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"content": "\u003cp>The former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association will not face any time behind bars for illegally importing opioids, a judge ruled Tuesday, bringing to a close a nearly two-year-old criminal case that sent shockwaves through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José federal court, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee sentenced Joanne Segovia to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service, which falls largely in line with what prosecutors and her defense attorney had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is very grateful that Judge Lee saw the case as the U.S. Attorney’s office and I saw the case,” Adam Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, told KQED after the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008434/former-san-jose-police-union-director-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids\">plea deal with federal prosecutors\u003c/a> in October, Segovia, 66, confessed to illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Although such a felony carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, it was widely expected that Segovia would receive a significantly lighter sentence, as her defense team and prosecutors both supported her narrative that she was motivated by an addiction to painkillers rather than by a goal to make a profit as a drug mover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of Joanne Segovia is the story of years of heavy opioid addiction, drug importation, self-delusion, and some very poor choices. It is not, however, the story of a drug dealer,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner noted in a separate court memo that his client was taking prescribed opioids under medical supervision for years due to “excruciating chronic back pain,” but her doctors eventually refused to renew them, at which point she turned to illicit drugs to help her cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s apologetic for her actions. But most importantly, she’s healthy and sober and not likely to re-offend,” Gasner said. “I think this sends a message to the broader community that you will be punished for your actions, but that we also have compassion for who you are as an individual.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to community service, Segovia will be required to adhere to a list of conditions during probation that include ongoing drug testing, mandatory counseling and potential searches of her home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working as the lead civilian administrator for the San José police union, Segovia had thousands of pills illegally shipped to her home over several years and redistributed some of those pills elsewhere in the U.S., authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also used the police union’s UPS account to ship drugs to other drug users in the U.S. on behalf of her supplier, “thus making the SJPOA subsidize foreign drug distribution,” Tartakovsky wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, she came to the attention of Homeland Security investigators who were investigating a criminal network based in India that shipped illicit drugs to U.S. customers. 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But Segovia went a step further, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She became a sort of auxiliary of this Indian network. She carried water for them,” Tartakovsky said. “She did things for their benefit, like moving pills for them. And this is not some peripheral thing. This is the core of how these schemes work. They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. It was the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has also stopped taking pills since her arrest and has passed 45 random drug tests while undergoing counseling and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this nice little life and it was all blown up in front of me,” Segovia said in court on Tuesday. “And being sober made me know how horrendous my conduct was. And I’ve never done anything but be for the law, and I’m really sorry.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other people, including her daughter, friends, neighbor and current and former San José police officers, wrote to the judge on her behalf, attesting that Segovia is a good person, loving family member and a reliable colleague who cares deeply for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired from her role as executive director of the police union shortly after her arrest in 2003. The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. 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The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. After being questioned by investigators, he said “Segovia took six weeks to ponder her predicament, concocted a story” in an unsuccessful attempt to dupe investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, said in his memo to the court that Segovia initially denied her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crime “in a desperate attempt to preserve the secret of her addiction as the barrier between her normal and illicit life broke down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors ultimately concluded that Segovia’s actions were “not the behavior of a ‘mastermind,’ but a scared, confused, and addicted woman who saw the walls collapsing around her,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Actions of an ‘addict,’ not a ‘dealer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Judge Lee said Tuesday she had weighed all the facts of the case, and agreed Segovia’s actions appeared to be “those of an addict and not a dealer,” and she also commended Segovia on her sobriety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A conviction here is warranted. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:53 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday morning filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">stop recognizing birthright citizenship\u003c/a> for children born in the U.S. to parents who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit asks the court for a preliminary injunction to immediately block Trump’s executive order from taking effect, Bonta said at a press conference in San Francisco, saying the order flouts over 125 years of settled legal precedent. It is also being led by the attorneys general from Massachusetts and New Jersey, and is joined by those from 15 other states and Washington, as well as the city attorney of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marks the first lawsuit filed against the new Trump administration by California, which has promised to serve as a bulwark against actions that state officials see as unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply disappointed that we’re here one day into the new administration and also not at all surprised,” Bonta said at the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump is following through on a campaign promise,” he continued. “Today, I’m also following through on a promise to take action if Trump violates the law and infringes on our rights, on your rights, as he did today with what is frankly an un-American executive order. I have one message for President Trump: I’ll see you in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023242 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Rob Bonta (second from right), City Attorney David Chiu (center), Gabriel Medina from La Raza Immigration Services, and others, at a press conference on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025, to announce preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Noting the century-plus of Supreme Court precedent, Bonta said the questions around birthright citizenship were “done and dusted.” “Of course, to Trump, law and order, judicial precedents, constitutional rights have little bearing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state political leaders and immigrant advocates are also considering lawsuits over Trump’s directive to use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/\">military for immigration enforcement\u003c/a> and border security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those measures are part of a raft of executive actions Trump signed Monday addressing immigration and border security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta told KQED on Monday that his office has spent months preparing and coordinating with Democratic attorneys general from other states and advocacy organizations within California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015449 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20241119_BirthrightCitizenshipExplainer_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our North Star is the rule of law. And the question we ask ourselves is, ‘Is he violating the law?’” Bonta said. “To undermine birthright citizenship without going through the process … to amend the Constitution? We will take him to court, and we believe very strongly that we will prevail. The president cannot amend the Constitution unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta pointed out that it was a San Francisco-born son of Chinese immigrants, Wong Kim Ark, who sued all the way to the Supreme Court in 1898 when his citizenship was challenged at the border. \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/supreme-court-case-library/united-states-v-wong-kim-ark-1898\">His case set the precedent establishing birthright citizenship\u003c/a> under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very much a California story and a Bay Area story,” Bonta said. “It’s obviously now impacting millions of people who enjoy birthright citizenship from a lot of different heritages and national origins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu, who joined the lawsuit, spoke Tuesday about Wong’s case and said “The story of birthright citizenship is as San Francisco as they come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To deny some children the basic rights that other children in our country have will create a permanent, multi-generational underclass of those who will have been born in our country but will never have lived anywhere else and be effectively stateless,” Chiu said. “These children will not be able to naturalize or obtain citizenship from another country. They will live under constant threat of deportation. And as they age, they won’t be able to work lawfully or vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the “personal chaos” that Chiu said Trump’s order would create for the immigrant community, he noted that it would lead to the loss of federal funding for public benefits programs like food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such funding is based in part on the number of eligible recipients, and “without Social Security numbers, San Francisco cannot verify otherwise eligible newborns who qualify for these programs,” Chiu said, although the city “will still have to bear the inherent costs of caring for our residents, whether or not they have Social Security numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta added that his office will be reviewing the president’s order to use the military for immigration enforcement and deciding whether to challenge it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to \u003ca href=\"https://statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/birthright-final-complaint.pdf\">file a lawsuit\u003c/a> over Trump’s birthright citizenship order on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aarti Kohli, the Asian Law Caucus’ executive director, said her organization is determined to protect the civil rights of Bay Area immigrants and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re born here, you are a citizen — period. No politician, including President Trump, can decide who is American and who is not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-915911080-e1737482651615.jpg\" alt=\"A border patrol vehicle in partial view behind a tall border fence.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A US Border Patrol vehicle sits parked next to a secondary fence along the US-Mexico border in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kohli said she was also alarmed by the possibility that Trump could invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that allows the deportation of foreign nationals of a country at war with the U.S., to go after immigrant gang members, something he pledged in his inaugural address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act was last used during World War II to imprison Japanese, German and Italian immigrants, a move the federal government later repudiated as discriminatory. In 1983, the Asian Law Caucus helped overturn the conviction of \u003ca href=\"https://korematsuinstitute.org\">Fred Korematsu\u003c/a>, an Oakland man who refused the U.S. Army’s order to go into an incarceration camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this playbook before — using national security as a pretext to target specific communities,” Kohli said. “History shows that harsh immigration policies don’t make us safer or more prosperous. They destabilize communities, hurt local businesses that depend on immigrant workers and divert resources from addressing genuine public safety concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Bonta has been touring the state to spread the word about the state’s “sanctuary laws,” such as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">2017 California Values Act\u003c/a>, which limit local law enforcement and public resources from being used to assist the federal government in immigration enforcement.