoagland, a senior vice president with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said reconciliation is reserved for policies that have a direct budgetary impact — increasing or lowering the federal government’s tax revenue and spending. And the procedure is not intended to make major policy changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a stretch to use this process that was set up to set a fiscal blueprint to take on and make major changes in immigration policy,” said Hoagland, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “I'm not arguing we shouldn't do it. I'm just saying this is not the tool to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether immigration and other Democratic policy ambitions meet the strict requirements of reconciliation will be largely up to Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971793277/who-the-senate-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-a-minimum-wage-increase\">Parliamentarian\u003c/a> Elizabeth MacDonough, whose job it is to interpret chamber rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenAlexPadilla/status/1415415818444316676\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22264074/poll-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-stimulus-biden\">Polls\u003c/a> show a majority of likely voters support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. An even greater proportion of Americans say \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/\">they favor\u003c/a> providing a permanent legal status for \"Dreamers\" — people who have lived in the U.S. since they were children and who acquired the name base on a never-passed legalization bill called the DREAM Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a carefully crafted immigration measure makes it into a final budget bill, it’s an open question whether all 50 Democratic senators would back it, particularly those from battleground states such as West Virginia and Arizona, said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is such a narrow margin that if two Democratic senators in toss-up, contested states are concerned that they may be seen as pro-amnesty, you could see they may not support it,” Chishti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with strong Republican opposition to a broad immigration reform, he said this budget process is the only viable strategy Democrats and immigrant advocates have this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They had no running water, no ventilation and slept on camping cots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/human-trafficking/what-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Human Trafficking Hotline\u003c/a>, California is one of the most prominent sites of human trafficking in the U.S. In 2018, of the nearly 11,000 cases reported nationally, more than 1,600 came from California. About 150 of those cases were reports of labor trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on private property rights has human trafficking experts, including former law enforcement officers, advocates and attorneys, worried that trafficked laborers will now be left without anyone looking out for them. These advocates say union organizers are among the first to recognize signs of labor trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2021/06/23/supreme-court-invalidates-cali-rule-allowing-unions-grower-property/5321224001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid\u003c/a> decision, announced in late June, the Supreme Court decided to uphold private property rights over organizing rights, prohibiting California union organizers from fields and bunkhouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservative majority held that the access regulations allowed “physical invasion” of the land without compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, many farmworkers are indigenous Mexicans. In many cases, they do not speak, read or write English or Spanish, and may be unaware of their rights while working in the U.S. That makes them vulnerable to labor abuses or trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these workers are living in labor camps owned by the employer, are transported to and from their worksites, and these folks are isolated,” said Elizabeth Strater, United Farm Workers director of strategic campaigns. “They never leave their employers’ property. In some instances, they are isolated by design.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Is Labor Trafficking?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Labor trafficking is a form of human trafficking. It involves forcing or coercing someone to provide labor or services, such as picking produce in the fields or washing dishes in a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Justice estimates that up to 17,500 trafficking victims are brought into the country annually. Men, women, entire families and children as young as 5 years old have been found to be victims of labor trafficking in agriculture, working as migrant or seasonal farmworkers harvesting and packing crops or raising animals, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given its enormous agricultural sector, Monterey County Deputy District Attorney Greg Peterson said the county is likely a leading county for labor trafficking. However, experts say it is significantly underreported and under-enforced in comparison to sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that labor trafficking is hiding in plain sight,” said Stephany Powell, director of law enforcement training and survivor services for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. “How many times do we drive past agricultural places and see people picking cherries or vegetables? Your assumption is if they’re out there doing that in plain sight that it must be OK. You aren’t even thinking that these people are underpaid, not being paid at all or are being kept in living conditions that no one would live in.”\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"right\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Stephany Powell, director of law enforcement training and survivor services for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation\"]‘I believe that labor trafficking is hiding in plain sight. How many times do we drive past agricultural places and see people picking cherries or vegetables? Your assumption is if they’re out there doing that in plain sight that it must be OK. You aren’t even thinking that these people are underpaid, not being paid at all or are being kept in living conditions that no one would live in.’\u003cbr>\n[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“We’re seeing it, but we don’t know what we’re seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Marsh, assistant director of Vanguard University’s Global Center for Women and Justice, has done anti-trafficking work since the early 2000s, when he worked as a deputy chief in Orange County’s Westminster Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, labor trafficking on the whole is not well recognized or prosecuted,” Marsh said. “Because sex trafficking is so egregious, both federal and local officials focus on that, to the exclusion of labor trafficking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sowing Seeds of Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Labor trafficking is notoriously difficult to spot and can take many forms. Migrant farmworkers — like the Hmong workers found living in shipping containers alongside the Salinas cannabis field — are vulnerable to labor abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, captors confiscate workers’ passports, visas or drivers’ licenses, and tell victims they have to work to earn them back. In others, they might force victims to live or work in unsafe or unsanitary conditions or promise a rate of pay they never deliver on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captors sow fear in the minds of workers to control them, Marsh said. They may tell farmworkers that if they speak with the authorities about their circumstances, they will be deported, or they’ll never see their families again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a human trafficker is doing their job, they’ve convinced these people they can’t go to the authorities, they’ll lose their status, they’ll go to jail,” said Peterson, who prosecuted the Levi Trimmigration case. “They’ve worked to convince them they’re not safe and they need the traffickers to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 80% of labor trafficking victims have come to the U.S. legally, and it’s only through victimization that they lose their status as workers, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who have experienced labor trafficking can suffer complex post-traumatic stress disorder after a series of traumatic experiences like the day-in and day-out of being trafficked. Meanwhile, companies that traffic people often enjoy significant profits off their labor. Marsh added that forced labor, which often comes with long hours and unsanitary conditions, could translate into food safety issues for consumers.