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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849020/hemos-estado-aqui-por-tanto-tiempo-inmigrantes-con-estatus-temporal-esperan-un-camino-a-la-ciudadania-bajo-el-gobierno-de-biden\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truck driver Jesus Perlera, 39, puts in long days transporting grocery products from the Port of Oakland to warehouses and supermarkets — work deemed essential during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlera, an immigrant from El Salvador, has lived for two decades in the United States. But his right to be here, and his permit to work, depend on a humanitarian protection — known as temporary protected status (TPS) — that President Trump has been fighting to end for nationals from El Salvador and five other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jesus Perlera\"]'I feel more relaxed and calm. Now I hope this new Biden administration fulfills what it has promised us.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout Trump's presidency, Perlera has spent many sleepless nights at his home in Concord, worrying that if his TPS ends, he could lose his business and be separated from his two U.S.-born children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when Joe Biden won the presidential election earlier this month, signaling a sea change in immigration policy, Perlera was deeply relieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt an enormous amount of peace,” Perlera said in Spanish. “I feel more relaxed and calm. Now I hope this new Biden administration fulfills what it has promised us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlera is one of nearly a quarter of a million immigrants in California — including an estimated 85,000 essential workers — whose temporary permits to live and work in the U.S. could be protected under Biden. The president-elect is expected to use his executive power to reverse many of Trump’s attempts to crackdown on immigration, including his efforts to strip TPS from most recipients and to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that benefits hundreds of thousands of young undocumented people known as Dreamers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Biden has also promised to pursue a broader immigration reform bill that grants a pathway to citizenship to all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. — including DACA and TPS holders — succeeding in that effort will be a much heavier lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, to pass legislation, Biden will need a majority of votes in the Senate, which he is not guaranteed to have. But the new president will also have to wrestle with more pressing priorities at the beginning of his administration, said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic is going to dominate the oxygen for at least one year,” said Chishti. “The presidency will have very little time to do anything in a focused way on anything other than health and economic issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama also took office with strong mandates to create paths to citizenship for many of the nation’s undocumented immigrants, Chishti noted, but their first terms were consumed instead with crises: the 9/11 attacks for Bush and the Great Recession for Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biden is inheriting another piece of bad luck here. Just imagine, with a high unemployment rate, how do you argue for legalizing 11 million people?” he said. “It's a very hard sell, and therefore, I consider that kind of big immigration bill very difficult in the short run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11848707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46071_006_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus Perlera drives his truck at the Port of Oakland on Nov. 18, 2020. Perlera says he has worked \"nonstop\" throughout the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates have vowed to press Biden to deliver permanent residency — the path to citizenship — for DACA and TPS holders, most of whom have established deep roots in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, executive director of the Central American Resource Center in San Francisco, said it won’t be enough for the next president to merely restore the temporary protections to the way they were before Trump tried to end them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, TPS is granted in set periods of time ranging from six to 18 months. DACA recipients must reapply for the protections every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Landing us on the status quo will be a good start,” said Dugan-Cuadra. “We only see it as a short-term action to provide immediate relief, but we will not accept anything other than a legislative path for permanency for both Dreamers and TPS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal courts have delayed efforts by the Trump administration to rescind TPS for more than 400,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. But this fall, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Trump, ruling that the president could move forward with the terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in that case, a group of TPS holders and their U.S. citizen children, plan to ask a larger panel of the 9th Circuit to review the decision. The earliest that immigration officials could rescind work permits for nationals of El Salvador would be November 2021. Immigrants from the other impacted countries could see their protections expire as soon as March, said ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham, who represents plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts have also intervened to keep DACA alive for nearly 650,000 recipients. But the Trump administration stopped accepting first-time applicants after it announced it was rescinding the program in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration did not follow the law when it tried to end DACA. Since then, the federal government has refused to accept new applications, despite lower court rulings mandating that they do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Migration Policy Institutes estimates that, in addition to current DACA recipients, another 685,000 young people are eligible to apply to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most DACA and TPS recipients work and pay an estimated $5.5 billion in taxes per year, according to New American Economy, a bipartisan research and advocacy organization. Many work in fields that have been deemed essential during the pandemic, including health care, education, elder care, construction and food production and distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, about 27,700 TPS holders and 56,900 DACA recipients hold such front-line jobs, according to the Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like truck driver Jesus Perlera, San Jose resident Karla Lopez is also an essential worker. DACA has allowed Lopez, 27, to work as a certified nursing assistant, and to enroll in a registered nursing program at a local community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Board of Registered Nursing requires students to have a Social Security number, something Lopez didn’t have before she applied for DACA in 2012, the year Obama created it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DACA has helped me so much for all the jobs that I’ve had,” said Lopez, whose father brought her to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 10, and who is now raising two children of her own. “It has opened a lot of doors for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez cares for elderly people at a nursing home. She says she kept working through the pandemic, even while pregnant, despite the risk of getting the virus and bringing it home to her 4-year-old son.