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But most included instruction about the presidential election in their courses, according to responses to an EdSource survey of California history and social science teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their responses underscore that most teachers understood the potential pitfalls of teaching politics in polarized times, compounded by a contagion of misinformation on social media. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\">(Go here to read the questionnaire.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids are turned off about government and politics. We in the classroom are giving them a sense of access and empowerment,” said Rachel Reinhard, who teaches 12th grade U.S. History and Government at Oakland High School. “We’re showing that elections are ways that individuals can exert power on the system and make sense of an incredibly fast-paced and changing world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some teachers have struggled to explain how Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric, threats of retribution, and vows to expel undocumented immigrants have added anxiety to an unprecedentedly tense and divisive election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dilemma for any responsible teacher right now is to explain the stakes while being nonpartisan,” said Mike Fishback, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at Almaden Country Day School, a private school in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ccss.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Council for the Social Studies\u003c/a> agreed to send EdSource’s survey to its 2,000-member email list, which includes more than 500 active members, most of them teachers. Of those, 64 teachers — about 1 in 8 member teachers — returned the survey by the Oct. 16 deadline. 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He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. [aside postID=\"mindshift_63681,news_11967044\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. 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The nomination of Harris, the hometown candidate and a younger woman of color, however, at least sparked interest, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-block_3a9750b17c8b42182e2da4169cf80342\" class=\"block-going-deeper alignfull\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\u003ch2>More findings in the EdSource questionnaire\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The teachers were from all regions of the state, with 27% from Southern California, 17% from the Central Valley and Central Coast and 17% from the San Francisco Bay Areas, 14% from the Sacramento area, 10% from Northern California, 9% from the San Diego area and 3% from the Inland Empire of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Of the teachers who said they aren’t teaching about the presidential election, only three – two who teach in a largely Democratic district and one from a largely Republican district – said it was their school’s and/or district’s policy not to discuss the subject. Another teacher is discussing the election but not the candidates.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offered multiple choices to explain their reasons for not teaching the election to their students, the majority said there is too much other course material to get through, especially AP courses in U.S. History and Economics and one semester in Government. However, one-third of the 24 respondents to this question said they were concerned about complaints from parents, and five teachers said they had reservations that students would discuss the election respectfully. Five teachers said they were unsure how to address the subject.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers were evenly split on how much time to spend on the election, with 39% of 49 respondents spending more than one week on it and 39% spending between two days and a week. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the months preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively. But most included instruction about the presidential election in their courses, according to responses to an EdSource survey of California history and social science teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their responses underscore that most teachers understood the potential pitfalls of teaching politics in polarized times, compounded by a contagion of misinformation on social media. \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/EdSource-Election-Survey-October-2024.pdf\">(Go here to read the questionnaire.)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of kids are turned off about government and politics. We in the classroom are giving them a sense of access and empowerment,” said Rachel Reinhard, who teaches 12th grade U.S. History and Government at Oakland High School. “We’re showing that elections are ways that individuals can exert power on the system and make sense of an incredibly fast-paced and changing world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet some teachers have struggled to explain how Republican Donald Trump’s rhetoric, threats of retribution, and vows to expel undocumented immigrants have added anxiety to an unprecedentedly tense and divisive election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dilemma for any responsible teacher right now is to explain the stakes while being nonpartisan,” said Mike Fishback, who teaches seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at Almaden Country Day School, a private school in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.ccss.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Council for the Social Studies\u003c/a> agreed to send EdSource’s survey to its 2,000-member email list, which includes more than 500 active members, most of them teachers. Of those, 64 teachers — about 1 in 8 member teachers — returned the survey by the Oct. 16 deadline. EdSource did not require teachers to submit their names or their schools, although 16 teachers did identify themselves, and many said they were willing to be contacted for an EdSource article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the top-line results of the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>More than three-quarters of teachers who answered the survey said they are teaching about the election and the presidential campaign, and most of those who aren’t said it was their choice, not a district mandate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, 37% said no, 29% said yes, and 34% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked if they planned to discuss potential election interference, 39% said no, 23% said yes, and 38% said maybe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Asked to express their level of concern about student incivility in dealing with the election, 44% said they were slightly or not at all concerned; 23% said they were somewhat concerned; and 15% said they were moderately, very or greatly concerned. An additional 19% said they were neutral on the issue.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/5pDLx/1/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/2bhJN/2/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Inoculating for incivility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Creating a classroom culture of respect is critical to promoting openness and avoiding disrespect amid disagreements, Barrett Vitol, a U.S. History and Government teacher at Aptos High in Pajaro Valley Unified, told EdSource. He characterized the district as politically and economically diverse with “extreme wealth and hard poverty,” where some students in farmworker families “are genuinely worried” about the outcome of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we come together in August, we spend a lot of time helping to build community,” said Vitol, who said he shares with students his own experience as a volunteer for the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign for then Vice President Al Gore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to role model someone who will be politically active without disrespecting other people,” he said, adding that he also relies on humor to defuse tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Kelly, a U.S. History and Government teacher at the 500-student Minarets High and Charter High School in Chawanakee Unified, also set class norms early in the year, with a “social compact that holds the students accountable to being respectful to each other,” he said. The rural school district abuts Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce Aster, who teaches U.S. Government at Carlsbad High School, said that his goal “is to teach civil discourse from day one.” He tells his students, ‘If you demonize your opponent, you will not get their ears.’ That’s a big theme in all my classes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the teachers cited guides and resources they drew on to promote civil dialogue, bridge differences of opinion and lay out frameworks for discussions. Popular sources include\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://braverangels.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Braver Angels\u003c/a>, a volunteer-led national nonprofit, and Boston-based \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves\u003c/a>, which offers lessons, explainers and activities on teaching the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sources of misinformation have proliferated on the internet, so have tools to expose them. Teachers pointed to sites like\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://adfontesmedia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> adfontesmedia.com\u003c/a>,\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.allsides.com/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AllSides.com\u003c/a> and\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mediafactcheck.com\u003c/a> that analyze news sources’ reliability and point to alternative sources with different political perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard refers to encouraging students to seek trustworthy and accurate news sources as building a “muscle memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping they would create a habit to counter what they are seeing on social media,” said Reinhard, who is in her second year teaching high school in Oakland after serving as director of the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project; it supports K-12 teachers in planning for history instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing glasses and a navy blue shirt leans over teenage girls looking at a book.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-800x488.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1020x622.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1536x937.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-2048x1249.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Oakland-High-School-scaled-1-1920x1171.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland High teacher Rachel Reinhard interacts with students during a U.S. Government class last week. \u003ccite>(Andrew Reed / EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Clark Yamamoto, who chairs the history department at Western High in the Anaheim Union High School District, said students found the revelations of bias in their favorite sites enlightening. “They realized, ‘I don’t know as much as I thought I did,’” she said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help students clarify their own political views, several teachers had students take the\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-JG5BhBZEiwAt7JR67sJVk_oKJyHx_hO26tGTmCNHjZ8DRY8J9FYXI4rbMIif8adXmTVzxoCJNgQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pew Media Typology Quiz\u003c/a>, whose questions reveal whether students have conservative or liberal philosophies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Classroom priorities and strategies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The EdSource questionnaire asked teachers to describe the focus of their instruction and their plans for covering the election. The consensus was that a teacher should give students the tools to make informed choices about candidates and ballot issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Yates, a teacher at Stellar Charter School in Redding, wrote, “I will teach my students how to investigate each candidate. I want them to look past the rumors and prejudice to see who will really help our country thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly wrote, “We focus on helping the students make sense of the offices, candidates and propositions by understanding which issues matter to them the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we focus on students informing themselves and using their own ideology to decide what is best,” said Jon Resendez, a U.S. Government and Economics teacher at Portola High in Irvine Unified. He has found that students, unlike some of their parents, are open when forming their political beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s normal for teenagers to be more flexible than adults in their perspective as they learn more,” he said. “They adjust their voting behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Little outside criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a third of teachers responded to the question about whether they had experienced any criticism from teaching about the presidential election. The majority — 16 of 23 — said they had not, but five reported being criticized by parents, three by students and two by administrators or other colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight teachers EdSource spoke with said they were unconcerned about parental pressure or criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No parents are reaching out to express concern,” said Resendez. “Parents assume we will tackle issues head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, uses his students’ work to inform parents about the elections. His students created election guides that they shared at the school’s back-to-school showcase in late October. It included separate objective profiles of Democrat Kamala Harris and Trump, drafted by students chosen because they didn’t support the candidates, Kelly said, along with summaries of local candidates and statewide ballot propositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At his back-to-school night, Fishback, of the Almaden County Day School in San Jose, encourages parents of his middle school students to discuss election issues and candidates with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that he tells them, “’I need you. If you have not passed along your political values, now is the time to do it. I want them to come to class knowing what families believe and why. My job is to help the students encounter and engage with different perspectives on a variety of contentious issues.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the teachers taught and how\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The survey asked teachers to check off a list of topics for presenting the presidential election and to add to it. Of 48 teachers who responded to the question, 37 said they reviewed candidates’ positions on key issues and 35 discussed the Electoral College; 28 asked students to explain issues that are important to them and 23 included fact-checking candidates’ claims and statements. Fifteen said they discussed claims that there would be widespread voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One teacher included discussing gerrymandering, and another said classes would focus on differences among political parties but not the candidates themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers reported that they approached the topics with different strategies. Some had students participate in the traditional statewide mock election organized by the California Secretary of State or held their own elections. Some teachers held candidates’ debates, while others intentionally did not, focusing instead on objective analyses of candidates’ positions and the accuracy of media coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not interested in debates,” said Reinhard of Oakland High. “Debates often create false parity. I’m not interested in having students try to win a debate around some information I find problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamoto asks her students in Anaheim to pick five issues they care about and investigate the positions of the parties and the candidates’ websites to determine which party more closely aligns with their views. Inflation, health care and reproductive rights were among the issues. They did the same process with the 10 state initiatives on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett organized a model Congress for his students at Aptos High. Students wrote their own bills and had to persuade committee chairs and each legislative house to pass them. “Extreme” bills on immigration didn’t make the cut; those that did pass include creating affordable health care, limiting homework, requiring those over 70 to take an extra diving test, taxing billionaires, and granting immigrants who pay taxes for five years a path to citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students become deeply invested in their bills, but usually they can control themselves, Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aster, of Carlsbad, and Kelly, of Chawanakee Unified, continued what they have done for years: bringing in outside speakers to represent parties and candidates for a debate run by students. “We seek regular folks, not politicians,” said Aster. “It’s always civil, and students see that you can be gracious while speaking strongly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several teachers said they didn’t avoid controversy, including looking at the rhetoric of the campaign: Trump’s racist language and post-election authoritarian threats and Democrats’ calling him a “fascist” and a “clown.” But students looked at the furor through an analytical lens to keep discussions “from going off the rails,” said Fishback. He asked his students, How would you characterize Trump, and what has been the impact of his language on the campaign?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most teachers emphasized they kept their own presidential preferences to themselves. “I work hard to be objective; I want it to be a mystery as to my views, though I don’t want them to think I don’t care,” said Aster. Kelly said he would tell students after the election whom he voted for if they asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As much I like to lean into politics, the line I don’t cross is siding with one candidate over another,” said Fishback.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Seeing themselves as voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aster has been teaching high school for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see part of my job is to be a cheerleader for the American system and to have them look forward to participating in it,” Aster said. “I don’t want them to come away thinking the system is rigged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/\">El Tímpano\u003c/a>, a bilingual nonprofit news outlet that amplifies the voices of Latino and Mayan immigrants in Oakland and the wider Bay Area. The original version of the story can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.eltimpano.org/education/after-two-years-of-waiting-noncitizen-parents-still-cant-vote-in-oakland-school-board-elections/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]N[/dropcap]oncitizen parents and guardians with students enrolled in Oakland Unified School District won the right to vote in school board elections two years ago. But they won’t be casting their ballots anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland ballot Measure S, passed in 2022, allows noncitizen parents, including those lacking permanent legal status, green card holders and asylum seekers, to vote in school board elections. But the city has yet to begin creating a process for people to register and cast ballots as noncitizens, El Tímpano found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay has disappointed immigrant parents like Maria Cordova, a 47-year-old immigrant from El Salvador. Her 12-year-old daughter is in fifth grade at Fruitvale Elementary, and she said she was looking forward to voting. “I want to be able to vote because we can decide who can offer better opportunities for the children,” Cordova said. “So that we all, as parents and our children, have the opportunity to have a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of groups that support immigrants and their families in Oakland also \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/councilmembers-vote-to-send-non-citizen-voting-ballot-measure-for-ousd-school-board-elections-to-november-general-election-ballot\">supported\u003c/a> Measure S, including The Unity Council and Homies Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/New-court-order-means-noncitizen-parents-can-vote-17430973.php\">appeals court case\u003c/a> challenging a similar ordinance in San Francisco cleared the way for Measure S to move forward without facing potential legal complications in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Council supported the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/RESO-89281-Non-Citizen-Vote-filed-materials_2022-07-30-033334_eazb.pdf\">resolution\u003c/a> from councilmembers Treva Reid and Dan Kalb to include Measure S on the 2022 general election ballot. The measure allowed the city to amend the Oakland city charter and permit undocumented residents who are the parents, legal guardians or legally recognized caregivers of a child residing in Oakland to vote in elections for Oakland Unified School District. Most Oaklanders — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_S,_Noncitizen_Residents_Voting_Measure_(November_2022)\">66%\u003c/a> of voters — approved the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=\"2024 California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide,Learn everything you need to cast an informed ballot for the 2024 general election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Voter-Guide-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that parents of school-aged children should be able to decide who runs the [Oakland] school system,” Councilmember Kalb told El Tímpano. “Those parents, whether they’re citizens or not, shouldn’t be a factor [in voting], and so we want that to be a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizens make up 14% of Oakland’s population, and there are more than 13,000 noncitizen parents who send their children to school in Oakland, the resolution noted. Including immigrant parents in conversations about curriculum, staff and language used in class could lead to better academic outcomes for students, it stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kalb, the Oakland city clerk recommended pausing Measure S until after the 2024 election, as they were still managing the complexities of rolling out the youth vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Measure S has no timeline for implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he intends to meet with the city clerk after the November elections to set in motion the process of allowing noncitizen parents to vote. “The hope is that the council will pass an ordinance sometime in the next few months or next six months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city clerk referred El Tímpano’s questions about implementing Measure S to an Oakland public information officer, who did not comment on the record for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012234 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Dan Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a new category of voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/immigrants-are-getting-right-vote-cities-across-america-664467\">other cities\u003c/a> have already made noncitizen voting a reality. In 2016, San Francisco voters approved Proposition N, which extended voting rights to noncitizens at the school board level. The law took effect in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members have several key responsibilities that directly affect the district’s quality of education and student experience. They include overseeing the district’s budget, developing and approving policies, negotiating teacher and staff contracts and other key decisions that shape the educational landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who voted in San Francisco’s school board election said the experience motivated them to become more involved with their children’s school, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/23-CAA-ImmigrationVotingReport-F2.