[aside tag=\"migration, labor, farmworker\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a slave force, you don’t have to pay what the market demands,” Marsh said. “As a business person, you are not going to be competitive with competitors doing that, because their costs are lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language barriers, employer-provided housing, employment-dependent visas and work located in remote fields create significant barriers for farmworkers who feel they are being exploited, said Powell, with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only information they get is from the people that have them in captivity … so having the labor unions giving them information, there’s another watchful eye,” she said. “Now, they’re not invisible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Marsh said he had not heard of many incidences of union organizers identifying labor trafficking, it is important that farmworkers have regular contact with people — such as organizers — who could identify signs of trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my mind, the more eyes, the merrier,” he said. “It makes sure operations are transparent and they have informed employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11880911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11880911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1-800x460.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1-800x460.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1-1020x587.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1-160x92.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1-1536x884.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GUESTWORKER-COVID-OUTBREAK-FIELD-scaled-1.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers pick strawberries in Watsonville, Calif., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(David Rodriguez/The Salinas Californian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Beyond a Reasonable Doubt\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Experts agree that labor trafficking is notoriously difficult to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, traumatized victims are reluctant to speak with police, and when they do, their stories don’t always match up. Additionally, people from outside the U.S. who have been trafficked often want to go home rather than participate in a years-long lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties have followed Santa Clara and Alameda counties’ leads by focusing on charging for workers’ compensation violations and fraud, Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the easiest way to go after people we suspect of human trafficking but don’t have the evidence to go after them,” he said. “If they’re keeping them captive, they’re probably not compensating them properly and are doing anything (they can) under the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although officials suspected Levi Trimmigration owners Eesai and Chang Lee Levi of trafficking the Hmong workers, they were charged only with withholding pay from workers, Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think we could prove it beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said. “It really showed me just how challenging these cases can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>After complaining of pain over the course of a year, a 44-year-old man bled to death while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a facility near Adelanto, California. He hadn’t been seen by a doctor until a month before he died at a hospital, with “widespread” signs of cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A gay man reported enduring sexual harassment by guards, including during showers, at an ICE detention center near San Diego, which has one of the highest numbers of sexual assault complaints in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at an ICE facility near Bakersfield, an asylum seeker suffered a miscarriage after falling on her stomach while shackled at her feet and hands. She didn’t receive any gynecological or mental health care after she lost her baby, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incidents all happened at immigration detention centers run by for-profit companies, according to court records submitted by supporters of a recent California law that aims to phase out the use of privately operated prisons and immigration detention facilities across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/immigration/\">pledged\u003c/a> to end for-profit detention in the U.S., arguing that businesses should not profit from people’s suffering. But his administration has fought the California law in court, pursuing a legal challenge filed by the Trump administration days after the law, Assembly Bill 32, went into effect last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all ICE detainees in California are jailed at facilities run by three prison companies: the GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group has also sued to invalidate the state law. GEO estimates it could lose more than $4 billion in capital investment and future revenue under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB32\">AB 32\u003c/a>, which outlaws the operation of private detention facilities in California after their current contracts expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the first-of-its-kind California ban survives in court, it could be a model that transforms the private prison and immigration detention business in other states as well, said California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a case with a lot of national significance,” said Bonta, who authored AB 32 as a state assemblymember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Rob Bonta, California attorney general\"]'It was always the hope that others would replicate what California has done and also ban for-profit private prisons and detention centers, which are inhumane, unjust, unsafe, unfair, and which allow for literally Wall Street-owned corporations to profiteer on the backs of people.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was always the hope that others would replicate what California has done and also ban for-profit private prisons and detention centers, which are inhumane, unjust, unsafe, unfair, and which allow for literally Wall Street-owned corporations to profiteer on the backs of people,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California argues that privately run facilities pose an “unacceptable danger” to detainees and that the state has the right to protect the safety and well-being of its residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, a district judge in San Diego largely upheld AB 32, with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/major-defeat-ice-geo-court-upholds-ab-32\">exception\u003c/a> for the U.S. Marshals Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group and the U.S. Department of Justice appealed U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino’s ruling, stating that AB 32 cripples the federal government’s authority to house federal inmates and immigrant detainees in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Supreme Court, this court and other courts have held that restrictions on the government's ability to carry out its operations using contractors are impermissible when they are far less intrusive than this case,” U.S. Department of Justice attorney Mark Stern told a three-judge panel at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after the hearing, Southern California Rep. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, and two dozen other members of Congress urged U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to abandon the legal challenge against AB 32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing the appeal puts the U.S. Department of Justice “in the way of President Biden’s stated goal to ensure that the federal government does not use private facilities for incarceration,” the lawmakers wrote in their \u003ca href=\"https://torres.house.gov/sites/torres.house.gov/files/documents/Letter%20to%20DOJ%20on%20AB32.pdf\">letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for me to stand in support of the California law and the wishes of our state,” Torres told KQED. “They should immediately drop this lawsuit ... Biden very much campaigned against this very issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally in Georgia to celebrate his first 100 days in office, Biden reiterated his campaign pledge after protesters interrupted his speech screaming, “End detention now! End detention now!