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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842308/los-trabajadores-inmigrantes-impulsan-la-economia-del-valle-de-napa-pero-los-incendios-y-el-covid-19-estan-eliminando-esos-trabajos\">Leer en Español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Arnulfo Vergara, an evacuee forced to flee from the Glass Fire burning in Napa and Sonoma counties, arrived at an emergency center at Napa Valley College earlier this week with a furrowed brow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara, a farmworker for more than two decades, had planned on working the entire harvest season. But the destruction wrought by recent wildfires in the form of scorched vineyards and smoke-damaged grapes has cut short many local vineyard and winery jobs, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over. The fire came and finished everything,” said Vergara, 59, an immigrant from Mexico who lives at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/467/Housing-Authority\">Calistoga Farmworker Center\u003c/a>. “I’m not going to work the rest of October or November. That’s money that won’t go into my pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jenny Ocón, executive director of UpValley Family Centers\"]'It’s just devastating for the community. It’s been one thing after another.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immediate danger to thousands of residents of Calistoga, St. Helena and other Napa Valley communities has subsided as firefighters continue to make progress against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/9/27/glass-fire/\">Glass Fire\u003c/a>, which has charred over 67,000 acres since igniting on Sept. 27 and is now nearly 75% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the region’s Latino immigrant workers – who are key to the local economy – say this year’s wildfires have intensified another danger: income and job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many local families have struggled financially as shelter-in-place measures hampered tourism, restaurants and wine businesses, said Jenny Ocón, executive director for UpValley Family Centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just devastating for the community. It’s been one thing after another,” she said. “And in particular, the immigrant community is pretty hard-hit because often certain members are not eligible for federal benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for unemployment insurance, coronavirus aid or other government benefits — even when they pay taxes. 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The nonprofit is part of a network, Napa Valley Community Organizations Active in Disaster, that has distributed more than $150,000 in gift cards to local evacuees. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the Glass Fire destroyed more than 300 homes in Napa County, some low-income families were already struggling to afford rent. This new loss of housing stock could make it even more difficult for them to continue living in the area, Ocón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it will displace some families,” she said. “Housing is already really expensive here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median rent in the city of Napa is more than $2,400 a month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/city-napa-tenants-need-47-an-hour-to-afford-median-rent/article_5967495b-7352-5c54-a895-e56e49ca113f.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">city officials\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The displacement of workers could spell trouble for restaurants, hotels, wineries and vineyards that rely on low-wage immigrant workers to be competitive, said Sonoma State University economics professor Robert Eyler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once they want to hire workers back in earnest, they might find a labor market that doesn't have as much supply as they used to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farmworkers']Eyler estimates that more than 80% of Napa County’s economy is connected in some way to tourism or the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people can’t find work here and other states are opening more quickly and have fewer COVID cases, have fewer fires affecting their agriculture and hospitality, people might move on,” said Eyler, who grew up in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-wage workers facing food insecurity and the inability to pay rent will need more long-term support to hang on in the region, he said, but the pandemic and decreased tax revenues have shrunk local and state budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yalitza Garcia, another evacuee, said she lost her six-year job as a waitress at a restaurant in Yountville during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, she found another position as a server, but the restaurant — which can only seat up to 25% of its capacity indoors — lost customers as the smoky air meant patrons couldn’t sit outdoors either, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult,” said Garcia, the mother of two young children. “My wages have gone down a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of nearly 2,000 evacuees the county of Napa has helped shelter in hotel rooms during the Glass Fire, according to county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia came to the evacuation center with Silvia Arroyo, her sister-in-law, to get boxed lunches for relatives staying at their hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arroyo, a house cleaner, said the fire burnt two houses in St. Helena where she worked. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Eyler estimates that more than 80% of Napa County’s economy is connected in some way to tourism or the wine industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people can’t find work here and other states are opening more quickly and have fewer COVID cases, have fewer fires affecting their agriculture and hospitality, people might move on,” said Eyler, who grew up in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-wage workers facing food insecurity and the inability to pay rent will need more long-term support to hang on in the region, he said, but the pandemic and decreased tax revenues have shrunk local and state budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yalitza Garcia, another evacuee, said she lost her six-year job as a waitress at a restaurant in Yountville during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, she found another position as a server, but the restaurant — which can only seat up to 25% of its capacity indoors — lost customers as the smoky air meant patrons couldn’t sit outdoors either, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really difficult,” said Garcia, the mother of two young children. “My wages have gone down a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of nearly 2,000 evacuees the county of Napa has helped shelter in hotel rooms during the Glass Fire, according to county officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia came to the evacuation center with Silvia Arroyo, her sister-in-law, to get boxed lunches for relatives staying at their hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arroyo, a house cleaner, said the fire burnt two houses in St. Helena where she worked. She had already lost clients and income during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women said they were grateful for the immediate aid of food and hotel rooms to shelter in. But they are also applying for rental assistance from the county, which could keep their families housed until they can make more money, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to wait,” she said. “Because a lot of other people have also applied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for Immigrant Workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These organizations offer cash assistance to undocumented immigrants in wine country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://undocufund.org/\">UndocuFund for Disaster Relief in Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.upvalleyfamilycenters.org/\">UpValley Relief Fund (includes Napa and Lake counties)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\">Down Valley Relief Fund (Napa County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Find a full list of organizations providing assistance in Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantfundca.org/northern-california\">here\u003c/a> via the California Immigrant Resilience Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find COVID-19-related resources from the state of California for immigrants in Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840535/wine-country-fires-yet-another-blow-to-farmworkers-reeling-from-covid-19\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recursos para trabajadores inmigrantes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Estas organizaciones ofrecen asistencia en efectivo a inmigrantes indocumentados en la region vinícola:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://undocufund.org/\">UndocuFund para el alivio de desastres en el condado de Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://upvalleyfamilycenters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpValley Relief Fund (incluye los condados de Napa y Lake)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fondo de ayuda de Down Valley (condado de Napa)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Encuentre una lista completa de organizaciones que brindan asistencia en el norte de California en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a> a través del Fondo de Resiliencia de Inmigrantes de California (California Immigrant Resilience Fund).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encuentre recursos relacionados con COVID-19 del estado de California para inmigrantes en español, vietnamita y otros idiomas en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Mientras el incendio llamado Glass Fire arrasaba en los condados de Sonoma y Napa el martes, Guillermo Herrera y cinco compañeros de su trabajo transportaban herramientas a camiones, preparándose para recoger una tanda de uvas de un viñedo cercano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actualmente es la temporada de cosecha en la región vinícola. Pero Herrera, quien administra un equipo de alrededor de 100 trabajadores agrícolas, dijo que el labor escasea, ya que los incendios forestales de esta temporada han reducido drásticamente el trabajo disponible en los viñedos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dado a que la exposición prolongada al humo puede arruinar las uvas, muchos productores están dejando frutas posiblemente contaminadas en la vid. Es por eso que muchos cosechadores están sin trabajo, dijo Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recibo llamadas de todo el tiempo, día tras día, de personas que están buscando trabajo”, dijo Herrera, quien también dirige su propia compañía de vinos, Herencia del Valle. “Cinco o seis de mis clientes no van a recoger ninguna de sus frutas este año. Cero\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Glass Fire es el último de una serie de golpes a los trabajadores agrícolas de la región, junto otros trabajadores inmigrantes de bajos ingresos, que ya estaban luchando con la pérdida de trabajos y los impactos en la salud de la pandemia de covid-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ezequiel Guzman, presidente de Latinos Unidos del Condado de Sonoma\"]'La gente necesita entender la devastación oculta que estos incendios han provocado económicamente en los trabajadores agrícolas. ¿Cómo van a pagar el alquiler? ¿Cómo van a alimentar a sus familias?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los inmigrantes indocumentados, incluido aproximadamente el 56% de los trabajadores agrícolas en todo el estado, no son elegibles para el seguro de desempleo, el alivio del coronavirus ni otra ayuda del gobierno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y a pesar de que su trabajo es fundamental para la economía local, muchos trabajadores inmigrantes carecen de una red de seguridad o ahorros para sobrellevar esta serie de crisis, dijo Gabriel Machabanski, director asociado del Centro de Trabajo Diurno Graton (Graton Day Labor Center) en el condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Es el impacto agravado de los incendios además de una pandemia\", dijo Machabanski. \"Los jornaleros, los trabajadores domésticos, los trabajadores agrícolas han visto una disminución significativa en la cantidad de oportunidades de empleo que tienen ... su sustento es precario de una semana a la siguiente\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Workers harvest grapes at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los trabajadores cosechan uvas en Garton Vineyards en Napa el 30 de septiembre de 2020 \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores agrícolas en particular dependen de su salario durante la cosecha de estos dos meses para sobrevivir durante el invierno, hasta que los trabajos en los campos se recuperen de nuevo, dijo Ezequiel Guzmán, presidente de la organización sin fines de lucro Latinos Unidos del Condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Él dijo que esta semana, cerca de 350 familias en la ciudad agrícola de Cloverdale, fueron a recoger bolsas de harina, arroz, frijoles y otros alimentos básicos en un evento organizado por el Redwood Empire Food Bank—este número de personas es tres veces mayor al que se ha recibido en semanas pasadas\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La gente necesita entender la destrucción que estos incendios han causado económicamente a los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Guzmán, un defensor de los trabajadores agrícolas desde hace mucho tiempo. “¿Cómo van a pagar el alquiler? ¿Cómo van a alimentar a sus familias? \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquellos que pueden conseguir trabajo rescatando uvas que aún no han sido dañadas por el humo o el fuego ponen en riesgo su salud y seguridad—tanto por el humo como por covid-19—porque necesitan ganarse la vida, dijo Gervacio Peña López, director del Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena, que apoya a inmigrantes indígenas de México, muchos de ellos son trabajadores agrícolas indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se arriesgan porque es como si no tuvieran otra opción”, dijo Peña López, en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Grapes wither on the vine as smoke from the Glass Fire fills the sky at a vineyard near Calistoga on Sept. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las uvas marchitas en la vid mientras el humo del Glass Fire llena el cielo en un viñedo cerca de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El martes por la tarde, Peña López condujo hasta KBBF, una estación de radio en Santa Rosa, para copresentar un programa con la información más reciente sobre los incendios y recursos de emergencia para familias locales que hablan triqui, mixteco y chatino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tratamos de informarles cómo protegerse, y que deben asegurarse de usar un cubrebocas”, dijo. \"Pero a veces, eso no es suficiente\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña López dijo que desde que comenzó la pandemia, muchos trabajadores agrícolas han contraído covid-19 mientras se transportan en vehículos llenos de gente, o viven en viviendas con muchas personas, lo que muchos hacen debido al alto costo de renta en el área.