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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Tuesday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a giant bust of Elon Musk — accompanied by the words “Make America Wait Again: Now With Longer Lines Thanks To DOGE Cuts!” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">appeared in Utah’s Arches National Park\u003c/a>, towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Musk bust has appeared again — this time in Yosemite National Park.[aside postID='news_12047124,news_12048728,news_12045255' label='Getting Outside']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitor Greg Perkins told KQED that he spotted the sculpture, which makes reference to the Tesla CEO and former Department of Government Efficiency leader’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">attempts to reduce the staff and budgets of federal departments like the National Parks Service\u003c/a>, in Yosemite this weekend — and captured photos of the giant head passing iconic park spots like \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/upper-yosemite-falls-trail\">Yosemite Falls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/places/000/el-capitan-meadow.htm\">El Capitan\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/elon-musk-head-arches-national-park\">\u003cem>Outside\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>, the head spotted in Arches was 12 feet high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Carr, Director of Communication for Yosemite National Park, confirmed that the bust of Musk was indeed present in the park this weekend. Addressing the issue of wait times referenced by the bust’s signage, Carr told KQED by email that “Yosemite National Park is one of the busiest parks in the National Park System and while it is still early in the summer season the park is on pace to surpass last year’s visitation totals of more than 4.1 million visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wait times to enter Yosemite vary daily and throughout the day,” wrote Carr, and “weekends, specifically Friday and Saturday, are the busiest days with peak traffic between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049029 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose2-1-1536x1112.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to Yosemite National Park take photos of a traveling bust of Elon Musk. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the National Parks Conservation Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Parks have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/2675-lands-of-protest\">long been used as sites of protest\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://planning.dc.gov/publication/history-resistance-lafayette-square-and-black-lives-matter-movement-washington-dc\">2020 Black Lives Matter protests\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square opposite the White House and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11788540/a-look-back-at-the-occupation-of-alcatraz-50-years-later\">Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in the 1960s\u003c/a>. In February,\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/upside-us-flag-hung-yosemite-national-park-protest-employee-cuts-rcna193409\"> Yosemite staffers hung an upside-down United State flag\u003c/a> from the face of El Capitan during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860844/yosemite-firefall-week-2021\">the park’s annual “firefall” event\u003c/a> in protest of the Trump administration’s proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049021 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose4-e1753130794983-1536x1026.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bust of Elon Musk towed on a trailer behind a truck driving through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s policies have taken direct aim at public lands during the president’s first six months back in office, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf\">calls to cut $900 million from the NPS operations budget\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">attempts to sell U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties\u003c/a> to private buyers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">new signs asking visitors to federal lands to report signage\u003c/a> that includes “negative” information about U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049028\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose3_CROP-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A giant head of former DOGE head Elon Musk travels through Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Greg Perkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">lands sale was ultimately scrapped from Republicans’ budget bill\u003c/a>, and most \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/07/15/national-parks-spared-deeper-budget-cuts-2026-grassroots-protests/\">parks funding may remain intact in 2026\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">top Trump officials still have their eyes on Alcatraz National Park as a future federal prison site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some national parks are also struggling not only with \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7301979/national-park-system-trump-administration/\">low morale around the uncertainty \u003c/a>of staffing shortages and underfunding, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">with reported lower visitation\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040535/canadians-tourists-say-they-are-avoiding-the-united-states-due-to-fear\">international travel wanes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> took to Instagram to announce that a store selling Labubus plush dolls would soon open in Union Square, his thumb was on the pulse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monster-like dolls have gone viral online among collectors worldwide and have become a social media meme for their absurdity. Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DL5K9TYxtN4/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> performed well for his account, generating plenty of LOLs and laughing-crying emojis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie didn’t read the room. His cheeky celebration of economic recovery downtown came a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">violently clashed with protesters\u003c/a> outside the city’s downtown courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical internet fashion, backlash followed almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s troublingly dystopian to see this video about Labubus from you while your constituents are being kidnapped by federal agents, and those who are trying to stop that from happening are being brutalized. Is this what you want your legacy to be?” read one comment from a group representing a coalition of left-leaning San Francisco City Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment was one of many criticizing the mayor online for not speaking out more about escalating ICE raids in San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD officer stares straight ahead past a line of anti-ICE protesters during a protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie takes a cautious, positive approach on TikTok and Instagram, highlighting the city’s recovery while avoiding the partisan fights that fuel much of today’s online political discourse. His strategy reflects the challenge moderate Democrats face in balancing tough issues with hopeful messaging in a polarized digital landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, he speaks directly to residents through selfie videos showing off things like thriving coffee shops, housing development plans or AI companies making San Francisco their home base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is important is that we’ve got to show all the good things happening,” Lurie told KQED after wrapping up a selfie video with Warriors star Jimmy Butler at his new coffee pop-up in the Mission.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.[aside postID=news_12048367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BondiBurgumSFVisitAP1.jpg']“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. In two takes, Lurie summarized what he saw in the area: mild but incomplete progress clearing the area of outdoor drug use. He chatted with neighborhood outreach workers and police officers before returning to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicizing it, I don’t get into that. I’m going to work with anybody that wants to fix this issue,” Lurie said as he strolled down Mission Street. “We’re going to work with every side of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his carefully crafted online persona and his restraint from wading into heated online debates, Lurie said, “I’m trying to highlight not just to San Franciscans but to the world what is so unique and special about San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. In two takes, Lurie summarized what he saw in the area: mild but incomplete progress clearing the area of outdoor drug use. He chatted with neighborhood outreach workers and police officers before returning to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicizing it, I don’t get into that. I’m going to work with anybody that wants to fix this issue,” Lurie said as he strolled down Mission Street. “We’re going to work with every side of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his carefully crafted online persona and his restraint from wading into heated online debates, Lurie said, “I’m trying to highlight not just to San Franciscans but to the world what is so unique and special about San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They appeared in plain clothes outside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/immigration-raids-san-diego-hotels-tourism/3859339/\">San Diego\u003c/a> hotel, wore camouflage as they \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/worksite-immigration-raids/\">raided a Los Angeles factory\u003c/a> and arrived with military gear at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms\">Ventura County farm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of thousands of hard-to-identify federal agents is a new fact of life in Southern California this summer as the Trump administration carries