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be no private prisons, period,” Biden told the crowd. “That's what they're talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"for-profit-prisons\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/26/executive-order-reforming-our-incarceration-system-to-eliminate-the-use-of-privately-operated-criminal-detention-facilities/\">ordered\u003c/a> the U.S. Department of Justice to phase out its use of private prisons for criminal offenders, but he left out for-profit immigration detention centers, which account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/982815269/beyond-the-border-fewer-immigrants-being-locked-up-but-ice-still-pays-for-empty-\">roughly 80%\u003c/a> of ICE’s detention beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Biden administration has requested Congress appropriate \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/dhs_bib_-_web_version_-_final_508.pdf\">$1.8 billion\u003c/a> for ICE to keep 32,500 detention beds nationwide, just 4% fewer than what was enacted last year under former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ensures apprehended noncitizens subject to removal from the United States are held in safe and secure facilities pending their immigration proceedings,” said the budget summary by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of July 8, ICE detained more than 27,200 people nationwide, nearly double the number locked up when Biden took office. More than four out of five of those immigrants do not have a criminal conviction, according to the most recent agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s seeming lack of action so far to dismantle the private immigration detention system worries AB 32 supporters like Jackie Gonzalez, who directs policy for Immigrant Defense Advocates in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has the opportunity to reverse course. But thus far, his behavior has been a betrayal for the immigrant community,” said Gonzalez, whose organization pushed for the passage of AB 32. “His decision to side with private prison companies by continuing to pursue Trump's litigation against the state of California, and failing to make good on his campaign promises is something that no one is going to forget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Torres and state Attorney General Bonta said it’s still early in the president’s tenure. They hope the Biden administration will work with California on this issue and consider more alternatives — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/publications/appearance-assistance-program-fact-sheet\">case management\u003c/a> programs and ankle monitors — to jailing immigrants for the civil violation of not having valid immigration papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are civil cases, and folks don't need to be detained at all,” said Bonta. “They can come to all of their hearings and go through whatever process is part of their individualized case without being detained and without taxpayers wasting resources on locking people up in cages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration authorities contend that the use of private contractors provides ICE needed flexibility to increase or decrease detention space, as the population of detainees can fluctuate greatly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people immigration authorities jailed dropped significantly, as ICE officials and immigration judges ordered the release of thousands of people nationwide, in part because of the high risk of virus transmission at detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2019, the Trump administration locked up more than 55,000 immigrants nationwide on any given day, an all-time high. But that number fell to about 15,000 at the end of Trump’s term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jackie Gonzalez, Immigrant Defense Advocates\"]'Biden's decision to side with private prison companies by continuing to pursue Trump's litigation against the state of California, and failing to make good on his campaign promises is something that no one is going to forget.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE is continually reviewing its detention requirements and exploring options that afford the agency the operational flexibility needed to house the full range of individuals that may be in the agency’s custody,” said an ICE spokesperson in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice did not return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Laura, 76, has not seen a doctor for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former farmworker, who did not want her last name used because of her immigration status, said she is losing her eyesight and her feet are often swollen and in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grandmother, Laura also suffers from headaches and shortness of breath, months after she became seriously ill with COVID-19 during the winter surge. Through it all, she has relied on home remedies and not sought medical care because she lacks health insurance, she said, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any money. And at my age, there’s no work,” said Laura, who picked watermelon, zucchini, pumpkin and other crops for more than 20 years in fields in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Laura may soon get access to the medical services she desperately needs, at little or no cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is on the verge of a historic step to offer public health insurance to low-income undocumented older adults — a population that has been particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic but left out of federal assistance programs and other safety nets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are expected to announce an expansion to the Medi-Cal program in the coming days as part of a final deal on the state budget, according to advocates and legislative aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent negotiations in Sacramento have centered on the lower age limit for those who will be newly eligible: 50 and older, as lawmakers have previously proposed; 60 and older, as Newsom offered; or somewhere in between.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are as certain as we can be that there will be something that comes into the final budget,” said Sarah Dar, who directs health and public benefits policy at the California Immigrant Policy Center. “And it’s really just a matter of ‘What’s the age they land on?‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Luz Gallegos, director of TODEC, a legal center and immigrant justice organization\"]‘California continues to step up and defend all Californians, especially those who are most vulnerable, who don’t have any access to safety nets, but who contribute to our state economy, have been paying taxes… and have seen nothing in return.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, then-state Sen. Ricardo Lara introduced the first (unsuccessful) \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1005\">bill\u003c/a> to make undocumented immigrants eligible for public health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, California has enrolled undocumented children in full-scope Medi-Cal, offering free or low-cost preventative care, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental care, vision care and other services. Last year, the state became the first in the nation to offer health coverage to undocumented young adults through age 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than 1.3 million undocumented Californians are projected to lack health insurance next year, remaining the largest uninsured group in the state, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/undocumented-californians-projected-to-remain-the-largest-group-of-uninsured-in-the-state-in-2022/\">report\u003c/a> by the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates vary, but depending on the final age cutoff that Newsom and legislative leaders decide for this year’s budget, roughly 80,000 to more than 200,000 undocumented Californians could gain access to Medi-Cal, including many who have worked essential jobs that are key to the state’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant and health advocates who have pushed California for years to extend health coverage to undocumented immigrants savored the realization that finally, older adults will most likely be eligible for coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At last, justice does prevail. We are in a historic moment as Californians,” said Luz Gallegos, the executive director of TODEC, a legal center and immigrant justice organization in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California continues to step up and defend all Californians, especially those who are most vulnerable, who don’t have any access to safety nets, but who contribute to our state economy, have been paying taxes … and have seen nothing in return,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879325\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879325\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Gallegos-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luz Gallegos works on COVID-19 vaccine outreach for farmworkers in Thermal, Calif. this spring. \u003ccite>(Courtesy TODEC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">revision\u003c/a> from May includes nearly $860 million in annual state funds to expand Medi-Cal to low-income undocumented adults age 60 and older, with some of that funding available next year. The Legislature’s \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Floor%20Report%20of%20the%202021-22%20Budget%20-%20%28June%2011%2C%202021%20Version%29.pdf\">proposal\u003c/a> dedicates $1.3 billion in annual funds to cover undocumented adults age 50 and older once the program is fully established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='undocumented-immigrants']Gallegos, who was born in the U.S. to farmworker immigrant parents, said this likely win is personal for her. In recent years, her undocumented uncle died from cancer, she said, after he delayed seeking medical care because he was uninsured. During the pandemic, farmworkers she knows died from COVID-19 while several others became ill with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We honor their lives by continuing the struggle so we don’t see no more