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gervacio Peña Lopez, director del Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena\"]'Se arriesgan porque es como si no tuvieran otra opción'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la gente quizás tiene miedo de hacerse la prueba del coronavirus porque un resultado positivo significaría pasar dos semanas en cuarentena y sin trabajo, dijo Peña López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El covid-19 infectó a muchos de los empleados de Encanto Vineyards en St. Helena, dijo Enrique López, propietario de la bodega de vino. Luego, su familia también se enfermó en agosto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Todo el mundo tiene covid\", dijo. \"Mi esposa, mi pequeña — tenía nueve meses — mi suegra que está aquí de visita\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Graton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muchos trabajadores de bajos ingresos en las industrias hotelera y agrícola que vieron caer sus salarios durante la pandemia ahora enfrentan más pérdidas económicas — así como evacuaciones — debido a los incendios, dijo Susana García, de la organización sin fines de lucro de equidad social On The Move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Es muy desafortunado ver que prácticamente las mismas familias son afectadas, golpe tras golpe, y siguen afectadas de esta manera\", dijo García, quien dirige \u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">un programa\u003c/a> que ha canalizado donaciones privadas a cientos de residentes indocumentados en Napa desde que la pandemia empezó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a los defensores Peña López, Guzmán y Machabanski les preocupa que una población que ya es vulnerable al daño respiratorio del covid-19 pueda enfrentar otro riesgo por el humo de los incendios recientes. Todos concordaron que algunos trabajadores agrícolas han reportado que sus empleadores no les han proporcionado el equipo de protección adecuado para el trabajo al aire libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Worker-Health-and-Safety-in-Wildfire-Regions.html/Spanish/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">las regulaciones\u003c/a> de California, si el índice de \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968622/mapa-reporte-actual-de-la-calidad-del-aire-en-el-area-de-la-bahia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calidad del aire\u003c/a> (AQI por sus siglas en inglés) es 151 o más, los empleadores deben proporcionar respiradores gratuitos a los trabajadores que trabajan al aire libre , como un cubrebocas N95, e información sobre cómo usarlos correctamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Smith, el comisionado de agricultura del condado de Sonoma, dijo que no tenía conocimiento de ninguna violación de la política.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si esto está sucediendo, no es bueno\", dijo Smith. “Pero que yo sepa, no hay un caso documentado de que esto suceda en el condado de Sonoma. Por ahora, son acusaciones ”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840645\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El fuego de cristal arde detrás de un viñedo en la autopista 29 al norte de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Glass Fire arde detrás de un viñedo cerca de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La División de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional de California (CAL OSHA por sus siglas en inglés) está en cargo de investigar las quejas de violaciones, y las personas \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Spanish/complaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pueden presentar un reclamo de seguridad\u003c/a> en el lugar de trabajao a la agencia que asegura que no pregunta sobre el estado migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde el incendio de Walbridge en el mes pasado, Smith dijo que su oficina ha ayudado a cientos de bodegas, operadores de ganado, viveros y otras empresas agrícolas a ser verificadas como tales, de modo que puedan solicitar permiso a las fuerzas del orden para entrar a las áreas de evacuación y continuar las funciones esenciales como cosechar uvas o alimentar al ganado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si no pueden hacer el trabajo, no pueden pagar a sus empleados, llevar las cosechas al mercado y es posible que sus negocios no sobreviviran\", dijo. \"La agricultura no se detiene porque hay una emergencia declarada\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que la oficina del Comisionado de Agricultura emitió alrededor de 300 \"verificaciones de acceso\" durante el incendio de Walbridge, y hasta ahora ha recibido alrededor de 30 solicitudes adicionales durante el incendio de vidrio. Su oficina tiene un suministro de máscaras N95 disponibles para distribuir a los trabajadores a través de organizaciones y empresas comunitarias, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recursos para trabajadores inmigrantes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Estas organizaciones ofrecen asistencia en efectivo a inmigrantes indocumentados en la region vinícola:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://undocufund.org/\">UndocuFund para el alivio de desastres en el condado de Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://upvalleyfamilycenters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpValley Relief Fund (incluye los condados de Napa y Lake)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fondo de ayuda de Down Valley (condado de Napa)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Encuentre una lista completa de organizaciones que brindan asistencia en el norte de California en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a> a través del Fondo de Resiliencia de Inmigrantes de California (California Immigrant Resilience Fund).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encuentre recursos relacionados con COVID-19 del estado de California para inmigrantes en español, vietnamita y otros idiomas en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/samharnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Harnett\u003c/a>, periodista de KQED, contribuyó a este reporte. Este articulo fue traducido por las periodistas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lblanco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lina Blanco \u003c/a>y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/amorga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adriana Morga\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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¿Cómo van a alimentar a sus familias? \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquellos que pueden conseguir trabajo rescatando uvas que aún no han sido dañadas por el humo o el fuego ponen en riesgo su salud y seguridad—tanto por el humo como por covid-19—porque necesitan ganarse la vida, dijo Gervacio Peña López, director del Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena, que apoya a inmigrantes indígenas de México, muchos de ellos son trabajadores agrícolas indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se arriesgan porque es como si no tuvieran otra opción”, dijo Peña López, en español.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Grapes wither on the vine as smoke from the Glass Fire fills the sky at a vineyard near Calistoga on Sept. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las uvas marchitas en la vid mientras el humo del Glass Fire llena el cielo en un viñedo cerca de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El martes por la tarde, Peña López condujo hasta KBBF, una estación de radio en Santa Rosa, para copresentar un programa con la información más reciente sobre los incendios y recursos de emergencia para familias locales que hablan triqui, mixteco y chatino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tratamos de informarles cómo protegerse, y que deben asegurarse de usar un cubrebocas”, dijo. \"Pero a veces, eso no es suficiente\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña López dijo que desde que comenzó la pandemia, muchos trabajadores agrícolas han contraído covid-19 mientras se transportan en vehículos llenos de gente, o viven en viviendas con muchas personas, lo que muchos hacen debido al alto costo de renta en el área.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero la gente quizás tiene miedo de hacerse la prueba del coronavirus porque un resultado positivo significaría pasar dos semanas en cuarentena y sin trabajo, dijo Peña López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El covid-19 infectó a muchos de los empleados de Encanto Vineyards en St. Helena, dijo Enrique López, propietario de la bodega de vino. Luego, su familia también se enfermó en agosto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Todo el mundo tiene covid\", dijo. \"Mi esposa, mi pequeña — tenía nueve meses — mi suegra que está aquí de visita\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Graton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muchos trabajadores de bajos ingresos en las industrias hotelera y agrícola que vieron caer sus salarios durante la pandemia ahora enfrentan más pérdidas económicas — así como evacuaciones — debido a los incendios, dijo Susana García, de la organización sin fines de lucro de equidad social On The Move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Es muy desafortunado ver que prácticamente las mismas familias son afectadas, golpe tras golpe, y siguen afectadas de esta manera\", dijo García, quien dirige \u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">un programa\u003c/a> que ha canalizado donaciones privadas a cientos de residentes indocumentados en Napa desde que la pandemia empezó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a los defensores Peña López, Guzmán y Machabanski les preocupa que una población que ya es vulnerable al daño respiratorio del covid-19 pueda enfrentar otro riesgo por el humo de los incendios recientes. Todos concordaron que algunos trabajadores agrícolas han reportado que sus empleadores no les han proporcionado el equipo de protección adecuado para el trabajo al aire libre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Worker-Health-and-Safety-in-Wildfire-Regions.html/Spanish/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">las regulaciones\u003c/a> de California, si el índice de \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1968622/mapa-reporte-actual-de-la-calidad-del-aire-en-el-area-de-la-bahia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calidad del aire\u003c/a> (AQI por sus siglas en inglés) es 151 o más, los empleadores deben proporcionar respiradores gratuitos a los trabajadores que trabajan al aire libre , como un cubrebocas N95, e información sobre cómo usarlos correctamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Smith, el comisionado de agricultura del condado de Sonoma, dijo que no tenía conocimiento de ninguna violación de la política.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si esto está sucediendo, no es bueno\", dijo Smith. “Pero que yo sepa, no hay un caso documentado de que esto suceda en el condado de Sonoma. Por ahora, son acusaciones ”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11840645\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El fuego de cristal arde detrás de un viñedo en la autopista 29 al norte de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Glass Fire arde detrás de un viñedo cerca de Calistoga el 30 de septiembre \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La División de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional de California (CAL OSHA por sus siglas en inglés) está en cargo de investigar las quejas de violaciones, y las personas \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Spanish/complaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pueden presentar un reclamo de seguridad\u003c/a> en el lugar de trabajao a la agencia que asegura que no pregunta sobre el estado migratorio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desde el incendio de Walbridge en el mes pasado, Smith dijo que su oficina ha ayudado a cientos de bodegas, operadores de ganado, viveros y otras empresas agrícolas a ser verificadas como tales, de modo que puedan solicitar permiso a las fuerzas del orden para entrar a las áreas de evacuación y continuar las funciones esenciales como cosechar uvas o alimentar al ganado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Si no pueden hacer el trabajo, no pueden pagar a sus empleados, llevar las cosechas al mercado y es posible que sus negocios no sobreviviran\", dijo. \"La agricultura no se detiene porque hay una emergencia declarada\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que la oficina del Comisionado de Agricultura emitió alrededor de 300 \"verificaciones de acceso\" durante el incendio de Walbridge, y hasta ahora ha recibido alrededor de 30 solicitudes adicionales durante el incendio de vidrio. Su oficina tiene un suministro de máscaras N95 disponibles para distribuir a los trabajadores a través de organizaciones y empresas comunitarias, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recursos para trabajadores inmigrantes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Estas organizaciones ofrecen asistencia en efectivo a inmigrantes indocumentados en la region vinícola:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://undocufund.org/\">UndocuFund para el alivio de desastres en el condado de Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://upvalleyfamilycenters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpValley Relief Fund (incluye los condados de Napa y Lake)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fondo de ayuda de Down Valley (condado de Napa)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Encuentre una lista completa de organizaciones que brindan asistencia en el norte de California en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/es/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a> a través del Fondo de Resiliencia de Inmigrantes de California (California Immigrant Resilience Fund).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encuentre recursos relacionados con COVID-19 del estado de California para inmigrantes en español, vietnamita y otros idiomas en \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">este enlace\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/samharnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Harnett\u003c/a>, periodista de KQED, contribuyó a este reporte. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alton Edmondson is no longer in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the Jamaican construction worker can’t shake off the feeling of being locked up alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 sickened dozens of people at a for-profit immigration detention center in Bakersfield this summer, staffers put Edmondson in isolation for weeks, including placing him in a cell used for disciplinary segregation that detainees call “the hole,” court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials said Edmondson, who repeatedly tested negative for the coronavirus, was being quarantined and housed apart from other detainees for his own protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elizabeth Jordan, civil rights attorney\"]‘This is really dangerous because it places a serious strain on people’s mental health.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Edmondson, the three-week isolation he said he experienced amounted to punishing solitary confinement. Officials at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center locked him up for about 23 hours per day, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was depressed. I felt helpless,” said Edmondson, who has lived in this country for nearly 20 years and has three U.S.