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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom today \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-sb-53-advancing-californias-world-leading-artificial-intelligence-industry/\">signed\u003c/a> into law\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB53\"> Senate Bill 53\u003c/a>, which would require large model developers like Anthropic and Open AI to be transparent about safety measures they put in place to prevent catastrophic events. The legislation would also create CalCompute, a public cloud infrastructure that expands access to AI resources for researchers, startups and public institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing his decision, Newsom wrote, “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive. This legislation strikes that balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) authored the bill, after his original effort became target No. 1 for Silicon Valley lobbyists\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007323/can-california-still-lead-on-ai-regulation-following-newsoms-veto-of-ai-safety-bill\"> last legislative session\u003c/a> and died on Newsom’s desk. That bill spooked high-profile California politicians, including\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002254/california-bill-to-regulate-catastrophic-effects-of-ai-heads-to-newsoms-desk\"> Nancy Pelosi,\u003c/a> nervous about getting on the wrong side of Big Tech. 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Also, that competitive pressures are undermining safety, and policy intervention is needed to prevent a race to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, was the first major AI developer to endorse SB 53, having offered more cautious support for SB 1047. “We’re proud to have worked with Senator Wiener to help bring industry to the table and develop practical safeguards that create real accountability for how powerful AI systems are developed and deployed, which will in turn keep everyone safer as the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities continues,” wrote Jack Clark, co-founder and head of policy for Anthropic.[aside postID=news_12052617 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GETTYIMAGES-2228237489-KQED.jpg']Federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have historically taken a relatively\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905230/do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech\"> light touch\u003c/a> toward regulating the technology industry. Despite high-drama hearings about troubling trends in social media and now AI, few bills make it out of their respective committees, let alone to a floor vote. “While federal standards remain essential to avoid a patchwork of state regulations, California has created a strong framework that balances public safety with continued innovation,” Clark added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, other AI developers got behind Wiener’s effort. “Meta supports balanced AI regulation and the California Frontier AI law is a positive step in that direction,” a spokesperson for Meta wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a coalition of more than 20 tech and youth safety advocacy organizations\u003ca href=\"https://encodeai.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SB-53-Coalition-Letter-9_24_2025.pdf\"> sent a letter\u003c/a> to Gov. 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SVLG is committed to advocating for policies that seek to responsibly scale this transformative technology at this pivotal juncture and to unleash a new wave of innovation and growth,” Ahmad Thomas, CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, wrote in a statement. “We will continue to work with the Governor and leaders in the Legislature to ensure that new laws and regulations don’t impose undue burdens on the most innovative companies in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Dimitri Clark is everywhere in his South of Market apartment building. Greeting residents in the lobby, checking in on floormates and keeping a door open for others to come by the tiny studio he shares with two affectionate terriers, Porcupine and Panda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s doing it all to promote safer drug use and reduce overdoses as part of a broader public health program that the city is now expanding within permanent supportive housing buildings. But it comes as San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">scaling back other harm reduction programs\u003c/a>, and as high overdose rates in the city persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 460 people died of overdose from January to August 2025, according to the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths\">public data\u003c/a>, putting the city on pace to exceed last year’s total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who use drugs—that’s just part of human nature—and a lot of people want to isolate themselves, and that’s often when they’ll experience an overdose,” said Clark, who has been in recovery for about a year. “We talk to people about it, take the shame away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Public Health Department recently gave the peer responder program Clark is part of a boost: $600,000 over the next five years to expand its work in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053915 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00371_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00371_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00371_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00371_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dimitri Clark, a peer responder for Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, hugs his dog in his room at The Margot in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a peer responder, Clark guides neighbors through safer drug use practices and ways to prevent an overdose. For a couple of hours each week, he posts up in his building lobby to talk about overdose prevention and hands out safety supplies like oxygen masks, sanitizing wipes and information on how to get help for anyone ready—or even just curious—about quitting. He also frequently gives out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947448/there-to-save-a-life-san-francisco-bars-fight-fentanyl-overdoses-with-narcan\">drug test kits and the opioid overdose-reversal medicine naloxone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program started in 2021 with five people, including Clark, at his former South of Market residence, the Minna Lee. Overdoses were soaring during the pandemic, so the building’s service provider, a nonprofit called Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH SF), decided to train residents with experience using drugs on life-saving strategies to help their neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, overdoses at the Minna Lee began dropping.[aside postID=news_12038907 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240109-SFCeasefireVote-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“We had multiple years of zero fatal overdoses at the Minna Lee, specifically due to, I would argue, that intervention,” said Mattie Loyce, senior manager of community development at DISH SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DISH SF has been training more peer responders ever since. This spring, 25 peer responders graduated from the program that is now operating in seven permanent supportive housing buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help incentivize residents to join, the program offers peer responders a $600 stipend. It’s hardly enough to cover a single month’s rent, but several members said the 14-week training program provided tools to change their own relationship to substances, help others and build confidence in other areas of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the three-month training program, participants take classes on everything from how to respond to an overdose to where to direct people for treatment, as well as different substances’ potencies and effects on the mind and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually didn’t know before