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In addition, the city’s water comes mostly from the Owens Valley, the Colorado River and groundwater, not the Delta or the Central Valley, and Southern California cities say they have ample supply after two wet winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The premise of this executive order is false,” said Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos. “Attempts to connect water management in Northern California to local wildfire fighting in Los Angeles have zero factual basis. California continues to pump as much water as it did under the Trump administration’s policies, and water operations to move water south through the Delta have absolutely nothing to do with the local fire response in Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State water \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/\">reservoirs in Southern California\u003c/a> are at above-average levels. “There is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/california-rain-drought-north-south/\">no shortage of water in Southern California\u003c/a>, which is why the Governor has\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1877823208273178995\"> called for an investigation into the local response\u003c/a>,” Gallegos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield said the State Water Project ensures, even in the worst of droughts, that communities have a minimum share of water designated for purposes of “human health and safety,” which includes firefighting needs. “They always deliver that human health and safety water, always — it’s never interrupted,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley Project provides about 5 million acres feet of water to farms, enough to irrigate about a third of the agricultural land in California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. 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The Biden rules would reduce Central Valley Project farm deliveries, but the State Water Project — which serves Southern California cities as well as San Joaquin Valley farms — would receive \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/trump-california-water-delta-rules/\">more water\u003c/a> compared to Trump’s 2020 rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directors of the state’s water and resources agencies could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Endean, a public information officer with the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement last week that his agency stands by its new Delta water management rules. Under those rules, Endean said, “farms and cities have the potential to gain additional water supply, while endangered species are protected. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">San Francisco’s Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> has been cautious on matters relating to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>, diverging from his predecessor and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">Democrats, leading opposition\u003c/a> to federal attacks on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">immigrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023124/trump-says-us-will-honor-only-two-genders-after-anti-trans-campaign-rhetoric\">transgender rights\u003c/a> and other issues close to many San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has left local government officials like City Attorney David Chiu to lead legal challenges against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to target our immigrant communities, which is tragic on many, many levels and will not only end up ripping apart families but will be detrimental to our local economy,” Chiu said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023333/san-francisco-takes-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship-ban\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “This is very personal to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m the first kid in my family born to my immigrant parents. I know how personal it is to so many San Franciscans and Californians who are immigrants or the kids of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump issued a slew of executive orders immediately after his inauguration on Monday, including attempting to end birthright citizenship, erasing transgender identity and pulling the country out of international collaborations such as the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has repeatedly stated that he supports the city’s sanctuary policy and has vowed to protect immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights and other issues Trump has targeted. But Lurie has barely uttered Trump’s name, whether at his mayoral inauguration speech or during his address on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which coincided with Trump’s inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several San Francisco representatives have decried Trump’s orders. On Tuesday, Chiu announced that the city would join California State Attorney General Rob Bonta and 17 other states in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">lawsuit to block Trump’s order\u003c/a> to stop recognizing birthright citizenship. That’s in addition to work at the state level, where lawmakers are seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013395/newsom-calls-special-session-prepare-california-legal-fight-against-trump\">to allocate more funding for legal services for Californians\u003c/a> who the new policies may target.[aside postID=news_12024013 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240123-HMBShootingAnniversary-39-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Trump) is immediately taking action to strip U.S. citizens of their citizenship to increase pumping of oil and get rid of electric vehicles,” state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) told KQED. “He pronounced, once again, that trans people don’t exist. And he is just really a disaster for this country… We need to protect California and our democracy from this oligarchy that he is setting up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JackieFielder_/status/1879353214170181791\">introduced a resolution\u003c/a> reaffirming San Francisco’s sanctuary status, which prohibits the city from allocating local resources and personnel to assist federal immigration officials with deporting people. (The ordinance does not prevent the federal government from conducting legal enforcement.) All 11 members of the Board of Supervisors have said they intend to support the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906012/latinos-in-la-mision-a-story-of-resistance-and-community\">represents the Mission District\u003c/a> where many Latinx residents live, said she’s heard from constituents who are fearful of their status under Trump’s administration. But she’s not looking to the mayor for proclamations denouncing the president. Fielder said the primary thing Lurie can do is support community groups that work directly with targeted communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest desire from his administration is to have actual resources committed to immigration legal defense so that we can get the 1,200 people off the waitlist for processing their cases,” Fielder told KQED. “This also will allow people who are seeking asylum to get work permits, and that will only help our local economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/justice-department-immigration-enforcement.html\">issued a memo\u003c/a> stating that state and local government officials must cooperate with federal law enforcement carrying out Trump’s executive orders on immigration or face criminal or civil penalties. Lurie responded that San Francisco would both comply with federal law while maintaining its sanctuary city policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand with local law enforcement in upholding our policies. Their purpose is not to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement,” Lurie said in a statement. “San Francisco is in full compliance with federal law and residents should feel safe interacting with local law enforcement and other city agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has not signaled whether he will support Fielder’s resolution, and a spokesperson for his office said he would not comment on proposed resolutions. Rather, Lurie has emphasized that his priorities are improving the city’s streets, closing down drug markets and building shelter and housing to address local issues.[aside postID=news_12023560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged that Lurie has taken a different approach than himself or other high-profile Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom when it comes to responding to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor has a big task ahead in terms of taking San Francisco into the future, and he needs to be focused like a laser on the huge problems we have here,” Wiener said. “I know that he will do that, but I know he’s going to be with us when we need to defend our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant David Ho said Lurie’s softer approach reminds him of the late Mayor Ed Lee, who led the city during Trump’s first term. However, it contrasts starkly with former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">Mayor London Breed,\u003c/a> who often took a stronger position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d be surprised if Lurie’s administration doesn’t carve out a louder response” to Trump’s orders on immigration, Ho said, noting that it would deeply affect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003096/public-safety-takes-center-stage-as-sf-mayoral-hopefuls-court-chinese-american-voters\">Chinese American community\u003c/a> that Lurie fought hard to win votes from on the campaign trail. “People forget the first federal law to target an entire ethnicity was the Chinese Exclusion Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with the city facing a nearly billion-dollar deficit, Lurie is walking a fine line to ensure San Francisco receives federal funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if HUD withheld funding from San Francisco? That would be a housing catastrophe,” Ho said. “We’re talking about bread and butter issues here. Politicians and communities will have to band together and figure out which core issues they want to go to war over with the new administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a progressive political consultant, said Lurie’s position — or lack thereof — opens space for other politicians to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creates an opportunity for Chiu or Wiener and others to make a name for themselves,” Ross said. “It gives them an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and that they’re going to protect these communities that are under attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “But it also does create a real contrast with the mayor’s silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In November 2024, when President Donald Trump won 38.3% of the vote in California, this was 4 percentage points more than he won in 2020. It was a small shift to the right, owing to many factors among subgroups of voters. But what part did young voters play in it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to national exit polls, Trump made gains within the youth vote — generally categorized as voters ages 18–29 — in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls\">2024\u003c/a> compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/exit-polls/\">2020\u003c/a>. Experts say reasons for this shift, both nationally and here in California, could range from fewer young people turning out to vote to changes in ideology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Vice President Kamala Harris won California in her 2024 presidential bid by \u003ca href=\"https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2024-general/sov/complete-sov.pdf\">over 3 million votes\u003c/a>. However, Trump increased his share of votes in 45 out of 58 California counties from 2020 to 2024, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/12/california-election-results-trump-vote-2024/#:~:text=Trump%20flipped%2010%20California%20counties%20and%20increased%20his%20vote%20share%20in%2045%20total\">CalMatters analysis\u003c/a>. Imperial, Merced and Sutter counties saw some of the biggest gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#young-trump-voters:-more-diverse-and-educated-in-2024-than-in-2020\">7% of youth voters\u003c/a> who voted for Former President Joe Biden in 2020 switched to vote for Trump in 2024, according to independent research conducted by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a nonpartisan research organization based at Tufts University in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this national shift, young Californians are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-political-views-of-young-californians/#:~:text=Young%20people%20are%20more%20liberal%20and%20Democratic%20both%20inside%20and%20outside%20California\">more likely to identify as Democrats and liberals\u003c/a>. Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, explained that rightward shifts in the state do not necessarily indicate the same for the youth vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are turning out to vote might be different than the broader population of people from that demographic, or even than the people who typically vote in that demographic,” McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some may choose not to vote altogether. The Tufts University research organization recently estimated that the national 2024 youth voter turnout was 42%, compared to 52% to 55% in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Tallabas, a 26-year-old graduate of Cal State Long Beach and current chair of Orange County Young Democrats, met young residents in his community who planned on not voting in this election. When speaking to Orange County residents under the age of 35, Tallabas found that financial strains like paying rent and student loan debt were at the heart of their apathy toward voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People, they have so much going on in their household that it’s hard for them to focus on what’s going on outside of that household,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024172\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg\" alt=\"Several teenagers wait in line in a hallway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Modoc Hall at Sacramento State on Nov. 5, 2024. Wait times were about an hour at this polling location. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2020, 53.5% of Orange County voters chose Biden compared to 44.4% who chose Trump. That margin shrunk in 2024 when 49.7% of voters chose Harris compared to 47.1% who chose Trump. The county also saw 129,173 fewer votes overall in 2024 than in 2020, approximately an 8.35% decrease in turnout rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of why young people don’t vote is because they’re less rooted to their communities. They’re not homeowners by and large … They haven’t reached that stage of life where they feel quite as, kind of, connected to things,” said McGhee, who has conducted research at the nonpartisan think tank for over 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A hand places a pieces of paper in the ballot box.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts their mail-in ballot at a polling site at Fresno City College in Fresno on Nov. 5, 2024. Voters nationwide are casting their ballots in the 2024 Presidential Election. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young Californians of all political parties are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-political-views-of-young-californians/#:~:text=Older%20Republicans%20have%20a%20different%20demographic%20profile%20than%20other%20age%2Dparty%20groups\">much less likely to be homeowners\u003c/a> than those above the age of 34, according to a Public Policy Institute of California statewide survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0\">CNN national exit poll\u003c/a>, Harris won over young voters, with 54% of voters ages 18–29 voting for her to Trump’s 43%; however, the margin between the two candidates is much smaller than it was between Biden and Trump. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results\">CNN’s 2020 exit poll\u003c/a> showed Biden winning 60% of the youth vote while Trump won only 36%, much less than he got this past election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While national exit polls reveal some information about the youth vote in 2024, there were no exit polls for California and neither the state nor the federal government release age-specific voting data. This, McGhee explained, makes it difficult to analyze young voters in California but opinion polling and interviews help shed some light on attitudes within this demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal finance issues, such as housing and inflation, were top issues for young people who did vote, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-economic-concerns-are-shaping-the-youth-vote-in-2024/\">The Brookings Institution\u003c/a> found, with some seeing Trump as the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samantha Dalby, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Newport Beach, noted her belief that “Trump ran the country similar to a business.” This is one of the reasons she and a lot of her peers in Newport’s financial space are excited about the incoming Trump administration, specifically the conservative promise of “corporate tax cuts, which are important for a lot of business owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While exit polls use age groups as one way to show voting patterns, Alice Siu, associate director for the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, emphasizes being careful about categorizing the “youth vote” as one demographic. She noted that young voters hold diverse characteristics such as geography, identity and finances, not to mention the wide range of experiences within the age range of 18–29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party votes varied among various racial and ethnic groups of young voters as well, according to the Tufts University research organization’s \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#youth-vote-+4-for-harris,-major-differences-by-race-and-gender\">analysis of an AP VoteCast Survey\u003c/a>. Trump appeared to win among young, white voters while Harris won among Black, Latino and Asian young voters. Yet the CNN exit poll still showed 46% of Latino respondents voted for Trump in 2024, a 14 percentage point increase from 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way in which the youth vote differed was by gender, with Trump winning big with young men, receiving 56% of their vote nationally while 58% of young women voted for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12012537,news_12002068\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Sunjay Muralitharan, national vice president of College Democrats of America and a 20-year-old student at UC San Diego, said the inability to reach young men was one of the Democratic Party’s failures this past election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I spoke to more people and took my own crack at kind of figuring out what went wrong, I noticed that a lot of young men felt like they were only treated as allies of women, rather than being represented themselves,” Muralitharan said. “I think this was really disheartening because a lot of the policies that we pushed for also benefit young men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Petty, a 26-year-old man living in Bakersfield — located in a county that also saw a rightward shift — expressed his support for Harris. He noted that while he did not feel strong excitement for Harris as a candidate, he found her to be favorable to Trump, noting worries about abortion and LGBTQ+ rights under a Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits behind a blue booth in a large room as a woman walks by with a pink jacket.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student electronically votes at the Welcome Center at Sacramento State University in Sacramento on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty scared about what, you know, Donald Trump and the fully Republican-controlled government and Supreme Court will do to maybe change the laws of the land in the future,” he said. “I’m just kind of fearful of the future at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s pick for vice president, J.D. Vance, excited some young Republican voters, according to Cynthia Kaui, 30, vice chair of the California Young Republican Federation. At just 40 years old, Vance will be the country’s third-youngest vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is some level of representation, you know, in the highest level of government that one can achieve in politics, that was something that, you know, our membership was very excited about,” Kaui said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some young voters, like Antonia Lopez, were dissatisfied with all their choices at the polls. The 22-year-old resident of San Bernardino expressed her disapproval of the Democratic party’s campaign and her view that it was “encouraging right-wing sentiment” through moves such as highlighting an endorsement from prominent Republican Liz Cheney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez listed the Israel-Hamas conflict, bodily autonomy, freedom of the press, disseminating misinformation, and health care as some of her top issues. Though Lopez cast a vote for Harris, she didn’t feel represented by any candidate in the race and is “pessimistic” about the presidency and policies to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially as I’m getting older and these issues become more daunting, I feel like the issues that I care about are being abandoned,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When speaking to Orange County residents under the age of 35, Tallabas found that financial strains like paying rent and student loan debt were at the heart of their apathy toward voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People, they have so much going on in their household that it’s hard for them to focus on what’s going on outside of that household,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024172\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg\" alt=\"Several teenagers wait in line in a hallway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524_Sacramento-General-Election_MG_CM_23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Modoc Hall at Sacramento State on Nov. 5, 2024. Wait times were about an hour at this polling location. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2020, 53.5% of Orange County voters chose Biden compared to 44.4% who chose Trump. That margin shrunk in 2024 when 49.7% of voters chose Harris compared to 47.1% who chose Trump. The county also saw 129,173 fewer votes overall in 2024 than in 2020, approximately an 8.35% decrease in turnout rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of why young people don’t vote is because they’re less rooted to their communities. They’re not homeowners by and large … They haven’t reached that stage of life where they feel quite as, kind of, connected to things,” said McGhee, who has conducted research at the nonpartisan think tank for over 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg\" alt=\"A hand places a pieces of paper in the ballot box.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/110524-Election-Fresno_LV_CM_20-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts their mail-in ballot at a polling site at Fresno City College in Fresno on Nov. 5, 2024. Voters nationwide are casting their ballots in the 2024 Presidential Election. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young Californians of all political parties are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-political-views-of-young-californians/#:~:text=Older%20Republicans%20have%20a%20different%20demographic%20profile%20than%20other%20age%2Dparty%20groups\">much less likely to be homeowners\u003c/a> than those above the age of 34, according to a Public Policy Institute of California statewide survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0\">CNN national exit poll\u003c/a>, Harris won over young voters, with 54% of voters ages 18–29 voting for her to Trump’s 43%; however, the margin between the two candidates is much smaller than it was between Biden and Trump. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results\">CNN’s 2020 exit poll\u003c/a> showed Biden winning 60% of the youth vote while Trump won only 36%, much less than he got this past election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While national exit polls reveal some information about the youth vote in 2024, there were no exit polls for California and neither the state nor the federal government release age-specific voting data. This, McGhee explained, makes it difficult to analyze young voters in California but opinion polling and interviews help shed some light on attitudes within this demographic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personal finance issues, such as housing and inflation, were top issues for young people who did vote, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-economic-concerns-are-shaping-the-youth-vote-in-2024/\">The Brookings Institution\u003c/a> found, with some seeing Trump as the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samantha Dalby, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Newport Beach, noted her belief that “Trump ran the country similar to a business.” This is one of the reasons she and a lot of her peers in Newport’s financial space are excited about the incoming Trump administration, specifically the conservative promise of “corporate tax cuts, which are important for a lot of business owners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While exit polls use age groups as one way to show voting patterns, Alice Siu, associate director for the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, emphasizes being careful about categorizing the “youth vote” as one demographic. She noted that young voters hold diverse characteristics such as geography, identity and finances, not to mention the wide range of experiences within the age range of 18–29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Party votes varied among various racial and ethnic groups of young voters as well, according to the Tufts University research organization’s \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election#youth-vote-+4-for-harris,-major-differences-by-race-and-gender\">analysis of an AP VoteCast Survey\u003c/a>. Trump appeared to win among young, white voters while Harris won among Black, Latino and Asian young voters. Yet the CNN exit poll still showed 46% of Latino respondents voted for Trump in 2024, a 14 percentage point increase from 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way in which the youth vote differed was by gender, with Trump winning big with young men, receiving 56% of their vote nationally while 58% of young women voted for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sunjay Muralitharan, national vice president of College Democrats of America and a 20-year-old student at UC San Diego, said the inability to reach young men was one of the Democratic Party’s failures this past election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I spoke to more people and took my own crack at kind of figuring out what went wrong, I noticed that a lot of young men felt like they were only treated as allies of women, rather than being represented themselves,” Muralitharan said. “I think this was really disheartening because a lot of the policies that we pushed for also benefit young men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan Petty, a 26-year-old man living in Bakersfield — located in a county that also saw a rightward shift — expressed his support for Harris. He noted that while he did not feel strong excitement for Harris as a candidate, he found her to be favorable to Trump, noting worries about abortion and LGBTQ+ rights under a Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits behind a blue booth in a large room as a woman walks by with a pink jacket.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/11082022-Sacramento-State-Students-Election-Day-RL-CM-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student electronically votes at the Welcome Center at Sacramento State University in Sacramento on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty scared about what, you know, Donald Trump and the fully Republican-controlled government and Supreme Court will do to maybe change the laws of the land in the future,” he said. “I’m just kind of fearful of the future at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s pick for vice president, J.D. Vance, excited some young Republican voters, according to Cynthia Kaui, 30, vice chair of the California Young Republican Federation. At just 40 years old, Vance will be the country’s third-youngest vice president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that there is some level of representation, you know, in the highest level of government that one can achieve in politics, that was something that, you know, our membership was very excited about,” Kaui said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some young voters, like Antonia Lopez, were dissatisfied with all their choices at the polls. The 22-year-old resident of San Bernardino expressed her disapproval of the Democratic party’s campaign and her view that it was “encouraging right-wing sentiment” through moves such as highlighting an endorsement from prominent Republican Liz Cheney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez listed the Israel-Hamas conflict, bodily autonomy, freedom of the press, disseminating misinformation, and health care as some of her top issues. Though Lopez cast a vote for Harris, she didn’t feel represented by any candidate in the race and is “pessimistic” about the presidency and policies to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025342/ciudadania-por-nacimiento-trump\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is from January. Looking for the latest updates on the rules for U.S. birthright citizenship? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046217/what-the-supreme-courts-latest-ruling-means-for-birthright-citizenship\">Find them in our latest guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Day One back in The White House, President Donald Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">an executive order that seeks to transform who gets to be a United States citizen at birth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1663537082633953282\">promised to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are undocumented\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his Jan. 20 executive order, titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship\u003c/a>,” goes even further: It denies birthright citizenship to babies born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal judges, however, have pushed back against Trump’s plans. On Feb. 6, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour of Washington State \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">issued a preliminary injunction against the executive order\u003c/a>, which means the order is frozen until the courts reach a final decision — which could take weeks or even months. Coughenour had previously blocked the order for a period of 14 days back in January, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023740/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-executive-order-ending-birthright-citizenship\">after declaring that the order is “blatantly unconstitutional.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-future-trumps-order-blocking-birthright-citizenship/story?id=118460936\">second preliminary injunction a federal judge has issued\u003c/a> against the executive order and the Trump administration could soon face more legal obstacles, as more than 22 states — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">including California\u003c/a> — have filed different lawsuits against the order in order to overturn it completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#B\">Who is affected by Trump’s executive order?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#C\">Will this order strip anyone of their existing American citizenship?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#D\">I’m having a baby soon. What do I need to know?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This executive order has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/birthright-citizen-children-migrant.html\">a great deal of confusion and even panic\u003c/a> — especially among parents who worry if their kids and future children will lose their right to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a breakdown of what birthright citizenship really means, who would actually be impacted by this executive order and the latest on the legal battle that could put a stop to Trump’s plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been hearing the term “birthright citizenship” repeated over and over on the news and you’re feeling a bit confused about what this actually means, here’s the breakdown: Under law and the U.S. Constitution, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10214/2\">people born on American soil are automatically recognized as American citizens\u003c/a> at the time of their birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14th Amendment in the Constitution — a document which is more powerful than any branch of government — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">established birthright citizenship in 1868\u003c/a>. The amendment’s first clause states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress first proposed adding the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it was in response to laws passed by many Southern states after the Civil War that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while lawmakers who wrote the amendment were responding to the needs of Black Americans, the Supreme Court — which has the responsibility to interpret what the Constitution actually \u003cem>means \u003c/em>— declared in 1898 that birthright citizenship \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">also includes children born to immigrant parents who are not citizens of the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court established this precedent in the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">\u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, named for a man born in San Francisco in the 1870s to Chinese immigrant parents\u003c/a>. Wong was denied re-entry into the U.S. after travelling to China to visit his family. Officials insisted that he was not an American citizen but rather a Chinese national — a group essentially banned from coming into the country, due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-Chinese-Exclusion-Act\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the legal battle that followed, the government argued that Wong’s citizenship depended not on where he was born but rather on the nationality of his parents. But the Supreme Court didn’t buy that argument and ruled that Wong was a citizen due to the fact that he was born in San Francisco — and added that the 14th Amendment “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the United States of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Read more about this landmark birthright citizenship case.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there exceptions to birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but they only apply in very specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003cem>Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em> case, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/LSB10214.pdf\">has provided three exceptions to the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as high-ranking foreign diplomats who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This could include the ambassador of a foreign country who has diplomatic immunity and is exempt from following certain U.S. laws and taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as part of an invading army.