[aside postID=news_12023124 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpInaugurationAP-1020x680.jpg']State laws don’t prevent immigration enforcement agencies from operating in California, and the U.S. Border Patrol arrested 78 people in Kern County last week. The incident sparked fear in immigrant communities, and some agricultural workers reportedly stayed away from their jobs for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, said his organization is working with other groups to offer “know your rights” workshops to immigrants who may lack legal status. Among other things, he counsels immigrants not to open the door for immigration agents unless they can produce a judicial warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fouladi said he is concerned that Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border to mobilize military resources could lead to mistreatment of migrants and violations of their rights, similar to what occurred when the first Trump administration declared a “zero tolerance” policy, which led to migrant children being forcibly separated from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those types of policies the last time around were so dehumanizing that tore families apart and led to family separation,” he said. “We will be working with local and state elected officials to see how we can make sure that families, at least here in California, are as protected as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Trump rescinded a number of former President Joe Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/\">executive orders on immigration\u003c/a>, including measures to coordinate with other countries in addressing the causes of migration, reunify separated migrant families and rebuild the refugee resettlement program dismantled during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also signed presidential actions to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Halt refugee admissions for at least four months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prosecute unauthorized immigrants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold more unauthorized immigrants in detention until they are deported.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Terminate Biden-era humanitarian parole protections to certain migrants from countries including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, as well as those vetted at border appointments scheduled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone\">CBP One smartphone app\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Continue the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Designate cartels as terrorist organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, which required asylum seekers to await their immigration court hearings outside the U.S.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Establish new Homeland Security task forces in every state, with local as well as federal law enforcement participation, a move that would challenge California’s sanctuary laws.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our North Star is the rule of law. And the question we ask ourselves is, ‘Is he violating the law?’” Bonta said. “To undermine birthright citizenship without going through the process … to amend the Constitution? We will take him to court, and we believe very strongly that we will prevail. The president cannot amend the Constitution unilaterally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta pointed out that it was a San Francisco-born son of Chinese immigrants, Wong Kim Ark, who sued all the way to the Supreme Court in 1898 when his citizenship was challenged at the border. \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/supreme-court-case-library/united-states-v-wong-kim-ark-1898\">His case set the precedent establishing birthright citizenship\u003c/a> under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very much a California story and a Bay Area story,” Bonta said. “It’s obviously now impacting millions of people who enjoy birthright citizenship from a lot of different heritages and national origins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu, who joined the lawsuit, spoke Tuesday about Wong’s case and said “The story of birthright citizenship is as San Francisco as they come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To deny some children the basic rights that other children in our country have will create a permanent, multi-generational underclass of those who will have been born in our country but will never have lived anywhere else and be effectively stateless,” Chiu said. “These children will not be able to naturalize or obtain citizenship from another country. 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And as they age, they won’t be able to work lawfully or vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the “personal chaos” that Chiu said Trump’s order would create for the immigrant community, he noted that it would lead to the loss of federal funding for public benefits programs like food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such funding is based in part on the number of eligible recipients, and “without Social Security numbers, San Francisco cannot verify otherwise eligible newborns who qualify for these programs,” Chiu said, although the city “will still have to bear the inherent costs of caring for our residents, whether or not they have Social Security numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta added that his office will be reviewing the president’s order to use the military for immigration enforcement and deciding whether to challenge it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to \u003ca href=\"https://statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/birthright-final-complaint.pdf\">file a lawsuit\u003c/a> over Trump’s birthright citizenship order on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aarti Kohli, the Asian Law Caucus’ executive director, said her organization is determined to protect the civil rights of Bay Area immigrants and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re born here, you are a citizen — period. No politician, including President Trump, can decide who is American and who is not,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936087\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/GettyImages-915911080-e1737482651615.jpg\" alt=\"A border patrol vehicle in partial view behind a tall border fence.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A US Border Patrol vehicle sits parked next to a secondary fence along the US-Mexico border in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kohli said she was also alarmed by the possibility that Trump could invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that allows the deportation of foreign nationals of a country at war with the U.S., to go after immigrant gang members, something he pledged in his inaugural address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act was last used during World War II to imprison Japanese, German and Italian immigrants, a move the federal government later repudiated as discriminatory. In 1983, the Asian Law Caucus helped overturn the conviction of \u003ca href=\"https://korematsuinstitute.org\">Fred Korematsu\u003c/a>, an Oakland man who refused the U.S. Army’s order to go into an incarceration camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen this playbook before — using national security as a pretext to target specific communities,” Kohli said. “History shows that harsh immigration policies don’t make us safer or more prosperous. They destabilize communities, hurt local businesses that depend on immigrant workers and divert resources from addressing genuine public safety concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Bonta has been touring the state to spread the word about the state’s “sanctuary laws,” such as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">2017 California Values Act\u003c/a>, which limit local law enforcement and public resources from being used to assist the federal government in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State laws don’t prevent immigration enforcement agencies from operating in California, and the U.S. Border Patrol arrested 78 people in Kern County last week. The incident sparked fear in immigrant communities, and some agricultural workers reportedly stayed away from their jobs for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center, said his organization is working with other groups to offer “know your rights” workshops to immigrants who may lack legal status. Among other things, he counsels immigrants not to open the door for immigration agents unless they can produce a judicial warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fouladi said he is concerned that Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border to mobilize military resources could lead to mistreatment of migrants and violations of their rights, similar to what occurred when the first Trump administration declared a “zero tolerance” policy, which led to migrant children being forcibly separated from their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those types of policies the last time around were so dehumanizing that tore families apart and led to family separation,” he said. “We will be working with local and state elected officials to see how we can make sure that families, at least here in California, are as protected as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Trump rescinded a number of former President Joe Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/\">executive orders on immigration\u003c/a>, including measures to coordinate with other countries in addressing the causes of migration, reunify separated migrant families and rebuild the refugee resettlement program dismantled during the first Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also signed presidential actions to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Halt refugee admissions for at least four months.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prosecute unauthorized immigrants.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold more unauthorized immigrants in detention until they are deported.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Terminate Biden-era humanitarian parole protections to certain migrants from countries including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, as well as those vetted at border appointments scheduled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone\">CBP One smartphone app\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Continue the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Designate cartels as terrorist organizations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, which required asylum seekers to await their immigration court hearings outside the U.S.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Establish new Homeland Security task forces in every state, with local as well as federal law enforcement participation, a move that would challenge California’s sanctuary laws.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California sheriffs once again find themselves navigating a difficult political calculus on immigration as President \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> begins his second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can enforce a state sanctuary law that some of them personally oppose, or they can roll out the welcome mat to federal immigration enforcement authorities whom Trump has promised will carry out the largest deportation program in American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some California sheriffs have pledged not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement authorities, based on their own policies or laws passed by their counties, and will forbid immigration agents from using county personnel, property or databases without a federal warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said that while California law prevents direct cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration authorities are free to use their jail websites and fingerprints databases to identify people of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several state leaders would prefer we do not have any communication with ICE, however, that is not what (the laws) say,” said Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni. “ICE may access jail bookings through our public website and fingerprint information put into the national database to identify any incarcerated persons of interest to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one sheriff, Chad Bianco of Riverside County, said he would work around California law, if he could, to ensure more people are deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-sheriffs-immigration-ice-tracker/\">contact all 58 sheriff’s offices in California\u003c/a>. Twenty-seven responded by Friday afternoon. Most sheriffs who responded simply said they will follow state law, spelled out in a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">bill passed during the first Trump administration\u003c/a> that limited California law enforcement participation in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump’s inauguration today, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">immigration raids in the Central Valley\u003c/a> earlier this month already had undocumented migrants and their families concerned about massive enforcement sweeps on immigrant-dependent industries like agriculture. Trump and cabinet officials from his first term have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-sheriffs-might-power-trumps-deportation-machine\">pledged “targeted arrests”\u003c/a> of undocumented people, and view local law enforcement as “force multipliers” of that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs could play an influential role in determining whether someone gets arrested and deported because they manage the state’s local jail system, where people suspected of committing crimes are held while awaiting trial. A bill named after a slain Georgia nursing student that is expected to pass in Congress could enhance sheriffs’ sway over \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/immigration/\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a> by prioritizing deportations of undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/laken-riley-act-clears-critical-senate-hurdle\">arrested on suspicion of burglary\u003c/a> and shoplifting, regardless of whether they’re convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of sheriffs who responded to a CalMatters inquiry said they were balancing their duties with their need for cooperation from frightened immigrant communities. They worry those communities will shun all law enforcement if they fear deportation based on their immigration status alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know how many calls I’ve gotten from Hispanics in my area that I’ve known, I’ve grown up with, they’re all worried about family members,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall. “I’ve got in-laws through my children calling me because they’re concerned, but let’s look at the ability