-born sons. “They served me food through a hole in the door. They made me feel like I’m a terrorist or a murderer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson’s experience is echoed by other ICE detainees, whose reports to advocates and in court records suggest widespread use of solitary confinement as COVID-19 proliferated in immigration detention centers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on evidence we’ve gathered, this is the practice that they are allowing their contractors to use,” said Elizabeth Jordan, an attorney with the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center in Denver, who represents plaintiffs in \u003ca href=\"https://creeclaw.org/fraihat-v-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/\">Fraihat v. ICE\u003c/a>, a class-action lawsuit challenging ICE detention conditions, including the use of punitive segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really dangerous because it places a serious strain on people’s mental health,” added Jordan, who said those held in solitary confinement conditions include some immigrants who were sick with COVID-19. “It’s not what public health officials have in mind when they suggest separating people out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has infected more than 6,300 immigrants held by ICE, including hundreds in California, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE requires that immigrants kept in isolation for medical reasons must not be treated as if they are in solitary confinement, even if placed in the same cells used for disciplinary reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But detainees report being locked by themselves for more than 20 hours a day as a means of quarantine during the pandemic, advocates say, and some immigrants refuse to disclose their COVID-19 symptoms out of fear of being thrown in “the hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Week in a Windowless Cell With No Bed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 4, at least six men at Mesa Verde’s Dorm B were confirmed to have the coronavirus, and staffers cleared the dorm to house only positive cases. Edmondson expected guards to move him to one of three other dorms in the facility with other detainees who had tested negative. Instead, they took him to an intake cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The windowless room, used by staff to interview new detainees, was very small, with a toilet but no bed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was horrible. I didn’t want to be there,” Edmondson said. “No fresh air. I’ve never been in a place like that for so long in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards brought in a TV and DVD-player for Edmondson to watch movies on. But he was forced to sleep on a mat on the floor and had no access to the commissary, which he depended on to comply with his plant-based, Rastafarian diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People must not be kept in such a hold room for more than 12 hours, according to ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-6.pdf\">standards\u003c/a>. But Edmondson said officials left him there for seven days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, guards confined him in a Restricted Housing Unit (known as a RHU) for two more weeks, according to ICE reports to a district court in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he only had his Bible to read. Sometimes, he stood by a small window on his cell’s metal door to watch a TV in the hall outside, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration officials did not explain why he could not live in a dorm with others who had also tested negative, according to Edmondson and his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group, which owns and operates Mesa Verde, referred questions to ICE. An ICE spokesman declined to comment on Edmondson’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More ICE Detainees Isolated During Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since June, ICE facilities have been isolating detainees with coronavirus symptoms and placing new arrivals in quarantine for 14 days, according to the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">guidance on COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But detainees are usually housed in dorms; most detention centers only have a few units where people can be isolated for disciplinary or other reasons, such as medical isolation, according to advocates and researchers who have visited ICE facilities in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde, where Edmondson was detained, has at least one medical isolation room and at least one intake cell, and three RHUs that have been generally full since August, when ICE began reporting on the facility’s COVID-19 outbreak to a district court. The facility has a maximum capacity of 400 detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11841232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drone-captured footage shows detainees on a hunger strike forming a heart in the yard of Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in April in protest over the facility’s coronavirus response. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kern Youth Abolitionists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE requires that during the pandemic, individuals quarantined in cells used for solitary confinement get regular visits from medical staff, and have access to mental health services and other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make efforts to provide similar access to radio, TV, reading materials, personal property, and commissary as would be available in individuals’ regular housing units,” reads the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus/prr\">Pandemic Response Requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say that has not been happening. As part of the Fraihat case, Jordan presented a federal court in Los Angeles with sworn declarations from two men held in solitary confinement during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, Oscar Perez Aguirre returned to the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in Colorado from a local hospital where he was treated for COVID-19. He said he was held for two weeks in a solitary confinement unit that was filthy and freezing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Aguirre said he was so sick he couldn’t stand up, but he was not seen by a doctor or a mental health staffer while in isolation. A nurse did come by daily to take his temperature and blood pressure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I was in disciplinary segregation … I felt really down and did not have anything to do,” said Perez Aguirre, 57. “I asked for cards (to pass the time) and was told I could not have any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Mencias Soto had a similar experience in May after he was treated for chest pain at a hospital and returned to California’s largest immigrant detention center in the Inland Empire city of Adelanto. A COVID-19 outbreak at the privately run facility has already infected more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">120 detainees\u003c/a> and is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am locked in a cell by myself approximately 23 hours a day,” said Mencias Soto, 37. “I am very worried that I am going to have more heart issues and I will die without them noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Aurora and Adelanto detention facilities are also run by The GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesman declined to comment on the court declarations by Mencias Soto or Perez Aguirre about their quarantine, citing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot comment further due to pending litigation,” said ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor in a statement. “However, lack of comment should not be construed as agreement with or stipulation to any of the litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group Freedom for Immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19\">reports\u003c/a> that dozens of people detained at several ICE facilities have called the organization’s hotline saying they were afraid to disclose COVID-19 symptoms for fear of being isolated. Other callers who tested positive said they were held for 14 days in solitary confinement without appropriate medical care, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ice-detention\"]“COVID-19 has exacerbated issues that have long existed within the U.S. immigration detention system, which has had an impact on the mental health of those in custody,” said Rebekah Entralgo, a spokeswoman for the organization, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resources like phone calls, outside recreational time, and timely meals — which are difficult to come by even under normal circumstances — are severely limited during the pandemic, which adds to the isolation of immigration detention,” Entralgo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suicide in Quarantine\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The United Nations has argued that prolonged solitary confinement for more than 15 days should be banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice should never be used on juveniles or people with mental disabilities because it can amount to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/10/392012-solitary-confinement-should-be-banned-most-cases-un-expert-says\">warned in 2011\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress and suffering of solitary confinement can also lead to the onset or worsening of mental illness, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strain of isolation was particularly detrimental to Choung Woong Ahn, a detainee who committed suicide at the Mesa Verde detention center in May, according to his attorney Trevor Kosmo, with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahn, a 74-year-old man from South Korea, killed himself in the shower of a medical isolation unit while in quarantine after he returned from a hospital. ICE knew Ahn had a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddrAHNChoungWoong.pdf\">suicide attempts\u003c/a>, Kosmo said, but failed to continuously \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2020/08/07/family-asks-newsom-probe-choung-woohn-ahn-suicide-ice-mesa-verde/5504694002/\">monitor him\u003c/a>, as required for at-risk detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that my client, Mr. Ahn, died due to ICE’s negligence,” Kosmo said. “And because they quarantined him in solitary confinement without giving him the one-on-one observation that he was required to have under their own detention standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosmo, who also represents Alton Edmondson, said ICE does not need to lock up people who are awaiting immigration court hearings, and the pandemic has highlighted long-standing problems with detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely inhumane to put people in a windowless room for 23 hours to quarantine them,” he said. “If they can’t properly quarantine them, they need to release everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahn’s family and Edmondson could both sue The GEO Group under a new California law signed last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3228\">AB 3228\u003c/a> makes it easier for individuals to bring legal charges in state court against private detention companies for failing to abide by the terms of their contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of AB 3228 say the new law provides a path to state-level accountability for violations of ICE’s standards at for-profit facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE’s History With Solitary Confinement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Concerns about ICE’s use of solitary confinement predate the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent congressional \u003ca href=\"https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Homeland%20ICE%20facility%20staff%20report.pdf\">investigation\u003c/a> found that ICE regularly contracts with facilities that are “poorly equipped” to meet the agency’s detention guidelines, and that ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, rarely enforce corrections of identified problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the House Committee on Homeland Security also found that detainees are often denied adequate medical and mental health care, and that ICE facilities “improperly use segregation as retaliation,” sometimes on detainees who have participated in hunger strikes to protest detention conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, ICE appears to prioritize obtaining bed space over the wellbeing of detainees in its custody,” concluded the committee staffers who visited eight detention centers, including two in California and interviewed more than 400 immigrants held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokeswoman defended the agency and said it will review the committee’s report. She added that ICE’s “aggressive inspections program” includes targeted site visits and independent third-party compliance reviews, and that the agency has made improvements to detention conditions based on recommendations by the DHS Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE “is fully committed to the health and safety of those in our care,” said Stacey Daniels, who directs public affairs at the agency. “However, it is clear this one-sided review of our facilities was done to tarnish our agency’s reputation, as opposed to actually reviewing the care detainees receive while in our custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE refers to the practice of isolating a detainee from the general population as “segregation,” and allows it for disciplinary or other reasons, including for a vulnerable detainee’s own protection. Facility administrators are required to notify ICE field office directors when detainees are segregated for 14 days or longer, according to the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-12.pdf\">standards\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Caitlin Patler, UC Davis sociology professor\"]‘It’s a really, really punitive experience, regardless of the reason for someone’s placement into solitary confinement.’[/pullquote]Between 2013 to 2017, ICE facilities nationwide logged more than 5,300 cases of segregation that lasted two weeks or more, according to Caitlin Patler, an assistant professor of sociology at UC Davis who analyzed the incident reports. One person was isolated for more than two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really, really punitive experience, regardless of the reason for someone’s placement into solitary confinement,” Patler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patler was troubled to find that people with mental illness were overrepresented in ICE segregation cases. And immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean — with majority Black populations — experienced a quarter of all the incidents, though they comprised only 4% of the detainee population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be some really problematic racialized practices happening within detention facilities where a situation involving a Black detained person results in solitary confinement much more frequently than we would expect based on their portion of the detained population,” said Patler, who co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zdy7f/\">study\u003c/a> on the issue soon to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Punishment and Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesman declined to comment on Patler’s findings, saying they haven’t been published yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his ‘segregation cell’ back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Center. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently jailing about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management\">20,000 people\u003c/a> across the country, compared to about 38,000 immigrants who were in custody in late March. About half of those detained have criminal convictions, while the rest have pending criminal charges or have only violated immigration laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Plea Deal to Detention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alton Edmondson had been jailed for 14 months in Nevada County, California, when he pled guilty to a serious felony conviction for assault with a firearm during a robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his criminal proceedings, Edmondson, who is Black, insisted that he was wrongly accused of the offense. He maintains his arrest stemmed from a racially-motivated traffic stop in a county where only about 1% of the population is Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal court had granted him bail, but he and his family could not afford to pay it, he said, and he remained behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing was racial profiling,” said Edmondson, who was visiting a friend in California when he was arrested. “I was innocent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrested Edmondson in Nov. 2018, sheriff’s deputies did not find a firearm in the vehicle he was in, and the charges were filed based on a dubious eyewitness identification, according to court documents submitted by San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. The office sued, along with the ACLU and other legal aid nonprofits, to force ICE to release vulnerable detainees from Mesa Verde during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson was told that if he lost his criminal trial, he faced up to 12 years of incarceration, but if he took the plea deal, he would be let out in four months, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the racial demographics of the county, and pervasive racial bias among the likely juror pool, his attorney advised that his chances of winning at trial were slim,” according to the request for Edmond’s release from ICE detention filed by Genna Beier, a San Francisco deputy public defender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 26, as Edmondson was released from the Nevada County Jail, ICE officials arrested him and detained him at Mesa Verde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he didn’t understand at the time that pleading guilty to the felony would lead to deportation proceedings and losing his green card, which has allowed him to lawfully work and live in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. But ICE disputes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He signed an agreement acknowledging that he understood the nature of the crimes and allegations and the consequences of his plea,” said agency officials opposing his release, adding that Edmondson had two prior misdemeanor offenses related to marijuana possession and a DUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sept. 23, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered ICE to release Edmondson, who has asthma, along with more than 140 other detainees at Mesa Verde, where COVID-19 has infected nearly 60 detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chhabria’s release orders weigh each person’s health risk in detention against the likelihood that he or she will endanger the community or will fail to show up for immigration court proceedings if released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson is quarantining at a hotel in Bakersfield until Oct. 7, following the judge’s orders. He then plans to go home to Georgia, where two of his three sons live. The youngest is just 6, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel great, I feel freedom,” he said. “I want to see my kids. Missed them a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he hopes that talking about his experience of isolation at Mesa Verde will make ICE detention more humane for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not right the way they treated me,” he said. “I think it’s very important for people to hear my story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People must not be kept in such a hold room for more than 12 hours, according to ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2011/2-6.pdf\">standards\u003c/a>. But Edmondson said officials left him there for seven days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, guards confined him in a Restricted Housing Unit (known as a RHU) for two more weeks, according to ICE reports to a district court in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he only had his Bible to read. Sometimes, he stood by a small window on his cell’s metal door to watch a TV in the hall outside, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration officials did not explain why he could not live in a dorm with others who had also tested negative, according to Edmondson and his attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group, which owns and operates Mesa Verde, referred questions to ICE. An ICE spokesman declined to comment on Edmondson’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More ICE Detainees Isolated During Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since June, ICE facilities have been isolating detainees with coronavirus symptoms and placing new arrivals in quarantine for 14 days, according to the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">guidance on COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But detainees are usually housed in dorms; most detention centers only have a few units where people can be isolated for disciplinary or other reasons, such as medical isolation, according to advocates and researchers who have visited ICE facilities in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mesa Verde, where Edmondson was detained, has at least one medical isolation room and at least one intake cell, and three RHUs that have been generally full since August, when ICE began reporting on the facility’s COVID-19 outbreak to a district court. The facility has a maximum capacity of 400 detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 840px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11841232 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS44334_IMG-20200810-WA0001_104405150868869-1-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drone-captured footage shows detainees on a hunger strike forming a heart in the yard of Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in April in protest over the facility’s coronavirus response. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kern Youth Abolitionists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE requires that during the pandemic, individuals quarantined in cells used for solitary confinement get regular visits from medical staff, and have access to mental health services and other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make efforts to provide similar access to radio, TV, reading materials, personal property, and commissary as would be available in individuals’ regular housing units,” reads the agency’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus/prr\">Pandemic Response Requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say that has not been happening. As part of the Fraihat case, Jordan presented a federal court in Los Angeles with sworn declarations from two men held in solitary confinement during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 28, Oscar Perez Aguirre returned to the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in Colorado from a local hospital where he was treated for COVID-19. He said he was held for two weeks in a solitary confinement unit that was filthy and freezing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Aguirre said he was so sick he couldn’t stand up, but he was not seen by a doctor or a mental health staffer while in isolation. A nurse did come by daily to take his temperature and blood pressure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I was in disciplinary segregation … I felt really down and did not have anything to do,” said Perez Aguirre, 57. “I asked for cards (to pass the time) and was told I could not have any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Mencias Soto had a similar experience in May after he was treated for chest pain at a hospital and returned to California’s largest immigrant detention center in the Inland Empire city of Adelanto. A COVID-19 outbreak at the privately run facility has already infected more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus\">120 detainees\u003c/a> and is growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am locked in a cell by myself approximately 23 hours a day,” said Mencias Soto, 37. “I am very worried that I am going to have more heart issues and I will die without them noticing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Aurora and Adelanto detention facilities are also run by The GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesman declined to comment on the court declarations by Mencias Soto or Perez Aguirre about their quarantine, citing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot comment further due to pending litigation,” said ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor in a statement. “However, lack of comment should not be construed as agreement with or stipulation to any of the litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group Freedom for Immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/covid19\">reports\u003c/a> that dozens of people detained at several ICE facilities have called the organization’s hotline saying they were afraid to disclose COVID-19 symptoms for fear of being isolated. Other callers who tested positive said they were held for 14 days in solitary confinement without appropriate medical care, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“COVID-19 has exacerbated issues that have long existed within the U.S. immigration detention system, which has had an impact on the mental health of those in custody,” said Rebekah Entralgo, a spokeswoman for the organization, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resources like phone calls, outside recreational time, and timely meals — which are difficult to come by even under normal circumstances — are severely limited during the pandemic, which adds to the isolation of immigration detention,” Entralgo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suicide in Quarantine\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The United Nations has argued that prolonged solitary confinement for more than 15 days should be banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practice should never be used on juveniles or people with mental disabilities because it can amount to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2011/10/392012-solitary-confinement-should-be-banned-most-cases-un-expert-says\">warned in 2011\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress and suffering of solitary confinement can also lead to the onset or worsening of mental illness, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strain of isolation was particularly detrimental to Choung Woong Ahn, a detainee who committed suicide at the Mesa Verde detention center in May, according to his attorney Trevor Kosmo, with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahn, a 74-year-old man from South Korea, killed himself in the shower of a medical isolation unit while in quarantine after he returned from a hospital. ICE knew Ahn had a history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/reports/ddrAHNChoungWoong.pdf\">suicide attempts\u003c/a>, Kosmo said, but failed to continuously \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2020/08/07/family-asks-newsom-probe-choung-woohn-ahn-suicide-ice-mesa-verde/5504694002/\">monitor him\u003c/a>, as required for at-risk detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that my client, Mr. Ahn, died due to ICE’s negligence,” Kosmo said. “And because they quarantined him in solitary confinement without giving him the one-on-one observation that he was required to have under their own detention standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosmo, who also represents Alton Edmondson, said ICE does not need to lock up people who are awaiting immigration court hearings, and the pandemic has highlighted long-standing problems with detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s completely inhumane to put people in a windowless room for 23 hours to quarantine them,” he said. “If they can’t properly quarantine them, they need to release everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahn’s family and Edmondson could both sue The GEO Group under a new California law signed last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3228\">AB 3228\u003c/a> makes it easier for individuals to bring legal charges in state court against private detention companies for failing to abide by the terms of their contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of AB 3228 say the new law provides a path to state-level accountability for violations of ICE’s standards at for-profit facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>ICE’s History With Solitary Confinement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Concerns about ICE’s use of solitary confinement predate the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent congressional \u003ca href=\"https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Homeland%20ICE%20facility%20staff%20report.pdf\">investigation\u003c/a> found that ICE regularly contracts with facilities that are “poorly equipped” to meet the agency’s detention guidelines, and that ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, rarely enforce corrections of identified problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report by the House Committee on Homeland Security also found that detainees are often denied adequate medical and mental health care, and that ICE facilities “improperly use segregation as retaliation,” sometimes on detainees who have participated in hunger strikes to protest detention conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, ICE appears to prioritize obtaining bed space over the wellbeing of detainees in its custody,” concluded the committee staffers who visited eight detention centers, including two in California and interviewed more than 400 immigrants held there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokeswoman defended the agency and said it will review the committee’s report. She added that ICE’s “aggressive inspections program” includes targeted site visits and independent third-party compliance reviews, and that the agency has made improvements to detention conditions based on recommendations by the DHS Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE “is fully committed to the health and safety of those in our care,” said Stacey Daniels, who directs public affairs at the agency. “However, it is clear this one-sided review of our facilities was done to tarnish our agency’s reputation, as opposed to actually reviewing the care detainees receive while in our custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE refers to the practice of isolating a detainee from the general population as “segregation,” and allows it for disciplinary or other reasons, including for a vulnerable detainee’s own protection. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Between 2013 to 2017, ICE facilities nationwide logged more than 5,300 cases of segregation that lasted two weeks or more, according to Caitlin Patler, an assistant professor of sociology at UC Davis who analyzed the incident reports. One person was isolated for more than two years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really, really punitive experience, regardless of the reason for someone’s placement into solitary confinement,” Patler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patler was troubled to find that people with mental illness were overrepresented in ICE segregation cases. And immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean — with majority Black populations — experienced a quarter of all the incidents, though they comprised only 4% of the detainee population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be some really problematic racialized practices happening within detention facilities where a situation involving a Black detained person results in solitary confinement much more frequently than we would expect based on their portion of the detained population,” said Patler, who co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zdy7f/\">study\u003c/a> on the issue soon to be published in the peer-reviewed journal Punishment and Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesman declined to comment on Patler’s findings, saying they haven’t been published yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11841227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS22944_GettyImages-450371255-qut-1-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard escorts an immigrant detainee from his ‘segregation cell’ back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Center. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently jailing about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-management\">20,000 people\u003c/a> across the country, compared to about 38,000 immigrants who were in custody in late March. About half of those detained have criminal convictions, while the rest have pending criminal charges or have only violated immigration laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Plea Deal to Detention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alton Edmondson had been jailed for 14 months in Nevada County, California, when he pled guilty to a serious felony conviction for assault with a firearm during a robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his criminal proceedings, Edmondson, who is Black, insisted that he was wrongly accused of the offense. He maintains his arrest stemmed from a racially-motivated traffic stop in a county where only about 1% of the population is Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal court had granted him bail, but he and his family could not afford to pay it, he said, and he remained behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing was racial profiling,” said Edmondson, who was visiting a friend in California when he was arrested. “I was innocent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrested Edmondson in Nov. 2018, sheriff’s deputies did not find a firearm in the vehicle he was in, and the charges were filed based on a dubious eyewitness identification, according to court documents submitted by San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. The office sued, along with the ACLU and other legal aid nonprofits, to force ICE to release vulnerable detainees from Mesa Verde during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson was told that if he lost his criminal trial, he faced up to 12 years of incarceration, but if he took the plea deal, he would be let out in four months, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the racial demographics of the county, and pervasive racial bias among the likely juror pool, his attorney advised that his chances of winning at trial were slim,” according to the request for Edmond’s release from ICE detention filed by Genna Beier, a San Francisco deputy public defender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 26, as Edmondson was released from the Nevada County Jail, ICE officials arrested him and detained him at Mesa Verde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he didn’t understand at the time that pleading guilty to the felony would lead to deportation proceedings and losing his green card, which has allowed him to lawfully work and live in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. But ICE disputes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He signed an agreement acknowledging that he understood the nature of the crimes and allegations and the consequences of his plea,” said agency officials opposing his release, adding that Edmondson had two prior misdemeanor offenses related to marijuana possession and a DUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sept. 23, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered ICE to release Edmondson, who has asthma, along with more than 140 other detainees at Mesa Verde, where COVID-19 has infected nearly 60 detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chhabria’s release orders weigh each person’s health risk in detention against the likelihood that he or she will endanger the community or will fail to show up for immigration court proceedings if released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson is quarantining at a hotel in Bakersfield until Oct. 7, following the judge’s orders. He then plans to go home to Georgia, where two of his three sons live. The youngest is just 6, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel great, I feel freedom,” he said. “I want to see my kids. Missed them a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmondson said he hopes that talking about his experience of isolation at Mesa Verde will make ICE detention more humane for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not right the way they treated me,” he said. “I think it’s very important for people to hear my story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge is ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to text every 2020 census worker by Friday to let them know the head count of every U.S. resident is continuing through the end of the month and not ending next week, as the bureau had previously announced in violation of the judge's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839647/court-orders-census-counting-to-continue-through-oct-31-appeal-expected\">court order\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new order issued late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, instructs the Census Bureau to send out a mass text message saying an Oct. 5 target data for finishing the nation's head count is not in effect and that people can still answer the questionnaire and census takers can still knock on doors through Oct. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also ordered Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham to file with the court a declaration by the start of next week confirming his agency was following a preliminary injunction she had issued last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh\"]'Defendants’ dissemination of erroneous information; lurching from one hasty, unexplained plan to the next; and unlawful sacrifices of completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census are upending the status quo, violating the Injunction Order, and undermining the credibility of the Census Bureau and the 2020 Census.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koh wrote in Thursday's decision that the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees the agency, had violated her injunction “in several ways.\" She threatened them with sanctions or contempt proceedings if they violated the injunction again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ dissemination of erroneous information; lurching from one hasty, unexplained plan to the next; and unlawful sacrifices of completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census are upending the status quo, violating the Injunction Order, and undermining the credibility of the Census Bureau and the 2020 Census,\" the judge wrote. “This must stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koh's injunction last week suspended a Sept. 30 deadline for ending the head count and also a Dec. 31 deadline for turning in numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets in a process known as apportionment. By doing this, the deadlines reverted back to a previous Census Bureau plan that had field operations ending Oct. 31 and the reporting of apportionment figures at the end of April next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By issuing the injunction, the judge sided with civil rights groups and local governments that had sued the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Commerce, arguing that minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the counting ended in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koh referred to a tweet by the Commerce Department and Census Bureau last Monday that they now were targeting Oct. 5 as the date to end the census as “a hasty and unexplained change to the Bureau’s operations that was created in 4 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision also risks further undermining trust in the Bureau and its partners, sowing more confusion, and depressing Census participation,\" Koh wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides deciding how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, the census also determines how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is distributed annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"census-2020\" label=\"More census coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court papers, attorneys for the federal government argued that the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau had been complying with the judge's injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An agency may make a multitude of plans in light of competing obligations,\" the government attorneys said. “Preventing the very formation of such plans would necessarily embroil the Court in the supervision of how the agency goes about its day-to-day activities and how it adjusts its operations from one day to the next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Koh had told attorneys for the civil rights groups and local governments that she would be open to a contempt motion against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the court has the authority to find the Trump administration in contempt, the plaintiff attorneys said in a motion that they were not seeking a contempt finding at this time. Instead, they said they wanted full compliance with the judge’s order, arguing the Trump administration had violated it “several times over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An unrushed, full and fair count is paramount to ensuring the accuracy of the 2020 Census,\" said Melissa Sherry, one of the plaintiff attorneys. “This ruling brings us one step closer to realizing that important goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840531/as-winds-pick-up-firefighters-brace-for-tough-24-hours-ahead-in-glass-fire-battle\">Glass Fire\u003c/a> tore through Sonoma and Napa counties uncontained on Tuesday, Guillermo Herrera and five co-workers hauled equipment onto trucks, preparing to pick a batch of grapes from a nearby vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the harvest season in wine country. But Herrera, who manages a crew of up to 100 field workers, said jobs like this are scarce, as this season’s wildfires have drastically cut available work in the vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since heavy smoke exposure can ruin grapes, many growers are leaving potentially smoke-tainted fruit on the vine. That means harvesters are out of work, Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m getting calls left and right, day in, day out, of folks looking to work,” said Herrera, who also runs his own wine company, Herencia del Valle. “Five or six of my clients aren’t going to pick any of their fruit this year. Zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Glass Fire is the latest in a series of blows to the area’s farmworkers and other low-wage immigrant workers, who were already struggling with income losses and health impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ezequiel Guzman, president of Latinos Unidos del Condado de Sonoma\"]‘People need to understand the hidden devastation these fires have brought on farmworkers economically. How are they going to pay rent? How are they going to feed their families?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are undocumented — including an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817261/poll-most-california-voters-support-farmworker-protections-during-the-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">56%\u003c/a> of farmworkers statewide — are not eligible for unemployment insurance, coronavirus relief or other government aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though their labor is critical to the local economy, many immigrant workers lack a safety net or savings to weather this series of crises, said Gabriel Machabanski, associate director at the Graton Day Labor Center in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the compounding impact of fires on top of a pandemic,” Machabanski said. “Day laborers, domestic workers, farmworkers have seen a significant decrease in the amount of employment opportunities they have… their livelihood is precarious from one week to the next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg\" alt=\"Workers harvest grapes at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30, 2020.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers harvest grapes at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers in particular depend on what they earn during the two-month harvest to survive through the winter, until jobs in the fields pick up again, said Ezequiel Guzman, president of the nonprofit Latinos Unidos del Condado de Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said this week about 350 families in the agricultural town of Cloverdale came to get bags of flour, rice, beans and other staples at an event put on by the Redwood Empire Food Bank, triple the number than in past weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need to understand the hidden devastation these fires have brought on farmworkers economically,” said Guzman, a longtime advocate for agricultural workers. “How are they going to pay rent? How are they going to feed their families?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who are able to land jobs rescuing grapes that have not yet been damaged by smoke or fire, put their health and safety at risk — from both smoke and COVID-19 — because they need to make a living, said Gervacio Peña Lopez, director of Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena, which supports indigenous immigrants from Mexico, many of them undocumented farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take the risk because it’s like they have no other choice,” said Peña Lopez, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg\" alt=\"Grapes wither on the vine as smoke from the Glass Fire fills the sky at a vineyard near Calistoga on Sept. 30.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grapes wither on the vine as smoke from the Glass Fire fills the sky at a vineyard near Calistoga on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday afternoon, Peña Lopez drove to KBBF, a radio station in Santa Rosa, to co-host a show with the latest fire information and emergency resources for local families who speak Triqui, Mixteco and Chatino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to inform them how to protect themselves, and that they need to make sure to wear a mask,” he added. “But sometimes, that may not be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Lopez said since the pandemic began, many farmworkers have contracted COVID-19 while commuting to work in crowded vehicles, or living in overcrowded housing, which many do because of the high cost of rent in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gervacio Peña Lopez, director of Movimiento Cultural de la Unión Indígena\"]‘They take the risk because it’s like they have no other choice.’