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which supported giving noncitizens the right to vote in school board elections. One parent said they were inspired to volunteer and assume leadership positions in school committees and councils after voting for the first time in a school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protecting noncitizen voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Voting rights for noncitizens come as part of a long push-back against anti-immigrant sentiment. Proposition 187, passed in 1993, mobilized immigrant organizations to create and back measures that expanded rights and access to services, said Ron Hayduk, a political science professor at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study “Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California went from being worse on immigrant rights to first on immigrant rights in a lot of ways,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to better protect immigrants can make a difference in how or if they want to participate in local elections. The number of noncitizen voters in San Francisco has fluctuated between small and nearly nonexistent: 59 parents voted in the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/noncitizen-voting-san-francisco-recall-election-rights-jose/11556464/\">2018 election\u003c/a>, but only two noncitizens voted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/why-more-noncitizens-arent-voting-in-sf-school-races/article_be7cd5b4-37d1-11ee-bc57-97bd1533bffd.html\">2019\u003c/a>. The low turnout was attributed mainly to fear, though language barriers and a need for better voter mobilization likely also contributed to the low initial turnout, according to the report from Chinese for Affirmative Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 noncitizen parents voted in a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/16/sf-noncitizen-parents/\">2022 recall election\u003c/a>, but no noncitizen parents voted in 2023 because of a pending court challenge to the law’s constitutionality. Because the law has now been ruled constitutional, noncitizen parents can resume voting, starting with the 2024 school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen voting has become a flashpoint amid unfounded accusations that people lacking permanent legal status have been voting in federal and state elections. Multiple news outlets have noted that former president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has spread \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election-2024-noncitizen-fact-check-trump\">misinformation\u003c/a> about noncitizen voting to set the stage for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-election-results-2024-noncitizens-voting-big-lie-rcna175552\">challenging\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/trump-republicans-non-citizen-voters-myth-stolen-election\">legitimacy\u003c/a> of the presidential election if Trump loses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People lacking permanent legal status may be reluctant to call attention to their status by registering to vote as noncitizens in local elections, Hayduk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some folks have looked into whether or not people’s names could be protected like victims of domestic violence or police officers — they can register to vote, but their names don’t appear on a public voter registration list,” he said. “So, why not for immigrants? But that change needs to happen at the state level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, despite the fear, there are parents who still want to vote in Oakland’s school board elections and are disappointed that they cannot vote in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It frustrates me,” OUSD parent Cordova said. “It feels like we are not taken into account just because we are immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that parents of school-aged children should be able to decide who runs the [Oakland] school system,” Councilmember Kalb told El Tímpano. “Those parents, whether they’re citizens or not, shouldn’t be a factor [in voting], and so we want that to be a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizens make up 14% of Oakland’s population, and there are more than 13,000 noncitizen parents who send their children to school in Oakland, the resolution noted. Including immigrant parents in conversations about curriculum, staff and language used in class could lead to better academic outcomes for students, it stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kalb, the Oakland city clerk recommended pausing Measure S until after the 2024 election, as they were still managing the complexities of rolling out the youth vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, Measure S has no timeline for implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb said he intends to meet with the city clerk after the November elections to set in motion the process of allowing noncitizen parents to vote. “The hope is that the council will pass an ordinance sometime in the next few months or next six months,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s city clerk referred El Tímpano’s questions about implementing Measure S to an Oakland public information officer, who did not comment on the record for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012234\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12012234 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/10.28.2024_MeasureS-03-scaled-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Councilmember Dan Kalb attributed the delay in implementing Measure S to another measure passed in 2020, Measure QQ, allowing 16 and 17-year-old students in Oakland Unified School District to vote in school board elections. That process has now been created, and 16 and 17-year-old students can vote in the upcoming elections for the first time. \u003ccite>(Hiram Alejandro Durán for El Tímpano/CatchLight Local/Report for America corps member)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a new category of voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/immigrants-are-getting-right-vote-cities-across-america-664467\">other cities\u003c/a> have already made noncitizen voting a reality. In 2016, San Francisco voters approved Proposition N, which extended voting rights to noncitizens at the school board level. The law took effect in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members have several key responsibilities that directly affect the district’s quality of education and student experience. They include overseeing the district’s budget, developing and approving policies, negotiating teacher and staff contracts and other key decisions that shape the educational landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who voted in San Francisco’s school board election said the experience motivated them to become more involved with their children’s school, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://caasf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/23-CAA-ImmigrationVotingReport-F2.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Chinese for Affirmative Action, which supported giving noncitizens the right to vote in school board elections. One parent said they were inspired to volunteer and assume leadership positions in school committees and councils after voting for the first time in a school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Protecting noncitizen voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Voting rights for noncitizens come as part of a long push-back against anti-immigrant sentiment. Proposition 187, passed in 1993, mobilized immigrant organizations to create and back measures that expanded rights and access to services, said Ron Hayduk, a political science professor at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study “Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California went from being worse on immigrant rights to first on immigrant rights in a lot of ways,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to better protect immigrants can make a difference in how or if they want to participate in local elections. The number of noncitizen voters in San Francisco has fluctuated between small and nearly nonexistent: 59 parents voted in the \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/noncitizen-voting-san-francisco-recall-election-rights-jose/11556464/\">2018 election\u003c/a>, but only two noncitizens voted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/why-more-noncitizens-arent-voting-in-sf-school-races/article_be7cd5b4-37d1-11ee-bc57-97bd1533bffd.html\">2019\u003c/a>. The low turnout was attributed mainly to fear, though language barriers and a need for better voter mobilization likely also contributed to the low initial turnout, according to the report from Chinese for Affirmative Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 noncitizen parents voted in a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/16/sf-noncitizen-parents/\">2022 recall election\u003c/a>, but no noncitizen parents voted in 2023 because of a pending court challenge to the law’s constitutionality. Because the law has now been ruled constitutional, noncitizen parents can resume voting, starting with the 2024 school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen voting has become a flashpoint amid unfounded accusations that people lacking permanent legal status have been voting in federal and state elections. Multiple news outlets have noted that former president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has spread \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election-2024-noncitizen-fact-check-trump\">misinformation\u003c/a> about noncitizen voting to set the stage for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-election-results-2024-noncitizens-voting-big-lie-rcna175552\">challenging\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/trump-republicans-non-citizen-voters-myth-stolen-election\">legitimacy\u003c/a> of the presidential election if Trump loses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People lacking permanent legal status may be reluctant to call attention to their status by registering to vote as noncitizens in local elections, Hayduk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some folks have looked into whether or not people’s names could be protected like victims of domestic violence or police officers — they can register to vote, but their names don’t appear on a public voter registration list,” he said. “So, why not for immigrants? 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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday, as the workers of the Shasta County Registrar of Voters office busily sifted through the ballots that have already been cast, they had company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of nine people, holding clipboards and taking notes, stood in a hallway peering through wired glass as workers took ballots out of envelopes. Across the hallway another group of observers hovered over computer screens, watching a live video feed of workers in a room verifying signatures. These self-appointed election observers spent their day looking for proof of tomfoolery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman wasn’t satisfied with watching the election administration through the buttressed window. She wanted to be in the room while they sifted through ballots.[aside postID=news_12011743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241004-SHASTACOUNTYELECTIONS-78-BL-KQED.jpg']“It isn’t transparent,” said a woman named Elizabeth who wouldn’t give her last name. “To be transparent we have to be able to hear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, while these observers don’t appear to have unearthed any evidence of fraud, they are having an impact. The assistant clerk put up a rope to stop the observers from following workers into their breakroom to ask questions. They’ve also had to put locks on the offices, after observers tried to open doors and see what was happening inside each office. This comes as election officials across the nation \u003ca href=\"https://fractured.news21.com/america-confronts-voting-intimidation-political-violence-election-2024/\">received death threats\u003c/a> following the 2020 and 2022 elections, fomented by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in Shasta are quitting. Tanner Johnson signed up to be an account clerk because he wanted to help protect democracy. “I felt called to do this job,” he said. But, after a little more than a year in the registrar’s office, he quit on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012300\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Election observers discuss with each other as they watch workers process ballots at the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. Right: Election observers look over signatures at the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters are legally allowed to enter the office and observe the election process. Johnson said a lot of them, however, are on edge and “very angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to catch us in a lie, so they’ll try to trick you into saying something,” he said. “A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten of the registrar’s 21 employees have left, he said. Many of the people who remain are working their first election. “A lot of people have left just because it’s not worth it,” he said. “I make $19.64 an hour. I’m not going to be a martyr for $19.60 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the most high-profile election conspiracies emanate from swing states like Michigan and Georgia, the battle over democracy continues to rage across California. Most California Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/presidential-election-california-republicans-certify/\">won’t commit to certifying the results\u003c/a> of the presidential election. And in Shasta County, the epicenter of the state’s election denial movement since 2020, a fight over what was once a mundane bureaucracy — the registrar of voters office — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/shasta-county-election-administration/\">threatens to tear the community apart\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With tensions mounting, the longtime registrar of voters, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">Cathy Darling Allen, retired early in May\u003c/a> after being diagnosed with heart failure. To replace her, the county Board of Supervisors passed over Darling Allen’s longtime No. 2, Joanna Francescut, and hired a prosecutor with no election administration experience in June, with just months to go before the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">The new registrar, Tom Toller\u003c/a>, impressed Republicans on the board with his stated willingness to stand up to the California Secretary of State’s Office. But just three months into his tenure, one of those supervisors, Patrick Jones, has already turned on him, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.redding.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/24/2024-election-doubts-grab-hold-of-shasta-county-4-years-later/75796476007/\">the Redding Record Searchlight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said at a recent supervisors meeting that he met with Toller to see tests of the voting system, and alleged seeing election law violations and mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toller originally agreed to meet with CalMatters on Tuesday, but when a reporter arrived, he was out sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said Francescut, who stayed on as deputy, handles much of the day-to-day work at the office. “He’s really busy dealing with the political aspect of it,” Johnson said. “People aren’t happy with him. County supervisors show up all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/103024-Shasta-County-Election-Ballots-MG-CM-23-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanner Johnson outside of the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. Johnson recently resigned from his position as an election worker at the office, he says, because of the stress and fear of intimidation from election observers. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Francescut said the staff departures just compound the pressure. “This is a high stress job when things are going well, when things are going smooth, when we have staff trained,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody goes to school and says, ‘Hey, I wanna be an elections official.’ There isn’t official training on that. It’s a lot of on-the-job training, on-the-job experience,” Francescut said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The departures worried Darling Allen. “I’m just very distressed that we have people at this time in the calendar so upset and so concerned about their own safety that they’re going to walk out,” she said. “But it’s not worth anyone’s life. And you know, no election official was hired as a first responder, and they certainly aren’t trained as first responders, nor are they paid as first responders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darling Allen said they had to begin keeping Narcan — a medication that reverses drug overdoses — in the office after other election offices, including Yuba County, received \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2024-news-releases-and-advisories/presumptively-dangerous-substance-found-california-county-elections-office\">mail containing fentanyl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called Shasta a microcosm of what’s happening nationally. “You know, this is happening all over the place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It isn’t transparent,” said a woman named Elizabeth who wouldn’t give her last name. “To be transparent we have to be able to hear them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, while these observers don’t appear to have unearthed any evidence of fraud, they are having an impact. The assistant clerk put up a rope to stop the observers from following workers into their breakroom to ask questions. They’ve also had to put locks on the offices, after observers tried to open doors and see what was happening inside each office. This comes as election officials across the nation \u003ca href=\"https://fractured.news21.com/america-confronts-voting-intimidation-political-violence-election-2024/\">received death threats\u003c/a> following the 2020 and 2022 elections, fomented by former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in Shasta are quitting. Tanner Johnson signed up to be an account clerk because he wanted to help protect democracy. “I felt called to do this job,” he said. But, after a little more than a year in the registrar’s office, he quit on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012300\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Election observers discuss with each other as they watch workers process ballots at the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. Right: Election observers look over signatures at the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters are legally allowed to enter the office and observe the election process. Johnson said a lot of them, however, are on edge and “very angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to catch us in a lie, so they’ll try to trick you into saying something,” he said. “A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten of the registrar’s 21 employees have left, he said. Many of the people who remain are working their first election. “A lot of people have left just because it’s not worth it,” he said. “I make $19.64 an hour. I’m not going to be a martyr for $19.60 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the most high-profile election conspiracies emanate from swing states like Michigan and Georgia, the battle over democracy continues to rage across California. Most California Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/presidential-election-california-republicans-certify/\">won’t commit to certifying the results\u003c/a> of the presidential election. And in Shasta County, the epicenter of the state’s election denial movement since 2020, a fight over what was once a mundane bureaucracy — the registrar of voters office — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/shasta-county-election-administration/\">threatens to tear the community apart\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With tensions mounting, the longtime registrar of voters, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">Cathy Darling Allen, retired early in May\u003c/a> after being diagnosed with heart failure. To replace her, the county Board of Supervisors passed over Darling Allen’s longtime No. 2, Joanna Francescut, and hired a prosecutor with no election administration experience in June, with just months to go before the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 300,000 hens live on Weber Family Farms in Petaluma. Some are certified organic, meaning they eat organic food and roam cage-free through an old, wooden hen house, clucking in the fresh air. The rest are conventional hens and inhabit a dimly lit warehouse where they lay eggs once a day, which ultimately end up in supermarkets around the Bay Area and in southern California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The farm has been in the Weber family for four generations. Mike Weber is the current co-owner, and while his farm is humane-certified — meaning a third-party animal welfare expert has visited and given their stamp of approval — he’s facing closure \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sonoma/measures#measure-j\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">if Sonoma County voters approve Measure J\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is designed to put agricultural interests like ours out of business,” Weber said about the measure, which asks voters to ban certain large farms in the county in this November election.