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(el siguiente escalón en la jerarquía judicial), \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">se negó\u003c/a> a emitir una orden judicial preliminar contra el gobierno federal, pero los expertos jurídicos subrayan que esta decisión no elimina la orden anterior de Talwani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El 14 de octubre de 2025, varias personas hacen fila frente a la oficina local de ICE en el centro de San Francisco con respecto a las citas programadas y citas relacionadas con la inmigración. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los tribunales en los otros dos casos han determinado que el IRS y ICE no cumplieron con la ley”, dijo Josh Rosenthal, también abogado en Asian Law Caucus. “Siguen vigentes esas dos órdenes judiciales que impiden a las agencias realizar transferencias masivas de información de los contribuyentes y a ICE de actuar sobre cualquier dato del IRS que tenga en su poder”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones comunitarias en varias partes de California informaron a KQED que siguen recibiendo preguntas de los contribuyentes con respecto a quién tiene acceso a su información personal y si es posible que ICE pueda volver a acceder a los datos de los contribuyentes en el futuro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para conocer lo que los expertos legales y fiscales saben en este momento sobre esta situación en rápida evolución.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué dice exactamente la orden de la jueza Talwani?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En su fallo, Talwani, nombrada por el presidente Barack Obama para el tribunal federal de Boston en 2014, se mostró muy crítica con las acciones de la administración Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talwani destacó que el sistema fiscal federal depende de la confianza de los contribuyentes y afirmó que la implementación de acuerdos de intercambio de datos “daña esa base y socava el interés público en un sistema fiscal que funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, habla en una rueda de prensa con respecto a la situación en Brownsville, Texas, el 7 de enero de 2026. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahora, la orden de Talwani prohíbe a la Secretaria del DHS, Kristi Noem, y a cualquier agente de ICE “inspeccionar, ver, utilizar, copiar, distribuir, basarse con respecto a cualquier información fiscal obtenida o revelada por el IRS”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El IRS confirmó ante el tribunal que ya había compartido las direcciones de aproximadamente 47 mil contribuyentes quienes no ciudadanos. Esta información se encuentra almacenada en una computadora gubernamental de un empleado del DHS. Talwani mencionó específicamente que este trabajador federal también está sujeto a su orden.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Esta sentencia anula definitivamente el acuerdo entre el IRS y ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Se trata solo de una suspensión temporal, que impide al IRS y al ICE colaborar mientras los tribunales toman una decisión definitiva con respecto a si este acuerdo es constitucional o no.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cómo ha respondido la administración Trump a la sentencia?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En una declaración escrita, el DHS no respondió directamente a la pregunta de KQED con respecto a cómo actuará la agencia para cumplir con la orden judicial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, un portavoz del DHS defendió el acuerdo con el IRS y dijo a KQED por correo electrónico que el gobierno federal sigue enfocado “en aplicar leyes penales que han sido descuidadas durante mucho tiempo que se aplican a los inmigrantes indocumentados, pero que la administración Biden ignoró”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional detienen a manifestantes frente a las oficinas locales de ICE en San Francisco el 16 de diciembre de 2025, con respecto a la detención de manifestantes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué dicen los defensores de los inmigrantes sobre esta sentencia?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de los inmigrantes han aplaudido la decisión de Talwani. “Cuando presentamos nuestras declaraciones de impuestos, hay datos realmente delicados”, dijo Chang, abogada en Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si tomamos información personal que está protegida y la utilizamos para perseguir a los inmigrantes, eso destruye por completo la confianza que la gente deposita en el gobierno federal para que haga lo correcto con la información de los contribuyentes”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang añadió que los empleados del IRS deben seguir normas muy estrictas al manejar los datos de los contribuyentes, tal y como establece el \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Código de Rentas Internas\u003c/a>, creado por el Congreso en 1939.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Estas normas solo permiten al IRS compartir información en circunstancias muy limitadas, como una auditoría o determinadas investigaciones penales, por ejemplo, las relacionadas con amenazas terroristas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ni siquiera el presidente puede acceder directamente a los datos del IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En 1976, el Congreso \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">reforzó las normas de privacidad\u003c/a> del Código de Rentas Internas después de que varios empleados de la Casa Blanca admitieran que habían intentado obtener información fiscal sobre personas que el entonces presidente Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">consideraba sus enemigos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El uso del IRS como herramienta política sería más tarde una de las acusaciones a las que se enfrentó Nixon por parte de los legisladores que buscaban \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">destituirlo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué va a pasar ahora en esta batalla legal?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La administración Trump sigue defendiendo el acuerdo entre el IRS y ICE en diferentes batallas legales en todo el país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro caso presentado por el Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, con sede en Chicago, ha llegado al tribunal de apelaciones en Washington, D.C. el paso previo a la Corte Suprema. En ese proceso, los jueces se han negado a dictar una orden judicial preliminar contra el gobierno federal, ya que consideran que la información que comparten las agencias no está cubierta por la ley de privacidad del IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otros medios de comunicación \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">han reportado\u003c/a> que esta última actualización del tribunal ha dado el visto bueno al IRS para reanudar el intercambio de datos fiscales de inmigrantes con ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las órdenes de los jueces Talwani y Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, quien fue la primera en bloquear el acuerdo entre ICE y el IRS el pasado mes de noviembre, siguen vigentes. Para que ICE recupere el acceso a los datos del IRS, un juez de más alto rango tendría que anular las órdenes de Talwani y Kollar-Kotelly, según Chang, del Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ni siquiera expertos jurídicos saben cómo será el resultado de estas batallas legales. Actualizaremos esta guía a medida que recibamos nueva información de los tribunales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué recomiendan los expertos fiscales a los contribuyentes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones comunitarias que ofrecen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">servicios fiscales gratuitos\u003c/a> siguen escuchando las preocupaciones de personas con ITIN, quienes temen que presentar su declaración de impuestos este año pueda suponer un gran riesgo personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Les hacemos saber que seguimos ayudándoles a presentar sus declaraciones de impuestos”, afirma Lindsay Rojas, directora de ayuda fiscal gratuita de \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/what-we-do/free-tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area\u003c/a>. “Y si tienen alguna pregunta o duda, deben \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">consultar a un abogado de inmigración\u003c/a> sobre su caso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas subrayó que, en lugar de dar un consejo universal, se trata de una decisión que cada persona “debe tomar en base a sus circunstancias familiares” y personales. Las familias que viven en el Área de la Bahía pueden llamar al 211 para encontrar ayuda gratuita para presentar sus impuestos o ser conectadas con un abogado especializado en inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El miembro del personal de MEDA, Dairo Romero, trabaja en el segundo piso del Mission Food Hub en San Francisco el 19 de mayo de 2021, donde se reúne con las familias para ayudarlas a presentar sus declaraciones de impuestos. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Otros grupos que prestan asistencia fiscal confirmaron a KQED que también aconsejan a los contribuyentes que consulten primero con un abogado especializado en inmigración si les preocupa la privacidad de sus datos. Es importante mencionar que si alguien ha presentado su declaración con un ITIN durante varios años, el IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/es/privacy-disclosure/irs-privacy-policy\">ya ha recibido\u003c/a> su información personal de declaraciones anteriores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se debe mencionar que existen posibles consecuencias para quienes no presentan su declaración de impuestos, dijo Minnie Sage, directora de programas de \u003ca href=\"http://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>, con sede en San Francisco. “La declaración de impuestos es a menudo un requisito para acreditar los ingresos, en casos como la vivienda, la educación y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">los préstamos federales como FAFSA\u003c/a>“, dijo. “También ayuda a evitar costos adicionales y sanciones”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Argueta-Bonneville, directora de operaciones de \u003ca href=\"https://laccnp.org/\">Central City Neighborhood Partners\u003c/a>, con sede en Los Ángeles, dijo que su equipo fiscal sigue viendo a gente que quiere presentar su declaración con un ITIN. “Realmente pensábamos que estas cifras iban a caer bajar drásticamente”, dijo, antes de añadir que muchos miembros de la comunidad siguen sintiendo una gran responsabilidad de pagar impuestos y tienen la esperanza de que cumplir con este compromiso les ayude en su proceso de inmigración en el futuro.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué más deben quienes tienen ITIN?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El verano pasado, el Congreso aprobó el plan masivo de gastos e impuestos conocido en inglés como \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g-s1-74388/senate-big-beautiful-bill\">‘One Big Beautiful Bill’\u003c/a>, lo que limita considerablemente los créditos fiscales a los que pueden acceder los titulares de un ITIN\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si un hogar no tiene al menos un contribuyente que presente su declaración de impuestos de 2025 con un número del Seguro Social, las familias no tendrán derecho al crédito fiscal federal por hijos ni al crédito fiscal por ingresos del trabajo. Los hijos declarados como dependientes también deberán tener un número del Seguro Social para poder recibir el crédito fiscal por hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12075032 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK.jpg\" alt=\"Familia de cuatro personas saltando por una calle mojada, tomados de la mano.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un hogar debe tener al menos un contribuyente que presente su declaración de impuestos de 2025 con un número del Seguro Social para recibir ciertos créditos fiscales. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sin estos créditos, las familias inmigrantes podrían recibir un reembolso mucho más pequeño, quizás miles de dólares menos de lo que recibieron el año pasado, dijo Argueta-Bonneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchas de nuestras familias dependen de los créditos y reembolsos para poder invertir en sí mismas, en sus hijos, y también están invirtiendo en la comunidad”, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las familias que presentan su declaración con un ITIN siguen teniendo derecho al \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/caleitc/eligibility-and-credit-information.html\">Crédito por Ingreso del Trabajo\u003c/a> de California, y si tienen hijos menores de 6 años, también pueden recibir el \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html\">Crédito Fiscal por Hijos Pequeños\u003c/a> del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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(el siguiente escalón en la jerarquía judicial), \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">se negó\u003c/a> a emitir una orden judicial preliminar contra el gobierno federal, pero los expertos jurídicos subrayan que esta decisión no elimina la orden anterior de Talwani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/ICE-BUILDING-SF-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El 14 de octubre de 2025, varias personas hacen fila frente a la oficina local de ICE en el centro de San Francisco con respecto a las citas programadas y citas relacionadas con la inmigración. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los tribunales en los otros dos casos han determinado que el IRS y ICE no cumplieron con la ley”, dijo Josh Rosenthal, también abogado en Asian Law Caucus. “Siguen vigentes esas dos órdenes judiciales que impiden a las agencias realizar transferencias masivas de información de los contribuyentes y a ICE de actuar sobre cualquier dato del IRS que tenga en su poder”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones comunitarias en varias partes de California informaron a KQED que siguen recibiendo preguntas de los contribuyentes con respecto a quién tiene acceso a su información personal y si es posible que ICE pueda volver a acceder a los datos de los contribuyentes en el futuro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siga leyendo para conocer lo que los expertos legales y fiscales saben en este momento sobre esta situación en rápida evolución.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué dice exactamente la orden de la jueza Talwani?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En su fallo, Talwani, nombrada por el presidente Barack Obama para el tribunal federal de Boston en 2014, se mostró muy crítica con las acciones de la administración Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talwani destacó que el sistema fiscal federal depende de la confianza de los contribuyentes y afirmó que la implementación de acuerdos de intercambio de datos “daña esa base y socava el interés público en un sistema fiscal que funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/NOEM-AT-PODIUM-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem, habla en una rueda de prensa con respecto a la situación en Brownsville, Texas, el 7 de enero de 2026. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahora, la orden de Talwani prohíbe a la Secretaria del DHS, Kristi Noem, y a cualquier agente de ICE “inspeccionar, ver, utilizar, copiar, distribuir, basarse con respecto a cualquier información fiscal obtenida o revelada por el IRS”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El IRS confirmó ante el tribunal que ya había compartido las direcciones de aproximadamente 47 mil contribuyentes quienes no ciudadanos. Esta información se encuentra almacenada en una computadora gubernamental de un empleado del DHS. Talwani mencionó específicamente que este trabajador federal también está sujeto a su orden.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Esta sentencia anula definitivamente el acuerdo entre el IRS y ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Se trata solo de una suspensión temporal, que impide al IRS y al ICE colaborar mientras los tribunales toman una decisión definitiva con respecto a si este acuerdo es constitucional o no.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Cómo ha respondido la administración Trump a la sentencia?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>En una declaración escrita, el DHS no respondió directamente a la pregunta de KQED con respecto a cómo actuará la agencia para cumplir con la orden judicial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, un portavoz del DHS defendió el acuerdo con el IRS y dijo a KQED por correo electrónico que el gobierno federal sigue enfocado “en aplicar leyes penales que han sido descuidadas durante mucho tiempo que se aplican a los inmigrantes indocumentados, pero que la administración Biden ignoró”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/PROTESTERS-AT-ICE-BUILDING-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agentes del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional detienen a manifestantes frente a las oficinas locales de ICE en San Francisco el 16 de diciembre de 2025, con respecto a la detención de manifestantes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué dicen los defensores de los inmigrantes sobre esta sentencia?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de los inmigrantes han aplaudido la decisión de Talwani. “Cuando presentamos nuestras declaraciones de impuestos, hay datos realmente delicados”, dijo Chang, abogada en Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si tomamos información personal que está protegida y la utilizamos para perseguir a los inmigrantes, eso destruye por completo la confianza que la gente deposita en el gobierno federal para que haga lo correcto con la información de los contribuyentes”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang añadió que los empleados del IRS deben seguir normas muy estrictas al manejar los datos de los contribuyentes, tal y como establece el \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Código de Rentas Internas\u003c/a>, creado por el Congreso en 1939.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Estas normas solo permiten al IRS compartir información en circunstancias muy limitadas, como una auditoría o determinadas investigaciones penales, por ejemplo, las relacionadas con amenazas terroristas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ni siquiera el presidente puede acceder directamente a los datos del IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En 1976, el Congreso \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">reforzó las normas de privacidad\u003c/a> del Código de Rentas Internas después de que varios empleados de la Casa Blanca admitieran que habían intentado obtener información fiscal sobre personas que el entonces presidente Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">consideraba sus enemigos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El uso del IRS como herramienta política sería más tarde una de las acusaciones a las que se enfrentó Nixon por parte de los legisladores que buscaban \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">destituirlo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué va a pasar ahora en esta batalla legal?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La administración Trump sigue defendiendo el acuerdo entre el IRS y ICE en diferentes batallas legales en todo el país.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otro caso presentado por el Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, con sede en Chicago, ha llegado al tribunal de apelaciones en Washington, D.C. el paso previo a la Corte Suprema. En ese proceso, los jueces se han negado a dictar una orden judicial preliminar contra el gobierno federal, ya que consideran que la información que comparten las agencias no está cubierta por la ley de privacidad del IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otros medios de comunicación \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">han reportado\u003c/a> que esta última actualización del tribunal ha dado el visto bueno al IRS para reanudar el intercambio de datos fiscales de inmigrantes con ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las órdenes de los jueces Talwani y Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, quien fue la primera en bloquear el acuerdo entre ICE y el IRS el pasado mes de noviembre, siguen vigentes. Para que ICE recupere el acceso a los datos del IRS, un juez de más alto rango tendría que anular las órdenes de Talwani y Kollar-Kotelly, según Chang, del Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ni siquiera expertos jurídicos saben cómo será el resultado de estas batallas legales. Actualizaremos esta guía a medida que recibamos nueva información de los tribunales.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué recomiendan los expertos fiscales a los contribuyentes?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones comunitarias que ofrecen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">servicios fiscales gratuitos\u003c/a> siguen escuchando las preocupaciones de personas con ITIN, quienes temen que presentar su declaración de impuestos este año pueda suponer un gran riesgo personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Les hacemos saber que seguimos ayudándoles a presentar sus declaraciones de impuestos”, afirma Lindsay Rojas, directora de ayuda fiscal gratuita de \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/what-we-do/free-tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area\u003c/a>. “Y si tienen alguna pregunta o duda, deben \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">consultar a un abogado de inmigración\u003c/a> sobre su caso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas subrayó que, en lugar de dar un consejo universal, se trata de una decisión que cada persona “debe tomar en base a sus circunstancias familiares” y personales. Las familias que viven en el Área de la Bahía pueden llamar al 211 para encontrar ayuda gratuita para presentar sus impuestos o ser conectadas con un abogado especializado en inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/MEDA-STAFF-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El miembro del personal de MEDA, Dairo Romero, trabaja en el segundo piso del Mission Food Hub en San Francisco el 19 de mayo de 2021, donde se reúne con las familias para ayudarlas a presentar sus declaraciones de impuestos. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Otros grupos que prestan asistencia fiscal confirmaron a KQED que también aconsejan a los contribuyentes que consulten primero con un abogado especializado en inmigración si les preocupa la privacidad de sus datos. Es importante mencionar que si alguien ha presentado su declaración con un ITIN durante varios años, el IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/es/privacy-disclosure/irs-privacy-policy\">ya ha recibido\u003c/a> su información personal de declaraciones anteriores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Se debe mencionar que existen posibles consecuencias para quienes no presentan su declaración de impuestos, dijo Minnie Sage, directora de programas de \u003ca href=\"http://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>, con sede en San Francisco. “La declaración de impuestos es a menudo un requisito para acreditar los ingresos, en casos como la vivienda, la educación y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">los préstamos federales como FAFSA\u003c/a>“, dijo. “También ayuda a evitar costos adicionales y sanciones”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Argueta-Bonneville, directora de operaciones de \u003ca href=\"https://laccnp.org/\">Central City Neighborhood Partners\u003c/a>, con sede en Los Ángeles, dijo que su equipo fiscal sigue viendo a gente que quiere presentar su declaración con un ITIN. “Realmente pensábamos que estas cifras iban a caer bajar drásticamente”, dijo, antes de añadir que muchos miembros de la comunidad siguen sintiendo una gran responsabilidad de pagar impuestos y tienen la esperanza de que cumplir con este compromiso les ayude en su proceso de inmigración en el futuro.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>¿Qué más deben quienes tienen ITIN?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El verano pasado, el Congreso aprobó el plan masivo de gastos e impuestos conocido en inglés como \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g-s1-74388/senate-big-beautiful-bill\">‘One Big Beautiful Bill’\u003c/a>, lo que limita considerablemente los créditos fiscales a los que pueden acceder los titulares de un ITIN\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si un hogar no tiene al menos un contribuyente que presente su declaración de impuestos de 2025 con un número del Seguro Social, las familias no tendrán derecho al crédito fiscal federal por hijos ni al crédito fiscal por ingresos del trabajo. Los hijos declarados como dependientes también deberán tener un número del Seguro Social para poder recibir el crédito fiscal por hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12075032 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK.jpg\" alt=\"Familia de cuatro personas saltando por una calle mojada, tomados de la mano.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/FAMILY-OF-FOUR-STOCK-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un hogar debe tener al menos un contribuyente que presente su declaración de impuestos de 2025 con un número del Seguro Social para recibir ciertos créditos fiscales. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sin estos créditos, las familias inmigrantes podrían recibir un reembolso mucho más pequeño, quizás miles de dólares menos de lo que recibieron el año pasado, dijo Argueta-Bonneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchas de nuestras familias dependen de los créditos y reembolsos para poder invertir en sí mismas, en sus hijos, y también están invirtiendo en la comunidad”, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, las familias que presentan su declaración con un ITIN siguen teniendo derecho al \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/caleitc/eligibility-and-credit-information.html\">Crédito por Ingreso del Trabajo\u003c/a> de California, y si tienen hijos menores de 6 años, también pueden recibir el \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html\">Crédito Fiscal por Hijos Pequeños\u003c/a> del estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s immigration courts are being hollowed out by the Trump Administration, with plans to close one of the courts downtown by the end of the year. Mission Local’s Clara-Sophia Daly explains how day to day operations — including asylum hearings — have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-immigration-court-asylum-seekers/\">Inside San Francisco’s hollowed-out immigration court, where asylum is ‘essentially over’\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6286163923&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] So for people who maybe don’t know how this process works, can you sort of trace an asylum seekers path from their home country to San Francisco immigration court? Like what does it take to sort of end up there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:01:56] It’s a very complicated process and it can depend. Generally, an asylum seeker will cross the border and they have a reasonable fear interview before they go to immigration court and then present themselves to the U.S. Government seeking asylum and then essentially it is up to them to prove to the United States government that they have high level of fear and that they are unsafe to return to their home country. A lot of asylum seekers have been in the process to try and legalize their status for a huge number of years. There are a lot of the asylum seekers from Colombia, a lot asylum seekers from Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela, Haiti. It’s interesting because with immigration law, there is obviously some subjectivity in regards to how a judge understands the law and how he or she implements it. San Francisco traditionally has been one of the immigration courts across the country that has the highest approval rates for asylum seekers. I think for a lot of immigrants that was a great thing, but also with that came a spotlight on that court and sort of the understanding that maybe these judges are not enforcing the law as they should from the perspective of some people and they’re being too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] Some people, like the Trump administration. So I mean, it sounds like these two immigration courts in San Francisco played a pretty huge role, especially when it came to immigrants coming here to the Bay Area. But it’s also increasingly being gutted since the Trump Administration began its second term. What has changed at these courts, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:03:59] A lot of the courtrooms are just empty. A huge number of judges have been fired, and they’re planning to close down one of the immigration courts downtown, the Montgomery Street Court, by the end of this year. Asylum seekers are confused. Attorneys are struggling to keep up with all these rulings and understand which immigration court takes precedent, who to listen to. Judges are confused, they’re getting fired, they are getting locked out of their emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:29] Oh, wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:04:30] It’s, it’s a mess. And it’s, I think, from a lot of the immigration advocates that I’ve spoken to, an intentional confusion and disruption of the system and kind of a way, again, to try and encourage immigrants living in the United States to go back to their home countries, which the federal government has made very clear is their goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] I know you spent a whole day and some time at one of these immigration court buildings in San Francisco. And I’m so curious what you saw, like what is the impact of this gutting of the courts having on the day-to-day operations when you even like go to these courts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:05:23] The majority of asylum seekers are not getting what’s known as an individual hearing, where they are presenting the evidence for their case and asking the judge for asylum. I was present in the courtroom while the Department of Homeland Security was doing these, they call them pre-termination. What happens at those hearings is the Department of Homeland security basically is saying, this asylum seeker should go to a third country, with which the United States has an agreement. And that they should essentially hear their asylum case in that third country instead of in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] And these third countries they’re being sent to, they’re not even necessarily like countries that these folks have any connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:06:07] Correct. So that includes Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. There’s even Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, a huge number of countries that are on this list. And what’s also complicated and nuanced and interesting here is that we haven’t seen very many people actually go through the process and get sent to these third countries. And this whole process is also being questioned by courts. But the Department of Homeland Security is really just kind of using this to rapidly close out cases and convince asylum seekers to take a voluntary departure or give up on their case. The time period in which asylum seekers have to appeal this pre-termination has just been changed from 30 days to 10 days. So again, just so many small steps forward that the federal government is using to limit immigrants’ ability to legalize their status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] I’m curious what you heard from just people out there waiting for their turn to get asylum in the United States. I mean, any conversations that really stood out to you or people who stood out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clara-Sophia Daly \u003c/strong>[00:07:33] There was one guy who I remember was standing in line and he was shaking and I’m looking around. It’s not that cold out. He was shaking. He was so scared. And the reason a lot of these people waiting for their ICE check-ins were so fearful was that just a couple months ago, a huge number of people in the San Francisco court who went to their ICE Check-ins, were arrested. There was also another immigrant asylum seeker in the courtroom whose case was pre-terminated and he was offered these other countries to like quote unquote go half his case, or half his cases sent to. And he, I remember asked the judge, he said, well can I have some more time because I can’t find an immigration attorney. It’s so expensive to get an immigration attorney and the judge basically said, you know. You’ve had time, sorry. 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This is great news,” said plaintiff attorney Munmeeth Kaur Soni, with the Sikh Coalition, a New York-based national civil rights and advocacy organization, after the court hearing on Wednesday. “It’s a relief that a state court judge recognized that we need to hold our state agencies accountable.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers and unions separately \u003ca href=\"https://www.citizen.org/news/new-lawsuit-challenges-punitive-trump-rule-against-immigrants-lawfully-holding-commercial-drivers-licenses/\">sued to block\u003c/a> a federal rule that aims to exclude an estimated 190,000 asylum seekers, refugees and other noncitizens from holding commercial licenses. 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They point instead to often grueling job conditions fueling driver fatigue as a contributor to truck collisions — especially in long-haul trucking, an industry that employs many drivers without permanent residence in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump administration changes, states issued non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens who passed knowledge and skills tests and presented federally valid work authorization, but who did not have a green card.[aside postID=news_12068027 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg']At the court hearing in Oakland, state lawyers representing the DMV argued that its hands are tied. Federal transportation officials prohibited the agency in December from issuing non-domiciled licenses, saying the DMV had not complied with regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has threatened to decertify California’s entire commercial license program if it defies that directive, which could impact hundreds of thousands of drivers, according to the respondent’s brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FMCSA has placed DMV in an impossible position,” attorneys for the state agency said. “Either stand by while thousands of eligible drivers have their non-domiciled CDLs cancelled, or expire, without being able to issue corrected or renewal licenses, or instead resume issuing these licenses and risk disenfranchising even more commercial drivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially said it would revoke about 17,300 of the licenses with expiration date errors in early January, and an additional 2,700 in mid-February. But after public outcry, it extended the deadline to March 6, to give federal officials more time to review corrective actions the state agency said it had taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by announcing his agency would withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069236/retribution-bay-area-lawmakers-slam-160-million-loss-in-federal-highway-funds\">$158 million\u003c/a> of highway safety funds, a decision the DMV is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72239726/california-department-of-motor-vehicles-v-dot/\">fighting in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said the DMV must give drivers impacted by cancellations an opportunity to reapply, according to state law. The details of how the agency plans to issue those licenses in a reasonable time, while taking into account federal threats, should be worked out by the two parties ahead of the March 6 deadline, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks leave the Port of Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials “have repeatedly threatened to decertify California or take away its funds. The court cannot ignore that,” Schwartz told the packed courtroom proceeding, attended by several Sikh business owners and community leaders from the Bay Area and Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, some said they felt hopeful, after months of stress and uncertainty for relatives and friends who feared losing jobs in the trucking and logistics industry, a major source of employment for the Sikh community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajinder Singh said his trucking company stood to lose about 20 of 30 drivers who received DMV cancellation letters, including three cousins. The employees support families and owe loans for homes and trucks they’ve purchased, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have a license, how can they work and make payments for the trucks, for the homes? It’s hard,” said Singh, who owns Flying Eagle Xpress, based in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the court hearing in Oakland, state lawyers representing the DMV argued that its hands are tied. Federal transportation officials prohibited the agency in December from issuing non-domiciled licenses, saying the DMV had not complied with regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has threatened to decertify California’s entire commercial license program if it defies that directive, which could impact hundreds of thousands of drivers, according to the respondent’s brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FMCSA has placed DMV in an impossible position,” attorneys for the state agency said. “Either stand by while thousands of eligible drivers have their non-domiciled CDLs cancelled, or expire, without being able to issue corrected or renewal licenses, or instead resume issuing these licenses and risk disenfranchising even more commercial drivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially said it would revoke about 17,300 of the licenses with expiration date errors in early January, and an additional 2,700 in mid-February. But after public outcry, it extended the deadline to March 6, to give federal officials more time to review corrective actions the state agency said it had taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by announcing his agency would withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069236/retribution-bay-area-lawmakers-slam-160-million-loss-in-federal-highway-funds\">$158 million\u003c/a> of highway safety funds, a decision the DMV is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72239726/california-department-of-motor-vehicles-v-dot/\">fighting in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said the DMV must give drivers impacted by cancellations an opportunity to reapply, according to state law. The details of how the agency plans to issue those licenses in a reasonable time, while taking into account federal threats, should be worked out by the two parties ahead of the March 6 deadline, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks leave the Port of Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials “have repeatedly threatened to decertify California or take away its funds. The court cannot ignore that,” Schwartz told the packed courtroom proceeding, attended by several Sikh business owners and community leaders from the Bay Area and Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, some said they felt hopeful, after months of stress and uncertainty for relatives and friends who feared losing jobs in the trucking and logistics industry, a major source of employment for the Sikh community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajinder Singh said his trucking company stood to lose about 20 of 30 drivers who received DMV cancellation letters, including three cousins. The employees support families and owe loans for homes and trucks they’ve purchased, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have a license, how can they work and make payments for the trucks, for the homes? It’s hard,” said Singh, who owns Flying Eagle Xpress, based in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story, \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-02-23/alleged-federal-immigration-agents-arrest-after-pointing-gun-at-riverside-county-teen-considered-extraordinary-legal-expert-says\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>originally published by KVCR\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>, contains language that may be inappropriate for young or sensitive readers.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/riverside-county\">Riverside County\u003c/a> prosecutors charged a man claiming to be a federal immigration officer with assault after he pulled a gun on a 17-year-old last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerardo Rodriguez, 46, was arrested after the incident by Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies at his home near Temecula’s wine country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is moving through the courts as national scrutiny grows over how difficult it is to hold federal agents accountable. Experts claim legal actions in the last decade have curtailed people’s ability to sue, while the teenager’s attorney remains optimistic about holding Rodriguez accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He’s just a kid’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In-home surveillance video obtained by independent news outlet \u003ca href=\"https://lataco.com/gerardo-rodriguez-ice-arrested\">\u003cem>L.A. Taco\u003c/em>\u003c/a> shows Rodriguez walking in the middle of the block on Daybrook Terrace in Temecula, pointing his gun at an incoming pickup truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stop, stop, slow down,” Rodriguez yells to the truck’s driver on video. “Freeze, police! Put the car in fucking park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputies said Rodriguez wore a badge around his neck and identified himself as law enforcement. On video, Rodriguez is seen commanding the truck’s driver to get out of the car and sit on the curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/XkqJbD_BrUY?si=Axwp9uIFdB4o7jeF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re speeding in the fucking neighborhood. Come over here, sit down. Sit your ass down,” Rodriguez said. “Do you have a driver’s license?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Kirakosian, a civil rights attorney based in Los Angeles, said the driver of the truck is his client — a 17-year-old boy who was driving home from a house party nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirakosian said witnesses on scene identified Rodriguez as a federal immigration agent, either with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection. Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies said Rodriguez was wearing a badge in a prepared statement, which was shared in November but has since been deleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074665\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1.jpg 473w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1-160x77.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-home surveillance video: Gerardo Rodriguez is seen pointing a gun at a pickup truck. The driver of that truck is a 17-year-old, whose attorney said was on his way back home from a party nearby. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Kirakosian Law)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kirakosian said neighbors stepped in and told Rodriguez to let the boy go, and the sheriff’s press release confirmed that the boy’s father told deputies on scene that Rodriguez stopped his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy’s parents rushed to the scene with his passport because they feared the encounter was immigration related, Kirakosian added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know, why are you doing that? He’s just a kid. He was from down there. Leave him alone,’” Kirakosian said. “And you know, that adrenaline, I guess, wears off, and Rodriguez finally decides that, yeah, he probably shouldn’t be doing what he’s doing and just lets the boy go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrested Rodriguez at his home after investigators obtained a search warrant and collected evidence related to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez was arraigned in December, according to records obtained by KVCR, where he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment and false imprisonment. Rodriguez pleaded not guilty, and his private attorney, Michael Scaffidi, did not return calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the case is still under investigation. The agency would not confirm or deny that Rodriguez was employed by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and Border Protection. ICE officials have told multiple media outlets that Rodriguez was not employed by their agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Acting under the ‘color of law’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Border Patrol and ICE agents carried out \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/16/more-than-80-minnesotans-detail-useofforce-intimidation-by-ice-agents-in-lawsuit\">widespread raids in Minnesota\u003c/a> this winter, the Department of Homeland Security carried out similar operations across Southern California, including in the Inland Empire. Last August, Mexican immigrant Francisco Longoria had his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-08-22/attorneys-seek-answers-after-border-patrol-shoots-at-san-bernardino-mans-truck\">windows shot out\u003c/a> by Border Patrol agents in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ontario, just two months later, 24-year-old U.S. citizen Carlos Jimenez \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-10-30/federal-immigration-agents-say-driver-tried-to-run-them-over-before-shooting-in-ontario\">was shot in his shoulder\u003c/a> by federal agents during an encounter near a school bus stop. Immigrant rights groups and lawyers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-11-15/attorneys-say-ontario-ice-shooting-fits-pattern-of-aggressive-enforcement\">calling for accountability\u003c/a> for the agents involved in the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Kirakosian said he considers the incident involving Rodriguez and his client a standout case. He believes Rodriguez acted under \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law\">“the color of law”\u003c/a> — a federal civil rights statute that protects citizens from officers using their official authority to violate a person’s Constitutional rights. The rule applies to officers at all times, even if they are off duty or acting outside of their jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074668 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DAYBROOK-SIGN-2-scaled-e1772059119331.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daybook Terrace in Temecula on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anthony Victoria/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He stopped an individual when he had no right to,” Kirakosian said. “Pulled that individual out and detained him when he had no right to … no justification, no suspicion of any criminal activity … with threats of violence if he didn’t comply with his unlawful commands. 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He added that in many cases, the federal government attempts to intervene to defend its employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also said citizens could attempt to file grievances against federal officers through \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bivens_action\">Bivens action\u003c/a>, which are lawsuits that can be pursued by anyone, regardless of immigration status, who has had their Fourth, Fifth or Eighth Amendment rights violated by a federal agent. However, in 2022, the Supreme Court made a decision on a Border Patrol-related case that \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23159672/supreme-court-egbert-boule-bivens-law-enforcement-border-patrol-immunity\">many lawyers argue\u003c/a> provided DHS agents immunity from civil suits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074669\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DAYBROOK-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DAYBROOK-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DAYBROOK-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DAYBROOK-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daybrook Terrace in Temecula on Feb. 19, 2026. Gerardo Rodriguez was arrested after holding a teenager at gunpoint in this neighborhood last November, and witnesses said he identified himself as a federal immigration officer. \u003ccite>(Anthony Victoria/KVCR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[The decision] held that cases against immigration enforcement officers are difficult to prove, in no small part, because those officers are engaged in protecting the national security of the United States,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Rodriguez appeared to be acting in his personal capacity and may not be shielded by the recent 2022 Bivens court ruling, meaning Rodriguez could be held liable in a civil court. Johnson also said he’s not surprised that a U.S. attorney is not representing Rodriguez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that his interests, since he’s being prosecuted individually, are separate and distinct from the U.S. government’s interests,” Johnson said. “I think it’s not unheard of for an individual officer in this kind of situation to get private counsel, counsel that’s responsive to him and directed by him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrest was also notable because Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a candidate for California governor, is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYPGFaElxeg&t=412s\">outspoken supporter\u003c/a> of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Johnson said he assumes that the sheriff’s arrest of Rodriguez — and the follow-up charges from the DA’s office — could be connected to the growing concern from the public over immigration enforcement actions.[aside postID=news_12073728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260218-George-Retes-01-KQED.jpg']“I think some conservatives are worried about government overreach,” he said. “The false imprisonment of a 17-year-old is the kind of a citizen who’s not subject to immigration enforcement is the kind of thing that would rile people up who feel, this is our community. We shouldn’t be treating citizens in our community like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirakosian, the civil rights attorney representing the 17-year-old boy Rodriguez pulled over, said his client preferred not to speak to members of the media about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a tornado for the whole family,” Kirakosian said. “I don’t know how else to put it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he was “pleasantly surprised” by the sheriff’s arrest of Rodriguez, but doesn’t expect Rodriguez to be prosecuted, especially as the Trump administration continues to back the actions of federal agents. “I wish that was the trend we were going to start seeing increase with this case,” Kirakosian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he added that he considers the young boy to be lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he was one wrong move away from this ending very differently,” Kirakosian said, “And [Rodriguez] would have said ‘I was scared for my life, and I had to take him down for my own safety.’ And you know, that’s what we’re seeing everywhere else with these agents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing on Feb. 27 at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited with support from\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem> The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Sit your ass down,” Rodriguez said. “Do you have a driver’s license?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Kirakosian, a civil rights attorney based in Los Angeles, said the driver of the truck is his client — a 17-year-old boy who was driving home from a house party nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirakosian said witnesses on scene identified Rodriguez as a federal immigration agent, either with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection. Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies said Rodriguez was wearing a badge in a prepared statement, which was shared in November but has since been deleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074665\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1.jpg 473w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GerardoRodriguez-Video-screenshot-1-160x77.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-home surveillance video: Gerardo Rodriguez is seen pointing a gun at a pickup truck. The driver of that truck is a 17-year-old, whose attorney said was on his way back home from a party nearby. \u003ccite>(Screenshot via Kirakosian Law)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kirakosian said neighbors stepped in and told Rodriguez to let the boy go, and the sheriff’s press release confirmed that the boy’s father told deputies on scene that Rodriguez stopped his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy’s parents rushed to the scene with his passport because they feared the encounter was immigration related, Kirakosian added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know, why are you doing that? He’s just a kid. He was from down there. Leave him alone,’” Kirakosian said. “And you know, that adrenaline, I guess, wears off, and Rodriguez finally decides that, yeah, he probably shouldn’t be doing what he’s doing and just lets the boy go home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrested Rodriguez at his home after investigators obtained a search warrant and collected evidence related to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez was arraigned in December, according to records obtained by KVCR, where he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment and false imprisonment. Rodriguez pleaded not guilty, and his private attorney, Michael Scaffidi, did not return calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the case is still under investigation. The agency would not confirm or deny that Rodriguez was employed by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and Border Protection. 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Last August, Mexican immigrant Francisco Longoria had his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-08-22/attorneys-seek-answers-after-border-patrol-shoots-at-san-bernardino-mans-truck\">windows shot out\u003c/a> by Border Patrol agents in San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ontario, just two months later, 24-year-old U.S. citizen Carlos Jimenez \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-10-30/federal-immigration-agents-say-driver-tried-to-run-them-over-before-shooting-in-ontario\">was shot in his shoulder\u003c/a> by federal agents during an encounter near a school bus stop. Immigrant rights groups and lawyers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-11-15/attorneys-say-ontario-ice-shooting-fits-pattern-of-aggressive-enforcement\">calling for accountability\u003c/a> for the agents involved in the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Kirakosian said he considers the incident involving Rodriguez and his client a standout case. 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"content": "\u003cp>Before last year, United States citizens visiting the United Kingdom and Europe didn’t need a visa waiver or travel authorization to enter these countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that all changed, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018848/want-to-visit-europe-in-2025-youll-need-to-apply-for-new-travel-authorization#apply-uk-eta\">the U.K. now requires an electronic travel authorization (ETA) \u003c/a>for visitors from countries including the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (Jump straight to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018848/want-to-visit-europe-in-2025-youll-need-to-apply-for-new-travel-authorization#apply-uk-eta\">how to apply for an ETA to visit the U.K.