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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">Immigration\u003c/a> arrests and deportations quadrupled in the first nine months of the Trump administration as it sent thousands of federal agents and officers into cities across the country, according to a new report from the Deportation Data Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, whose directors include a pair of University of California professors, found that federal immigration officers are now arresting vastly more people on the streets and are far more likely to arrest people who have not been convicted of any crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From January to October, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement increased by a factor of four and the number of subsequent deportations grew 4.6 times due to expanded detention space and fewer releases, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase appears to be driven by a sharp rise in arrests like those happening in cities such as Los Angeles, where President Trump sent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">a surge of immigration officials last June\u003c/a>, and more recently, Minneapolis, where federal officers have spurred massive protests and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071172/after-second-minneapolis-killing-is-trumps-deportation-strategy-at-a-turning-point\">killed two citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scale of arrests that is documented in these data does rise and fall with the obvious expansion across cities that is taking place,” said Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project and a professor of political science at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators, gathering in support of Minneapolis residents following recent ICE actions, hold a vigil and rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Street arrests,” or the arrests of immigrants within cities and towns at places like grocery stores and schools or in worksite raids, are up by a factor of 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said the rapid expansion of that practice is relatively new; traditionally, the majority of ICE arrests involved transfers of noncitizens from jails or prisons into immigration custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two biggest spikes in street arrests were recorded in June and October, when ICE launched its surge into Southern California and another in Portland, Ore., respectively.[aside postID=news_12071198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251216-ICEPROTEST-33-BL-KQED.jpg']The data, which the Deportation Data Project gathered through public records requests, does not cover the administration’s latest surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has framed its escalations into urban areas as an effort to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/19/ice-continues-remove-worst-worst-minneapolis-streets-dhs-law-enforcement-marks-3000\">remove the worst of the worst\u003c/a>,” calling the immigrants it is focused on detaining “dangerous criminal illegal aliens.” But Blair said the data on detainees’ criminal records — and lack thereof — shows a different pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of arrests of immigrants who have convictions for violent crimes has increased by about 30% from levels under the Biden administration, while arrests of people with nonviolent convictions rose 100% and arrests of those without any criminal records are up 600%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is saying that it is targeting what it calls the ‘worst of the worst,’ and this is another data point showing that just simply doesn’t appear to be the case,” Blair told reporters on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the data shows that those who are arrested are far less likely to be released, while deportation rates are increasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055063\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs identify Taqueria La Gran Chiquita as a safe space for those at risk of deportation in Oakland on Sept. 3, 2025. 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In September, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a policy backing up that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been challenged in court, and in November, a federal judge in California vacated the policy, but Blair said he doesn’t believe the administration has been abiding by that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, immigration attorneys have been able to help clients get bond hearings and release by filing individual habeas petitions, but not all asylum seekers have access to representation, and the backlog of cases makes it difficult for attorneys to keep up.[aside postID=news_12070474 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00401_TV-KQED.jpg']Hausman said these changes are likely responsible for another major shift: a 21-fold increase in voluntary departures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there’s some pretty good evidence that these no-release policies are causing people who might have won their cases instead to give up and accept deportation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also been increasing concern about the conditions within detention centers. 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"content": "\u003cp>South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna is ramping up congressional Democrats’ push for accountability at the California City immigration detention facility in the Mojave Desert after making \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">an oversight visit\u003c/a> this month that he described as “alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, Khanna demanded that the Trump administration turn over records on health and safety conditions at the former prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Khanna echoed the widespread condemnation of the administration’s violent immigration enforcement escalation, which has swelled after the shooting of Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident to be killed by DHS agents this month. Khanna said the behavior of immigration agents in Minneapolis and inside ICE detention centers — where a record 70,000 people are now detained — is two facets of the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s lawlessness,” he said. “They’re mistreating immigrants on our streets, and they’re mistreating immigrants in detention. It’s violating the Constitution of the United States, and it’s violating our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six people have died in custody this month alone, according to ICE. That comes on top of 32 deaths in 2025, the highest number in two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ro Khanna holds a town hall meeting at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025, the first of three town hall events Khanna was set to hold in Republican-held congressional districts across the state. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/khanna.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ice-detention-letter-jan-22-2026-8.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to Noem and Lyons, sent Jan. 22, Khanna demanded a list of records from DHS about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">operations of the California City facility\u003c/a>, which is owned and run by the private prison company CoreCivic and began housing ICE detainees in late August. He gave them a deadline of Feb. 12 and specifically requested:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Contracts between ICE and CoreCivic and with medical providers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting how long it took to deliver medical care;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting use of force and solitary confinement;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Logs documenting grievances filed by detainees;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Food safety and health inspection records;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Records of out-of-cell and recreation time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Khanna said he has a “responsibility to tell the country about what’s going on” in detention facilities, which are generally hidden from public view. KQED’s request to visit the California City facility earlier this month was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think people understand the inhumanity,” said Khanna, who visited the facility after constituents in his Santa Clara County district raised concerns about family members who were held there. “I didn’t understand it myself until I went and saw it myself.”