I started this program how many overdoses were happening in our buildings,” said Nicole Flores, another peer responder in the program, who said she is still navigating her own relationship with drugs. “A lot of these resources I didn’t know were available, not just harm reduction supplies, but also wound care and other programs for our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250826_sfharmreduction00450_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250826_sfharmreduction00450_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250826_sfharmreduction00450_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250826_sfharmreduction00450_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Flores, a peer responder for Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, stands outside her unit at The Auburn in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peer responders have crafted overdose prevention safety plans with dozens of residents already. Harm reduction, a method backed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/media/pdfs/OD2A-Case-Studies-Harm-Reduction-508.pdf\">scientific research\u003c/a> to reduce overdose risk and other negative consequences of drug use, is just one element of the city’s approach. San Francisco also sends medical professionals into supportive housing buildings to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">deliver drug treatment\u003c/a> options like buprenorphine, a medication that can reduce opioid cravings and withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like for people to start looking at this community and seeing an asset, instead of seeing a problem, because there’s a lot of potential,” said Katie O’Bryant, manager of the peer responder program. “There’s lot of transferable skills that people learn in this lifestyle that can be replicated for all kinds of good in other instances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie made reducing overdoses, and particularly the most visible street-level drug use and dealing, a central part of his campaign. As part of the mayor’s “Breaking the Cycle” initiative, the city has opened a stabilization center at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">822 Geary\u003c/a> St., reorganized street response teams and increased policing of outdoor drug use and dealing.[aside postID=news_12034214 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250218-SFDowntown-07-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Last spring, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">controversially ended public health programs\u003c/a> that handed out clean smoking supplies to drug users on the street, and the city now requires people to participate in counseling in order to obtain any safer drug use supplies, like clean needles, from city-funded public health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the city’s approach to harm reduction applauded the shift, including Stanford professor Keith Humphreys, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909499/san-francisco-scales-back-harm-reduction-policy\">who told KQED\u003c/a> it previously had not done enough to connect people to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group of anonymous residents is \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.426452/gov.uscourts.cand.426452.101.0.pdf\">suing the city\u003c/a> over its harm reduction practices, saying they have led to litter and concentration of dangerous drug activity in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other addiction experts like Tyler TerMeer, who leads the San Francisco Aids Foundation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909499/san-francisco-scales-back-harm-reduction-policy\">raised concern over the change\u003c/a>, however. He warned it could strip medically vulnerable people of connections to health workers and push drug users toward tainted supplies, increasing chances of disease spread, riskier use, like injection, or overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatal overdoses have slightly decreased in recent months, after several months of increasing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths\">city data\u003c/a>. It’s good news, yet addiction treatment providers are raising concerns about other changes they’re noticing after the city cut back on outdoor harm reduction efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opioid emergency kits containing Narcan are placed throughout The Auburn in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our clients are letting us know that when it’s harder to get smoking supplies, they feel a pressure to inject or share equipment. It’s not large numbers, but we have been hearing that,” said Anna Berg, director of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. She said the center is also handing out far less naloxone now that they distribute at fewer street-based sites following the policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residential peer responder program happens mostly indoors and is one area where San Francisco is investing more in harm reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg has clients in treatment who are also participants in the city’s peer responder program, who tell her it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really take it seriously,” Berg said. “These are the kinds of interventions that really work; you need community and to lead with care and support in as many places as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flores, who has been in and out of rehabilitation programs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">strict abstinence-based requirements made it harder\u003c/a> to work through already difficult relapse periods. Having access to housing allowed her to stabilize, something she said was positively life-changing, but it didn’t wipe away her challenges with drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Auburn, a housing project under Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, is located in SoMa in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. San Francisco has scaled back harm reduction programs, but in housing units such as The Margot, the city is expanding access to harm reduction efforts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Abstinence-based programs don’t make it easy for people to reach out,” during a relapse, Flores said. “And I think that this peer responder program does make it feel very safe to reach out in those circumstances, to just come hang out in the same room so that somebody’s there if they overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Hoffman of the city’s Office of Overdose Prevention said the goal of growing the peer responder program is “to leverage the community to connect with other people and break down isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s already beginning to happen, and people like Flores and Clark are saving lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know of two of our clients who have successfully reversed overdoses as part of that program,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores met one of her floormates after stepping into the role. She’s helped treat his wounds and said she’ll sometimes go over to his room while he is using drugs to offer support if something goes awry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Minna Lee, a housing project under Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, is located in SoMa in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has vision problems and other health problems, and just the knowledge that I’ve gained from helping him has been helpful in other areas of my life, too,” Flores said. “It means a lot to me that people trust me enough to come in. I would consider him one of my best friends now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark has occasionally given out clean needles when someone needs them. But due to legal and political challenges, the peer responder program does not fund the distribution of safe-use supplies like needles and does not describe its work as drug-use supervision. Peers themselves entirely lead those efforts..