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“It was really scary,” said Lopez, who is currently on maternity leave after giving birth to her second baby. “But you know what? It's my job. And that's what I signed up for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said Biden’s election has made her feel like she belongs in America again, after constantly fearing for her future during the Trump administration. She hopes DACA recipients and other undocumented immigrants can one day become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been here for so long,” she said. “This is pretty much my house, it’s where I’ve been living most of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11848706\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS46081_016_KQED_Oakland_TPSPort_11182020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus Perlera closes the door of the freight container on his truck on Nov. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perlera, who arrived in the U.S. at age 18, also wants the contributions of immigrants like himself to lead to more permanent protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thank this country for giving me opportunities,” said Perlera, who as a kid dreamed of becoming a truck driver. “Because in my home country of El Salvador there aren’t opportunities like there are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the past three years, when Perlera considered the possibility of deportation, he decided he would not take his children back to El Salvador, where gang violence and poverty are rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want my children to have a good life, not like the life I had,” he said. “My life growing up was really difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of seven siblings, Perlera said he was still a young boy when his father died, forcing him at the age of 7 to start working in the fields, cultivating coffee, rice and other crops. 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It had nothing to do with any of those factors,” then-DHS spokesman David Lapan told KQED in Septemebr 2017. “It will improve security because the United States government will have a better idea of the individuals who want to travel to the United States for various purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Biden has said there is no evidence that the travel ban keeps the nation safer and could actually serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Total Immigrant Visas Issued, FY 2016-2019\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cCMlg\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cCMlg/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American consular officials have since approved dramatically fewer visas for citizens from the targeted Muslim-majority countries. 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"content": "\u003cp>For Henok Welday, an Oakland resident, President Donald Trump’s immigration policies towards asylum seekers and refugees were top of mind when filling out his mail-in ballot at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eritrean immigrant won asylum in the U.S. and became a citizen about six years ago. Because of his experience, Welday said he is upset that the Trump administration has blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801856/9-ways-trump-has-overhauled-immigration-to-the-us\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of mostly Central American migrants from seeking humanitarian protections at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all human beings. I would like the chance that I’ve been given here to be given to other people too,” said Welday, who fled an Eritrean regime accused by the United Nations of crimes against humanity. “People may have no other choice than to leave their countries and seek a better life here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has made restricting immigration, both legal and illegal, a central focus of his administration. As millions of Californians cast their ballots ahead of Nov. 3, many of the president’s strict immigration policies are on the minds of many — including the one out of every six registered voters in the state who are immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, eligible voters who are foreign born have grown to about 10% of the overall electorate, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. And California has more naturalized U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote than any other state, about 5.5 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844679\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A voter approaches an Alameda County Registrar of Voters ballot drop box in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45481_029_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter approaches an Alameda County Registrar of Voters ballot drop box in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Welday voted for the first time this presidential election and said he regretted not casting his ballot in 2016, even though he had the right to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, he brought his six-year old son Nathan with him to drop off his ballot at an official drop box outside the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted him to see what’s the right thing to do,” said Welday. “Whatever his choices may be. But it’s always to let your voice be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glancing at his son, he said he doesn’t want a president that ordered border authorities to separate nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">5,500\u003c/a> migrant children from their parents, including hundreds who have not yet been reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s saddening,” said Welday, shaking his head. “I mean, as a parent, you wouldn’t want to be away from your child for one day. Forget about being in two countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45488_036_KQED_Oakland_RegistrarofVoters_10272020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Means