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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/hands.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-146007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/hands.jpg\" alt=\"Cruz is now living in San Mateo County with her older sister Yesenia who is an undocumented immigrant. (Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Cruz is now living in San Mateo County with her older sister, Yesenia, an undocumented immigrant. (Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Cruz and her big sister, Yesenia, are from El Salvador, and grew up in a small city east of the country’s capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re 16 years apart, but the sisters say that doesn’t matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve had a special connection to each other since the moment Jennifer was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was tremendous,” Yesenia recalls in Spanish. “I saw her take her first steps, I took her to school and I dressed her like a pretty little princess. She was my little toy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer is now 17 years old. 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They wanted to have sex with me,” says Jennifer. “They weren’t going to leave me alone until I joined them or lived with them. If you live with \u003cem>mareros\u003c/em> you’re not just with one. You’re with all of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146010\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/cruz-and-child.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-146010\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/cruz-and-child.jpg\" alt=\"Cruz takes a walk with her nephew to a nearby bakery in San Mateo County. (Gabriel Salcedo/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Cruz takes a walk with her nephew to a nearby bakery in San Mateo County. 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When she tried to run away, one man pulled out a gun and began shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer barely managed to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Yesenia found out by phone what had happened, she told Jennifer now was the time to get out of El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer’s Journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing this day would come, Yesenia had managed to save $6,000 and wired the money to a smuggler who -- several years ago -- brought one of their brothers to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later, that same coyote showed up to Jennifer’s house in a red car in the early morning. Another man was seated next to him. Jennifer had just gotten out of bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2ma4vgxI60r65VcX03kOXlsdruDbAWWb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The smugglers] gave me some time to get washed up and change my clothes. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">By Robin Simmonds\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/26/amid-multiple-warning-signs-alleged-isla-vista-killer-slipped-through-system/islavistavigil-640/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137156\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-137156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/islavistavigil-640.jpg\" alt=\"A student lights a candle at a makeshift memorial outside the IV Deli Mart where one of the victims of a killing spree was shot and killed near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus during a candlelight vigil for those affected by the tragedy in Isla Vista on May 24, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. Elliot Rodger, the British-born son of a Hollywood film-maker stabbed three men to death in his apartment before killing three more people in a shooting spree in Santa Barbara, California, police said. AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student lights a candle at a makeshift memorial outside the IV Deli Mart where one of the victims of a killing spree was shot and killed near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus during a candlelight vigil for those affected by the tragedy in Isla Vista on May 24, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. Elliot Rodger, the British-born son of a Hollywood film-maker stabbed three men to death in his apartment before killing three more people in a shooting spree in Santa Barbara, California, police said. AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small\">The California Legislature today approved a measure that would encourage law enforcement officers to check to see whether a person who may be a danger to themselves or others is also the owner of a firearm.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"//leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_505_bill_20140818_amended_asm_v92.htm\">Senate Bill 505\u003c/a>, introduced by state \u003ca href=\"http://sd19.senate.ca.gov/\">Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson\u003c/a> (D-Santa Barbara), was written in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/isla-vista/\">Isla Vista rampage\u003c/a>, when six people where killed by 22-year old Elliot Rodger, before Rodger committed suicide. Described as troubled since a young age, Rodger had been visited by law enforcement some three weeks before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, if signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, would prompt officers to check the state’s existing database of gun registration before making a ‘welfare check’ on someone who may pose a danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will never know for sure if the outcome in Isla Vista might have been different with a gun database search,” said Jackson. “But the next time California experiences a similar tragedy, we shouldn’t be left wondering. Searches of the gun database can be done in as little as 90 seconds, and those 90 seconds can help save lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also requires law enforcement agencies to develop written policies and standard protocols to conduct the “welfare check.” State Sen. Steve Knight (R-Antelope Valley), who voted for the bill, said that police officers need more information on how to conduct the checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any more information, any tangible thing that we can take on those calls is very