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And later in 2026, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018848/want-to-visit-europe-in-2025-youll-need-to-apply-for-new-travel-authorization#apply-europe-etias\">the European Union also plans to introduce its own visa waiver document called an ETIAS\u003c/a> for visitors, including U.S. citizens. The ETA and the ETIAS processes are separate, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887\">the U.K. officially left the European Union in 2020\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few recent developments to know if you’re planning to travel to Europe in 2026:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The UK is now enforcing ETA rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 25, visitors from 85 countries that require an ETA “will not be able to legally travel to the UK” without securing this document in advance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-permission-no-travel-uk-set-to-enforce-eta-scheme\">according to the U.K. Home Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ETA system was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-opens-pre-travel-requirement-to-non-europeans\">rolled out to non-Europeans in January 2025\u003c/a>, but “was not strictly enforced, to give visitors ample time to adjust to the new requirement,” the British government said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There’s still no firm launch date for ETIAS \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) was originally scheduled to take effect sometime in mid-2025. But in March 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/revised-timeline-ees-and-etias-2025-03-07_en\">the EU announced that ETIAS had been postponed until “the last quarter of 2026.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already making plans to travel into the European Union starting Oct. 1, 2026, you should know: there still is no firm date for the ETIAS launch, and advance applications aren’t open. The EU said that officials will announce a specific opening date “several months prior” to the system’s launch, and that “no action is required from travelers at this point.” We’ll update this guide with more information when we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rising fees for tourists to Europe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2025, just a few months after the program rolled out for travelers including American citizens, the U.K. raised the cost of an ETA by 60%: from £10 (around $13.50 at the current exchange rate) to its new cost of £16 (almost $22.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_25_1879\"> the European Union has announced that it plans to similarly raise fees\u003c/a> by almost triple for its own ETIAS visitor application, from €7 (around $8) to €20 (around $23.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? The online process for obtaining permission to travel to these areas should be fairly simple — and speedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re hoping to visit Europe in 2026, keep reading for everything you need to know about obtaining the right travel authorization before your visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#apply-europe-etias\">What permissions will U.S. citizens need to visit Europe?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"apply-uk-eta\">\u003c/a>New travel rules for U.S. citizens visiting the UK in 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will change in 2026 about travel to the U.K.?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a U.S. citizen visiting the U.K., you’ll need to apply online for an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for any travel to (and through) that country. Starting Feb. 25, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-permission-no-travel-uk-set-to-enforce-eta-scheme\">this requirement will be strictly enforced\u003c/a>, and the U.K. government says that unless you’re exempt, \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">you won’t be able to board\u003c/a> your flight without an ETA. [aside postID=news_11970450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/230925-TaxiDriver-001-BL-qut.jpg']The new rules include any children who are traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After applying, you’ll receive an email confirmation, so check your spam folder if you don’t see anything. This authorization will be digitally linked to the passport you applied with and will last for two years — during which time “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\">you can travel to the U.K. \u003c/a>as many times as you want,” according to the U.K. government website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\">Dual citizens who have British or Irish citizenship \u003c/a>do not need to apply for an ETA and must enter the U.K. using their British or Irish passport (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-guide-for-dual-citizens\">a certificate of entitlement\u003c/a>) as proof of their exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European visitors to the U.K. also\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-extend-electronic-travel-to-european-visitors\"> now need to apply\u003c/a> for an ETA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If I’m just transiting through a U.K. airport, do I still need an ETA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a connecting flight that takes you to the U.K., and you’ll pass through U.K. passport control at the airport to catch your next flight, the British government says \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">you’ll need an ETA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “those transiting through Heathrow and Manchester airports who do not go through U.K. passport control do not currently need an ETA,” says the U.K Home Office. Consider checking directly with your airline to be sure of your entry requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I apply for an ETA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Home Office recommends that you apply for your ETA \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVvTTbHIu4\">\u003cem>before\u003c/em> booking your travel to the U.K.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens can apply for an ETA via:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-uk-eta-app\">The official U.K. ETA app for iPhone or Android\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://apply-for-an-eta.homeoffice.gov.uk/apply/electronic-travel-authorisation/how-to-apply\">The official gov.uk website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12018960 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. citizens thinking about making travel plans to a European city like Edinburgh, Scotland, should be aware of the big travel changes to the U.K. and Europe in 2025 and 2026. \u003ccite>(Guven Ozdemir/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.K. government strongly recommends applying via the app and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-uk-eta-app\">has a detailed guide to applying for an ETA this way\u003c/a>. However,\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\"> if you’re applying for someone else who is not with you in person during the application\u003c/a> — for example, a member of your travel party — they advise applying online rather than using the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To apply, you’ll need to upload a photo of your passport and, for travelers age 10 and over, your face. You’ll then be asked several questions and pay the cost of the application, which is now £16 (almost $22.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beware of any third-party website seeking to charge you more for processing your ETA application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long will getting an ETA take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.K. government said that the ETA app “enables most applicants to receive a decision in hours” and that applicants will “usually get a decision within 3 working days, but you may get a quicker decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Home Office warns that it may “occasionally” take longer than three working days. So make sure you apply for your ETA well ahead of your departure date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/check-eta\">check the status of your ETA online on gov.uk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if my ETA application is unsuccessful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.K. Home Office said that \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">if your ETA application is “rejected,” you’ll be informed of the reason and can apply again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if your ETA application is “refused,” you won’t be able to apply again, and you can’t appeal the decision. Instead, you’ll have to apply for a visa to visit the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"apply-europe-etias\">\u003c/a>New travel rules for U.S. citizens visiting Europe in 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do I need to know about visiting Europe as a U.S. citizen in the next few years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, European Union officials announced that U.S. citizens visiting 30 European countries would soon need to apply online for travel authorization through the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ETIAS was originally scheduled to come into effect sometime in mid-2025. But in March that year, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/revised-timeline-ees-and-etias-2025-03-07_en\">the EU announced that ETIAS had been postponed until “the last quarter of 2026.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no firm 2026 date for ETIAS travel authorizations taking effect, and applications aren’t open. The EU said that officials will announce a specific opening date “several months prior” to the system’s launch, and that “no action is required from travelers at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When ETIAS \u003cem>does\u003c/em> launch, which could be any time starting Oct. 1, this new requirement will include any children who are traveling and will also apply to travelers who are transiting through these countries. You’ll apply for ETIAS online, after which you’ll receive an email confirming your ETIAS travel authorization has been successful. This authorization will then be digitally linked to the passport you applied with and \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#validity-and-renewal\">will last for three years or until your passport expires\u003c/a> — whichever comes first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the ETA and the ETIAS processes are separate, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887\">the U.K. officially left the European Union in 2020\u003c/a>, so even if you have a valid ETA to visit the U.K., you’ll still need an ETIAS to enter Europe when the system is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’re hoping to visit a European country like Italy in 2025, stay up-to-date with applications for the ETIAS travel authorization for U.S. citizens. \u003ccite>(Lorado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which European countries will U.S. citizens need ETIAS travel authorization to visit in 2026?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/who-should-apply_en#ETIAS-countries\">The full list of countries that U.S. citizens will need ETIAS travel authorization to visit in late 2026\u003c/a>: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Iceland, Croatia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens who also have European Union (EU) nationality will not need to apply for ETIAS travel authorization. \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en\">See who else will be exempt from ETIAS travel authorization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How will I apply for ETIAS travel authorization when it comes into effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applications finally open later in 2026, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en\">you’ll apply online on the EU’s website\u003c/a>. Applications will cost €20 (almost $24), but those costs are waived for minors. \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">Read more about the types of information you’ll be asked to provide in your application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important thing if you’re planning to visit Europe in late 2026: To receive ETIAS travel authorization, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">your U.S. passport will need to be valid for more than three months after you \u003cem>leave\u003c/em> Europe\u003c/a>. Also, your passport can’t be more than 10 years old. So, if you were looking for a reason to renew your U.S. passport, now might be a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applications open, beware of any third-party website seeking to charge you more for processing your ETIAS travel authorization application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long will getting ETIAS travel authorization take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU said that \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">most ETIAS travel authorization applications “will be processed within minutes and at the latest within 96 hours”\u003c/a> — but warns that “some applicants may be asked to provide additional information or documentation or to participate in an interview with national authorities, which may take up to an additional 30 days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, “we strongly advise you to obtain the ETIAS travel authorization before you buy your tickets and book your hotels,” officials say. So, if you’re hoping to visit Europe in 2026, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en\">it’s worth keeping an eye on the EU’s official ETIAS website for updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if my ETIAS travel authorization application is unsuccessful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU lists \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#refusals-cancellations-and-appeals\">several reasons your ETIAS travel authorization could be denied\u003c/a>, including if you’re “considered to pose a security, illegal immigration or high epidemic risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re denied, you’ll be told the reason by email, which will also provide information about your options to appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few recent developments to know if you’re planning to travel to Europe in 2026:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The UK is now enforcing ETA rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 25, visitors from 85 countries that require an ETA “will not be able to legally travel to the UK” without securing this document in advance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-permission-no-travel-uk-set-to-enforce-eta-scheme\">according to the U.K. Home Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ETA system was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-opens-pre-travel-requirement-to-non-europeans\">rolled out to non-Europeans in January 2025\u003c/a>, but “was not strictly enforced, to give visitors ample time to adjust to the new requirement,” the British government said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>There’s still no firm launch date for ETIAS \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) was originally scheduled to take effect sometime in mid-2025. But in March 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/revised-timeline-ees-and-etias-2025-03-07_en\">the EU announced that ETIAS had been postponed until “the last quarter of 2026.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re already making plans to travel into the European Union starting Oct. 1, 2026, you should know: there still is no firm date for the ETIAS launch, and advance applications aren’t open. The EU said that officials will announce a specific opening date “several months prior” to the system’s launch, and that “no action is required from travelers at this point.” We’ll update this guide with more information when we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Rising fees for tourists to Europe\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2025, just a few months after the program rolled out for travelers including American citizens, the U.K. raised the cost of an ETA by 60%: from £10 (around $13.50 at the current exchange rate) to its new cost of £16 (almost $22.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_25_1879\"> the European Union has announced that it plans to similarly raise fees\u003c/a> by almost triple for its own ETIAS visitor application, from €7 (around $8) to €20 (around $23.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? The online process for obtaining permission to travel to these areas should be fairly simple — and speedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re hoping to visit Europe in 2026, keep reading for everything you need to know about obtaining the right travel authorization before your visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#apply-europe-etias\">What permissions will U.S. citizens need to visit Europe?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"apply-uk-eta\">\u003c/a>New travel rules for U.S. citizens visiting the UK in 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will change in 2026 about travel to the U.K.?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a U.S. citizen visiting the U.K., you’ll need to apply online for an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for any travel to (and through) that country. Starting Feb. 25, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-permission-no-travel-uk-set-to-enforce-eta-scheme\">this requirement will be strictly enforced\u003c/a>, and the U.K. government says that unless you’re exempt, \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">you won’t be able to board\u003c/a> your flight without an ETA. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The new rules include any children who are traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After applying, you’ll receive an email confirmation, so check your spam folder if you don’t see anything. This authorization will be digitally linked to the passport you applied with and will last for two years — during which time “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\">you can travel to the U.K. \u003c/a>as many times as you want,” according to the U.K. government website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\">Dual citizens who have British or Irish citizenship \u003c/a>do not need to apply for an ETA and must enter the U.K. using their British or Irish passport (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-guide-for-dual-citizens\">a certificate of entitlement\u003c/a>) as proof of their exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European visitors to the U.K. also\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-extend-electronic-travel-to-european-visitors\"> now need to apply\u003c/a> for an ETA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If I’m just transiting through a U.K. airport, do I still need an ETA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a connecting flight that takes you to the U.K., and you’ll pass through U.K. passport control at the airport to catch your next flight, the British government says \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">you’ll need an ETA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “those transiting through Heathrow and Manchester airports who do not go through U.K. passport control do not currently need an ETA,” says the U.K Home Office. Consider checking directly with your airline to be sure of your entry requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do I apply for an ETA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Home Office recommends that you apply for your ETA \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVvTTbHIu4\">\u003cem>before\u003c/em> booking your travel to the U.K.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens can apply for an ETA via:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-uk-eta-app\">The official U.K. ETA app for iPhone or Android\u003c/a> or\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://apply-for-an-eta.homeoffice.gov.uk/apply/electronic-travel-authorisation/how-to-apply\">The official gov.uk website\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12018960 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-1020x574.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/scotland-tourism-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. citizens thinking about making travel plans to a European city like Edinburgh, Scotland, should be aware of the big travel changes to the U.K. and Europe in 2025 and 2026. \u003ccite>(Guven Ozdemir/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.K. government strongly recommends applying via the app and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-uk-eta-app\">has a detailed guide to applying for an ETA this way\u003c/a>. However,\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta\"> if you’re applying for someone else who is not with you in person during the application\u003c/a> — for example, a member of your travel party — they advise applying online rather than using the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To apply, you’ll need to upload a photo of your passport and, for travelers age 10 and over, your face. You’ll then be asked several questions and pay the cost of the application, which is now £16 (almost $22.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beware of any third-party website seeking to charge you more for processing your ETA application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long will getting an ETA take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.K. government said that the ETA app “enables most applicants to receive a decision in hours” and that applicants will “usually get a decision within 3 working days, but you may get a quicker decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the Home Office warns that it may “occasionally” take longer than three working days. So make sure you apply for your ETA well ahead of your departure date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/check-eta\">check the status of your ETA online on gov.uk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if my ETA application is unsuccessful?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.K. Home Office said that \u003ca href=\"https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation-eta-factsheet-february-2026/\">if your ETA application is “rejected,” you’ll be informed of the reason and can apply again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if your ETA application is “refused,” you won’t be able to apply again, and you can’t appeal the decision. Instead, you’ll have to apply for a visa to visit the U.K.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"apply-europe-etias\">\u003c/a>New travel rules for U.S. citizens visiting Europe in 2026\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do I need to know about visiting Europe as a U.S. citizen in the next few years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, European Union officials announced that U.S. citizens visiting 30 European countries would soon need to apply online for travel authorization through the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ETIAS was originally scheduled to come into effect sometime in mid-2025. But in March that year, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/revised-timeline-ees-and-etias-2025-03-07_en\">the EU announced that ETIAS had been postponed until “the last quarter of 2026.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still no firm 2026 date for ETIAS travel authorizations taking effect, and applications aren’t open. The EU said that officials will announce a specific opening date “several months prior” to the system’s launch, and that “no action is required from travelers at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When ETIAS \u003cem>does\u003c/em> launch, which could be any time starting Oct. 1, this new requirement will include any children who are traveling and will also apply to travelers who are transiting through these countries. You’ll apply for ETIAS online, after which you’ll receive an email confirming your ETIAS travel authorization has been successful. This authorization will then be digitally linked to the passport you applied with and \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#validity-and-renewal\">will last for three years or until your passport expires\u003c/a> — whichever comes first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the ETA and the ETIAS processes are separate, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887\">the U.K. officially left the European Union in 2020\u003c/a>, so even if you have a valid ETA to visit the U.K., you’ll still need an ETIAS to enter Europe when the system is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018959\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/italy-tourism-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’re hoping to visit a European country like Italy in 2025, stay up-to-date with applications for the ETIAS travel authorization for U.S. citizens. \u003ccite>(Lorado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which European countries will U.S. citizens need ETIAS travel authorization to visit in 2026?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/who-should-apply_en#ETIAS-countries\">The full list of countries that U.S. citizens will need ETIAS travel authorization to visit in late 2026\u003c/a>: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Iceland, Croatia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens who also have European Union (EU) nationality will not need to apply for ETIAS travel authorization. \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en\">See who else will be exempt from ETIAS travel authorization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How will I apply for ETIAS travel authorization when it comes into effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applications finally open later in 2026, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en\">you’ll apply online on the EU’s website\u003c/a>. Applications will cost €20 (almost $24), but those costs are waived for minors. \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">Read more about the types of information you’ll be asked to provide in your application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One important thing if you’re planning to visit Europe in late 2026: To receive ETIAS travel authorization, \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">your U.S. passport will need to be valid for more than three months after you \u003cem>leave\u003c/em> Europe\u003c/a>. Also, your passport can’t be more than 10 years old. So, if you were looking for a reason to renew your U.S. passport, now might be a good time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When applications open, beware of any third-party website seeking to charge you more for processing your ETIAS travel authorization application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long will getting ETIAS travel authorization take?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EU said that \u003ca href=\"https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/faqs-etias_en#applying-for-an-etias-travel-authorisation\">most ETIAS travel authorization applications “will be processed within minutes and at the latest within 96 hours”\u003c/a> — but warns that “some applicants may be asked to provide additional information or documentation or to participate in an interview with national authorities, which may take up to an additional 30 days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this reason, “we strongly advise you to obtain the ETIAS travel authorization before you buy your tickets and book your hotels,” officials say. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant Strother loves a good caprese sandwich from North Beach. On weekdays, he walks to Molinari Delicatessen on Columbus Avenue from his job in San Francisco’sFinancial District during his lunch break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s such an easy walk,” he said. “Not too many hills to climb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, on a particularly meandering walk, Strother passed by Saints Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square. It still offers bilingual mass in Italian, he noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was intrigued. Are there still Italian speakers in the neighborhood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration patterns have undoubtedly changed,” Strother said. Twenty years ago, he’d hear Italian spoken outside restaurants like Mario’s Bohemian Cafe and Caffe Trieste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nowadays, aside from all the restaurants, he wondered: “How Italian is it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The history of Italians in North Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since the Gold Rush, Italian immigrants have come to San Francisco in waves. The\u003ca href=\"https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-Italian-American-community-of-San-Francisco-:-a-descriptive-study/oclc/1393057217\"> height\u003c/a> of the Italian population was in 1930, when the ethnic community numbered just under 60,000 and made up nine percent of the overall population of San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-Italian-American-community-of-San-Francisco-:-a-descriptive-study/oclc/1393057217\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern Italians, from Liguria and Tuscany, first arrived in San Francisco, making up more than half of the ethnic enclave. Later, folks from southern regions like Sicily and Calabria started emigrating. Many Italians settled in North Beach, although the Excelsior District was also a cluster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saints Peter and Paul Church, a Catholic church in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, on Nov. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve Leveroni, board president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.italiancs.org/\">Italian Community Services\u003c/a> in North Beach, vice president of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and an insurance businessman, has deep roots in North Beach. His great-great-grandfather, Luigi, emigrated from Genoa in Northern Italy in the 1860s. When Steve was growing up in North Beach in the 1960s, descendants of the Genovese lived on Green Street, from Mason Street to Grant Avenue, and Sts. Peter and Paul Church was their centerpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all got baptized there, we all got married there, and unfortunately, our funerals are gonna be there,” Leveroni said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church still towers above Washington Square Park, where residents bask in the sun, play with dogs and practice tai chi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remnants of Italian culture are still all around the neighborhood. Liguria Bakery, on one corner of the park, has been going strong since 1911. Bay Area residents still flock there for mushroom or raisin focaccia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After every mass, we were given a few dollars, and our duty was to pick up the focaccia to bring back to the house for lunch,” Leveroni remembered.[aside postID=news_12063643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251008-GirlintheFishbowl-01-BL.jpg']Now, as Steve walks down Columbus Avenue, the neighborhood is much more multicultural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Now I can walk a block or two and not know somebody that I grew up with,” he said. And today, there’s no clear line between Chinatown and North Beach anymore. “At one time, Broadway Street, down here, was kind of the line of demarcation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leveroni moved to the Richmond District on San Francisco’s West Side when he got married. While North Beach may not be where the descendants of Italian immigrants live anymore, he said, it’s where people come to celebrate and be with family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The North Beach area is the gathering place for all the Italians to come back to,” he said. “Where do they go? To the restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A changed neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A look at the latest census data shows that only 4% of residents who reported ancestry in North Beach’s main ZIP code have any Italian roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, Italian Americans joined many other San Franciscans in flight to the suburbs. Since then, North Beach morphed into a hangout for the Beat Generation, new residence for the Chinese community and a thriving tourist destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michele Ferrante (center) sits with friends at Stella Pastry in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood on Nov. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, you have to look pretty hard to find old-time Italians in North Beach, but it’s not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Ferrante and Frank Balistreri are two of a handful of Sicilians who gather at Stella Pastry & Cafe on Columbus Avenue every morning to drink espresso and talk sports and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We] come out here and bullsh–t all day long,” said Balistreri, who used to own Portofino, a North Beach Italian restaurant. He speaks a Sicilian dialect with Ferrante, who also ran an Italian restaurant in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrante came to San Francisco as a young adult in the 1960s. He left Palermo for New York with his parents, but went further west by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about the Fisherman’s Wharf full of restaurants, full of Italians, mostly Sicilians, the Aliotos and others,” Ferrante said. Having learned how to cook in the Army and being Sicilian, he figured, “I can go there and get a job.”[aside postID=news_12059962 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Jello-Biafra-of-the-Dead-Kennedys-performing-at-the-Mabuhay-Gardens-.jpg']By the late 1960s, North Beach was already transforming. Beatnik culture was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were the days of the hippie generation,” Ferrante said. “There were clubs all over Broadway. All kinds of shows, performances. You could not even walk on Broadway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beat artists and Italians \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/The_Emergence_of_the_North_Beach_Beat_Scene\">got along\u003c/a> perhaps better than expected. Italian property owners reportedly kept rents low and poets liked the cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Bookstore, took note of waning Italian culture in North Beach in his famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.scalponefamilytree.info/OldItaliansDyingPoem.htm\">poem\u003c/a>\u003cem> Old Italians are Dying\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“For years the old Italians in faded felt hats have been sunning themselves and dying.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You have seen them on the benches in the park in Washington Square \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The old Italians in their high button shoes \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The old men in their felt fedoras with stained hatbands have been dying and dying day by day. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clement Hudson plays the accordion on Columbus Avenue in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the early 1980s, Ferrante said, North Beach didn’t feel like an Italian enclave anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all moved to Burlingame, San Mateo, Napa, St. Helena, Sonoma,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I was raised here, you knew who was Italian and who wasn’t,” said Balistreri. “Now you don’t know who’s who.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Preserving history is good business\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, the North Beach Chamber of Commerce kicked off a\u003ca href=\"https://www.proquest.com/docview/304187079?%20Theses&accountid=13802&parentSessionId=OAtwzKcX6YzQPUr6brPkGvuKr4%2FF9YEmAoAyrh9mrIo%3D&parentSessionId=PVrf0rGU7WE%2BjHgKUIi7mzkDXo%2B5u5jwDXRNQdxuNI0%3D&pq-origsite=primo&searchKeywords=North%20Beach%20San%20Francisco%20ethnic%20neighborhood&sourcetype=Dissertations%20\"> marketing\u003c/a> campaign called “Little Italy of the West.” Light poles were painted with Italian flag colors. People could buy t-shirts that read: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.proquest.com/docview/304187079?accountid=13802&parentSessionId=PVrf0rGU7WE%2BjHgKUIi7mzkDXo%2B5u5jwDXRNQdxuNI0%3D&pq-origsite=primo&searchKeywords=North%20Beach%20San%20Francisco%20ethnic%20neighborhood&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses\">I’m proud to be half- Italian\u003c/a>.” After all,\u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4287693/\"> research shows, \u003c/a>preserving a neighborhood’s ethnic identity is good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural groups, new and old, are coming up with new ways to keep Italian heritage alive in North Beach as well. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sflittleitaly.us/\">San Francisco Little Italy Honor Walk\u003c/a> has installed five bronze plaques in the sidewalks around Washington Square that commemorate notable Italian immigrants in San Francisco, from Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini to former mayor George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Businesses line Green Street in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is the first time that we have multigenerational Italian Americans here, part of one group,” said the organization’s president, Gina Von Esmarch, at a ceremony to unveil the plaques. She’s a relative of both former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and the owners of Alioto’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Von Esmarch hopes the plaques will teach the next generation about the accomplishments of San Francisco’s early Italians. “Yes, it’s to pay homage or tribute,” she said, but the plaques will also be “a living classroom” to tourists and history buffs alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, new Italian immigrants are coming to San Francisco to work in\u003ca href=\"https://innovitsf.com/about/\"> tech\u003c/a>, and specifically to North Beach to open \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Italian-Homemade-Co-makes-S-F-s-only-piadine-6101783.php\">new\u003c/a> or take over \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/reopened-north-beach-restaurant-thriving-under-new-ownership/article_dd5fdd67-94b5-4f01-86f0-1374ef5a9181.html\">old restaurants\u003c/a>. Von Esmarch said it’s part of a “re-gentrification” of North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiac.org/\"> San Francisco Italian Athletic Club\u003c/a> on Washington Square, open only to people with Italian heritage, said it has doubled membership in the past decade. The new crop is younger and is a mix of Italians from first to fourth generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While North Beach may not be home to as many Italians anymore, it’s still culturally at the heart of the community. Every year, people return for the Italian Heritage Parade on Columbus Avenue. But instead of living down the street, people commute here to enjoy pasta with friends and family — something everyone can enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Corbelli works at Liguria Bakery in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, on Nov. 18, 2025. The long-standing bakery specializes in traditional focaccia. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Facts in this story were sourced from historian Rose Scherini, author of The Italian American Community of San Francisco: a Descriptive Study \u003c/em>\u003cem>and many other works, as well as historians Dino Cinel and Sebastian Fichera.\u003c/em>\u003cem> Special thanks to the library at San Francisco State University.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Parade sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>San Francisco’s Italian Heritage parade creates a massive public party in North Beach every October. Streets are blocked off from Fisherman’s Wharf to Washington Square Park on Columbus Day weekend. Bystanders wave mini Italian flags and eat gelato as they watch the fancy floats and trolleys go by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Parade music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>At Saints Peter and Paul church, people play a salami toss game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Salami toss sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Word is, this is the longest-running Italian parade in the country – started back in 1869. Our question asker this week, Grant Strother [STRUH-ther]], says, he’s not Italian, but he’s walked these streets since he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grant Strother:\u003c/strong> I do remember in high school in the early 2000s, you would still hear some Italian conversations on the street. I remember like hearing that at Mario’s and Trieste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Now, as an adult, he works in the financial district and sometimes walks to North Beach for lunch, to grab a caprese sandwich at Molinari’s Deli. But during one of those walks, he wondered … Do Italian people still live in North Beach, or is it all just a tourist trap?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grant Strother:\u003c/strong> Obviously, immigration patterns have undoubtedly changed since North Beach was populated. But I was just interested then in how Italian North Beach really is, aside from a lot of the restaurants that are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and today on Bay Curious, we’ll look at the Italian roots of North Beach, track how things have changed and learn about some of the efforts to keep this history alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Located on San Francisco’s northeast side, North Beach is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city and has been home to immigrants from many backgrounds over the years. It sits right next to Chinatown and where Little Manilatown used to be. Now, it’s teeming with Italian cafes, restaurants and bakeries. KQED’s Pauline Bartolone went to find out whether any Italians still live in this neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Columbus Avenue\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Remnants of Italian culture are still all around North Beach, but to spot them, it helps to have a guide. Someone like Steve Leveroni, who grew up in North Beach in the 50s and 60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>Way back when… home of the Genoveses lived on Green street from Green and Mason all the way up to Green and Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Steve gives me a tour of the neighborhood, his great-great-grandfather, Luigi, landed back in the 1860s. Like many Italian immigrants in North Beach, he came from Northern Italy, the Genoa region. In the decades that followed, other Italians came from Tuscany, Sicily and Calabria to escape poverty and seek new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Sound of walking up steps)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They settled around the Italian Cathedral, Sts. Peter and Paul Church…still a center point for later generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>So this is where you come for your baptism, you come for marriage, you also come for your funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The church towers above Washington Square Park, where residents bask in the sun, play with dogs, practice tai chi and blast music. Steve says when he was growing up, Italians used to hang out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>You’d see groups sitting down of men and women and they would be speaking in Italian. So that is probably one thing that’s not as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>You don’t hear Italian very much because not many Italians live here anymore. At its height in 1930, the Italian community numbered about 60,000 people, almost a tenth of the population of San Francisco. But as early as the 1950s, the Italians here joined many others in the flight to the suburbs. Now, only four percent of residents in North Beach’s main ZIP code have Italian heritage, that’s according to the latest census data of people who reported ancestry. But Steve says even if younger generations moved out of the city, they still come back to the neighborhood for celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>The North Beach area is the gathering place for all the Italians to come back to. But where do they go? They come, you know, to the restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The restaurants of North Beach are now the most visible and lasting legacy of the Italian enclave here. Graffeo’s coffee on Columbus, since 1935. Molinari’s Deli, our question-asker’s spot, Italian-owned since 1896. Liguria Bakery known for its mushroom or raisin focaccia since 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Restaurant sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Steve wraps up our tour by taking me inside one of the city’s best seafood spots: Sotto Mare, owned by his grammar school friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>Their sauces are all, I can see all on the stovetop there, so we’re getting some aromas from that. And then probably one of those pots is their crab chipino, which is, which is excellent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Nowadays, you have to look pretty hard to find Italian old-timers in the neighborhood, but it’s not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>People speaking Sicilian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>After weeks of looking around, I finally heard some chatter at Stella’s pastry shop on Columbus Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante:\u003c/strong> We come every morning, seven days a week. Just, you know, we just get a drink espresso and you know we talk Italian, Sicilian actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri:\u003c/strong> It’s a meeting spot. Come out here and bullshit all day long. That’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Michele Ferrante and Frank Balistreri both ran Italian restaurants in the neighborhood and still live here. They’re just two of the Sicilians who talk sports and politics here every morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante:\u003c/strong> We are known as the peccatore. We are all sinners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri:\u003c/strong> Give him the Academy Award, please. Make him happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In fact, San Francisco’s Italian restaurants are what drew Michele here as a young adult in the 1960s. His parents left Palermo for New York, but Michele wanted to come further west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>I told my father, my mother says, Arrivederci, I’m going to California. I heard about the Fisherman Wharf full of restaurants, full of Italians, mostly Sicilians, the Aliotos and others. And also because I was hearing so much about North Beach, and being Sicilian, and being a cook, so well, I can go there and get a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>By the late 1960s, North Beach’s reputation was evolving beyond an Italian neighborhood. Beatnik culture was well established by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>Those were the days of the hippie generation, you know, ‘67 was the summer of love. Everything was going on. One of my favorite hangout was at La Rocca’s Corner, which is still here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The beat culture, artists and Italians got along perhaps better than expected… Italian property owners reportedly kept rents low, and poets liked the cafes. In 1976, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Bookstore, took note of North Beach’s waning Italian culture in his famous poem “Old Italians are Dying.” Here’s a recording of him reading it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawrence Ferlinghetti:\u003c/strong> For years the old Italians in faded felt hats have been sunning themselves and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have seen them on the benches in the park in Washington Square\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old Italians in their black high button shoes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old men in their felt fedoras with stained hatbands have been dying and dying day by day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>By the early 1980s, Michele says, North Beach didn’t feel like an Italian enclave anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>They all move, Burlingame, San Mateo, Napa, San Helena, Sonoma. San Francisco, not too many living here anymore, very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri: \u003c/strong>Sure, we saw it change. There’s still some kind of flavor, but not originally what I grew up with. The way I was raised here, you knew who was Italian and who wasn’t. Now you don’t know who’s who. So, basically, you feel like nobody’s here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>That feeling of “no Italians” – didn’t sit well with the North Beach chamber of commerce. In the 1990s, they kicked off a marketing campaign for the neighborhood, “Little Italy of the West.” Light poles were painted with Italian flag colors. People could buy “I’m proud to be half Italian” t-shirts. Afterall, research shows, preserving a neighborhood’s ethnic identity is good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of kids singing in Italian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Now, new initiatives are popping up to keep Italian heritage alive, like the Little Italy Honor Walk, a series of bronze sidewalk squares that memorialize notable Italians in San Francisco history. Five have been installed around Washington Square Park, and there’s more on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing fades out and sounds of Italian being spoken fade in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Back at Stella’s pastry shop, Michele and Frank say remembering North Beach’s Italian history is important, but they don’t need monuments to remind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri: \u003c/strong>Times change, things change, I don’t worry about it, as long as I’m here where I want to be. Italians are no Italians, I know who I am, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>North Beach’s original Italian enclave may be long gone, but the neighborhood’s history and food will keep bringing tourists…and locals with Italians heritage… back for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was brought to you by KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone. Special thanks to the San Francisco State University library where Pauline researched some of North Beach’s history. Thanks also to Jim McKee of EarWax Productions for the recording of Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading “Old Italians Are Dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s question came from Grant Strother, and you could be next! Submit your question about the Bay Area at BayCurious.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, as Steve walks down Columbus Avenue, the neighborhood is much more multicultural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>Now I can walk a block or two and not know somebody that I grew up with,” he said. And today, there’s no clear line between Chinatown and North Beach anymore. “At one time, Broadway Street, down here, was kind of the line of demarcation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leveroni moved to the Richmond District on San Francisco’s West Side when he got married. While North Beach may not be where the descendants of Italian immigrants live anymore, he said, it’s where people come to celebrate and be with family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The North Beach area is the gathering place for all the Italians to come back to,” he said. “Where do they go? To the restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A changed neighborhood\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A look at the latest census data shows that only 4% of residents who reported ancestry in North Beach’s main ZIP code have any Italian roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, Italian Americans joined many other San Franciscans in flight to the suburbs. Since then, North Beach morphed into a hangout for the Beat Generation, new residence for the Chinese community and a thriving tourist destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michele Ferrante (center) sits with friends at Stella Pastry in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood on Nov. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, you have to look pretty hard to find old-time Italians in North Beach, but it’s not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Ferrante and Frank Balistreri are two of a handful of Sicilians who gather at Stella Pastry & Cafe on Columbus Avenue every morning to drink espresso and talk sports and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We] come out here and bullsh–t all day long,” said Balistreri, who used to own Portofino, a North Beach Italian restaurant. He speaks a Sicilian dialect with Ferrante, who also ran an Italian restaurant in North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrante came to San Francisco as a young adult in the 1960s. He left Palermo for New York with his parents, but went further west by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard about the Fisherman’s Wharf full of restaurants, full of Italians, mostly Sicilians, the Aliotos and others,” Ferrante said. Having learned how to cook in the Army and being Sicilian, he figured, “I can go there and get a job.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By the late 1960s, North Beach was already transforming. Beatnik culture was well established.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were the days of the hippie generation,” Ferrante said. “There were clubs all over Broadway. All kinds of shows, performances. You could not even walk on Broadway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beat artists and Italians \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundsf.org/The_Emergence_of_the_North_Beach_Beat_Scene\">got along\u003c/a> perhaps better than expected. Italian property owners reportedly kept rents low and poets liked the cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Bookstore, took note of waning Italian culture in North Beach in his famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.scalponefamilytree.info/OldItaliansDyingPoem.htm\">poem\u003c/a>\u003cem> Old Italians are Dying\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“For years the old Italians in faded felt hats have been sunning themselves and dying.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You have seen them on the benches in the park in Washington Square \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The old Italians in their high button shoes \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The old men in their felt fedoras with stained hatbands have been dying and dying day by day. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clement Hudson plays the accordion on Columbus Avenue in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the early 1980s, Ferrante said, North Beach didn’t feel like an Italian enclave anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all moved to Burlingame, San Mateo, Napa, St. Helena, Sonoma,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I was raised here, you knew who was Italian and who wasn’t,” said Balistreri. “Now you don’t know who’s who.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Preserving history is good business\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, the North Beach Chamber of Commerce kicked off a\u003ca href=\"https://www.proquest.com/docview/304187079?%20Theses&accountid=13802&parentSessionId=OAtwzKcX6YzQPUr6brPkGvuKr4%2FF9YEmAoAyrh9mrIo%3D&parentSessionId=PVrf0rGU7WE%2BjHgKUIi7mzkDXo%2B5u5jwDXRNQdxuNI0%3D&pq-origsite=primo&searchKeywords=North%20Beach%20San%20Francisco%20ethnic%20neighborhood&sourcetype=Dissertations%20\"> marketing\u003c/a> campaign called “Little Italy of the West.” Light poles were painted with Italian flag colors. People could buy t-shirts that read: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.proquest.com/docview/304187079?accountid=13802&parentSessionId=PVrf0rGU7WE%2BjHgKUIi7mzkDXo%2B5u5jwDXRNQdxuNI0%3D&pq-origsite=primo&searchKeywords=North%20Beach%20San%20Francisco%20ethnic%20neighborhood&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses\">I’m proud to be half- Italian\u003c/a>.” After all,\u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4287693/\"> research shows, \u003c/a>preserving a neighborhood’s ethnic identity is good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural groups, new and old, are coming up with new ways to keep Italian heritage alive in North Beach as well. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sflittleitaly.us/\">San Francisco Little Italy Honor Walk\u003c/a> has installed five bronze plaques in the sidewalks around Washington Square that commemorate notable Italian immigrants in San Francisco, from Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini to former mayor George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-ITALIANNORTHBEACH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Businesses line Green Street in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is the first time that we have multigenerational Italian Americans here, part of one group,” said the organization’s president, Gina Von Esmarch, at a ceremony to unveil the plaques. She’s a relative of both former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and the owners of Alioto’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Von Esmarch hopes the plaques will teach the next generation about the accomplishments of San Francisco’s early Italians. “Yes, it’s to pay homage or tribute,” she said, but the plaques will also be “a living classroom” to tourists and history buffs alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, new Italian immigrants are coming to San Francisco to work in\u003ca href=\"https://innovitsf.com/about/\"> tech\u003c/a>, and specifically to North Beach to open \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Italian-Homemade-Co-makes-S-F-s-only-piadine-6101783.php\">new\u003c/a> or take over \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/reopened-north-beach-restaurant-thriving-under-new-ownership/article_dd5fdd67-94b5-4f01-86f0-1374ef5a9181.html\">old restaurants\u003c/a>. Von Esmarch said it’s part of a “re-gentrification” of North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiac.org/\"> San Francisco Italian Athletic Club\u003c/a> on Washington Square, open only to people with Italian heritage, said it has doubled membership in the past decade. The new crop is younger and is a mix of Italians from first to fourth generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While North Beach may not be home to as many Italians anymore, it’s still culturally at the heart of the community. Every year, people return for the Italian Heritage Parade on Columbus Avenue. But instead of living down the street, people commute here to enjoy pasta with friends and family — something everyone can enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071067\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251118-HOWITALIANISNORTHBEACH-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Corbelli works at Liguria Bakery in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, on Nov. 18, 2025. The long-standing bakery specializes in traditional focaccia. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Facts in this story were sourced from historian Rose Scherini, author of The Italian American Community of San Francisco: a Descriptive Study \u003c/em>\u003cem>and many other works, as well as historians Dino Cinel and Sebastian Fichera.\u003c/em>\u003cem> Special thanks to the library at San Francisco State University.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Our question asker this week, Grant Strother [STRUH-ther]], says, he’s not Italian, but he’s walked these streets since he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grant Strother:\u003c/strong> I do remember in high school in the early 2000s, you would still hear some Italian conversations on the street. I remember like hearing that at Mario’s and Trieste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Now, as an adult, he works in the financial district and sometimes walks to North Beach for lunch, to grab a caprese sandwich at Molinari’s Deli. But during one of those walks, he wondered … Do Italian people still live in North Beach, or is it all just a tourist trap?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grant Strother:\u003c/strong> Obviously, immigration patterns have undoubtedly changed since North Beach was populated. But I was just interested then in how Italian North Beach really is, aside from a lot of the restaurants that are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price, and today on Bay Curious, we’ll look at the Italian roots of North Beach, track how things have changed and learn about some of the efforts to keep this history alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Located on San Francisco’s northeast side, North Beach is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city and has been home to immigrants from many backgrounds over the years. It sits right next to Chinatown and where Little Manilatown used to be. Now, it’s teeming with Italian cafes, restaurants and bakeries. KQED’s Pauline Bartolone went to find out whether any Italians still live in this neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Columbus Avenue\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Remnants of Italian culture are still all around North Beach, but to spot them, it helps to have a guide. Someone like Steve Leveroni, who grew up in North Beach in the 50s and 60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>Way back when… home of the Genoveses lived on Green street from Green and Mason all the way up to Green and Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Steve gives me a tour of the neighborhood, his great-great-grandfather, Luigi, landed back in the 1860s. Like many Italian immigrants in North Beach, he came from Northern Italy, the Genoa region. In the decades that followed, other Italians came from Tuscany, Sicily and Calabria to escape poverty and seek new opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Sound of walking up steps)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They settled around the Italian Cathedral, Sts. Peter and Paul Church…still a center point for later generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>So this is where you come for your baptism, you come for marriage, you also come for your funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The church towers above Washington Square Park, where residents bask in the sun, play with dogs, practice tai chi and blast music. Steve says when he was growing up, Italians used to hang out here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>You’d see groups sitting down of men and women and they would be speaking in Italian. So that is probably one thing that’s not as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>You don’t hear Italian very much because not many Italians live here anymore. At its height in 1930, the Italian community numbered about 60,000 people, almost a tenth of the population of San Francisco. But as early as the 1950s, the Italians here joined many others in the flight to the suburbs. Now, only four percent of residents in North Beach’s main ZIP code have Italian heritage, that’s according to the latest census data of people who reported ancestry. But Steve says even if younger generations moved out of the city, they still come back to the neighborhood for celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>The North Beach area is the gathering place for all the Italians to come back to. But where do they go? They come, you know, to the restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The restaurants of North Beach are now the most visible and lasting legacy of the Italian enclave here. Graffeo’s coffee on Columbus, since 1935. Molinari’s Deli, our question-asker’s spot, Italian-owned since 1896. Liguria Bakery known for its mushroom or raisin focaccia since 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Restaurant sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Steve wraps up our tour by taking me inside one of the city’s best seafood spots: Sotto Mare, owned by his grammar school friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Leveroni: \u003c/strong>Their sauces are all, I can see all on the stovetop there, so we’re getting some aromas from that. And then probably one of those pots is their crab chipino, which is, which is excellent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Nowadays, you have to look pretty hard to find Italian old-timers in the neighborhood, but it’s not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>People speaking Sicilian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>After weeks of looking around, I finally heard some chatter at Stella’s pastry shop on Columbus Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante:\u003c/strong> We come every morning, seven days a week. Just, you know, we just get a drink espresso and you know we talk Italian, Sicilian actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri:\u003c/strong> It’s a meeting spot. Come out here and bullshit all day long. That’s it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Michele Ferrante and Frank Balistreri both ran Italian restaurants in the neighborhood and still live here. They’re just two of the Sicilians who talk sports and politics here every morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante:\u003c/strong> We are known as the peccatore. We are all sinners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri:\u003c/strong> Give him the Academy Award, please. Make him happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>In fact, San Francisco’s Italian restaurants are what drew Michele here as a young adult in the 1960s. His parents left Palermo for New York, but Michele wanted to come further west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>I told my father, my mother says, Arrivederci, I’m going to California. I heard about the Fisherman Wharf full of restaurants, full of Italians, mostly Sicilians, the Aliotos and others. And also because I was hearing so much about North Beach, and being Sicilian, and being a cook, so well, I can go there and get a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>By the late 1960s, North Beach’s reputation was evolving beyond an Italian neighborhood. Beatnik culture was well established by then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>Those were the days of the hippie generation, you know, ‘67 was the summer of love. Everything was going on. One of my favorite hangout was at La Rocca’s Corner, which is still here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The beat culture, artists and Italians got along perhaps better than expected… Italian property owners reportedly kept rents low, and poets liked the cafes. In 1976, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Bookstore, took note of North Beach’s waning Italian culture in his famous poem “Old Italians are Dying.” Here’s a recording of him reading it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawrence Ferlinghetti:\u003c/strong> For years the old Italians in faded felt hats have been sunning themselves and dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have seen them on the benches in the park in Washington Square\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old Italians in their black high button shoes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The old men in their felt fedoras with stained hatbands have been dying and dying day by day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>By the early 1980s, Michele says, North Beach didn’t feel like an Italian enclave anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michele Ferrante: \u003c/strong>They all move, Burlingame, San Mateo, Napa, San Helena, Sonoma. San Francisco, not too many living here anymore, very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri: \u003c/strong>Sure, we saw it change. There’s still some kind of flavor, but not originally what I grew up with. The way I was raised here, you knew who was Italian and who wasn’t. Now you don’t know who’s who. So, basically, you feel like nobody’s here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>That feeling of “no Italians” – didn’t sit well with the North Beach chamber of commerce. In the 1990s, they kicked off a marketing campaign for the neighborhood, “Little Italy of the West.” Light poles were painted with Italian flag colors. People could buy “I’m proud to be half Italian” t-shirts. Afterall, research shows, preserving a neighborhood’s ethnic identity is good for business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of kids singing in Italian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Now, new initiatives are popping up to keep Italian heritage alive, like the Little Italy Honor Walk, a series of bronze sidewalk squares that memorialize notable Italians in San Francisco history. Five have been installed around Washington Square Park, and there’s more on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing fades out and sounds of Italian being spoken fade in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Back at Stella’s pastry shop, Michele and Frank say remembering North Beach’s Italian history is important, but they don’t need monuments to remind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Balistreri: \u003c/strong>Times change, things change, I don’t worry about it, as long as I’m here where I want to be. Italians are no Italians, I know who I am, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>North Beach’s original Italian enclave may be long gone, but the neighborhood’s history and food will keep bringing tourists…and locals with Italians heritage… back for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was brought to you by KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone. Special thanks to the San Francisco State University library where Pauline researched some of North Beach’s history. Thanks also to Jim McKee of EarWax Productions for the recording of Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading “Old Italians Are Dying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s question came from Grant Strother, and you could be next! Submit your question about the Bay Area at BayCurious.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a wonderful week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who was detained by federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> authorities for three days last summer in Southern California filed a civil rights suit against the federal government on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in California’s Central District, alleges that the U.S. government and individual federal officers violated George Retes’ constitutional rights as well as numerous state laws during his arrest and detention, which began during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047753/authorities-say-about-200-immigrants-were-arrested-in-raids-on-2-southern-california-farms\">July immigration raid\u003c/a> at the Ventura County cannabis farm where Retes worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At base, a central promise of our justice system is that innocent people like George are entitled to be free from arbitrary imprisonment, and inhumane conditions at the hands of federal agents,” states the lawsuit, which lawyers from the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm, filed. “George brings this case seeking accountability for his unconstitutional and tortious treatment by federal officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely to be an uphill battle for Retes, because federal law and court precedent both limit the ability of American citizens to hold federal officials civilly accountable for constitutional violations that have already occurred — and because Retes’ lawyers have not yet been able to identify the individual officers involved in his detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California lawmakers, along with legislators in nine other states, are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071198/california-senate-approves-bill-making-it-easier-to-sue-ice-agents\">considering legislation aimed at making these sorts of lawsuits\u003c/a> easier for plaintiffs like Retes. The California proposal, if enacted, would be retroactive to the spring of 2025 and potentially relevant to Retes’ lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED has previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">reported\u003c/a>, Retes said he tried to comply with immigration agents’ orders as he approached the farm in his vehicle last summer. But he said federal agents gave him contradictory commands before using tear gas, smashing his car window, pepper-spraying his face, pulling him out of the car and pinning him to the ground with their knees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073780\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GETTYIMAGES-2224603707-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1351\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GETTYIMAGES-2224603707-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GETTYIMAGES-2224603707-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GETTYIMAGES-2224603707-KQED-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents at an immigration raid on July 10, 2025, near Camarillo, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“George did not resist. Using his military training to stay calm, he voluntarily placed his arms behind his back to show compliance. Still, officers knelt on his back and neck, zip-tied his hands, and detained him for hours at the farm — without ever telling him what he was accused of,” the lawsuit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Included in the lawsuit are photos that show Retes lying face down on the ground, surrounded by more than a dozen federal officers as his hands are tied behind his back. The suit goes on to detail his treatment at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, then the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where he was held for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At no time, according to the lawsuit, did authorities obtain a warrant, probable cause, or offer any legitimate explanation for Retes’ treatment or detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was strip-searched, deprived of his belongings, and held incommunicado for three days and three nights. He was never brought before a judge and was never charged with any offense,” the suit states. “Over the three days [approximately 72 hours] he spent in custody, he was deprived of basic rights that even suspected criminals receive. He was not allowed a phone call, access to counsel, or a hearing. He was also subjected to inhumane treatment, not being allowed a shower to wash chemical irritants off his body.”[aside postID=news_12073633 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The lawsuit relies on the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and Fifth Amendment protections against deprivation of liberty and property. But it also cites California law, including the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act, which allows a person to sue another person for interfering with their rights by threat, intimidation or coercion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear whether the courts will allow a claim like Retes’ to move forward under that state law, said Harrison Stark, senior counsel at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark said there is a long history in the U.S. of states asserting their power to protect residents from federal constitutional overreach, dating back to Northern states’ response to the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, a series of federal laws and court decisions in recent decades have limited the rights of Americans to sue federal officials for violations of civil rights that already occurred. By contrast, both the federal government and individuals have the right to sue states over past constitutional violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unfortunately probably harder today than at any other point in the history of the nation to sue a federal official for money damages if they’ve violated your constitutional rights,” Stark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark said that’s why states like California are considering laws aimed at reclaiming those rights. But even without that law, he said, it’s still worth suing in Retes’ case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters on April 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Kiehart/The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think folks who are experiencing these constitutional violations are entirely reasonably pulling every lever they can to get redress,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retes’ suit names the United States of America, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Navy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Customs and Border Protection, as well as the individual unnamed officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It asks for damages against individual, unnamed federal officers and the U.S. government, as well as attorneys’ fees and a declaration that Retes’ rights under California tort law and the Constitution were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“George missed work, lost professional standing with his employer, and missed his daughter’s third birthday party. The traumatic experience exacerbated injuries he had sustained during his military service,” the lawsuit states. “And throughout his detention, no federal officer could provide an answer to the simplest question: Why am I here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three California Democrats are speaking out against the idea that the Trump administration could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067566/dublin-council-takes-stand-against-turning-closed-prison-into-ice-detention\">turn a shuttered women’s prison\u003c/a> in Alameda County into a new immigration detention facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff and East Bay Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, whose district includes the former Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, sent a letter late Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem voicing strong opposition to repurposing the facility as an immigration jail and asking pointed questions about whether there are plans in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they did not cite specific new evidence that DHS is moving to open the facility, the members expressed a mounting sense of urgency to block the expansion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention at a time when in-custody deaths are spiking, and watchdog groups and state officials have described conditions as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">“alarming”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-dangerous-conditions-california-city-detention\">“dangerous.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to KQED on Feb. 18, an unnamed ICE spokesperson said: “ICE does \u003cstrong>not\u003c/strong> have plans to use the FCI Dublin for immigration detention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With funding for ICE in last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Secretary Noem “aims to work with officials on both sides of the aisle to expand detention space to help ICE law enforcement carry out the largest deportation effort in American history,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla and Schiff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">recently visited\u003c/a> the California City Detention Facility, a privately run operation that ICE opened in late August, and said they spoke to detainees who described inadequate medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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It’s the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has previously denied that conditions in detention are insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ensuring the safety, security, and well-being of individuals in our custody is a top priority at ICE,” spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a recent statement. “ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Dublin City Council voted unanimously to oppose reopening \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/federal-correctional-institution-in-dublin\">the shuttered prison\u003c/a> for any purpose, including as an immigration jail. FCI Dublin \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984115/women-forced-to-relocate-from-fci-dublin-prison-report-traumatizing-journey-seek-compassionate-release\">closed in scandal\u003c/a> in 2024 amid allegations of rampant sexual assault and mistreatment of inmates by staff. The facility also reportedly has serious infrastructure problems, including asbestos and mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/prison-union-concerned-fci-dublin-could-be-turned-ice-detention-center\">reports\u003c/a> that ICE officials had toured the facility last February, community members rallied against a potential pivot and urged local officials to take preemptive measures.[aside postID=news_12070519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AlexPadillaAdamSchiffAP.jpg']In the letter to Noem, the lawmakers said the Dublin prison “is not suitable to be reopened for any purpose and would endanger the lives of both detainees and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went on: “Although [Federal Bureau of Prisons] Director William K. Marshall III reportedly guaranteed that there are no plans to transfer use of FCI Dublin’s facilities to ICE, President Trump’s mass deportation agenda coupled with reporting that indicates ICE’s interest in the facility have left us gravely concerned that this facility could be utilized to detain individuals in unsafe conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked Noem to detail whether ICE is considering — or has considered — using the prison for immigration detention, and whether it has done a cost analysis, toured the site or received briefings on reopening requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the Dublin City Council vote in December, DHS told KQED it had “nothing to announce about new detention facilities.” But the federal Bureau of Prisons, which owns the property, told the council that it plans to turn the Dublin facility over to the U.S. General Services Administration, which handles federal real estate, because the property is too expensive to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates said at the time they feared that could be the first step in handing the property over to ICE or a private prison company to run it as an immigration detention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla told KQED his concern is heightened because DHS has not been transparent in how it is spending the unprecedented infusion of funds it received in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047037/a-betrayal-bay-area-leaders-react-to-us-house-passing-trumps-tax-and-welfare-cuts\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a> last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said Noem refused to testify last year before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he and Schiff are members, as part of Congress’s regular oversight of DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been anything but transparent and forthcoming,” Padilla said Tuesday. “When Republican Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the letter to Noem, the lawmakers said the Dublin prison “is not suitable to be reopened for any purpose and would endanger the lives of both detainees and staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went on: “Although [Federal Bureau of Prisons] Director William K. Marshall III reportedly guaranteed that there are no plans to transfer use of FCI Dublin’s facilities to ICE, President Trump’s mass deportation agenda coupled with reporting that indicates ICE’s interest in the facility have left us gravely concerned that this facility could be utilized to detain individuals in unsafe conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They asked Noem to detail whether ICE is considering — or has considered — using the prison for immigration detention, and whether it has done a cost analysis, toured the site or received briefings on reopening requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the Dublin City Council vote in December, DHS told KQED it had “nothing to announce about new detention facilities.” But the federal Bureau of Prisons, which owns the property, told the council that it plans to turn the Dublin facility over to the U.S. General Services Administration, which handles federal real estate, because the property is too expensive to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community advocates said at the time they feared that could be the first step in handing the property over to ICE or a private prison company to run it as an immigration detention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla told KQED his concern is heightened because DHS has not been transparent in how it is spending the unprecedented infusion of funds it received in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047037/a-betrayal-bay-area-leaders-react-to-us-house-passing-trumps-tax-and-welfare-cuts\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a> last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said Noem refused to testify last year before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he and Schiff are members, as part of Congress’s regular oversight of DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been anything but transparent and forthcoming,” Padilla said Tuesday. “When Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Judiciary committee, complains that she has not accepted his invitations to come before the committee, that just tells you how afraid they are of oversight and having to answer for their conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley’s office recently announced that Noem would appear before the committee on March 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats’ letter comes at a time when ICE is rapidly expanding detention, holding a record of roughly 70,000 people in immigration jails, up from about 39,000 when President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Core Civic detention facility in California City on June 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent months, ICE has bought warehouses to turn them into “mega” detention centers, has opened a massive tent camp on the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base, near El Paso, Texas, and has expanded contracts with private prison companies, such as CoreCivic, the operator of the California City facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that has been facilitated by a $45 billion, four-year appropriation in last summer’s reconciliation bill, which effectively quadrupled ICE’s annual detention budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats have refused to fund a regular budget appropriation for DHS, leading to a partial shutdown last week, without reforms to how ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents carry out immigration enforcement, such as wearing body cameras and not wearing masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla also sent a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-02-13%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20ICE%20re%20Deaths%20in%20Detention.