out the president’s promised deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents may assume these masked agents are officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But that’s not always the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them belong to the Border Patrol, the agency that traditionally has policed the nation’s border with Mexico. But the Trump administration sent officers from other agencies to Los Angeles, too, including the FBI and special tactical teams from the Department of Homeland Security not widely seen until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in California’s Legislature have proposed measures to unmask the federal agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 627, the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb627\">No Secret Police Act\u003c/a>,” seeks to prohibit all local, state and federal officers from using masks with some exceptions. SB 805, the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb805\">No Vigilantes Act\u003c/a>,” would require that officers clearly display their name or badge number. It’s disputed whether the state can regulate federal officers and law enforcement agencies are lobbying against the proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-287/section-287.8#p-287.8(c)\">state\u003c/a> that ICE and Border Patrol agents should identify themselves when arresting someone “as soon as it is practical and safe to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the public is allowed to ask federal agents to identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Levine, a professor at UC Law San Francisco said, “they can ask but it doesn’t mean they’ll get the information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of sweeps and detentions appeared to slow this week after a federal judge issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">temporary restraining order\u003c/a>, finding that agents stopped people based on someone’s race, language, accent, presence at a specific location or job. For ensuing stops, agents must have “reasonable suspicion” that doesn’t consider those factors “alone or in combination,” according to the judge’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ICE is a different agency than Border Patrol, both are part of the Department of Homeland Security and carry out immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference may not always matter much, but misidentifying an agency can confuse the public, as it did with the sighting of \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-19/dhs-agents-at-dodger-stadium-area\">federal agents\u003c/a> outside Dodger Stadium in June. The agents reportedly had no visible names or badges and attempted to enter the stadium’s parking lots. The Dodgers put out a statement that “ICE agents” had been denied entry to the stadium. ICE denied it was ever there; the Department of Homeland Security then clarified that it had been Customs and Border Protection agents at the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images on social media show a constellation of federal agencies supporting immigration sweeps in Southern California. Here’s how you can identify them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Border Patrol far from the border\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/070725_ILLO_Operation-Excalibur-MacArthur-Park_Hendricks_CM_14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Three heavily armed U.S. Border Patrol agents in tactical gear stand outside in a city setting with palm trees and buildings in the background. All are wearing helmets, face coverings, and body armor. A zoomed-in inset highlights a round shoulder patch with yellow text reading “U.S. Border Patrol” over a blue map of the United States. The photo is black and white, except for the yellow and blue colors of the patch in the inset.\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal agents descend on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. \u003cem>J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol agents often wear green uniforms and “Border Patrol” and “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” might be labeled on their badge, vest, shoulder, back, bucket hat or cap, and usually in yellow text over blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their marked vehicles tend to be white with a green slash, reading “Border Patrol” on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might confuse Border Patrol with Customs and Border Protection officers. Those officials wear blue and usually stay stationed at ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may be wondering why Border Patrol agents are conducting immigration operations deep into Los Angeles neighborhoods, rather than staying closer to the border.[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']Border Patrol agents can search vehicles without a warrant throughout much of the country. They’re allowed to operate 100 miles from any edge of the country and coastline, reaching roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> and documentary produced in partnership with Evident and Bellingcat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/overview\">creation\u003c/a> by Congress in 1924, the Border Patrol’s role has been to prevent unauthorized entry into the United States. The agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders\">polices\u003c/a> trade, narcotics, contraband and combats human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has a SWAT-like unit known as BORTAC, or Border Patrol Tactical Unit, which has also been documented in immigrant hubs such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mel_buer_/p/DL0bj-LBOyT/?img_index=1\">MacArthur Park\u003c/a>, Los Angeles’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlaVtDS-2N/\">Toy District\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/story/2025-06-20/photos-federal-raid-in-bell-met-with-protests\">Bell\u003c/a>. Border Patrol sources describe the unit’s use for “high-risk” purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fatigues, the unit wears a “BORTAC” patch on the left shoulder with, at times, black undershirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/federal-agents-execute-search-warrant-in-north-hills-neighborhood/3734363/\">deployed\u003c/a> its tactical Special Response Team in Los Angeles’ North Hills late June, executing a federal search warrant at a “human smuggling hub” tied to national security threats, arresting two, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE in police vests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents might wear an “ICE” patch on the front or back of their vest, usually in black-and-white, though they also can carry a badge of the same design in gold. The ICE emblem features the U.S. Department of Homeland Security eagle \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/department-homeland-security-seal\">seal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents might display “police” on their uniform. The ACLU wants ICE to stop using the word “police” on uniforms, contending the agency is impersonating local law enforcement officers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 9/11, the Bush administration created the Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement within it shortly thereafter. ICE is \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/history\">tasked\u003c/a> with enforcing trade and immigration laws, including within the interior of the country.[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']The Cato Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions\">found\u003c/a> that ICE booked over 200,000 people into detention between October 1 and June 14. More than 93% of book-ins had no violent conviction and 65% had no criminal conviction whatsoever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE itself has a few enforcement divisions. That’s why some ICE uniforms might read \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO \u003c/a>— part of their “Enforcement and Removal Operations” team — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi\">HSI\u003c/a> for “Homeland Security Investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, ICE launched a rebrand and created the investigations unit to develop cases, and improve public outreach, including with local law enforcement, an \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homeland-security-agency-ice-rebrands-aid-investigations/story?id=109510154\">HSI official told\u003c/a> ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice\">website\u003c/a>, HSI combats a broad array of transnational-related crime, ranging from narcotics smuggling to cybercrime, and from human trafficking to intellectual property theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO\u003c/a> meanwhile manages all aspects of the typical immigration enforcement process: identifying, arresting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/statistics\">GPS monitoring\u003c/a>, and deporting unauthorized immigrants. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/mission\">Their site description \u003c/a>also says they seek to deport priority undocumented immigrants after they are released from U.S. jails and prisons. They can also assist multi-agency task forces in arresting unauthorized immigrants without any other criminal history who are “deemed a threat to public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE also deployed its Special Response Team (SRT), decked in military wear and weaponry, in San Diego late May. It sent a dozen or more of those officers to the \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/vendor-safety-santa-fe-springs-swap-meet-raid/\">Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet\u003c/a> near southeast Los Angeles in June, detaining two people for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents from those teams will often feature their logo on the shoulder and will be seen in heavy military-like uniforms. The teams are meant to engage “high risk” situations, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi/news/hsi-insider/strategic-safety-operations\">ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rare National Guard deployment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>National Guard troops had been most visible outside a federal building during protests in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/\">downtown Los Angeles\u003c/a>, but have also accompanied a few immigration enforcement operations. In \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935558820014809383\">mid-June\u003c/a>, National Guard soldiers accompanied federal agents raiding marijuana farms around Thermal, a desert town near Coachella, where about \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1935559162144141669\">70 undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> were arrested, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 7, about 90 California National Guard soldiers swept through the Los Angeles immigrant hub of MacArthur Park, a defense official said, to protect immigration agents from potentially hostile crowds, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-raid-troops-military-2d81f5c35f9d11db9e32234e03480497\">according to the Associated Press\u003c/a>. They also were on site in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9177508/soldiers-support-federal-operation-southern-california\">Carpinteria\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard troops in L.A. wear Army uniforms. Soldiers in the state units have patches on their left shoulder that show a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/rc5ctq/found_this_unit_patch_online_can_anyone_tell_me/\">raven\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9131019/california-national-guard-soldiers-support-federal-security-mission-los-angeles\">sunburst\u003c/a>, or a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uniforms-4u.com/p-49th-military-police-mp-brigade-acu-military-patch-4901.aspx\">sunburst\u003c/a> on top a diamond, each in black and green color schemes. Troops will also have a full color \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9111385/california-national-guard-soldiers-provide-protection-federal-law-enforcement-federal-operation\">U.S. flag\u003c/a> on the right shoulder. The patch under that, if any, can vary and may be based on a soldier’s past deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the U.S. military, the National Guard is able to serve both domestically and globally for state and federal duties, assisting with natural disasters, border security, civil unrest, overseas combat, counter-drug efforts and more. Soldiers largely stay in their home state and can be called on by the state governor or president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed President Trump’s decision to send the troops to Los Angeles, and the assignment marked the first time that a president has deployed the National Guard \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/national-guard-los-angeles-legal/\">over the objections of a governor\u003c/a> since the Civil Rights era.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More federal law enforcement officers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In January, a Homeland Security memo called for Justice Department agents to carry out immigration enforcement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration/story?id=118022307\">ABC News\u003c/a>. Deputized bureaus include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons receiving the “same authority already granted to the FBI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers’ affiliations can be seen on their vests, jackets, or at times, their shoulder patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents wearing FBI fatigues were most visible in the worksite sweep at Ambiance Apparel in L.A.’s Fashion District, arguably the first major operation of the current wave of raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, FBI Los Angeles’ X account \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FBILosAngeles/status/1932573649585787303\">touted\u003c/a> its collaboration with an ICE operation in Ventura County. They have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/06/26/hsi-fbi-speak-illegal-immigration-raid-gulf-shores-high-school/\">participated\u003c/a> in other immigration raids across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the Justice Department declined to comment on how it deployed agents from various agencies. In early June, the FBI \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-agents-raid-home-depot-in-westlake-district/\">told\u003c/a> KTLA that it is participating in immigration enforcement in Los Angeles and nationwide “as directed by the Attorney General,” supporting with SWAT, intelligence and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ATF was also seen at the Ambiance Apparel raid. The DEA was there, too, and has since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1932898021626556425/photo/1\">collaborated\u003c/a> with ICE in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, U.S. Marshals \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1935684366589415896/photo/1\">touted\u003c/a> themselves as “on the front lines of immigration enforcement” in Los Angeles while showing officers interviewing a man on a bike. Marshals were also on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1943918200799772806/photo/1\">site\u003c/a> at a Ventura County marijuana farm raid where more than 200 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can California unmask federal agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of masked agents without clearly identifying uniforms has confused the public, including local police receiving reports of kidnappings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-warning-amid-increased-reports-fake-ice-officers\">warned\u003c/a> in March that reports of ICE impersonations were growing. Alleged federal agent impersonations have occurred in Huntington Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox6now.com/news/new-berlin-border-patrol-impersonator-charges\">Wisconsin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDUXfqt4QUs\">Philadelphia\u003c/a> and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t even know who these people are. It’s so dangerous, it’s so horrific, and it’s time to put standards in place,” said Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who is backing two proposals that would compel law enforcement officers to go without masks and display identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration maintains that the masks are necessary to protect officers’ identities as they carry out investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=dfdb587be6bb4d8d829c7d1b92812a76\">said\u003c/a> acting ICE Director Todd Lyons in a press conference early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some law enforcement experts say the federal government has that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certain legislators are giving a false sense of hope that California can legislate laws to control the practices of federal agents,” said Ed Obayashi, a longtime sheriff’s deputy in California and policy adviser to the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They cannot do that — bottom line. Plain and simple. Federal law is supreme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging potential legal disputes, Wiener said he’s willing to test the “time-sensitive” bills in the courts.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>“Federal employees can’t just come in and ignore all California laws,” he said. “There are laws that they have to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/immigration-raids-who/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s why some ICE uniforms might read \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO \u003c/a>— part of their “Enforcement and Removal Operations” team — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi\">HSI\u003c/a> for “Homeland Security Investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, ICE launched a rebrand and created the investigations unit to develop cases, and improve public outreach, including with local law enforcement, an \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homeland-security-agency-ice-rebrands-aid-investigations/story?id=109510154\">HSI official told\u003c/a> ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice\">website\u003c/a>, HSI combats a broad array of transnational-related crime, ranging from narcotics smuggling to cybercrime, and from human trafficking to intellectual property theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/ero\">ERO\u003c/a> meanwhile manages all aspects of the typical immigration enforcement process: identifying, arresting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/statistics\">GPS monitoring\u003c/a>, and deporting unauthorized immigrants. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/mission\">Their site description \u003c/a>also says they seek to deport priority undocumented immigrants after they are released from U.S. jails and prisons. They can also assist multi-agency task forces in arresting unauthorized immigrants without any other criminal history who are “deemed a threat to public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE also deployed its Special Response Team (SRT), decked in military wear and weaponry, in San Diego late May. It sent a dozen or more of those officers to the \u003ca href=\"https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/vendor-safety-santa-fe-springs-swap-meet-raid/\">Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet\u003c/a> near southeast Los Angeles in June, detaining two people for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents from those teams will often feature their logo on the shoulder and will be seen in heavy military-like uniforms. The teams are meant to engage “high risk” situations, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/about-ice/hsi/news/hsi-insider/strategic-safety-operations\">ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rare National Guard deployment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>National Guard troops had been most visible outside a federal building during protests in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/06/la-immigration-protests-photo-essay/\">downtown Los Angeles\u003c/a>, but have also accompanied a few immigration enforcement operations. 