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Children born into Native American tribes with a specific autonomy from the federal government — but this exception was later eliminated when Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-02/#:~:text=to%20this%20page-,Indian%20Citizenship%20Act,barred%20Native%20Americans%20from%20voting.\">Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, granting citizenship to all Native people born in the U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 20th century, Congress passed a series of laws that also granted birthright citizenship to people born in certain U.S. territories, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0359.htm#:~:text=The%20Nationality%20Act%20of%201940,1187%2C%201139).\">Puerto Rico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8A&edition=prelim\">Guam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Who does Trump’s birthright citizenship order affect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The order declares that American citizenship “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">is a priceless and profound gift\u003c/a>” and then goes on to argue that the 14th Amendment “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts were to decide in favor of the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battles and allow the executive order to move forward, the federal government will no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother is “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S. and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an individual state or local government provides documents that state a child in this situation is an American citizen, the federal government will not recognize that documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order can be confusing for many to read, as it’s meant to be read primarily by lawmakers and attorneys. But based on the circumstances the order describes, these are families that could be affected by Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But it’s very important to remember that on Feb. 6, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">froze this executive order\u003c/a> and the federal government cannot enforce it until the courts have reached a final decision — which could happen at the Supreme Court or at a federal court of appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>I’m worried: Is my baby still a US citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the executive order was written, only babies born “within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order” will be affected — which would make Feb. 19, 2025, the official start date of this policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your baby is born any time before that date, the federal government will still recognize them as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m seeing that Trump’s executive order ‘repealed the 14th Amendment.’ Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Trump’s executive order did not repeal the 14th Amendment — as doing so would require a complicated process in Congress, and at least 37 out of the 50 states would need to vote in favor of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Would anyone be stripped of their existing American citizenship with this order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order will only move forward if the courts end up ruling in his favor. If that were to happen, and the order is enforced on Feb. 19, no one born before that date will lose their U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order says nothing about taking away the citizenship of people already born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>I’m expecting a baby that could be born after Feb. 19. Will they still become a US citizen automatically?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one’s complicated, as this depends entirely on what the courts decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges — Coughenour in Washington state and Deborah Boardman in Maryland — have already issued preliminary injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. These injunctions come from separate lawsuits against the federal government and they prevent the administration from enforcing the order until the courts reach a decision in the respective cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as these preliminary injunctions stays in place, the Trump administration cannot enforce the executive order and deny birthright citizenship to children born after Feb. 19 who don’t have at least one parent who is a citizen or a lawful permanent resident. And more preliminary injunctions could be announced in the coming weeks as there’s dozens of other lawsuits from states and civil rights groups seeking to overturn the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice, which is representing the federal government has repeatedly stated that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-donald-trump-lawsuit-immigration-9ac27b234c854a68a9b9f8c0d6cd8a1c\">it will “vigorously defend” Trump’s order\u003c/a>, and is expected to appeal any decision that tries to stop the order. A case would have to make it up the different levels in the judicial system before reaching the Supreme Court, which would then make a binding, permanent decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will be updating this section to include the latest information from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>What is birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been hearing the term “birthright citizenship” repeated over and over on the news and you’re feeling a bit confused about what this actually means, here’s the breakdown: Under law and the U.S. Constitution, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10214/2\">people born on American soil are automatically recognized as American citizens\u003c/a> at the time of their birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14th Amendment in the Constitution — a document which is more powerful than any branch of government — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">established birthright citizenship in 1868\u003c/a>. The amendment’s first clause states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress first proposed adding the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it was in response to laws passed by many Southern states after the Civil War that severely restricted the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans and their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while lawmakers who wrote the amendment were responding to the needs of Black Americans, the Supreme Court — which has the responsibility to interpret what the Constitution actually \u003cem>means \u003c/em>— declared in 1898 that birthright citizenship \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649\">also includes children born to immigrant parents who are not citizens of the United States\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court established this precedent in the landmark case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">\u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, named for a man born in San Francisco in the 1870s to Chinese immigrant parents\u003c/a>. Wong was denied re-entry into the U.S. after travelling to China to visit his family. Officials insisted that he was not an American citizen but rather a Chinese national — a group essentially banned from coming into the country, due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-Chinese-Exclusion-Act\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the legal battle that followed, the government argued that Wong’s citizenship depended not on where he was born but rather on the nationality of his parents. But the Supreme Court didn’t buy that argument and ruled that Wong was a citizen due to the fact that he was born in San Francisco — and added that the 14th Amendment “in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born within the territory of the United States of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">Read more about this landmark birthright citizenship case.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there exceptions to birthright citizenship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but they only apply in very specific circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003cem>Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em> case, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/LSB10214.pdf\">has provided three exceptions to the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as high-ranking foreign diplomats who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. This could include the ambassador of a foreign country who has diplomatic immunity and is exempt from following certain U.S. laws and taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If, at the time of your birth, your parents are in the U.S. as part of an invading army.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Children born into Native American tribes with a specific autonomy from the federal government — but this exception was later eliminated when Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-02/#:~:text=to%20this%20page-,Indian%20Citizenship%20Act,barred%20Native%20Americans%20from%20voting.\">Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, granting citizenship to all Native people born in the U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 20th century, Congress passed a series of laws that also granted birthright citizenship to people born in certain U.S. territories, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS97/rpt/olr/htm/97-R-0359.htm#:~:text=The%20Nationality%20Act%20of%201940,1187%2C%201139).\">Puerto Rico\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title48/chapter8A&edition=prelim\">Guam\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-2194985045-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>Who does Trump’s birthright citizenship order affect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The order declares that American citizenship “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">is a priceless and profound gift\u003c/a>” and then goes on to argue that the 14th Amendment “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the courts were to decide in favor of the Trump administration in the ongoing legal battles and allow the executive order to move forward, the federal government will no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother is “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S. and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an individual state or local government provides documents that state a child in this situation is an American citizen, the federal government will not recognize that documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order can be confusing for many to read, as it’s meant to be read primarily by lawmakers and attorneys. But based on the circumstances the order describes, these are families that could be affected by Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status (TPS)\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/DACA\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals\u003c/a> (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But it’s very important to remember that on Feb. 6, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/federal-judge-trump-birthright-citizenship.html\">froze this executive order\u003c/a> and the federal government cannot enforce it until the courts have reached a final decision — which could happen at the Supreme Court or at a federal court of appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>I’m worried: Is my baby still a US citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the executive order was written, only babies born “within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order” will be affected — which would make Feb. 19, 2025, the official start date of this policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your baby is born any time before that date, the federal government will still recognize them as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m seeing that Trump’s executive order ‘repealed the 14th Amendment.’ Is that true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, Trump’s executive order did not repeal the 14th Amendment — as doing so would require a complicated process in Congress, and at least 37 out of the 50 states would need to vote in favor of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Would anyone be stripped of their existing American citizenship with this order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order will only move forward if the courts end up ruling in his favor. If that were to happen, and the order is enforced on Feb. 19, no one born before that date will lose their U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order says nothing about taking away the citizenship of people already born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>I’m expecting a baby that could be born after Feb. 19. Will they still become a US citizen automatically?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one’s complicated, as this depends entirely on what the courts decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two federal judges — Coughenour in Washington state and Deborah Boardman in Maryland — have already issued preliminary injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against California’s governor as “Newscum,” spread misinformation about the causes of the Los Angeles fires and suggested that California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">will not receive the typical federal aid\u003c/a> for recovery unless it changes its water policy. Or its \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/trump-rips-gov-gavin-newsom-for-not-managing-california-forests-before-devastating-la-wildfires-like-a-nuclear-weapon-went-off/\">forestry policy\u003c/a>. Or its \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">immigration sanctuary policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, as he prepared to fly to the fire zone, he added a new one: voter ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want voter ID as a start, and I want the water to be released,” Trump \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/jwheelertv/status/1882825851827609647?s=46&t=k2NuVvIZrKUCtjcbukymHQ\">told reporters\u003c/a> on the tarmac during a stop in North Carolina. “After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand further politicized a fragile situation that has left Gov. Gavin Newsom scrambling to respond to the whims of the president — or even to speak with him at all — to secure billions of dollars from the federal government to help Los Angeles fight an ongoing firestorm and rebuild. For days after Trump announced his intent to travel to Los Angeles to survey fire damage, it was unclear whether the president would invite Newsom to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet by the time he arrived in California, Trump seemed to have found his West Coast chill. Newsom was indeed waiting for the president on the tarmac at LAX this afternoon and Trump greeted him warmly, shaking his hand, embracing him and repeatedly patting him on the arm as he promised to “take care of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to get it fixed — though we’ll get it permanently fixed so it can’t happen again,” Trump told reporters. He expressed awe at the scale of the damage, which he compared to the destruction of World War II: “It’s like you got hit by a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to need a lot of federal help,” Newsom said, before brushing off a question about Trump’s voter ID demand. “I have all the confidence in the world we’ll work that out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whiplash reflects the complicated balancing act for Newsom as he tries to advocate for his state while simultaneously appeasing a president for whom California has served as a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/09/trump-harris-california-fact-check/\">frequent political foil\u003c/a>. While the White House did ultimately confirm, a few hours before Trump’s arrival, that Newsom could greet him at the airport, the governor was not included in a tour of Pacific Palisades where Trump met first responders and residents who lost their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when Trump later hosted a televised roundtable discussion with local officials such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and selected members of California’s congressional delegation, he kept Newsom — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/newsom-desantis-debate/\">a vigorous would-be debater\u003c/a> — out of the room and off TV. That left the president free to attack the state’s environmental policies largely unchallenged, vowing “to override the Coastal Commission. I’m not going to let them get away with their antics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension between the newly reinstalled Republican president and California’s Democratic governor — longtime political nemeses who nevertheless \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/09/newsom-trump-california-meeting/\">routinely worked together on disaster recovery\u003c/a> during Trump’s first term — exploded alongside the fires that have burned through Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other swaths of the Los Angeles region over the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor had quickly \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">extended an invitation to Trump\u003c/a> to visit Los Angeles, an effort to lower the temperature as partisan demands soared to punish California for supposedly mismanaging the disaster. But Newsom acknowledged late Thursday afternoon that he had still not heard back from the president, less than a day before his expected touchdown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor remained outwardly optimistic about the strength of their relationship as he spoke with reporters Thursday, after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2025/01/la-fires-relief-legislature/\">approving $2.5 billion in fire recovery funds\u003c/a> that he hopes will eventually be reimbursed by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad he’s coming out here. I’m grateful that the president’s taking the time,” Newsom said. “And I hope he comes with a spirit of cooperation and collaboration. That’s the spirit to which we welcome him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘More delicate under this president’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s common for presidents and governors of opposing political parties to do battle on policy differences and then come together when natural disasters strike, said state Sen. Ben Allen, a Santa Monica Democrat whose district has been badly damaged by the Palisades fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a delicate balance under any president and certainly, it’s more delicate under this president,” he told CalMatters. “It may appear a little messy, and perhaps it is, but it’s also an integral part of our federal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump reportedly invited California’s two Democratic U.S. senators — Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, whom he dubbed “Shifty Schiff” for investigating him during his first term — to join him in the fire zone, but they stayed in Washington, D.C., for floor votes.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021740,news_12023677,news_12024085\"]“While his continued comments threatening conditions on federal aid and to eliminate FEMA are deeply concerning, we remain hopeful this visit moves the President and Congress closer to focus on relief over partisanship,” they said in a joint statement. “Americans should be able to count on our support to recover and rebuild in the wake of these tragedies, no matter what state they call home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Newsom, he’s at a precarious moment in his relationship with the president. While he initially positioned California at the forefront of a renewed resistance after Trump won a second term in November, even calling a special session to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">fund litigation against the incoming administration\u003c/a>, Newsom now finds himself dependent on the goodwill of a federal government almost fully under the sway of Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how forthcoming federal assistance will be. Since the outbreak of the Los Angeles fires more than two weeks ago, Trump has continued to inaccurately claim \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-donald-trump-fact-check/\">that Los Angeles lacked water\u003c/a> to fight these fires because the state does not send enough water south from Northern California. He has depicted them as Newsom’s fault and even demanded that he resign, although fire and climate experts have repeatedly attributed the blazes to off-the-charts \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/\">dry conditions in the face of ferocious Santa Ana winds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, with the support of many congressional Republicans, the president has threatened to withhold or condition disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s interest in voter ID goes back to at least 2016, when he began insisting, without any evidence, that he failed to win the deep blue state of California because \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/23/yet-again-trump-falsely-blames-illegal-voting-getting-walloped-california/\">people who aren’t citizens participated in the presidential election\u003c/a>. A new California law that took effect this year \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1174\">prohibits local governments from requiring voters to present identification\u003c/a> to cast their ballots in an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1882851719710978552\">post on social media\u003c/a>, Newsom’s press office pointed out that California requires people to present identification when they register to vote and wrote, “Conditioning aid for American citizens is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has substantially, though not entirely, pulled his punches against Trump in recent weeks. He largely kept a low profile leading up to the president’s visit, working on fire response from Los Angeles. After the president erroneously complained in Monday’s inauguration speech that the fires were burning “without even a token of defense,” Newsom issued a gentle statement that emphasized “finding common ground and striving toward shared goals” with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of one of the worst natural disasters in America’s history, this moment underscores the critical need for partnership, a shared commitment to facts, and mutual respect,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he also, on social media, slammed several of Trump’s early executive orders on immigration and climate change, then sent an email to supporters deriding the passage from Trump’s inaugural speech as “nonsense” and “insulting” to firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the governor’s special session to “safeguard California values” from the Trump administration continues on, with Democrats in the state Senate voting Thursday to advance $25 million for legal fees. Republican lawmakers have lambasted the session as a distraction from wildfire response and an unnecessary poke at the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, the senator from Santa Monica, said he understood that Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises to the Americans who supported him, but that California politicians would be derelict if they didn’t push back, because voters had elected them with a different vision for how to run the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want, and our constituents want us, to cooperate with the federal government to help on the areas of mutual agreement and need,” he said. “The flip side is, we are also part of the loyal opposition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom told reporters Thursday that it was important for the state to prepare to fight Trump at the same time that he is courting the president’s help, noting that Trump “already assaulted the Fourteenth Amendment” with his day one executive order challenging birthright citizenship, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-lawsuit-birthright-citizenship/\">California immediately sued to stop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor evoked the “great relationship” he had with Trump during the COVID pandemic, when they spoke nearly every week, and said he did not expect the special session to affect that because it was “nothing personal,” but rather based on “fundamental policy disagreements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is situational. 