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program focuses specifically on overdose prevention, and the supplies we give out are CPR masks, naloxone and linkage to care. But the safer-use supplies, that is, the direct advocacy of peers themselves,” said Loyce, with DISH SF. “We don’t give that out, but you know we also support their inclination toward whatever types of resources they want to carry for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s changes this year aren’t the first time the city has pulled back on harm reduction, an approach pioneered in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis. In 2021, the city pulled the plug on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915870/inside-san-franciscos-tenderloin-center-that-serves-hundreds-every-day\">safe consumption site\u003c/a> following legal concerns and complaints from neighbors and local businesses over long lines outside the facility, which was located in United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053923\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dimitri Clark, a peer responder for Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, sets up his distribution station at The Margot in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people visited the site for support. More than 300 overdoses were reversed at the facility, and no one died of an overdose on site during the program’s nearly 10-month run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg said the disparity between what peer responders are allowed to do with the program and what neighbors come to them needing reveals a gap in the continuum of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have safe consumption sites all over the place, they’re just not necessarily sanctioned. It is things like neighbors looking out for each other. That is not a new concept. And the reason it sticks around is that it works,” Berg said. “What would it be like to allow people to do things that work? How many people are we losing every month in San Francisco? How many of those folks, if they had somebody there, could have a different outcome?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Clark, a simple tool is being around when someone needs him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so nice about this is it’s not forceful,” Clark said. “It’s the isolation, you know, and fundamentally we have to overcome that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last spring, Lurie \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">controversially ended public health programs\u003c/a> that handed out clean smoking supplies to drug users on the street, and the city now requires people to participate in counseling in order to obtain any safer drug use supplies, like clean needles, from city-funded public health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the city’s approach to harm reduction applauded the shift, including Stanford professor Keith Humphreys, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909499/san-francisco-scales-back-harm-reduction-policy\">who told KQED\u003c/a> it previously had not done enough to connect people to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group of anonymous residents is \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.426452/gov.uscourts.cand.426452.101.0.pdf\">suing the city\u003c/a> over its harm reduction practices, saying they have led to litter and concentration of dangerous drug activity in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other addiction experts like Tyler TerMeer, who leads the San Francisco Aids Foundation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909499/san-francisco-scales-back-harm-reduction-policy\">raised concern over the change\u003c/a>, however. He warned it could strip medically vulnerable people of connections to health workers and push drug users toward tainted supplies, increasing chances of disease spread, riskier use, like injection, or overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatal overdoses have slightly decreased in recent months, after several months of increasing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--preliminary-unintentional-drug-overdose-deaths\">city data\u003c/a>. It’s good news, yet addiction treatment providers are raising concerns about other changes they’re noticing after the city cut back on outdoor harm reduction efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00459_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opioid emergency kits containing Narcan are placed throughout The Auburn in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our clients are letting us know that when it’s harder to get smoking supplies, they feel a pressure to inject or share equipment. It’s not large numbers, but we have been hearing that,” said Anna Berg, director of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. She said the center is also handing out far less naloxone now that they distribute at fewer street-based sites following the policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residential peer responder program happens mostly indoors and is one area where San Francisco is investing more in harm reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg has clients in treatment who are also participants in the city’s peer responder program, who tell her it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really take it seriously,” Berg said. “These are the kinds of interventions that really work; you need community and to lead with care and support in as many places as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Flores, who has been in and out of rehabilitation programs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">strict abstinence-based requirements made it harder\u003c/a> to work through already difficult relapse periods. Having access to housing allowed her to stabilize, something she said was positively life-changing, but it didn’t wipe away her challenges with drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00466_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Auburn, a housing project under Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, is located in SoMa in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. San Francisco has scaled back harm reduction programs, but in housing units such as The Margot, the city is expanding access to harm reduction efforts. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Abstinence-based programs don’t make it easy for people to reach out,” during a relapse, Flores said. “And I think that this peer responder program does make it feel very safe to reach out in those circumstances, to just come hang out in the same room so that somebody’s there if they overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Hoffman of the city’s Office of Overdose Prevention said the goal of growing the peer responder program is “to leverage the community to connect with other people and break down isolation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s already beginning to happen, and people like Flores and Clark are saving lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know of two of our clients who have successfully reversed overdoses as part of that program,” Berg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores met one of her floormates after stepping into the role. She’s helped treat his wounds and said she’ll sometimes go over to his room while he is using drugs to offer support if something goes awry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00397_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Minna Lee, a housing project under Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, is located in SoMa in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has vision problems and other health problems, and just the knowledge that I’ve gained from helping him has been helpful in other areas of my life, too,” Flores said. “It means a lot to me that people trust me enough to come in. I would consider him one of my best friends now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark has occasionally given out clean needles when someone needs them. But due to legal and political challenges, the peer responder program does not fund the distribution of safe-use supplies like needles and does not describe its work as drug-use supervision. Peers themselves entirely lead those efforts..