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Troops will also have a full color \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9111385/california-national-guard-soldiers-provide-protection-federal-law-enforcement-federal-operation\">U.S. flag\u003c/a> on the right shoulder. The patch under that, if any, can vary and may be based on a soldier’s past deployments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the U.S. military, the National Guard is able to serve both domestically and globally for state and federal duties, assisting with natural disasters, border security, civil unrest, overseas combat, counter-drug efforts and more. Soldiers largely stay in their home state and can be called on by the state governor or president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Deputized bureaus include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons receiving the “same authority already granted to the FBI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers’ affiliations can be seen on their vests, jackets, or at times, their shoulder patches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents wearing FBI fatigues were most visible in the worksite sweep at Ambiance Apparel in L.A.’s Fashion District, arguably the first major operation of the current wave of raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, FBI Los Angeles’ X account \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FBILosAngeles/status/1932573649585787303\">touted\u003c/a> its collaboration with an ICE operation in Ventura County. 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The DEA was there, too, and has since \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DEALOSANGELES/status/1932898021626556425/photo/1\">collaborated\u003c/a> with ICE in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, U.S. Marshals \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1935684366589415896/photo/1\">touted\u003c/a> themselves as “on the front lines of immigration enforcement” in Los Angeles while showing officers interviewing a man on a bike. Marshals were also on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USMSLosAngeles/status/1943918200799772806/photo/1\">site\u003c/a> at a Ventura County marijuana farm raid where more than 200 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can California unmask federal agents?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The use of masked agents without clearly identifying uniforms has confused the public, including local police receiving reports of kidnappings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-warning-amid-increased-reports-fake-ice-officers\">warned\u003c/a> in March that reports of ICE impersonations were growing. Alleged federal agent impersonations have occurred in Huntington Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox6now.com/news/new-berlin-border-patrol-impersonator-charges\">Wisconsin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDUXfqt4QUs\">Philadelphia\u003c/a> and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t even know who these people are. It’s so dangerous, it’s so horrific, and it’s time to put standards in place,” said Sen. 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Because weed remains illegal under federal law, the union advised workers who are not U.S. citizens to avoid jobs in the cannabis industry, even at state-licensed facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know this is unfair,” the United Farm Workers wrote Monday, “but we encourage you to protect yourself and your family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigration enforcement operations at the Camarillo and Carpinteria facilities of Glass House Farms, one of the state’s largest licensed cannabis companies, have unsettled California’s legal industry, which feels more vulnerable than it has since voters approved recreational weed in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chaotic scene has brought to the forefront simmering concerns that weed farms could become an easy target as President \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> ramps up deportations, because simply working in the industry could provide the criminal pretext to arrest even a legal immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also resurfaced for many industry veterans traumatic memories of raids during the “war on drugs,” raising alarms that the Trump administration may be hardening its stance against what remains a federally illegal substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a sense that the community has gotten a little complacent in our legalization bubbles,” said Caren Woodson, senior director of compliance and licensing for Kiva Brands and the board president of the California Cannabis Industry Association. “We’re definitely in a moment of uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/071025-Camarillo-Raid-LV-CM-06-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A line of armored law enforcement officers in tactical gear and gas masks face a crowd at night, illuminated by vehicle headlights and flashlights. One officer stands in the foreground gripping a weapon with orange markings. A protester’s silhouette and a partially visible flag appear in the foreground, with tension palpable in the scene.\">\u003cfigcaption>A line of federal immigration agents and protesters stand-off near the Glass House Farms facility outside Camarillo on July 10, 2025. Protesters gathered after federal immigration agents conducted an immigration raid earlier in the day. \u003cem>Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fears of California cannabis growers had largely faded in recent decades, since voters legalized medical marijuana in 1996 and its recreational use in 2016. The legal market was \u003ca href=\"https://cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">nearly $4.9 billion last year\u003c/a> and employed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.flowhub.com/cannabis-industry-statistics\">estimated 83,000 people\u003c/a>, though its growth is precarious as it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/07/california-marijuana-excise-tax-increase/\">struggles to compete\u003c/a> with a stubbornly robust illicit industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1997425 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/06/CannabisStudy.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any sense of ease was snapped by the immigration raids last week, which were tied to alleged labor violations by Glass House Farms. Federal authorities ultimately reported \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-marijuana-farm-southern-california-arrests-ead862824a6e994fdfd5297aa1cd6c79\">more than 360 arrests\u003c/a> of people they suspected of being in the country illegally and the recovery of 14 immigrant minors. Glass House Farms did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely heightened risk working for a cannabis facility. It shouldn’t be that way,” Woodson said. “Folks should be aware of that risk and we should be prepared as an industry to manage that risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has not given an indication whether those operations were an isolated incident or a reflection of shifting enforcement priorities on cannabis. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not respond to emailed questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates had hoped that Trump might finally lead the way on loosening federal restrictions on cannabis. Yet since \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113105431683796730\">suggesting during his campaign\u003c/a> last fall that he would downgrade the classification of weed so that its medical uses can be more easily studied, Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/trump-biden-marijuana-policy.html\">made no moves toward rescheduling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments signal that momentum may be moving in the opposite direction. During his confirmation hearing, Trump’s nominee to lead the DEA \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/cannabis-rescheduling/news/15744461/deas-likely-administrator-refuses-to-commit-to-schedule-iii-proposal-for-cannabis\">would not commit to removing\u003c/a> cannabis from the list of serious narcotics, and there is an ongoing effort in Congress to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/cannabis-rescheduling/news/15750787/us-house-subcommittee-advances-bill-to-prevent-cannabis-rescheduling-under-doj\">block its reclassification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/070125-Camarillo-Aftermath-LV-CM-14-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds up a smartphone displaying a photo of someone wearing a gray hoodie with bold lettering. The phone is held in both hands, partially covering the holder’s face. The screen includes text in Spanish that reads “El Rey de las Micheladas.” Palm trees are faintly visible in the blurred background.\">\u003cfigcaption>Mia Ortiz holds a photo of her father on her phone while talking to reporters on July 11, 2025. Mia Ortiz said she hasn’t heard from her father, Rafael Ortiz, since she heard about the immigration raid at Glasshouse Farms just a day prior on July 10. \u003cem>Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We can’t take anything for granted,” Steph Sherer, executive director of the advocacy group Americans For Safe Access, warned industry members on a video call last week following the raids. “We’ve gotten dependent on this broader layer of support for medical cannabis that’s being tested right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suggested that growers learn how to read a search warrant, have a criminal lawyer on retainer and plan how they would pay for bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone believes it’s time to panic just yet. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-slash-workforce-by-15-cutting-dozens-of-jobs-in-latest-round-of-layoffs\">major layoffs at KQED\u003c/a>, Congress moved to claw back over a billion dollars in federal funding for public media, heightening financial uncertainty for some 1,500 radio and television stations across the country, including one of the system’s biggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the dominant narrative around the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cuts has centered on the existential danger for small, rural stations, KQED’s precarious situation suggests the consequences could ripple far wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [layoffs] announcement makes it clear that no one in public media is safe,” said Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University. “The threat to public media funding affects even the largest and strongest outlets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://radioinsight.com/headlines/303978/june-2025-5-29-6-25-nielsen-audio-ppm-ratings-day-1-kqed-fm-sets-new-high-rock-rises-in-los-angeles/\">posted record-high radio ratings\u003c/a> last month and has grown its digital and podcast audiences, but that hasn’t translated to financial stability. Earlier this week, the organization announced it would slash 15% of its staff, citing lower-than-expected revenue growth and economic volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of federal dollars will only deepen those challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most difficult, distressing moment in the nearly 60-year history of public broadcasting, in the 71-year history of KQED,” the organization’s President and CEO, Michael Isip, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910637/congress-votes-to-defund-public-media\">Friday morning on the program Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of KQED’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rescissions package that the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk late Thursday guts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public media that Congress previously approved, zeroing out that money for the next two years. CPB distributes the federal money to NPR, PBS and its member stations, which were expecting their next payments in the fall. Those will no longer come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The immediate response to this particular round of cuts will be that we are likely to see many stations … go dark,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said Friday on Morning Edition. “These are stations that serve rural communities. They are stations that receive, in the case of Alaska, up to 70% of their budget in federal funds. And we’re talking small budgets. We’re talking $500,000, $600,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED, meanwhile, receives close to $8 million a year in CPB funding, representing about 7% to 8% of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">annual revenue\u003c/a>. Like many large stations in major markets across the country, KQED’s budget includes significant revenue from donors and corporate sponsors, lessening its dependence on federal funding.[aside postID=news_12048122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240522-KQEDheadquarters-12-BL_qed.jpg']“We’re going to move forward, we have no choice but to,” Isip said. “We have a responsibility. Our community expects it from us, and we’ll find a way to preserve independent, noncommercial, public media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how the station will do that isn’t yet clear. Isip said KQED would tap reserves to cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and seek out new revenue sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be communities who are losing local news and information, so what can KQED do to fill those gaps around the state?” Isip said, noting that the outlet remains one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country. “We have the privilege and the resources to be able to think about how we can support the rest of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mission could draw in new philanthropic support, Isip said, and there is still a chance that Congress restores some funding in its upcoming regular budget process for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, station leaders have not ruled out the possibility of further cuts in a future without federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservative legislators have targeted public media funding for decades, the scale of the current campaign is unprecedented, said Mike Janssen, an editor at the industry publication \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>. “The number of attacks and the different directions they’re coming from all at once is what’s different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s newsroom at its San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The political push to defund public media includes not just the CPB rescission and \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Response-President-Trump-s-Proposed-Rescissions-Package-and-Budget\">elimination of funding in Trump’s proposed 2026 budget\u003c/a>, but also an executive order he signed in May to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS. The Department of Education also \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-US-Department-Education-Terminating-Ready-Learn-Grant\">ended its Ready to Learn grant\u003c/a>, which has funded educational TV programs, and the FCC opened an investigation into underwriting practices at public stations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These challenges arrive as public media organizations are already navigating a turbulent landscape of declining radio and TV audiences, weakening underwriting revenue from corporate sponsors, and a podcast market that has proved difficult to monetize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm,” said Janssen, who’s covered public media for more than two decades. “Traditional funding models are kind of falling apart, and there’s this big need to expand on digital platforms for new audiences, and those two things just aren’t a good combination.”[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']He pointed to other large public media outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2024/07/laist-cuts-28-positions-with-buyouts-layoffs/\">LAist in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/06/gbh-layoffs-hit-45-staffers-less-than-a-month-after-world-cuts/\">WGBH in Boston\u003c/a> that have made similar investments in innovation and also faced cuts. Since March 2023, \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> has tracked roughly 654 layoffs in public media and 73 buyout offers accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen and other experts are hard pressed to point to a model that’s working. Optimism about partnerships between local newspapers and public media stations has tempered after Chicago Public Media’s acquisition of the \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> failed \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/03/chicago-public-media-avoids-layoffs-as-35-employees-accept-buyouts/\">to fend off reductions there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to keep growing audience, but how do you do that in a lean way where you can also absorb the shock of what’s going on with underwriting and audience?” Janssen said. “It’s a very hard line to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, said medium-sized outlets like KQED are in a particularly difficult situation. They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. Just the right size to be screwed by the way that the attention economy works right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s lobby at its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these stations may get a relatively small portion of their overall funding from the federal government, losing it could hurt other revenue sources, such as shows that outlets like KQED produce and sell to other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts make it harder to do good work, and then that good work is less compelling and fewer people want to purchase it to rebroadcast,” Usher said. “It’s kind of got a potential to spiral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Pickard, a media policy scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, said the crisis at KQED underscores a larger reckoning with the country’s anemic support for public media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always impoverished our public media,” he said. “It’s a bit of a misnomer to call it public; it’s much more of a hybrid dependent on private capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Western European countries, public media is \u003ca href=\"https://www.internetvoices.org/sites/default/files/resources/public-media-and-political-independence.pdf\">funded at about $100 per capita\u003c/a> annually, according to a report from NYU’s Benson and a colleague. \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/reports/revenue/2020PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf\">In the United States, it receives\u003c/a> about $1.50 per capita in federal funding each year, and around $3 per capita in total public support, including state and local dollars. With private funding from corporations, foundations and individual donors factored in, the figure is still under $10 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-800x480.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-160x96.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s renovated headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of public media’s shaky government funding, Pickard said it now faces many of the same financial pressures as commercial outlets — shrinking ad revenue, market-driven content decisions, and the need to chase audiences with deep pockets. But that’s exactly what public media was meant to resist: a system that only serves those who can pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to guarantee that all members of society have access to a baseline level of news and information — not just wealthy audiences but everyone, not just people who live in cities, but people living in the hinterlands as well — then we need a public media system,” he said.[aside postID=news_12038583 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20240411_PressDemocratFile_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg']As stations look to make up for the loss of federal support, they’ll also find private funding sources facing their own challenges. Corporate sponsors are likely to be tested by economic uncertainty and the FCC’s investigation into underwriting practices. And foundations are seeing heightened demand for grants as wider government support for nonprofits evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that these are signals that it’s going to be more challenging moving forward,” KQED’s Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-level funding, meanwhile, doesn’t come close to replacing the hole left by CPB cuts. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/state-funding-guide/\">tracker compiled by \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 36 states provide some level of direct funding to broadcasters, but in most of those states, funding remained flat or decreased between the last two budget cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not directly fund public broadcasters as part of its state budget. In May, officials announced a partnership between the state and private donors, including Google, to distribute money for local news coverage, but it’s not clear whether public media stations will be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Benson cautioned that public media shouldn’t abandon hope for federal funding, for now, he said the path forward is paved with private dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is public media that is more fully in the nonprofit model,” he said in an email. “If anyone can make it work, stations like KQED can, but I would imagine that at least in the near term, budgets will be tight and these will not be the last layoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and written by KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> and edited by KQED senior editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a>, who contributed additional reporting. Under KQED’s standard practices for reporting on itself, no member of KQED management or its news executives reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’re going to move forward, we have no choice but to,” Isip said. “We have a responsibility. Our community expects it from us, and we’ll find a way to preserve independent, noncommercial, public media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how the station will do that isn’t yet clear. Isip said KQED would tap reserves to cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and seek out new revenue sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be communities who are losing local news and information, so what can KQED do to fill those gaps around the state?” Isip said, noting that the outlet remains one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country. “We have the privilege and the resources to be able to think about how we can support the rest of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mission could draw in new philanthropic support, Isip said, and there is still a chance that Congress restores some funding in its upcoming regular budget process for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, station leaders have not ruled out the possibility of further cuts in a future without federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservative legislators have targeted public media funding for decades, the scale of the current campaign is unprecedented, said Mike Janssen, an editor at the industry publication \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>. “The number of attacks and the different directions they’re coming from all at once is what’s different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s newsroom at its San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The political push to defund public media includes not just the CPB rescission and \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Response-President-Trump-s-Proposed-Rescissions-Package-and-Budget\">elimination of funding in Trump’s proposed 2026 budget\u003c/a>, but also an executive order he signed in May to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS. The Department of Education also \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-US-Department-Education-Terminating-Ready-Learn-Grant\">ended its Ready to Learn grant\u003c/a>, which has funded educational TV programs, and the FCC opened an investigation into underwriting practices at public stations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These challenges arrive as public media organizations are already navigating a turbulent landscape of declining radio and TV audiences, weakening underwriting revenue from corporate sponsors, and a podcast market that has proved difficult to monetize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm,” said Janssen, who’s covered public media for more than two decades. “Traditional funding models are kind of falling apart, and there’s this big need to expand on digital platforms for new audiences, and those two things just aren’t a good combination.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He pointed to other large public media outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2024/07/laist-cuts-28-positions-with-buyouts-layoffs/\">LAist in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/06/gbh-layoffs-hit-45-staffers-less-than-a-month-after-world-cuts/\">WGBH in Boston\u003c/a> that have made similar investments in innovation and also faced cuts. Since March 2023, \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> has tracked roughly 654 layoffs in public media and 73 buyout offers accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen and other experts are hard pressed to point to a model that’s working. Optimism about partnerships between local newspapers and public media stations has tempered after Chicago Public Media’s acquisition of the \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> failed \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/03/chicago-public-media-avoids-layoffs-as-35-employees-accept-buyouts/\">to fend off reductions there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to keep growing audience, but how do you do that in a lean way where you can also absorb the shock of what’s going on with underwriting and audience?” Janssen said. “It’s a very hard line to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, said medium-sized outlets like KQED are in a particularly difficult situation. They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. Just the right size to be screwed by the way that the attention economy works right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s lobby at its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these stations may get a relatively small portion of their overall funding from the federal government, losing it could hurt other revenue sources, such as shows that outlets like KQED produce and sell to other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts make it harder to do good work, and then that good work is less compelling and fewer people want to purchase it to rebroadcast,” Usher said. “It’s kind of got a potential to spiral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Pickard, a media policy scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, said the crisis at KQED underscores a larger reckoning with the country’s anemic support for public media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always impoverished our public media,” he said. “It’s a bit of a misnomer to call it public; it’s much more of a hybrid dependent on private capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Western European countries, public media is \u003ca href=\"https://www.internetvoices.org/sites/default/files/resources/public-media-and-political-independence.pdf\">funded at about $100 per capita\u003c/a> annually, according to a report from NYU’s Benson and a colleague. \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/reports/revenue/2020PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf\">In the United States, it receives\u003c/a> about $1.50 per capita in federal funding each year, and around $3 per capita in total public support, including state and local dollars. With private funding from corporations, foundations and individual donors factored in, the figure is still under $10 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-800x480.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-160x96.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s renovated headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of public media’s shaky government funding, Pickard said it now faces many of the same financial pressures as commercial outlets — shrinking ad revenue, market-driven content decisions, and the need to chase audiences with deep pockets. But that’s exactly what public media was meant to resist: a system that only serves those who can pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to guarantee that all members of society have access to a baseline level of news and information — not just wealthy audiences but everyone, not just people who live in cities, but people living in the hinterlands as well — then we need a public media system,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As stations look to make up for the loss of federal support, they’ll also find private funding sources facing their own challenges. Corporate sponsors are likely to be tested by economic uncertainty and the FCC’s investigation into underwriting practices. And foundations are seeing heightened demand for grants as wider government support for nonprofits evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that these are signals that it’s going to be more challenging moving forward,” KQED’s Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-level funding, meanwhile, doesn’t come close to replacing the hole left by CPB cuts. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/state-funding-guide/\">tracker compiled by \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 36 states provide some level of direct funding to broadcasters, but in most of those states, funding remained flat or decreased between the last two budget cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not directly fund public broadcasters as part of its state budget. In May, officials announced a partnership between the state and private donors, including Google, to distribute money for local news coverage, but it’s not clear whether public media stations will be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Benson cautioned that public media shouldn’t abandon hope for federal funding, for now, he said the path forward is paved with private dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is public media that is more fully in the nonprofit model,” he said in an email. “If anyone can make it work, stations like KQED can, but I would imagine that at least in the near term, budgets will be tight and these will not be the last layoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and written by KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> and edited by KQED senior editor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a>, who contributed additional reporting. Under KQED’s standard practices for reporting on itself, no member of KQED management or its news executives reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward Thursday to California’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, this time more than 500 miles away from the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-restraining-order/\">ordered federal immigration agents\u003c/a> to temporarily stop the “roving patrols” in which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/07/patterns-in-california-immigration-raids/\">heavily armed agents\u003c/a> have aggressively detained immigrants and U.S. citizens throughout Southern California during a month-long crackdown. They targeted car washes, construction jobs, and Home Depots, arresting mostly Latino men who were longtime residents of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared agents had stopped the warrantless, aggressive sweeps through Los Angeles since the court ruling, which only applied to the state’s Central District. However, Border Patrol has been under a separate court order to stop similar warrantless raids in the state’s Eastern District — which includes Sacramento — after agents raided a Home Depot and other worksites in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The architect of both the Central Valley and Los Angeles operations, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">Gregory Bovino\u003c/a>, stood in front of the State Capitol Building on Thursday for \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/billmelugin_/status/1945902933813690454?s=46\">an interview with Fox News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no sanctuary city. Sacramento is not a sanctuary city. The state of California is not a sanctuary state. There is no sanctuary anywhere,” the El Centro sector’s chief patrol agent said. “We’re here to stay. We’re not going anywhere. We’re going to affect this mission and secure the homeland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, a federal appeals court denied on procedural grounds the Department of Homeland Security’s request to pause the temporary restraining order won last week by civil rights groups, who argued that the “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-raids-lawsuit/\">brazen, midday kidnappings\u003c/a>” violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches. The government was illegally \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\">denying detainees access to an attorney\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048135 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-scaled-e1752857672682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents guard outside of a federal building and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in downtown Los Angeles as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday, on June 13, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard and the Marines against the wishes of city leaders. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Kern County case, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in April \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">barring agents from using racial profiling\u003c/a> in the Eastern District of California, which includes Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court paperwork, the federal government maintains that its tactics are legitimate while \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-to-retrain-hundreds-of-california-agents-on-how-to-comply-with-the-constitution/\">vowing to retrain agents\u003c/a> on the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bovino publicly said that Border Patrol went after a list of specific criminal targets, but the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/\">agency’s own documents\u003c/a> later showed that it only had a previous record on one of the 78 people it arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that court ruling, Border Patrol agents moved districts and became more aggressive, fanning out, while wearing masks, across Southern California.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']Not only do Thursday’s activities mark a return to the Eastern District, but they went right to the heart of California’s government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Border Patrol is trying to escape a court order, and said they should get out of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Border Patrol should do their jobs — at the border — instead of continuing their tirade statewide of illegal racial profiling and illegal arrests,” said Diana Crofts-Pelayo, a Newsom spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested about 10 people at the Home Depot in Sacramento on Thursday, according to Border Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/border-patrol-raid-home-depot-florin-road-sacramento/65440117\">In a video shared by KCRA\u003c/a>, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, a woman identified as Andrea Castillo can be heard shouting, “Leave him alone! He’s a U.S. citizen!” as masked agents chase a man running across a parking lot. An agent wearing a mask momentarily turns and points a can of mace at the person filming the video. Another armed man, in a full-face mask and wearing a green vest labeled only “police,” could be seen joining in the chase. Castillo continues shouting, “He’s my husband.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five men surround the man, who is face-down on the blacktop, while screaming at the person filming the video to stay back. “His brother is a Marine Corps officer,” she shouts while several more armed and masked men join in on the arrest. “Stand back or you will be maced,” another agent screams at her. The woman filming asks one of the agents for his badge number, and he responds: “Google me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another photo shared to social media shows the man — identified in media reports as Jose Castillo — being arrested with a badly stained face, presumably from mace, and what appears to be a bruise under his left eye. His wife told KCRA he is a U.S. citizen. The Border Patrol said he slashed one of their tires in the Home Depot parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican government interviewed 330 Mexican nationals who were arrested by immigration officials in Los Angeles between June 6 and July 6, finding more than half had lived in the U.S. for at least a decade. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After wrapping up an early morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">boat ride to Alcatraz, where he touted \u003c/a>President Trump’s plan to once again put people behind bars there, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took a stroll on Thursday around another famed San Francisco national park site that Trump has had his eye on: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-presidio\">the Presidio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His take? The former Army base-turned-park should be an inspiration for the National Park Service as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a model where they’re using private sector tools and market tools with no subsidy and they’ve achieved profitability,” he told reporters outside the Presidio’s visitor center. The Presidio Trust, the federal agency that manages the space, is financially self-sufficient and relies on revenue from leasing historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re a great example of how we can do a great of job of collaborating with the tools to help manage federal resources,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though earlier Thursday he advocated for turning Alcatraz back into a federal prison — a move that would require transferring it out of the park system — Burgum had praise for the Presidio’s 1,500 acres of hiking trails, green space and restaurants on the northwest edge of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250717-OutpostMeadows-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors gather at Outpost Meadow in the Presidio of San Francisco on July 17, 2025, as the new park officially opens to the public. The expansion offers picnic areas, BBQ grills and views of the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the Tunnel Tops project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was a far cry from how Trump described the park’s operation in an executive order he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">penned in February\u003c/a>, which could have made the midday tour with the CEO of the Presidio Trust pretty awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary,” the order reads. It applied to the Presidio Trust and three other agencies that Trump’s order suggested were causing government “waste and abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Jean Fraser, the Trust’s CEO, guided Burgum around the fire pit, picnic area and low-back lounge chairs that look out on the Presidio’s premier view of Crissy Field, the secretary seemed to disagree with Trump.