walks in Oakland’s Chinatown on Oct. 27, 2020. Means, an immigrant from Japan, became a U.S. citizen nearly two decades ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walking the streets of Oakland’s Chinatown, Naomi Means also said the president’s treatment of immigrants was a key factor in her vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Means, a special education teacher, disagreed with Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-presidential-determination-on-refugee-admissio-1845502954\">order\u003c/a> to admit only up to 15,000 refugees next year, an all-time low. Previous Republican and Democratic administrations typically set the refugee cap at more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-cuts-refugee-cap/2020/10/01/a5113b62-03ed-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html\">70,000\u003c/a> people per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"Election 2020 Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really feel for them,” said Means, 61, originally from Japan. “I don’t agree with excluding other people. This is a country of immigrants anyway, and except for Native Americans, everybody else came from other parts of this earth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for other naturalized citizens outside of deep-blue Oakland, immigration was not a top issue defining their votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed Elsherbini, an immigrant from Egypt, has owned a tour company in the Bay Area for more than three decades. He said his main concerns this election are national security and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that California is mainly a blue state, but I believe that Trump has a better chance to lead our country to economic growth and safety and stand up to any dangers, whether from terrorist groups, or stand up for better economic deals with China,” said Elsherbini, 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamed Elsherbini, an immigrant from Egypt, poses next to an American flag. Elsherbini is running for a seat on Danville's town council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Elhersbini_v2-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamed Elsherbini, an immigrant from Egypt, poses next to an American flag. Elsherbini is running for a seat on Danville’s town council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mohamed Elsherbini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After living more than 20 years in Danville, Elsherbini is now a candidate himself, running for town council to support small businesses and help create jobs, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the city very well, and I know what we need to keep Danville safe, balance the budget and support local businesses,” said Elsherbini, who identifies as a conservative and GOP supporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans represent nearly 20% of the nearly 3.8 million California voters identified as foreign born, according to Political Data, Inc. Meanwhile, Democrats are about half of immigrant voters in the state, and a third have no party preference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsherbini’s friend Muhammed Jawaid, also a Danville resident, said he voted for Trump in 2016. But this year, he cast his vote for Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jawaid, a retired network analyst for tech companies, said he wants the next commander-in-chief to act urgently to solve climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump doesn’t believe in science,” said Jawaid, 66. “I mean, it’s mind boggling in this day and age. We have the data under our fingertips, and it is showing that it is us humans that are warming the planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11844780\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Muhammed Jawaid, an immigrant from Pakistan, poses in front of his Danville home by a yard sign supporting his friend Mohamed Elsherbini's campaign for Danville town council.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Jawaid_v2-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muhammed Jawaid, an immigrant from Pakistan, poses in front of his Danville home by a yard sign supporting his friend Mohamed Elsherbini’s campaign for Danville town council. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Muhammed Jawaid)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Muslim from Pakistan, Jawaid worries the president’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802728/california-immigrants-grapple-with-trumps-expanded-travel-ban\">travel ban\u003c/a> and rhetoric against non-white immigrants will lead to discrimination, including against his own family. He said he hopes the next U.S. leader will treat all citizens equally, no matter their race or what country they came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re Americans, they are Americans, period. They have taken an oath,” said Jawaid, 66. “But if you start alienating them and you say you’re not equal to a white race, then that can be detrimental in the long run to the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Henok Welday, an Oakland resident, President Donald Trump’s immigration policies towards asylum seekers and refugees were top of mind when filling out his mail-in ballot at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Eritrean immigrant won asylum in the U.S. and became a citizen about six years ago. Because of his experience, Welday said he is upset that the Trump administration has blocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801856/9-ways-trump-has-overhauled-immigration-to-the-us\">tens of thousands\u003c/a> of mostly Central American migrants from seeking humanitarian protections at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all human beings. I would like the chance that I’ve been given here to be given to other people too,” said Welday, who fled an Eritrean regime accused by the United Nations of crimes against humanity. “People may have no other choice than to leave their countries and seek a better life here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has made restricting immigration, both legal and illegal, a central focus of his administration. As millions of Californians cast their ballots ahead of Nov. 3, many of the president’s strict immigration policies are on the minds of many — including the one out of every six registered voters in the state who are immigrants themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, eligible voters who are foreign born have grown to about 10% of the overall electorate, according to estimates by the Pew Research Center. 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But it’s always to let your voice be heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glancing at his son, he said he doesn’t want a president that ordered border authorities to separate nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">5,500\u003c/a> migrant children from their parents, including hundreds who have not yet been reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s saddening,” said Welday, shaking his head. “I mean, as a parent, you wouldn’t want to be away from your child for one day. 