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Noem on Tuesday, along with 20 other Senate Democrats, raising alarms over the steep increase in deaths in ICE detention — including 32 deaths in 2025, a two-decade record, and six so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075025/tiene-itin-intercambio-datos-irs-ice-inmigracion-trump-impuestos\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple federal courts have now ruled that the Internal Revenue Service cannot share the personal information of taxpayers who file using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration enforcement agencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As millions of taxpayers nationwide begin to file their yearly taxes, the Trump administration has sought access to the IRS data of ITIN holders — usually immigrants who are in the country without a Social Security number, and who file taxes with the hope of potentially improving their chances of one day securing a legal immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, secured \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">a data-sharing agreement\u003c/a> with the IRS, opening the door for ICE to request \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">the personal information\u003c/a> of 1.28 million people. DHS told KQED in a statement that it seeks this information “to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Workers-Rights/ICE_IRS_PreliminaryInjunction_260205_WR.pdf\">blocked this 2025 arrangement\u003c/a> — and prohibited ICE agents from viewing any taxpayer data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Talwani’s order makes it very clear that ICE cannot rely on any of the tax-sharing agreements that it entered into with the IRS or use any information that it already received from the IRS,” said Dorothy Chang, managing attorney for workers’ rights at the Asian Law Caucus, one of the groups that took the federal government to court over the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talwani is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/second-judge-blocks-irs-from-sharing-taxpayer-information-with-ice-00768196\">second federal judge\u003c/a> to block the IRS-ICE agreement as this legal battle moves through the judicial system. On Feb. 24, a Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. — the next rung in the judicial hierarchy — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">declined\u003c/a> to issue a preliminary injunction against the federal government, but legal experts stress that this decision does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>eliminate Talwani’s earlier order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the ICE Field Office in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2025, for scheduled check-ins and immigration-related appointments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The courts in the two other cases have found that the IRS and ICE did not follow the law,” said Josh Rosenthal, an attorney also with the Asian Law Caucus. “Those two court orders blocking the agencies from massive transfers of taxpayer information and ICE from acting upon any IRS data in its possession are still in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community tax clinics across California told KQED they’re still hearing questions from filers on who has access to their personal information — and if there’s still a possibility that ICE will be able to access taxpayer data again in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what legal and tax experts know right now about this rapidly changing situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What exactly is in Judge Talwani’s order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Talwani — appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 2014 — was highly critical of the Trump administration’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emphasizing the federal tax system depends on taxpayer trust, Talwaini said that implementing data-sharing agreements “erodes that foundation and undermines the public interest in a functioning tax system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talwani’s order now bars DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, — and any agent from ICE — “from inspecting, viewing, using, copying, distributing, relying on, or otherwise acting upon any return information that had been obtained from or disclosed by the IRS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS confirmed with the court that it had already shared the addresses of roughly 47,000 noncitizen taxpayers, all of which were stored in the government-issued computer of a single DHS employee. Talwani specifically mentioned that this federal worker is also bound by her order.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this ruling permanently strike down the IRS-ICE agreement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. This is only a temporary stay, which blocks the IRS and ICE from working together while the courts make a final decision on whether this arrangement is constitutional or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the Trump administration responded to the ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, DHS did not directly respond to KQED’s question on how the agency will act to comply with the judicial order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a DHS spokesperson defended seeking IRS data, telling KQED by email that “With the IRS information specifically, DHS plans to focus on enforcing long-neglected criminal laws that apply to illegal aliens but which the Biden Administration ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067431\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Homeland Security officers detain demonstrators outside of the ICE field offices in San Francisco on Dec. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In direct opposition to Talwani’s statements, the agency spokesperson said that sharing information across agencies was “essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are advocates telling immigrants about this ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates have applauded Talwani’s decision. “When we file our taxes, there is really sensitive data in there,” said Chang from Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take personal sensitive information that’s protected and use it to hunt down immigrants, that completely undoes the trust that people are placing in the federal government to do the right thing with our taxpayer information,” she said.[aside postID=news_12070260 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/AP25278748416734-2000x1333.jpg']Chang added that IRS employees have to follow very strict rules when handling taxpayer data — as established by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code\u003c/a>, created by Congress in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rules only allow the IRS to share information in \u003cem>very \u003c/em>limited circumstances, including an audit or certain criminal investigations — like those involving a terrorist threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the president is blocked from directly accessing IRS data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">strengthened the privacy rules \u003c/a>in the Internal Revenue Code after White House employees admitted they had tried to obtain tax information about individuals who then-President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">considered to be his enemies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the IRS as a political tool would later be one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">impeach him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in this legal battle?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration continues to defend the IRS-ICE agreement in different legal battles across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate case presented by Chicago-based Centro de Trabajadores Unidos has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the step right before the Supreme Court. In those proceedings, judges have declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the federal government, as they believe that the information agencies are sharing isn’t covered by the IRS privacy statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed-1536x1017.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRS tax auditor reviewing filings. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some news outlets have published \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">stories\u003c/a> that describe this latest update as the Court of Appeals giving the IRS the greenlight to resume sharing immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the orders from judges Talwani and Colleen Kollar-Kotelly — who was the first to block the IRS-ICE agreement last November — remain in place. For ICE to regain access to IRS data, a higher-ranking judge would need to overrule Talwani and Kollar-Kotelly, said Asian Law Caucus’s Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the outcome of these legal battles remains unclear, even for legal experts. We’ll update this guide as new information comes in from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are tax experts recommending to filers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the future of the IRS-ICE agreement remains uncertain, community organizations that provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">free tax services \u003c/a>say they’re still hearing worries from ITIN holders — who are afraid that filing their taxes this year could come at great personal risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them know that we’re still helping them file taxes,” said Lindsay Rojas, director of free tax help at \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/what-we-do/free-tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area\u003c/a>. “And if they have any questions or doubts, they should \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">consult an immigration attorney\u003c/a> for their case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas stressed that rather than there being any one-size-fits-all advice, this is a decision a person “should make based on their household” and their individual circumstances. Families living in the Bay Area can call 211 to find free tax filing services and an immigration attorney referral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MEDA staff member Dairo Romero works on the second floor of the Mission Food Hub in San Francisco on May 19, 2021, where he meets with families to help them file their taxes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other groups that provide tax aid confirmed with KQED that they’re also advising filers to check in first with an immigration attorney if they are concerned about their data privacy. It’s also important to mention that if someone has filed with an ITIN for several years already, the IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/irs-privacy-policy\">has already received\u003c/a> their personal information for past filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to take into account the potential consequences of not filing taxes, said Minnie Sage, program director of San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>. “A tax return is oftentimes a requirement for proof of income, with things like housing, education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">federal loans like FAFSA\u003c/a>,” she said. “It also helps avoid additional costs and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Argueta-Bonneville, director of operations for the Los Angeles-based \u003ca href=\"https://laccnp.org/\">Central City Neighborhood Partners\u003c/a>, said her tax team is still seeing folks come in wanting to file with an ITIN. “We really thought that these numbers were going to plummet,” she said — before adding that many community members still feel a strong responsibility to pay taxes and have the hope that fulfilling this commitment will help their immigration process in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What else should ITIN holders know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Congress passed the massive spending and tax plan known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g-s1-74388/senate-big-beautiful-bill\">One Big Beautiful Bill\u003c/a>, which severely limited the tax credits ITIN holders qualify for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a household does not have at least one taxpayer who’s filing their 2025 taxes with a Social Security number, that family will not qualify for the federal Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Tax Credit. Children claimed as dependents will also need to have a Social Security Number in order to receive the Child Tax Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four -- two adult parents or caregivers, and two children -- are photographed skipping along a wet street, holding hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family of four skipping along a wet street, holding hands. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not receiving these credits could now mean a refund that’s thousands of dollars smaller than what families previously received, Argueta-Bonneville said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families really depend on the credits and refunds to be able to reinvest in themselves, their children, and they’re also reinvesting into the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, families filing with an ITIN are still eligible for California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/caleitc/eligibility-and-credit-information.html\">Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/a> — and if they have children under 6 years old, they can also receive the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html\">Young Child Tax Credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.craft.cloud/5cd1c590-65ba-4ad2-a52c-b55e67f8f04b/assets/media/Programs/Workers-Rights/ICE_IRS_PreliminaryInjunction_260205_WR.pdf\">blocked this 2025 arrangement\u003c/a> — and prohibited ICE agents from viewing any taxpayer data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Talwani’s order makes it very clear that ICE cannot rely on any of the tax-sharing agreements that it entered into with the IRS or use any information that it already received from the IRS,” said Dorothy Chang, managing attorney for workers’ rights at the Asian Law Caucus, one of the groups that took the federal government to court over the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talwani is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/second-judge-blocks-irs-from-sharing-taxpayer-information-with-ice-00768196\">second federal judge\u003c/a> to block the IRS-ICE agreement as this legal battle moves through the judicial system. On Feb. 24, a Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. — the next rung in the judicial hierarchy — \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">declined\u003c/a> to issue a preliminary injunction against the federal government, but legal experts stress that this decision does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>eliminate Talwani’s earlier order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the ICE Field Office in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2025, for scheduled check-ins and immigration-related appointments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The courts in the two other cases have found that the IRS and ICE did not follow the law,” said Josh Rosenthal, an attorney also with the Asian Law Caucus. “Those two court orders blocking the agencies from massive transfers of taxpayer information and ICE from acting upon any IRS data in its possession are still in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community tax clinics across California told KQED they’re still hearing questions from filers on who has access to their personal information — and if there’s still a possibility that ICE will be able to access taxpayer data again in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what legal and tax experts know right now about this rapidly changing situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What exactly is in Judge Talwani’s order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Talwani — appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court in Boston in 2014 — was highly critical of the Trump administration’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emphasizing the federal tax system depends on taxpayer trust, Talwaini said that implementing data-sharing agreements “erodes that foundation and undermines the public interest in a functioning tax system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talwani’s order now bars DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, — and any agent from ICE — “from inspecting, viewing, using, copying, distributing, relying on, or otherwise acting upon any return information that had been obtained from or disclosed by the IRS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS confirmed with the court that it had already shared the addresses of roughly 47,000 noncitizen taxpayers, all of which were stored in the government-issued computer of a single DHS employee. Talwani specifically mentioned that this federal worker is also bound by her order.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this ruling permanently strike down the IRS-ICE agreement?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. This is only a temporary stay, which blocks the IRS and ICE from working together while the courts make a final decision on whether this arrangement is constitutional or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How has the Trump administration responded to the ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, DHS did not directly respond to KQED’s question on how the agency will act to comply with the judicial order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a DHS spokesperson defended seeking IRS data, telling KQED by email that “With the IRS information specifically, DHS plans to focus on enforcing long-neglected criminal laws that apply to illegal aliens but which the Biden Administration ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067431\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Homeland Security officers detain demonstrators outside of the ICE field offices in San Francisco on Dec. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In direct opposition to Talwani’s statements, the agency spokesperson said that sharing information across agencies was “essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are advocates telling immigrants about this ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates have applauded Talwani’s decision. “When we file our taxes, there is really sensitive data in there,” said Chang from Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take personal sensitive information that’s protected and use it to hunt down immigrants, that completely undoes the trust that people are placing in the federal government to do the right thing with our taxpayer information,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chang added that IRS employees have to follow very strict rules when handling taxpayer data — as established by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code\u003c/a>, created by Congress in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rules only allow the IRS to share information in \u003cem>very \u003c/em>limited circumstances, including an audit or certain criminal investigations — like those involving a terrorist threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the president is blocked from directly accessing IRS data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1976, Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">strengthened the privacy rules \u003c/a>in the Internal Revenue Code after White House employees admitted they had tried to obtain tax information about individuals who then-President Richard Nixon \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">considered to be his enemies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using the IRS as a political tool would later be one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">impeach him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in this legal battle?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration continues to defend the IRS-ICE agreement in different legal battles across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate case presented by Chicago-based Centro de Trabajadores Unidos has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the step right before the Supreme Court. In those proceedings, judges have declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the federal government, as they believe that the information agencies are sharing isn’t covered by the IRS privacy statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/iStock_000026330737_Large_qed-1536x1017.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IRS tax auditor reviewing filings. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some news outlets have published \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/treasury-irs-ice-tax-immigration-5ab68bb8c96609aaf46f0e71f1610b14\">stories\u003c/a> that describe this latest update as the Court of Appeals giving the IRS the greenlight to resume sharing immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the orders from judges Talwani and Colleen Kollar-Kotelly — who was the first to block the IRS-ICE agreement last November — remain in place. For ICE to regain access to IRS data, a higher-ranking judge would need to overrule Talwani and Kollar-Kotelly, said Asian Law Caucus’s Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the outcome of these legal battles remains unclear, even for legal experts. We’ll update this guide as new information comes in from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are tax experts recommending to filers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the future of the IRS-ICE agreement remains uncertain, community organizations that provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">free tax services \u003c/a>say they’re still hearing worries from ITIN holders — who are afraid that filing their taxes this year could come at great personal risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let them know that we’re still helping them file taxes,” said Lindsay Rojas, director of free tax help at \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/what-we-do/free-tax-help/\">United Way Bay Area\u003c/a>. “And if they have any questions or doubts, they should \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">consult an immigration attorney\u003c/a> for their case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas stressed that rather than there being any one-size-fits-all advice, this is a decision a person “should make based on their household” and their individual circumstances. Families living in the Bay Area can call 211 to find free tax filing services and an immigration attorney referral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/005_SanFrancisco_MEDADairoRomero_05192021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MEDA staff member Dairo Romero works on the second floor of the Mission Food Hub in San Francisco on May 19, 2021, where he meets with families to help them file their taxes. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other groups that provide tax aid confirmed with KQED that they’re also advising filers to check in first with an immigration attorney if they are concerned about their data privacy. It’s also important to mention that if someone has filed with an ITIN for several years already, the IRS \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/irs-privacy-policy\">has already received\u003c/a> their personal information for past filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to take into account the potential consequences of not filing taxes, said Minnie Sage, program director of San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>. “A tax return is oftentimes a requirement for proof of income, with things like housing, education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fafsa\">federal loans like FAFSA\u003c/a>,” she said. “It also helps avoid additional costs and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Argueta-Bonneville, director of operations for the Los Angeles-based \u003ca href=\"https://laccnp.org/\">Central City Neighborhood Partners\u003c/a>, said her tax team is still seeing folks come in wanting to file with an ITIN. “We really thought that these numbers were going to plummet,” she said — before adding that many community members still feel a strong responsibility to pay taxes and have the hope that fulfilling this commitment will help their immigration process in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What else should ITIN holders know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Congress passed the massive spending and tax plan known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/g-s1-74388/senate-big-beautiful-bill\">One Big Beautiful Bill\u003c/a>, which severely limited the tax credits ITIN holders qualify for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a household does not have at least one taxpayer who’s filing their 2025 taxes with a Social Security number, that family will not qualify for the federal Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Tax Credit. Children claimed as dependents will also need to have a Social Security Number in order to receive the Child Tax Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four -- two adult parents or caregivers, and two children -- are photographed skipping along a wet street, holding hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family of four skipping along a wet street, holding hands. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not receiving these credits could now mean a refund that’s thousands of dollars smaller than what families previously received, Argueta-Bonneville said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families really depend on the credits and refunds to be able to reinvest in themselves, their children, and they’re also reinvesting into the community,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, families filing with an ITIN are still eligible for California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/caleitc/eligibility-and-credit-information.html\">Earned Income Tax Credit\u003c/a> — and if they have children under 6 years old, they can also receive the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html\">Young Child Tax Credit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And she ordered ICE to allow the monitor to access the facility for at least 120 days, inspect conditions, review medical records and interview staff and patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/gomez-ruiz-et-al-v-ice\">lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of seven detained individuals alleging brutal conditions at the California City Detention Facility, a remote, privately operated center deep in the Mojave Desert. Chesney’s order applies to all current and future California City detainees, though she has not so far granted class status to all detainees for the lawsuit as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would characterize the conditions in this facility as truly crisis-level. It is an emergency, what’s happening inside,” said Margot Mendelson, executive director of the Prison Law Office, which brought the lawsuit alongside the American Civil Liberties Union, the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice and the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loba Lovos Mendez, a California City detainee who has been in ICE custody for two years as she fights deportation, said she’s grateful to the court for the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s lives depend on it,” she said. “It is outrageous that it took a lawsuit to say that we deserve adequate medical care while ICE holds us here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesney also ordered ICE to guarantee access to legal representation and to provide detained people with temperature-appropriate blankets and clothing, as well as daily recreational outdoor time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. 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Since then, the detainee population has climbed to more than 1,000, and the company has \u003ca href=\"https://ir.corecivic.com/node/24926/pdf\">said \u003c/a>it expects to fill the place early this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We work closely with our government partner to ensure we are providing all required services and meeting applicable standards,” Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin referred all questions about the court order to ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ICE spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told KQED that the agency is already exceeding the requirements set out by the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Chesney’s order in this case was unnecessary and superfluous given DHS’s medical policy goes above and beyond her nominal ‘order,’” she said. “This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigration jail \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">gained notoriety after recent visits from U.S. lawmakers\u003c/a>, who said they witnessed punishing, inhumane conditions.[aside postID=news_12072927 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/FederalOfficersMasksAP.jpg']Plaintiffs, who described insect-infested, sewage-contaminated housing and threats of violence and solitary confinement by officers, also alleged a broken medical care system in their complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernando Gomez Ruiz, a father of two who had lived in Los Angeles for 22 years before he was arrested, told attorneys he had been denied regular doses of insulin since arriving at California City, leading to elevated blood sugar levels and a mistreated ulcer on his foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Gomez Ruiz knows that his diabetes can lead to serious infection and is worried that his foot will require amputation in the absence of the medical care he needs,” the suit reads. “Because of the facility’s restrictions on legal calls, he has been unable to discuss his medical needs in adequate detail with his attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and DHS have disputed such allegations in the past. In court filings, they argued that the law does not require them to treat detainees better than prisoners and say the California City facility has an experienced warden who follows ICE’s detention standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesney issued an emergency order last month on behalf of two other detained men with life-threatening conditions, directing ICE to ensure timely access to outside doctors and treatment. But in court last Friday, the attorney for ICE acknowledged that California City staff failed to take one of those men to get his prostate cancer biopsy results on Feb. 2 because they hadn’t properly entered the appointment in their scheduling system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Core Civic detention facility in California City on June 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The man, Fernando Viera Reyes, has been waiting months for care, has lost 25 pounds since he arrived in California City and is in excruciating pain, according to court records. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Plaintiffs, who described insect-infested, sewage-contaminated housing and threats of violence and solitary confinement by officers, also alleged a broken medical care system in their complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernando Gomez Ruiz, a father of two who had lived in Los Angeles for 22 years before he was arrested, told attorneys he had been denied regular doses of insulin since arriving at California City, leading to elevated blood sugar levels and a mistreated ulcer on his foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Gomez Ruiz knows that his diabetes can lead to serious infection and is worried that his foot will require amputation in the absence of the medical care he needs,” the suit reads. “Because of the facility’s restrictions on legal calls, he has been unable to discuss his medical needs in adequate detail with his attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and DHS have disputed such allegations in the past. In court filings, they argued that the law does not require them to treat detainees better than prisoners and say the California City facility has an experienced warden who follows ICE’s detention standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesney issued an emergency order last month on behalf of two other detained men with life-threatening conditions, directing ICE to ensure timely access to outside doctors and treatment. But in court last Friday, the attorney for ICE acknowledged that California City staff failed to take one of those men to get his prostate cancer biopsy results on Feb. 2 because they hadn’t properly entered the appointment in their scheduling system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Core Civic detention facility in California City on June 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The man, Fernando Viera Reyes, has been waiting months for care, has lost 25 pounds since he arrived in California City and is in excruciating pain, according to court records. The appointment was rescheduled for March 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am concerned about this particular detainee because I know people who died of prostate cancer, and it’s not pretty,” Chesney told the lawyers. “I am concerned he get the care he needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chesney indicated at the Friday hearing that she would grant the government’s request to transfer the case to the Eastern District of California, closer to the detention center, which is in southern Kern County, 75 miles east of Bakersfield. Attorneys for the detainees oppose the plan, saying ICE’s San Francisco field office is in charge of the facility. Chesney has not yet issued an order to move the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Trump Administration Sends Pregnant Unaccompanied Minors to Texas Shelter Flagged as Medically Inadequate",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from the government’s own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to seven sources who work at the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which handles the custody and care of children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian, or are separated from family by immigration authorities. All of the sources declined to be named for fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877575625000722\"> high risk\u003c/a> by definition, particularly for the\u003ca href=\"https://utswmed.org/medblog/early-teen-pregnancy-health-risks/\"> youngest\u003c/a> girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group of kids is clearly recognized as our most vulnerable,” one of the sources said. Rank-and-file staff, the source said, are “losing sleep over it, wondering if kids are going to be placed in programs where they’re not going to have access to the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a sharp departure from longstanding federal practice, which placed pregnant, unaccompanied migrant children in ORR shelters or foster homes around the country that are equipped to handle high-risk pregnancies. ORR sources, along with more than a dozen former government officials, health care professionals, migrant advocates and civil rights attorneys, said they worry the Trump administration is putting children in danger at the San Benito shelter to advance an ideological goal: denying them access to abortion by placing them in a state where it’s virtually banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073141 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Global X plane sits on a runway near Valley International Airport in Harlington, Texas, on Nov. 4, 2025. The Charter airline operates most deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, transporting migrants across the country and abroad. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is 100% and exclusively about abortion,” said Jonathan White, a longtime federal health official who ran ORR’s unaccompanied children program for part of President Donald Trump’s first term. White, who recently retired from the government, said the administration tried and failed to restrict abortion access for unaccompanied minors in 2017. “Now they casually roll out what they brutally fought to accomplish last time and didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked via email why the administration is sending pregnant children to San Benito, an HHS spokesperson who asked not to be named wrote that “ORR’s placement decisions are guided by child welfare best practices and are designed to ensure each child is housed in the safest, most developmentally appropriate setting, including for children who are pregnant or parenting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several of the ORR officials took issue with the agency’s statement. “ORR is supposed to be a child welfare organization,” one of them said. “Putting pregnant kids in San Benito is not a decision you make when you care about children’s safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR’s acting director, Angie Salazar, instructed agency staff to send “any pregnant children” to San Benito beginning July 22, 2025, according to an internal email obtained as part of a six-month investigation by The California Newsroom and The Texas Newsroom, public media collaboratives that worked together to produce this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2-1536x560.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a July 22, 2025, email notifying ORR supervisors of a directive to send pregnant unaccompanied minors to a single shelter in San Benito, Texas, despite objections from the government’s own health and child welfare officials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several sources said a handful of pregnant girls have mistakenly been placed in other shelters because immigration authorities didn’t know they were pregnant when they were transferred to ORR custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the July order, none of the pregnant girls at the San Benito facility have experienced major medical problems, according to ORR sources and Aimee Korolev, deputy director of ProBAR, an organization that provides legal services to children there. They said several of the girls have given birth and are detained with their infants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials interviewed for this story said they worry the shelter is only one high-risk pregnancy away from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we’re just waiting for something terrible to happen,” one of the ORR sources said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Blown away by the level of risk’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of ORR shelters or foster homes across the country that are designated to care for pregnant unaccompanied children, according to ORR officials, with 14 in California alone. None of the officials could recall a time when all of the pregnant minors in the agency’s custody were concentrated in one shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detaining them in San Benito, Texas, doctors and public health experts said, is a dangerous gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073147 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parked white vans inside a gated building at Urban Strategies, a facility that holds unaccompanied minor immigrants under contract with the US Office of Refugee Resettlement, in San Benito, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2025. Refugio San Benito is a facility operated by the group Urban Strategies. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not good to be a pregnant person in Texas, no matter who you are,” said Annie Leone, a nurse midwife who recently spent five years caring for pregnant and postpartum migrant women and girls at a large family shelter not far from San Benito. “So, to put pregnant migrant kids in Texas, and then in one of the worst health care regions of Texas, is not good at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specialized obstetric care that exists in Texas is mostly available \u003ca href=\"https://www.smfm.org/find-an-mfm?MapView=true&Address=San%20Benito%2C%20TX%2C%20USA&Latitude=26.132576&Longitude=-97.6311006&Radius=100\">in its larger cities\u003c/a>, hours from San Benito. And several factors, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5542408/health-insurance-obbba-texas-uninsurance-rates\">the high number of uninsured patients\u003c/a>, have eroded the availability of \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2024/jul/2024-state-scorecard-womens-health-and-reproductive-care\">health care across the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, Texas’ near-ban on abortion has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/high-risk-pregnancies-chronic-conditions-abortion-bans\">especially devastating to obstetric care\u003c/a>. The law allows an exception in cases where the mother’s life is in danger or one of her bodily functions is at risk, but doctors have been confused as to what that means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many doctors have \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/06/abortion-gender-affirming-care-bans-doctors-leaving-texas/\">left to practice elsewhere\u003c/a>, and those who’ve stayed are often \u003ca href=\"https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/9fd8e81d-74db-00ef-d0b1-5d17c12fdda9/34392fc8-1c9a-48a2-be8f-3f79d8a4a7d5/FINAL-TX-OBGYN-Workforce-Study_2024-10_f.pdf\">scared\u003c/a> to perform procedures they worry could come with criminal charges. While Texas passed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/19/nx-s1-5445143/texas-abortion-life-of-mother\">clarifying the exceptions\u003c/a> last year, experts \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors\">have said\u003c/a> it may not be enough to assuage doctors’ fears.[aside postID=news_12067561 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/MexicoBorderChildrenGetty.jpg']Several maternal health experts described a sobering list of dangers for the girls at the San Benito shelter: If one of them develops an \u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/understanding-ectopic-pregnancy\">ectopic pregnancy\u003c/a> (where the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus), if she \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/16798/\">miscarries\u003c/a> or if her \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/termination-of-pregnancy-can-be-necessary-to-save-a-womans-life-experts-say-idUSL1N2TC0VD/\">water breaks too early\u003c/a> and she gets an infection, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2019/09/abortion-can-be-medically-necessary\"> emergency care she needs\u003c/a> could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/series/life-of-the-mother\">delayed or denied by doctors\u003c/a> wary of the abortion ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the care that is available could take too long to save her life or the baby’s, they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adolescents are also more likely to give birth early, which can be life-threatening for both mother and baby. The youngest face complications during labor and delivery because their pelvises aren’t fully developed, said Dr. Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, an obstetrician in Washington state who specializes in adolescent pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are young adolescents who are still going through puberty,” she said. “Their bodies are still changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant girls who recently endured the often harrowing journey to the U.S. face even more risk, obstetrics experts said. Many \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6752644/\">have been raped\u003c/a> along the way and have sexually transmitted infections that can be dangerous during pregnancy. Add to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.projecthope.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Project-Hope-Mexico-NEW-FINAL-1_19_23.pdf\">little to no access to prenatal care\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/immigration/many-migrants-arriving-at-border-malnourished-health-experts-say/\">proper nourishment\u003c/a>, and then the trauma of \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8570101/\">being detained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You couldn’t set up a worse scenario,” said Dr. Blair Cushing, who runs a women’s health clinic in McAllen, about 45 minutes from San Benito. “I’m kind of blown away by the level of risk that they’re concentrating in this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of problems\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Benito shelter is owned and operated by Urban Strategies, a for-profit company that has contracted with the federal government to care for unaccompanied children for more than a decade, according to \u003ca href=\"http://usaspending.gov\">USAspending.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main building, an old tan brick Baptist Church, occupies a city block in downtown San Benito, a quiet town of about 25,000. The church was converted to a migrant shelter in 2015 and was managed by two other contractors before Urban Strategies \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/30/2021-25971/announcement-of-intent-to-issue-replacement-award-to-provide-residential-services-shelter\">took it over in 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a fall day last year, there were no signs of activity at the facility, though children’s lawn toys and playground equipment were visible behind a wooden fence. A guard was stationed at one of the entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meliza Fonseca lives across the street from the San Benito shelter. She said she occasionally sees children in the yard on weekends, “but for the most part, you don’t see them.” \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty quiet, just like it is today,” said Meliza Fonseca, who lives nearby. “That’s the way it is every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she occasionally sees kids playing in the yard on weekends, “but for the most part, you don’t see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, the founder and president of Urban Strategies, Lisa Cummins, wrote that the company is “deeply committed to the care and well-being of the children we serve,” but directed any questions about ORR-contracted shelters to the federal agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the San Benito facility, the ORR spokesperson wrote that “Urban Strategies has a long-standing record of delivering high-quality care to pregnant unaccompanied minors, with a consistently low staff turnover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gated building at Urban Strategies, a facility that holds unaccompanied minor immigrants under contract with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, in San Benito, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But agency sources who spoke with the newsrooms said that as recently as 2024, staff members at the shelter failed to arrange timely medical appointments for pregnant girls or immediately share critical health information with the federal agency and discharged them without arrangements to continue their medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR temporarily barred the shelter from receiving pregnant girls while Urban Strategies implemented a remediation plan, but the plan did not add staff or enhance their qualifications, the sources said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several sources inside the agency said its leadership was provided with a list of shelters that are better prepared to handle children with high-risk pregnancies. All of those shelters are located outside of Texas, in regions where the full range of necessary medical care is available. Yet the directive to place them at San Benito remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s cruel, it’s just cruel,” one of the officials said. “They don’t care about any of these kids. They’re playing politics with children’s health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A dress rehearsal’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jonathan White, who ran ORR’s unaccompanied children program from January of 2017 to March of 2018, said he wasn’t surprised to learn that the new administration is moving pregnant unaccompanied children to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been expecting this since Trump returned to office,” White said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he views the San Benito order as a continuation of an anti-abortion policy shift that began in 2017, which “ultimately proved to be a dress rehearsal for the current administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073151 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_RioGrande_PL_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_RioGrande_PL_02.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_RioGrande_PL_02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_RioGrande_PL_02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rio Grande is seen near the Old Hidalgo Pumphouse Museum in Hidalgo, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2025. Migrants often cross the river en route to the United States. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scott Lloyd, the agency’s director at the time, denied girls in ORR custody permission to end their pregnancies, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acludc.org/cases/jd-v-azar-formerly-garza-v-azar-and-garza-v-hargan-challenging-trump-administrations-refusal/\">court records show\u003c/a>. Lloyd also required the girls to get counseling about the benefits of motherhood and the harms of abortion and personally pleaded with some of them to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked to treat all of the children in ORR care with dignity, including the unborn children,” Lloyd told the newsrooms in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/garza-v-hargan-challenge-trump-administrations-attempts-block-abortions-young-immigrant-women\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> against Lloyd and the Trump administration on behalf of pregnant girls in ORR custody. The ACLU argued that denying the girls abortions violated their constitutional rights, established by the Supreme Court in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.[aside postID=news_12071297 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg']Not long after the lawsuit was filed, White said he received a late-night phone call from Lloyd, who had a request. He wanted White to transfer an unaccompanied pregnant girl who was seeking an abortion to a migrant shelter in Texas, where, under state law, it would have been too late for her to terminate her pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White believed following the order would have been unlawful because it might have denied the girl access to legal relief under the lawsuit, so he refused. The girl was not transferred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd, who has since left the government, told the newsrooms he didn’t believe his request was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class action lawsuit was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/result-aclu-litigation-trump-administration-ends-policy-prohibiting-immigrant-minors\">settled in 2020\u003c/a>; the first Trump administration agreed not to interfere with abortion access for migrant youth in federal custody going forward. Four years later, the Biden administration cemented the deal in official\u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-30/pdf/2024-08329.pdf#page=219\"> regulations\u003c/a>: If a child who wanted to terminate her pregnancy was detained in a state where it was not legal, ORR had to move them to a state where it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rule remains in place, and the agency appears to be following it; ORR has transferred two pregnant girls out of Texas since July, though agency sources said one of them chose not to terminate her pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Trump is back in office, his administration is working to kill the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Elegant and simple’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before Trump won reelection, policymakers in his circle were planning a renewed attempt to restrict abortion rights for unaccompanied minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a politically conservative overhaul of the federal government, \u003ca href=\"https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=510\">called for\u003c/a> ORR to stop facilitating abortions for children in its care. The plan advised the government not to detain unaccompanied children in states where abortion is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a change is now possible, Project 2025 argued, because Roe v. Wade is no longer an obstacle. Since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision in 2022, there is no longer a federal right to abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/gettyimages-1241510158_wide-618b2eab892ca9097bca6e83bd698df2d7f47782-scaled-e1770775479336.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads 'We Dissent' is held up in the foreground. The Supreme Court can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abortion rights activists rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade, in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon returning to office, Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/\">executive order\u003c/a> “to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in early July, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1408241/dl\">reconsidered a longstanding federal law\u003c/a> governing the use of taxpayer money for abortion. The DOJ concluded that the government cannot pay to transport detainees from one state to another to facilitate abortion access, except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, ORR is working to rescind the Biden-era requirement that pregnant girls requesting an abortion be moved to states where it’s available. On Jan. 23, the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDetails?rrid=1252114\">submitted the proposed change\u003c/a> for government approval, though it has not yet published the details.