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program focuses specifically on overdose prevention, and the supplies we give out are CPR masks, naloxone and linkage to care. But the safer-use supplies, that is, the direct advocacy of peers themselves,” said Loyce, with DISH SF. “We don’t give that out, but you know we also support their inclination toward whatever types of resources they want to carry for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s changes this year aren’t the first time the city has pulled back on harm reduction, an approach pioneered in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis. In 2021, the city pulled the plug on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915870/inside-san-franciscos-tenderloin-center-that-serves-hundreds-every-day\">safe consumption site\u003c/a> following legal concerns and complaints from neighbors and local businesses over long lines outside the facility, which was located in United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053923\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00241_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dimitri Clark, a peer responder for Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, sets up his distribution station at The Margot in San Francisco on Aug. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people visited the site for support. 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We know this may be hard to hear,” the signs read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks CEO \u003ca href=\"https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/message-from-brian-an-important-update/\">Brian Niccol said Thursday\u003c/a> the company expects to end the fiscal year, which closes Sunday, with roughly 400 fewer stores in North America than it had at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance, and these locations will be closed,” Niccol wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057834\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg 1952w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted informing customers that this location will permanently close is posted at the Starbucks on 49 Jefferson St. in Fisherman’s Wharf on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company has not released a list of closures, but an \u003ca href=\"https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator?map=37.740845,-122.43827,13z&place=18th%20St,%20San%20Francisco,%20CA,%20USA\">online store locator\u003c/a> shows over a dozen locations in the Bay Area set to be closed all next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, those include the Fisherman’s Wharf and Castro locations — the latter notable as the first unionized store in the city — as well as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>350 Rhode Island St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1501 Fillmore St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>462 Powell St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>689 Townsend St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>44 Montgomery St.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County locations listed as closed next week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>321 Gellert Blvd., Daly City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1391 Saratoga Dr., San Mateo\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>East Bay locations listed as closed next week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>200 Broadway, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3013 Broadway, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>470 Lake Park Ave., Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3839 Emery St., Emeryville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1799 Solano Ave., Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>41093 Fremont Blvd., Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>38012 Mission Blvd., Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4251 Livermore Outlets Dr., Livermore\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>223 S. Vasco Rd., Livermore\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1900 Contra Costa Blvd., Pleasant Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>398 Hartz Ave., Danville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>11000 Crow Canyon Rd., Danville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>799 A St., Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6000 Bollinger Canyon Rd., San Ramon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1601 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, \u003cem>The Press Democrat\u003c/em> reports \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/09/26/starbucks-closures-which-locations-are-shutting-down-in-sonoma-and-napa/\">at least six planned closures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>801 Gravenstein Highway, Sebastopol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2755 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>125 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3350 California Blvd., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1200 Lincoln Ave., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1340 Trancas St., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“This announcement makes it clear things are only going Backwards at Starbucks under Brian Niccol’s leadership,” Starbucks Workers United said in a statement. “Yet again, we’re experiencing new policies and major decisions being made with zero barista input.”[aside postID=news_12019704 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/121924_Amazon_Strike_SF-02-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg']The push to unionize Starbucks has surged in recent years. Baristas formed Starbucks Workers United in New York in December of 2021, and by the following May, California employees had organized four locations in a single week. Earlier this month, the union announced its 650th successful vote nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Starbucks spokesperson said unionized status was not considered when deciding which stores to close. Niccol said the company plans to offer transfers to employees at shuttered stores and severance packages for those who can’t be reassigned. Starbucks will also cut about 900 non-retail jobs and eliminate some open positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starbucks CEO \u003ca href=\"https://about.starbucks.com/press/2025/message-from-brian-an-important-update/\">Brian Niccol said Thursday\u003c/a> the company expects to end the fiscal year, which closes Sunday, with roughly 400 fewer stores in North America than it had at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance, and these locations will be closed,” Niccol wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057834\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed.jpg 1952w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250926_StarbucksClosures_GC-1_qed-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted informing customers that this location will permanently close is posted at the Starbucks on 49 Jefferson St. in Fisherman’s Wharf on Sept. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company has not released a list of closures, but an \u003ca href=\"https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator?map=37.740845,-122.43827,13z&place=18th%20St,%20San%20Francisco,%20CA,%20USA\">online store locator\u003c/a> shows over a dozen locations in the Bay Area set to be closed all next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, those include the Fisherman’s Wharf and Castro locations — the latter notable as the first unionized store in the city — as well as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>350 Rhode Island St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1501 Fillmore St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>462 Powell St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>689 Townsend St.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>44 Montgomery St.