lives taken away from our communities,” said Gallegos, her voice breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, low-income undocumented immigrants who are 26 and older are eligible for limited Medi-Cal, which only covers health care emergencies or prenatal care if they are pregnant. Undocumented immigrants are excluded from the Affordable Care Act, and cannot purchase coverage through Covered California, the state’s ACA health exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they are not insured by an employer or able to purchase a private plan, they must generally rely on county health programs, which vary greatly throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814885/as-pandemic-batters-californias-economy-plan-to-insure-undocumented-seniors-in-doubt\">proposed\u003c/a> offering full-scope Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors age 65 and older. But the plan didn’t go through, as the state projected a severe economic downturn and tax losses in the billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the financial picture for California is starkly different this year, with the state logging an eye-popping budget surplus of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\">$76 billion\u003c/a>. In addition, the pandemic highlighted how “interconnected” public health really is, with all of us having to think about whether people around us wore masks, stood far enough apart, or were vaccinated, said Dar, with the California Immigrant Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so to give health care access to this community would mean a healthier and stronger state for all Californians,” said Dar. “Increased productivity, better health outcomes, better public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some opponents have argued that funds to provide health coverage to undocumented people would be better spent on other needs, such as helping struggling U.S. citizens afford their own health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two in three Californians support the idea of providing health coverage to undocumented immigrants, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-march-2021.pdf\">recent survey\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Coming here, we lost it all.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Néstor, 14, says now about his journey to the United States three years ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, Melvin, says he received death threats from local gang members and leaving El Salvador was his best shot to protect his family. Néstor’s mother was pregnant at the time, and so just father and son made the journey north. Néstor still hasn’t had the opportunity to meet his new brother. “Whenever I think about that,” Néstor says in Spanish, “I feel like crying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who migrate to the U.S. from Central and South America to seek asylum know they will be leaving behind loved ones. What roughly 5,500 of those families didn’t know is that if they made it all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border, they would also be separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melvin, on being separated from his son\"]‘The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication.’[/pullquote]Néstor and Melvin — they asked not to use their last name to protect their anonymity and safety as they apply for asylum — are among the families who were split apart by the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018. The policy was part of a strategy meant to curb legal and illegal immigration, but it’s been widely criticized by immigration advocates for being psychologically traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin, 33, and Néstor shared with NPR some of the details of their story as they continue to process what happened to them and their asylum case makes its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents Begged Detention Center Officials for Information\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melvin and Néstor left their home in El Salvador on May 26, 2018. Néstor’s mom, pregnant with her third son, felt unable to make the dangerous journey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is when I made the decision to bring [Néstor] because he was the oldest one,” Melvin says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his dad covered over 1,000 miles as they made their way to the U.S. by car, raft and foot. Melvin sometimes carried his son, exhausted from the journey, in his arms and on his back. They say the journey was terrifying — navigating police extortion, death threats and physical suffering. They passed over the Rio Grande on a makeshift raft, scared for their lives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin and Néstor reached the U.S. border on June 5 — a few months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961048895/justice-department-rescinds-trumps-zero-tolerance-immigration-policy\">the zero-tolerance policy\u003c/a> — they hoped their journey was over and could begin the process of applying for asylum. Unaware they would be separated, they turned themselves in at the Port Isabel checkpoint in Texas and got in vans headed for detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were taken to separate facilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11877128 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg']Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn’t know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn’t know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘And the children? And the children?” Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn’t say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’d] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was ‘No, they’re going to deport you. They’re going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They’re going to get adopted.’ I would say, ‘No, how are you going to take away my son? That’s my son, he’s mine. You can’t, you can’t,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said “soon,” but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR’s immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They’re Reunited, But There’s Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he’d been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,” Melvin remembers. “After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn’t want to leave the house or play sports. He’s had nightmares. Melvin says he watched his son withdraw and feel unmotivated — something many separated children feel, says Melissa Tith, a therapist and a program supervisor at Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit organization working to get free mental health support to people like Néstor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_3096-edit_custom-49463e598f578c3ba4c6d1c1005e5f553618b515-scaled-e1624393197470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin and Néstor are reunited and currently live together in Southern California as they wait for their asylum case to be processed. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin are living in Southern California while they wait for their asylum case to be processed. But as NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/982795844/biden-administration-considers-overhaul-of-asylum-system-at-southern-border\">that could take years\u003c/a>. And there is no guarantee they’ll get to stay. The Biden administration says it’s helping affected families with free therapy and is negotiating with immigration advocates about doing more. That could include granting legal status to families separated under zero tolerance, but there are no firm public commitments yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2020, Néstor has been seeing a therapist weekly through Seneca. He says it’s helping. It’s a slow process of untangling the feelings and fear he experienced while separated and it may be a lifelong effort, Tith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hardly have any more nightmares,” he says. He’s just graduated middle school and he’s excited to start high school. He says he wants to grow up to become a surgeon in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both imagine a life in the U.S., but that future is far from certain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most valuable thing is to have our family together and have good health,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joel Rose contributed to and Heidi Glenn edited the digital story. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+At+The+Border%2C+A+Father+Reunites+With+His+Son.+But+Struggles+Remain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn’t know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn’t know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘And the children? And the children?” Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn’t say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[I’d] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was ‘No, they’re going to deport you. They’re going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They’re going to get adopted.’ I would say, ‘No, how are you going to take away my son? That’s my son, he’s mine. You can’t, you can’t,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said “soon,” but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR’s immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,” Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They’re Reunited, But There’s Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he’d been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,” Melvin remembers. “After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn’t want to leave the house or play sports. He’s had nightmares. Melvin says he watched his son withdraw and feel unmotivated — something many separated children feel, says Melissa Tith, a therapist and a program supervisor at Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit organization working to get free mental health support to people like Néstor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_3096-edit_custom-49463e598f578c3ba4c6d1c1005e5f553618b515-scaled-e1624393197470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin and Néstor are reunited and currently live together in Southern California as they wait for their asylum case to be processed. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin are living in Southern California while they wait for their asylum case to be processed. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874637/the-stimulus-gap-why-many-undocumented-immigrants-arent-getting-the-golden-state-stimulus-theyre-entitled-to\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#recursos\">\u003cstrong>Pase a la sección de sitios en el Área de la Bahía que siguen ofreciendo asistencia gratuita para presentar sus impuestos\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Leydi estaba preocupada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ya era abril y todavía no había pagado sus impuestos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque ella quería hacerlo, no podía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leydi y su familia son inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en California (y por esa razón sólo usaremos sus nombres sin apellido para identificarlos).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellos califican para recibir hasta $2,400 en ayuda económica como parte del \u003cem>Golden State Stimulus\u003c/em> (o el Estímulo del Estado Dorado). El plan de alrededor de \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/02/california-considera-estimulo-para-trabajadores-indocumentados-excluidos-de-la-ayuda-federal/\">$7.6 mil millones\u003c/a> fue aprobado por el gobernador Gavin Newsom el pasado mes de febrero y ofrece cheques de $600 a contribuyentes que ganaron menos de $30,000 en 2020 y $600 adicionales a trabajadores indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado fue extremadamente difícil para la familia de Leydi, que vive en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco. Ella y su esposo se quedaron sin empleo y por esa razón, esta ayuda, de las pocas que califican a causa de su estatus migratorio, podría aliviar un poco el estrés financiero de la familia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero para recibir este monto, Leydi y su marido Jorge, tienen que presentar sus impuestos. En el caso de los trabajadores indocumentados, se requiere tener un \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/es/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identification-number\">número de identificación personal del contribuyente\u003c/a>, o ITIN por sus siglas en inglés. Sólo el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (o mejor conocido como el IRS en inglés) da este dato, el cual requiere que el solicitante verifique su identidad y estatus como extranjero. Normalmente la dependencia acepta documentos como una acta de nacimiento o pasaporte para cumplir este requisito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jorge, un inmigrante indocumentado de México viviendo en San Francisco\"]‘Dos meses, así estuve llamando … No me contestaban, no entraba la llamada, o estaba ocupado.’[/pullquote]Ahí es cuando se comenzaron complicaron las cosas para Leydi. Tanto su marido como su hijo no tienen un pasaporte vigente de México, su país de origen. En California, sólo un consulado mexicano puede concederles ese documento, pero ya por varias semanas, habían llamado sin éxito a \u003ca href=\"https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/denver/index.php/citas/mexitel\">Mexitel\u003c/a>, la línea telefónica del gobierno mexicano para agendar una cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me comencé a desesperar porque solamente era el pasaporte de él que nos hacía falta y realmente nos estamos atrasando para realizar todo esto”, dijo Leydi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dos meses, así estuve llamando,” dijo Jorge, y agregó, “No me contestaban, no entraba la llamada, o estaba ocupado…casi todos los días estaba intentando llamar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En Estados Unidos, existen 50 consulados mexicanos que atienden a unos 11 millones de ciudadanos mexicanos en los Estados Unidos. Dos de estos consulados se encuentran en el Área de la Bahía, en San Francisco y San José, ambos sitios requieren que uno llame a Mexitel para agendar una cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge dijo que llamó a Mexitel tantas veces que hasta se aprendió de memoria el horario de los operadores. “Yo marcaba a veces a las 10 a.m. y sólo sonaba y no me contestaban porque comienzan a contestar las llamadas a partir de las 2 p.m. de aquí”, explicó él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando por fin le atendieron su llamada, las únicas citas que le ofrecieron eran para varios meses después o en otros consulados lejos del Área de la Bahía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel momento, Leydi y Jorge justo acababan de encontrar un poco de trabajo otra vez. Faltar uno o dos días para viajar a Sacramento o Los Ángeles podrían perder lo poca fuente de ingresos que su familia necesitaba con urgencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un poco complicado de un día para el otro realizar un viaje repentino”, dijo Leydi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faltaban pocas semanas para la fecha límite del 17 de mayo y la familia tenía pocas opciones. Decidieron ir directamente al consulado de San Francisco para pedir en persona una cita. No se les permitió entrar, pero insistieron en que se iban a quedar hasta que fueran atendidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alguien del personal del consulado por fin salió y les dijo que si traían una carta de una organización comunitaria o un abogado que confirmara que necesitaban los pasaportes de manera urgente, podrían agendar una cita de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al no tener los recursos para contratar a un abogado, acudieron por ayuda a \u003cem>Mission Economic Development Agency\u003c/em> (en español, la ‘Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de la Misión’ o mejor conocido como \u003ca href=\"https://medasf.org/\">MEDA\u003c/a> por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dairo Romero es el director de las iniciativas comunitarias para MEDA, y a lo largo de este año, ha ayudado a decenas de familias, muchas de ellas indocumentadas, a presentar sus impuestos por primera vez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dairo Romero, de MEDA, sentado con una persona en una mesa, platicando y con varios papeles a la mano.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairo Romero de MEDA, ayuda a un miembro de la comunidad a presentar impuestos el 19 de mayo de 2021 en un espacio del banco de alimentos ‘Mission Food Hub’ en San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romero aceptó escribir una carta, en la cual él explicó que Leydi y su familia necesitaban los pasaportes lo más pronto posible, lo que permitió que la pareja por fin recibiera una cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos sentimos más tranquilos”, dijo Jorge, con su pasaporte por fin en su mano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Romero indica que este método tiene sus límites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya he hecho como unas 6 cartas diciendo que para el proceso de vivienda o para su declaración de impuestos se necesita el consulado para que le den prioridad y puedan expedir su pasaporte” explicó Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero agregó, “No quiero promover eso porque ya me están llamando para que le haga cartas a todo el mundo y hay personas que ni conozco y me están llamando para pedirme cartas”.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Una brecha’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Romero ha intentado ayudar a otras familias que están pasando por situaciones similares y muchas de ellas provienen de El Salvador y Guatemala, los países que representan el segundo y tercer grupo de inmigrantes latinoamericanos más grandes en California, después de México.