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011472\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011472 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Weber, farmer and co-owner of Weber Family Farms, poses for a photo at the farm in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Measure J borrows the federal definition of a large concentrated animal feeding operation or CAFO. Under the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/cafo_permitmanual_chapter2.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">defines a large CAFO (PDF) \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by the number of animals it has — 700 or more cows, 82,000 or more laying hens, for example. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not based on how well you manage your flocks, how well you take care of your animals and the level of animal welfare you have,” Weber said. “It’s all about a number. And if you exceed that number, you’re punished, and you’re shut down.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/cafos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J have identified 21 large CAFOs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Sonoma County — including Weber’s — that fall under this CAFO definition and would be forced to downsize or shut down altogether if it passes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a pretty drastic measure,” said Silvia Secchi, a professor who studies agriculture at the University of Iowa. “I think it’s really interesting because, finally, there are some stakes attached to this definition that have not been there before.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Secchi, this is the first attempt ever in the U.S. to ban large CAFOs outright. Other states, including North Carolina, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-quality-permitting/animal-feeding-operations/program-summary\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have passed moratoria\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but this is the first time they would be eliminated altogether, and existing ones would have to shut down or be forced to move.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J argue these kinds of large farms are inherently cruel to the animals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mary Bull, a fruit and vegetable farmer in Sebastopol, plans to vote “yes” on J. She said she has seen photos of farms like Weber’s and doesn’t think they should exist in Sonoma County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just too crowded,” she said. “It’s just devastating, horrendous cruelty to the animals.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011471 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers package eggs in cartons at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coalition to End Factory Farming\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a group of animal rights and environmental organizations, put forward the measure. Another big sponsor is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/campaigns/end-factory-farming-in-sonoma-county\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Direct Action Everywhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Berkeley-based animal rights activist group known for its open rescue demonstrations. Last year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/animal-activist-sentenced-in-conspiracy-case-involving-petaluma-poultry-far/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the organization’s cofounder was jailed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for breaking into Petaluma poultry farms — including Weber’s — as part of an animal welfare demonstration. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sonoma,Sonoma County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Sonoma-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the large poultry and dairy farms in Sonoma County are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">certified organic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — which addresses both the manner in which foods are grown and animals are raised.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the environmental concerns, CAFOs \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/resources/cafos-what-we-dont-know-hurting-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are a major source\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of air and water pollution nationally. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/why-measure-j\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supporters of Measure J say\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outlawing them in Sonoma County would benefit local waterways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re one of the most egregious trashers of the planet, and they’ve got to go,” Bull said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, according to the local water quality control board, animal agriculture does not pose an outsized threat to waterways in Sonoma County when compared to other land uses, including commercial vineyards and residential areas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because of “very low herd densities on grazing lands, the predominance of pasture-based, organic dairies (which sharply contrasts with operations located in the Central Valley), and the ongoing implementation of the Regional Water Boards’ regulatory permitting programs for animal-based ag operations,” a spokesperson for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wrote in an email to KQED. “These programs are designed to ensure that such operations do not cause or contribute to water quality impairments, and rates of compliance are relatively high.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No on J’ sign is posted along Stony Point Road in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Measure J’s opponents include the county board of supervisors, various city councils and both the Democratic and Republican parties of Sonoma County. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether it passes or not, Secchi said the measure could still have ripple effects outside of Sonoma County and even outside California. She points to other pieces of legislation that have passed via ballot measure in the state, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/AnimalCare/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">like Proposition 12\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which prohibits producing and selling meat in California from animals that were raised in “extreme confinement.” The measure faced intense backlash from the pork industry and even \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_5if6.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">went before the U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a ban on large CAFOs went into effect across California, it could just displace livestock operations to places like Secchi’s home state of Iowa that have looser regulations for animal welfare, environmental pollution and even child labor laws. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People need to also understand that depending on how you do things in California, you do have these indirect effects out of state and need to be mindful of that,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, she added, it’s important to keep scrutinizing the livestock industry. Most meat eaters in the U.S. don’t think hard enough about where their food comes from, she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I do think that all this attention is a signal that people are thinking about these issues,” Secchi said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/cafos\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J have identified 21 large CAFOs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Sonoma County — including Weber’s — that fall under this CAFO definition and would be forced to downsize or shut down altogether if it passes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a pretty drastic measure,” said Silvia Secchi, a professor who studies agriculture at the University of Iowa. “I think it’s really interesting because, finally, there are some stakes attached to this definition that have not been there before.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Secchi, this is the first attempt ever in the U.S. to ban large CAFOs outright. Other states, including North Carolina, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-quality-permitting/animal-feeding-operations/program-summary\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have passed moratoria\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but this is the first time they would be eliminated altogether, and existing ones would have to shut down or be forced to move.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Measure J argue these kinds of large farms are inherently cruel to the animals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mary Bull, a fruit and vegetable farmer in Sebastopol, plans to vote “yes” on J. She said she has seen photos of farms like Weber’s and doesn’t think they should exist in Sonoma County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just too crowded,” she said. “It’s just devastating, horrendous cruelty to the animals.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011471 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers package eggs in cartons at Weber Family Farms in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coalition to End Factory Farming\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a group of animal rights and environmental organizations, put forward the measure. Another big sponsor is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/campaigns/end-factory-farming-in-sonoma-county\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Direct Action Everywhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Berkeley-based animal rights activist group known for its open rescue demonstrations. Last year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/animal-activist-sentenced-in-conspiracy-case-involving-petaluma-poultry-far/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the organization’s cofounder was jailed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for breaking into Petaluma poultry farms — including Weber’s — as part of an animal welfare demonstration. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the large poultry and dairy farms in Sonoma County are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">certified organic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — which addresses both the manner in which foods are grown and animals are raised.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the environmental concerns, CAFOs \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/resources/cafos-what-we-dont-know-hurting-us\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">are a major source\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of air and water pollution nationally. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.endfactoryfarming.vote/why-measure-j\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supporters of Measure J say\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outlawing them in Sonoma County would benefit local waterways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re one of the most egregious trashers of the planet, and they’ve got to go,” Bull said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, according to the local water quality control board, animal agriculture does not pose an outsized threat to waterways in Sonoma County when compared to other land uses, including commercial vineyards and residential areas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s because of “very low herd densities on grazing lands, the predominance of pasture-based, organic dairies (which sharply contrasts with operations located in the Central Valley), and the ongoing implementation of the Regional Water Boards’ regulatory permitting programs for animal-based ag operations,” a spokesperson for the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wrote in an email to KQED. “These programs are designed to ensure that such operations do not cause or contribute to water quality impairments, and rates of compliance are relatively high.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241028_MEASUREJ_GC-36-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No on J’ sign is posted along Stony Point Road in Petaluma on Oct. 28, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Measure J’s opponents include the county board of supervisors, various city councils and both the Democratic and Republican parties of Sonoma County. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether it passes or not, Secchi said the measure could still have ripple effects outside of Sonoma County and even outside California. She points to other pieces of legislation that have passed via ballot measure in the state, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/AHFSS/AnimalCare/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">like Proposition 12\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which prohibits producing and selling meat in California from animals that were raised in “extreme confinement.” The measure faced intense backlash from the pork industry and even \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_5if6.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">went before the U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a ban on large CAFOs went into effect across California, it could just displace livestock operations to places like Secchi’s home state of Iowa that have looser regulations for animal welfare, environmental pollution and even child labor laws. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People need to also understand that depending on how you do things in California, you do have these indirect effects out of state and need to be mindful of that,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, she added, it’s important to keep scrutinizing the livestock industry. Most meat eaters in the U.S. don’t think hard enough about where their food comes from, she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168404/oregon-washington-arizona-ballots-drop-boxes-fires\">ballot boxes were set on fire\u003c/a> in the Pacific Northwest in recent weeks, raising concerns about voting safety, local elections officials are seeking to reassure voters that they can trust the protections in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, registrars have enhanced security measures to ensure that, even in this tense time, voters and poll workers can participate in a safe and fair election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several officials said they anticipated increased risks ahead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">this election\u003c/a>, which could be the result of the last four years of stoked fears around voting — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">former President Donald Trump\u003c/a> and running mate JD Vance’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, and the 2021 insurrection on the day Congress certified its result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve become increasingly aware of the security risks to the voting process,” said Matt Moreles, Santa Clara County’s acting registrar of voters. “We’ve been taking steps going into this year and into this election to try to strengthen the security so that we can provide all of our voters with a safe and secure election process that’s free from any interference and intimidation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara, that included adding security to high-turnout polling places and increasing collaboration with local law enforcement to develop escalation and incident response plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything happens, we have direct lines out to all of our partners,” he said. “We’ve got plans for how to respond so that we can ensure continuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballot drop boxes are a particular area of concern for voters after the recent fires. On Oct. 8, the first was lit in Vancouver, Washington. On Monday, another fire was set at one of the city’s ballot drop-off locations, as well as at another in Portland, Oregon.[aside postID=news_12011743 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-1244661030-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities believe the incidents are related. The \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/ballot-box-fires-oregon-washington-gaza.html\">New York Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em> has reported that at all three sites, devices placed outside the drop boxes had “Free Gaza” written on them, though investigators are trying to determine whether the suspect was a pro-Palestinian activist or using the phrase to sow division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a September bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security, \u003ca href=\"https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=25255596\">obtained by the watchdog group Property of the People\u003c/a>, plans to destroy ballot drop boxes had been swirling on social media for about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some social media users are discussing and encouraging various methods of sabotaging ballot drop boxes and avoiding detection, likely heightening the potential for targeting of this election infrastructure through the 2024 election cycle,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulletin specifically said that people on forums frequented by “domestic violence extremists” discussed methods to destroy the boxes with petroleum fuel, road flares and fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew going into this election that drop boxes were going to be an area of concern for security,” Moreles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California requires local elections officials to pick up ballots from boxes every other day in the 10 days before the election, but Santa Clara County has increased the frequency of pickups at its 109 drop-off locations to every day, and as Nov. 5 gets closer, Moreles said they will be picking up three to four times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elections workers have been instructed to inspect the boxes on pickup runs to make sure nothing has been tampered with and that all of their seals are in place, and local law enforcement agencies have been asked to increase patrols near the boxes when possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynda Roberts, Marin County’s chief election officer, said that the county is installing fire suppression equipment to its 26 drop box locations. It is also increasing patrols in the areas, and is closing ballot boxes at polling places overnight, though they have traditionally been accessible 24 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 14 drop boxes that are still open at all times are all in the vicinity of government and law enforcement agencies’ buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area counties plan to activate their emergency operation centers to centralize communication with voting locations and law enforcement officials, Roberts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kristin Connelly, Contra Costa County’s registrar of voters, said she couldn’t comment on specifics, she said that the elections office had been in communication with local law enforcement and was doing “everything we can to keep a safe and secure election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many registrars are telling voters to sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/wheres-my-ballot\">ballot tracking\u003c/a> so that they can see when their ballot has been received.