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And a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll from 2019 found that support for immigration is even stronger among Californians, with \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2147v4gd\">82% of the state’s voters\u003c/a> saying immigrants make the U.S. a better place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s overwhelming support for a path for undocumented people to stay in the country, overwhelming support for DACA, overwhelming opposition to building a wall,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California, who runs a monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/survey/\">statewide public opinion survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention on immigration in the most recent presidential debate “raised the profile of the issue again and reminded California voters of what the candidates’ positions are, and whose positions are closer to theirs,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the face of the pandemic, he added, immigration is a low-priority issue for most voters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for Latino voters, it remains among a handful of top issues. A \u003ca href=\"https://latinodecisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NALEO-Week-7-Toplines_weekly.pdf\">national poll this month\u003c/a>, conducted by Latino Decisions, asked Latino voters to name the issues they felt were of greatest importance for the next president to address. 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A status report to the federal judge overseeing the reunification of thousands of migrant families revealed that the parents of 545 children could not be located, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families\">search teams going door-to-door\u003c/a> through Central American cities and towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, court records show that contact hasn’t even been attempted with the parents of another 526 children separated as early as 2017. On top of that, at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797878/zero-tolerance-an-ongoing-history-of-family-separations-at-the-u-s-mexico-border\">1,142 more children\u003c/a> were taken from their parents at the border after the judge ordered the practice halted, although, so far, they are not protected by the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García Bedolla contrasted what she called Trump’s lack of empathy for the children taken from their parents (“They are in facilities that are so clean,” he said during the debate) with Biden’s outrage (“It violates every notion of who we are as a country.”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So immigration becomes a moral question,” she said. “Biden was correct: It’s about who we are … To what extent is immigration a reflection of our core values? And the place where we’ve gotten over the past four years is in violation of those values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s apparent disdain for many immigrants was also in evidence at the debate when he said, falsely, that fewer than 1% of migrants arrested at the border and released with hearing dates actually appear in court, adding that only “those with the lowest IQ, they might come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/562/\">court data shows\u003c/a> that more than 80% of migrant families released from immigration custody attended all their court hearings as of last year — and among those with lawyers, 99% attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many of Trump’s policies have been challenged in court, the relentless pace of immigration restrictions over the past four years — mostly accomplished through executive actions — has transformed immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/immigration/#\">has\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Effectively shut down asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Taken aim at local government “sanctuary” policies;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Created bureaucratic hurdles to legal immigration;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Made it harder for foreign students and skilled workers to get visas;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Established a financial means test for legal immigrants seeking green cards;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attempted to end the deportation protections for DACA recipients ;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Spent billions of dollars to fortify the fence on the border;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Curtailed the independence of immigration judges;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And — until the pandemic — locked up record numbers of people in immigration detention (an average of 55,000 a day in August 2019).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And beginning this spring, the administration used the coronavirus crisis as a rationale to expel asylum seekers and unauthorized migrants at the border without screening them for fears of persecution, as required by law. The executive order, which relies on a 1944 public health statute, has turned away tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump is re-elected, some observers believe his immigration adviser Stephen Miller has \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1310983880187412480\">a raft of executive orders\u003c/a> drafted to further restrict immigration, including policies that may have been considered too extreme for a candidate for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://joebiden.com/immigration/#\">immigration plan\u003c/a>, by contrast, proposes to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reform temporary work visas to better protect U.S. and foreign workers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Expand protections for undocumented immigrants who report labor violations;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restore DACA protections and propose a permanent path to citizenship for Dreamers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Return to Obama-era enforcement priorities that target serious convicted criminals for deportation;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase oversight and professional standards for immigration detention, and end the use of private prisons;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Invest in immigrant integration efforts, including naturalization and English instruction;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Double the number of immigration judges to tackle the 1 million-case backlog in immigration courts;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And address the root causes of migration by fostering economic development and the rule of law in Central American countries.