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County locations listed as closed next week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>321 Gellert Blvd., Daly City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1391 Saratoga Dr., San Mateo\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>East Bay locations listed as closed next week:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>200 Broadway, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3013 Broadway, Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>470 Lake Park Ave., Oakland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3839 Emery St., Emeryville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1799 Solano Ave., Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>41093 Fremont Blvd., Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>38012 Mission Blvd., Fremont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4251 Livermore Outlets Dr., Livermore\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>223 S. Vasco Rd., Livermore\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1900 Contra Costa Blvd., Pleasant Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>398 Hartz Ave., Danville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>11000 Crow Canyon Rd., Danville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>799 A St., Hayward\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6000 Bollinger Canyon Rd., San Ramon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1601 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, \u003cem>The Press Democrat\u003c/em> reports \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/09/26/starbucks-closures-which-locations-are-shutting-down-in-sonoma-and-napa/\">at least six planned closures\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>801 Gravenstein Highway, Sebastopol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2755 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>125 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3350 California Blvd., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1200 Lincoln Ave., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1340 Trancas St., Napa\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“This announcement makes it clear things are only going Backwards at Starbucks under Brian Niccol’s leadership,” Starbucks Workers United said in a statement. “Yet again, we’re experiencing new policies and major decisions being made with zero barista input.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s Police Commission is loosening restrictions on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">vehicle pursuits\u003c/a>, granting officers more leeway to chase suspects at high speeds despite safety concerns from residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The citizen-led commission voted unanimously Thursday evening to remove a special order that required \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-police-department\">Oakland Police Department\u003c/a> officers to gain special permission to continue chases once speeds reach 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the policy, officers must notify a supervising officer immediately after beginning a chase and seek permission to continue. All chases remain limited to situations in which officers have a “reasonable suspicion” that a violent crime has occurred or a suspect has a firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes after strong pressure from Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who has been advocating for months to lift the restrictions put in place in 2022 after a series of deaths related to high-speed chases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the special order has hampered his department’s ability to prevent crime, citing a nearly 50% increase in 2023 in the number of suspects fleeing by car without being chased, and an even further increase in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0478-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell (center) speaks at a news conference on Aug. 16, 2024. Mitchell has been advocating for months to lift the restrictions put in place in 2022 after a series of deaths related to high-speed chases. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed Mitchell’s concerns, telling then-Mayor Sheng Thao, the City Council and the Police Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/07/26/governor-newsom-urges-oakland-to-reconsider-policy-that-limits-police-pursuits/\">in a letter\u003c/a> that Oakland’s pursuit restrictions allowed criminals to flee “with impunity.” He urged the city to remove its special order, which was more restrictive than most California jurisdictions’ chase policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Newsom, California Highway Patrol officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993611/newsom-to-quadruple-chp-deployment-in-oakland-ramping-up-states-policing-role\">he sent to Oakland\u003c/a> that spring to counter rising crime, sideshows and carjackings had reported that criminals were avoiding arrest by fleeing via specific routes where they knew OPD would discontinue pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said that while he understood the policy aimed to protect bystanders during a pursuit, “there is also extreme danger to the public in allowing criminals to act with impunity, and the reckless driving associated with sideshows and other criminal acts is a significant threat to public safety.”[aside postID=news_12043904 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CHP-Getty-1020x680.jpg']In May, Mitchell submitted a request to rescind the special order and change some language in the city’s pursuit policy. In August, he amended the request, tightening some of the changed language specifying when an officer must report that they have begun a high-speed pursuit based on feedback from the city attorney’s office, Police Commission and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the revisions, many speakers at Thursday’s commission meeting urged the body not to loosen chase rules, saying it could increase the number of police chase-related deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current policy is restrictive, as it should be,” one man said during public comment, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-chases-database/\">research conducted by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that found more than 25% of those killed in pursuits across the U.S. were bystanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t call in more justice; if anything it may lead to more grief,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he had previously worked with Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042539/after-fatal-chp-pursuit-crash-oakland-police-watchdog-says-systemic-changes-are-needed\">veteran Oakland teacher who was struck and killed\u003c/a> by a driver fleeing a police chase just days after Mitchell’s request in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boomer and his girlfriend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042178/oakland-chp-pursuit-crash-kills-a-beloved-teacher-renewing-debate-over-police-chases\">were hit\u003c/a> while walking along a sidewalk in the Clinton-San Antonio neighborhood on May 28, after CHP officers chased 18-year-old Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia, who was driving a vehicle they said was associated with a “felony evading incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP officers, who aren’t bound by Oakland’s stricter regulations, first initiated and discontinued a short chase, then picked it back up at a second location after Hernandez-Garcia briefly exited the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seconds into the second chase, Hernandez-Garcia hit a minivan, causing minor injuries to its passengers, and the CHP again called off their pursuit. He continued to drive east, where he smashed into a fire hydrant and hit the couple on East 21st Street and 12th Avenue. Boomer was pronounced dead at the scene, and his girlfriend was taken to a hospital for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Police Terror Project, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash'\">cautioned against loosening the OPD policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police high-speed chases kill more people every year than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and lightning combined,” she said. “They do not prevent crime. They do not solve crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sept. 19, panic struck an evening Emirates flight on the runway at SFO International Airport that was about to depart for India — as news spread in the cabin of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911349/trump-dropped-a-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visas-and-sent-silicon-valley-spinning\">President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning H-1B visas.