[aside postID=news_12070519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AlexPadillaAdamSchiffAP.jpg']In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, right, speak with Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a yearlong investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate Democrats are vowing to vote against an appropriations bill that includes DHS funding, raising the prospect of a partial government shutdown by week’s end. Last week, all but seven House Democrats voted against the funding bill, but they lacked the votes to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area Democrats, including Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Swalwell and Mike Thompson, have signed on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/text\">articles of impeachment\u003c/a> against Noem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Coachella Valley Democrat, tried to make an oversight visit to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County on Wednesday but was turned away. Ruiz said he requested the visit more than seven days in advance, following a recent ICE policy with which he disagrees. He said ICE also refused him entry to the Adelanto facility in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">made an oversight visit\u003c/a> with Sen. Adam Schiff to the California City detention facility last week, has introduced a bill to overhaul ICE detention and increase accountability. The bill, co-authored with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., would:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>End ICE family detention, where children are held;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Only allow DHS to detain people it can show are a threat to public safety or national security;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require ICE facilities to meet the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/commission_on_immigration/abaimmdetstds.pdf\">American Bar Association’s Civil Immigration Detention Standards\u003c/a>;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mandate unannounced inspections by the DHS inspector general, along with meaningful penalties if standards are not met;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Phase out private detention facilities, run by for-profit companies;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>End the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070624 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE does set \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">standards\u003c/a> for detention facilities, whether operated by the agency itself, a private-prison company or a county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is responsible for monitoring compliance with standards, and the DHS inspector general can also inspect. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In his letter to Noem and Lyons, Khanna said he was disturbed to see people held in civil detention treated as if they were “high-security prisoners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the fact that all visitors are subjected to invasive patdowns and escorts, detainees reported that everyone, even those classified as low-security, are required to meet lawyers and loved ones behind glass and treated as convicted prisoners,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most alarming,” he told the officials, “were the failures in medical care and grievance processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both a senior ICE official and facility staff admitted that urgent medical requests and grievances may sit unattended for weeks and are not reviewed on weekends or holidays,” he wrote. “Detainees described even longer delays and reported being placed in solitary confinement when they complained of medical needs — an extraordinarily troubling and punitive practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. The agency has consistently said it is detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst” violent criminals, highlighting specific people arrested in daily press releases. However, ICE’s own data show that, as of late December, just 26% of those in detention were convicted of any crime. Another 26% faced some sort of pending criminal charge, while 48% were accused of only a civil immigration violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khanna’s oversight demands come as Democrats wage an all-out push to rein in DHS after the weekend killing of Pretti, who was filming immigration agents on a Minneapolis street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023111\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SchiffLofgrenCheneyAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE does set \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">standards\u003c/a> for detention facilities, whether operated by the agency itself, a private-prison company or a county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is responsible for monitoring compliance with standards, and the DHS inspector general can also inspect. 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They also approved a bill, written by Wiener, to prohibit local and federal law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">from wearing masks\u003c/a> on duty — which is currently facing a legal challenge from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 747’s supporters said it would give Californians a chance to hold federal officials accountable in a way that can be difficult under current law.[aside postID=news_12070480 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-4-KQED-1020x574.jpg']“Today we are deliberating an issue to try to solve and also remedy the fear that folks are living with,” Senate President pro Tem Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, said. “In combination with the fact that we have not seen due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener argued that existing law makes it difficult for victims to receive damages in federal court. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Today we are deliberating an issue to try to solve and also remedy the fear that folks are living with,” Senate President pro Tem Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, said. “In combination with the fact that we have not seen due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener argued that existing law makes it difficult for victims to receive damages in federal court. For example, the Federal Tort Claims Act protects the government from liability arising from decisions made by individual officers and requires plaintiffs to first file an administrative claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of SB 747 include Prosecutors Alliance Action, the advocacy arm of a coalition of progressive district attorneys, and Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, which advocates for immigrants in California’s Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is opposed by organizations representing California police officers, sheriffs and Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the change will undercut an existing state law, known as the Bane Act, which requires Californians who sue law enforcement officials to show that a civil rights violation was accomplished through “threats, intimidation, or coercion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071291\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ImmigrationAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ImmigrationAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ImmigrationAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ImmigrationAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The question before you is not whether accountability should exist, but what creating a second, overlapping state system actually adds — other than more litigation and more risk for those on the front lines,” Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During debate on the Senate floor, Wiener said local police officers and sheriffs can already be sued under federal law for violating constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The liability that local and state police officers face will be the same after this is signed into law as before,” Wiener said. “It doesn’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 747 now heads to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an analysis of SB 747, staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote, “the bill is very likely to be challenged by the federal government if signed into law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 28: A previous version of this story said SB 747 was supported by the Prosecutors Alliance. It is backed by the group’s advocacy arm, Prosecutors Alliance Action.