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When asked if he would be reporting his positive experience back to the president, Burgum didn’t give a direct answer but said that within the Department of the Interior, the model the Presidio uses to fundraise and function “is something we have to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Congress created the Presidio Trust in 1996, it provided federal money to aid the property’s transition from an Army base but required it to become financially independent by 2013. That public-private partnership lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior, helping it garner bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgum said the National Park Service has a lot of deferred maintenance that needs to be addressed and could benefit from private sector support to do so. The park service manages 85 million acres of land across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the 15 or so minute walk through the Presidio, he complimented the red, movable chairs that tourists and locals sat in drinking coffee, gave the park’s landscape designers kudos for the trees and native plants lining its gravel walkways and applauded the recently debuted expansion of the Tunnel Tops picnic area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National parks have been called America’s best idea, and we need to invest in that,” he said as the tour wrapped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current administration, however, has overseen a shrinking National Park Service as it takes a hatchet to federal agencies. Since Trump took office, the NPS has lost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">24% of its permanent staff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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House Republicans are expected to introduce legislation that would make the feat possible, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Make no mistake: this stupidity is a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from this Administration’s cruelest actions yet in their Big, Ugly Law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a rally opposing House Republicans’ tax proposal prior to the final House Vote on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May, Trump announced his desire to re-open the federal prison in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114452025916969327\">post on Truth Social\u003c/a>, saying he would direct the Bureau of Prisons and federal safety agencies to reopen “a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” the post reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters Thursday morning that the Trump administration had no “feasible plan” to reopen the prison.[aside postID=news_12048509 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Interior-Secretary-Doug-Burgum.jpg']“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. The Presidio Trust is financially self-sufficient, relying on money from leasing its historic buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviving a prison on Alcatraz, on the other hand, would be costly — and inefficient, according to critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcatraz was shut down due to high operating costs, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/about/history/alcatraz.jsp\">the BOP estimated\u003c/a> in 1959 were about three times as high as any other federal facility. At the time, the site also required an estimated $3 million to $5 million in restoration and maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its highest occupancy, the site that now serves as a tourist destination housed less than 1% of federal prisoners in the country, with a usual occupancy between 260 and 275, according to the BOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If they want to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars, we have many opportunities,” he said. “Tourists come from all over the world to visit Alcatraz. Over 1.5 million visitors, tens of millions of dollars of economic activity to our city and to our region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener expressed concern on social media that Trump might aim to use the island to hold people detained by ICE on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this idea is absurd on so many levels — and destructive in seeking to destroy one of the most popular tourist sites in the country — Trump has shown that he executes on many of the insane and destructive things that come out of his warped brain,” he \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scott_wiener/status/1945842201654874359?s=46\">wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on X, Burgum suggested the facility could “house the most dangerous criminals and illegals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the prison would be difficult under current legislation that places the island under the Department of the Interior’s control and designates it as part of a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay, California. \u003ccite>(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade after Alcatraz shuttered in 1963, Congress created the Golden Gate Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, Muir Woods in Marin County and the Presidio in San Francisco. All three became part of the newly formed national park, which was transferred to National Park Service control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, Alcatraz is subject to the Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Protection Act — federal protections that would make operating a prison on the site virtually impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1972 act creating the park requires that the National Park Service and Department of the Interior “shall preserve the recreation area, as far as possible, in its natural setting, and protect it from development and uses which would destroy the scenic beauty and natural character of the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the national park system, the land also has to adhere to the\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/management/organic-act-of-1916.htm\"> Park Service Organic Act,\u003c/a> which says it must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco on Thursday morning after he and Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz, ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But forthcoming legislation would aim to repeal those requirements. Pelosi’s office confirmed that a House representative is expected to propose a bill that would remove key environmental protections governing the island, allowing it to be transferred out of the National Park Service’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Department of Justice spokesperson told KQED the Bureau of Prisons would operate the facility if it reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move builds on an earlier attack on the park, when, in February, Trump signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">DOGE-inspired executive order\u003c/a> requiring the federal agency that runs the Presidio to submit a review of its operations and shut down any non-required functions, aiming to all but eliminate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250224-Presidio-20-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Crissy Field in the Presidio, a park and former military outpost, in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a tour of the Presidio after the Alcatraz trip, Burgum praised the agency that manages the park, calling its revenue-generating operation a “model” for national parks. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">status as a sanctuary city\u003c/a> goes back to 1989. The city prides itself as a haven for immigrants, regardless of legal status, and a place where local law enforcement is sharply restricted from cooperating with or assisting federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, the implementation of the policy is facing pressure from Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district represents parts of the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola. Fielder is concerned by two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">report\u003c/a> that SFPD accessed information from Oakland’s license plate reader database to share with federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Statements made by Deputy Chief Derrick Lew at a town hall in the Castro last week regarding what he described as SFPD’s obligation to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfpd-ice-protesters/\">protect ICE agents\u003c/a> from protesters, to keep them out of harm’s way.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who called ICE “a fascist agency doing Trump’s bidding,” \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/687554cccdab921972c25b38/1752519885394/LOI+to+SFPD+Protocols+for+ICE+and+protests.pdf\">sent a letter \u003c/a>to interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Lurie and the city controller demanding answers about policies that may conflict with the city’s sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and one of the Board of Supervisors’ most liberal members, Fielder pledged to keep an open mind to Lurie’s programmatic priorities. But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. And according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">reporting by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, protesters were being put in danger as they were trying to basically block ICE agents from coming into or out of the building — to the point where ICE agents used pepper spray, shoved people to the ground and in one instance brandished a rifle on protesters as well as a reporter with \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came to light through a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>Standard\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> that SFPD has been requesting data from automatic license plate readers in Oakland on behalf of federal law enforcement agencies, which is a violation of state law. And so I have a lot of questions related to all of these different issues that I’d like answers to very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. Would you say that his comments are disqualifying for him to be the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. Huerta was arrested by federal agents on June 6 in Los Angeles while serving as a community observer during a workplace Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>I would hope that the next chief takes seriously what they say and communicate around our sanctuary city policies. It’s baffling to me that anyone in leadership would equate our protesters with Trump’s armed ICE agents. They should be seen as an extension of Trump himself. They are carrying out his agenda. And their agenda is to instill fear, is to run roughshod over due process and basic constitutional protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> It seems like Lurie has been very \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">cautious about even mentioning Trump’s name\u003c/a>. He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As she gets older, she said, eating healthy, locally grown food is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.[aside postID=news_11956856 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67156_230721-CoastMiwokLandMarin-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.[aside postID=news_11966087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. 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Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. 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