helpful,” said Knight during the Senate debate on Friday. “This is going to help keep police officers safe, and make welfare checks safer for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 505 was opposed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calffl.org/\">California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees\u003c/a>, who argued that it further stigmatizes gun owners who play by the rules and may prompt some to see gun owners as a social risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current legislation authorizes these gun database checks at the discretion of the officer. This bill would create a state mandate that would cost the state, per a legislative analysis, $400,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Brown has not indicated whether he will sign the bill. However, last year Brown vetoed 11 bills that he thought were too tough on gun control -- including \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_180_2013_Veto_Message.pdf\">one to allow Oakland to have more stringent gun registration\u003c/a> and licensing statutes than the rest of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11762_IMG_1499-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11762_IMG_1499-copy-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"A protest led by Alejandro Nieto's parents moves down Folsom Street on the north side of Bernal Heights Park to San Francisco's federal courthouse on Friday. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest led by Alejandro Nieto's parents moves down Folsom Street on the north side of Bernal Heights Park to San Francisco's federal courthouse on Friday. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The parents of a 28-year-old man shot and killed by San Francisco police officers on March 21 filed a federal lawsuit against the city and its police chief Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit (\u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">read below\u003c/a>) disputes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">statements SFPD Chief Greg Suhr made\u003c/a> just days after the shooting, and supporters of the slain Alejandro Nieto are suggesting a cover-up. Attorneys for Refugio and Elvira Nieto say witnesses came forward to dispute the assertion that Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 150 marched from the site of Nieto's shooting to San Francisco's federal courthouse Friday. Protesters' chants referenced \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/15/missouri-shooting-anger-in-sf-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">several controversial shootings\u003c/a> by Bay Area police and the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that has recently dominated national news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto's death \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/30/130922/nieto-police-shooting-bernal-heights\" target=\"_blank\">sparked anger in San Francisco's Mission District\u003c/a>. He was well known in the neighborhood and a criminal justice student at City College of San Francisco where he was studying to become a juvenile probation officer. He had been an intern with the city's probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145578\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11772_IMG_1963-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-145578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/RS11772_IMG_1963-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"City College of San Francisco student Rima Miles marches down Mission Street on Friday protesting the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto in March. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City College of San Francisco student Rima Miles marches down Mission Street on Friday protesting the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto in March. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also worked as a security guard at a nightclub near the Mission and carried a Taser for the job. Nieto stopped to eat a burrito atop the city's Bernal Heights Park on his way to work the evening he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone saw the holstered Taser and called police, according to Suhr's statements and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/16/sfpd-dispatch-audio-from-fatal-police-shooting-nieto/\" target=\"_blank\">SFPD scanner traffic\u003c/a> from the night of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr told an angry crowd at a March 25 town hall meeting that officers approached Nieto and asked him to show his hands. He said Nieto drew his Taser, which automatically emits a laser sight. Officers only shot after they noticed the red dot \"on them, tracking,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They believed it to be a firearm, and they fired at Mr. Nieto,\" Suhr said. \"Mr. Nieto went to the ground. He assumed a prone position, again he acquired the dot, continued to track as other officers arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the time Nieto was prohibited from owning a firearm \"for mental health reasons,\" a statement also disputed by his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer are representing Nieto's parents. Pointer said sustained protests in the Mission District compelled witnesses to contact their office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion that he was waving a Taser, displaying a Taser, acting out violently with this Taser in any way toward the officers just flies in the face of what independent parties have come forward to say,\" Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential witnesses are not named in the lawsuit. Burris said their identities will be revealed to the city through the discovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the federal complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[T]he ear and eye witness’ revelations undermine SFPD’s claims. Based upon the witnesses’ accounts there, in fact, was no justification for this unwarranted use of deadly force as contrary to the Defendants’ claims, they did not hear Mr. Nieto threaten anyone or see him attempt to grab or point any object at the Officers prior to being shot.