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"content": "\u003cp>Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, the executive director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, had just returned to work after a long weekend when she was notified that an anonymous postcard threatening\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\"> immigrant workers\u003c/a> had been sent to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The postcard sent to ALAS, which was discovered Tuesday, told workers to pack their bags because “Trump’s coming.” It also included contact information for Homeland Security and immigration enforcement, as well as a list of where undocumented persons could be found — schools, work, church, restaurants and “in your neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga, whose organization works to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021877/california-nonprofit-empowers-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-healing-resources\">empower Latino farmworkers\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay, said her initial reaction was shock and fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his inauguration this week, President Trump has moved to reshape immigration enforcement, taking the first steps toward following through on his campaign pledge of mass deportations and increased border security. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021487/an-immigration-raid-in-kern-county-foreshadows-what-awaits-farmworkers-and-the-economy\">reports of federal raids and deportations\u003c/a> in cities including Bakersfield have left many in the immigrant community scared to leave their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A mom called me this morning and said her son doesn’t want to go to school. He’s crying. He’s very upset,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “This is trauma. … It’s not just threats. It’s not only political. This is a medical crisis. People are suffering because of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three offices owned by the United Farm Workers, the largest union of its kind, also received postcards that read “report illegal aliens” and “there is nowhere to hide,” a threat aimed at the union’s undocumented laborers, KVPR reported. The same messages appeared on the postcard sent to ALAS, and they were all reportedly postmarked in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALAS said it reported the postcard to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, Supervisor Ray Mueller and U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D–Calif.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hate has no place in our community. Threats and intimidation will not be tolerated,” said Supervisor Ray Mueller. “I fully denounce this unacceptable act and expect it to be met with the full weight of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1239px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024121\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1239\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo.jpg 1239w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo-800x302.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo-1020x384.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/IMG_9893_duo-160x60.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anonymous postcards containing threatening messages were sent to Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) and other immigrant worker organizations on Jan. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Hernandez-Arriaga, the postcard serves as a devastating reminder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973730/how-a-mass-shooting-changed-half-moon-bay-one-year-later\">obstacles facing her community\u003c/a>. Wednesday marked the second anniversary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973071/survivors-of-half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-struggle-to-rebuild-1-year-later\">a mass shooting\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay that left seven farmworkers dead, an alleged act of workplace violence that exposed laborers’ poor living conditions and low pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started the week so emotional, and we knew that this was coming,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “We cannot lose sight of the pain and the tragedy but also the tremendous contributions that our farmworkers make to all of us. Whether it’s seen or unseen, whether we see them or do not see them, everyday when we sit down to eat, our food comes from them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga said she sees this as the moment to effect change and to remind people of the important role that farmers and farm laborers play in the community and the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite producing much of California’s agricultural product, many farmworkers in San Mateo County suffer from extremely poor housing conditions and low wages. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor in 2024 found that workers employed by the two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms where the 2023 shootings took place were being forced to sleep in cramped spaces infested by rodents and garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALAS, which Hernandez-Arriaga founded more than a decade ago, works to provide basic resources and immigration services to farmworkers, many of whom are migrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status. In 2022, ALAS partnered with a nonprofit developer to build affordable housing for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay’s downtown area.[aside postID=news_12021877 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216-KOndaJanuary-JY-009.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project was finally approved last year after considerable pushback from community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a community, we need to remember all the sentiments and feelings after what we saw two years ago and not lose sight of the commitment and the resolve that we all made to champion our farmworkers,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “We really need to make laws that protect our workers, our farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALAS is working with other groups and state officials to prepare for the new Trump administration. Hernandez-Arriaga said the nonprofit is hiring an immigration attorney, and organizations are also banding together to create a safety team that can provide information on potential raids and deportations to community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also starting a “Know Your Rights” campaign to educate farmworkers who are undocumented on what they should do if they are confronted by immigration enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, elected officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">are pushing back against \u003c/a>the Trump administration’s attacks on sanctuary cities and immigrant communities. Emergency hotlines are available for undocumented residents who need legal assistance, and the state Senate recently approved $50 million for litigation against the federal government and legal aid for Californians at risk of deportation or detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta has already filed a lawsuit against Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents are not citizens or legal permanent residents. The order was temporarily halted Thursday by a federal judge in a separate lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez-Arriaga continued: “We have to be united in this effort, in this process and in standing in solidarity with one another to do everything we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/daisynguyen\">Daisy Nguyen\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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DHS officials also say their agents are now free to conduct raids at churches and schools, canceling guidelines that made “sensitive” areas off-limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing in the same video, Omaha’s Republican Mayor Jean Stothert said threats of a nationwide immigration crackdown are causing “concern and fear” in her community. “Enforcing immigration law is the responsibility of federal law enforcement agencies, not the Omaha police department,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omaha officials aren’t alone. Leaders in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City and other communities have made it clear they’ll \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5269899/trump-immigration-enforcement-schools-churches\">play no role aiding any round-ups\u003c/a> of migrants without legal status — and may actively oppose them with lawsuits and other efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have a very chilling effect on our ability to provide public safety in the city if people were afraid to call the Minneapolis police because they think we’re going to call Immigration on them,” said Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/01/17/minneapolis-police-chief-reiterates-policy-prohibiting-officers-enforcing-immigration-law\">interview with MPR News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an event last week in Grand Prairie, Texas, police Chief Daniel Scesney said his department also won’t support immigration sweeps. “My officers would not be using their time efficiently if they were driving around trying to find people who might have been born in another place,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-01-17/grand-prairie-police-chief-immigration-status-deportations\"> Scesney said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities publicly opposed some or all of the federal crackdown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"edTag\">\n\u003cli>Denver’s city government \u003ca href=\"https://denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Mayors-Office/News/ICYMI-Denver-Takes-Commonsense-Approach-to-Trump-Mass-Deportation-Plans\">posted an editorial this week on its official website\u003c/a> describing the federal immigration crackdown as “a calamity.” Mayor Mike Johnson, a Democrat, said it’s likely the city will join lawsuits aimed at protecting migrant rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The school district in Bridgeport, Connecticut issued a statement saying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be denied access to school buildings, buses or events without permission from officials. “Every student … regardless of their immigration status has the right to feel secure and supported,” said interim Superintendent Royce Avery.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In November, the city of Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://cd4.lacity.gov/press-releases/city-council-votes-to-establish-los-angeles-as-a-sanctuary-city/\">passed an ordinance\u003c/a> that prohibited use of city resources in immigration enforcement efforts while limiting information sharing with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/1882217228424081889\">gathering Wednesday in New York City\u003c/a>, Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, said city officials would “stand up for all New Yorkers, documented or undocumented” and “make sure you get the services you deserve.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In El Paso, Texas, Mayor Renard Johnson, who describes himself as nonpartisan, criticized Trump’s immigration plans to deploy U.S. troops along the southern border, which he described as “very safe.” At a public meeting this week, Renard spoke to migrant families: “You can live in peace in our communities, you can go to the schools, you can go to the churches, and you’re going to be okay.