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some of Biden’s immigration proposals — most notably, creating a path to citizenship for the country’s roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants — will require congressional action, which isn’t likely unless Democrats regain control of the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, simply undoing Trump’s new rules and executive actions could take years of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Biden is elected, immigration is not the first or only issue that will compete for his attention, notes immigration scholar and UCLA law professor Hiroshi Motomura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a practical matter, a Biden presidency would begin with all kinds of demands to do as much as possible, as soon as possible,” Motomura said. “Immigration initiatives will compete with health care and all kinds of other things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the urgency of the economic crisis, the pandemic and other priorities, Biden’s pledge on the debate stage to introduce a legalization bill in his first 100 days in office took some immigration observers by surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant activists have been lobbying his team for many months, saying that he needed to take a bold position, largely to signal his moving away from Obama-era policies,” which included \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not\">3 million deportations\u003c/a>, said García Bedolla. “The people I know in the immigrant rights movement weren’t sure that was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García Bedolla noted that President Obama also promised an immigration reform bill in his first 100 days, only to focus his attention on recovery from the Great Recession and health care reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People decided to give him that political wiggle room and, at the end, immigrant rights folks were very disappointed,” she said. “So people’s willingness to get in line [if Biden is elected] is going to be much less. 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That’s striking, since Trump has made restricting immigration a dominant theme of his presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for voters in California, where one in four residents was born in another country and immigrants are integral to almost every community and to the state’s economy, U.S. immigration policy —and the president’s stance toward immigrants — deeply matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM&feature=youtu.be&t=208\">announced his candidacy\u003c/a> in 2015, saying Mexicans are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists,” he has linked his political fortunes to the idea that immigrants are a threat to the United States and a drain on its resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with laser focus, his administration has pushed through more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/us-immigration-system-changes-trump-presidency\">400 executive actions\u003c/a> on immigration, ranging from sweeping policy directives, such as the travel ban aimed at citizens of mostly Muslim countries, to little-noticed rule changes, including one expanding DNA collection from people in immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contrast between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden could hardly be starker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former vice president has pledged to reverse Trump’s immigration restrictions and raise the cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 (from Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-politics-united-states-immigration-f76797b97e8a0b66150d0269fe4f432b\">recently announced\u003c/a> 15,000 — a record low). Biden says he will push legislation to create “a roadmap to citizenship” for the country’s nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants. And he talks about establishing a “fair and humane” immigration system, that will “enforce our laws without targeting communities, violating due process or tearing apart families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden also pledged on Thursday that, if elected, he would \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PevJComISV0&feature=youtu.be\">set up a task force\u003c/a> focused on reuniting families separated under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, as well as protests for racial justice and an onslaught of fierce climate change-driven wildfires and hurricanes, immigration has taken a back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers believe Trump has also downplayed the issue because his policies are not popular. In a commentary published earlier this month in the liberal-leaning \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/politics/trump-not-talking-as-much-about-immigrants-this-year/\">American Prospect\u003c/a> magazine, executive editor David Dayen said, “Trump’s full-barreled rhetorical assault on immigrants during the 2018 midterms led to an historic defeat. This year, he’s put that talk aside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent Gallup poll found that more than \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx\">three-fourths of Americans\u003c/a> believe immigration is a good thing for the country. And a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll from 2019 found that support for immigration is even stronger among Californians, with \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2147v4gd\">82% of the state’s voters\u003c/a> saying immigrants make the U.S. a better place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s overwhelming support for a path for undocumented people to stay in the country, overwhelming support for DACA, overwhelming opposition to building a wall,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California, who runs a monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/survey/\">statewide public opinion survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attention on immigration in the most recent presidential debate “raised the profile of the issue again and reminded California voters of what the candidates’ positions are, and whose positions are closer to theirs,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the face of the pandemic, he added, immigration is a low-priority issue for most voters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet for Latino voters, it remains among a handful of top issues. 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A status report to the federal judge overseeing the reunification of thousands of migrant families revealed that the parents of 545 children could not be located, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families\">search teams going door-to-door\u003c/a> through Central American cities and towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, court records show that contact hasn’t even been attempted with the parents of another 526 children separated as early as 2017. 