to actually enforce this crap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I’ve got 50 deputies and I can barely keep a lid on crime in a county of 90,000. How are these guys coming out here with all of this ‘We’re gonna deport 10 million people’ or something. No, that’s ridiculous. It’s not gonna happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall said he undoubtedly has people in his community who have committed serious crimes and are also undocumented, and wants those people arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they want to go out and deport all the criminals, knock yourselves out, but let’s pick and choose what’s important and what is not,”he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One consistent theme: Every sheriff who responded to CalMatters said immigration enforcement isn’t their job. But some of them went further, pledging not to honor immigration holds, while others said they will neither “prevent nor hinder” immigration enforcement agents from doing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sanctuary law divided California sheriffs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation making California \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-5b325d95a9c548e29b887de8b2303b76%20California%20becomes%20sanctuary%20state%20as%20governor%20signs%20bill\">a sanctuary state\u003c/a> in 2017, barring police from inquiring about people’s immigration status and participating in federal immigration enforcement, the reaction from the Trump administration was immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to sanctuary cities that limited cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-justice-department-ends-trump-era-limits-grants-sanctuary-cities-2021-04-28/\">Biden administration restored the grants\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several California sheriffs were outspoken critics of the sanctuary law during Trump’s previous presidency. A group of San Joaquin Valley sheriffs traveled with Trump to the border in 2019, where they endorsed his immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12023106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, said he doesn’t agree with California’s sanctuary law, and said any governor who supports it should be removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Boudreaux said he wants to distinguish between targeted enforcement of “felonious” people, which he supports, and massive immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, if they come into the area saying, ‘Hey, we’re just going to scoop up as many people as we can that are here illegally,’ we’re not going to do that, because (we) have a community to serve,” Boudreaux said. “If you can separate the difference between that, you should be able to see what I mean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudreaux pledged to keep working with federal immigration authorities within the parameters of California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(If) I have a federal counterpart that comes into my county asking for assistance, I’m going to give it to them,” Boudreaux said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and one of Trump’s most outspoken allies in California, took office in 2019. Now, Bianco said he’s ready to work around state law to step up immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will do everything in my power to make sure I keep the residents of Riverside County safe,” Bianco \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxla.com/news/how-local-sheriffs-plan-trumps-immigration-policy\">said to KTTV-TV in November\u003c/a>. “If that involves working somehow around (California’s sanctuary law) with ICE so we can deport these people victimizing us and our residents, you can be 100% sure I’m going to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrant advocates watching sheriffs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eva Bitran, Immigrants’ Rights project coordinator at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said her organization would be watching for violations of the state sanctuary law, which would typically involve police calling federal immigration authorities at jails or during arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Daniel Valenzuela in 2019, when Corona police interrogated him about his immigration status during a traffic stop, then transferred him to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. Valenzuela was then deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU sued the city of Corona, which paid Valenzuela a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/city-corona-pay-settlement-man-turned-over-border-agents\">$35,000 settlement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our expectation is that the sheriffs will follow the law,” Bitran said. “We will be watching to ensure they do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/072623_Movimiento_Juventud_Migrants_AH_CM_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/072623_Movimiento_Juventud_Migrants_AH_CM_03.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/072623_Movimiento_Juventud_Migrants_AH_CM_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/072623_Movimiento_Juventud_Migrants_AH_CM_03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/072623_Movimiento_Juventud_Migrants_AH_CM_03-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants wait to receive toiletry items at Moviemiento Juventud 2000 in Tijuana on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Los Angeles County banned the warrantless transfer of inmates to immigration enforcement custody. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said his department does not honor immigration detainers unless presented with a federal warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration' label='More Immigration Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2018 and 2023, the last date for which data was available, there were \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/dataset/2024-07/SB54%20Transfers%202018-2023_07022024.csv\">4,192 transfers of people\u003c/a> from California jails to immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s street enforcement that has people worried in both the Central Valley and downtown Oakland, where the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is already trying to tamp down rumors of immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to assure you that this information is false,” said Alameda County Sheriff’s Sgt. Roberto Morales. “This information has caused panic and anxiety in our communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we respect criminal warrants issued by a judge, Sheriff’s Office personnel do not comply with administrative immigration warrants. Importantly, we believe that local law enforcement involvement in ICE deportation operations undermines our community policing strategies and depletes local resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Cayla Mihalovich contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one sheriff, Chad Bianco of Riverside County, said he would work around California law, if he could, to ensure more people are deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-sheriffs-immigration-ice-tracker/\">contact all 58 sheriff’s offices in California\u003c/a>. Twenty-seven responded by Friday afternoon. Most sheriffs who responded simply said they will follow state law, spelled out in a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">bill passed during the first Trump administration\u003c/a> that limited California law enforcement participation in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump’s inauguration today, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">immigration raids in the Central Valley\u003c/a> earlier this month already had undocumented migrants and their families concerned about massive enforcement sweeps on immigrant-dependent industries like agriculture. Trump and cabinet officials from his first term have \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-sheriffs-might-power-trumps-deportation-machine\">pledged “targeted arrests”\u003c/a> of undocumented people, and view local law enforcement as “force multipliers” of that effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs could play an influential role in determining whether someone gets arrested and deported because they manage the state’s local jail system, where people suspected of committing crimes are held while awaiting trial. 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They worry those communities will shun all law enforcement if they fear deportation based on their immigration status alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know how many calls I’ve gotten from Hispanics in my area that I’ve known, I’ve grown up with, they’re all worried about family members,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall. “I’ve got in-laws through my children calling me because they’re concerned, but let’s look at the ability to actually enforce this crap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hell, I’ve got 50 deputies and I can barely keep a lid on crime in a county of 90,000. How are these guys coming out here with all of this ‘We’re gonna deport 10 million people’ or something. No, that’s ridiculous. 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A group of San Joaquin Valley sheriffs traveled with Trump to the border in 2019, where they endorsed his immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12023106\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/020323_Mike-Boudreaux_AP_CM_02-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, said he doesn’t agree with California’s sanctuary law, and said any governor who supports it should be removed from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Boudreaux said he wants to distinguish between targeted enforcement of “felonious” people, which he supports, and massive immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, if they come into the area saying, ‘Hey, we’re just going to scoop up as many people as we can that are here illegally,’ we’re not going to do that, because (we) have a community to serve,” Boudreaux said. “If you can separate the difference between that, you should be able to see what I mean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudreaux pledged to keep working with federal immigration authorities within the parameters of California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(If) I have a federal counterpart that comes into my county asking for assistance, I’m going to give it to them,” Boudreaux said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and one of Trump’s most outspoken allies in California, took office in 2019. 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Mandates requiring workplaces and federal agencies to honor a person’s preferred pronouns would also be overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government may also prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to subsidize gender-affirming health care, and could force facilities that receive federal funding such as public schools and prisons to separate people on the basis of biological sex in intimate spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality,” the White House official said to reporters on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-YouthClimateProtest-06-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of Trump’s order is unfounded, Mahogany argued. Defining sex as a biological binary of only male and female excludes not only transgender but also intersex people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gender has been something that has been defined differently between cultures throughout human history,” Mahogany said. “It’s really important to acknowledge that the Trump administration can say whatever it wants. It doesn’t necessarily change the realities that we are living every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said they’re concerned about what could happen to transgender people who are barred from accessing gender-affirming care, and said it’s likely that rates of depression and suicidal ideation may go up. They also said that disregarding a person’s gender identity could leave transgender individuals vulnerable to sexual and physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mahogany, Trump’s executive order and the conservative rhetoric around sex and gender may also hurt people who are not transgender. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basis of Trump’s order is unfounded, Mahogany argued. Defining sex as a biological binary of only male and female excludes not only transgender but also intersex people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gender has been something that has been defined differently between cultures throughout human history,” Mahogany said. “It’s really important to acknowledge that the Trump administration can say whatever it wants. It doesn’t necessarily change the realities that we are living every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany said they’re concerned about what could happen to transgender people who are barred from accessing gender-affirming care, and said it’s likely that rates of depression and suicidal ideation may go up. They also said that disregarding a person’s gender identity could leave transgender individuals vulnerable to sexual and physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mahogany, Trump’s executive order and the conservative rhetoric around sex and gender may also hurt people who are not transgender. Admonishments against the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports, for example, have resulted in verbal and physical assaults on cisgender athletes who do not conform to gender expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they say things like we’re doing this to protect women or biological women, what we’re seeing is that the opposite is happening and that women are being negatively impacted by these policies,” Mahogany said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, community organizations and leaders will have to work with the state and with local municipalities to secure protections for transgender people that may not be reflected at the federal level, Mahogany said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Spirits were high in Harry’s Bar in Pacific Heights on Monday, as San Francisco Republicans cheered on the second inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the risk of sounding horribly sentimental, I’m proud to be an American citizen,” Kathleen McCrea, a party attendee, told KQED. “I’m hopeful for what Donald Trump just described in his inaugural address: a restoration of law and order and a reversal of some of the disastrous policies that have really threatened to send this country down a sinkhole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 100 people packed into the bar just after 8:00 a.m. to watch the inauguration over a breakfast buffet, coffee and some cocktails. The crowd ranged from “pretty hardcore MAGA folks,” decked out in Trump’s signature red MAGA hat, to political moderates, said Bill Jackson, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all here to celebrate the new possibilities of this administration — the opportunities for accelerating our economic growth, for protecting our borders and for a more open kind of free speech and culture,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20241105w/index.html\">60,000 votes\u003c/a> going to Trump and his vice president JD Vance in San Francisco — or just under 16% of all votes cast — Republicans are still in the minority in the city. But this turnout was still higher than the number of votes \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20201103w/index.html\">Trump won in San Francisco in 2020,\u003c/a> demonstrating the President’s growing popularity — as well as slightly less engagement overall with the Democratic party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rightward shift was “slight,” said Josh Wolff, “but we’ll take anything here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Wolff cheers while watching the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump on TV at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, surrounded by fellow supporters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolff, 26, said he moved to California from Florida seven years ago. Compared to his home state, he found the tax rate and cost of living in California to be much higher, with what he calls low overall returns in government services. This year, Wolff was elected to the Republican Party County Central Committee in San Francisco, where he plans to tackle local issues, according to \u003ca href=\"https://joshwolff.me/\">his website\u003c/a>. One issue at the top of mind is public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolff described moving to the Bay Area to attend school and having many of his belongings stolen from his parked car in broad daylight “as a welcome gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was treated as a routine incident,” he said. “If you look around many parking lots, there are signs [posted] that blame the victim. It’s this kind of a mentality where the people who abide by the law — who pay the taxes — are the ones at fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some attendees were lifelong Republicans, others said that their interest in Trump’s firebrand politics stemmed from a gradual political evolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carly Matthews (left) and Philip Wing (center) listen to the national anthem being sung by Christopher Macchio during a watch party at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I would be at an event like this in my life,” said Carly Matthews. “I moved from the left to the right in a span of 18 months, and I got my citizenship so that I could vote in this election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said reckless government spending and disrespect to law enforcement disturbed her, so she made an account on X — the once San Francisco-based social media platform formerly known as Twitter that Elon Musk bought and rebranded — and started watching full-length interviews with Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I call it ‘getting X-ucated,’” Matthews joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-YouthClimateProtest-06-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews was born in Canada. After her own 10-year journey to become a U.S. citizen, she describes herself as “very pro-immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wonderful melting pot. That’s what I love about San Francisco,” Matthews said. “But when you’re crossing over the border illegally, and if you want to do harm to our citizens, that’s not good. If someone is willing to work hard and contribute to society, then yes, I support immigration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong independent voter, McCrea said she experienced a similar shift in her own thinking about Trump, from skepticism to “gratitude and relief” while watching his second inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCrea now identifies as a conservative, and as part of that, said she’s faced a bit of hostility for her beliefs. “I’m used to it now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a liberal city like San Francisco, McCrea knows that many people who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in the election or who are concerned that Trump’s immigration policies are worried or angry that Trump’s second term may lead to an even more troubling era for the United States. She offered them a piece of advice: take the long view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Realize that the pendulum swings,” McCrea said. “This is civics. This is how it works in the United States. It goes back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to be divided about this,” McCrea continued. “We can have an honest difference of opinion and still be friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge\">Beth LaBerge\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But this turnout was still higher than the number of votes \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.org/results/20201103w/index.html\">Trump won in San Francisco in 2020,\u003c/a> demonstrating the President’s growing popularity — as well as slightly less engagement overall with the Democratic party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rightward shift was “slight,” said Josh Wolff, “but we’ll take anything here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120-InaugurationWatchParty-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Wolff cheers while watching the inauguration ceremony for President Donald Trump on TV at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, surrounded by fellow supporters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wolff, 26, said he moved to California from Florida seven years ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:42 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As President Biden leaves the Oval Office on Monday, three California lawmakers were among those he pardoned in an attempt to protect them from retribution for their involvement in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017426/trump-says-jan-6-panel-members-should-be-jailed-south-bays-zoe-lofgren-isnt-worried\">the bipartisan investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preemptive pardon covers Sen. Adam Schiff, South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren and San Bernardino Rep. 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Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” Biden said in his statement. “Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Lofgren \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017426/trump-says-jan-6-panel-members-should-be-jailed-south-bays-zoe-lofgren-isnt-worried\">told KQED\u003c/a> she was not requesting a pardon from Biden after Trump had told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-will-likely-pardon-capitol-rioters-day-1-says-jan-6-committee-me-rcna183275\">\u003cem>NBC’s Meet the Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the committee members should be jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in the Constitution. And I think we have a judicial branch that will make sure that the Constitution is enforced on that,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lofgren said the decision was Biden’s to make, Schiff said in a solo statement Monday that he believed the pardon was “unnecessary” and “unwise,” but said he understood why Biden felt he needed to issue it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff told KQED last month that he didn’t like the precedent that pardons for the committee would set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t like the precedent of it,” he said. “I didn’t like it when Trump talked about doing that on his way out. And I don’t favor President Biden doing it either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023056 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both expressed that members of the committee had been fulfilling their duties in Congress when they investigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which took place on Jan. 6, 2021, while lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine members of the House of Representatives investigated the role Trump and close allies were believed to have played in inciting the violence, and ultimately referred Trump to the Department of Justice to face legal charges. A case brought by the department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/nx-s1-5205376/jan-6-trump-case\">was thrown out\u003c/a> after Trump’s election victory due to DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the investigation, Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify, and Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R–Bakersfield), Jim Jordan (R–Ohio), Andy Biggs (R–Ariz.), and Scott Perry (R–Pa.) were referred to the House Ethics Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand by [the work we did],” Schiff said in an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMf7Q3g9JEA\">CNN’s Dana Bash\u003c/a> earlier this month. “We feel we have the protection of the Speech and Debate Clause. So, I — my own feeling is, let’s just avoid this kind of broad precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the statement on behalf of the whole committee, issued by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D–Miss.) and former Rep. 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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special legislative session\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and it’s why state Democrats have agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/\">allocate $50 million to fight Trump\u003c/a> in court — a move that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/J_GallagherAD3/status/1878599444003959053\">state Republicans denounced\u003c/a> as a “slush fund” for “hypothetical fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. California essentially “stepped in for a Justice Department that was no longer doing its job on behalf of the nation” and defended the law in court, said Anthony Wright, executive director at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-again-leaves-affordable-care-act-in-place/\">Supreme Court ruled in California’s favor\u003c/a> to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Had the decision gone Texas’ way, approximately 20 million Americans, including 5 million Californians, could have lost their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health care subsidies\u003c/strong>. California also went to bat for health care subsidies that help make Obamacare coverage more affordable. In 2017, Trump announced the federal government would stop paying insurers for cost-sharing subsidies that help offset out-of-pocket expenses, like deductibles and copays. Becerra and 17 other state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estimated 6 million Americans who would have been affected by this change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='donald-trump' label='More Trump Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/judge-dismisses-californias-lawsuit-over-halted-cost-sharing-payments\">placed its lawsuit on hold\u003c/a> when marketplaces and insurers found a workaround to offset those losses by increasing premiums on certain plans (but also premium aid), and the case was eventually closed. While this was not a court win, per say, Wright said California’s administrative response was still a win for consumers. “It was a way so that people’s copayments and deductibles didn’t spike to unaffordable levels,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Title X ‘gag’ rule\u003c/strong>. Title X is a federal program created in the 1970s that provides free or low cost family planning services to people with low incomes. In 2018, Trump proposed a “gag rule” that prohibited clinics receiving Title X funding from performing or referring patients to abortion services. Home to about a fourth of all Title X patients, California along with others challenged the policy change, but a ruling by a federal appeals court judge ultimately allowed it to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the rule change, many clinics stopped participating in the Title X program. That meant that the program served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration/\">about 60% fewer patients\u003c/a> between 2018 and 2020, according to KFF, a health policy research center. The Biden administration eventually revoked Trump’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Health advocates say they’ll be closely watching everything from reproductive choice and access to gender-affirming care to potential cuts or caps on Medicaid spending. Medicaid, better known as Medi-Cal in California, serves close to a third of the state population, and reductions in funding for this program would be deeply consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is the key word. While the state can do a lot to protect Californian’s access to care — as the Legislature has attempted to do with a slate of laws over the last few years — it also depends greatly on federal funding to make that happen, said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director at Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big takeaway and a big lesson learned from this last time around is we can do a lot here in California to protect consumers, to uphold California values,” McAllister said. “But without the federal funding to guarantee access to health care for folks, it’s really hard to keep people enrolled and to keep people with coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. California essentially “stepped in for a Justice Department that was no longer doing its job on behalf of the nation” and defended the law in court, said Anthony Wright, executive director at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-again-leaves-affordable-care-act-in-place/\">Supreme Court ruled in California’s favor\u003c/a> to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Had the decision gone Texas’ way, approximately 20 million Americans, including 5 million Californians, could have lost their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health care subsidies\u003c/strong>. California also went to bat for health care subsidies that help make Obamacare coverage more affordable. In 2017, Trump announced the federal government would stop paying insurers for cost-sharing subsidies that help offset out-of-pocket expenses, like deductibles and copays. Becerra and 17 other state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estimated 6 million Americans who would have been affected by this change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/judge-dismisses-californias-lawsuit-over-halted-cost-sharing-payments\">placed its lawsuit on hold\u003c/a> when marketplaces and insurers found a workaround to offset those losses by increasing premiums on certain plans (but also premium aid), and the case was eventually closed. While this was not a court win, per say, Wright said California’s administrative response was still a win for consumers. “It was a way so that people’s copayments and deductibles didn’t spike to unaffordable levels,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Title X ‘gag’ rule\u003c/strong>. Title X is a federal program created in the 1970s that provides free or low cost family planning services to people with low incomes. In 2018, Trump proposed a “gag rule” that prohibited clinics receiving Title X funding from performing or referring patients to abortion services. Home to about a fourth of all Title X patients, California along with others challenged the policy change, but a ruling by a federal appeals court judge ultimately allowed it to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the rule change, many clinics stopped participating in the Title X program. That meant that the program served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration/\">about 60% fewer patients\u003c/a> between 2018 and 2020, according to KFF, a health policy research center. The Biden administration eventually revoked Trump’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Health advocates say they’ll be closely watching everything from reproductive choice and access to gender-affirming care to potential cuts or caps on Medicaid spending. Medicaid, better known as Medi-Cal in California, serves close to a third of the state population, and reductions in funding for this program would be deeply consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is the key word. While the state can do a lot to protect Californian’s access to care — as the Legislature has attempted to do with a slate of laws over the last few years — it also depends greatly on federal funding to make that happen, said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director at Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>TIJUANA, Mexico — It’s noon and the sun is brutal. At the foot of a steep hill, in the shade, a woman with an exhausted stare is rocking her child to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Alamie says she can’t remember the last time she rested, certainly not back in Buenaventura, the city on Colombia’s Pacific coast where she comes from, a place rocked by armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband owned a small store there. He was a peace activist in his free time. Local gangs began demanding higher protection fees. She said, “They told us if we didn’t pay, they’d kill our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the decision to leave home was made in a matter of seconds. They’d head north to the U.S.-Mexico border and hire a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em> (a smuggler) to get them to the other side. Her sister, who lives in California, would be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a coyote in Tijuana was easy. One guy offered to cross the family of three for $8,000. But folks at Juventud 2000, a shelter in the city, dissuaded them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us we could get killed out there or caught and sent back to Colombia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andres Patiño plays with his son outside the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Alamie have decided instead to go the official route by using the CBP One app, which provides an appointment to request legal entry into the U.S. But she’s been waiting for five months and is starting to get desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unauthorized apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have decreased significantly in the past six months — by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government attributes the dip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/23/1198912704/bidens-executive-actions-on-immigration-send-mixed-signals\">an executive order\u003c/a> issued last summer by President Biden that severely restricts asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with no authorization. Another factor is the implementation of the CBP One app, and experts say the Mexican national guard cracking down on migrants heading north is playing a key role, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 20, he will be inheriting a quiet border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the date is looming in her mind. “I think about it every day,” she says. “I imagine him taking his seat at the White House. And then what’s going to happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to ramping up border security, Trump has promised to shut down the CBP One app. “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1835315698169475316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835315698169475316%7Ctwgr%5Ec463189ca2f09e6a59829ce2e85febcef0d344a1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fimmigration%2F3227614%2Ftrump-ending-cbp-one-migrant-app-border-consequences%2F\">posted on X last year\u003c/a>, “[and] terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals,” a reference to the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s assertion that the app is used to smuggle people across the border is false. Immigrants seeking asylum use the app to make appointments for screening with U.S. government officials to gain legal entry into the country while they wait to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestrian port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line the grounds of the migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the lower number of border apprehensions only tells part of the story. Behind the scenes, folks on the ground say major shifts are happening in how people cross the border. “Immigrants are still arriving,” says Jose Maria Garcia Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter. “They’re just moving underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is just a stone’s throw away from the border wall. It’s so packed that the floor of the main room is covered in back-to-back sleeping tents. Many people here are Mexicans displaced by narco violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this day, a nonprofit is delivering presents to migrant children. The result is utter chaos. Shrieks of delight are punctuated by beeping toy sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Lara says this is nothing compared with what it was like early last year. There were so many migrants that people had to camp out in public parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For months now, the number of people arriving at the shelter has gone down,” he says. “They’re still coming to Tijuana though. Becoming invisible. Hiring coyotes who put them up in motels and safe houses, so they can cross over through more remote parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Maria Garcia Lara head of migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian aid groups say the shift has been notable. “Things along the border have changed in the last year to four months,” says James Crodero of the volunteer group Border Kindness, which leaves first aid supplies and water for migrants along the border. He says crossings have shifted “from more predictable routes that have been used for years on end, to areas that we don’t know. We know for a fact that people are coming across, and it has moved into more dangerous areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Tijuana shelter, in her piece of shade, Alamie says she’s reconsidering attempting to cross. The coyote has almost doubled his price, from $8,000 to $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so close,” she sighs, pointing in the direction of the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a general sense of anxiety at the shelter. Near where Alamie is sitting, a group of women wash clothing at a furious pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all from Michoacán, Mexico, and say they’re all fleeing drug violence. They keep trying to get a CBP One appointment with no luck, and they know their window of opportunity is closing. But they don’t want to cross without documents or hire a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they’d ever go back home, one woman, Marta, who asks that her last name be withheld fearing cartel violence, smiles wearily. Without pausing her scrubbing, she answers: “Never. But we can’t move forward either. We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta from Michoacán, Mexico, washes clothes at the migrant shelter Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child peers through the gate doors as women wash clothes at the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, in a neighborhood up in the hills, a man named Samuel makes a living getting people like Marta and Alamie unstuck. Samuel is a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will not give his last name because what he does is illegal in both countries. And like all coyotes, he has to give a cut of his profits to a cartel. He won’t tell me which one. He simply refers to them as “\u003cem>los mañosos,\u003c/em>” or “the slick ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel says crossing costs between $9,000 and $12,000 for a family. He says he’s heard of coyotes who can “get violent” with women but that he’s always been respectful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain view of Tecate, Mexico, from California’s Jacumba Valley on Dec. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, he says, migrants get crossed through deeper parts of the desert. It’s dangerous terrain, and can take up to a week, but it’s less patrolled by Mexican authorities and U.S. Border Patrol. “We don’t get caught. We have ways,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>An unassuming middle-aged man, Samuel is surveilling as we speak, his eyes darting around. He speaks in short sentences unless he gets heated, like when he’s asked if the incoming Trump administration could hurt his business. “The U.S. can put up a wall,” he says. “But you better make sure it reaches the sky. Because there’s no such thing as a problem for us. Like a mouse, we’ll find a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several miles up, on the other side of the border, many people envision a very different future under Trump’s administration, one with an impenetrable border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1536x1271.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe at the US southern border in Jacumba Valley, California, on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kate Monroe is the founder of Border Vets, a group of military veterans that advocate for stronger border security. We meet her on the San Diego side of the border, in what’s known as the Jacumba Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reported extensively in this region. In the past few years, it’s been the site of massive informal open-air detention camps. “Up until just a few months ago, you would see 500 to 1,000 people a day crossing in every single hole along this border, in broad daylight,” she says. That sight scared her. “Americans, we don’t have to go quietly into the night. We can stand up and fight that,” referring to illegal crossings.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101908347,news_12021487,news_12016488\"]Still, for the last few months, it’s been quieter out here as border crossings go down or, depending on who you ask, go further underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe’s hope is that the incoming president takes border enforcement further. She says she’s looking forward to seeing mass deportations of immigrants with criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone can agree that those people should go,” she says. Monroe also hopes to see a strengthened Border Patrol and the wall finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an advocate for tougher immigration and border enforcement doesn’t mean she doesn’t have compassion for immigrants, she says. Particularly when it comes to the risks and dangers women face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe says her military career ended after a brutal sexual assault. When she hears migrant women’s stories and the way sexual assault is often seen as the “price to pay” for making the trek to the U.S., it reminds her of what she endured. “It disgusts me,” she says. “It pains me and my spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, she would like to see border security and deportations combined with immigration reform that allows for orderly migration. “If we really want people in our country, we need to build workforce housing, change our visa program, reimagine the way that we handle immigration. All these jobs we say Americans don’t want, we need to put together a plan to get labor here in a way that doesn’t get them assaulted, robbed and killed on the way here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe visits the southern US border in Jacumba Valley on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe speaks to migrants in Jacumba Valley, after they crossed into the US on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk, we see a family walking by the border wall. They’re the first migrants I’ve seen out here in three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They look terrified to see us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe gives them water. Two of the girls, ages 4 and 11, start sobbing. Their puffy winter jackets are covered in desert dust. Their father, Ronald, hugs them and cries. “It’s over,” he whispers in their ear. “We’re no longer running away. Nothing can happen to us now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is from Venezuela. They’ve been on the move for a month. They say it felt too scary to wait in Mexico hoping to get an official appointment for entry into the U.S., so they hired a coyote. When asked about that experience, Ronald’s voice cracks as he says, “To those people, we are nothing but merchandise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a matter of seconds, before he can tell us his last name or the rest of his story, Border Patrol agents arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-11-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother holds onto her daughter after crossing the southern border in Jacumba Valley as Border Patrol agents process the group. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine how humiliating?” Monroe says, pointing at Ronald as he crouches to remove his shoelaces, a standard Border Patrol request, while his daughters watch. “Is this what compassion looks like?” she asks as the family is loaded into the patrol car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe believes scenes like this are a result of policies Democrats put in place. She says there has to be a better way for people to come to America, and that Trump has the answers to fix the broken immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>TIJUANA, Mexico — It’s noon and the sun is brutal. At the foot of a steep hill, in the shade, a woman with an exhausted stare is rocking her child to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy Alamie says she can’t remember the last time she rested, certainly not back in Buenaventura, the city on Colombia’s Pacific coast where she comes from, a place rocked by armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband owned a small store there. He was a peace activist in his free time. Local gangs began demanding higher protection fees. She said, “They told us if we didn’t pay, they’d kill our family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the decision to leave home was made in a matter of seconds. They’d head north to the U.S.-Mexico border and hire a \u003cem>coyote\u003c/em> (a smuggler) to get them to the other side. Her sister, who lives in California, would be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a coyote in Tijuana was easy. One guy offered to cross the family of three for $8,000. But folks at Juventud 2000, a shelter in the city, dissuaded them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us we could get killed out there or caught and sent back to Colombia,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andres Patiño plays with his son outside the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrants like Alamie have decided instead to go the official route by using the CBP One app, which provides an appointment to request legal entry into the U.S. But she’s been waiting for five months and is starting to get desperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unauthorized apprehensions at the U.S. southern border have decreased significantly in the past six months — by more than 70% compared with the same period in 2023, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government attributes the dip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/23/1198912704/bidens-executive-actions-on-immigration-send-mixed-signals\">an executive order\u003c/a> issued last summer by President Biden that severely restricts asylum requests from migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border with no authorization. Another factor is the implementation of the CBP One app, and experts say the Mexican national guard cracking down on migrants heading north is playing a key role, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 20, he will be inheriting a quiet border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alamie says the date is looming in her mind. “I think about it every day,” she says. “I imagine him taking his seat at the White House. And then what’s going to happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to ramping up border security, Trump has promised to shut down the CBP One app. “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1835315698169475316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835315698169475316%7Ctwgr%5Ec463189ca2f09e6a59829ce2e85febcef0d344a1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolicy%2Fimmigration%2F3227614%2Ftrump-ending-cbp-one-migrant-app-border-consequences%2F\">posted on X last year\u003c/a>, “[and] terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals,” a reference to the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s assertion that the app is used to smuggle people across the border is false. Immigrants seeking asylum use the app to make appointments for screening with U.S. government officials to gain legal entry into the country while they wait to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pedestrian port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line the grounds of the migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the lower number of border apprehensions only tells part of the story. Behind the scenes, folks on the ground say major shifts are happening in how people cross the border. “Immigrants are still arriving,” says Jose Maria Garcia Lara, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter. “They’re just moving underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is just a stone’s throw away from the border wall. It’s so packed that the floor of the main room is covered in back-to-back sleeping tents. Many people here are Mexicans displaced by narco violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this day, a nonprofit is delivering presents to migrant children. The result is utter chaos. Shrieks of delight are punctuated by beeping toy sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Lara says this is nothing compared with what it was like early last year. There were so many migrants that people had to camp out in public parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For months now, the number of people arriving at the shelter has gone down,” he says. “They’re still coming to Tijuana though. Becoming invisible. Hiring coyotes who put them up in motels and safe houses, so they can cross over through more remote parts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-e1737242919751-1536x1106.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Maria Garcia Lara head of migrant shelter Juventud 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian aid groups say the shift has been notable. “Things along the border have changed in the last year to four months,” says James Crodero of the volunteer group Border Kindness, which leaves first aid supplies and water for migrants along the border. He says crossings have shifted “from more predictable routes that have been used for years on end, to areas that we don’t know. We know for a fact that people are coming across, and it has moved into more dangerous areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the Tijuana shelter, in her piece of shade, Alamie says she’s reconsidering attempting to cross. The coyote has almost doubled his price, from $8,000 to $15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so close,” she sighs, pointing in the direction of the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a general sense of anxiety at the shelter. Near where Alamie is sitting, a group of women wash clothing at a furious pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re all from Michoacán, Mexico, and say they’re all fleeing drug violence. They keep trying to get a CBP One appointment with no luck, and they know their window of opportunity is closing. But they don’t want to cross without documents or hire a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if they’d ever go back home, one woman, Marta, who asks that her last name be withheld fearing cartel violence, smiles wearily. Without pausing her scrubbing, she answers: “Never. But we can’t move forward either. We’re stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta from Michoacán, Mexico, washes clothes at the migrant shelter Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-6-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child peers through the gate doors as women wash clothes at the Embajadores de Jesús church in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, in a neighborhood up in the hills, a man named Samuel makes a living getting people like Marta and Alamie unstuck. Samuel is a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will not give his last name because what he does is illegal in both countries. And like all coyotes, he has to give a cut of his profits to a cartel. He won’t tell me which one. He simply refers to them as “\u003cem>los mañosos,\u003c/em>” or “the slick ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel says crossing costs between $9,000 and $12,000 for a family. He says he’s heard of coyotes who can “get violent” with women but that he’s always been respectful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-7-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain view of Tecate, Mexico, from California’s Jacumba Valley on Dec. 7, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, he says, migrants get crossed through deeper parts of the desert. It’s dangerous terrain, and can take up to a week, but it’s less patrolled by Mexican authorities and U.S. Border Patrol. “We don’t get caught. We have ways,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-header \">\n\u003cp>An unassuming middle-aged man, Samuel is surveilling as we speak, his eyes darting around. He speaks in short sentences unless he gets heated, like when he’s asked if the incoming Trump administration could hurt his business. “The U.S. can put up a wall,” he says. “But you better make sure it reaches the sky. Because there’s no such thing as a problem for us. Like a mouse, we’ll find a hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several miles up, on the other side of the border, many people envision a very different future under Trump’s administration, one with an impenetrable border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-8-copy-e1737243188696-1536x1271.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe at the US southern border in Jacumba Valley, California, on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kate Monroe is the founder of Border Vets, a group of military veterans that advocate for stronger border security. We meet her on the San Diego side of the border, in what’s known as the Jacumba Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has reported extensively in this region. In the past few years, it’s been the site of massive informal open-air detention camps. “Up until just a few months ago, you would see 500 to 1,000 people a day crossing in every single hole along this border, in broad daylight,” she says. That sight scared her. “Americans, we don’t have to go quietly into the night. We can stand up and fight that,” referring to illegal crossings.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, for the last few months, it’s been quieter out here as border crossings go down or, depending on who you ask, go further underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe’s hope is that the incoming president takes border enforcement further. She says she’s looking forward to seeing mass deportations of immigrants with criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everyone can agree that those people should go,” she says. Monroe also hopes to see a strengthened Border Patrol and the wall finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being an advocate for tougher immigration and border enforcement doesn’t mean she doesn’t have compassion for immigrants, she says. Particularly when it comes to the risks and dangers women face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe says her military career ended after a brutal sexual assault. When she hears migrant women’s stories and the way sexual assault is often seen as the “price to pay” for making the trek to the U.S., it reminds her of what she endured. “It disgusts me,” she says. “It pains me and my spirit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, she would like to see border security and deportations combined with immigration reform that allows for orderly migration. “If we really want people in our country, we need to build workforce housing, change our visa program, reimagine the way that we handle immigration. All these jobs we say Americans don’t want, we need to put together a plan to get labor here in a way that doesn’t get them assaulted, robbed and killed on the way here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-9-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe visits the southern US border in Jacumba Valley on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Monroe speaks to migrants in Jacumba Valley, after they crossed into the US on Dec. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we talk, we see a family walking by the border wall. They’re the first migrants I’ve seen out here in three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They look terrified to see us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe gives them water. Two of the girls, ages 4 and 11, start sobbing. Their puffy winter jackets are covered in desert dust. Their father, Ronald, hugs them and cries. “It’s over,” he whispers in their ear. “We’re no longer running away. Nothing can happen to us now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family is from Venezuela. They’ve been on the move for a month. They say it felt too scary to wait in Mexico hoping to get an official appointment for entry into the U.S., so they hired a coyote. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s not only Washington, D.C., where “efficiency” has become the buzzword du jour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California facing an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/california-budget-deficit-legislative-analyst/\">uncertain fiscal future\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom made his own pitch for a leaner state government last week as he previewed his annual budget proposal. Touting billions of dollars in savings from eliminating empty positions and scaling back spending on everything from travel to printing, the Democratic governor compared his efforts to the Department of Government Efficiency, the incoming Trump administration’s push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html\">slash costs across the federal government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all taxpayers. We all want to make sure our money is being well invested, not wasted. We want more efficiency,” Newsom told reporters during a stop at the Stanislaus State campus in Turlock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our D.O.G.E. is spelled O.D.I.” he said, referring to the Office of Data and Innovation he created in 2019 to improve public services through technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. The California Volunteers office has quintupled in size under Newsom to manage his new initiatives to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/us/california-service-corps.html\">engage young people in community service\u003c/a> and climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/gavin-newsom-2025-california-budget/\">latest budget plan unveiled last week\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed creating two new state agencies, to oversee housing and homelessness programs and consumer protection programs. Additional details are not yet available, though state officials said these would largely be a reorganization of departments that already exist.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021637,news_12018471,news_12020389,news_12021308\"]It’s difficult to get a comprehensive picture of how Newsom’s priorities have enlarged state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His Finance Department was unable to answer questions about whether several of his biggest and most expensive initiatives added new positions to the state payroll, including CalAIM, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/california-medi-cal-reform/\">first-of-its-kind overhaul\u003c/a> of medical care for low-income patients; Homekey, which funds the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/11/newsom-pandemic-beat-homelessness/\">conversion of hotels and motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>; the trash pickup program Clean California; and CARE Court, a system to push people with mental illness \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/08/care-court-california-start/\">off the streets and into treatment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in the workforce is also driven by laws predating Newsom, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">gas tax hike\u003c/a> that has funded thousands of new jobs to repair California’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, the governor has shrunk some parts of the state government, such as by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/01/california-prison-cost-per-inmate/\">closing several prisons\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the overall trend is up. There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, commissioned the California Performance Review to overhaul state bureaucracy. The 2,500-page report \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-04-me-cpr4-story.html\">recommended more than 1,000 steps\u003c/a> to shrink the state government and save billions of dollars annually, including consolidating departments and agencies, eliminating 118 boards and commissions, and cutting 12,000 jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Kozberg, a veteran of a similar “reinventing government” effort under another previous Republican governor, Pete Wilson, co-chaired the California Performance Review. She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. It takes knowledge of government,” she said. “You could do it and you should do it, but it’s going to take a lot of tenacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown did push through a \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/03/30/news17476/index.html\">reorganization and consolidation plan\u003c/a> to “make government more efficient,” aided by a political environment in which an economic recession and steep budget deficits were the prevailing concern. It included eliminating 20 departments, offices and boards, merging the state’s personnel agencies and slashing funding for employee travel and cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler, who served under Brown before working for Newsom, said some of what California governors have done in the name of efficiency is to demonstrate their values to the public — and some of it is just for show. But it’s difficult to eliminate more than a minor part of state government, she said, because the vast majority of money in the budget pays for services, which are much harder to take away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Government is not the bastion of efficiency. It’s just not what the incentives are,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler expressed trepidation about Newsom’s latest approach, demanding an across-the-board 7.95% spending cut for every agency and department. Though it’s easier and appears value neutral, she said, that’s not the effect that it ultimately has on Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a real evaluation of whether this is making government better,” Bosler said. “I worry about all the things that are not going to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept isn’t entirely unfamiliar for Newsom, who has been interested in reinventing government since he served in San Francisco City Hall — and even once \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-feb-08-la-ca-jc-gavin-newsom-20130210-story.html\">wrote a book about it\u003c/a>. But his approach as governor has been nearly antithetical to D.O.G.E., which under the leadership of entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aims to trim trillions of dollars of what they consider waste from the federal budget by cutting programs and dismantling entire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in his six years in the governor’s office, Newsom has steadily guided California’s government to expand its mission and scope: launching flashy initiatives, creating new departments and offering more services to more people, even during periods of deficit. The number of employees per capita — a measurement of the size of state government compared to the population it serves — has reached its highest level in more than five decades of \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">tracking by the state Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under Gavin Newsom, California’s government has grown larger than ever\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MuhV9\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MuhV9/12/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"649\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Newsom’s own office has more than doubled in size. At the end of 2024, the governor’s office employed 381 people, including an expanded unit dedicated to “land use and climate innovation,” according to payroll data provided by the State Controller’s Office, compared to 150 at the end of 2018, before Newsom was sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s another reflection of how Newsom’s governing philosophy contrasts sharply with President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, who treat government as a burden and an obstacle to their ideological goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom believes there are a lot more societal problems that government should be in the middle of,” Keely Bosler, who served as finance director during his first term, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marybel Batjer, who was Newsom’s first government operations secretary and launched the Office of Data and Innovation, said he has expanded state government not because he is an “old dog Democrat who thinks government is good,” but because he wants to help people. She said D.O.G.E. should aim to make government more effective, rather than simply cutting it back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You won’t save money that way. You will have more people who are homeless. You will have more people who are sicker. You will have more pandemics,” Batjer said. “Elon Musk doesn’t know shit from Shinola about how government works. He’s a little piggy that’s been at the trough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet embracing government efficiency, at least rhetorically, could be a boon to Newsom, who has sought ways to moderate his image after a tough November election for Democrats in which the party lost ground with working-class voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever eager to be on the vanguard of the Democratic Party, especially as he reportedly mulls a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/11/gavin-newsom-trump-president/\">future campaign for president\u003c/a>, Newsom has embarked on a tour to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/newsom-california-counties-trump.html\">promote jobs and economic development\u003c/a> in communities that voted for Trump. His budget preview last week in Turlock was the latest stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the governor tries to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/trump-los-angeles-fire-aid-newsom/\">navigate a fraught relationship with Trump\u003c/a> going forward, expressing interest in the president’s ideas could also be a way to build a bridge to the federal government, which controls many of the resources that California needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Language is diplomacy,” said Elizabeth Ashford, a communications strategist who has worked for both Democratic and Republican governors in California. “It would be malpractice if there’s no dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s early tenure as governor coincided with surging tax revenues and then federal aid from the COVID pandemic, which ballooned the state budget by tens of billions of dollars and underwrote an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Total budget expenditures are nearly \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">$100 billion more this fiscal year (PDF)\u003c/a> than before Newsom took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that money has gone to one-time projects or to extending existing services, whether because of ideology (making undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">eligible for health care\u003c/a> and free transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">available to all children\u003c/a>) or necessity (hiring thousands more state firefighters).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/10/gavin-newsom-profile-california-governor-election/\">known for his “big, hairy audacious goals”\u003c/a> and love of making history, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article239461768.html\">consistently added programs and positions\u003c/a> with entirely new objectives for state government, swelling its ranks as he transformed its role in Californians’ lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where California government has grown or contracted\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nagAY\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nagAY/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"670\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impulse was visible on Newsom’s very first day in January 2019\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>when shortly after being sworn in, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/first-acts-as-governor/\">established the position of California surgeon general\u003c/a> to address the root causes of health conditions, alongside an executive order that would allow the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2019/01/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">more broadly negotiate with pharmaceutical companies\u003c/a> to lower the costs of prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first budget a few months later, Newsom created his 50-person Office of Data and Innovation (then known as the Office of Digital Innovation) and spun off a Department of Youth and Community Restoration to focus on supporting young people in the corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New government infrastructure has followed regularly in the years since. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>A 106-person Wildfire Safety Division in the California Public Utilities Commission, which grew into the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety at the California Natural Resources Agency, with nearly twice as many funded positions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Department of Finance Protection and Innovation, a reboot of a business oversight department, with dozens of new employees in divisions to combat consumer financial abuse and study emergency financial services technologies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A 13-person office of equity and a 14-person disaster cost tracking unit within the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, with more than two dozen staff to manage community engagement and public awareness campaigns.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>California’s first chief equity officer, tasked with developing a statewide equity and inclusion framework.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additional expansions represent major pieces of Newsom’s platform, including his recent battle against the oil industry. In 2023, he strong-armed the Legislature to create the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight within the California Energy Commission, a watchdog to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/03/california-gas-prices-newsom-oil/\">investigate alleged price gouging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not followed through on his campaign promise to set up a single-payer system in California, the governor in 2022 did launch the Office of Health Care Affordability, a regulator that aims to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/04/health-care-costs-rule/\">slow the rising cost of care\u003c/a>. 