[aside postID=news_12011896 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-Recycling-Campaign-Flyers-JCL-02-KQED-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing that voters can do is to sign up for ballot tracks,” Roberts said. “It’s a free ballot tracking service through the Secretary of State that will tell the voter when we’ve received their ballot… Then they can have that assurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in the Bay Area have details about their work to ensure a safe election, along with information on deadlines for mail-in ballots and the link to ballot tracking on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreles said that one of the best ways to ensure your ballot arrives safely is to vote early and track its progress. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/\">upcoming election\u003c/a>, less than a week away, could reshape the U.S. Supreme Court — or not, depending on retirements, deaths, or other unforeseen events. The only certainty is political struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on who wins the presidential election, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> control of the Senate, the current 6–to–3 conservative supermajority could remain the same, be trimmed to 5–to–4, or expand to an even larger and more lopsided conservative majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/president,Learn about the U.S. Presidential Election' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-Presidential-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public, for the most part, understands that if there is a Supreme Court vacancy, the president’s nominee will generally reflect the president’s views. But, there is a genuine possibility that if the Senate is controlled by the opposition party, the open seat will remain unfilled — not for months, but for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, there is also a real possibility that lower court seats will go unfilled, unless there is significant backroom horse-trading. In short, with power split between the White House and the Senate, there could be unprecedented gridlock on judicial nominations that extends all the way up to the Supreme Court and down to the appellate and even district courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Merrick Garland treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Republicans have wielded their power in unprecedented ways to prevent a president’s Supreme Court nominee from being confirmed. When conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly in 2016, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell immediately announced that no Obama nominee would be considered at all prior to the election that was nearly a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624467256/what-happened-with-merrick-garland-in-2016-and-why-it-matters-now\">went ahead anyway\u003c/a>, figuring that old norms would prevail if he nominated a respected and centrist judge, someone acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans. Judge Merrick Garland seemed the best fit, but Garland didn’t even get a hearing, much less a vote. Four years later, after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87\">death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u003c/a>, Senate Republicans put the pedal to the metal just weeks before the election, rapidly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927640619/senate-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court\">pushing through the confirmation of judge, now Justice, Amy Coney Barrett\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, conservatives are just as determined to keep or expand their 6–to–3 Supreme Court majority. So what happens if Kamala Harris is elected president, but the Senate flips to Republican control?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll give you the Merrick Garland treatment,” says conservative scholar Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, Houston. “We’ll have the seat open for three or four years,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Trump win and a Democratic Senate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Would the reverse happen if Trump is elected but the Senate remains in Democratic hands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats like to think of themselves as “more responsible” than Republicans, but the pressures would be enormous to do unto the Republicans what they did to the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans “essentially crossed the Rubicon” in 2016 with the Garland nomination, says Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who has written extensively about the court’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that we’re in a world of … controversial revolutionary decisions, neither party would be likely to give a positive vote to a nominee of the president from the opposite party,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Bob Bauer, who served as White House counsel for two years in the Obama administration, notes that institutional norms aren’t necessarily permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole notion that “a certain process has to be respected, regardless of the potential impact on one party or another,” he says. “It’s not a norm if it doesn’t command general adherence anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what if Trump is elected, and the Senate flips, as expected, to Republican control? The only thing then standing between nominating and confirming a new Trump-appointed justice would be two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. If the Republican margin in the Senate is 52–48, their votes aren’t needed; JD Vance would cast the tie-breaking vote as vice president even if Murkowski and Collins voted against the nominee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what recourse would the Democrats have in a situation like that? How would they fight a Trump nomination? After all, there is no filibuster anymore to block a vote. Democrats abolished the filibuster for lower court nominations in 2011 in response to Republicans routinely blocking judicial nominations. Republicans then abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after Trump was elected and nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat that GOP leader McConnell had held open after Scalia’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are only candid about this when speaking not for attribution. As one put it, “We would largely be left with the politics of personal destruction, investigating every aspect of a nominee’s life to find something that is disqualifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unforeseen circumstances\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of course, right now, there is no vacant seat at the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the deaths of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg prove that nothing is certain, they were far older than any member of the current court. Scalia was just days shy of turning 80 and Ginsburg was 87. In contrast, the oldest members of the current court are also among its most conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas is 76 and Justice Samuel Alito is 74, followed by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, and Chief Justice Roberts, 69.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most politically active conservative thinkers would like to see Thomas and Alito step down for younger conservative judges who could serve for many decades longer and move the conservative needle even further to the right. They see as their “farm team” the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of appeals, populated with former Thomas and Alito clerks whose decisions are often reversed even by the current conservatives on the Supreme Court, including the men they once clerked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those who know Thomas and Alito well are adamant that neither man would leave the court at this point. Several NPR spoke to would only speak candidly on condition of anonymity. “What would he do, go home and fly flags with his wife at the beach?” said one Alito ally, adding that the court is “Alito’s life.” As for Thomas, his friends and former clerks say he would see retirement as “caving into his critics” and being “driven off the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if there are no retirements or unexpected health crises, the court could well remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A period of dysfunction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That leaves the lower courts, which get less attention than the Supreme Court, but decide many more cases. During the last year of the Obama administration, when Republicans controlled the Senate, not one nominee to a regional appeals court was confirmed, though 10 trial court judges, a tiny fraction of vacancies, were. The result was that on the day Trump was sworn in, there were 105 judicial vacancies to fill.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992718,forum_2010101906513,news_12011637\"]Professor Blackman expects that if Harris is elected and Republicans control the Senate, something similar could happen for a full four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may just stop, confirming” any lower court judges, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other conservatives think that is far too dire a prediction. They expect that especially in states where both senators are Democrats, there would be horse-trading and a deal that allocates judicial seats — basically, the Democrats get one, for example, for every two or three GOP nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvard’s Feldman says he sees no light at the end of the tunnel when the parties are split, with a president of one party, and a Senate controlled by the other party. But dysfunction, he thinks could lead to change … eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have what I call the incredible shrinking Supreme Court,” he says, adding that “if we have divided government and we have justices naturally retiring or dying and they don’t get replaced, we could go down to eight, to seven, to six and eventually the public might start to notice and complain about it, and then some sort of compromise formation might be reached.” That said, he acknowledges a process like that could take 15 or 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he’s right, the end of dysfunction is a long way of off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Justice Clarence Thomas, the most senior and seasoned Supreme Court justice, provides a lesson of longevity and power. If he serves another three years, he will break Justice William O. Douglas’ 36-year record for length of service on the court. 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Campaigns and political groups are sending out tons of these mailers, especially in San Francisco, where a contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">mayoral race\u003c/a> has become the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">city’s most expensive in recent history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last two weeks of October alone, Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012016/aaron-peskin-sees-boost-in-final-stretch-for-sf-mayor-can-he-keep-momentum-up\">Aaron Peskin’s mayoral campaign\u003c/a> sent out over 225,000 mailers, according to public filings with the San Francisco Ethics Commission. They cost his campaign roughly $175,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron Peskin gets things done,” reads the mailer, showing the Board of Supervisors president shaking hands and smiling. 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It’s for the betterment of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Drg98q0tI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his family disagrees with his decision —and his mother has stopped speaking to him — because of Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments about immigrants and the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Reyes and other first-time Latino voters from across California are profiled in a video series that accompanies the larger film. VOCES takes an in-depth look at Latino voters around the country to understand what issues will drive their turnout — especially in hotly contested battleground districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cediel shared some of the project’s main takeaways — about the diversity and influence of Latino voters — during an interview with The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts from their conversation. For the full interview on The California Report Magazine, listen to the audio at the top of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fne1p4yRB5U&list=PLzkQfVIJun2LVVPCmLf5uXWSVRf9ryINk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On how Latino voters may shape the election:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrés Cediel\u003c/strong>: Latinos are now the second largest electorate in the country [after white ‘non-Hispanic’ voters] and also have large populations in battleground states. That includes Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, even Georgia. And it’s not just the presidential election. Latinos have the power to flip the balance of power in Congress. In California’s Central Valley, there are predominantly Latino districts that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5159709/the-stakes-for-the-house-are-enormous-as-a-purple-district-in-california-votes\">could flip\u003c/a> because of the Latino vote. This could change the balance of power in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On why the Latino community is not a monolith:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We come in all shades, all races. While the majority of Latinos in California and across the country are of Mexican descent, Latinos on the East Coast predominantly come from Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. This also includes Afro-Latinos — a community, which tends to be more educated than the rest of the Latino population but also suffers from greater poverty levels and receives less coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the Latino evangelical vote:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Latino evangelical Christians are in an interesting position because, in a lot of ways, their political leanings are very similar to white evangelicals, who overwhelmingly are voting for Trump. But the key difference is this issue of immigration. Many Latinos are not comfortable with Trump’s rhetoric and what he’s said about their community, creating a split among Latino evangelical leaders about who they are going to support. At the same time, one of the Latino evangelical Christian leaders that we spoke to was Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, who leads a megachurch in Sacramento. He became friends with Trump and actually gave an invocation at Trump’s inauguration in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Rev. Gabriel Salguero’s church, The Gathering, in Orlando. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bernardo Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On gender divides:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an electorate, Latinos and Latinas tend to be much younger than the rest of the population. And for a lot of young Latina women, reproductive freedom issues are very important. Latinas are also often more educated than their male counterparts and more politically active. We found that issues like abortion and reproductive freedom are top of mind across the board, regardless of where they are in the country or what their religious affiliation is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizer Audrey Peral and son, Francisco, while canvassing in East Las Vegas, Nevada in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto (Bear) Guerra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On first-time Latinx voters in California:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/\">California Local News Fellowship\u003c/a> to work with newsrooms across the state to find those stories that didn’t make it into the larger film. We profile a first-time voter in Oakland who’s a Mam speaker from Guatemala or a young voter in Santa Ana who’s registering his classmates to vote. And it was important for us to include an Afro-Latino voice in this project, so we spoke with Keyanna Ortiz-Cedeño about why she’s planning to vote for Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPnWbdprEAY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Latino voters who want tougher border control:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many second and third-generation Latinos increasingly don’t identify with the immigrant experience. One thing that’s important to note with immigration trends now is we’re seeing many more Venezuelans, Colombians, Haitians, and even Chinese and Russians coming in through the southern border. Folks whose families may have come here a couple of generations ago don’t necessarily identify with these new immigrants, and they don’t have that same feeling of wanting to welcome everybody. And sometimes, they want to shut the border, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On working on a film celebrating agency and political power:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-on-the-night-shift/\">reporting in the Latino community\u003c/a> has been about heartache, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/trafficked-in-america/\">abuse\u003c/a>, suffering. So, it was really gratifying for this project to be able to go out and talk to people about their hopes and dreams, to hear the political agency that they have and what they want us to do with that power. There is a lot of power in the Latino vote, and people can feel it. And they’re starting to wake up to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team members of Make the Road Action Nevada, who work to organize in immigrant communities. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto (Bear) Guerra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cediel shared some of the project’s main takeaways — about the diversity and influence of Latino voters — during an interview with The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below are excerpts from their conversation. For the full interview on The California Report Magazine, listen to the audio at the top of this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Fne1p4yRB5U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Fne1p4yRB5U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>On how Latino voters may shape the election:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrés Cediel\u003c/strong>: Latinos are now the second largest electorate in the country [after white ‘non-Hispanic’ voters] and also have large populations in battleground states. That includes Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, even Georgia. And it’s not just the presidential election. Latinos have the power to flip the balance of power in Congress. In California’s Central Valley, there are predominantly Latino districts that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5159709/the-stakes-for-the-house-are-enormous-as-a-purple-district-in-california-votes\">could flip\u003c/a> because of the Latino vote. This could change the balance of power in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On why the Latino community is not a monolith:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We come in all shades, all races. While the majority of Latinos in California and across the country are of Mexican descent, Latinos on the East Coast predominantly come from Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. This also includes Afro-Latinos — a community, which tends to be more educated than the rest of the Latino population but also suffers from greater poverty levels and receives less coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the Latino evangelical vote:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Latino evangelical Christians are in an interesting position because, in a lot of ways, their political leanings are very similar to white evangelicals, who overwhelmingly are voting for Trump. But the key difference is this issue of immigration. Many Latinos are not comfortable with Trump’s rhetoric and what he’s said about their community, creating a split among Latino evangelical leaders about who they are going to support. At the same time, one of the Latino evangelical Christian leaders that we spoke to was Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, who leads a megachurch in Sacramento. He became friends with Trump and actually gave an invocation at Trump’s inauguration in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED_1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Rev. Gabriel Salguero’s church, The Gathering, in Orlando. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bernardo Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On gender divides:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As an electorate, Latinos and Latinas tend to be much younger than the rest of the population. And for a lot of young Latina women, reproductive freedom issues are very important. Latinas are also often more educated than their male counterparts and more politically active. We found that issues like abortion and reproductive freedom are top of mind across the board, regardless of where they are in the country or what their religious affiliation is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12011565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-LATINO-VOTERS-2-WAY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizer Audrey Peral and son, Francisco, while canvassing in East Las Vegas, Nevada in 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto (Bear) Guerra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On first-time Latinx voters in California:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/\">California Local News Fellowship\u003c/a> to work with newsrooms across the state to find those stories that didn’t make it into the larger film. We profile a first-time voter in Oakland who’s a Mam speaker from Guatemala or a young voter in Santa Ana who’s registering his classmates to vote. And it was important for us to include an Afro-Latino voice in this project, so we spoke with Keyanna Ortiz-Cedeño about why she’s planning to vote for Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dPnWbdprEAY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dPnWbdprEAY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>On Latino voters who want tougher border control:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many second and third-generation Latinos increasingly don’t identify with the immigrant experience. One thing that’s important to note with immigration trends now is we’re seeing many more Venezuelans, Colombians, Haitians, and even Chinese and Russians coming in through the southern border. Folks whose families may have come here a couple of generations ago don’t necessarily identify with these new immigrants, and they don’t have that same feeling of wanting to welcome everybody. And sometimes, they want to shut the border, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On working on a film celebrating agency and political power:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-on-the-night-shift/\">reporting in the Latino community\u003c/a> has been about heartache, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/trafficked-in-america/\">abuse\u003c/a>, suffering. So, it was really gratifying for this project to be able to go out and talk to people about their hopes and dreams, to hear the political agency that they have and what they want us to do with that power. There is a lot of power in the Latino vote, and people can feel it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Moderate candidates in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-mayor-election\">San Francisco’s mayoral race\u003c/a> — and their well-funded backers — are \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/sf-ads-farrell-lurie-trump-catch-19863235.php\">directing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/07/mark-farrell-ranked-choice-london-breed/\">more\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/see-how-they-run-breed-and-farrells-mutual-attacks-overshadow-mayoral-debate/\">attacks\u003c/a> against one another in the final stretch of the race, leading some political analysts to see a pathway to victory for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003700/aaron-peskin-wants-to-lead-san-franciscos-journey-to-recovery\">sole progressive on the ticket\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin has trailed moderate opponents in voter polls for months. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010336/new-polls-san-francisco-mayors-race-peskin-lurie-surging\">recent polling shows an uptick in his support\u003c/a>, prompting his progressive allies across the city to amplify their unified messaging in hopes of reaching undecided and late voters. But Peskin, still an underdog in the race between Democrats, faces a tough fight in the final days ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The narrative seven months ago when this race started was that the moderates were united and the progressives were divided. Well, seven months later, it is absolutely the opposite,” Peskin said at a party on Monday hosted by Small Business Forward, which \u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessforward.org/\">endorsed\u003c/a> him for mayor. “You hear all of this billionaire-on-billionaire violence going on. And meanwhile, we’ve really come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after announcing he would run, Peskin, who campaigns on policies like expanding rent control, became the target of his political rivals, such as the billionaire-backed political organizing group GrowSF’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986162/anybody-could-win-san-francisco-mayoral-race-poll-suggests-with-many-voters-undecided\">“anybody but Peskin”\u003c/a> message. Early polling showed incumbent Mayor London Breed neck-and-neck with former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, who has tacked himself to the right of Breed, while nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie, who has never run for elected office, led with voters’ second-choice picks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, more recent polling shows that early enthusiasm for Farrell has waned while Peskin’s support has steadily increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, it’s a fight to get into the top two, and it’s pretty clear three candidates that could get there are Lurie, Breed and Peskin,” said progressive political consultant Jim Ross. “It feels like Mark Farrell is fading in a lot of the polling we are seeing. Usually, in San Francisco politics, if you slide in the polls in the last two weeks, it’s really hard to regain that momentum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]That shift may be due to older, conservative-leaning voters tending to decide and vote earlier, while younger, more progressive voters often decide later, explained political consultant Eric Jaye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Francisco mayoral campaigns, voters tend to break out into their key allegiances later in the campaign,” said Jaye, who works with a PAC formed by labor unions supporting Peskin. “Peskin’s core constituencies tend to be late-breaking. And Farrell coalesced his base early with the most conservative voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sprawling “Unity Rally” on Saturday, Peskin appeared alongside supporters for supervisor candidates Jackie Fielder, Stephen Torres, incumbents Dean Preston and Connie Chan, and other progressives on the November ballot. The campaigns gathered at a park in the Panhandle, holding signs and tabling for their candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is go time,” said rally attendee Christin Evans, a small business owner and city commissioner who is voting for Peskin and has been door-knocking for Fielder. “It feels exactly like the right time. We have been watching submissions of ballots to the Department of Elections and know people will vote the two weekends leading into the election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has elected Democratic mayors exclusively since 1964, and most in recent years have led moderate administrations. However, in 2019, voters elected a progressive-majority Board of Supervisors, and progressive leaders hope to retain that power in City Hall, even as the county’s official Democratic Party shifted to a moderate majority on its governing board this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re seeing much more participation of some of the wealthiest residents in this city’s politics,” political writer and analyst Steve Phillips said. “And [it] does have the effect of shifting the city’s political balance of power more to the right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the race enters its final phase, moderate candidates are increasingly targeting each other with attack ads on TV, text message blasts and mailers. Farrell, for example, has faced criticism for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Farrell has repeatedly defended his strategy, saying that his legal team approved it. Meanwhile, text message ads from the Yes on D PAC criticized Lurie’s lack of government experience as “dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed, and Aaron Peskin (right) on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phillips said Peskin isn’t the only one benefiting from the wave of anti-Farrell and anti-Lurie media. Breed, the only woman and person of color among the leading four candidates, has focused her campaign on understanding San Francisco’s biggest issues because she’s the only one on the ticket who has lived and overcome them firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008296]“My sister suffered from addiction. She lost her battle with drugs and lost her life,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008296/mayor-london-breed-says-shes-just-getting-started\">Breed told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “When I think about why I’m in public service in the first place, it’s because I’m trying to make sure this city makes the right kinds of investments to stop that kind of thing from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her track record of bringing that lived experience to programs and decisions at City Hall has resonated particularly among voters in the city’s Black and Latino communities. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/mayor-breed-black-latino-19858152.php\">October poll from the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> found that nearly half of Black San Francisco voters listed Breed as their top pick for mayor, followed by 37% of Latino voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a resident of San Francisco, there is a tsunami of materials coming in the mail, largely for the white guys, so it does bring in a reconsideration of London Breed in this context. I do think she may be getting a second look because of that,” Phillips said. “The challenge that Peskin faces is the challenge that white progressives face in this city. His base may not be wide enough to necessarily capture communities of color’s enthusiasm, and that will be a barrier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed has also faced pushback for championing punitive policing measures that in San Francisco are likely to fall disproportionately on communities of color, such as increasing arrests of drug users or requiring drug screening for welfare recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the shifts, most polls still show Peskin trailing Breed and Lurie for first-choice votes. And Lurie — an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who has raised more than any mayoral candidate in the city’s history — continues to poll strongly among both first and second-choice votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='san-francisco-mayor-election']Peskin’s campaign has fundraised a modest amount \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">in comparison to his billionaire-supported competitors\u003c/a>. He has nabbed big donations from labor unions and a broad base of small, individual contributions, totaling around $2.5 million — a far cry from a pro-Lurie PAC totaling nearly $10 million, which includes $8.7 million from his own fortune. Breed’s campaign has raised $3.1 million, including $1.45 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and $850,000 from cryptocurrency investor Chris Larsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell received nearly $1 million from conservative donor William Oberndorf and $500,000 from real estate investor Thomas Coates. Meanwhile, billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, who penned an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/opinion/aaron-peskin-san-francisco-politics-housing.html\">op-ed in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> attacking Peskin in October\u003c/a>, has contributed nearly $3.1 million to Proposition D, a measure that would cut the number of city commissions in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only candidate with momentum at this point is Aaron Peskin and the candidate who is fading apparently under the weight of very, very serious allegations around campaign finance impropriety is Mark Farrell,” Jaye says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now, he said, remains: “Will Peskin’s momentum continue?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Backers of Proposition 36, appearing before voters on next week’s ballot, promise their tough-on-crime measure will create “real accountability” for retail theft, fentanyl use and homelessness. But with no funding for drug treatment, police hiring or housing, experts say the measure could instead reduce money for existing rehabilitation programs if it passes as is widely expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would make it easier for prosecutors to send repeat shoplifters and drug users to jail or prison — and aims to use those felony charges to pressure drug addicts into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do that by rolling back provisions of a ballot initiative passed by state voters in 2014, known as Proposition 47. Proposition 47 downgraded low-level thefts and drug possession to misdemeanors, and it diverted state savings from incarcerating fewer people into programs, including mental health and drug treatment, school truancy and dropout prevention and victim services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Proposition 47’s passage, the state has rerouted approximately $800 million to those programs through grants — funding that could diminish significantly if Proposition 36 passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfunded and unfortunately, it may impact some existing drug treatment and mental health services,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news conference on Oct. 28 when asked about his opposition to Proposition 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While critics, including the governor, frame the measure as a return to the tough-on-crime policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which led to overcrowded prisons, backers, including Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley, argue the ballot measure is “reasoned and thoughtful, designed to narrowly address issues that are reducing the quality of life of Californians.”[aside postID='elections_1915' label='2024 Voter Guide: California Propositions' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/09/Aside-California-Propositions-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png' herolink='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california']At a Sept. 10 hearing in the state Capitol, Haley identified those issues as rising homelessness and retail theft and “a startling proliferation of opioid-related deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 36 incentivizes drug treatment for addicts by giving them choices, by giving them determinative agency in their own lives. … It allows prosecutors to treat an offender with a single theft differently than someone who is a serial offender,” she said. “And it allows prosecutors to treat fentanyl-like the scourge that it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say those promises may be difficult to keep without a huge influx of resources, given the state’s limited drug treatment capacity, its shortage of police officers and the ongoing housing crisis. Meanwhile, the ballot measure is likely to drive up jail and prison spending, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024\">according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO estimates Proposition 36 would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, partly by increasing the state prison population “by around a few thousand people,” roughly the capacity of one state prison. It would also increase the number of people in local jails and on probation supervision and decrease the money from Proposition 47 for treatment programs by tens of millions of dollars each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the state, as well as many local governments, are facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">budget shortfalls\u003c/a>. San Diego County supervisors recently declined to endorse Proposition 36 after conducting an analysis that concluded the ballot measure would cost the county $58 million a year, could push its jail population beyond its system capacity and would reduce funding for Proposition 47 programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Law enforcement staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 36 argue that by making shoplifting and other low-level thefts misdemeanors, it has undercut police officers’ ability to hold people accountable for those crimes. But there’s nothing preventing police from arresting misdemeanor offenders now — except, according to many in law enforcement, their own resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper, a former lawmaker and longtime critic of criminal justice reforms, told lawmakers at the September hearing that his department doesn’t “have the resources to go after every misdemeanor offender” — and that when faced with a decision between responding to a violent offense or a property crime, they will choose the more serious incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the resources for the misdemeanor stuff, the day in and day out stuff because of Prop. 47,” he said. “We only have so much capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper blamed Proposition 47 for limiting police response to minor crimes. However, that measure didn’t directly impact police staffing, \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/wp-content/uploads/PORAC-Police-Staffing-Brief-2023-Updates.pdf\">which hit a 30-year low in California\u003c/a>, with 3,600 officers lost between 2020–2022, according to the Police Officers Research Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 wouldn’t change that staffing crisis said Tom Hoffman, who headed the state’s parole department from 2006–2009 and spent over 30 years as a police officer. The measure does not include any new money for police agencies — and in most cases, police officers will have no way of knowing when a shoplifting call comes in whether it will qualify as a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are the lowest priority,” he said, adding that they should be. “There are 35,000 (misdemeanor) warrants for people in Sacramento County alone for violations of these crimes. And the sheriff freely admits he’s not going to go find them, he’s not going to arrest them, and he won’t accept them being booked into his jail. And [Proposition] 36 isn’t going to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin Probation Chief Steve Jackson supports Proposition 36, saying it would “return balance” to the criminal justice system by allowing more severe penalties for repeat offenders. But he acknowledged that some of its promises may not be easy to achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money written into it to fund any of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A solution to fentanyl and homelessness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 backers are leaning heavily on the ballot measure’s provisions related to drug possession and use — and what they frame as a connection to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They note that since Proposition 47 passed, there’s been a sharp decline in participation in drug courts and other diversion programs, which offer someone facing a criminal charge the option of participating in treatment and having those charges dropped. They connect that decline to the rise in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a massive explosion in drug addiction, particularly fentanyl, in the last ten years in California since Prop. 47 passed. And that’s associated also with a massive increase in homelessness,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who helped craft Proposition 36, said at an Oct. 23 news conference.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005230,forum_2010101907188,news_12009603\"]“There are lots of reasons for people being homeless, but one of the reasons we know very well is serious addiction,” he added. “And because of Prop. 47, they can use fentanyl and heroin every single day, multiple times a day. And it’s a ticket. There’s literally no incentive for them to get help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would let prosecutors charge someone with a felony if they’re caught possessing “hard drugs” like fentanyl more than twice — and offer them court-mandated drug treatment to avoid that felony. Reisig said this would fix what he sees as one of Proposition 47’s major shortcomings: that because drug possession was lowered to a misdemeanor, people have no reason to agree to treatment when they’re arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#courts\">A KQED analysis\u003c/a> of more than a dozen counties shows he’s right that drug court participation is down sharply since Proposition 47’s passage — but drug treatment programs are still widely utilized, said Gary McCoy, vice president of policy at HealthRIGHT 360, which provides substance use disorder treatment, mental health services and other health care to over 49,000 Californians annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in San Francisco, which has some of the most robust treatment networks in the state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.findtreatment-sf.org/\">fewer than 40 residential treatment beds are available\u003c/a> out of the city’s 575 total. And in some rural counties, the options are even slimmer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money to expand treatment in the proposition,” he said, noting that if someone can’t get into treatment and is facing a felony charge, they will likely be kept in jail. “It’s promising to incarcerate people again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig rejects this argument, saying that Proposition 36 isn’t “reinventing the wheel” but simply bringing back programs that existed prior to 2014. Jackson, the probation chief, said some counties may struggle to find treatment space, but he believes many, including San Joaquin County, do have space available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue the measure’s only impact on homelessness would come through increased incarceration, noting it contains no provisions or funding for housing or shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point to recent state laws and initiatives to expand mental health and drug treatment options, including Proposition 1 in March, which Newsom wrote. Proposition 1 was a $6.4 billion bond to increase mental health and substance abuse services and build supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said that the ballot measure was carefully crafted to help people with chronic mental illness get off the streets — and that Proposition 36 will increase demand for treatment beds and staff that wasn’t anticipated as part of the multiyear process that led to Proposition 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I guess what they’re trying to say is, well, we’ll just attach Prop. 1 dollars,” Newsom said. “It’s a very lazy response to a very serious issue and a complicated issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman, the former parole chief, called it “absurd to suggest that there is a solution to any one of those super complicated social, economic, political and criminal problems” in one ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is going to be impacted, fixed by Prop. 36. 