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Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris sent a letter Wednesday asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security inspector general to look into “alarming reports of conduct by staff” during a recent incident at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation comes amid mounting calls by public officials and advocates to release people from federal immigration detention facilities during the coronavirus pandemic to stem further spread of the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen detainees at the Otay Mesa facility have already tested positive for COVID-19, along with 14 staff members from both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison operator CoreCivic — far more cases than at any other ICE facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Letter from Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and Rep. 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They’re spraying pepper spray into the cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, she says, “They’re taking people out of the cells in handcuffs,” and then begins to shriek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic, the private prison operator that runs Otay Mesa under contract with ICE, denied that staff used force, and said in a statement, “regarding the pepper spray claim, those allegations are patently false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temporary removal of three detainees from one of the pods was in direct response to their being disruptive during the issuance of the face masks,” wrote Amanda Gilchrist, CoreCivic’s public affairs director. “At no time was any force used to remove these individuals, and they were returned to the pod a short while later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilchrist added that no signed waiver will be required to receive a mask, and that all detainees have been issued face masks. In her statement, she also said that CoreCivic is working with ICE medical staff to screen employees, disinfect surfaces, encourage social distancing and hand-washing and quarantine sick detainees and people they’ve had contact with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the company’s quarantine approach has raised concerns for another immigrant advocate. Attorney Dulce Garcia, executive director of the group Border Angels, said she’s been trying to post a bond for an asylum-seeker who has been approved for release but said officials told her he had to stay in his quarantined unit for 14 days, even though he’s not sick and hasn’t been tested for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one can get out of the cohort,” said Garcia. “Today we received notice that they moved someone who tested positive and had a fever last week into the cohort. Every time they put a new person in, the clock starts again. How will they ever get out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said her client has family in the U.S. with a home where he would be able to isolate himself upon his release. For now, she said, he is stuck in a unit with about 100 men sleeping in eight-person bunk rooms, eating together and sharing bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s afraid he’s going to die there,” said Garcia. “He’s desperate. He doesn’t know how to distance himself and he’s afraid everyone is going to give it to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic confirmed that housing pods at Otay Mesa with positive cases are under quarantine, and said “high-medical-risk detainees” are being separated. Gilchrist, the company spokeswoman, referred KQED to ICE for further comment, but they agency did not respond by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has reduced the number of people in custody nationally, from more than 38,000 three weeks ago to a total of just over 32,000 as of Saturday. 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Courts have made similar rulings in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and other cases are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some elected officials — including Harris and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra — are \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/4.13.20%20-%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20Acting%20Secretary.pdf\">asking ICE\u003c/a> to go further and release detainees who pose no threat to public safety. And this week, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MDM20356.pdf\">introduced a bill \u003c/a>to move most inmates out of ICE detention and suspend most immigration enforcement during the current pandemic and future public health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in ICE custody are not serving criminal sentences; they are being held in administrative detention while awaiting hearings in immigration court. The detained population has swelled under President Trump, reaching more than 52,000 last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile lawyers for immigrants at Otay Mesa and other detention centers, including the large Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield, say their clients have launched hunger strikes to push for release or at least better protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recording made Saturday and obtained by KQED, Pablo Ramirez, a detained man at Mesa Verde, said he and others had started a hunger strike the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s virus in here. We have a feeling it might get in here,” said Ramirez. “They’re not treating us with the medical care that we need. They don’t test us for anything. 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The vast majority of the organization’s clients are charged with non-violent offenses, and more than half face prosecution for immigration offenses such as illegal entry or illegal re-entry to the U.S., lawyers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyers with the Federal Defenders of San Diego have stopped visiting clients in jail, and are meeting with them by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, attorneys have been gathering information from clients about coronavirus conditions in San Diego’s three federal jails: the Metropolitan Correctional Center, run by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons; the Western Region Detention Facility, run by the private company GEO Group; and the Otay Mesa Detention Center, run by another private company CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far 45 inmates have responded to the questionnaire, and most have voiced fear of the disease and offered evidence that the jails are under pressure from the pandemic, said Joshua Jones, senior litigator at Federal Defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the concerns Jones