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Before President Trump took office, many local jurisdictions around the U.S. passed measures strictly limiting cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. The Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for tighter restrictions on migrants entering the U.S., identified \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States\">13 states and more than 200 cities and counties\u003c/a> with some form of “sanctuary” law or ordinance protecting migrants.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101908578,news_12023442,news_12021487\"]Some cities have embraced Trump’s migrant deportation plan. Huntington Beach, California, passed a measure this week declaring the community a “non-sanctuary city.”\u003ca href=\"https://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/news_detail_T4_R263.php\"> In a statement, Mayor Pat Burns\u003c/a>, a Republican, blasted other California officials for “subverting our federal government’s enforcement of our immigration laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials have made it clear they plan to pressure local governments that don’t cooperate. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated at 11 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023677/california-legislature-moves-toward-approving-aid-for-wildfire-recovery-and-legal-battles\">provide $2.5 billion in relief\u003c/a> to communities damaged by the Los Angeles fires ahead of President Donald Trump’s Friday tour of the Pacific Palisades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This money will be made available immediately,” Newsom said Thursday. “We want to get these dollars out in real-time, so there’s no anxiety and stress associated with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and fellow Democrats in California continue to search for the right balance between collaboration and confrontation with the new president, who has repeatedly threatened to condition federal reimbursement on major changes to the state’s water system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After approving bipartisan fire relief funding, the state Senate passed a more controversial proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023345/california-legislatures-special-session-fire-aid-trump-lawsuits-faces-1st-test\">finance legal battles against the federal government\u003c/a>, potentially including disputes over federal disaster aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here for the long haul, to support the president where we can, to defend our values where we must, to have the backs of diverse communities,” Newsom said. “At the same time, we work together on critical issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Joe Biden, in one of his final acts in office, pledged federal support for the next three months. But since the fires broke out earlier this month, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021435/trumps-misinformation-la-fires-fuels-concerns-over-future-disaster-aid-california\">repeatedly insulted Newsom\u003c/a> and falsely blamed the fires on unrelated state water policy, including in a Wednesday interview with Fox News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Newsom said he had not had any direct contact with Trump in advance of his visit, the governor expressed confidence that federal aid would not be delayed. On Friday morning, his office confirmed that Newsom would meet Trump on the tarmac when he arrives in California. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials will join Trump for a fire briefing after his Pacific Palisades tour this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s threats to condition aid have already split Republicans, with some GOP House members from swing districts in California saying they \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-conditional-aid-washington-trump-johnson-12c779b96e04d564802d4d06348aa0fc\">oppose attaching strings\u003c/a> when families are displaced and suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills passed in Sacramento this week were part of a special session that Newsom initially called in the wake of the election to fund potential legal challenges against the Trump administration. In a special session, debate is limited to topics picked by the governor — and any bills signed can take effect more quickly. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021941/newsom-expands-special-session-speed-up-los-angeles-wildfire-relief-funds\">expanded the session\u003c/a> last week to include proposals related to fire response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relief bills Newsom signed passed both the Assembly and Senate without opposition. The money can be spent in a variety of ways, including on hazardous waste removal, shelter for evacuees and preparation for compounding disasters such as mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’ve made progress, there’s still a significant journey ahead as we transition from containment to recovery,” said state Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, who represents Altadena, which was heavily damaged by the Eaton Fire. “As we begin that process, I’m also appreciative that this bill is supporting the cleanup efforts regarding air quality, water and other environmental testing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1536x1087.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GavinNewsomSpecialSessionGetty-1920x1358.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and State Sen. Alex Padilla while surveying damage during the Palisades Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trump — as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans in Congress — have repeatedly said that they want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022111/republican-leaders-push-conditions-disaster-relief-california-wildfire-victims\">condition federal help\u003c/a> on changes to California policies. \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> reported that there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/house-republicans-trump-wildfire-aid-00197766\">internal GOP discussions\u003c/a> about linking fire aid to an increase in the national debt limit in order to garner Democratic support for a bill that will not pass with just Republicans. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday that Democrats would \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/23/congress/dems-fire-aid-debt-limit-00200221\">not support that plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the debt limit, it’s not exactly clear what sort of conditions Republicans are considering. Trump has repeatedly made false claims that firefighters were unable to battle the Los Angeles blazes because Newsom declined to send more water south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Los Angeles is not currently facing a water shortage.[aside postID=news_12021435 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192441530.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what California Republican lawmakers have been pushing: Policy reforms introduced by state GOP legislators are more focused on increasing controlled burns and other wildfire prevention by suspending environmental laws. And some Republican Congress members who represent swing districts have flatly rejected any conditions on aid, including Orange County Republican Rep. Young Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When natural disaster hits your communities, it is not partisan, it is not a blue or red issue — we are talking about life and death,” Kim said in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RepYoungKim/status/1881887004566114314\">interview\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fox 11 Los Angeles\u003c/em>. “We are talking about communities that are hurting, so there shouldn’t be any conditions other than making sure we bring the resources and aid as soon as possible to our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Democrats agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. George Whitesides, who just flipped a Los Angeles swing district, called the idea of conditioning aid “absolutely unacceptable and really quite offensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say to these people, because of politics, we need to slow down or reduce the aid of the type that we have given to North Carolina and Louisiana and Florida?” he said. “We need to get these people help in a huge amount as fast as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democrats are standing united on that issue, debate on Thursday over the Trump-related legal aid was more contentious in the state Capitol. The plan consisted of two bills: one to set aside $25 million for the state Department of Justice, which filed its first suit this week against Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, and another to earmark $25 million for nonprofits to represent Californians facing detention or deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the people that take care of our kids, that work in the fields, that do the landscaping, that work in a number of different industries, whether it’s construction or hospitality,” said state Sen. Anna Caballero (D–Merced). “How are we going to get things done?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans were joined in their opposition to the first proposal by Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat whose Central Valley district voted for Trump by nine points in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel, personally, that ‘Trump-proofing’ is a missed opportunity to urge the president for meaningful change,” Hurtado said. “We should be working with the president to ensure that public safety deportations are targeted, protecting communities from genuine threats while safeguarding the dignity and rights of hardworking immigrants.”[aside postID=news_12016037 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Immigration_Court-qut.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing arguments made by Trump’s top immigration officials, Hurtado and Republicans in the state Senate criticized California’s sanctuary policy, arguing it endangers immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s sanctuary law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016037/california-is-a-sanctuary-state-how-much-protection-will-that-give-immigrants-from-trumps-deportation-plans\">restricts local and state law enforcement\u003c/a> from using their resources to enforce immigration law, though it doesn’t entirely bar state cooperation with immigration officials, particularly if an immigrant has a criminal conviction. For example, state prison officials have turned thousands of immigrants over to federal immigration authorities in recent years after they completed a state prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, sanctuary opponents argue that if state and local police aren’t allowed to work more closely with immigration agents, raids will be pushed into the broader community and result in more people who do not have criminal records being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has made clear he opposes sanctuary policies and wants to punish cities and states that have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to get rid of them, and we’re trying to end them,” he said on Fox News this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he’d cut off federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions entirely, the president responded, “I might have to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Rolling back protections for gender-nonconforming people was always a central part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015590/following-abortion-playbook-trump-likely-to-limit-federal-funding-for-trans-health-care\">president’s campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community groups dedicated to supporting transgender and nonbinary people have been readying themselves since Trump’s electoral victory in November, said Heron Greenesmith, deputy director of policy at the Transgender Law Center in Oakland. Community outreach services are already in place to educate