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Meanwhile, the ballot measure is likely to drive up jail and prison spending, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024\">according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO estimates Proposition 36 would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, partly by increasing the state prison population “by around a few thousand people,” roughly the capacity of one state prison. It would also increase the number of people in local jails and on probation supervision and decrease the money from Proposition 47 for treatment programs by tens of millions of dollars each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the state, as well as many local governments, are facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">budget shortfalls\u003c/a>. San Diego County supervisors recently declined to endorse Proposition 36 after conducting an analysis that concluded the ballot measure would cost the county $58 million a year, could push its jail population beyond its system capacity and would reduce funding for Proposition 47 programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Law enforcement staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Proposition 36 argue that by making shoplifting and other low-level thefts misdemeanors, it has undercut police officers’ ability to hold people accountable for those crimes. But there’s nothing preventing police from arresting misdemeanor offenders now — except, according to many in law enforcement, their own resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper, a former lawmaker and longtime critic of criminal justice reforms, told lawmakers at the September hearing that his department doesn’t “have the resources to go after every misdemeanor offender” — and that when faced with a decision between responding to a violent offense or a property crime, they will choose the more serious incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the resources for the misdemeanor stuff, the day in and day out stuff because of Prop. 47,” he said. “We only have so much capacity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper blamed Proposition 47 for limiting police response to minor crimes. However, that measure didn’t directly impact police staffing, \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/wp-content/uploads/PORAC-Police-Staffing-Brief-2023-Updates.pdf\">which hit a 30-year low in California\u003c/a>, with 3,600 officers lost between 2020–2022, according to the Police Officers Research Association of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 wouldn’t change that staffing crisis said Tom Hoffman, who headed the state’s parole department from 2006–2009 and spent over 30 years as a police officer. The measure does not include any new money for police agencies — and in most cases, police officers will have no way of knowing when a shoplifting call comes in whether it will qualify as a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are the lowest priority,” he said, adding that they should be. “There are 35,000 (misdemeanor) warrants for people in Sacramento County alone for violations of these crimes. And the sheriff freely admits he’s not going to go find them, he’s not going to arrest them, and he won’t accept them being booked into his jail. And [Proposition] 36 isn’t going to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin Probation Chief Steve Jackson supports Proposition 36, saying it would “return balance” to the criminal justice system by allowing more severe penalties for repeat offenders. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There are lots of reasons for people being homeless, but one of the reasons we know very well is serious addiction,” he added. “And because of Prop. 47, they can use fentanyl and heroin every single day, multiple times a day. And it’s a ticket. There’s literally no incentive for them to get help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 36 would let prosecutors charge someone with a felony if they’re caught possessing “hard drugs” like fentanyl more than twice — and offer them court-mandated drug treatment to avoid that felony. Reisig said this would fix what he sees as one of Proposition 47’s major shortcomings: that because drug possession was lowered to a misdemeanor, people have no reason to agree to treatment when they’re arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system#courts\">A KQED analysis\u003c/a> of more than a dozen counties shows he’s right that drug court participation is down sharply since Proposition 47’s passage — but drug treatment programs are still widely utilized, said Gary McCoy, vice president of policy at HealthRIGHT 360, which provides substance use disorder treatment, mental health services and other health care to over 49,000 Californians annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in San Francisco, which has some of the most robust treatment networks in the state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.findtreatment-sf.org/\">fewer than 40 residential treatment beds are available\u003c/a> out of the city’s 575 total. And in some rural counties, the options are even slimmer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money to expand treatment in the proposition,” he said, noting that if someone can’t get into treatment and is facing a felony charge, they will likely be kept in jail. “It’s promising to incarcerate people again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig rejects this argument, saying that Proposition 36 isn’t “reinventing the wheel” but simply bringing back programs that existed prior to 2014. Jackson, the probation chief, said some counties may struggle to find treatment space, but he believes many, including San Joaquin County, do have space available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics argue the measure’s only impact on homelessness would come through increased incarceration, noting it contains no provisions or funding for housing or shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents point to recent state laws and initiatives to expand mental health and drug treatment options, including Proposition 1 in March, which Newsom wrote. Proposition 1 was a $6.4 billion bond to increase mental health and substance abuse services and build supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said that the ballot measure was carefully crafted to help people with chronic mental illness get off the streets — and that Proposition 36 will increase demand for treatment beds and staff that wasn’t anticipated as part of the multiyear process that led to Proposition 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I guess what they’re trying to say is, well, we’ll just attach Prop. 1 dollars,” Newsom said. “It’s a very lazy response to a very serious issue and a complicated issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman, the former parole chief, called it “absurd to suggest that there is a solution to any one of those super complicated social, economic, political and criminal problems” in one ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is going to be impacted, fixed by Prop. 36. Really?” he asked. “For me, it just seems beyond logical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the final days of the presidential campaign, immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border remains one of the most heated topics of the election. Former President Donald Trump calls it an “invasion,” crudely disparages immigrants and threatens mass deportations. Vice President Kamala Harris, in tacit recognition of the Biden administration’s border challenges, also vows tougher enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet illegal border crossings have \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/fy2024-us-border-encounters-plunge\">plunged to the lowest level in four years\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-september-2024-monthly-update\">new data\u003c/a> released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. To understand how that fact squares with the fraught political rhetoric, KQED looked at the current dynamics of migration at California’s border with Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Pacific Ocean crashed against the beach nearby, Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Michael Scappechio stood on a well-maintained road flanked by a pair of formidable fences — 18-feet and 30-feet high — dividing the streets of Tijuana from a deserted state park in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just in the last two months, this region has seen an approximate 50% decline in illegal entries,” Scappechio said. “Nationwide numbers have declined as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government first began erecting a metal fence along the border here 30 years ago this fall. Today, it’s more fortified than ever, with lighting, motion detectors, cameras, drones and other technology — as well as manpower — augmenting the fence. It’s all been reinforced under both Trump and President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.iom.int/news/world-migration-report-2024-reveals-latest-global-trends-and-challenges-human-mobility\">global migration crisis\u003c/a> grew, the Biden administration confronted rising numbers of people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Monthly Border Patrol migrant encounters \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters\">hit a record high\u003c/a> of nearly 250,000 last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the administration ramped up a set of tough measures meant to deter unauthorized border crossings, reversing course from the more compassionate approach of the early years of Biden’s presidency. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results have been striking. In September, Border Patrol encounters fell to 54,000 nationally, just 22% of December’s peak. The San Diego sector had the largest share of those encounters, with 13,000, but that too was down from a peak of 37,000 in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several factors are contributing to the turnaround. For one, since the beginning of the year, Mexico has cracked down on migrants heading for the U.S. border. And in June, Biden issued an executive order barring access to the asylum process for those who enter illegally when crossings are high. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Scappechio said, a sharp \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-september-2024-monthly-update\">increase in expedited removals\u003c/a> and repatriation flights — or flying people to their home country — is sending a message to would-be migrants before they make the journey “that the borders are, in fact, not open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Partnerships with Mexico have enhanced. Policies have changed,” he said. “Messaging, I think, plays a key role because a lot of migration is oftentimes fueled by misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smartphone app aids in vetting migrants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011958 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Boniface of the Haitian Bridge Alliance assists Gregory Montilla, a migrant from Venezuela, at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to preventing unauthorized border crossings, the Biden administration has also created a process for migrants without a visa to come in lawfully. They can make an appointment using a smartphone app called CBP One, get vetted at a port of entry and then enter with a temporary \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/use-parole-under-immigration-law\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates strongly criticize the CBP One app as unreliable, and \u003ca href=\"https://cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/litigation/al-otro-lado-and-haitian-bridge-alliance-v-mayorkas\">they’ve sued to block its use\u003c/a>, saying asylum seekers who lack appointments have wrongly been turned away from ports of entry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since it began in January 2023, the process has provided more than 850,000 migrants a way to reach the U.S. legally. The parole status lasts just two years, but parolees are eligible for a work permit and can apply for asylum or another form of legal status once on U.S. soil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the appointments are scarce — 1,450 per day nationwide — compared to the number of migrants who want them. And advocates say people often spend months of insecurity in Mexican shelters, trying daily to schedule a slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the San Diego airport one recent afternoon, about a dozen families who entered through the CBP One process — most from Haiti, Venezuela and Honduras — sat quietly in a designated area near the baggage claim. Volunteers from the Haitian Bridge Alliance handed out snacks and helped people make travel arrangements. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011963 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Herrera, right, and Josie Mejia from Honduras wait with their two children for an evening flight at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. They were paroled into the U.S. after a screening scheduled through the CBP One smartphone app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Herrera and his wife, Josie Mejía, entertained their two small children, ages 6 and 3, with markers and cell phone video games. They’d spent the night in the airport after they were granted permission to enter the U.S. the day before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera, 33, said they’d waited seven months, mostly in Mexico City, for their turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God we’ve arrived, and this country is giving us an opportunity. We should all appreciate the effort they’re making to receive us,” he said in a voice that expressed strain as well as relief. “We’re here because we really, really need it — not to make money, but to live where there’s safety and justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía, 28, said they were going to Charleston, South Carolina, where her sister lives. They have an appointment to appear in immigration court next March, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband said the odyssey that led them here began more than two years earlier, when his business partner’s wife was murdered after their auto repair shop in Tegucigalpa failed to pay the monthly extortion fee demanded by a criminal group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took off for Spain with people who promised them jobs, said Herrera, but found themselves in the hands of labor traffickers who threatened them and took their pay. It took a year to escape, he said, but as soon as they made it back to Honduras, they faced threats again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only hope was to get to the U.S.,” Herrera said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011953 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Herrera sits with his daughter at San Diego International Airport, Sept. 16, 2024. He, his wife and two children were traveling to unite with family after being paroled into the U.S. at a border interview scheduled through the CBP One smartphone app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on the journey north through Guatemala and Mexico, Herrera said they were repeatedly robbed and mistreated — by both criminals and law enforcement. In one Guatemalan town, police stripped his 6-year-old daughter naked and touched her body, he said, leaving the girl traumatized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here so we could live without fear,” he said. “I want my daughter to finally be able to go to school and make friends. To have a normal life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011941 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum seekers Gabriel Herrera and Josie Mejia head to their flight with their two children at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. They were traveling to unite with family after entering the U.S. lawfully using the CBP One app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Herrera and Mejía packed up the markers and helped the children into their small jackets. It was time for their flight to Charleston. Carrying their belongings in one daypack each, they took their kids by the hand and headed up the escalator to the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego as a national model: ‘It’s about dignity’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011951 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play outside at the Jewish Family Service shelter for migrants in San Diego, Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Herrera’s are common, said Dana Toppel, the CEO of Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which runs a shelter serving about 1,200 migrants a week — mostly families who entered using the CBP One app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To us, it’s about dignity. It’s really about centering the individual and being very trauma-informed,” she said, as a bus pulled up at the shelter with dozens of migrants that JFS staff had met at the San Ysidro port of entry. “They’ve gone through a lot on their journey. So anything we can do to make it easy, to make it understandable and calm, is our focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, everyone received meals, a warm bed and a place for the children to play. The shelter also provided a medical screening and help refilling prescriptions, a legal orientation about the asylum process and help applying for a work permit, and assistance making travel plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of migrants don’t stay in San Diego long, most spending no more than a night or two at the JFS shelter before traveling on to other parts of the country to reunite with family members, Toppel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011950 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants collect luggage after arriving on a bus at the Jewish Family Service shelter for migrants in San Diego, Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Groups like JFS and the Haitian Bridge Alliance are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://rapidresponsesd.org\">robust network of local nonprofits\u003c/a> responding to the needs of immigrants in the border region. Though they’re always looking for more resources, they say the San Diego community has stepped up and the region is not facing a migrant crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011935\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011935 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Border Patrol agent drives east between the primary and secondary fences at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas said the county has become a national model for reducing Border Patrol releases of migrants onto the streets and treating asylum seekers with dignity. The county recently won nearly $20 million from the federal Shelter and Services Program for a migrant transition center, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a lot of work to be done, but we’ve been able to allocate resources from the federal government specifically for this,” she said. “The partnership with Governor Newsom and the Biden administration has really been one that we have not had before from previous administrations.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toppel added that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature have been stalwart in providing funds for her group and others, including backfilling with state dollars when federal grants have gotten tied up in red tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so lucky to be in the state of California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the humanitarian work of welcoming asylum seekers is at risk, Toppel said, as Trump has centered his campaign on the message that immigrants are criminal “animals” who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPFjAhd3KQ\">“poisoning the blood”\u003c/a> of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the election coming up and the narrative that’s out there, it’s all getting mixed up,” she said. “As we head up towards November, I would say that it has created an opportunity to tell the stories of the people that we’re serving, to try to change hearts and minds around who’s actually coming and that these folks are not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s more difficult to travel across Mexico’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011949\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011949 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy Betance walks to dinner with her two daughters at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Sept. 18, 2024. Migrants who hope to enter the U.S. lawfully using the CBP One app often wait months for an appointment. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the border in Tijuana, the number of migrants waiting for their CBP One appointments or preparing to cross the border illegally has also diminished. Roughly 2,000 of the city’s shelter beds were available in September, according to Enrique Lucero, who recently stepped down as Tijuana’s head of migrant affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because migrants can now \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone\">access the CBP One app\u003c/a> from central and southern Mexico. Appointments are set 21 days in advance, giving people time to reach the U.S. border. And the Mexican government will issue a 20-day transit permit to those with proof of a CBP One appointment, Lucero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder and harder to get to the north if you don’t have an appointment or a visa,” he said. “Tijuana’s not getting the foreign migrants we used to because it’s more difficult to travel across Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difficulty is largely due to the fact that Mexican authorities are transporting non-Mexican migrants south to the state of Tabasco and containing them in southern Mexico, said Lucero. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s pressure, or at least a request, from the United States to help put the brakes on the number of migrants reaching the border. It’s a political question, with an election underway,” Lucero said. “We need migration controls because we can’t turn a blind eye to the smuggling operations. And also it affects the binational relationship.” \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fewer people navigate the harsh terrain to reach the U.S.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011948 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Salinas of Grupo Beta (L) sits with Irving Ortiz, as he calls his mother, on Sept. 17, 2024. Ortiz was picked up and offered assistance by Grupo Beta when he was walking along Highway 2D between Tijuana and Tecate. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alejandro Salinas, the head of the Baja California office of Grupo Beta, the Mexican immigration agency’s search and rescue arm, said that when his teams go out to locate migrants in distress, they encounter fewer people trying to sneak into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing fewer migrants trying to cross the mountains or the desert,” he said. “But, unfortunately, we’ve had four deaths this year from heat stroke, just in Baja California.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving east from Tijuana along Highway 2 with the border fence in sight, Salinas said he’s seen more policing underway by his counterparts in the enforcement arm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gob.mx/inm/que-hacemos\">Mexico’s National Immigration Institute\u003c/a>, or INM. Though they’re both part of the same agency, he emphasized that Grupo Beta’s work is strictly humanitarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011945 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Mexican army keeps watch outside a camp along the U.S.-Mexico border in Tecate, Sept. 17, 2024. The camps were established along the border earlier this year to deter migrant crossings. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas and his team stopped at one of several bases that the INM established in rural stretches along the border earlier this year. With soldiers from the Mexican Armed Forces to protect against criminal smuggling organizations, INM agents patrol the remote rural areas to intercept non-Mexicans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INM enforcement agent Abraham Basurto said they had been out before dawn and encountered an Uzbek man with a broken ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provided first aid and transferred him to Tijuana,” Basurto said. “We make sure migrants are okay. After that, the most important thing is to check whether they’re in the country legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011937 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S.-Mexico border fence runs west between the eastern outskirts of Tijuana and the Otay Mountain Wilderness, Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the patrols commonly encounter groups of 10 to 20 migrants. And they’re coming from countries outside the hemisphere. Those migrants often cross the border illegally and turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum, but in recent months, the number of people from those nationalities reaching the U.S. has dropped dramatically. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people out here from many countries — Uzbekistan, Mauritania, China, Cameroon, Tajikistan — but not from Latin America,” he said. “With groups like this, we obviously have to check what they’re doing out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Grupo Beta team drove on to La Rumorosa, a forbidding mountainous region at 4,000 feet elevation, studded with boulders and cactus and known for its howling winds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011947 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally frequently travel through the rugged and dangerous terrain in La Rumorosa, Mexico, Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas and his three colleagues, in their trademark orange jackets, left their trucks on a highway turnout and started down through the rocks. It’s a common smuggling route, so they typically hike through there every couple of days on the lookout for stranded migrants. They’ve even marked certain boulders with large numerals to help navigate the bleak terrain where migrants are often abandoned.\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>“The smuggler just points north — toward a U.S. wind farm or the border fence — and they say, ‘Just walk and you’ll reach the United States,’” he said. “But they don’t say that you have to descend this mountain and climb the next one. They don’t say how dangerous it is or how easily a person can get lost out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perla Godínez from Grupo Beta looks out across the rugged terrain of La Rumorosa, a desolate area traversed by migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To emphasize the point, one of the other agents, Perla Godínez, pulled out her phone and opened up a video of a recent rescue. In it, a man is sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a long time to find this group. There were five of them, including a child,” she said. “The rescue took 18 hours because we had no cell phone signal, so we went from one place to another, looking. They were really weak when we found them, and one guy was crying because he thought they were going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godínez said she first learned about Grupo Beta when she worked as a 911 dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took the calls from migrants who were lost, and I passed the reports to Grupo Beta,” she said. “I decided to change jobs because I wanted to know that the migrants who called for help were being found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011943 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maribel Moreno, left, and Carlos Parra from a Grupo Beta search and rescue team walk along old train tracks that are a common route for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside Tecate, Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the fencing and the policing by both countries, the asylum restrictions and the lawful pathways to humanitarian parole have vastly reduced the number of people entering the U.S. illegally. But they don’t get at the root causes of why people migrate, so some will keep trying, said Lucero, the former Tijuana migrant affairs director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if things are all better in Venezuela, or the war in Ukraine is over, or there’s no more poverty in southern Africa,” he said. “This calm that we’re seeing may be temporary. We don’t know how long it’s going to last.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.iom.int/news/world-migration-report-2024-reveals-latest-global-trends-and-challenges-human-mobility\">global migration crisis\u003c/a> grew, the Biden administration confronted rising numbers of people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Monthly Border Patrol migrant encounters \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters\">hit a record high\u003c/a> of nearly 250,000 last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the administration ramped up a set of tough measures meant to deter unauthorized border crossings, reversing course from the more compassionate approach of the early years of Biden’s presidency. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results have been striking. In September, Border Patrol encounters fell to 54,000 nationally, just 22% of December’s peak. The San Diego sector had the largest share of those encounters, with 13,000, but that too was down from a peak of 37,000 in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several factors are contributing to the turnaround. For one, since the beginning of the year, Mexico has cracked down on migrants heading for the U.S. border. And in June, Biden issued an executive order barring access to the asylum process for those who enter illegally when crossings are high. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Scappechio said, a sharp \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-september-2024-monthly-update\">increase in expedited removals\u003c/a> and repatriation flights — or flying people to their home country — is sending a message to would-be migrants before they make the journey “that the borders are, in fact, not open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Partnerships with Mexico have enhanced. Policies have changed,” he said. “Messaging, I think, plays a key role because a lot of migration is oftentimes fueled by misinformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Smartphone app aids in vetting migrants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011958 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Boniface of the Haitian Bridge Alliance assists Gregory Montilla, a migrant from Venezuela, at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to preventing unauthorized border crossings, the Biden administration has also created a process for migrants without a visa to come in lawfully. They can make an appointment using a smartphone app called CBP One, get vetted at a port of entry and then enter with a temporary \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/use-parole-under-immigration-law\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates strongly criticize the CBP One app as unreliable, and \u003ca href=\"https://cgrs.uclawsf.edu/our-work/litigation/al-otro-lado-and-haitian-bridge-alliance-v-mayorkas\">they’ve sued to block its use\u003c/a>, saying asylum seekers who lack appointments have wrongly been turned away from ports of entry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since it began in January 2023, the process has provided more than 850,000 migrants a way to reach the U.S. legally. The parole status lasts just two years, but parolees are eligible for a work permit and can apply for asylum or another form of legal status once on U.S. soil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the appointments are scarce — 1,450 per day nationwide — compared to the number of migrants who want them. And advocates say people often spend months of insecurity in Mexican shelters, trying daily to schedule a slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the San Diego airport one recent afternoon, about a dozen families who entered through the CBP One process — most from Haiti, Venezuela and Honduras — sat quietly in a designated area near the baggage claim. Volunteers from the Haitian Bridge Alliance handed out snacks and helped people make travel arrangements. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011963\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011963 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Herrera, right, and Josie Mejia from Honduras wait with their two children for an evening flight at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. They were paroled into the U.S. after a screening scheduled through the CBP One smartphone app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Herrera and his wife, Josie Mejía, entertained their two small children, ages 6 and 3, with markers and cell phone video games. They’d spent the night in the airport after they were granted permission to enter the U.S. the day before. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera, 33, said they’d waited seven months, mostly in Mexico City, for their turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank God we’ve arrived, and this country is giving us an opportunity. We should all appreciate the effort they’re making to receive us,” he said in a voice that expressed strain as well as relief. “We’re here because we really, really need it — not to make money, but to live where there’s safety and justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejía, 28, said they were going to Charleston, South Carolina, where her sister lives. They have an appointment to appear in immigration court next March, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband said the odyssey that led them here began more than two years earlier, when his business partner’s wife was murdered after their auto repair shop in Tegucigalpa failed to pay the monthly extortion fee demanded by a criminal group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took off for Spain with people who promised them jobs, said Herrera, but found themselves in the hands of labor traffickers who threatened them and took their pay. It took a year to escape, he said, but as soon as they made it back to Honduras, they faced threats again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only hope was to get to the U.S.,” Herrera said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011953\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011953 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Herrera sits with his daughter at San Diego International Airport, Sept. 16, 2024. He, his wife and two children were traveling to unite with family after being paroled into the U.S. at a border interview scheduled through the CBP One smartphone app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But on the journey north through Guatemala and Mexico, Herrera said they were repeatedly robbed and mistreated — by both criminals and law enforcement. In one Guatemalan town, police stripped his 6-year-old daughter naked and touched her body, he said, leaving the girl traumatized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here so we could live without fear,” he said. “I want my daughter to finally be able to go to school and make friends. To have a normal life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011941 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum seekers Gabriel Herrera and Josie Mejia head to their flight with their two children at San Diego International Airport on Sept. 16, 2024. They were traveling to unite with family after entering the U.S. lawfully using the CBP One app. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Herrera and Mejía packed up the markers and helped the children into their small jackets. It was time for their flight to Charleston. Carrying their belongings in one daypack each, they took their kids by the hand and headed up the escalator to the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Diego as a national model: ‘It’s about dignity’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011951\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011951 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-16-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play outside at the Jewish Family Service shelter for migrants in San Diego, Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories like Herrera’s are common, said Dana Toppel, the CEO of Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which runs a shelter serving about 1,200 migrants a week — mostly families who entered using the CBP One app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To us, it’s about dignity. It’s really about centering the individual and being very trauma-informed,” she said, as a bus pulled up at the shelter with dozens of migrants that JFS staff had met at the San Ysidro port of entry. “They’ve gone through a lot on their journey. So anything we can do to make it easy, to make it understandable and calm, is our focus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, everyone received meals, a warm bed and a place for the children to play. The shelter also provided a medical screening and help refilling prescriptions, a legal orientation about the asylum process and help applying for a work permit, and assistance making travel plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of migrants don’t stay in San Diego long, most spending no more than a night or two at the JFS shelter before traveling on to other parts of the country to reunite with family members, Toppel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011950 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-15-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants collect luggage after arriving on a bus at the Jewish Family Service shelter for migrants in San Diego, Sept. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Groups like JFS and the Haitian Bridge Alliance are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://rapidresponsesd.org\">robust network of local nonprofits\u003c/a> responding to the needs of immigrants in the border region. Though they’re always looking for more resources, they say the San Diego community has stepped up and the region is not facing a migrant crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011935\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011935 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Border Patrol agent drives east between the primary and secondary fences at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas said the county has become a national model for reducing Border Patrol releases of migrants onto the streets and treating asylum seekers with dignity. The county recently won nearly $20 million from the federal Shelter and Services Program for a migrant transition center, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a lot of work to be done, but we’ve been able to allocate resources from the federal government specifically for this,” she said. “The partnership with Governor Newsom and the Biden administration has really been one that we have not had before from previous administrations.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toppel added that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature have been stalwart in providing funds for her group and others, including backfilling with state dollars when federal grants have gotten tied up in red tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so lucky to be in the state of California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the humanitarian work of welcoming asylum seekers is at risk, Toppel said, as Trump has centered his campaign on the message that immigrants are criminal “animals” who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPFjAhd3KQ\">“poisoning the blood”\u003c/a> of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the election coming up and the narrative that’s out there, it’s all getting mixed up,” she said. “As we head up towards November, I would say that it has created an opportunity to tell the stories of the people that we’re serving, to try to change hearts and minds around who’s actually coming and that these folks are not dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s more difficult to travel across Mexico’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011949\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011949 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-14-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy Betance walks to dinner with her two daughters at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Sept. 18, 2024. Migrants who hope to enter the U.S. lawfully using the CBP One app often wait months for an appointment. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the border in Tijuana, the number of migrants waiting for their CBP One appointments or preparing to cross the border illegally has also diminished. Roughly 2,000 of the city’s shelter beds were available in September, according to Enrique Lucero, who recently stepped down as Tijuana’s head of migrant affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because migrants can now \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone\">access the CBP One app\u003c/a> from central and southern Mexico. Appointments are set 21 days in advance, giving people time to reach the U.S. border. And the Mexican government will issue a 20-day transit permit to those with proof of a CBP One appointment, Lucero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s harder and harder to get to the north if you don’t have an appointment or a visa,” he said. “Tijuana’s not getting the foreign migrants we used to because it’s more difficult to travel across Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difficulty is largely due to the fact that Mexican authorities are transporting non-Mexican migrants south to the state of Tabasco and containing them in southern Mexico, said Lucero. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s pressure, or at least a request, from the United States to help put the brakes on the number of migrants reaching the border. It’s a political question, with an election underway,” Lucero said. “We need migration controls because we can’t turn a blind eye to the smuggling operations. And also it affects the binational relationship.” \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fewer people navigate the harsh terrain to reach the U.S.