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo que le preocupa a él es que podría haber muchos más inmigrantes indocumentados que de otra manera calificarían para recibir los cheques de ayuda económica del estado, pero enfrentan bastantes dificultades al navegar el sistema consular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente existen pocos datos de cuántos inmigrantes indocumentados que califican para recibir el \u003cem>Golden State Stimulus\u003c/em> están perdiendo este beneficio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11865309\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS46311_031_KQED_SanFrancisco_COVIDShutdown_12062020-qut.jpg\"]Pero un \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/the-stimulus-gap-2-2-million-californians-could-miss-5-7-billion-in-federal-stimulus-payments/\">estudio de abril\u003c/a> del California Policy Lab puede proporcionar algunas pistas. El informe encontró que 2.2 millones de californianos de bajos ingresos pueden estar perdiendo $5.7 mil millones en cheques de estímulo federal, algo que los investigadores consideran como una “brecha” del estímulo económico. Esa cifra no incluye a los inmigrantes indocumentados, que quedan automáticamente excluidos de la ayuda federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, entre esos 2.2 millones de californianos, el estudio identificó 360,000 dependientes que son ciudadanos estadounidenses pero que también son hijos de padres indocumentados que no han logrado presentar sus impuestos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La tercera ronda de cheques de estímulo económico, bajo la administración del presidente Joe Biden, permitió a las familias de estatus mixto, si los niños son ciudadanos, recibir parte de este monto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, si los padres indocumentados no pueden declarar sus impuestos, sus hijos no recibirán esa ayuda aunque sean ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se ha hablado mucho … sobre cómo estos créditos van a ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza”, dijo Aparna Ramesh, gerente de investigaciones en el centro \u003cem>California Policy Lab\u003c/em> (o ‘Laboratorio de políticas de California’) y uno de los autores del reporte. “Es cierto eso. Pero yo creo que a fin de cuentas, sólo podrán ser de ayuda siempre y cuando la gente reciba este alivio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero, de MEDA, recalca que tan importante es un ITIN para que una persona indocumentada solicite ayuda financiera durante la pandemia, pero cuando este proceso se complica, la espera para recibir ayuda esencial puede prolongarse aún más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Por la pandemia, sí es muy común estos casos”, dijo Romero, indicando que muchos consulados han visto sus operaciones reducidas durante la pandemia debido a las restricciones de salud y agregó, “el proceso de dar el pasaporte es muy fácil, pero el problema es que no están dando citas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dairo Romero de MEDA, parado enfrente del edificio del grupo 'Mission Food Hub'.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairo Romero de MEDA ha escrito varias cartas en nombre de familias que necesitan una carta para seguir adelante con su proceso de ITIN pero recalca que esto no es una solución sustentable. “Hay personas que ni conozco y me están llamando para pedirme cartas”, dijo Romero.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Nunca estaremos al día’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nelda De León, una inmigrante guatemalteca que vive en San Francisco, pasó días tratando de agendar una cita con el consulado de Guatemala en San Francisco para procesar el trámite de doble ciudadanía para su sobrina. Cuando por fin le respondieron, la primera cita disponible era hasta diciembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es algo fácil, pero uno con la necesidad que tiene lo tiene que hacer, pero no es justo, ese tiempo no debería de estar allí”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León insistió repetidamente que el centro de llamadas la conectaran directamente al consulado guatemalteco en San Francisco, y cuando finalmente lo hicieron, logrò agendar una cita para la siguiente semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nelda De León, inmigrante de Guatemala\"]‘No es algo fácil, pero uno con la necesidad que tiene lo tiene que hacer, pero no es justo, ese tiempo no debería de estar allí.’[/pullquote]Ella dice que algunas de sus amistades intentaron agendar citas para procesar su pasaporte para su solicitud del ITIN, pero no les tocó una que fuera antes de la fecha límite para presentar los impuestos, y ahora están haciendo todo lo que pueden para ubicar otros tipos de documentación que el IRS acepte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entiendo el malestar de los guatemaltecos que dicen, ‘ay, nunca contestan’, dijo Sylvia Wohlers Gomar de Meie, cónsul general de Guatemala en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde hace dos años, Wohlers dirige este consulado y se ha enfocado en ampliar sus operaciones para responder a las necesidades de la población guatemalteca en el norte de California y Nevada, la cual sigue creciendo año tras año. Pero indica que pese a que ella y su personal conocen muy bien los costos que conlleva manejar un consulado, ellos no tienen control sobre el presupuesto otorgado al consulado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esa decisión se toma a miles de millas de distancia, en Ciudad de Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia Wohlers Gomar de Meie, cónsul general de Guatemala en San Francisco, sentada enfrente de su computadora en su oficina.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/194808269_139313008259625_4534454110953541825_n-1-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvia Wohlers Gomar de Meie, cónsul general de Guatemala en San Francisco, reconoce que la necesidad de servicios consulares de la población guatemalteca en el Área de la Bahía es mucho mayor que la capacidad de su oficina. Y aunque le gustaría traer más personal, indica que hacerlo requeriría la autorización de las autoridades guatemaltecas. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“En Guatemala, pasó lo mismo que lo que han pasado en otros países por esta pandemia y los ingresos se redujeron enormemente, se redujeron, no hay comercio exterior”, explicó Wohlers y agregó que, “nosotros tenemos que tener mucho cuidado con los fondos que nosotros administramos y que nosotros recibimos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sylvia Wohlers Gomar de Meie, cónsul general de Guatemala en San Francisco\"]‘El crecimiento de la población que requiere una atención es cada vez mayor. Estamos luchando por estar a la par pero es difícil lograrlo.’[/pullquote]Durante la pandemia, la demanda de los servicios consulares sólo ha incrementado pero la Cónsul menciona que esto ocurre a la misma vez que su oficina opera con una capacidad limitada a causa de las restricciones de salud por el COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es una carrera contra el tiempo”, dijo Wohlers, haciendo referencia al hecho de que si ella quiere contratar a más personal o pagar horas extras a sus empleados que ya tiene, ella debe esperar hasta recibir permiso del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nunca vamos a estar al día. Nunca. Porque el crecimiento de la población que requiere una atención es cada vez mayor. Estamos luchando por estar a la par pero es difícil lograrlo”, dijo Wohlers, e indicó que su oficina espera hacer disponible más citas a partir del 15 de junio, fecha cuando California planea remover gran parte de las restricciones de salud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A través de comunicados separados, los consulados mexicanos en San Francisco y San José afirmaron que su capacidad para hacer citas durante la pandemia ha sido limitada por las pautas de salud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Alejandra Bologna Zubikarai, la cónsul general de México en San José expresó en un comunicado que su oficina “trabaja casi al 100% de su capacidad” y que alrededor de mil citas se agendan cada semana para expeditar pasaportes y otros documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, una visita a la página de Mexitel el 26 de mayo demostró que no había ninguna cita disponible en las siguientes dos semanas, el único plazo de tiempo en el que el portal comparte información, tanto en el consulado de San Francisco como en el de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bologna informó que el consulado sí ofrece citas de emergencia en caso que alguien necesite una consulta de manera urgente. Pero quienes escojan esta opción tendrán que pagar un 30% adicional de lo que cuesta procesar un pasaporte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Leydi y Jorge lograron encontrar una cita de emergencia para el trámite de pasaporte, se sorprendieron al saber que ellos tendrían que pagar este costo extra. “Muchos [inmigrantes] no pueden pagar cuando les cobran un 30% extra”, dijo Jorge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED también intentó contactar al consulado salvadoreño en San Francisco varias veces para realizar una entrevista pero nunca recibió una respuesta. Llamamos varias veces en abril y mayo al número telefónico indicado para hacer una cita, pero en cada llamada siempre se podía escuchar la misma grabación, la cual decía que en ese momento, todos los agentes están ocupados y que llame más al rato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramón Cardona es director del \u003ca href=\"https://centro-latino-cuscatlan.business.site/\">Centro Latino Cuzcatlán\u003c/a>, un centro de servicios migratorios en la ciudad de El Cerrito, y trabaja con varias familias salvadoreñas. Él mismo es un inmigrante salvadoreño quien ha trabajado en el sector migratorio por varias décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me han dicho gente que han estado llamando días, días para que por fin alguien les responda … porque es puras máquinas, puras máquinas y nadie en vivo te responde. A veces te responden y te mandan a otro centro y pasas lo mismo, llama y llama”, dijo Cardona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ramón Cardona, director del Centro Latino Cuzcatlán\"]‘Me han dicho gente que han estado llamando días, días para que por fin alguien les responda … porque es puras máquinas.’