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Family visits and education programs have been halted indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials have struggled to contain the outbreak and policies continually shift, those incarcerated have said the prison’s handling of the virus has been chaotic. Walker said that’s not only taking a toll on their safety, but also their mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This prison has changed their mind dozens of times, and the inmates are victims of it,” Walker said. “They can’t get settled, they can’t relax, the mental health department is filled with cases of people with anxiety and depression over all this crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since March, prison administrators have responded to the pandemic with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#CFC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">variety of safety precautions\u003c/a>. They have rearranged living spaces and limited intermingling among inmates living in different buildings. Staff and the incarcerated population must wear face coverings, and hand sanitizer dispensers have been hung throughout the facility. Gyms and other facilities have been repurposed to house inmates at various stages of the quarantine process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg 505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1-160x235.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Benitez, incarcerate at Avenal State Prison, said administrators have not been as up-front about the prison’s pandemic response as his inmate-elected Men’s Advisory Council would like. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lorina Benitez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Ed Welker, also incarcerated at Avenal, said it’s impossible to keep up with the changes. After he caught the virus, he was moved to different dorms — twice — while suffering from severe fatigue and a persistent migraine. Although he and other residents of his building were moved according to their exposure and testing status, Welker said they were given little notice before moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is kept secret, they’ll come to you and they’ll say ‘Hey, pack your stuff, you’re moving,’” he said. Welker said when he asked why, he was told, “Because Sacramento says you’re moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the men say officials aren’t sharing enough information about the prison’s plan for managing the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez is an elected member of a Men’s Advisory Council made up of incarcerated representatives from throughout the prison. It’s one of the prison population’s few direct lines of communication with administrators. But since March, he said, meetings have been sporadic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big entity that we’re facing, can we at least get some transparency?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men have said they rely on their loved ones on the outside as their news sources, even when it comes to information from other parts of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wives on all six yards all communicate well with one another,” said Michelle Tran. Her husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something’s going on, somebody will ask a question or send out something on Facebook to where we all can interact with one another,” Tran said. Unlike the Men’s Advisory Council behind bars, an Inmate Family Council — made up mostly of spouses — meets with prison representatives once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal.jpg 1589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Tran, whose husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison, said her network of spouses on the outside often knows more about what’s happening within the prison’s walls than their husbands do. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office said that traditionally correctional administrators “don’t do the best job of communicating with the people who are incarcerated there.” Specter is currently involved in a number of lawsuits advocating for better medical and mental health care for those incarcerated in California’s state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absence of information about the prison’s handling of the virus, combined with the lack of control people experience in confinement, “creates an incredible amount of anxiety,” Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anxiety inmates are feeling can have very real consequences, according to UC Merced psychology professor Jennifer Howell. Her research on the effects of the pandemic in the U.S. and China has revealed high amounts of chronic stress and disrupted sleep, which not only affect eating and exercise, but can also impair immune function, cognition and long-term health. And that’s in communities outside of prison. Howell says the effects are likely much worse for those who are confined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of environment, where you have a very fixed schedule, where you’re not necessarily in control over how much space you have from other people, when you’re not necessarily in control of government policies that you are sort of being told what to do, I imagine it’s just exacerbating these effects incredibly,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11835340,news_11836868 label='Related Coverage']A representative with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) wrote that up-to-date information on the pandemic airs on television channels throughout the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Posters and handouts have also been distributed and put up for display on topics such as social distancing, proper handwashing and COVID-19 warning signs,” an email statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said that all inmates get mental health check-ins during daily COVID-19 screenings with nurses, and although the prison has paused some group treatment programs, it has increased its use of telehealth services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The well-being and safety of the incarcerated population and staff within CDCR … is our top priority,” the statement read. “We understand how vitally important it is to deliver comprehensive mental health services within our institutions at all times, but especially during these extraordinary times of heightened uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men said they’d feel better if only they could visit with their loved ones. Although the prison has discounted a messaging service used by incarcerated people and their loved ones, and offered a few free call days each month, the men at Avenal have had no face-to-face contact with family or friends for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez said not seeing his wife since March is wearing on his marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just last night I was talking to my wife and she told me that she forgot my face, she forgot what I look like,” he said. “It does put a strain on your relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Benitez said his inmate council is fighting for video visits as one way to alleviate stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gyms and other facilities have been repurposed to house inmates at various stages of the quarantine process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1.jpeg 505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Benitez1-160x235.