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011948 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-13-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Salinas of Grupo Beta (L) sits with Irving Ortiz, as he calls his mother, on Sept. 17, 2024. Ortiz was picked up and offered assistance by Grupo Beta when he was walking along Highway 2D between Tijuana and Tecate. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alejandro Salinas, the head of the Baja California office of Grupo Beta, the Mexican immigration agency’s search and rescue arm, said that when his teams go out to locate migrants in distress, they encounter fewer people trying to sneak into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing fewer migrants trying to cross the mountains or the desert,” he said. “But, unfortunately, we’ve had four deaths this year from heat stroke, just in Baja California.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving east from Tijuana along Highway 2 with the border fence in sight, Salinas said he’s seen more policing underway by his counterparts in the enforcement arm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gob.mx/inm/que-hacemos\">Mexico’s National Immigration Institute\u003c/a>, or INM. Though they’re both part of the same agency, he emphasized that Grupo Beta’s work is strictly humanitarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011945 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-11-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the Mexican army keeps watch outside a camp along the U.S.-Mexico border in Tecate, Sept. 17, 2024. The camps were established along the border earlier this year to deter migrant crossings. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas and his team stopped at one of several bases that the INM established in rural stretches along the border earlier this year. With soldiers from the Mexican Armed Forces to protect against criminal smuggling organizations, INM agents patrol the remote rural areas to intercept non-Mexicans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INM enforcement agent Abraham Basurto said they had been out before dawn and encountered an Uzbek man with a broken ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provided first aid and transferred him to Tijuana,” Basurto said. “We make sure migrants are okay. After that, the most important thing is to check whether they’re in the country legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011937\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011937 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S.-Mexico border fence runs west between the eastern outskirts of Tijuana and the Otay Mountain Wilderness, Sept. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the patrols commonly encounter groups of 10 to 20 migrants. And they’re coming from countries outside the hemisphere. Those migrants often cross the border illegally and turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum, but in recent months, the number of people from those nationalities reaching the U.S. has dropped dramatically. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people out here from many countries — Uzbekistan, Mauritania, China, Cameroon, Tajikistan — but not from Latin America,” he said. “With groups like this, we obviously have to check what they’re doing out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the Grupo Beta team drove on to La Rumorosa, a forbidding mountainous region at 4,000 feet elevation, studded with boulders and cactus and known for its howling winds. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011947\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011947 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-12-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally frequently travel through the rugged and dangerous terrain in La Rumorosa, Mexico, Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas and his three colleagues, in their trademark orange jackets, left their trucks on a highway turnout and started down through the rocks. It’s a common smuggling route, so they typically hike through there every couple of days on the lookout for stranded migrants. They’ve even marked certain boulders with large numerals to help navigate the bleak terrain where migrants are often abandoned.\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>“The smuggler just points north — toward a U.S. wind farm or the border fence — and they say, ‘Just walk and you’ll reach the United States,’” he said. “But they don’t say that you have to descend this mountain and climb the next one. They don’t say how dangerous it is or how easily a person can get lost out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-20-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perla Godínez from Grupo Beta looks out across the rugged terrain of La Rumorosa, a desolate area traversed by migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To emphasize the point, one of the other agents, Perla Godínez, pulled out her phone and opened up a video of a recent rescue. In it, a man is sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took a long time to find this group. There were five of them, including a child,” she said. “The rescue took 18 hours because we had no cell phone signal, so we went from one place to another, looking. They were really weak when we found them, and one guy was crying because he thought they were going to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godínez said she first learned about Grupo Beta when she worked as a 911 dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took the calls from migrants who were lost, and I passed the reports to Grupo Beta,” she said. “I decided to change jobs because I wanted to know that the migrants who called for help were being found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011943 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241031-BORDER-CROSSINGS-ZM-09-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maribel Moreno, left, and Carlos Parra from a Grupo Beta search and rescue team walk along old train tracks that are a common route for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside Tecate, Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Zoë Meyers for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the fencing and the policing by both countries, the asylum restrictions and the lawful pathways to humanitarian parole have vastly reduced the number of people entering the U.S. illegally. But they don’t get at the root causes of why people migrate, so some will keep trying, said Lucero, the former Tijuana migrant affairs director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’re almost there, folks. Two years of nonstop campaigning for the White House will finally come to a close this Tuesday, Nov. 5, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008419/ballot-drop-off-location-near-me-early-voting-site-election-2024\">Election Day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Pew Research Center found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-dismal-views-of-the-nations-politics/\">65% of Americans say they always or often feel “exhausted” when thinking about politics\u003c/a>. And that was before all the dramatic twists and turns of 2024 that have given us the present circumstances: Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/poll-harris-trump-times-siena.html\">deadlocked in the polls of every single swing state\u003c/a>, leaving even the most experienced political analysts with little clue of who will be the next president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But besides election exhaustion, there are other feelings felt across the political spectrum, from anxiety and frustration to straight-up fear. Among many undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families, for example, there’s a lot of nervousness about Trump enacting what he calls “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpORNvI26w\">the largest deportation program in American history\u003c/a>.” After the former president survived a public assassination attempt in July at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, a large number of his most ardent supporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-the-assassination-attempt-against-trump-anger-and-anxiety-loom-over-the-republican-convention\">fear that Trump could be targeted again\u003c/a>. And as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011576/what-do-young-voters-care-about-most-in-this-presidential-election\">millions of Gen Z Americans prepare to cast their votes for the first time\u003c/a>, many have shared \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967133/charli-xcx-fans-election-2024-harris-trump\">their frustration that neither candidate may do enough to protect the lives of Palestinians in Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re feeling these big emotions, you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s normalize [feeling] anxious because it is a very high-stakes election,” said Kelli McLean, a California marriage and family therapist who works on issues relating to trauma, anxiety and depression with her clients. “This is anxiety-provoking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times when we’re feeling a certain type of way about something, it comes out in other ways we don’t expect,” said Ioanna Angelakis, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in San Francisco. “So it’s really important to be honest and truthful with yourself and others about what’s going on and to formulate a plan, so you have something to fall back on — should the worst thing happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for expert advice on the things you can do before, on and after Nov. 5 to help manage anxiety about the 2024 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Try to consume less election news\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When something is very important to us, it’s normal for us to keep checking on it as much as we can. In a presidential election as unpredictable as this one, we may have the TV on all the time or be constantly checking social media to see if there’s any tiny piece of new information that will give us hope that things will “go our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seeking out this feeling of control — in a situation that frankly cannot be controlled by any one single individual — can lead to us feeling even more helpless, McClean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a direct correlation between how much anxiety people are feeling to what they’re watching,” she said. “The election is everywhere, and people are inundating themselves with this. It’s information overload.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recommendation McLean has been sharing with her clients is to stay away from social media as much as they can — or as much as they can bear — for the next few days. “They’re limiting their exposure to these 24-hour news cycles, which can be anxiety-provoking for people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember, polls aren’t crystal balls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/3825/what-is-the-electoral-college-and-is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-it\">seven swing states that are key to winning the election\u003c/a>, polls have switched back and forth between a Trump lead and a Harris lead for weeks now. While you may look for any sliver of hope in new polls, keep in mind that most recent polls \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-trump-poll-pennsylvania-29-10-2024/\">have only changed by 1 or 2 percentage points\u003c/a>, which is within a poll’s margin of error — the window of uncertainty your poll results may have. For example, in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-poll-gender-gap/\">Oct. 28 CBS News/YouGov poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania\u003c/a>, Harris and Trump are tied 49%–49%, but the margin of error is 2.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polls are, after all, surveys of smaller groups meant to reflect a larger population. While Harris and Trump are tied among the smaller group surveyed, that doesn’t mean that in all of Pennsylvania, there’s a perfect tie among those who plan to vote for Harris and Trump. The margin of error tells us that the candidates’ numbers could actually be a little higher or a little lower — within that 2.6% range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this goes to say that it’s probably a good idea to limit how much we look at polls. Remember: the 2016 and 2020 elections delivered many electoral surprises that polls didn’t predict. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/370649/trust-polls-2016-2020-election-2024-pollster-polling-miss\">pollsters have refined their methods\u003c/a> — but even they say that polls are not “perfectly predictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why therapists like Angelakis are reminding their clients to accept the uncertainty in this major event and work from there. “The future is unpredictable and unknown — it’s a mystery,” she said. “All we can do is just stay grounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Enjoy the weekend before Election Day as much as you can\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, the first Tuesday of November could be historic for the country. But let’s not forget that the first \u003cem>weekend\u003c/em> of November is quite special in its own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diwali, the Hindu festival that celebrates light triumphing over darkness, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/diwali-deepavali-hindu-festival-19854481.php\">begins this year in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 31\u003c/a>, and lasts until the next morning. Halloween is also on Thursday — a perfect excuse for families and friends to get together ahead of the weekend.[aside postID=science_1995033 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/Claremont-Canyon-by-Fred-Rowe-East-Bay-Regional-Park-District-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dia-de-los-muertos\">Día de los Muertos\u003c/a> will be celebrated across California, with cities like \u003ca href=\"https://www.dayofthedeadsf.org/\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/diaoakland/\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://diasanjose.com/\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://boyleheightsbeat.com/your-guide-to-free-dia-de-los-muertos-events-on-the-eastside/\">Los Angeles \u003c/a>hosting community-led celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enjoy your weekend,” Angelakis said. “Don’t let these fears take you over because they’re just fears right now … they’re not your reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967439/merlin-the-pig-northern-california-animals-house-pig-mina-alali-davis\">some joyful things going on to distract you\u003c/a>, and most importantly, find ways to laugh with your loved ones, she recommended. Even try to “poke fun at your fears,” Angelakis said, “and you can let out steam that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also read our guide to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995033/12-bay-area-hikes-for-escaping-the-election-even-for-a-few-hours\">the outdoor spots in the Bay Area that might bring you a little calm and peace\u003c/a> in the run-up to Election Day and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parents and caregivers: Keep in mind the needs of your little ones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even if your family doesn’t talk too much about politics at the dinner table, there’s still a chance that your child may be hearing about the election from their friends or classmates. Whether they share this directly with you or not, they may be absorbing the anxiety of others around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids are the spokespeople of their parents and their family’s fears,” Angelakis said. “When your child is acting out, or when your child is isolating, these are signs that your child is worried about something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when it’s very important to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\">age-appropriate conversations about what’s happening out in the world\u003c/a>, McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11764070]“If you’re dealing with a small child, know that a lot of this is too much for them to fully take in, and it can be traumatizing,” she said. “You can explain to them the process without going into scary details: ‘Two people are competing and they have different beliefs. People can get very mad and nervous about it. But you’re still going to be safe in this home with your parents.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to lie to them or over-promise, but just not expose them to things that are not appropriate on the news or social media,” McLean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\">\u003cem>Read KQED’s bilingual guide on how to talk to kids during difficult or scary major moments.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watch your anxiety levels on Election Day itself …\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s Nov. 5. You — or those around — have already voted. And results of the presidential election start coming in at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, when the polls close on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every major TV network will have nonstop coverage of the results throughout the night, and it’s very likely that most restaurants, bars and community spaces with a television will be showing this coverage. But remember: you can choose how much of this coverage you consume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you know that waiting hours into the early morning for the results of each swing state — which just a few thousand votes could decide — will really set your anxiety spiraling, take breaks from watching. What might be even better for you is making a plan with family or friends to do something completely different on Nov. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of how much (or little) news you consume on Tuesday, remember: there will still be results at the end of the vote count — which could take days, like it did in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>… and focus on your breathing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another strategy that Angelakis recommends is giving yourself time for breathing exercises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take two breaths in and one breath out,” she said, adding that you can do as many of these exercises until you start feeling a little more grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you try that breathing, it feels really good,” Angelakis said. “It calms your nervous system down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She especially recommends doing these breathing exercises if anxious thoughts start coming in throughout Election Night. When you feel these thoughts rising, “visualize the best possible outcome in a day of your life,” she said, “from every last detail that you wake up until the moment you go to bed at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why: By bringing back our focus to our own lives and our own actions, we remind ourselves what is in our own control — and let go of worries about things out of our control.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Don’t forget the power you have in your own community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The results of this general election will not impact everyone equally — and this is true far beyond the presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking to folks from communities that are most vulnerable to policy shifts, McLean hears how folks sometimes feel disconnected from the decisions happening in Washington, D.C. “They feel powerless,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, “we are not powerless,” McClean said. “Getting involved in grassroots activism, something local in your own community, can help with these feelings of powerlessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']And remember that even if you can’t vote — whether it’s because of your immigration status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009162/election-2024-what-are-the-voting-rights-of-current-and-formerly-incarcerated-californians\">criminal record\u003c/a> or age — you still have a lot of power. In the Bay Area, for example, the labor rights organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.tuwu.org/about\">Trabajadores Unidos Workers United\u003c/a> (TUWU) has helped undocumented workers organize themselves for years to demand and gain higher wages, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946661/ive-been-contributing-undocumented-workers-are-key-to-californias-economy-a-new-bill-would-give-them-unemployment-benefits\">labor protections\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005037/sf-proposes-relief-fund-to-aid-wage-theft-victims-left-unpaid-by-employers\">social services\u003c/a> at the local and state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are multi-year fights. They don’t happen overnight,” said Samuel Romero, organizing director of TUWU. “So many of these things wouldn’t have been able to pass without the support of the community that we organize with, the majority being folks that aren’t even eligible to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as you work with your community to make change, don’t forget that a big part of that is also what happens in your home. “It is a huge election, and there is a lot at stake,” McClean said. “But it is important for people to ground themselves in their own lives and really take care of themselves first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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