[/pullquote]Como Romero, Cardona ha escrito múltiples cartas para familias que necesitan una cita. Ha conocido a inmigrantes salvadoreños que han llegado a San Francisco de lugares tan remotos como Oregón y Utah, sólo para llegar y ser decepcionados cuando se dan cuenta que no podrán entrar al consulado sin cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardona sugiere que los consulados comuniquen claramente cómo programar una cita de la manera más eficaz, especialmente en casos urgentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El laberinto de llamadas que un inmigrante debe de navegar no sólo podría afectar el trámite para recibir un ITIN, sino también podría atrasar un proceso migratorio, menciona Cardona, ya que para muchos, los trámites migratorios requieren que uno esté al día con sus obligaciones tributarias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un proceso migratorio lleva años”, dijo él y agregó que, “por un momento, que tu consulado no te puede dar el pasaporte a tiempo por todos estos obstáculos en este momento [tendrías] que recalendarizar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"recursos\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recursos disponibles para quienes todavía no han presentado sus impuestos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Si aún no ha pagado sus impuestos o busca ayuda para solicitar un ITIN, todavía hay varias opciones disponibles. Cuando esté preparando sus impuestos, puede avisar a la persona que le ayude en este proceso que aún no ha recibido su cheque de estímulo del estado de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El IRS sigue aceptando solicitudes de ITIN. El sitio web de la agencia dice que toma alrededor de siete semanas para que alguien reciba su número luego de mandar su solicitud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay algunas organizaciones que todavía ofrecen asistencia para llenar los impuestos de manera gratuita y además ayuda con la aplicación del ITIN (pero cabe recalcar que sólo el IRS puede proveer un ITIN).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Condado de Alameda:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>La organización \u003ca href=\"https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/jsp/direction.jsp?id=11873&lng=-122.236562&lat=37.785067\">\u003cem>San Antonio CDC\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ofrece citas y asistencia a distancia a lo largo del año excepto durante julio y las fiestas decembrinas. Lo pueden atender en inglés, español, cantonés o mandarín. Normalmente hay citas disponibles de lunes a viernes. Puede llamar al (510) 536-5179 para agendar una cita.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Condado de Contra Costa\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>La organización \u003cem>SparkPoint/\u003ca href=\"https://www.ambroserec.org/bay-point-works-community-career-center\">Bay Point Works ECC\u003c/a>\u003c/em> ofrecerá asistencia virtual/a distancia para presentar los impuestos y también para solicitar un ITIN a partir del 2 de junio. Lo pueden atender en inglés o español. Antes de dejar su información, por favor llame al (925) 252-2331 después de las 9:30 a.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>La organización \u003ca href=\"https://medasf.org/programs/free-tax-preparation/\">\u003cem>Mission Economic Development Agency\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (MEDA) ofrece asistencia en persona por cita o sin cita para presentar los impuestos o para solicitar el ITIN, en inglés o español. Llame al (415) 612-2014, extensión 6 para agendar una cita.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>El centro comunitario \u003ca href=\"https://chinesenewcomers.org/en/volunteer-income-tax-assistance-program-vita/\">\u003cem>Chinese Newcomers Service Center\u003c/em>\u003c/a> tiene citas virtuales disponibles en inglés, mandarín, cantonés y vietnamita. Llame al (415) 421-2111 para agendar una cita, entre las 9 a.m. a las 4 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Condado de Solano:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>El grupo comunitario \u003ca href=\"https://www.bencac.com/\">\u003cem>Benicia Community Action Council\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ofrece asistencia virtual/a distancia hasta el 30 de octubre. Sólo lo pueden atender en inglés. Se recomiende que antes de dejar su información en las oficinas de la organización, llame al (707) 745-0900. Puede llamar de martes a jueves.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por el autor y la traducción fue editada por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soytapatia\">María Peña\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Dos de estos consulados se encuentran en el Área de la Bahía, en San Francisco y San José, ambos sitios requieren que uno llame a Mexitel para agendar una cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge dijo que llamó a Mexitel tantas veces que hasta se aprendió de memoria el horario de los operadores. “Yo marcaba a veces a las 10 a.m. y sólo sonaba y no me contestaban porque comienzan a contestar las llamadas a partir de las 2 p.m. de aquí”, explicó él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando por fin le atendieron su llamada, las únicas citas que le ofrecieron eran para varios meses después o en otros consulados lejos del Área de la Bahía.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En aquel momento, Leydi y Jorge justo acababan de encontrar un poco de trabajo otra vez. Faltar uno o dos días para viajar a Sacramento o Los Ángeles podrían perder lo poca fuente de ingresos que su familia necesitaba con urgencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un poco complicado de un día para el otro realizar un viaje repentino”, dijo Leydi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faltaban pocas semanas para la fecha límite del 17 de mayo y la familia tenía pocas opciones. Decidieron ir directamente al consulado de San Francisco para pedir en persona una cita. No se les permitió entrar, pero insistieron en que se iban a quedar hasta que fueran atendidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alguien del personal del consulado por fin salió y les dijo que si traían una carta de una organización comunitaria o un abogado que confirmara que necesitaban los pasaportes de manera urgente, podrían agendar una cita de emergencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al no tener los recursos para contratar a un abogado, acudieron por ayuda a \u003cem>Mission Economic Development Agency\u003c/em> (en español, la ‘Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de la Misión’ o mejor conocido como \u003ca href=\"https://medasf.org/\">MEDA\u003c/a> por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dairo Romero es el director de las iniciativas comunitarias para MEDA, y a lo largo de este año, ha ayudado a decenas de familias, muchas de ellas indocumentadas, a presentar sus impuestos por primera vez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dairo Romero, de MEDA, sentado con una persona en una mesa, platicando y con varios papeles a la mano.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49123_004_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairo Romero de MEDA, ayuda a un miembro de la comunidad a presentar impuestos el 19 de mayo de 2021 en un espacio del banco de alimentos ‘Mission Food Hub’ en San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romero aceptó escribir una carta, en la cual él explicó que Leydi y su familia necesitaban los pasaportes lo más pronto posible, lo que permitió que la pareja por fin recibiera una cita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos sentimos más tranquilos”, dijo Jorge, con su pasaporte por fin en su mano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, Romero indica que este método tiene sus límites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya he hecho como unas 6 cartas diciendo que para el proceso de vivienda o para su declaración de impuestos se necesita el consulado para que le den prioridad y puedan expedir su pasaporte” explicó Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero agregó, “No quiero promover eso porque ya me están llamando para que le haga cartas a todo el mundo y hay personas que ni conozco y me están llamando para pedirme cartas”.