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Benitez, incarcerate at Avenal State Prison, said administrators have not been as up-front about the prison’s pandemic response as his inmate-elected Men’s Advisory Council would like. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lorina Benitez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Ed Welker, also incarcerated at Avenal, said it’s impossible to keep up with the changes. After he caught the virus, he was moved to different dorms — twice — while suffering from severe fatigue and a persistent migraine. Although he and other residents of his building were moved according to their exposure and testing status, Welker said they were given little notice before moving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is kept secret, they’ll come to you and they’ll say ‘Hey, pack your stuff, you’re moving,’” he said. Welker said when he asked why, he was told, “Because Sacramento says you’re moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the men say officials aren’t sharing enough information about the prison’s plan for managing the outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Benitez is an elected member of a Men’s Advisory Council made up of incarcerated representatives from throughout the prison. It’s one of the prison population’s few direct lines of communication with administrators. But since March, he said, meetings have been sporadic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big entity that we’re facing, can we at least get some transparency?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many men have said they rely on their loved ones on the outside as their news sources, even when it comes to information from other parts of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wives on all six yards all communicate well with one another,” said Michelle Tran. Her husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If something’s going on, somebody will ask a question or send out something on Facebook to where we all can interact with one another,” Tran said. Unlike the Men’s Advisory Council behind bars, an Inmate Family Council — made up mostly of spouses — meets with prison representatives once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843440\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/MichelleThaiTranAvenal.jpg 1589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Tran, whose husband Thai Tran is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison, said her network of spouses on the outside often knows more about what’s happening within the prison’s walls than their husbands do. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michelle Tran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Specter, executive director of the Prison Law Office said that traditionally correctional administrators “don’t do the best job of communicating with the people who are incarcerated there.” Specter is currently involved in a number of lawsuits advocating for better medical and mental health care for those incarcerated in California’s state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absence of information about the prison’s handling of the virus, combined with the lack of control people experience in confinement, “creates an incredible amount of anxiety,” Specter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anxiety inmates are feeling can have very real consequences, according to UC Merced psychology professor Jennifer Howell. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alondra Lara is fired up to vote for the first time. The college freshman said she intends for her ballot choices to represent not just herself, but also family members who aren’t citizens, including some undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important for me to not only express my voice, but express my voice for those who cannot vote,” said Lara, 18, who was born and raised in Sanger, a small city in California’s Central Valley. “It’s more important than ever for people of my color, my ethnicity, to go vote right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alondra Lara, first-time voter\"]‘It’s more important than ever for people of my color, my ethnicity, to go vote right now.’[/pullquote]To urge other young Latino citizens to participate in the election, Lara leads a team of phone bankers at \u003ca href=\"https://powercalifornia.org/99rootz\">99Rootz\u003c/a>, a youth organizing project of the nonprofit group Power California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times a week, Lara’s team connects virtually over Zoom to keep each other company while they take on the often difficult task of cold-calling thousands of registered young voters under 35 in Merced and Fresno counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, 99Rootz would hold in-person meetings and rallies, and phone bankers would work together at an office in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be sitting right next to our friends. We would feel connected,” said Lara, an art major at CSU Fullerton. “We are trying to emulate that with Zoom. But it’s tough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With less than two weeks before election day, civic engagement groups are racing to contact Latino voters, who have historically had lower turnouts than the general population. Even in California, where Latinos represent nearly a third of all eligible voters, their turnout has typically been lower than for white and Black voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are signs of strong enthusiasm about the election in California. Nearly 6 million people have already turned in their ballots by mail, including more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/2020-ballot-returned-tracker-state/\">a million\u003c/a> Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the pandemic, the need for social distancing and the fear of infection present new challenges for tried and true methods of voter outreach. And experts say the impact this will have on efforts to mobilize this key voting bloc is still largely unknown, as the majority of Latinos tend to cast their ballots in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018 elections, nonprofits helped increase Latino representation by knocking on doors and talking with voters about how ballot choices impact them, said Lisa García Bedolla, a UC Berkeley political scientist and author of the book “Latino Politics.” Greater participation by Latinos helped Democrats flip seven congressional seats in the state that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Latino voters are engaged, if people reach out to them and talk to them about the things that they care about … they vote,” said García Bedolla. “And so the challenge this time is, are we able to have those conversations, given the difficulty of connecting with people in this moment?