[/pullquote]But people may be afraid of getting tested for the coronavirus, because a positive result would mean spending two weeks in quarantine and without work, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 infected many of the employees at Encanto Vineyards in St. Helena, said Enrique Lopez, owner of the winery. Then his family also became ill in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody got COVID,” he said. “My wife, my little one — she was nine months — my mother-in-law who is here visiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many low-wage workers in the hospitality and agriculture industries who have seen their income drop during the pandemic are now facing further economic losses — as well as evacuations — due to the fires, said Susana Garcia, with the social equity nonprofit On The Move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just very unfortunate to see pretty much the same families getting hit after hit after hit, and to be impacted in this way,” said Garcia, who directs \u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a program\u003c/a> that has channeled private donations to hundreds of undocumented residents in Napa since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates Peña Lopez, Guzman and Machabanski worry that a population already vulnerable to the respiratory damage of COVID-19, could face another risk from harmful smoke near fires. They all said some farmworkers have reported that their employers have not given them adequate protective equipment for outdoor work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Worker-Health-and-Safety-in-Wildfire-Regions.html/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regulations\u003c/a>, if the \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Quality Index\u003c/a> is 151 or higher, employers must provide workers laboring outdoors free respirators, such as an N95 mask, and training on how to use them properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Smith, Sonoma County’s agriculture commissioner said he was not aware of any violation of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is happening, that’s not good,” Smith said. “But to my knowledge, there is not a documented case of this happening in Sonoma County. At this point, they are allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840645\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard.jpg\" alt=\"The Glass Fire burns behind a vineyard on Highway 29 north of Calistoga on Sept. 30.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Glass-Fire-Smoke-Vineyard-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Glass Fire burns behind a vineyard on Highway 29 north of Calistoga on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is in charge of investigating complaints of violations, and individuals \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/complaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may report\u003c/a> those to the agency, which does not ask about immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Walbridge Fire last month, Smith said his office has helped hundreds of wineries, livestock operators, nurseries and other agricultural businesses to get verified as such, so they can request permission from law enforcement to enter evacuation areas to take care of essential functions such as harvesting grapes or feeding cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can’t get the work done, they can’t pay their employees, take crops to the market and their business may not survive,” he said. “Farming and agriculture doesn’t stop because there is a declared emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the Agriculture Commissioner’s office issued about 300 “access verifications” during the Walbridge Fire, and has received about 30 additional requests during the Glass Fire so far. His office has a supply of N95 masks available to distribute to workers through community based organizations and businesses, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for Immigrant Workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These organizations offer cash assistance to undocumented immigrants in wine country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://undocufund.org/\">UndocuFund for Disaster Relief in Sonoma County\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.upvalleyfamilycenters.org/\">UpValley Relief Fund (includes Napa and Lake counties)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\">Down Valley Relief Fund (Napa County)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Find a full list of organizations providing assistance in Northern California \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantfundca.org/northern-california\">here\u003c/a> via the California Immigrant Resilience Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find COVID-19-related resources from the state of California for immigrants in Spanish, Vietnamese and other languages \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/guide-immigrant-californians/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sam Harnett contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Then his family also became ill in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody got COVID,” he said. “My wife, my little one — she was nine months — my mother-in-law who is here visiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11840629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/Enrique-Lopez-Winery-COVID-Glass-Fire-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Lopez, of Servin-Lopez Vineyard Management, at Garton Vineyards in Napa on Sept. 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many low-wage workers in the hospitality and agriculture industries who have seen their income drop during the pandemic are now facing further economic losses — as well as evacuations — due to the fires, said Susana Garcia, with the social equity nonprofit On The Move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just very unfortunate to see pretty much the same families getting hit after hit after hit, and to be impacted in this way,” said Garcia, who directs \u003ca href=\"https://www.onthemovebayarea.org/ncrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a program\u003c/a> that has channeled private donations to hundreds of undocumented residents in Napa since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates Peña Lopez, Guzman and Machabanski worry that a population already vulnerable to the respiratory damage of COVID-19, could face another risk from harmful smoke near fires. They all said some farmworkers have reported that their employers have not given them adequate protective equipment for outdoor work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/Worker-Health-and-Safety-in-Wildfire-Regions.html/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regulations\u003c/a>, if the \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Quality Index\u003c/a> is 151 or higher, employers must provide workers laboring outdoors free respirators, such as an N95 mask, and training on how to use them properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Smith, Sonoma County’s agriculture commissioner said he was not aware of any violation of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is happening, that’s not good,” Smith said. “But to my knowledge, there is not a documented case of this happening in Sonoma County. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839182/covid-19-hace-mas-dificil-encontrar-y-reunir-a-familias-migrantes-separadas\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dora Melara, 42, has been searching for people she doesn’t know if she’ll find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She walks through cities and towns in Honduras, sometimes with only a name and a last-known location, searching for parents whose children were taken from them by authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border — and who were returned to their homeland without their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melara is an attorney working with Justice in Motion — a U.S.-based migrant rights organization — to locate deported parents. With little information to go on, the search is tough. And if she finds the families, sometimes it’s difficult to get them to trust her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dora Melara, migrant rights attorney']'They think it is impossible to find people who are interested in their story.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They think it is impossible to find people who are interested in their story,” she said through a translator. “But our work is to explain to them, and make them understand, that we are here to help them. We are here to help them be in communication with their family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of Mexican and Central American families remain separated as a result of a Trump administration policy of taking migrant children from their parents that began in the spring of 2017. Advocates say most of these parents came to the U.S. seeking asylum but were denied protection and deprived of their children. Melara is part of an effort that spans the U.S., Mexico and Central America, to locate and reunite these families, many of whom have lost hope of seeing each other again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the spread of the pandemic, however, the effort was put on hold for months due to travel restrictions in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, while Justice in Motion has restarted some searches on a case-by-case basis, advocates say this already challenging process has become even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Ongoing Search\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In June 2018, when the Trump administration's \"zero tolerance\" policy came to light, a federal judge in San Diego ordered a halt to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection practice of separating kids from parents at the border and sending them to shelters for \"unaccompanied children\" or to foster families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the federal government to report how many children had been separated beginning in \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/download\">April 2018\u003c/a>, as part of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of the parents. After a month-long tally, the government counted 2,654 children. And, after further revisions in early 2019, that number increased to 2,814.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11797878\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/GettyImages-973077552-1020x699.jpg\" label=\"More on Family Separations\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in January 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a report charging that the separations had begun earlier, and the government had not kept good track of where the children and parents ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw then ordered the government officials to research further, and in October 2019, they reported that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">additional 1,556 children had been separated\u003c/a> between July 1, 2017 — when separations reportedly began in El Paso — and June 25, 2018, the day before the judge’s original injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration kept few records of where these families went and how to get ahold of them. And advocates say the last known contact information for many is outdated or inaccurate. Nearly all of the 2,814 children from the original 2018 tally have been reunited with their parents. But as for the search for the other 1,556 children, advocates had reached the parents of 438 kids by phone or mail as of mid-August, and more than 100 others were located through outreach in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 20, a joint status report filed in court said the steering committee still cannot find the separated parents of 545 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/leegelernt/status/1318712777272418304?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the administration started separating families at the southern U.S. border ... there was no plan to track the families or even reunite them, even though their own experts warned these separations were causing harm,\" said Nan Schivone, the legal director for Justice in Motion. \"And here we are three years later, still dealing with the fallout.\"[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Nan Schivone, legal director for Justice in Motion']'When the administration started separating families at the southern U.S. border ... there was no plan to track the families or even reunite them, even though their own experts warned these separations were causing harm.'[/pullquote]The court authorized a committee of lawyers and advocates, overseen by plaintiffs’ attorneys, to track down current addresses and phone numbers for the parents in order to arrange to reunite them with their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When all other efforts fail, it's up to a network of “defenders” — including local human rights lawyers and the staff of nonprofit organizations coordinated by Justice in Motion — to physically search on the ground in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defenders, including Dora Melara, walk through towns seeking out families. They talk to neighbors and relatives, trying to track down a solid lead on where a person, or family, went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we're talking about are hundreds of children (whose) families still haven't been found,” said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, who is lead counsel representing separated parents in the ongoing lawsuit against the Trump administration. “We don't know whether they are reunited. We don't know their situation. We're now in 2020 and this is still going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Pandemic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Before the coronavirus pandemic began, Justice in Motion's defenders were making slow but steady progress in the search. They’d been able to locate the parents of 135 children. 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There was a strict curfew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While defenders were able to connect with some people online, Melara said it’s much harder to build trust with traumatized parents digitally than it is in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"family-separation\" label=\"more coverage\"]“We do not use the online research method as much because people do not trust us when we first meet,” she said. “They can't believe there are organizations like ours. So, in person is better, because we introduce ourselves and they can see us eye to eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Honduras lifted some travel restrictions, Schivone said, and searches resumed. But the new rules have also created new challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people in Honduras can go out for shopping and essential activities based on \u003ca href=\"https://hn.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/\">how the last digit of their personal ID number\u003c/a> corresponds to a government chart. So, when Melara’s number comes up, she can travel to where the families might be. But the window is short — just 14 hours. And she can’t stay anywhere overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are limited by the time we have to do our searches, we can't stay late, we cannot stay in a hotel. Because the next day, your ID is not valid to be out anymore,” she explained. “It has been very limiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in these searches, time is everything, because every day that parents and children are separated from each other contributes to immense, and potentially irreparable harm, mental health experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Every Minute Counts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics \u003ca href=\"https://www.aappublications.org/news/2019/01/18/immigration011819\">reported in 2019 that family separation can cause\u003c/a> toxic stress in children and can damage their developing brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every minute that they are not with their parents, thinking about their parents and dealing with that anxiety compounds the trauma that those children are suffering,\" said the ACLU's Gelernt. \"For all those reasons, this is a very unfortunate situation. We obviously should never have been in this situation. Now we are, and COVID is making things worse for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11831995\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1022px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11831995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-05-at-1.57.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1022\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-05-at-1.57.56-PM.png 1022w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-05-at-1.57.56-PM-800x1036.