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Based on unnamed witness accounts, Burris said Nieto \"really never had a chance to do anything. He was told to stop and as he made a minor, minor move, he was shot multiple times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also mentioned a restraining order against Nieto allegedly stemming from a fight with a former friend in which Nieto had used his Taser. Supporters have said Nieto was pursuing his own restraining order in the matter. Pointer said the dispute appeared to be one \"between competing lovers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stalled medical examiner's report on Nieto's death is compounding anger in the neighborhood. A spokesman for the office would only say that the examiner's investigation is pending and that no other agency has requested that the report be sealed. The spokesman declined to give any reason for the unfinished report, which generally would include a description of an autopsy's findings and results of a toxicology screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been five months, and the medical examiner has not finished their report — what does that smell like?\" Roberto Hernandez asked during the march. \"Because it's a brown young man, they don't care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez and others wondered how the city attorney's office could have denied a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/14/family-of-man-slain-by-san-francisco-police-file-claim-against-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death claim filed against the city\u003c/a> in April without the medical examiner's findings. The claim was denied on May 27, according to city attorney spokesman Matt Dorsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Claimants can't sue for most causes of action without going through the claims process,\" Dorsey wrote in a statement to KQED. 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He assumed a prone position, again he acquired the dot, continued to track as other officers arrived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the time Nieto was prohibited from owning a firearm \"for mental health reasons,\" a statement also disputed by his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based attorneys John Burris and Adante Pointer are representing Nieto's parents. Pointer said sustained protests in the Mission District compelled witnesses to contact their office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The notion that he was waving a Taser, displaying a Taser, acting out violently with this Taser in any way toward the officers just flies in the face of what independent parties have come forward to say,\" Pointer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential witnesses are not named in the lawsuit. Burris said their identities will be revealed to the city through the discovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the federal complaint:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[T]he ear and eye witness’ revelations undermine SFPD’s claims. Based upon the witnesses’ accounts there, in fact, was no justification for this unwarranted use of deadly force as contrary to the Defendants’ claims, they did not hear Mr. Nieto threaten anyone or see him attempt to grab or point any object at the Officers prior to being shot.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Based on unnamed witness accounts, Burris said Nieto \"really never had a chance to do anything. He was told to stop and as he made a minor, minor move, he was shot multiple times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also mentioned a restraining order against Nieto allegedly stemming from a fight with a former friend in which Nieto had used his Taser. Supporters have said Nieto was pursuing his own restraining order in the matter. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Zaidee Stavely\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/child-immigrants-legal-logjam/immigration-attorney-eleni-wolfe-roubatis-meets-with-a-tiny-client-and-his-mom-at-centro-legal-de-la-raza/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145273\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Immigration-attorney-Eleni-Wolfe-Roubatis-meets-with-a-tiny-client-and-his-mom-at-Centro-Legal-de-la-Raza-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration attorney Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis meets with a client and his mother at Centro Legal de la Raza. (KQED/Zaidee Stavely )\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis meets with a tiny client and his mother at Centro Legal de la Raza. 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And Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown joined Harris and legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18658\" target=\"_blank\">to announce a bill\u003c/a> that would provide $3 million to nonprofit legal services to help handle cases for young immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal were stretched to capacity before the child migrant crisis. Now they are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this night at Centro Legal, Wolfe-Roubatis met with a 9-year-old girl from Guatemala who made the journey across two borders alone. She also spoke with a mother named Araceli from Honduras and her two children. (We agreed to not to use her last name out of safety concerns.) Araceli said her family fled vicious gang attacks in San Pedro Sula, the city with\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/americas/honduras-murder-capital/\" target=\"_blank\"> the highest murder rate in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and ... and get the protection the law provides for them.'