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843526\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45430_AlondraLara.99RootzPhoneBanker-qut-1536x1073.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alondra Lara, 18, leads a team of phone bankers with the nonprofit group Power California virtually from her home in Sanger, California. “It’s more important than ever for people of my color, my ethnicity, to go vote right now,” she said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Power California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even a small increase in Latino voters could make a big difference in competitive races, such as the contest between Democratic Rep. TJ Cox and his challenger, Republican David Valadao, in the 21st Congressional District. Valadao lost the seat two years ago by less than a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839743/congressional-rematch-pits-central-valley-democrat-against-the-republican-he-beat-in-2018\">thousand votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos represent about \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b8c7ce15d5dbf599fb46ab/t/5e54e82cb61b1e513a1dfd3b/1582622836910/CCEP-California-Latino-and-Asian-American-Vote-2020-Primary-Election-Final.pdf\">60%\u003c/a> of all eligible voters in that district, which includes Kings County and parts of Kern, Tulare and Fresno counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cox and Valadao campaigns have raised a combined total of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&id=CA21&spec=N\">$8 million\u003c/a>, and they’re blanketing the airwaves and social media with advertisements, including some in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Luis León has heard the ads, but he has not followed the race much, and he’s not even sure he will vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"election-2020\"]“I am still considering it,” said León, 57, who owns a restaurant in the city of Lemoore in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>León said he is disappointed with both presidential candidates, and doesn’t feel well informed about the rest of the races and measures on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he wished there was more in-person outreach to voters like him, but he has not been contacted yet by any campaign or organization about this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not an uncommon story, especially in rural towns in the Central Valley, where local grassroots organizations are often cash starved, said Pam Whalen, organizing director with the Dolores Huerta Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation is contacting Latino voters in small towns spread throughout Fresno, Tulare, Kern and parts of Los Angeles counties. In addition to phone banking and sending text messages to voters, hundreds of volunteers are donning masks and going door-to-door to engage with neighbors from a safe distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the most effective way to communicate with voters. … Having that conversation by the door can be incredibly life changing,” said Whalen, who has worked in voter outreach in the region for about two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’ve been hampered by the pandemic,” she said. “That effort has not been nearly as robust as in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1023px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1-800x696.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1-1020x887.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45428_IMG_9004-qut-1376x1032-1-160x139.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lourdes Oliva (l) with the Dolores Huerta Foundation confers with volunteer canvasser Eugenia Gonzalez in the Central Valley town of Parlier on Oct. 11, 2020. \u003ccite>(Lupe Santillan/ Dolores Huerta Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voter turnout in California does not get the attention or the billions of dollars currently being spent to increase voter participation in battleground states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the work to convince infrequent or unlikely voters to become active ones is carried out by community organizations that typically operate on shoestring budgets, said García Bedolla, the UC Berkeley political scientist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political campaigns — which care about winning elections, regardless of how many people actually turn out — focus most of their efforts on reaching reliable voters. But most Latinos are not, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are a new voter, if you are a low-propensity voter, you are not going to get contacted by a campaign,” said García Bedolla. “And that’s the space that community-based organizations are trying to fill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffers with the Latino Community Foundation said they have invested over $500,000 this year into grassroots, Latino-led civic engagement organizations in California, including the Dolores Huerta Foundation and Power California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lisa García Bedolla, UC Berkeley political scientist\"]‘If Latino voters are engaged, if people reach out to them and talk to them about the things that they care about … they vote.’[/pullquote]That’s part of a multiyear, $10 million initiative aimed at raising the electoral representation of Latinos in the state, said Christian Arana, the foundation’s policy director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these groups that we have invested in are developing leadership opportunities for young people, like, ‘How do you go to a city council meeting and do a public comment, or call a member of Congress to support legislation?’ ” Arana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if Latinos — especially young Latinos — don’t understand their power to begin with, they are not going to turn out to vote,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindy Romero, who directs the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, said a big push to engage Latinos is still needed before Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2012 presidential election, less than 40% of eligible Latinos voted in California. 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