documented:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sleeping arrangements make social distancing impossible, including in dorm-style units at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where bunks are spaced “an arm’s distance” apart and people report being “packed like sardines;”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At meals and in TV rooms at the MCC and GEO Group facilities, people sit side by side, with up to eight people at a table;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To reach the dining hall at the Core Civic facility, 20-25 people are squeezed into a locked sally port, where they stand shoulder to shoulder;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Insufficient soap is provided at all three jails, showers and bathrooms are shared by dozens of people and not cleaned between uses;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The water was off for three days at the GEO Group facility recently;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inmates at MCC report sick detainees coughing for days, with some spitting blood into open trash cans, and one man who had to be carried to the bathroom by fellow detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Guards at the GEO Group facility continue to perform physical searches and pat-downs of inmates;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At least one guard at the Core Civic facility was diagnosed with COVID-19 and several inmates showed symptoms of the disease;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And some inmates do not want to report their symptoms for fear of being isolated in solitary confinement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to prevent the fact that guards are coming in and out,” of the jails, said Jones. “Any introduction of COVID is going to spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the findings of the questionnaire, Ryan Gustin, public affairs manager for CoreCivic, said that the company had learned on April 2 that a second employee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center had tested positive for COVID-19. Gustin said that the worker’s last shift was on March 20 and the person was currently isolated at home under medical supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Notification was made to other employees or contractors who may have been in contact with the individual who tested positive,” said Gustin in a statement. “Any employees who are known to have had direct contact with this individual will be directed to self-quarantine at home for 14 days, as recommended by the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin also pointed KQED to a CoreCivic \u003ca href=\"https://www.corecivic.com/en/corecivic-statement-on-covid-19-prevention\">statement\u003c/a> about COVID-19 prevention, which says the company began preparing in January. 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"content": "\u003cp>For more than three years, Patricia cleaned homes in the Bay Area for a living. But as the coronavirus pandemic ramped up and shocked the California economy, she — like many others in the state — lost her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the undocumented immigrant from Honduras spends her days confined to the room she rents out of a house in Richmond. As her savings have run out, she worries for her survival and that of five relatives in Honduras who depend on the income she can no longer send, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that this situation could last a lot longer. If I don’t have work, I don’t know how I’ll be able to eat and pay bills,” said Patricia in Spanish. (She requested KQED not use her real name because of her immigration status and to call her Patricia instead.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $2 trillion \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-inside-the-senate-s-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package\">federal aid package\u003c/a> signed by President Trump last Friday will expand unemployment insurance and send cash to Americans hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn. But immigrants who lack work permits won’t benefit from those provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though many undocumented workers collectively pay billions of dollars in taxes, they are excluded from unemployment insurance benefits — which require applicants to show federal work authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status get a valid Social Security number and \u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241531211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may be eligible\u003c/a> for unemployment aid and a check for as much as $1,200 per adult in the COVID-19 stimulus package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State programs such as paid family leave and disability insurance are available to workers regardless of their immigration status. But those benefits don’t help the vast majority of undocumented workers who lost all income, said labor experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Patricia, undocumented immigrant from Honduras\"]'I feel like I’ve been forgotten.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’ve been forgotten,” said Patricia, 29. “I don’t have the same options for help that legal residents can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the coronavirus crisis paralyzes parts of California’s economy and results in massive layoffs, workers who lack legal immigration status are particularly vulnerable, said Derek Schoonmaker, an attorney who directs the workers’ rights practice at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s nearly 2 million undocumented workers labor in industries pummeled by the COVID-19 crisis, such as restaurants, hotels and the garment industry, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Undocumented workers are getting hit the hardest,” Schoonmaker said. “Many of those workers now without work are undocumented folks who have nowhere to turn for support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are desperate for income will venture out for work, said Schoonmaker, even if it means disregarding California’s stay-at-home order that public health officials say we need to control the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to enable people to stay at home, we need to make sure that everybody can meet their basic needs while they are at home,” Schoonmaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11809683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11809683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42439_004_KQED_Richmond_UndocumentedWorkers_03302020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42439_004_KQED_Richmond_UndocumentedWorkers_03302020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42439_004_KQED_Richmond_UndocumentedWorkers_03302020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42439_004_KQED_Richmond_UndocumentedWorkers_03302020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42439_004_KQED_Richmond_UndocumentedWorkers_03302020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia is one of nearly 2 million undocumented workers in California. These workers are particularly vulnerable as California's economy is hit by the coronavirus crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, more than 120 organizations called on Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative leaders to designate emergency funding to support undocumented residents and others who are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request came in a \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/covid19-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> urging the state government to strengthen job protections so that employees who take time off to care for their health or a relative are not fired, a concern that — while highlighted by the current pandemic — low-wage workers have struggled with for years, said advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office declined to comment on the request. But state officials are considering alternatives to help residents left out of unemployment insurance, said Crystal Page, a spokeswoman with the state's Labor and Workforce Development Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are coming together across agencies and industries to try to address the needs of those who may not qualify for other traditional programs, and meet this moment together,” said Page in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, cities such as \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/give-city-respond-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandfund.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/mayor-and-city-council/mayor-s-office/silicon-valley-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose\u003c/a> are raising funds for nonprofits to give cash assistance and other services to impacted residents, regardless of immigration status (\u003ca href=\"#resources\">see resources below\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Give2SF COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, with more than $5 million in donations, will prioritize providing financial assistance for vulnerable residents and workers to pay for groceries, rent and other basic needs, said Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to supporting all San Franciscans during this incredibly challenging time, including those who are most vulnerable,\" said Breed in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, where Patricia lives, the Board of Supervisors will consider this week whether to advance millions of dollars to groups that serve undocumented and other residents, said county Supervisor John Gioia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are trying generally to help those nonprofits to the extent we can continue to provide those really vital services,” Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledged a lot more resources will be needed to help people whose livelihoods have been wiped out by the health crisis and measures in place to try to halt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to be dealing with the negative impacts of this pandemic long after the pandemic ends,” Gioia said. “And there's going to be a need for a major public investment to make families whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, undocumented residents contribute $3 billion annually in state and local taxes, \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-tax-contributions-in-california-county-by-county-analysis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> the nonprofit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number, including undocumented ones, can use an \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/facts-about-individual-tax-identification-number-itin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Individual Tax Identification Number\u003c/a> to pay taxes. The federal government collected $13.7 billion from taxpayers using an ITIN in 2015, according to the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia said she hopes some of the money she’s contributed in taxes using an ITIN can help support her during this crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be good if the state supported us, if they remembered us,” Patricia said. “We (undocumented) are very vulnerable.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cash assistance for undocumented workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You can find a list of relief funds offering financial assistance (in English and Spanish) \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/blog/relief-funds/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal de la Raza is planning on offering $500 in relief grants to impacted workers who live or work in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/our-fund/\">Apply here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission Asset Fund in San Francisco will offer $500 grants or zero-interest loans to impacted immigrant families, students and low-wage workers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionassetfund.org\">Applications\u003c/a> are scheduled to open on April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley Strong Fund offers cash assistance to residents of Santa Clara County. While $11 million in contributions have currently run out, those interested can \u003ca href=\"https://sacredheartcs.org/covid19/\">add their name\u003c/a> to a list in case more funds become available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For help referrals and other resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city of San Francisco encourages all workers and business owners impacted by the COVID-19 crisis to contact the Office of Economic and Workforce Development for assistance at 415-701-4817, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:workforce.connection@sfgov.org\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workforce.connection@sfgov.org\u003c/a> or call the city’s 311 number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Oakland and Contra Costa County recommend workers call 211, a free statewide number providing access to local community resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find more information on the state’s paid family leave and disability insurance \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ca.gov/coronavirus2019/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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ORR is prioritizing local placements for all new referrals from [the U.S. Department