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There are 436,435 government positions in the state budget that Newsom just proposed, including at the public university systems, \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/BS_SCH6.pdf\">according to the Finance Department (PDF)\u003c/a>, or about 11.1 state employees per 1,000 Californians. That number has increased from 9.5 before Newsom took office — and is a record high going back to at least 1970, when the Finance Department’s tracking begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office did not respond to a question about how efficiency fits into Newsom’s governing philosophy. But a spokesperson provided a list of initiatives from the Office of Data and Innovation “that are building efficiencies across state departments,” including new tools to forecast community water systems at risk of running dry, evaluate housing projects for streamlined approval, and enhance public participation in the permitting process for toxic substance storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Suzette Valladares, a Lancaster Republican, told CalMatters that it was “laughable” for Newsom to claim California has been a leader in government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think that he thinks we’re doing good,” she said. “From my perspective, instead of taking shots at the D.O.G.E., he should be taking notes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">underfunded high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and homelessness services as bloated spending by Newsom. Republicans have been highly critical that California’s homeless population \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/pit-count-analysis-2024/\">continues to increase\u003c/a>, despite the governor dedicating tens of billions of dollars in additional money to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been at the helm of this mess, yet he has the audacity to mock the federal government’s efforts to cut waste,” Valladares said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the trajectory appears to be shifting course. With growing budget deficits projected in the coming years, Newsom has been forced to tighten California’s belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration has identified about 6,500 vacant positions that it plans to eliminate and imposed a nearly 8% cut to state operations, which it projects will collectively save almost $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have an imperative and that is to meet you where you want us to be,” Newsom said at his budget preview event in Turlock. “That’s leaner, just like you have been in your household. Just like I’ve been in mine. We all have to be more efficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not the first California governor to take this stance — and those previous experiences suggest how difficult it could be to go further, if Newsom wants to. His office did not respond to a question about whether the governor is planning further cuts to the size of state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, then-Gov. 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She told CalMatters that, based on feedback to the report, she suggested focusing their work on just 11 main initiatives, but the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to “go big and bold.” Instead, up against tremendous resistance from Democrats to such sweeping changes, Schwarzenegger \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/schwarzenegger-promise-to-blow-up-boxes-fizzled/\">dropped his plan\u003c/a> and moved onto other priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s the trouble you run into: How do you implement? Every program has a constituent,” Kozberg said. “It takes a coalition of the enthusiastic. Because nobody really wants to give up their authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kozberg said that, to succeed, you need not just a leader who is devoted to achieving more efficiency, but also champions inside of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t sexy. It takes knowledge of government,” she said. “You could do it and you should do it, but it’s going to take a lot of tenacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years later, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown did push through a \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/03/30/news17476/index.html\">reorganization and consolidation plan\u003c/a> to “make government more efficient,” aided by a political environment in which an economic recession and steep budget deficits were the prevailing concern. It included eliminating 20 departments, offices and boards, merging the state’s personnel agencies and slashing funding for employee travel and cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bosler, who served under Brown before working for Newsom, said some of what California governors have done in the name of efficiency is to demonstrate their values to the public — and some of it is just for show. 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She said she supports some of his recent proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVpQYU5lM8\">rename\u003c/a> the Gulf of Mexico and to acquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/president-elect-trump-on-greenland-and-panama-canal/5148065\">Greenland\u003c/a> — in what the president-elect has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251168/trump-greenland\">described\u003c/a> as “economic security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Trump is an out-of-the-box thinker and extremely wise. So why do I want to go watch a man like that be installed as our next president? It’s just staggering,” Gentry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Burns, the chair of the Contra Costa Republican Party, also plans to be at Trump’s inauguration. 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This is the inauguration of the ‘We Fight Back’ movements,” said organizer Luna Osleger-Montañez during a news conference Wednesday at San Francisco City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other organizers stressed that Sunday’s action marks the beginning of a long fight to resist various facets of Trump’s platform, like his promises of mass deportations and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/trump-on-lgbtq-rights\">removal of federal anti-discrimination policies aimed primarily at the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s a widespread feeling of the need to make sure some of the rhetoric of the campaign does not become a reality for our people,” said Natalie Hrizi, a representative of the teacher’s union for the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_TrumpProtestPresser_GC-15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathalie Hrizi, vice president of substitutes for United Educators of SF and public teacher, poses for a photo outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those promises of mass deportations have spurred fear for some in the Bay Area’s immigrant community, but organizers of Sunday’s march said they felt buoyed by the diversity and scale of the organizations that have pledged to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The biggest feeling I’m going to have on Sunday is pride and optimism,” said Sanika Mahajan, the director of Community Engagement and Organizing at the nonprofit Mission Action. “ As much as they want us to have fear, as much as they want us to feel confused or siloed, we know that we have to be united in order to fight back, and so I’m excited to see that on Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President Harris sat at her ceremonial desk Thursday afternoon for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-grounds/the-vice-presidents-residence-office/#:~:text=This%20desk%20is%20part%20of,Coolidge%2C%20Hoover%2C%20and%20Eisenhower.\">tradition that started back in the 1940s\u003c/a> — signing the top drawer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her final public event before her political opponent’s inauguration on January 20, Harris pulled out a Sharpie and became the first woman to sign the desk, capping off a historic four years as she broke barriers as the first woman elected to the vice presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aides and former staffers who have worked with her through the years cheered. Harris thanked them for their work, and told them that she’s not done yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that everyone here has so much to be proud of, and our work is not done,” Harris said. “And as you all know me — because we have spent long hours, long days and months and years together — it is not my nature to go quietly into the night, so don’t worry about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signatures of former US Vice Presidents including US Vice President Kamala Harris are seen on the drawer of the desk during a signing ceremony in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office at the White House on Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Harris is going back to California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ term isn’t ending the way she had hoped. Had she won the election in November, Harris would be packing up to move into the West Wing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead, she’s spent the last few weeks packing up and attending to constitutional duties in Washington, like certifying the election on January 6. She announced the tally of Electoral College votes, formally cemented her loss to Donald Trump to cheers from Republicans in Congress, and ensured a peaceful transfer of power — something Trump himself tried to subvert four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe very strongly that America’s democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it … otherwise it is very fragile and it will not be willing to withstand moments of crisis. And today, America’s democracy stood,” she said after certifying the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-46-1536x1030.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Harris certifies the Electoral College vote as Speaker Mike Johnson applauds during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2025, ratifying the 2024 presidential election. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time Inauguration Day arrives, boxes of materials from her four years in office will head to the National Archives — and the vice president herself will move to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her home was evacuated last week as a precaution amid the wildfires. Harris is moving to a different location in the city where she’ll remain as she figures out her next steps. Her husband, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/nx-s1-5010765/doug-emhoff-democratic-national-convention\">second gentleman Doug Emhoff\u003c/a>, will return to work at a still-to-be-announced law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This VP expert sees 3 options for Harris\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris is leaving office in a fairly unique position. Her national profile was boosted over the course of her short presidential run last year. She has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/politics/cnn-poll-biden-presidency/index.html\">higher approval rating now\u003c/a> than when she launched her campaign, though it is lower than when she first came into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Goldstein, a law professor at St. Louis University and an expert on the modern vice presidency, said Harris is well-positioned to run for office again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s had experiences as vice president and as a presidential candidate that no Democratic figure under the age of 75 or so has had,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said Harris likely has three options: run for governor of California in 2026, run for president in 2028, or take what he referred to as “Door Number Three:” something else that doesn’t involve running for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-47-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Harris speaks to her staff, former aides and friends before signing the drawer of her desk in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office at the White House on Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>She plans to stay in the public eye\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two Harris aides who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity to protect private conversations say she hasn’t made any decisions on her options — one source said there hasn’t been a full-on discussion yet. A second source said they feel running for governor would be “too low” — a step down for Harris after serving as vice president.[aside postID=news_12019149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167179772_qed-1020x680.jpg']But Harris does intend to stay in the public eye, whether that’s in the form of speeches or social media, a third source says. And she’s keeping a small group of advisers with her as she decides how to weigh in over the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the sources close to Harris said she will likely have to make a decision by this summer if she does want to run for office again, to begin the work of fundraising and campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she leaves office on Monday, it will be the first time in more than 20 years that Harris has not been working as a public servant, which will be a big adjustment for her, those who know Harris say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Calif., went to work for Harris back in her first elected position as District Attorney of San Francisco. Now, Simon is a new member of Congress representing Oakland, where her old boss grew up — and she says Harris is nowhere close to retiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m excited for what she’s going to do,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way — I’m going to repeat it time and time again — that I think she’s done. Has she told me what she’s going to do? No. But I know this woman, and I know she’s just beginning, really,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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