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-silicon-valley-tech-hiring-2025-9\">Business Insider\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/fl360aero/status/1969474540674720093?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">passengers began to stand up\u003c/a> and leave the plane after receiving alerts and calls on their phones. Zarna Joshi, a U.S. citizen on the flight, said passengers had “already been onboard for two hours, and there were no updates — just more people leaving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/\">Trump’s executive order \u003c/a>had demanded companies pay $100,000 to supplement a single H-1B visa — a type of temporary visa category that allows employers to hire foreign workers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h1b-visa-program-fact-sheet/\">“specialty occupations”\u003c/a> that usually require at least a bachelor’s degree. Previously, companies usually paid around \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-100000-fee-h1b-visa/\">$2,000 to $5,000\u003c/a> per H-1B visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Microsoft began \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/read-memos-sent-big-tech-trump-h-1b-changes-2025-9\">sending urgent memos to their employees\u003c/a>, recommending H-1B visa holders cancel any upcoming international travel and remain in the United States, or return immediately if they were currently abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a day for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5548568/h1b-visa-fee-trump-tech\">the White House to clarify\u003c/a> that the $100,000 fee only applied to new visas, and would not actually affect current visa holders or renewals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confusion, concern and $100,000\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The White House claimed the measures would address what it called a “large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse” of the H-1B program, which “has undermined both our economic and national security.” Many economists have historically pushed back on this claim, emphasizing that visa restrictions actually encourage companies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h1b-visa-program-fact-sheet/\">expand operations\u003c/a> in other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Trump’s order is another part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">anti-immigration policies\u003c/a> enacted since his inauguration in January.[aside postID=news_12057638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg']The H-1B visa system is \u003ca href=\"https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/the-h-1b-visa-explained/\">notoriously difficult\u003c/a> for applicants to navigate. There is also a limit to the number of visas given out in a year, resulting in long waits and a major backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order has already had a major impact in California, a state with the most visa approvals at nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub\">62,000 visa beneficiaries\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year. According to the \u003cem>Wall Street Journal, \u003c/em>nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/h1b-visas-workers-charts-cb81493c\">two-thirds of visa holders\u003c/a> work in tech companies like Amazon and Google — with Amazon alone approving over \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub\">10,000 visa beneficiaries\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast majority of visa holders also come from India. In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/h1b-visas-workers-charts-cb81493c\">71% of approved H-1B visa petitions\u003c/a> were for people born in India. In comparison, people from China made up almost 12% of approved applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how communities in the Bay are reacting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911349/trump-dropped-a-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visas-and-sent-silicon-valley-spinning\">KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> spoke with lawyer Emily Neumann and journalists Pranav Dixit and Tanay Gokhale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The scale and scope of the H-1B program\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emily Neumann:\u003c/strong> We’re talking about 85,000 visas per year. Every year, that’s the cap: We have 65,000 for regular or bachelor’s degree holders and an extra 20,000 for master’s degree holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, we do have a larger population than that, because these visas are granted for three-year increments and can be extended for a total of six years. So we have six years’ worth of people in the country on this visa.[aside postID=news_12057368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS24077_Courthouse-closeup-qut-1180x664.jpg']On top of that, because of green card problems [and] backlogs, because there’s a \u003cem>per-country\u003c/em> cap, we have certain countries where H-1B holders can extend beyond that six-year limit because they’re waiting for their green card. And that is a very large population. There are hundreds of thousands of people in that situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where it seems like there are so many H-1B holders out there, even though we only give out 85,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pranav Dixit:\u003c/strong> There are certain rules that even the H-1Bs are subject to. It’s not just “hire whoever you want on an H-1B.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H-1B workers still have to be paid what is known as a prevailing wage. They can’t be paid way less than anybody else in that field makes. So there are already checks and balances in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central argument that tech companies have always made is: “This kind of visa gives us the freedom to hire for roles that we just cannot find American workers for.” Some of that has been challenged in the last couple of years with the thousands of layoffs across the tech industry. There are certainly lots of Americans who are out of jobs in the tech industry. But [there] has always been the central argument that these visas are used to fill roles that there’s just not enough STEM talent in this country for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanay Gokhale\u003c/strong>: There \u003cem>are \u003c/em>legitimate problems with the H-1B visa system: the way the lottery is run, the way outsourcing has become a bigger problem over the past few years. In fact, before the current administration’s attack on H-1B started, Bernie Sanders wrote about it in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sensanders/status/1874918027982172626?s=46\">a Senate report\u003c/a> in February, speaking about the same issues that the current administration is speaking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11848802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"Biometric passport with visa stamp for United States\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An H-1B visa issued Nov. 30, 2010. KQED’s Forum spoke to experts about how H-1B visa holders in the Bay Area are reacting to the latest White House order. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on the flip side … if there really is a shortage of domestic workers — and I’ve been hearing that in some cases there is — [it’s] really a sort of supply issue. [If] tomorrow, you just cut off all foreign workers [from] being able to work in these tech companies, these companies will have a hard time. It is really a bigger issue for firms that do not have the resources of the really big tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand that there are legitimate concerns. But the sheer volume of workers that are staffing firms in the US, the volume of foreign workers … it just demands a little more thought and a little bit more concerted policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the H-1B executive order unfolded\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> It definitely came as a big shock, right when everyone was trying to wrap up their week and get ready for the weekend. I think the initial chaos stemmed from the way the proclamation was written originally. Everyone felt that even current visa holders might be banned from reentry unless their employers paid $100,000. It was effectively a travel ban for anybody on an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-clarifies-100k-h-1b-visa-fee-wont-apply-to-existing-holders-as-trump-stirs-anxiety\">Within a day\u003c/a>, the White House clarified that the fee doesn’t apply to anyone with an existing visa or anybody who’s renewing a visa, and then things calmed down a little.[aside postID=news_12055606 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The first email I got was from an HR director saying, “Hey, our CEO is hearing something about a $100,000 fee. How is this going to impact us? Is this true?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so then we’re scrambling to find out what is going to be in this executive order. We’re listening live, as he’s signing this order, and we have someone saying that this is going to apply to everyone, every H-1B, every year. And \u003cem>then \u003c/em>a few minutes later, we get the actual text of it, which sounds quite different, but also sounds like it applies to everyone. And \u003cem>then \u003c/em>we start getting these clarifications, coming on Twitter of all places, rather than anything official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>then \u003c/em>we have three different agencies posting fact sheets and FAQs, and still we have questions. But at least we know: People who are outside the U.S. could still travel back in. And those that were in the U.S., leaving, were still safe to go out and come back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my mind, what [Trump’s] done just now is just the beginning. This is not the only restriction they have planned. We’ve got more coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Silicon Valley’s reaction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I thought that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/reedhastings/status/1969828972688248953\">Reed Hastings’ comment\u003c/a> was really interesting, but I feel like he may also have been a bit of an outlier. [The Netflix chairman and co-founder called the $100,000 fee \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/reedhastings/status/1969828972688248953\">“a great solution”\u003c/a> and said that H-1B will be “used just for very high value jobs.”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H-1B visas are central to the way that most tech companies have hired international workers for more than three decades at this point, for roles that they say they just can’t fill with American workers alone.[aside postID=news_12056762 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg']Most H-1B visas are used by the big tech companies: the Microsofts, the Googles, the Apples, and the Amazons. But also a large chunk of them go to the IT consulting and outsourcing firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of sentiment in the Valley that, “Hey, there are genuine problems with this program right now.” But in the long term, if this fee sticks, it is going to impact the ability of almost everyone to hire for roles that they may not find American workers for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The companies I work with constantly talk about how we have these positions that are going unfilled. Not necessarily the big tech companies, but small, mid-sized companies. They do hire engineers, not just in tech, and all the time we hear about, “We can’t find someone to do this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process itself, the fact that we’re choosing people based on a lottery … because we have these caps that were set before the internet even existed. We also have this green card backlog that impacts the H-1B, because people are stuck on an H-1B for years and years and years based on their country of birth. There are a lot of problems with the program, but I think companies are not happy about this $100,000 fee for sure. I don’t know of any company I’ve come across that is willing to pay it. I think they will hopefully be looking for an exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, they will look at only sponsoring individuals who are in the U.S., who we think would not be subject to this fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The H-1B impact on health care in the US — and who might be exempt\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trumps-h-1b-visa-fee-increase-raises-us-doctor-shortage-concerns-2025-09-24/\">Universities, hospitals, medical facilities tend to sponsor people\u003c/a> who are outside the U.S. Because most of these are cap-exempt institutions, they can file all year round. They don’t have to worry about this lottery in March and filing in April. And so they do bring a lot of people in [who] are outside the country.[aside postID=news_12055552 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/kvcr-mental-health-68c2d0da5f736.jpg']This $100,000 fee applies to \u003cem>any \u003c/em>petition being filed for someone who’s outside the county. The only filings happening right now are going to be these cap-exempt institutions. Which are for our doctors, for our nurses, for our researchers. So it’s really shooting us in the foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I did hear about an exemption for people like doctors. I think this stuff is changing so rapidly at this point that it’s really hard to tell. I think it’s a wait-and-watch at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> The Secretary of Homeland Security will get to decide whether an individual is going to be in the national interest, or a particular company, or a particular industry. We have zero information on what factors they will consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a little bit of prior experience with these national interest exemptions from the previous travel ban, but we don’t know if they’re going to be the same. We don’t know if maybe the companies that are liking this provision have already been told behind the scenes that they’re going to get an exemption. We don’t know what the factors are going to be, and there’s no guidance yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The legalities — and possible long-term impacts — of the executive order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neumann:\u003c/strong> [Trump’s] authority comes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/understanding-ina-section-212f-president-authority-suspend-entry-migrants/\">the Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 212F\u003c/a>. That’s an entry ban. He can block anyone from entering if he feels it’s in the national interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He does \u003cem>not \u003c/em>have the ability to impose a $100,000 fee. Fees are set by Congress. And they can be adjusted based on inflation through the regulatory process, but it’s not something the president can unilaterally impose. There’s going to be litigation on that for sure.