of Homeland Security] to limit air travel when possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Gee noted, at least one child in ICE custody is under quarantine and awaiting results of a COVID-19 test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR currently has about 3,200 children in 107 shelters and other facilities around the country, a spokesperson said Monday. ICE reported 1,244 parents and children in its family detention facilities as of Monday, but would not say how many are children. In February 2020, ICE had 3,359 children in detention, according to Schey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee noted that even before the coronavirus crisis, both agencies had spotty track records for promptly releasing children to live with family or sponsors while their immigration cases proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee cited an analysis from late December that found that almost 12% of children in ORR’s care had been in custody for six months to a year. And she pointed to a report from legal advocates that, as of last week, in the ICE family facility in Dilley, Texas, “at least 22 minors have been detained more than 160 days, 10 have been detained for over 200 days, seven have been detained for more than 220 days, and one has been detained for 229 days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee had ruled previously that children should generally be released from jail-like settings not licensed for child care, including ICE family detention facilities, within 20 days. The Flores settlement requires children to be released “without unnecessary delay” to a parent or guardian, another relative or an approved sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"U.S. District Court Judge Dolly M. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several weeks ago, when the coronavirus was still just a distant concern, a big crowd gathered at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RoselandVillageNeighborhoodCenter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roseland Village Neighborhood Center\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa to play \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/censoteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Censotería, \u003c/a>inspired by the popular Mexican card game \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loter%C3%ADa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lotería\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game is sort of like bingo, but with an educational twist. Each of its 54 colorful cards comes with a piece of information in Spanish and English related to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez\"]'We need to do activities as a community. It's important. It's cultural. And it helps people understand how much they can help themselves and help the community.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that 100,000 children in California were undercounted in 2010? Let's make sure all our children are counted in 2020,\" said Refugio Mata, reading out the description on Card 26 to a group of players assembled around a big table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was Card 13: \"Will my information be kept confidential? Yes, under the law, census data can only be used for statistical purposes. Title 13 of the U.S. Code requires respondent's information to be kept confidential, and guarantees information cannot be disclosed for 72 years including names, addresses and telephone numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Luz Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides resources to roughly 20,000 underserved, mostly Latino immigrant residents in the Sonoma Valley, developed this game. In February alone, the organization hosted more than 40 events related to the decennial count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the nonprofit to completely rethink its approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos, who make up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/bayarea.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sizable percentage \u003c/a>of the Bay Area's population, have been drastically undercounted in previous censuses. That means millions of dollars in untapped federal funds that aren’t reaching some of the region's most vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sonoma Valley stands to lose $17.5 million per year for a decade if not everyone is counted,\" said Angie Sanchez, the community engagement programs manager for La Luz Center, and the brains behind Censotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808949 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Censoteria cards. Until COVID-19 put an end to live events, the new game was part of La Luz Center's strategy to educate the predominantly Latino immigrant community it serves about the importance of participating in the 2020 census. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez said many of the families she works with are hesitant to answer the census survey because they simply don't trust it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They fear sharing their information, thinking that it might be shared with ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], with immigration,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came up with the idea for Censotería to build trust and allay those fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to educate the community. So then they feel more comfortable and actually participate,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The face-to-face aspect is key to building a sense of comfort and trust, Sanchez said, noting that many low-income Latino residents in the Sonoma Valley come to community spaces like La Luz Center for a variety of needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Somebody can come in and receive assistance filling out their food stamp application, and they also might be taking one of our ESL classes or a small business workshop,\" she said. \"Then they also participate in community engagement activities, like Cinco de Mayo and Día de los Muertos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do activities as a community,\" said Santa Rosa resident Raquel Gomez, who attended the Censotería event with her family. \"It's important. It's cultural. 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With drastically reduced in-person outreach, the nonprofit is focusing on phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're calling those people and saying, 'Hey, you know, have you filled out your census? If not, OK. Would you like us to help you?' \" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sanchez and her team are finding that, not surprisingly, other more pressing priorities have overshadowed the census effort. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that 100,000 children in California were undercounted in 2010? Let's make sure all our children are counted in 2020,\" said Refugio Mata, reading out the description on Card 26 to a group of players assembled around a big table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up was Card 13: \"Will my information be kept confidential? Yes, under the law, census data can only be used for statistical purposes. Title 13 of the U.S. Code requires respondent's information to be kept confidential, and guarantees information cannot be disclosed for 72 years including names, addresses and telephone numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laluzcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Luz Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides resources to roughly 20,000 underserved, mostly Latino immigrant residents in the Sonoma Valley, developed this game. 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That means millions of dollars in untapped federal funds that aren’t reaching some of the region's most vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sonoma Valley stands to lose $17.5 million per year for a decade if not everyone is counted,\" said Angie Sanchez, the community engagement programs manager for La Luz Center, and the brains behind Censotería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808949\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11808949 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS42297_cards-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Censoteria cards. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin called on Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday to use his executive authority to shut down federal immigration detention centers in California to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The call came amid a growing outcry by medical experts, immigrant advocates and a former director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the potential danger of COVID-19 in ICE detention facilities. And it followed a lawsuit filed by 13 medically vulnerable detained immigrants in California, calling on ICE to release them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Thursday, U.S. Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maricruz Ladino spends long nights in a freezing lettuce cooler, inspecting and packaging pre-washed salad mixes. She usually starts her shift around 4 p.m., after the pickers are done in the fields, working until at least 2 or 3 in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine, what happens if one of us gets sick and we still have to work?” asked Ladino in Spanish. She worries about getting exposed to the coronavirus at the packing plant where she stands on a line only about a foot apart from other workers. They come into even closer contact when passing off packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although farming and food production are considered “essential businesses” exempt from California’s statewide shelter-in-place order, agricultural employers are having a hard time navigating guidance from public health officials on how to keep workers safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladino said her boss held a meeting recently to remind workers to wash their hands more frequently. They need to wear gloves and a hair net as usual, but now they’re also wearing masks over their noses and mouths. Ladino said the truck drivers who transport the produce can’t come into the plant directly anymore but must wait outside in their trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘If They Get Sick … The Whole Country’s Going to Suffer’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s farm belt pumps out more than a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts every year. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers who manage the state’s orchards, packing sheds and fields of row crops are faced with a dilemma: continue operating and hope that workers don’t get sick or shutter their doors, forcing workers to file for unemployment and putting the country’s food supply at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-during-emergencies/food-safety-and-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\">Food and Drug Administration is reassuring\u003c/a> consumers that there’s no evidence of COVID-19 transmission through food or food packaging. Another question, however, is how to keep farmworkers safe from exposure on the job when social distancing is often difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Miguel Arias, Fresno City Council president\"]“My biggest concern with the undocumented residents is that they’re going to be scared to come in and be checked and ask for a test, even though we know that they’re sick.”[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nLupe Sandoval, managing director of the California Farm Labor Contractor Association, said guidelines released by agencies like the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the California Department of Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so far have been generic and lack the specific guidance agricultural employers need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many industries do you see where the employer provides group transportation?” Sandoval said. “Ag is a little different. A lot of workers will get together in vans to drive to the job site. Or an employer will be registered with the federal government to bus workers to the job site. When you have 20-25 workers in a bus, or fewer in a van, it makes it difficult for social distancing and would entail more extensive disinfecting of common surfaces in vehicles before and after rides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers also often share drinking water dispensers in the fields and sometimes work in close proximity to one another, which can make social distancing a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Polizzi, a spokesperson for the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), said the agency recently began working on industry-specific guidance for agricultural workers, after receiving questions from employers. DIR plans to publish the guidance in English this week and in Spanish soon after, Polizzi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Rosasco, an agricultural employment attorney in Roseville, said she has received a flood of calls from employers with questions about how to comply with labor laws during the coronavirus outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to know how to deal with the virus and how to deal with sick employees. I have had some clients whose employees are sick and they believe they do have the virus,” Rosasco said. “So, what are their responsibilities, what are their obligations, what’s best practice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers harvest strawberries at a farm in Carlsbad, California, in April 2006.