people on their rights and to provide legal assistance to those who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenesmith said that while Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\">executive order\u003c/a> evokes a lot of anxiety and uncertainty, they believe that now is not the time to give into fear or catastrophization but rather to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of this administration, the extremist right-wing administration, is to cause fear and confusion in our community,” Greenesmith said. “We expect that they’re going to enact cruel and harmful policies directed at our humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderRemembrance-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About a hundred people gather for a rally on Transgender Day of Remembrance in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 20, 2024, an annual event honoring lives lost to violence against transgender people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greenesmith urged their fellow trans-rights advocates to focus their energy on supporting the most vulnerable within the transgender community rather than on the new administration’s directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Transgender Law Center will continue providing legal assistance to transgender people who are incarcerated, and plans are in place to secure more resources for the nonprofit’s legal help desk and hotline, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this is a new administration, this work is not new. This bullying is not new. The persecution is not new,” Greenesmith continued. “We will continue to care for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Pacific Center for Human Growth, an LGBTQ nonprofit in Berkeley, workers are partnering with the national organization Advocates for Transgender Equality to host a “Know Your Trans Rights” conference at the end of February, said Lasara Firefox Allen, executive director of the Pacific Center. They said organizers will use the next month to see what the actual effects of Trump’s order will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023321 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_Gender-Exec-Order_DB_00459-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is also offering expanded mental health and peer support services to transgender people, from youth to adults, Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing the president can say that will make us give up who we are,” Allen said. “We’ve existed since before the government recognized us and will continue to do so. We don’t need the permission of the United States government in order to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some organizations are already preparing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">take legal action\u003c/a> against Trump’s administration and the order. Lambda Legal, a civil rights group focused on the LGBTQ community, told KQED that it would be pursuing litigation alleging violations of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The ACLU also said in a statement that it is prepared to fight if federal agencies move to enforce the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The executive order, which Trump signed only a few hours into his term, declares that a person’s gender is determined by the reproductive cells they have upon conception, and that will dictate which federally funded facilities a person is permitted to use when the spaces are segregated by sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order also takes aim at federal policies that allow transgender and nonbinary people to self-select their gender on official government forms, an option that Trump said promotes “gender ideology” and “eradicates the biological reality of sex,” according to the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, advocates and community members are waiting to see which of Trump’s orders are enacted and what the effects will be in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready to take care of our community in all the ways that we know how,” Allen said. “We will keep us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>While President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023252/2-californians-on-fbis-most-wanted-list-among-capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump\">pardons for Jan. 6 rioters\u003c/a> were the most public of his first day, he also granted clemency the next day to a man who operated an international dark web marketplace, partly from his home in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross Ulbricht was living in San Francisco when he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101859899/nick-bilton-investigates-dread-pirate-roberts-and-the-origins-of-the-deep-web\">discovered as the creator of Silk Road\u003c/a>, an online black market used to facilitate the trade of more than $200 million worth of illegal drugs and goods with bitcoin in the early 2010s. The complex sting operation that got him arrested happened in an unlikely spot: the science fiction section of the city’s Glen Park library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until this week, Ulbricht had been serving two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10543620/silk-road-operator-set-to-be-sentenced-today\">life sentences\u003c/a>, plus 40 years, in a high-security prison in Colorado after failed appeals. For years, libertarians and cryptocurrency enthusiasts had championed his release, adopting the rallying cry “Free Ross” online and at conferences. Trump said Tuesday on his social media platform Truth Social that he told Ulbricht’s mother he had pardoned her son “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponization of government against me,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulbricht’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/113690/the-digital-drug-lord-next-door-feds-bust-alleged-silk-road-mastermind-in-san-francisco\">arrest came in October 2013\u003c/a>, when Department of Homeland Security agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan sat outside Cafe Bello on Diamond Street and used a secure chat app to ask his “boss” — screen name Dread Pirate Roberts — to check on a flagged message sent by a Silk Road user, according to a transcript of his testimony during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10424537/silk-road-operator-convicted-on-seven-counts\">Ulbricht’s 2015 trial.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a two-year investigation, Der-Yeghiayan had infiltrated the site and was working as a support staff member under the screen name Cirrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had first discovered Silk Road working at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, investigating mail seized for illegal drugs, he told the jury. In June 2011, he started noticing packages with just one or two ecstasy pills in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023775 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/461481378_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of Ross Ulbricht, the creator and operator of the Silk Road underground market, stand in front of a Manhattan federal courthouse on the first day of jury selection for his trial on Jan. 13, 2015, in New York City. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They had commercial envelopes, printed sticker labels and were addressed to multiple different addresses across the U.S. — all of which he said was unusual for parcels containing such small quantities of drugs. Month over month, the airport’s drug seizures were increasing, and so were similar packages. In October, a colleague told him about a new underground website, Silk Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found it was a market that was similar to an online market that was similar to, like, Amazon, for instance, that had items for sale that were mostly illegal in nature that I could see,” Der-Yeghiayan recalled during his testimony. “Drugs and various other things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Der-Yeghiayan said he started going on the marketplace, which could only be accessed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201310040900/fbi-shuts-down-silk-road-but-the-deep-web-lives-on\">through the dark web\u003c/a> and disguised users’ identities and locations. He placed over 50 orders from different sellers throughout the investigation, he said, and received them in envelopes matching the strange ones at O’Hare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His time browsing Silk Road also led him to a separate website, he testified: a forum that Silk Road’s operator, Dread Pirate Roberts, used to post updates and that buyers and sellers also used to chat and review purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July 2013, Der-Yeghiayan bought the screen name of a support staff member who had been working for Dread Pirate Roberts. He said he went by Cirrus and became a moderator with greater access to Silk Road’s marketplace and forum, as well as a private staff chat with its shadowy operator. He would work 10-hour days cleaning up forum discussions and looking over flagged messages sent on the marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony, Der-Yeghiayan said a team of investigators connected Ulbricht as the possible user behind Dread Pirate Roberts around the same time after finding posts he made about Silk Road — under another fake name — on separate online forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the team still needed to link him to Dread Pirate Roberts directly and gain access to his laptop, which they suspected was being used to run the hundred-million-dollar site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Der-Yeghiayan and his team traveled to San Francisco, he said, and camped out outside a cafe they discovered Ulbricht often worked at, just a few blocks from the brown multi-family home where he was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023321 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_Gender-Exec-Order_DB_00459-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 3 p.m. on Oct. 1, they saw Ulbricht leave his house and walk in and out of Cafe Bello, looking for a seat, before giving up and crossing the street to the Glen Park library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes after Ulbricht walked up the stairs to the library’s main floor, Der-Yeghiayan spotted Dread Pirate Roberts becoming active on the Silk Road staff messaging site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I saw him come online, I then initiated a chat with him, trying to ask him to go into a specific place on the Silk Road — into the admin panel to log in to check something,” Der-Yeghiayan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Der-Yeghiayan knew Ulbricht had logged onto the Silk Road marketplace, he said other agents moved in, pulled his laptop out of reach and handcuffed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Der-Yeghiayan went into the library, where another agent took photos of the computer with his Blackberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw on the computer screen the same chat that I had with Dread Pirate Roberts minutes earlier,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, the team found sheets of yellow note paper in Ulbricht’s garbage can that appeared to be related to Silk Road, and clicking back through the browser he had pulled up to help Der-Yeghiayan, they were taken to a web address that referred to him as Silk Road’s “mastermind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silk Road was shut down the next morning, and Ulbricht was ultimately convicted of distributing narcotics through the Internet, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents and other charges. A seller on Silk Road has claimed that he arranged five murders-for-hire for Ulbricht, but the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-who-claimed-commit-murders-hire-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht\">Department of Justice said\u003c/a> in 2023 that it did not have evidence that those murders took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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