[aside postID=news_12057569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/healthcare-68d54870be6a1.jpg']We’re also going to have to see how these exemptions work. If they allow for a lot of exemptions where this isn’t that big of an issue for most U.S. companies, it might be workable. But it definitely impacts the overall path for people who are currently in the U.S., as well as those who might be considering the U.S. as a destination. We saw, during the previous Trump administration, that people were looking to Canada, looking to other countries to make their home because of such uncertainty with the H-1B and the path to the green card. So I think we’re going to see that again, we’re going to start losing talent if we continue these types of restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> I think people who would have looked at immigrating as a complete no-brainer are increasingly rethinking that decision. They’re increasingly choosing to spend their lives in Canada or Mexico or India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies are responding to that. We’ve seen lots of offshoring to these countries in the last few years. I remember it was 2023, when Canada opened a special visa for 10,000 U.S. H-1B workers, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27lj39e99o\">it filled up in [24] hours\u003c/a>. People are increasingly getting tired of the constant instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this sticks — and I think there is a big “if” [around] this $100,000 fee, with litigation and everything — I think companies are going to rethink hiring in the U.S. More than hiring locally, it’s going to lead to an offshoring of jobs to Canada, Mexico, India and maybe other places around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The effect on Bay Area communities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gokhale: \u003c/strong>In the short term, there was obviously panic among visa holders who are outside the country or planning to travel outside the country. And even after the clarification — though there was some amount of relief that “we are not in immediate danger” — the big emotion that has emerged from this is uncertainty and confusion among international workers, [and also] international students, many of whom hope to apply next year for the H-1B.[aside postID=news_12057384 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg']There is definitely concern about, “Even if they haven’t come for us right now, will they eventually come for us in the next few months, in the next year?” It’s thrown a lot of things into a tailspin for a lot of people who have planned to live their life here, to set up a family, to set up a career in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve had conversations in the past few days that signaled to me that there’s a sense of disillusionment with the “H-1B, green card, citizenship” pipeline of the American dream. There just seems to be a massive reevaluation of whether the United States is still a good option to invest your future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I definitely see a lot of anti-Indian hate in general on social media. Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, any social media channel of your choice. There’s a lot of new, sometimes really wild, disturbing stuff coming out about Indians, Indian stereotypes — which I thought were on the way out — are suddenly making a resurgence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve personally covered hate crimes where there’s some \u003ca href=\"https://indiacurrents.com/ca-v-hate-crime-racism-islamophobia-homphobia/\">pretty graphic anti-H-1B graffiti on a public park bathroom\u003c/a>, which is something that I think can only happen in Silicon Valley or in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think the U.S. is the only place where this is happening. We’re seeing an anti-immigrant sort of sentiment in Australia, specifically targeted toward South Asians, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/northern-ireland/2025/06/irelands-anti-immigrant-rage-will-not-go-away\">Ireland\u003c/a>, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-12-12/housing-crisis-economic-woes-and-trump-how-canada-turned-against-immigrants\">Canada\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a global trend that we’re seeing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/anti-immigration-mood-sweeping-eu-capitals-puts-strain-on-blocs-unity\">anti-immigrant sentiment\u003c/a> in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On top of that, because of green card problems [and] backlogs, because there’s a \u003cem>per-country\u003c/em> cap, we have certain countries where H-1B holders can extend beyond that six-year limit because they’re waiting for their green card. And that is a very large population. There are hundreds of thousands of people in that situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where it seems like there are so many H-1B holders out there, even though we only give out 85,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pranav Dixit:\u003c/strong> There are certain rules that even the H-1Bs are subject to. It’s not just “hire whoever you want on an H-1B.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H-1B workers still have to be paid what is known as a prevailing wage. They can’t be paid way less than anybody else in that field makes. So there are already checks and balances in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central argument that tech companies have always made is: “This kind of visa gives us the freedom to hire for roles that we just cannot find American workers for.” Some of that has been challenged in the last couple of years with the thousands of layoffs across the tech industry. There are certainly lots of Americans who are out of jobs in the tech industry. But [there] has always been the central argument that these visas are used to fill roles that there’s just not enough STEM talent in this country for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanay Gokhale\u003c/strong>: There \u003cem>are \u003c/em>legitimate problems with the H-1B visa system: the way the lottery is run, the way outsourcing has become a bigger problem over the past few years. In fact, before the current administration’s attack on H-1B started, Bernie Sanders wrote about it in \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sensanders/status/1874918027982172626?s=46\">a Senate report\u003c/a> in February, speaking about the same issues that the current administration is speaking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11848802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11848802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg\" alt=\"Biometric passport with visa stamp for United States\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/iStock-1130785257_1_1920x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An H-1B visa issued Nov. 30, 2010. KQED’s Forum spoke to experts about how H-1B visa holders in the Bay Area are reacting to the latest White House order. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on the flip side … if there really is a shortage of domestic workers — and I’ve been hearing that in some cases there is — [it’s] really a sort of supply issue. [If] tomorrow, you just cut off all foreign workers [from] being able to work in these tech companies, these companies will have a hard time. It is really a bigger issue for firms that do not have the resources of the really big tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand that there are legitimate concerns. But the sheer volume of workers that are staffing firms in the US, the volume of foreign workers … it just demands a little more thought and a little bit more concerted policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the H-1B executive order unfolded\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dixit:\u003c/strong> It definitely came as a big shock, right when everyone was trying to wrap up their week and get ready for the weekend. I think the initial chaos stemmed from the way the proclamation was written originally. Everyone felt that even current visa holders might be banned from reentry unless their employers paid $100,000. It was effectively a travel ban for anybody on an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/white-house-clarifies-100k-h-1b-visa-fee-wont-apply-to-existing-holders-as-trump-stirs-anxiety\">Within a day\u003c/a>, the White House clarified that the fee doesn’t apply to anyone with an existing visa or anybody who’s renewing a visa, and then things calmed down a little.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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