\u003ccite>— Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis,\u003cbr>\nCentro Legal de la Raza\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Many of my family members, my brothers, have been killed,\" she said in Spanish. \"At my son’s school, they started to charge a 'tax', and if a kid didn’t pay, they wanted him to sell drugs, and if he didn’t, they threatened to kill him and his whole family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys across the Bay Area are hearing stories like this again and again. Between January and June, more than 850 children detained at the border have been released to guardians in the Bay Area as they wait for their day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others came with a parent, like Araceli’s children. Centro Legal will represent Araceli and her family, but Wolfe-Roubatis said she has to turn away about 40 percent of the people who come through their doors, many of them with what she says are valid claims for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is emotionally exhausting is hearing the story and knowing that, without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and help them explain their story and get the protection the law provides for them,” Wolfe-Roubatis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise of the Rocket Dockets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because of the new fast pace of hearings. Kids who crossed the border alone now get court dates within three weeks of their release from government custody. Children and parents detained together have to appear within four weeks of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, that means two new courtrooms just for children’s first hearings. Attorneys call them the \"rocket dockets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one weekday morning, a box with picture books in English and Spanish, coloring books and colored pencils sat on the back bench of one courtroom. Thirteen out of 15 families with children showed up without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had children as young as 2 walk in,” said Wolfe-Roubatis. “And that child is supposed to explain somehow to the judge what they want to do with their case, while there’s an adverse party who is advocating that that child should be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That adverse party is an attorney paid for by the federal government. The government doesn’t pay for counsel for immigrants fighting their deportations, regardless of age. According to case records analyzed by \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/359/\">Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC),\u003c/a> without lawyers, children lose their claims nine times out of 10. With lawyers, half of them win their cases to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their initial hearings, children on the rocket docket are given about two months to find an attorney. In normal circumstances, adults in deportation proceedings get four to six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategist Alfonso Aguilar, who directs the \u003ca href=\"http://americanprinciplesproject.org/latino-partnership/issue-brief-unaccompanied-minors-at-the-border/\">American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership\u003c/a>, says the time frame should be even shorter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that some people like that the system takes so long to consider a case,” said Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship under President George W. 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So, legal aid groups in the Bay Area are having to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now it’s both a challenging but kind of exciting time, where there’s a lot of interest and conversations going on,” said Carole Conn, director of public service programs at the Lawyer Referral and Information Service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbar.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Association of San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conn said a network of Bay Area lawyers is coming together to try to meet the need, and many are answering Harris’ call. Advocates are training attorneys on how to handle immigration cases and the special needs of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response in San Francisco has been remarkable, especially in the attorney-of-the-day program. Lawyers are dropping their regular work to show up for children and families in their initial court hearings. The program already existed in San Francisco immigration court, but it jumped to a new level with the rocket dockets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Zaidee Stavely\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/child-immigrants-legal-logjam/immigration-attorney-eleni-wolfe-roubatis-meets-with-a-tiny-client-and-his-mom-at-centro-legal-de-la-raza/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145273\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145273\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Immigration-attorney-Eleni-Wolfe-Roubatis-meets-with-a-tiny-client-and-his-mom-at-Centro-Legal-de-la-Raza-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration attorney Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis meets with a client and his mother at Centro Legal de la Raza. (KQED/Zaidee Stavely )\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis meets with a tiny client and his mother at Centro Legal de la Raza. (Zaidee Stavely/KQED )\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/164179800&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every other Wednesday night at the \u003ca href=\"http://centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, immigrants pack the lobby and spill out into the hallway, waiting for a chance to speak with an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent night, immigration program director Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis and her team of attorneys swept in and out, meeting with families privately to screen their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me personally, what’s so difficult is knowing that we don’t have the resources to meet all these needs,” said Wolfe-Roubatis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Kamala Harris is calling on more pro bono lawyers to help out legal aid groups like Centro Legal as they scramble to represent the hundreds of Central American children who have recently arrived in the Bay Area. And Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown joined Harris and legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18658\" target=\"_blank\">to announce a bill\u003c/a> that would provide $3 million to nonprofit legal services to help handle cases for young immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centro Legal were stretched to capacity before the child migrant crisis. Now they are overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this night at Centro Legal, Wolfe-Roubatis met with a 9-year-old girl from Guatemala who made the journey across two borders alone. She also spoke with a mother named Araceli from Honduras and her two children. (We agreed to not to use her last name out of safety concerns.) Araceli said her family fled vicious gang attacks in San Pedro Sula, the city with\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/world/americas/honduras-murder-capital/\" target=\"_blank\"> the highest murder rate in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and ... and get the protection the law provides for them.'