\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-1020x558.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-1920x1050.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries at a farm in Carlsbad, California, in April 2006. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least workers are unlikely to be laid off, Rosasco said. She said she is advising employers to move forward with agricultural work and give workers assurance they will continue to have a job during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because [workers are] nervous about the idea of the shelter-in-place orders, what’s going to happen to them? They live paycheck to paycheck. They’re worried about it,” Rosasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of the supply chain. If our ag workers don’t keep working, we’re not going to have fruits and veggies in the markets,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno City Council President Miguel Arias said he’s worried about undocumented farmworkers who lack health care coverage and might wait as long as possible before seeking treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest concern with the undocumented residents is that they’re going to be scared to come in and be checked and ask for a test, even though we know that they’re sick,” Arias said. “They’re so used to going to work, irrespective of their health conditions or whether they’re under the weather and running a fever, that once they begin to use our health care system for the coronavirus, our health care system will be overwhelmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Fresno City Councilman Luis Chavez sent a letter to Democratic Fresno congressman Jim Costa requesting additional federal funding for protective gear for health workers and support for rural clinics to help treat a “potential overflow of patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That needs to be a part of this conversation as we’re preparing a response — to have [farmworkers] be prioritized,” Chavez said. “Because if they get sick and they’re not there, the whole country’s going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"more coronavirus coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workplace Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State labor officials said they are committed to enforcing California law when it comes to protections for low-wage workers, including farmworkers who may be undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current public health crisis has really highlighted the differences between those workers who have ‘Cadillac’ operations and have protections and paid benefits, versus the majority of workers in California who do not have those protections or privileges,” said Lilia Garcia-Brower, California’s labor commissioner. Her staff of 700 investigates and adjudicates workplace violations ranging from unpaid wages to retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said her office is trying to “ensure that we reach the most vulnerable workers, those workers providing critical services, and that everyone understands that regardless of your immigration status, you do have basic protections for unpaid time, for paid sick leave and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/2019-Novel-Coronavirus.htm\">other protections in the labor code.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law mandates three days of sick leave. Beyond that, workers can also apply for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\">disability and paid family leave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undocumented workers cannot collect unemployment. To qualify, workers must show legal work authorization and immigration status, said a spokesperson for California’s Economic Development Department (EDD) in an email. EDD also confirmed that it verifies immigration status with the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook poll conducted in early March by the United Farm Workers union found over 90% of roughly 270 respondents — the majority from California, Washington and Oregon — said they had not received any information about the coronavirus from their employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW has \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-2020-Open-Letter-from-UFW-FINAL.pdf\">called on employers\u003c/a> to extend worker sick pay to 40 hours or more and to eliminate the 90-day waiting period for new employees to be eligible for sick pay, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1241726492717076482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11808267%2F11808267-autosave-v1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’ll Pay for the Test’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether farmworkers get sick, have to stay home and care for children or can’t get a visa to work in the U.S., the coronavirus could threaten the country’s supply of farm labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. farms have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778033/can-a-costly-guest-worker-program-meet-californias-need-for-farm-labor\">increasingly reliant\u003c/a> on the H-2A program over the years, which allows workers to come to the U.S. to plant, prune and harvest crops on a seasonal basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. consulates in Mexico \u003ca href=\"https://mx.usembassy.gov/status-of-u-s-consular-operations-in-mexico-in-light-of-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2GCu9JbyZaV8Gj2jDnz_ZuXcu44so90R90tKNG1zUU_z5tfPKKpgkH6Rs\">announced\u003c/a> they would scale back their operations to maintain social distancing while prioritizing applications for returning H-2A guest workers who are eligible for an interview waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the agency is “directly engaged with the State Department and working diligently to ensure minimal disruption in H-2A visa applications,” and that the Trump administration is “doing everything possible” to keep the program going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all scared to death,” said Ileana Arvizu, a farm labor contractor and president of ISA Contracting Services based in Firebaugh, west of Fresno. “We need those workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arvizu said she would be willing to pay for H-2A workers to be tested for the coronavirus if it meant the workers would arrive in the U.S. in time for the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they decide that they want to make sure that they’re clear and safe, [that] they’re not coming in with the virus, I’ll pay for the test. Whether it’s in Mexico, before they actually depart, or at any point,” Arvizu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18893_GettyImages-453973236-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A worker harvests cantaloupes on a farm near Firebaugh, California, on August 22, 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker harvests cantaloupes on a farm near Firebaugh, California, on Aug. 22, 2014. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The degree of impact a loss of workers will have depends on how long the current restrictions stay in place, said Daniel Costa (no relation to Rep. Jim Costa), director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank based in a Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/coronavirus-and-farmworkers-h-2a/\">report\u003c/a> out Tuesday, Costa and UC Davis professor Philip Martin project that if only returning H-2A workers are processed for the next two months, the impact will likely be minor because farm employment in March and April is typically low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if this practice stays in place for six months or more, during which no new applicants for H-2A visas can enter the United States,” Costa and Martin write, “the impact could be significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If fewer guest workers are allowed into the U.S. and domestic farm workers get sick or have to stay home to care for children, farms will either have to pay overtime or recruit new workers. That means U.S.-born workers could be recruited to work in agriculture, Daniel Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maricruz Ladino, farmworker\"]“This crisis is going to touch all of us. It’s a time for reflecting, re-evaluating what’s important.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s obviously the big question,” he said. “In California, there’s about to be 1.6 million unemployed workers. Will those workers take those jobs? It’s an experiment that’s about to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But farm labor contractor Jasmine Quintanilla said she thinks that’s unlikely, even if many people are out of a job due to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintanilla said she tried hiring U.S.-born workers during past labor shortages, but they quit on their own after just a couple of hours. Workers who are new to agriculture lack experience, which presents a problem for labor contractors under pressure to work quickly and meet the expectations of growers, Quintanilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t really afford new people … inexperienced people,” Quintanilla said. “People that have never worked in the field, they won’t even come out there. They’ll be like, ‘Heck no, this is too hard.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncertainty in the Fields\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many farms are scrambling to send more produce to supermarkets these days, farmworker Maricruz Ladino says her shifts at the packing house have become more irregular over the last week. Sometimes, there’s only a few hours of work, or workers are told to stand by to see if there will be shifts at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do see some hiccups … given the restaurant shutdowns across the country. Those orders have suddenly stopped,” said Dave Puglia, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wga.com/\">Western Growers\u003c/a>, representing fresh produce growers in California and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that we could simply redirect those fresh produce crops into the retail sector, especially because we have shortages in stores. But it unfortunately isn’t that simple,” Puglia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because farms have to work out new contracts, Puglia said, and figure out the capacity of shipping companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11808285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Maricruz Ladino inspecting lettuce at a Salinas packing plant. \" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricruz Ladino inspecting lettuce at a Salinas packing plant. \u003ccite>(Andres Cediel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ladino earns about $16 an hour as a supervisor in the packing cooler. Her rent on the one-bedroom she shares with her daughter in Salinas is $1,600. Every hour she’s not paid to work, she’s farther from making rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could get really tough. Work is how we feed our families. If things change, it’s so uncertain. How will we ever get ahead?” Ladino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A formerly undocumented immigrant, Ladino is also worried that the coronavirus will stall immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis is going to touch all of us,” Ladino said. “It’s a time for reflecting, re-evaluating what’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s The California Report first profiled Ladino in 2013 for “Rape in the Fields,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-in-the-fields/\">Frontline film\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10341215/farmworkers-face-rape-and-a-system-that-doesnt-aid-them\">radio series\u003c/a> about farmworkers facing sexual harassment and assault, which was produced in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: The U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/modifying-2020-operations-for-counting-college-students.html\">announced\u003c/a> it will postpone all field operations that had been scheduled to start this month. That includes the count of the homeless population and of people living in “group quarters\" (college students on some campuses and residents of places like nursing homes, group homes and prisons). The Census Bureau will also conduct online, paid trainings for its recently hired temporary employees, and still hopes to begin household door-knocking operations in late May.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tasked with motivating people in her Sonoma County community to fill out their census forms, Angie Sanchez quickly realized that the standard outreach presentations and handouts she'd be given just wouldn’t cut it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the community organizer reimagined \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/12/09/loteria-google-doodle-honors-beloved-mexican-card-game/2628428001/\">Lotería\u003c/a>, a Bingo-like game that’s a staple in many Latino households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Melissa Vergara, San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs\"]'It’s been a challenge because we have to take precautions on how we conduct outreach.