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pero un \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/the-stimulus-gap-2-2-million-californians-could-miss-5-7-billion-in-federal-stimulus-payments/\">estudio de abril\u003c/a> del California Policy Lab puede proporcionar algunas pistas. El informe encontró que 2.2 millones de californianos de bajos ingresos pueden estar perdiendo $5.7 mil millones en cheques de estímulo federal, algo que los investigadores consideran como una “brecha” del estímulo económico. Esa cifra no incluye a los inmigrantes indocumentados, que quedan automáticamente excluidos de la ayuda federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, entre esos 2.2 millones de californianos, el estudio identificó 360,000 dependientes que son ciudadanos estadounidenses pero que también son hijos de padres indocumentados que no han logrado presentar sus impuestos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La tercera ronda de cheques de estímulo económico, bajo la administración del presidente Joe Biden, permitió a las familias de estatus mixto, si los niños son ciudadanos, recibir parte de este monto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero, si los padres indocumentados no pueden declarar sus impuestos, sus hijos no recibirán esa ayuda aunque sean ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se ha hablado mucho … sobre cómo estos créditos van a ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza”, dijo Aparna Ramesh, gerente de investigaciones en el centro \u003cem>California Policy Lab\u003c/em> (o ‘Laboratorio de políticas de California’) y uno de los autores del reporte. “Es cierto eso. Pero yo creo que a fin de cuentas, sólo podrán ser de ayuda siempre y cuando la gente reciba este alivio”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero, de MEDA, recalca que tan importante es un ITIN para que una persona indocumentada solicite ayuda financiera durante la pandemia, pero cuando este proceso se complica, la espera para recibir ayuda esencial puede prolongarse aún más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Por la pandemia, sí es muy común estos casos”, dijo Romero, indicando que muchos consulados han visto sus operaciones reducidas durante la pandemia debido a las restricciones de salud y agregó, “el proceso de dar el pasaporte es muy fácil, pero el problema es que no están dando citas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dairo Romero de MEDA, parado enfrente del edificio del grupo 'Mission Food Hub'.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49133_014_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairo Romero de MEDA ha escrito varias cartas en nombre de familias que necesitan una carta para seguir adelante con su proceso de ITIN pero recalca que esto no es una solución sustentable. “Hay personas que ni conozco y me están llamando para pedirme cartas”, dijo Romero.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Nunca estaremos al día’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nelda De León, una inmigrante guatemalteca que vive en San Francisco, pasó días tratando de agendar una cita con el consulado de Guatemala en San Francisco para procesar el trámite de doble ciudadanía para su sobrina. Cuando por fin le respondieron, la primera cita disponible era hasta diciembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es algo fácil, pero uno con la necesidad que tiene lo tiene que hacer, pero no es justo, ese tiempo no debería de estar allí”, dijo ella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León insistió repetidamente que el centro de llamadas la conectaran directamente al consulado guatemalteco en San Francisco, y cuando finalmente lo hicieron, logrò agendar una cita para la siguiente semana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And fortunately the Biden administration has agreed to reunite them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt also said he believes the government’s latest tally actually undercounts the total number of families in the second group that have already been reunified as a result of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not believe those numbers accurately reflect what’s happened, and we will be sharing additional information with the administration,” he said. “We believe that many more people actually have been reunited. The precise figures are still something we’re trying to work out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s report also notes that some family members in this tally could have found their way back together on their own, and that an absence of separation records from the Trump administration has hindered some of the task force’s efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 22-page report was the first update issued by the task force as part of its mandate to identify and reunify separated children with their families. To date, the federal government has reunified just seven children with their parents in the U.S., a pace many advocates have criticized as too slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report said the task force plans to reunify 29 more families in the coming weeks and expects “the pace of reunifications will increase over the next few months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press call Tuesday morning, Gelernt said he’s optimistic that the task force will proceed more rapidly now that it has established a reunification process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the president of the United States says that something is an historic moral stain on the country, then I think all red tape needs to go,” he said. “There can’t be any bureaucratic slowness. We just need to get this done. And hopefully that’s where the administration is now, that they are going to move at a rapid pace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"family-separations\"]Under the task force’s current process, family members — including parents or other household members of a separated child, like siblings — can apply for humanitarian parole from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, even if they have been previously deported. The agency then screens applicants for public safety or national security threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys with the ACLU also believe that parole process could be available to families who were initially separated and then reunified outside the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the parole request has been granted by USCIS, the government will facilitate the family’s travel to a U.S. port of entry, according to the task force. There, family members are screened again by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, who can authorize parole for up to three years. While parole is a temporary status, it allows recipients to apply for work authorization and potentially restart an asylum application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ACLU press call Tuesday, Gelernt said the ACLU is negotiating, as part of the settlement talks, for permanent legal status and compensation for the harm and suffering inflicted on the separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force is also exploring continued support for the families, including ongoing case management services and referrals to clinical behavioral treatment services, and intends over the next two months to determine the scope of those services and find a “durable funding source,” according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Task Force seeks to implement needed holistic support and services for reunified families so that they may benefit from behavioral health assessment and treatment,” the report states. “Needed services will include housing, employment, security, legal status, food insecurity, income, language skills and interpretation, the asylum-seeking process, and discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, and Rep. 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The same day, Democratic leaders in both houses included funding for the program in their joint budget package — with $5 million for the upcoming 2021-22 budget year, and a proposal to steadily increase that funding to $550 million within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill and the funding would expand the \u003ca href=\"http://calfresh.guide/california-food-assistance-program-cfap/\">California Food Assistance Program\u003c/a>, which provides food aid to roughly 35,000 legal immigrants and refugees who have been excluded from receiving federal food stamps since the passage of a 1990s federal welfare reform law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, as of June 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-calfresh-food-assistance-program/\">4.8 million Californians\u003c/a> received assistance from CalFresh, the state’s primary food stamp program, which is funded by the federal government. That’s a nearly 20% increase from just before the pandemic, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate’s analysis of the bill said the combined effects of the pandemic, wildfires and other disasters “have had a staggering effect on food security across the state.” It cited a U.S. Census Bureau finding that, as of February, nearly 30% of California households with children were food insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"food-assistance\"]Several Republican state senators contacted by KQED did not respond to a request for comment about their opposition to the bill, but the state Republican Party, \u003ca href=\"https://cagop.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#3i000000CsCG/a/3i000000CcJw/n51HS0ybBBUItXs68wA_ydonniApC3HK0BlfOmBXDLM\">as it states in its platform\u003c/a>, opposes giving any social benefits to people who do not have a legal right to be in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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