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Pushback against it, as well as similar legislation in other states, intensified during the 2024 presidential campaign, when opposition to transgender athletes’ participation in sports became a linchpin of Trump’s platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transgender youth are at the center of this administration’s cruel and discriminatory policies,” said Heron Greenesmith, deputy director of policy at the Transgender Law Center. “Their attempts at wielding Title IX against the very students it is supposed to protect is characteristic of a government that has no issues with continuing to attack an already marginalized group, push a harmful and misinformed narrative about transgender youth, and create confusing and hostile conditions for students and school[s].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Trump took office, he signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a> that sought to ban trans women from competing in women’s sports by rescinding federal funding from educational programs that didn’t comply. In February, his Department of Education launched an investigation into California’s Title IX compliance.[aside postID=news_12041770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/TrumpTransAthletesGetty-1020x638.jpg']In June, the U.S. Department of Education’s investigation found that the state had violated regulations, and it also gave California an ultimatum requiring it to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports and apologize to female athletes who had lost to transgender competitors within 10 days. If the state refused to do so, the letter said, the U.S. Department of Education could move to withhold funding or refer the case to the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIF and the state Department of Education sent letters to the U.S. Department of Education declining to sign a resolution agreement on Monday, saying that they disagreed with its Office of Civil Rights’ analysis. 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According to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Education has allocated about $44.3 billion to California for fiscal year 2025, with about $3.8 billion of that still “available for drawdown … including both discretionary grants and formula grants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the DOJ specifically cite California’s high school track and field championships this year, at which a transgender athlete from Riverside County competed in the girls’ high jump, triple jump and long jump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The athlete’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042352/trans-athlete-shines-in-california-high-school-track-finals-ignites-amid-policy-debate\">dominance in some of the events\u003c/a> spurred controversy leading up to the meet, amplified by Trump when he threatened on Truth Social to withhold federal funding from California if it did not prohibit the athlete from competing in alignment with his executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours later, CIF announced that it would pilot a first-of-its-kind entry process at the track and field competition that allowed an additional athlete to advance to the finals and place in events with a transgender competitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DOJ’s lawsuit, CIF’s rule change allowed for an additional placement in the finals for a “biological female,” and in doing so “acknowledged the inherent athletic advantage males have over ‘biological female[s]’ and that allowing males to compete in female athletic competitions displaces girls and denies girls equal athletic opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, the lawsuit also jabs at Newsom, who said in a March episode of his podcast “This is Gavin Newsom” that trans athletes’ participation in women’s sports \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030376/newsom-splits-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports\">was “deeply unfair.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint included an email CIF Executive Director Ronald Nocetti sent to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond following the podcast. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal officials drove through a group of protesters outside San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047018/how-legal-experts-advocates-are-responding-to-the-detention-of-asylum-seekers\">immigration court\u003c/a> on Tuesday after violent clashes between the officers and demonstrators at the downtown office building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DL2-Y7zB-Hr/\">videos captured by protesters and journalists\u003c/a>, about a dozen protesters faced off with immigration enforcement officials trying to move a man who had been detained inside the courthouse into a van waiting outside. When they appeared to try to block the van from driving away, it accelerated through the group, dragging one protester who was clinging to the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were not immediately available to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, immigration officials began making frequent appearances at the city’s immigration court on Montgomery Street and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044592/bay-area-lawmaker-demands-answers-after-ice-arrests-at-immigration-courts\">arresting people\u003c/a> after court-mandated asylum hearings. About 25 people have been detained there since May, according to Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, protesters have made a habit of gathering outside the building, where there have been multiple altercations between immigration officials and community members, including one that led the court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">shut down early one day last month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most violent altercations to date came after about 10 ICE officers arrived in unmarked vans at the Montgomery Street courthouse around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. They tried to enter the building to aid another group of officers inside who were blocked by a group of protesters after detaining a man, the local news nonprofit reported.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In videos, the protesters can be seen standing in front of the glass doors and using bikes to block the sidewalk between the building and waiting vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers, wearing masks and green “ICE Police” vests, yell “Get back” and “Fuck you” at protesters as they try to push through the crowd and clear the path to the front doors, grabbing onto multiple people’s bicycles and pushing others away from the doors. Protesters can be heard shrieking and yelling, “Shame on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about a minute, the ICE officers who were inside exited the building, surrounding a man in handcuffs. As they lead him to one of the waiting vans, protesters grab at the group, with one even reaching for the man in handcuffs, trying to pull him away from agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the man is forced into the back of one of the waiting vans, video footage shows protesters continuing to yell and bang on the doors and sides of the vehicle. Officers try to pull them off the van, shoving one person with a bicycle and throwing another onto a non-ICE vehicle stopped in the next lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the van pulls away from the courthouse, at least half a dozen people stand in front of it and jump on its hood to block its path. After most