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-05-at-1.57.56-PM-1020x1321.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-05-at-1.57.56-PM-160x207.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phone numbers have been set up for separated parents, or their relatives, to be connected to lawyers and advocates. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of KIND)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PHR-Report-2020-Family-Separation-Full-Report.pdf\">published a study\u003c/a> on parents who’d been separated from their children by the Trump administration. They found that parents often experienced “pervasive symptoms and behaviors consistent with trauma,” and that most people in their study met the conditions for “at least one mental health condition,” such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to speed up the process of reuniting families, the plaintiffs’ committee has set up toll-free numbers for separated parents or their relatives to be connected with lawyers and advocates. The phone numbers work in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to reunification, some families may also be eligible to apply for asylum in another country, or reapply in the U.S., according to officials with the nonprofit Kids in Need of Defense, which is part of the search effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s hard for some parents, who have lived for months or years without their children, to believe there could be any resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As more time goes on, parents ... have to suspend belief and really have a lot of faith that our defender is actually connected to a process in the U.S. that might provide them some relief,\" Schivone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘It Is Our Job’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The last parent that Melara was able to find told her he hadn’t talked to his daughter in six months. He was excited and happy to finally be able to see her over video chat, a call that Melara helped facilitate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His first reaction was to say ‘Oh you've grown!’ ” she remembered. “It was very touching.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dora Melara']'(These) parents and children are going to live with that trauma all of their lives.'[/pullquote]Another parent she located said he was just happy that someone was interested in what he’d been through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many times, all they want is to be heard,” Melara said, “and they felt grateful that there are people who are willing to listen and to learn what they lived through when they had lost all hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the difficulties of the search, Melara said she feels a responsibility to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our job to find a communication channel from parents to their children and for them to have the opportunity to reunite one day,” she said. “(These) parents and children are going to live with that trauma all of their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Before it went out of business last year, Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet in Daly City was a popular spot for families celebrating birthdays and graduations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ping Tam, 29, started working at the Daly City restaurant in 2012, prepping food in the kitchen for the sushi bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his very first paycheck, Tam said, he noticed that his wages only covered eight-hour shifts. But Tam was clocking 10-hour workdays, six days a week, he said. And the \u003ca href=\"http://wagetheftisacrime.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wage theft\u003c/a> went on for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was angry, but also felt powerless,” said Tam, an immigrant from Hong Kong, speaking in Cantonese. “Many of us complained to management but nothing would change. They just ignored us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11838154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"Ping Tam, 29, testified against his former employers at a hearing at the Labor Commissioner's Office.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44905_IMG_4096-scaled-e1600230297200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ping Tam, 29, testified against his former employers at a hearing at the California Labor Commissioner's Office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Chinese Progressive Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a four-year legal battle, Tam and more than a hundred sushi chefs, servers, dishwashers and other restaurant staff won a multi-million dollar settlement against Kome’s owners. It was announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2020/2020-68.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last month\u003c/a> by the California Labor Commissioner's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, a series of well-known restaurants in the Bay Area, including \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2020/06/04/current-and-former-burma-superstar-employees-win-1-3m-class-action-suit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burma Superstar\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/La-Taqueria-workers-risky-complaints-over-13040018.php?utm_campaign=twitter-premium&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Taqueria\u003c/a>, have settled or received fines for allegedly stealing wages from their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates and state officials in charge of upholding labor laws worry that vulnerable workers today will be less likely to report mistreatment, because the pandemic has resulted in widespread job insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Commissioner's Office opened an investigation and payroll audit at Kome in 2016, after some employees \u003ca href=\"http://wagetheftisacrime.com/Report-Laborlaw-Violation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complained\u003c/a> that the restaurant’s owners were using workers’ tips to pay minimum wage salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building a case requires those impacted to cooperate with the labor agency and testify during hearings, said Winnie Kao, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. 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The employers did not admit to any wrongdoing, however, said Cindy Elias, an attorney with the Bureau of Field Enforcement at the Labor Commissioner’s Office, who worked on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor agency initially issued wage assessments and civil penalties totaling $5.16 million in the summer of 2018, but officials reduced the amount after the employers presented evidence that they had already paid employees some of that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each worker will get on average $14,200. A first check was sent out in August, and a second payment will go out by the end of the year, said Elias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a huge victory for the unheard voices, the people that are most vulnerable,” she said. “You had workers who were brave enough to come forward and file a complaint. ... 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Prior to Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the city of Berkeley collected more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/02/04/an-aviator-an-architect-but-not-avocado-toast-on-shortlist-for-new-berkeley-street-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,000 name proposals\u003c/a> and narrowed down the list to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.saada.org/project/timeline/kala-bagai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kala Bagai\u003c/a> was born in 1892 in Amritsar, now India, and moved to the Bay Area with her husband, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas\">Vaishno Das Bagai\u003c/a>, and their three children in 1915. When they tried to move into a Berkeley home they purchased, racist neighbors blocked them from entering. Bagai was one of the first South Asian women on the West Coast and an early immigrant activist and community builder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CFLyqujh5Y3/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigners remember Kala Bagai, nicknamed Mother India, for her “resilience, leadership, and community activism,” they said in a statement. Activists say Kala Bagai Way brings to light a larger story of South Asians in Berkeley, going back \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleysouthasian.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 100 years\u003c/a>. This will be the first Berkeley street named after an Asian American, and one of the first named after a woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/anirvan/status/1196815730966007808\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bagai’s granddaughter also wrote an opinion piece in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/03/12/opinion-berkeley-might-name-a-street-after-kala-bagai-this-is-her-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> in March saying, “My grandmother tried to make Berkeley her home a century ago, only to be driven out of the city because of her race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear if this is the first street in the U.S. named after a South Asian activist, but Barnali Ghosh, who has been actively \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/11/19/opinion-why-berkeleys-newest-street-name-should-honor-an-asian-american\">campaigning\u003c/a> for Kala Bagai’s name for the street renaming project said it’s unique to have a street named after her because Bagai is a South Asian American historical figure. 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Her voice can be heard in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.saada.org/item/20130716-2997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oral history interview from 1982\u003c/a>. She died in 1983.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The fear of being separated from my family is so real, it’s so painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 270,000 American children have parents with TPS, which allows people to legally live and work in the U.S. but does not offer a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest that immigration officials could rescind work permits for nationals of El Salvador is Nov. 5, 2021, said ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. 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They also claimed the decisions to end the relief were motivated by Trump’s racism against non-white immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Circuit Judges Consuelo Callahan and Ryan Nelson disagreed with those arguments. They noted that past administrations designated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200401_RS20844_91460572a0f416f013d508c6afb7a68f60a29b80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subsequently ended\u003c/a> the relief for nationals of 12 countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait and Rwanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wilna Destin, TPS holder originally from Haiti\"]'We are not going to stop, we are going to keep fighting until we get what we deserve for our families, for our children.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan, an appointee of President George W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and Nelson, an appointee of President Trump, found the court didn’t have the authority to review the Department of Homeland Security conclusions on TPS, and that the plaintiffs lacked evidence linking Trump’s alleged discriminatory intent to the specific terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the record contains substantial evidence that White House officials sought to influence the Secretaries’ TPS decisions, and that the Secretaries sought and acted to conform their TPS decisions to the President’s immigration policy, we find these facts neither unusual nor improper,” wrote Callahan in the majority’s opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 40-page dissent, Judge Morgan Christen wrote that the court could decide on the issue and that plaintiffs had shown that DHS officials interpreted the TPS statute in a way that starkly differed from previous administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consequences of the majority’s decision are monumental, but the majority’s reasoning is deeply flawed,” wrote Christen, an Obama appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a call with reporters, the ACLU’s Arulanantham, the top counsel for TPS holders in the case, said they would seek a review from a larger panel at the 9th Circuit and could also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with DHS said the agency is “very pleased” with the court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The circumstances that led to the temporary designation in each of the countries in question ... fundamentally changed, and DHS withdrew their TPS designations,” said the spokesperson. “These changes have been a landmark of DHS during the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeals court decision officially covers TPS holders from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. But immigrants from Honduras and Nepal, who sued separately, are also included, after a legal agreement with government officials, said Arulanantham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838037\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos walks through Marina Park in Richmond with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Another Disaster’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilna Destin, a plaintiff from Haiti who lives in Florida, said the court’s order came as a shock. She and her husband recently recovered from COVID-19, and now they are getting ready for several approaching hurricanes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Victor Moreno strapped on his backpack and walked half a mile from his apartment to a food pantry in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekly trek to pick up fresh produce and prepared meals has become part of Moreno’s routine in recent months. The 55-year-old, who proudly describes himself as a hardworking man, said he hasn’t been able to find a steady job since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning, it wasn’t so easy for me to stand in line to get food because I was able to provide for myself in the past,” said Moreno, who shares a studio apartment with a roommate. “But now, that’s the only way that we can stretch the money, pay the rent and eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno used to bake pastries and prepare organic salads at a restaurant frequented by tech employees working in offices in downtown San Francisco. But after shelter-in-place orders were issued, most of those office workers stayed home and the restaurant abruptly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said his last paycheck went to cover rent. He had hardly any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up with probably less than $20 in my pocket,” said Moreno, an immigrant from Mexico who has worked in the U.S. for nearly two decades. “I started thinking, how am I going to survive next month?” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Victor Moreno\"]‘You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction … but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. [aside tag=\"restaurant, jobs\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that if I gave him the money in his hand, he wouldn’t take it. So my mom and I came up with the idea of hiding it in the groceries,” Cortez said. “If we can come together as a community and help one another, then I think we can make things at least a little better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno said Cortez has repeated the generous gesture at least four more times in the past months. His eyes teared up as he spoke about his friend’s kindness, which he compared to a flickering light in the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My faith in humanity was renewed,” said Moreno, his voice trembling. “I’ve never had anybody bring me food to my house.