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/steve-hilton\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a>, a leading Republican candidate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor to face charges if he’s elected, despite state laws prohibiting cooperation and strong public support for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069971/california-lawmakers-defend-doctor-as-states-clash-over-abortion\">rejected\u003c/a> Louisiana’s request to send Healdsburg physician Dr. Rémy Coeytaux to face charges there. Coeytaux is accused of prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman in October 2023 and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/louisiana-abortion-pills-california-indictment.html\">indicted\u003c/a> by the state’s GOP attorney general earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In rejecting the request, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/14/governor-newsom-rejects-louisianas-attempt-to-extradite-california-doctor-for-providing-abortion-care/\">cited\u003c/a> an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6.27.22-EO-N-12-22-Reproductive-Freedom.pdf?emrc=4e1397\">executive order\u003c/a> he signed in 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That executive order expressly bars the state from cooperating with extradition requests from other states investigating reproductive health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pointed to California’s telemedicine abortion \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB345\">shield law\u003c/a>, which protects anyone who provides or receives reproductive health care in the state. The law is part of a suite of protections lawmakers passed in response to the Supreme Court’s decision, though it took effect after Coeytaux allegedly mailed the abortion pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> podcast, Hilton said he understands that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>, but said he would still “enforce the law” — referring to Louisiana’s law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana voted one way. California voted a different way. That’s the beauty of our federalist system, and I think that’s exactly right,” Hilton said. “But you can’t have one state imposing its will on another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006082 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton, a leading Republican candidate for California governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor if elected, despite California laws barring such cooperation and broad public support for reproductive rights. \u003ccite>(Studio One-One/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton said he’s always supported the “decentralization of power” and believes decisions should be made as close as possible to the people. He argued that’s what the Supreme Court did when it overturned Roe v. Wade, handing decisions over abortion access to the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, Hilton said by not honoring the extradition request, California is trying to impose its will on Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana is trying to uphold what its people voted for, and California is undermining it,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s right. Just as I wouldn’t want to see Louisiana coming in and undermining something that we voted for here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana has also tried to extradite a doctor from New York, a request that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/abortion-extradition-louisiana-doctor.html\">also refused\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12069984 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-KAISER-STRIKE-START-MD-06-KQED.jpg']Reproductive rights advocates slammed Hilton’s position. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO and President Jodi Hicks accused Hilton of “brazenly” rejecting California’s “values and leadership as a reproductive freedom state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any governor or future governor’s job is to protect the values and principles here in California — and certainly ones that Californians have voted on,” Hicks said, noting that Proposition 1, which enshrined abortion access in the state constitution, passed with 67% support. “Their job is to protect those principles and anyone in California, including our California providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of the national group Reproductive Freedom for All, called Louisiana’s extradition attempts “outrageous and dangerous\u003cstrong>,” \u003c/strong>saying in a written statement that by leaving abortion to the states, President Donald Trump has given “anti-abortion extremists free rein to criminalize providers, terrorize patients, and reach beyond state lines to block care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a moment for capitulation,” she said. “The next governor of California must be an unequivocal champion for reproductive freedom, willing to push back against the extremists working to undermine our fundamental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, an expert on reproductive rights and laws, said California’s shield law may not technically prevent a governor from agreeing to an extradition order, but it would effectively prevent the extradition from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the law prohibits state and local government employees and contractors from participating in an extradition relating to abortion care, meaning a judge would not legally be able to issue an arrest warrant, and police could not take someone into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s true that there’s an executive order that Newsom introduced that could be rescinded,” by a future governor, Ziegler said. “But then there’s just the statute, which the governor on his own couldn’t rescind … There are a lot of limits on what other actors can do in terms of arrest and extradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A governor, she said, “isn’t going to roll up and arrest people and extradite them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler said Newsom likely cited the executive order in Coeytaux’s case because the alleged shipment of medication to Louisiana occurred in October 2023, months before California’s shield law took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, she said, the situation illustrates how complicated the legal landscape has become since Roe v. 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Despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans nearly two-to-one in the state — and the fact that no Republican has won statewide office in California in 20 years — Hilton has \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2026-new-poll/\">led some recent polls\u003c/a>, along with another GOP candidate, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic field is large, and support among those candidates remains fractured, leading to some consternation among Democrats that the two GOP candidates could make it into a November runoff; California’s election system allows the top two vote-getters to advance, regardless of party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surveys also show a wide swath of the electorate is still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton has largely avoided talking about abortion on the campaign trail. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pointed to California’s telemedicine abortion \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB345\">shield law\u003c/a>, which protects anyone who provides or receives reproductive health care in the state. The law is part of a suite of protections lawmakers passed in response to the Supreme Court’s decision, though it took effect after Coeytaux allegedly mailed the abortion pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking on KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> podcast, Hilton said he understands that California voters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931183/californians-vote-to-protect-abortion-in-constitution\">enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution\u003c/a>, but said he would still “enforce the law” — referring to Louisiana’s law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana voted one way. California voted a different way. That’s the beauty of our federalist system, and I think that’s exactly right,” Hilton said. “But you can’t have one state imposing its will on another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006082 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/US-and-California-Flags-Getty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton, a leading Republican candidate for California governor, said he would allow Louisiana to extradite a Bay Area abortion doctor if elected, despite California laws barring such cooperation and broad public support for reproductive rights. \u003ccite>(Studio One-One/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton said he’s always supported the “decentralization of power” and believes decisions should be made as close as possible to the people. He argued that’s what the Supreme Court did when it overturned Roe v. Wade, handing decisions over abortion access to the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, Hilton said by not honoring the extradition request, California is trying to impose its will on Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Louisiana is trying to uphold what its people voted for, and California is undermining it,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s right. Just as I wouldn’t want to see Louisiana coming in and undermining something that we voted for here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisiana has also tried to extradite a doctor from New York, a request that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/abortion-extradition-louisiana-doctor.html\">also refused\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO and President Jodi Hicks accused Hilton of “brazenly” rejecting California’s “values and leadership as a reproductive freedom state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any governor or future governor’s job is to protect the values and principles here in California — and certainly ones that Californians have voted on,” Hicks said, noting that Proposition 1, which enshrined abortion access in the state constitution, passed with 67% support. “Their job is to protect those principles and anyone in California, including our California providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of the national group Reproductive Freedom for All, called Louisiana’s extradition attempts “outrageous and dangerous\u003cstrong>,” \u003c/strong>saying in a written statement that by leaving abortion to the states, President Donald Trump has given “anti-abortion extremists free rein to criminalize providers, terrorize patients, and reach beyond state lines to block care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a moment for capitulation,” she said. “The next governor of California must be an unequivocal champion for reproductive freedom, willing to push back against the extremists working to undermine our fundamental rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, an expert on reproductive rights and laws, said California’s shield law may not technically prevent a governor from agreeing to an extradition order, but it would effectively prevent the extradition from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the law prohibits state and local government employees and contractors from participating in an extradition relating to abortion care, meaning a judge would not legally be able to issue an arrest warrant, and police could not take someone into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s true that there’s an executive order that Newsom introduced that could be rescinded,” by a future governor, Ziegler said. “But then there’s just the statute, which the governor on his own couldn’t rescind … There are a lot of limits on what other actors can do in terms of arrest and extradition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A governor, she said, “isn’t going to roll up and arrest people and extradite them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziegler said Newsom likely cited the executive order in Coeytaux’s case because the alleged shipment of medication to Louisiana occurred in October 2023, months before California’s shield law took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, she said, the situation illustrates how complicated the legal landscape has become since Roe v. 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It’s just a question of which one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the whole leaving it to the states thing wasn’t going to work, because the states were going to take diametrically opposed positions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260122-STEVE-HILTON-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Hilton speaks with Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos on Political Breakdown at KQED in San Francisco on Jan. 22, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hilton’s remarks come as the race to succeed Newsom remains wide open. Despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans nearly two-to-one in the state — and the fact that no Republican has won statewide office in California in 20 years — Hilton has \u003ca href=\"https://emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2026-new-poll/\">led some recent polls\u003c/a>, along with another GOP candidate, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic field is large, and support among those candidates remains fractured, leading to some consternation among Democrats that the two GOP candidates could make it into a November runoff; California’s election system allows the top two vote-getters to advance, regardless of party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surveys also show a wide swath of the electorate is still undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilton has largely avoided talking about abortion on the campaign trail. 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Those concerns also dominated follow-up conversations KQED had with voters first interviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039390/do-california-trump-supporters-have-buyers-remorse-not-so-far\">100 days\u003c/a> into Trump’s second administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Southern California and the Central Valley to the North Coast, seven voters offer a mixed review of Trump’s performance. They weigh in on a range of issues, including sweeping tariffs, immigration raids, National Guard deployments and a redistricting battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is general support for his “America First” platform, they are divided on whether the president’s actions fulfill that mandate. Several also criticized Trump’s rhetoric and tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Emerson Green, 26, El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all of his expectations for Trump’s second term, Emerson Green had been most optimistic that the president would improve the economy. Instead, he said he’s deeply disappointed and believes Trump let him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I never voted for him,” Green said. “It’s not that he lied or he didn’t hold up his promise. It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.