\u003ccite>— Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis,\u003cbr>\nCentro Legal de la Raza\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Many of my family members, my brothers, have been killed,\" she said in Spanish. \"At my son’s school, they started to charge a 'tax', and if a kid didn’t pay, they wanted him to sell drugs, and if he didn’t, they threatened to kill him and his whole family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys across the Bay Area are hearing stories like this again and again. Between January and June, more than 850 children detained at the border have been released to guardians in the Bay Area as they wait for their day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others came with a parent, like Araceli’s children. Centro Legal will represent Araceli and her family, but Wolfe-Roubatis said she has to turn away about 40 percent of the people who come through their doors, many of them with what she says are valid claims for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is emotionally exhausting is hearing the story and knowing that, without increased capacity, we are not going to be able to represent that person and help them explain their story and get the protection the law provides for them,” Wolfe-Roubatis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise of the Rocket Dockets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because of the new fast pace of hearings. Kids who crossed the border alone now get court dates within three weeks of their release from government custody. Children and parents detained together have to appear within four weeks of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, that means two new courtrooms just for children’s first hearings. Attorneys call them the \"rocket dockets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one weekday morning, a box with picture books in English and Spanish, coloring books and colored pencils sat on the back bench of one courtroom. Thirteen out of 15 families with children showed up without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had children as young as 2 walk in,” said Wolfe-Roubatis. “And that child is supposed to explain somehow to the judge what they want to do with their case, while there’s an adverse party who is advocating that that child should be deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That adverse party is an attorney paid for by the federal government. The government doesn’t pay for counsel for immigrants fighting their deportations, regardless of age. According to case records analyzed by \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/359/\">Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC),\u003c/a> without lawyers, children lose their claims nine times out of 10. With lawyers, half of them win their cases to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After their initial hearings, children on the rocket docket are given about two months to find an attorney. In normal circumstances, adults in deportation proceedings get four to six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican strategist Alfonso Aguilar, who directs the \u003ca href=\"http://americanprinciplesproject.org/latino-partnership/issue-brief-unaccompanied-minors-at-the-border/\">American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership\u003c/a>, says the time frame should be even shorter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that some people like that the system takes so long to consider a case,” said Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship under President George W. 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So, legal aid groups in the Bay Area are having to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now it’s both a challenging but kind of exciting time, where there’s a lot of interest and conversations going on,” said Carole Conn, director of public service programs at the Lawyer Referral and Information Service of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbar.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Association of San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conn said a network of Bay Area lawyers is coming together to try to meet the need, and many are answering Harris’ call. Advocates are training attorneys on how to handle immigration cases and the special needs of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response in San Francisco has been remarkable, especially in the attorney-of-the-day program. Lawyers are dropping their regular work to show up for children and families in their initial court hearings. The program already existed in San Francisco immigration court, but it jumped to a new level with the rocket dockets. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/1282757-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/1282757-1-640x445.jpg\" alt=\"James Page, left, in a 1999 welterweight bout against Sam Garr. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Page, left, in a 1999 welterweight bout against Sam Garr. (Al Bello/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting in the mid-1990s, James \"The Mighty Quinn\" Page fought near or at the top of the professional boxing world's welterweight division. He \"hit like a mule,\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.boxing.com/a_fall_from_grace.html\" target=\"_blank\"> according to one assessment\u003c/a> of his career. He was rated highly for his stamina and ability to take a punch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Page, who grew up in what his most recent lawyer describes as a violent and drug-ridden household in Pittsburg, is arguably better known now for how he spent his time outside the ring. As Page began to find success in the ring, he also started amassing what became a long criminal rap sheet, including felony drug possession, drug trafficking, robbery, and theft, in addition to a long list of misdemeanor convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he lost his title once and for all in 2001, he committed several unarmed bank robberies in Georgia. He was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, got out in 2012 and, at the age of 41, returned to the East Bay. He later told a neuropsychologist retained to examine him that when he came home \"he had no idea how to earn a living. He could not get a job. He did try one fight. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bout was part of a card in Sacramento in November 2012. Here's how Boxing.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxing.com/a_fall_from_grace.html\" target=\"_blank\">describes the proceedings\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>James Page made his short-lived comeback in November 2012 against ultra-limited Rahman Mustafa “Genghis Khan” Yusubov, a native of Azerbaijan. After a decent first round, Page lost by second round KO via a left hook-right cross combo that put him away. This was Genghis’s only win in his last ten bouts. Fortunately, Page wasn’t seriously injured in the bout—one that arguably should never have been sanctioned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145198\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 306px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/76262_428483523884438_1520509733_n-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/76262_428483523884438_1520509733_n-1-458x640.jpg\" alt=\"Poster advertising James Page's final fight, in November 2012. He was knocked out in the second round.\" width=\"306\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster advertising James Page's final fight, in November 2012. He was knocked out in the second round.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The aftermath? Page unsuccessfully tried to find work as a trainer. Then, a few months later, still under supervised release from his earlier conviction, he launched another series of unarmed bank robberies. His modus operandi was to hand tellers a note demanding cash, and since he wore collared shirts in an apparent attempt to conceal a tattoo on his neck, he was called the Button-Down Bandit. Between early March and mid-June of last year, Page hit eight banks and netted a total of about $17,000. He pleaded guilty to six of the heists, and Tuesday he was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page's public defender, Ellen Leonida, had argued for a lighter sentence — five years and three months. She cited a series of extenuating circumstances, including neglect Page suffered as a child and the fact he committed his bank jobs without resorting to violence. But most of her argument turns on the physical effects of Page's chosen profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Over the course of his boxing career, thousands of blows were inflicted to James Page’s head, ultimately causing severe, permanent damage to his brain,\" Leonida wrote in a sentencing memorandum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard Friedman, a Walnut Creek neuropsychologist who examined the boxer to help determine whether he was competent to stand trial, found Page suffering from a wide range of cognitive problems and \"severely impaired\" memory. He speculated on the probable cause:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The difficulties that [Page] has with aspects of his cognitive function are consistent with his reported history. He had a number of concussions related to having been a professional boxer. His boxing career had been associated with the number of times that he was knocked out or dazed, which would qualify as traumatic brain injury. Although an individual might recover from a single traumatic brain injury, multiple injuries have been described as producing chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Another way brain trauma from boxing has been characterized is dementia pugilistic, that is, a dementia induced by boxing which produces blows to the head. Dementia is defined as impairment in memory and at least one other cognitive domain. There are many possible causes of dementia. The most well-known is Alzheimer’s. However, traumatic brain injury is another cause and boxing particularly has been identified as one with the above mentioned name of dementia pugilistic. That is clearly the case with Mr. Page as he does have impairment with memory and impairment with concept formation and executive functioning.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area News Group reporter David DeBolt \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_26346616/once-pittsburgs-champion-world-former-boxer-james-page\" target=\"_blank\">recounted most of this history\u003c/a> in a nicely done piece published last week. He concluded by speaking to Page's wife, Marquita, with whom he has a 7-month-old daughter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This month, Marquita Page took a drive from her home in Oakley to Oakland, as she does twice a week, with her young daughter Jariah, to visit Page at the North County Jail. It was one of the last times she will see him there before he is moved to a federal facility, likely farther away. His mother, Pamela Page, was there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to tell her the positive things about him,\" Marquita Page said of her daughter. \"The saddest thing is when I take her, she stands up to the glass and wants to touch his face but she can't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a deep sadness in his eyes.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Before joining the company in 2011, Doll spent three years as deputy policy director at the utilities commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doll was the PG&E official who replied, \"Love you,\" in an e-mail after [CPUC President Michael] Peevey's chief of staff provided advice in 2013 on how PG&E could fend off a public request for information about the conference.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That symposium was eventually scrapped after San Bruno legal maneuvers that called CPUC commissioners' participation into question as they debate a nearly $2.5 billion fine for the 2010 pipeline explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the safety symposium emails demonstrate, PG&E is actually doing the staff work for the CPUC,\" Jackson said. \"There’s something really wrong with that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26347380/gov-jerry-brown-defends-cpuc-president-delta-tunnel\" target=\"_blank\">recently defended\u003c/a> Peevey. 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