[aside postID=news_12071206 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg']Several of the ORR officials who spoke with the newsrooms said it’s unclear whether children in the agency’s custody who have been raped or need emergency medical care will still be allowed to get abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HHS does not comment on pending or pre-decisional rulemaking,” the agency’s spokesperson wrote when asked for details of the regulatory change. “ORR will continue to comply with all applicable federal laws, including requirements for providing necessary medical care to children in ORR custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day the change was submitted, an unnamed Health and Human Services spokesperson told \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/23/exclusive-hhs-advances-rule-ending-taxpayer-funded-abortion-travel-for-alien-children/\">\u003cem>The Daily Signal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a conservative news site, “Our goal is to save lives both for these young children that are coming across the border, that are pregnant, and to save the lives of their unborn babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other experts who spoke with the newsrooms, White, the former head of ORR’s unaccompanied children program, said he thinks the San Benito directive and the anti-abortion rule change are meant to work hand in hand: Once pregnant children are placed at the San Benito shelter, the new regulations could mean they cannot be moved out of Texas to get abortions — even if keeping them there puts them at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so elegant and simple,” White said. “All they have to do is send them to Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mose Buchele with The Texas Newsroom contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kut.org/texasnewsroom\">\u003cem>The Texas Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group of kids is clearly recognized as our most vulnerable,” one of the sources said. Rank-and-file staff, the source said, are “losing sleep over it, wondering if kids are going to be placed in programs where they’re not going to have access to the care they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a sharp departure from longstanding federal practice, which placed pregnant, unaccompanied migrant children in ORR shelters or foster homes around the country that are equipped to handle high-risk pregnancies. ORR sources, along with more than a dozen former government officials, health care professionals, migrant advocates and civil rights attorneys, said they worry the Trump administration is putting children in danger at the San Benito shelter to advance an ideological goal: denying them access to abortion by placing them in a state where it’s virtually banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073141 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_GlobalX_PL_03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Global X plane sits on a runway near Valley International Airport in Harlington, Texas, on Nov. 4, 2025. The Charter airline operates most deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, transporting migrants across the country and abroad. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is 100% and exclusively about abortion,” said Jonathan White, a longtime federal health official who ran ORR’s unaccompanied children program for part of President Donald Trump’s first term. White, who recently retired from the government, said the administration tried and failed to restrict abortion access for unaccompanied minors in 2017. “Now they casually roll out what they brutally fought to accomplish last time and didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked via email why the administration is sending pregnant children to San Benito, an HHS spokesperson who asked not to be named wrote that “ORR’s placement decisions are guided by child welfare best practices and are designed to ensure each child is housed in the safest, most developmentally appropriate setting, including for children who are pregnant or parenting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several of the ORR officials took issue with the agency’s statement. “ORR is supposed to be a child welfare organization,” one of them said. “Putting pregnant kids in San Benito is not a decision you make when you care about children’s safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR’s acting director, Angie Salazar, instructed agency staff to send “any pregnant children” to San Benito beginning July 22, 2025, according to an internal email obtained as part of a six-month investigation by The California Newsroom and The Texas Newsroom, public media collaboratives that worked together to produce this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/KQED-Email-2-1536x560.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a July 22, 2025, email notifying ORR supervisors of a directive to send pregnant unaccompanied minors to a single shelter in San Benito, Texas, despite objections from the government’s own health and child welfare officials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several sources said a handful of pregnant girls have mistakenly been placed in other shelters because immigration authorities didn’t know they were pregnant when they were transferred to ORR custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the July order, none of the pregnant girls at the San Benito facility have experienced major medical problems, according to ORR sources and Aimee Korolev, deputy director of ProBAR, an organization that provides legal services to children there. They said several of the girls have given birth and are detained with their infants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials interviewed for this story said they worry the shelter is only one high-risk pregnancy away from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we’re just waiting for something terrible to happen,” one of the ORR sources said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Blown away by the level of risk’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of ORR shelters or foster homes across the country that are designated to care for pregnant unaccompanied children, according to ORR officials, with 14 in California alone. None of the officials could recall a time when all of the pregnant minors in the agency’s custody were concentrated in one shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detaining them in San Benito, Texas, doctors and public health experts said, is a dangerous gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12073147 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parked white vans inside a gated building at Urban Strategies, a facility that holds unaccompanied minor immigrants under contract with the US Office of Refugee Resettlement, in San Benito, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Several maternal health experts described a sobering list of dangers for the girls at the San Benito shelter: If one of them develops an \u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/understanding-ectopic-pregnancy\">ectopic pregnancy\u003c/a> (where the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus), if she \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/16798/\">miscarries\u003c/a> or if her \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/termination-of-pregnancy-can-be-necessary-to-save-a-womans-life-experts-say-idUSL1N2TC0VD/\">water breaks too early\u003c/a> and she gets an infection, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2019/09/abortion-can-be-medically-necessary\"> emergency care she needs\u003c/a> could be \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/series/life-of-the-mother\">delayed or denied by doctors\u003c/a> wary of the abortion ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the care that is available could take too long to save her life or the baby’s, they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adolescents are also more likely to give birth early, which can be life-threatening for both mother and baby. The youngest face complications during labor and delivery because their pelvises aren’t fully developed, said Dr. Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, an obstetrician in Washington state who specializes in adolescent pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are young adolescents who are still going through puberty,” she said. “Their bodies are still changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant girls who recently endured the often harrowing journey to the U.S. face even more risk, obstetrics experts said. Many \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6752644/\">have been raped\u003c/a> along the way and have sexually transmitted infections that can be dangerous during pregnancy. Add to that \u003ca href=\"https://www.projecthope.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Project-Hope-Mexico-NEW-FINAL-1_19_23.pdf\">little to no access to prenatal care\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/immigration/many-migrants-arriving-at-border-malnourished-health-experts-say/\">proper nourishment\u003c/a>, and then the trauma of \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8570101/\">being detained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You couldn’t set up a worse scenario,” said Dr. Blair Cushing, who runs a women’s health clinic in McAllen, about 45 minutes from San Benito. “I’m kind of blown away by the level of risk that they’re concentrating in this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A history of problems\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Benito shelter is owned and operated by Urban Strategies, a for-profit company that has contracted with the federal government to care for unaccompanied children for more than a decade, according to \u003ca href=\"http://usaspending.gov\">USAspending.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main building, an old tan brick Baptist Church, occupies a city block in downtown San Benito, a quiet town of about 25,000. The church was converted to a migrant shelter in 2015 and was managed by two other contractors before Urban Strategies \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/30/2021-25971/announcement-of-intent-to-issue-replacement-award-to-provide-residential-services-shelter\">took it over in 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a fall day last year, there were no signs of activity at the facility, though children’s lawn toys and playground equipment were visible behind a wooden fence. A guard was stationed at one of the entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251104_MELIZA_PL_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meliza Fonseca lives across the street from the San Benito shelter. She said she occasionally sees children in the yard on weekends, “but for the most part, you don’t see them.” \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty quiet, just like it is today,” said Meliza Fonseca, who lives nearby. “That’s the way it is every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she occasionally sees kids playing in the yard on weekends, “but for the most part, you don’t see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by email, the founder and president of Urban Strategies, Lisa Cummins, wrote that the company is “deeply committed to the care and well-being of the children we serve,” but directed any questions about ORR-contracted shelters to the federal agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the San Benito facility, the ORR spokesperson wrote that “Urban Strategies has a long-standing record of delivering high-quality care to pregnant unaccompanied minors, with a consistently low staff turnover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/20251105_UrbanStrategy_PL_04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gated building at Urban Strategies, a facility that holds unaccompanied minor immigrants under contract with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, in San Benito, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patricia Lim/KUT News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But agency sources who spoke with the newsrooms said that as recently as 2024, staff members at the shelter failed to arrange timely medical appointments for pregnant girls or immediately share critical health information with the federal agency and discharged them without arrangements to continue their medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR temporarily barred the shelter from receiving pregnant girls while Urban Strategies implemented a remediation plan, but the plan did not add staff or enhance their qualifications, the sources said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not long after the lawsuit was filed, White said he received a late-night phone call from Lloyd, who had a request. He wanted White to transfer an unaccompanied pregnant girl who was seeking an abortion to a migrant shelter in Texas, where, under state law, it would have been too late for her to terminate her pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White believed following the order would have been unlawful because it might have denied the girl access to legal relief under the lawsuit, so he refused. The girl was not transferred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lloyd, who has since left the government, told the newsrooms he didn’t believe his request was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class action lawsuit was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/result-aclu-litigation-trump-administration-ends-policy-prohibiting-immigrant-minors\">settled in 2020\u003c/a>; the first Trump administration agreed not to interfere with abortion access for migrant youth in federal custody going forward. Four years later, the Biden administration cemented the deal in official\u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-30/pdf/2024-08329.pdf#page=219\"> regulations\u003c/a>: If a child who wanted to terminate her pregnancy was detained in a state where it was not legal, ORR had to move them to a state where it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rule remains in place, and the agency appears to be following it; ORR has transferred two pregnant girls out of Texas since July, though agency sources said one of them chose not to terminate her pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that Trump is back in office, his administration is working to kill the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Elegant and simple’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before Trump won reelection, policymakers in his circle were planning a renewed attempt to restrict abortion rights for unaccompanied minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a politically conservative overhaul of the federal government, \u003ca href=\"https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=510\">called for\u003c/a> ORR to stop facilitating abortions for children in its care. The plan advised the government not to detain unaccompanied children in states where abortion is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a change is now possible, Project 2025 argued, because Roe v. Wade is no longer an obstacle. Since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision in 2022, there is no longer a federal right to abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11918029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11918029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/gettyimages-1241510158_wide-618b2eab892ca9097bca6e83bd698df2d7f47782-scaled-e1770775479336.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads 'We Dissent' is held up in the foreground. The Supreme Court can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abortion rights activists rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade, in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon returning to office, Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/\">executive order\u003c/a> “to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in early July, the Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1408241/dl\">reconsidered a longstanding federal law\u003c/a> governing the use of taxpayer money for abortion. The DOJ concluded that the government cannot pay to transport detainees from one state to another to facilitate abortion access, except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, ORR is working to rescind the Biden-era requirement that pregnant girls requesting an abortion be moved to states where it’s available. On Jan. 23, the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDetails?rrid=1252114\">submitted the proposed change\u003c/a> for government approval, though it has not yet published the details.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Several of the ORR officials who spoke with the newsrooms said it’s unclear whether children in the agency’s custody who have been raped or need emergency medical care will still be allowed to get abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HHS does not comment on pending or pre-decisional rulemaking,” the agency’s spokesperson wrote when asked for details of the regulatory change. “ORR will continue to comply with all applicable federal laws, including requirements for providing necessary medical care to children in ORR custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day the change was submitted, an unnamed Health and Human Services spokesperson told \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/23/exclusive-hhs-advances-rule-ending-taxpayer-funded-abortion-travel-for-alien-children/\">\u003cem>The Daily Signal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a conservative news site, “Our goal is to save lives both for these young children that are coming across the border, that are pregnant, and to save the lives of their unborn babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other experts who spoke with the newsrooms, White, the former head of ORR’s unaccompanied children program, said he thinks the San Benito directive and the anti-abortion rule change are meant to work hand in hand: Once pregnant children are placed at the San Benito shelter, the new regulations could mean they cannot be moved out of Texas to get abortions — even if keeping them there puts them at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so elegant and simple,” White said. “All they have to do is send them to Texas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mose Buchele with The Texas Newsroom contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kut.org/texasnewsroom\">\u003cem>The Texas Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. The California Newsroom is a collaboration of public media outlets that includes NPR, CalMatters, KQED (San Francisco), LAist and KCRW (Los Angeles), KPBS (San Diego) and other stations across the state. The Texas Newsroom is a public radio journalism collaboration that includes NPR, KERA (North Texas), Houston Public Media, KUT (Austin), Texas Public Radio (San Antonio) and other stations across the state.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday afternoon in a Campbell dance studio, Michille Paulin and Carolina Meneses were busy trying to explain to a group of young kids their roles in a dance routine based on El Calypso de Callao, a festival from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068663/a-really-confusing-moment-bay-area-venezuelans-struggle-to-make-sense-of-us-attack\">Venezuela\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dancers will wear a lot of gold for the performance, the women tell the children, because the routine celebrates El Callao, a city in Venezuela where people from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad moved to work in gold mines centuries ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they millionaires?” one child asks, astonished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yes,” Meneses replies. “There’s a lot of gold in El Callao.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesson was part choreography, part history and culture class. Paulin and Meneses are co-founders of Dulce Tricolor, a group they founded in 2019, focused on teaching traditional folk dances from Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Meneses (center) speaks with a student during morning lessons at the Dulce Tricolor Venezolano dance group at the Ariel Dance Studio in Campbell on Jan. 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Josie Lepe for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group’s mission of celebrating Venezuelan culture feels even more relevant now, as the country’s political woes are making headlines with the U.S. government’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">capture of the country’s leader\u003c/a>, Nicolás Maduro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in the U.S. for 23 years, and I feel that I’m very well acculturated to the U.S., but I miss my roots, I miss my traditions, I miss my country,” said Paulin, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a way to keep it alive for me, for my kids, for our community and then most importantly to share with the Bay Area what Venezuela is. And to make sure that everybody knows that we are more than what they see these days on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in youth morning lessons at the Dulce Tricolor Venezolano dance group at the Ariel Dance Studio in Campbell on Jan. 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Josie Lepe for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The future of Venezuela is unclear, but its political and economic instability has plagued the South American nation for nearly two decades, forcing a quarter of the population to emigrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Americans have little understanding of the Venezuelan people or culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Venezuelan diaspora in the Bay Area is relatively small. An estimated 770,000 Venezuelan natives lived in the United States in 2024, with 3%, or about 23,000, in California, according to the Migration Policy Institute.[aside postID=news_12069211 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2254673550.jpg']I wanted to find out more about the Venezuelan community in the Bay Area, so I reached out to Paulin to learn about Dulce Tricolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, formed in 2019, obtained nonprofit status and now has about two dozen members who perform at events all over the Bay Area, including an annual Christmas showcase in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is divided into age groups — ages 4 to 7, 8 to 15, and 15 and up — that practice every Sunday at a dance studio tucked away in a strip mall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to the Bay Area in 2017, Paulin struggled to expose her three kids to Venezuelan culture here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we speak Spanish at home and we eat arepas and all the stuff, having something more structured was better,” Paulin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, she was shopping in a grocery store when a woman overheard her speaking, recognized her accent and invited her to join a WhatsApp group for Venezuelan women in the Bay Area. That chance encounter led to the formation of Dulce Tricolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-01-JL-012526-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-01-JL-012526-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-01-JL-012526-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-01-JL-012526-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in morning lessons for youth ages 4 to 7 at the Dulce Tricolor Venezolano dance group at the Ariel Dance Studio in Campbell, California, on Jan. 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Josie Lepe for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have friends from everywhere, but being close to Venezuelans gives me a special fulfillment I get out of being with people that speak the same language and the same culture,” Paulin said. “It was very exciting to find this group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Paulin and Meneses, preserving and sharing Venezuelan traditions has been a lifeline in their adopted homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been amazing because at first there were not too many Venezuela people,” said Meneses, who left Venezuela in 2010 and now lives in Campbell. “In these last few years, a lot of people that came from Venezuela and that is good for one part, but it’s not for another part because a lot of people are leaving our country for the situation. 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Looking back, those were some of the most formative experiences of my childhood because they reinforced pride, appreciation and understanding of my Mexican roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s empowering to not just be exposed to a cultural tradition, but to embody it and act as a representative.[aside postID=arts_13986280 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/012026_BadBunnyBayArea_GH_019_qed.jpg']The group’s next performance is slated for March 1 at Fuego Sports Bar in Sunnyvale that will feature music, live performances, food and a community forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, Paulin said, is to combine tradition and celebration with taking time for Venezuelans to process the current moment with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent\">“We don’t know what the future will bring. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they millionaires?” one child asks, astonished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yes,” Meneses replies. “There’s a lot of gold in El Callao.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lesson was part choreography, part history and culture class. Paulin and Meneses are co-founders of Dulce Tricolor, a group they founded in 2019, focused on teaching traditional folk dances from Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-22-JL-012526-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Meneses (center) speaks with a student during morning lessons at the Dulce Tricolor Venezolano dance group at the Ariel Dance Studio in Campbell on Jan. 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Josie Lepe for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group’s mission of celebrating Venezuelan culture feels even more relevant now, as the country’s political woes are making headlines with the U.S. government’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">capture of the country’s leader\u003c/a>, Nicolás Maduro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in the U.S. for 23 years, and I feel that I’m very well acculturated to the U.S., but I miss my roots, I miss my traditions, I miss my country,” said Paulin, 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a way to keep it alive for me, for my kids, for our community and then most importantly to share with the Bay Area what Venezuela is. And to make sure that everybody knows that we are more than what they see these days on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/DULCETRICOLOR-12-JL-012526-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in youth morning lessons at the Dulce Tricolor Venezolano dance group at the Ariel Dance Studio in Campbell on Jan. 25, 2026. \u003ccite>(Josie Lepe for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The future of Venezuela is unclear, but its political and economic instability has plagued the South American nation for nearly two decades, forcing a quarter of the population to emigrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Americans have little understanding of the Venezuelan people or culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Venezuelan diaspora in the Bay Area is relatively small. An estimated 770,000 Venezuelan natives lived in the United States in 2024, with 3%, or about 23,000, in California, according to the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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