[aside postID=news_12039390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/IMG_1018-1020x765.jpg']In December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068845/trump-returns-control-of-california-national-guard-after-rare-supreme-court-loss\">a lower-court ruling\u003c/a> barring Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit surprised that they can take that kind of power away from the president of the United States. He is the ultimate leader of our country,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he bristled at limits on the president’s authority at home, Pino praised Trump for exercising that power abroad by ordering a military incursion into Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a president take an action like going into a foreign country, grabbing its Communist criminal leader and bringing them back to face trial,” Pino said. “It’s one of the most spectacular foreign policy events that I’ve seen any American president make in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, hopes Trump will intervene there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Cuban American, I feel that direct U.S. intervention should happen if you want to protect something that’s that close to your shores,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year in, Pino remains fully on board with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approve of everything he’s done so far,” he said. “I’m a bigger fan now than you found me last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kim Durham is thankful to have Trump in office, but wants to see him temper his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he shoots himself in the foot by saying things he doesn’t need to say,” she said. “Decorum could be utilized a little bit in public speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration ranks among Durham’s top policy concerns, and she supports Trump’s rapid push to secure the southern border as well as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">aggressive approach to deportations\u003c/a>. Her daughter is a police officer, and Durham believes national media coverage has fueled hostility toward ICE that has spilled over to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just infuriating to watch just regular people in uniforms … have to fight through angry mobs of cars,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the killing of Pretti, Durham repeated Noem’s rhetoric, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for not coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’ve let ICE do the job that they’ve been called to do, this wouldn’t be happening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham would not condemn the individual officers involved, saying that a final judgment should come from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee that individually every ICE agent is gonna act perfect,” she said. “So, I don’t believe as a whole ICE is wrong. Or even necessarily overreaching.”[aside postID=news_12070426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-robbontapb-05-bl-KQED.jpg']Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. Doug LaMalfa\u003c/a>, a Republican who represented rural Northern California for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mari Barke, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education, has mostly positive things to say about the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He puts our country first, which to me is critically important of somebody who is president,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 864px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071083 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg 864w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mari Barke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Above all, she aligns with Trump’s education agenda, like his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> banning transgender athletes\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\"> from participating in girls’\u003c/a> and women’s sports and his push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">eliminate \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065920/trump-orders-dei-out-of-national-park-bookstores\">diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>. The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. I have a gay son who has a husband, and I love him to death, no matter who he is or what he decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her alignment with the administration, Barke occasionally finds fault with Trump’s delivery, suggesting he could behave “more presidential” so as not to offend people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Southern California and the Central Valley to the North Coast, seven voters offer a mixed review of Trump’s performance. They weigh in on a range of issues, including sweeping tariffs, immigration raids, National Guard deployments and a redistricting battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is general support for his “America First” platform, they are divided on whether the president’s actions fulfill that mandate. Several also criticized Trump’s rhetoric and tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Emerson Green, 26, El Dorado County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Of all of his expectations for Trump’s second term, Emerson Green had been most optimistic that the president would improve the economy. Instead, he said he’s deeply disappointed and believes Trump let him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I never voted for him,” Green said. “It’s not that he lied or he didn’t hold up his promise. It is that he did the exact opposite, with intent, of what he promised he was going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump returned to the White House, Green got engaged and is expecting a baby in May. The 26-year-old now works at O’Reilly Auto Parts after changing jobs twice last year. He said he’s noticed the cost of some car parts rising because of tariffs, though not as dramatically as he expected when Trump announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033974/trumps-april-2nd-liberation-day\">“Liberation Day” tariffs\u003c/a> last April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1489px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1489\" height=\"993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED.jpg 1489w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250505-EMERSON-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1489px) 100vw, 1489px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerson Green sits during a hike in Adams Canyon, Utah, on May 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emerson Green)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s also noticed everyday expenses like groceries and medication becoming more expensive and has begun to see home ownership as nearly unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of owning a house at this point in my life seems like something that is, if I even do it, it might be 30 years out at this point,” Green said. “It’s probably as bleak as it gets for young people these days … and [Trump] has done nothing to improve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Green’s mom received an offer letter for a job with the Internal Revenue Service, but when Trump issued a government hiring freeze, her offer was rescinded. It took her a couple of months to find another job, and she now works in funeral insurance sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is really struggling to make ends meet,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond his dissatisfaction with the economy, Green is most critical of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069211/after-maduros-capture-venezuela-faces-old-u-s-shadows-and-uncertain-future\">military intervention in Venezuela\u003c/a>, which he sees as veering away from the president’s pledge to prioritize America first. On Jan. 3, Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning extraction that resulted in Venezuela’s leader facing federal charges in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t see a strategic benefit to it at all,” Green said. “I do think he did it as, like, a stunt to boost his approval ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green also faults Trump for repeatedly delaying the release of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910661/president-trump-tries-fails-to-stem-epstein-files-controversy\">Epstein files\u003c/a>, then issuing heavily redacted documents despite vows on the campaign trail to