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's version, \u003ca href=\"https://latinocf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Censoteria_011520.1.pdf\">Censotería\u003c/a>, received more than 300 Instagram likes and piqued the interest of census officials in Alabama, Illinois and Texas. La Luz, the civic participation group that Sanchez works for, partnered with the Latino Community Foundation, printing out about 500 copies and distributing them throughout the community. They even created a \u003ca href=\"https://latinocf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Censoteria_011520.1.pdf\">free downloadable game.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, for all of Sanchez’s creativity, it’s unclear whether the game, which is part of the state’s $187 million census outreach effort, will move the needle even slightly. As the coronavirus pandemic upends every aspect of life in California, it is far from clear what, if anything, will help push the state's millions of hard-to-reach residents to complete their census questionnaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming days, residents across the nation will receive mailers (or have already) asking them to respond online — or by phone or mail — to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-census-2020-explained/\">nine basic questions about their household\u003c/a> as part of a decennial federal population count. But getting an accurate count this year could prove extremely challenging, particularly in California. The state faces powerful headwinds that are expected to depress census turnout, not only from the mounting threat of the coronavirus, but also from widespread distrust sowed by the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies, including a failed attempt to include a citizenship question on the form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California, where the population growth rate is at its slowest in over a century, the stakes have never been higher: A significant undercount could jeopardize one of the state's \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-census-2020-explained/\">53 congressional seats\u003c/a>, along with billions of dollars in federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as census notices began landing in people’s mailboxes, Gov. 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This \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/2020-census-where-are-californias-hard-to-count-communities/\">hard-to-count\u003c/a>\" population includes homeless people, young men and those living in transitory or nonstandard housing situations. It also comprises many young children, who are often not recorded in household responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"2020-census\"]Moreover, response rates often come down to race and ethnicity. California is a majority minority state, with nearly 11 million immigrants and close to 40% of the population who identify as Latino or Hispanic. That has led to a growing concern among organizers and census officials that government distrust will significantly reduce the statewide response rate, even among residents with legal status. It has been particularly difficult this year to assure people that census information will be kept private and only used for statistical analysis, some organizers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think historically we’ve thought about non-citizens or unauthorized immigrants as particularly hard to count,” said Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California. “But I think there is concern about whether this environment we’re in right now with regard to immigrants is going to dissuade even legal immigrants from responding — just because of fear or distrust of the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California residents benefit from dozens of federal programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, affordable housing and funding for roads, school lunches, early childhood education and foster care. The amount of funding allotted for most of those programs is largely determined by population size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Reamer, a research professor at George Washington University, estimates California receives \u003ca href=\"https://gwipp.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2181/f/downloads/Counting%20for%20Dollars%202020%20-%20Comprehensive%20Accounting_Report%207B%20Feb%202020%20rev.pdf\">$172 billion\u003c/a> in federal money based on its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone wants to harm the local economy, a great way to do it is to not fill out the census,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why California has \u003ca href=\"https://census.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/01/FINAL-Quarterly-Progress-Report-to-Legislature-Q4-Jan-2020.pdf\">allocated almost $190 million\u003c/a> — more than any other state — for the census, with the majority being used for community outreach programs like Sanchez’s Censotería game. Mercury Public Affairs LLC also won a \u003ca href=\"https://census.ca.gov/2019/07/29/intent-to-award-media-contract/\">$46 million contract\u003c/a> to lead a statewide media campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really critical to get it right,” said Bohn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vergara of San Mateo County said the county has changed its strategy in response to the coronavirus outbreak, noting that her outreach workers started seeing low turnout at census events even before Newsom's executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County and state organizers are now pivoting to social media outreach and ramping up a digital ambassador program — a group of preselected online influencers including actor Danny Trejo, mixed martial artist Urijah Faber and Sacramento Kings basketball player Harrison Barnes, in addition to a number of well-known community activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are encountering the first mainly digital census and we are also encountering groups that have a general fear of the government and of the federal government,” said Diana Crofts-Pelayo, spokeswoman for California Complete Count. “So for us, this is why we have really created this comprehensive outreach and communications approach to really address some of these unprecedented challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One digital ambassador, Rain Valdez, an actress, filmmaker and transgender community advocate, said she got involved in the hopes of increasing participation within the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rainvaldez/status/1233142479148290048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that with our history as trans people, there’s a tendency to erase us from the count,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, California’s housing crisis and access to reliable broadband connections remain obstacles. 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