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered greatly during the pandemic. Between February and July, the state lost nearly 350,000 food service jobs, about a quarter of the positions in the industry, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-by-industry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimates\u003c/a> by the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and industry insiders believe job losses may be much higher, in part because many workers are undocumented and are paid off the books. The California Restaurant Association, for instance, estimates that up to 1 million workers have been furloughed or laid off since March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some California counties with lower risk for COVID-19, restaurants may now reopen for limited indoor dining, after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/california-starts-reopening-restaurant-dining-rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement\u003c/a> by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month. As of Tuesday, restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties could \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/#reopening-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open indoors\u003c/a> for up to 25% of their capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But restaurants in the rest of the Bay Area and most of the state must continue surviving on takeout, delivery and outdoor dining for those establishments that can manage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When scarce restaurant jobs are posted, competition can be fierce. One manager in San Francisco reported that more than 100 applicants replied within hours for a newly advertised server position, said Amy Cleary, a spokeswoman with the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Moreno said he has applied for more than 10 openings in restaurant kitchens and delis since being laid off. Some employers told him dozens of people applied for the same positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have the hope that everything is going to be OK. But now, after seven months, we are running out of money, we are running out of food, we are running out of patience,” Moreno said. “It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11837234 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44786_IMG_2629-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Pablo Perez helps Victor Moreno check in at a food pantry that Street Level Health Project opened up during the pandemic in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Moreno, a community organizer for Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area (who’s no relation to Victor Moreno), said unemployment remains severe since restaurants that have reopened or stayed open are not operating at full capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tons of people who were laid off don’t have a big pool of employment to tap into,” she said. “We’ve had some of our workers apply to other industries like construction … but a lot of them have been unemployed for months on end, with not a lot of choices for jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an asylee who has received work authorization, Victor Moreno is eligible for unemployment insurance. But he has not applied because he fears the Trump administration’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/public-charge-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public charge\u003c/a>” rule could hurt his ability to become a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule, which was finalized earlier this year, penalizes green card applicants if they use certain public benefits. But it wouldn’t affect Moreno as asylees are exempt and unemployment insurance is \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationimpact.com/2020/04/06/unemployment-for-immigrants-public-charge/#.X1lPiWdKjR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not considered\u003c/a>, because workers pay into it from their paychecks. The rule is currently being challenged in the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To earn his share of the $1,000 rent he splits with his roommate, Moreno said he has found occasional odd jobs. He even spent a couple of days traveling 60 miles by bus each way to Napa to fertilize and irrigate vineyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without a stable job, he worries constantly about paying the rent, especially as his roommate is moving away soon, he said. Moreno is one of about a third of California renters — nearly 4 million adults — who report low or no confidence they will make next month’s rent, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2020/demo/hhp/hhp12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">household survey\u003c/a> on the pandemic’s impact by the U.S. Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44787_IMG_2632-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman looks through a box of fresh produce and groceries at a food pantry that opened up during the pandemic in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the midst of this crisis, Moreno has found unexpected support from people in his neighborhood, a place where many struggle financially and which has one of the highest \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 case rates\u003c/a> in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Moreno is well known at local nonprofits for donating his time and effort over the years, said Gabriela Galicia, executive director at Street Level Health Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he has provided a lot to the community,” said Galicia, who first met Moreno when he volunteered his restaurant skills to cook nutritious lunches for day laborers and others who sought services from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always been socially justice oriented. And I feel like that also just comes from his own experiences as an immigrant,” Galicia added. “Victor knows how to talk to community members in a way where they feel heard and understood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street Level Health Project now offers the weekly food pantry that Moreno has relied on since April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837236\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS44788_IMG_2640-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Moreno holds up prepared meals he received at a food pantry. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moreno has also received help from a friend he met while volunteering at Peralta Hacienda, a nearby historical park and museum. He used to prepare meals for fundraisers and community events at Peralta, said Shadé Cortez, a staffer there at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We became really good friends,” said Cortez, 27, who now does administrative work for an artisanal bread shop in Oakland. “He’s a person that I really trust and I’m really thankful for his friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they heard Moreno was struggling financially, Cortez and her mother decided to drop several bags of groceries by his door. The pair also tucked $100 in a carton of eggs, so Moreno would find the money only after they had left. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Aleyda Rebelo hasn’t slept well since the pandemic began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many nights, she tosses and turns in bed, anxious about how she’ll pay the $1,200 monthly rent on the house she shares with her family in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so worried because my family depends on me. If I don’t make money, it’s very difficult,” said Rebelo, 35, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four became the main breadwinner in her household about five years ago, she said, after her husband was disabled at his last job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo cleans homes in San Francisco and the Oakland hills but, since March, she has lost several clients and more than half of her earnings, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo is one of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/covid-19-and-vulnerable-renters-california\">renters who saw their incomes drop\u003c/a> during the pandemic, as shelter-in-place and social distancing measures became the norm. The economic slowdown has compounded the stress on families for whom the regional housing market was already unaffordable — and the strain is felt especially in lower-income areas like Fruitvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the health of people in the neighborhood has been battered by the coronavirus. A cluster of three ZIP codes there, including 94601 — where Rebelo lives — has the highest case rates of COVID-19 in Alameda County, according to its\u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?\"> public health department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44635_013_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleyda Rebelo at her home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Aleyda Rebelo\"]‘I’m so worried because my family depends on me.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebelo said her 2-year-old niece, whose family lives in the neighborhood, tested positive for COVID-19 this month. And Rebelo worries about bringing the virus home to her husband, who she said suffered lung damage by inhaling chemicals used to treat wood floors at his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my husband gets the virus he could die, because he already has a more delicate health condition,” said Rebelo, an immigrant from El Salvador. “So, it’s a huge stress having to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Rebelo, most of the residents in ZIP code 94601 work in jobs that can’t be done from home, so they are at higher risk for contracting the virus. And wages for Rebelo and her neighbors tend to be low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consequence, more than 28% of people in the ZIP code live in poverty — twice the state average, \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/86000US94601-94601/\">according to census figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We’ve Just Seen the Need Intensify’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, many in Fruitvale and adjacent parts of East Oakland were already spending a big share of their paychecks on rent and had no financial cushion to cope with lost income, said Carolina Reid, an assistant professor in city and regional planning at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households in terms of concerns over their health … concerns over paying rent,” said Reid, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu\">Terner Center for Housing Innovation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44627_005_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael, 3, Jessalyn, 2, and Genesis 7, play outside of the home of Aleyda Rebelo in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, local and state eviction moratoriums have been a lifeline for renters like Rebelo. But once those policies end, tenants may still have to pay landlords the full amount of their back rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reid and others worry that could lead to an unprecedented wave of evictions, especially hitting low-income renters of color. As many as 5.4 million people in California are at risk of eviction, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-covid-19-eviction-crisis-an-estimated-30-40-million-people-in-america-are-at-risk/\">estimates by the Aspen Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Carolina Reid, UC Berkeley.\"]‘It’s hard to come up with the words that are sufficient to describe what a crisis this must be for some households.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to increase homelessness and it’s also going to have an impact on our ability to have economic recovery,” Reid said. “We are in for a prolonged recession, if not worse, if we can’t get people back on their feet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid massive evictions, Reid said, the federal government must continue to provide cash assistance to people who’ve been financially hurt by the pandemic, so they can pay for rent, groceries and other basic needs — and help keep the larger economy afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants\">announced a plan for a new eviction moratorium\u003c/a> that could protect millions of renters in the state, if the Legislature approves it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11812172\" label=\"Pandemic finance resources\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the bill, Assembly Bill 3088, does not go as far as tenants’ groups had hoped, it would prevent landlords from evicting tenants for missing rent between March 1 and Aug. 31. Unpaid rent from that period would be converted to civil debt, meaning landlords could take tenants to small claims court to try to recover the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For rents missed between Sept. 1 and Jan. 31, tenants would have to pay at least 25% of what they owe or face eviction. The remaining amount would be converted to civil debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44624_002_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher, 12, and Raphael, 3, the children of Aleyda Rebelo, play basketball outside of their home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Oakland, a program called \u003ca href=\"https://www.keepoaklandhoused.org\">Keep Oakland Housed\u003c/a> has been channeling private donations to provide emergency assistance to people in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has been around for two years, but since the pandemic started it has received hundreds more calls for help, said Jonathan Russell, who directs housing strategy for Bay Area Community Services, one the nonprofits that run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve just seen the need intensify,” Russell said. “What was already an extremely difficult and expensive market … we’ve just seen that exacerbated and worsened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“What Am I Going to Do?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Keep Oakland Housed program helped Aleyda Rebelo pay a PG&E bill, car repairs and more than $4,000 in rent payments on her family’s Fruitvale home that she had missed from May to August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is, it doesn’t fix September,” Russell said of the aid Rebelo received. “But it puts September in a context where the burden of rent — that would otherwise compound in the future — is gone. And the car is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835804\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44636_014_KQED_Oakland_AleydaRebelo_08262020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aleyda Rebelo and her son Raphael Roque, 3, at their home in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rebelo said the financial help was a huge relief that gave her and her family an emotional and financial break during the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many others she knows who have lost jobs, like her sister, haven’t been able to find help, she said. And Rebelo is still anxious, because she doesn’t know when she’ll be able to work full time again to cover her rent and bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still don’t have all my work, the way I had it before the pandemic,” she said. “And it’s like, what am I going to do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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