declassify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may as well have red hands,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ben Pino, 56, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, Ben Pino still stands behind the administration’s immigration tactics. The shooting marks the second killing this month of a Minneapolis resident during an operation after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino believes Pretti and Good were “antagonizing the feds,” echoing \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015188497003319557\">statements\u003c/a> made by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who said Pretti approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and claimed, without evidence, that he attacked officers with the intent to harm them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039370\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-1-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Pino in his neighborhood in Los Angeles County on May 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo for LAist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Video footage shows Pretti holding a phone, with his concealed gun removed from his waistband by an agent, before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the loss of life is tragic. I think that those young people used poor judgment and got themselves killed,” Pino said. “I don’t understand the outrage, to be quite honest with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino lives in the Diamond District in Los Angeles and works in Carson. He supported Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">California National Guard\u003c/a> troops to Southern California, without the governor’s approval, to quell anti-ICE protests last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me, ICE needed some kind of protection because people were going nuts,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In December, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068845/trump-returns-control-of-california-national-guard-after-rare-supreme-court-loss\">a lower-court ruling\u003c/a> barring Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little bit surprised that they can take that kind of power away from the president of the United States. He is the ultimate leader of our country,” Pino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he bristled at limits on the president’s authority at home, Pino praised Trump for exercising that power abroad by ordering a military incursion into Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a president take an action like going into a foreign country, grabbing its Communist criminal leader and bringing them back to face trial,” Pino said. “It’s one of the most spectacular foreign policy events that I’ve seen any American president make in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pino, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, hopes Trump will intervene there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Cuban American, I feel that direct U.S. intervention should happen if you want to protect something that’s that close to your shores,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One year in, Pino remains fully on board with the administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approve of everything he’s done so far,” he said. “I’m a bigger fan now than you found me last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Kim Durham, 68, Sacramento County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kim Durham is thankful to have Trump in office, but wants to see him temper his rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he shoots himself in the foot by saying things he doesn’t need to say,” she said. “Decorum could be utilized a little bit in public speaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration ranks among Durham’s top policy concerns, and she supports Trump’s rapid push to secure the southern border as well as his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">aggressive approach to deportations\u003c/a>. Her daughter is a police officer, and Durham believes national media coverage has fueled hostility toward ICE that has spilled over to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039089\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-TRUMP100DAYS-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Durham sits outside of an apartment she rents outside of Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just infuriating to watch just regular people in uniforms … have to fight through angry mobs of cars,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the killing of Pretti, Durham repeated Noem’s rhetoric, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for not coordinating with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’ve let ICE do the job that they’ve been called to do, this wouldn’t be happening,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham would not condemn the individual officers involved, saying that a final judgment should come from the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no guarantee that individually every ICE agent is gonna act perfect,” she said. “So, I don’t believe as a whole ICE is wrong. Or even necessarily overreaching.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durham also backs Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard in Los Angeles, and said she wishes state leaders would cooperate with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some that say he’s a dictator. Well, no, he’s not a dictator — we voted him in,” she said. “I think it would all be a lot better if we didn’t resist the federal government and instead just got together and said, ‘Hey, I’m with you … Let’s sit down, work together and clean it up instead of fight it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On health care, Durham said she’s glad to see the administration target Medicaid fraud. In July, Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, including an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Much of that reduction would come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new work requirements\u003c/a> and additional paperwork demands that would shrink enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly believe if all the fraud could be cut out of Medicaid and Medicare, we would be in a surplus of money,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durham also praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/other-health/tracking-key-hhs-public-health-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/\">initiatives\u003c/a>, especially efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037182/rfk-jr-announced-phase-out-poisonous-food-dyes-critics-say-plan-lacks-teeth\">remove synthetic dyes\u003c/a> from the food supply and curb ultra-processed foods, raising concerns about what her grandchild eats. She’s also in favor of his updated childhood vaccine schedule, calling the previous standard “ridiculous” and saying families need choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Cindy Cremona, 66, formerly San Diego County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cindy Cremona heard about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, the November 2025 ballot measure approved by voters that redraws California’s congressional maps, she felt Republicans would never have a voice in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for many, people just felt that it was going to lock in California as a blue state forever and ever,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Cremona moved from Encinitas, a coastal city in northern San Diego County, to Wellington, Florida. She had been considering the move since Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019 and was even more compelled to leave during the pandemic, when she felt the state went too far with vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250508-Trump-100-Days-San-Diego-CC-03-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Cremona and her 12-year-old Andalusian horse, Durango, in San Marcos, California, on May 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carolyne Corelis/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, she reached her breaking point and decided to move, citing “the politics, the taxes, the over-regulation, the traffic, the overdevelopment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cremona finds Florida’s housing costs and policies preferable to California’s. For instance, she took issue with last year’s passing of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">SB 79\u003c/a>, which makes it easier to build apartment buildings near major public transit stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s optimistic about Trump’s housing proposals, including a recent pledge to target institutional investors who buy up single-family homes. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069094/in-final-state-of-state-speech-gov-newsom-says-california-offers-model-for-the-nation\">echoed a similar stance\u003c/a> toward corporate landlords in his State of the State address, a rare instance of political overlap between the Democratic governor and the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Cremona expressed confidence in the president’s ability to deliver on other economic promises, like lower food and energy costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think 2026 is the year where we’ll see some of those policies borne out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Debbie Pope, 60, Long Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Debbie Pope is deeply disillusioned with Trump’s first year back in office. At the beginning of 2025, she welcomed what she described as Trump’s “guns-a-blazing” return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071090\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-DEBBIE-POPE-1-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Pope in her Long Beach home on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Debbie Pope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But her view shifted in the second half of the year, following the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055470/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-during-utah-college-event\">assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> and repeated delays in releasing the Epstein files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a whole different view of Trump after that for some reason,” she said. “The biggest disappointment is the Epstein files. It’s just like, Trump, you’re in them. You’re in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pope voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, but before that, she was a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. Her party switch was driven by a distaste for Hillary Clinton and Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, one of her top policy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter of a Nicaraguan immigrant, Pope supports stricter border enforcement — and thinks Trump has failed to deliver on promises of mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to see the president focus on domestic issues, like ramping up deportations even more, rather than foreign military interventions in Venezuela and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s veered off the America First train, I think,” she said. “So yeah, I’m a little disappointed in him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pope sees Trump as prioritizing the interests of billionaires over those of his constituents. She also points to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912301/whats-behind-president-trumps-aesthetic\">massive ballroom renovations\u003c/a> and putting his name on the Kennedy Center as diversions from America First.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, we know you’re a narcissist, but really, you’re getting carried away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Ron Dawson, 68, Eureka\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ron Dawson said he would give Trump’s performance in 2025 a B+. He feels his cost of living has improved since Trump took office, noting lower grocery and fuel prices. He still wants to see the president lower the federal deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawson voted for Trump in 2024, but his preferred presidential candidate was Nikki Haley. He still favors the president over Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/gettyimages-2253884717-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday following U.S. military actions in Venezuela. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a Democrat like his parents, Dawson said the last time he voted blue was for Bill Clinton in 1996. Since then, he’s felt like the Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910306/can-the-left-win-back-working-class-voters\">Party has become elitist\u003c/a>, prioritizing identity politics and social justice issues, which he said have “nothing to do with running a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in Eureka six years ago, Dawson spent almost five decades in Southern California. He recalls working as a machinist in 1980 and losing the job to an immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He could work cheaper than I would accept,” he said. “I have a problem with the system. The system I recognized way back then is really broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Dawson approves of Trump’s secure border platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in far Northern California, Dawson is critical of Proposition 50 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">newly redrawn\u003c/a> 2nd Congressional District. Previously stretching from Marin County to the Oregon border, the new boundaries push further inland to the Nevada border, pulling in Siskiyou, Modoc and Shasta counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our congressional representative, Jared Huffman — he already has a very, very large district and a lot of people say, like, you never see him, never hear from him,” Dawson said. “They didn’t stop and think, how does this one guy represent such a large area?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns deepened following the recent death of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068742/northern-california-republican-congressman-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\">Rep. Doug LaMalfa\u003c/a>, a Republican who represented rural Northern California for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mari Barke, Orange County\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mari Barke, president of the Orange County Board of Education, has mostly positive things to say about the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He puts our country first, which to me is critically important of somebody who is president,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071083\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 864px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071083 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED.jpg 864w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-Trump-100-Days-MARIBARKE-KQED-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mari Barke, photographed at the California Policy Center in Irvine in 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mari Barke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Above all, she aligns with Trump’s education agenda, like his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> banning transgender athletes\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069570/california-advocates-fearful-as-supreme-court-weighs-bans-of-trans-student-athletes\"> from participating in girls’\u003c/a> and women’s sports and his push to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/\">eliminate \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065920/trump-orders-dei-out-of-national-park-bookstores\">diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>. The administration has threatened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">withhold federal funding\u003c/a> from schools with DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important to get rid of all the biases and just let people enter higher education based on merit,” Barke said, arguing that merit incentivizes students to work hard and reduces the likelihood of academic failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barke is a staunch advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019618/california-bans-schools-from-forcing-teachers-to-out-lgbtq-students\">parental notification policies\u003c/a>, which require school teachers and staff to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never think it’s a good idea to teach children to lie to their parents,” she said. “I think if a child is going through something like that, nothing is more important than having your parents’ love. I have a gay son who has a husband, and I love him to death, no matter who he is or what he decides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her alignment with the administration, Barke occasionally finds fault with Trump’s delivery, suggesting he could behave “more presidential” so as not to offend people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Democratic candidates for California governor had harsh words for the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Monday, after a Border Patrol officer shot and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071074/heres-what-california-leaders-said-about-latest-minneapolis-killing\">killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa compared masked federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “the Ku Klux Klan coming in with assault weapons [and] flash-bang grenades.” Investor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064558/billionaire-climate-activist-tom-steyer-enters-2026-california-governors-race\">Tom Steyer\u003c/a> called the operation “a threat to America.” And, if elected governor, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond promised to “get rid of ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vows of resistance came at a candidate forum in San Francisco, sponsored by the Urban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, a civil rights organization. The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation agenda is likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069540/san-francisco-da-weighs-in-on-minneapolis-ice-shooting\">to remain a flashpoint\u003c/a> between the White House and whoever wins the wide-open race to become California’s next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Minnesota, federal officials have refused to partner with state agencies to investigate the killings of Pretti and Renee Good, who was shot by a federal agent earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a governor who will stand up and inspire people to fight back,” Villaraigosa said. “Not just in the courts, not just at the ballot box, we need to build a nonviolent movement and a governor who can support the effort that all of you have to lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071101\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles, speaks during a state gubernatorial forum with fellow candidates at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2026. The Urban League of the Bay Area hosted the forum. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates in the crowded field have spent months attempting to balance agendas centered on resistance to President Donald Trump — while also presenting solutions to the issues California voters have prioritized, such as housing affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a question about public safety, Steyer said the immigration agents in Minneapolis were an example of “how not to police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does that look like? It looks like people from outside of the community with no accountability, where you can’t even see who they are, where they’re not wearing a camera and where they have impunity to treat citizens however they want, however violently,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candidates spent much of the panel responding to the findings of a new Urban League survey of Black Bay Area residents, in which 59% of respondents said they were struggling to deal with the cost of housing, bills and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond, the lone Black candidate among the leading contenders, was the only candidate at Monday’s forum to voice support for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparations for Black Californians\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12070940 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2256933557-2000x1333.jpg']The movement for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">reparations\u003c/a> at the state Capitol, which was buoyed by the creation of a task force to study the issue in 2020, appears to have stalled. Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059600/newsom-vetoes-stall-californias-reparations-push-for-black-descendants\">vetoed a handful of reparations bills\u003c/a> that would have allowed the descendants of enslaved people to receive preference in university admissions, business licenses and loans for first-time homebuyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, who endorsed Thurmond on Monday morning, closed the forum by asking the candidates to detail their first action “to ensure that African Americans and people of color and marginalized communities can thrive economically?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will sign as governor a reparations package that gives loans to Black folks who want to start a business, to go to college or to pay for a home,” Thurmond said. “Because having a home is the American Dream. It is slipping away, and we have to close the gap of disparity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban League survey, which polled 400 people living in the Bay Area, revealed three top policy priorities for Black residents: housing affordability and homeownership, homelessness and inflation/cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those results mirrored the findings of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/\">recent\u003c/a> Public Policy Institute of California poll that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066482/californians-more-enthusiastic-about-midterm-elections-as-trump-approval-ratings-fall\">found\u003c/a> “cost of living/economy/inflation” and “housing costs/housing availability” as the top two issues for residents statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter said she would focus on lowering the costs of housing and child care. Former Attorney General Xavier Becerra promised to freeze utility and property insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-64-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-64-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-64-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-64-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260226-GOVRACEFORUM-64-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayor Barbara Lee asks a question to state gubernatorial candidates during a forum at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2026. The Urban League of the Bay Area hosted the forum. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betty Yee, the state’s former controller, said she would permanently fund city-led initiatives to reduce homelessness, while former San Gabriel Valley Assemblymember Ian Calderon proposed a fee on corporate real estate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter has sat atop most public polling alongside three candidates who were not at Monday’s event: Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat, and two Republicans — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050648/were-both-sheriffs-sfs-miyamoto-endorses-maga-republican-for-ca-governor\">Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco\u003c/a> and commentator and businessman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867315/fox-news-host-and-bay-area-resident-steve-hilton-on-positive-populism\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a>. But large swaths of the electorate remain undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area President Kenneth E. Maxey II told KQED that candidates must confront the reality that the state’s powerful economy — the fourth-largest in the world as measured by gross domestic product — is not working for all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were able to articulate their commitment and their desire to help and make sure that this economy involves everyone, in particular for today, the African American population,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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