of the protesters clear the lane, one person continues hanging onto the van’s hood as it breaks away from the crowd. In videos, the person can be seen falling from the side of the vehicle seconds later as it crosses an intersection about half a block away from the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson, the Immigrant Legal Defense Program director, confirmed the arrest made on Tuesday, adding that an attorney with the Rapid Response Network was meeting with the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s administration has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to increase immigration arrests and raids to meet a quota of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5409403/trump-immigration-courts-arrests\">3,000 arrests per day\u003c/a> — with a stated special focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043346/sf-rallies-for-david-huerta-california-union-leader-arrested-in-la-immigration-raid\">Democratic-led cities like Los Angeles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5409403/trump-immigration-courts-arrests\">And according to NPR and local attorneys\u003c/a>, one strategy ICE agents have used to meet those demands is to arrest people — or fast-track their removal — at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">their immigration court hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is no exception. In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-ice-arrests-tracker/\">at least six people\u003c/a> have been arrested and detained at the city’s immigration court since June — prompting protests by activists that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043596/protesters-swarm-sf-immigration-court-after-more-ice-arrests\">shut down the building for a day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been [in] immigration law for over 10 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Jordan Weiner, the legal director of the Removal Defense Program at \u003ca href=\"https://www.lrcl.org/\">La Raza Centro Legal\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risk levels for deportation are always changing, Weiner said. But currently, the most vulnerable immigrant groups she’s seeing are people who have received deportation orders, those who’ve been deported then returned and people who’ve been in the U.S. for less than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101910383 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/06/immigrationupdate.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/about.html\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a>, a database led by a UC Berkeley law professor, ICE has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html\">arrested over 5,800 immigrants statewide\u003c/a> since the inauguration — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html?smid=url-share&rsrc=deeplink#ice_arrests_California\">a 123% increase\u003c/a> from 2024 — in locations ranging from private homes and bus stops to job sites and store parking lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdowns have especially sparked a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045336/growing-south-bay-ice-fears-lead-to-surge-in-immigrant-hotline-calls\">wave of fear\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044426/no-kings-protests-draw-thousands-across-the-bay-area-to-rally-against-president-trump\">anger\u003c/a> across California, the state with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">the largest share of immigrants in the country\u003c/a>. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">a Public Policy Institute of California report\u003c/a>, more than a quarter of California’s population is foreign-born, and nearly half of California’s children have at least one immigrant parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘An impossible decision’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Showing up for immigration court is a routine reality for many, including those who entered the United States to apply for asylum for reasons including fear of persecution in their home country. Immigration court proceedings are already a stressful process that can take years, especially in a place like San Francisco, where the court faces a backlog of \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/backlog/\">over 123,000 pending cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, ICE appears to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5409403/trump-immigration-courts-arrests\">collaborating with Department of Homeland Security lawyers\u003c/a> to get judges to dismiss asylum cases, Weiner said. If the applicant has been in the United States for less than two years, having their case dismissed this way makes them immediately subject to expedited removal — deportation without the right to see a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Weiner at Centro Legal de la Raza in San Francisco on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security lawyers will “ask the immigration judge to dismiss their case in the courtroom,” Weiner said. “And if the judge agrees, the person will walk out in the hallway and ICE is waiting there for them to arrest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, judges have given applicants at least 10 days to respond to ICE’s request to dismiss. However, the impact is already apparent, Weiner said. Her office is also receiving fewer calls from prospective asylum applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people have to decide between fighting their asylum case and potentially getting deported to a country where they fear persecution, or just missing court and living in the shadows — that’s an impossible decision,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration court is just over,” Weiner said. “I don’t know how the institution can recover from this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Amid fear, volunteers show up\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the organization has observers in the courtroom “every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Atkinson said they have also anecdotally observed “a marked increase in the number of individuals not appearing for their hearings at the hearings we are able to cover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, time is of the essence. Since immigration courts are generally open to the public, an extra pair of eyes from a volunteer can help lawyers form a quick response plan, said Autumn Gonzalez, a Sacramento-based lawyer who volunteers with \u003ca href=\"https://www.norcalresist.org/\">NorCal Resist\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that organizes bail funds, food distribution and asylum workshops.[aside postID=news_12044592 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240206-IMMIGRATIONCOURT-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“Those instances where people are going in for their usual check-in, and not being released — having someone there accompanying you means that we can immediately request legal assistance,” Gonzalez said. “We can make sure your family knows what happened to you … and hopefully prevent expedited deportations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Maciejewski Cortez is one of those volunteers. After 13 years outside the United States, she moved to Sacramento last September and almost immediately began volunteering for NorCal Resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming back this time, I knew the political climate was going to be scary for my community,” said Maciejewski Cortez, who has experience working with Latin American, immigrant and refugee organizations. “I wanted to make sure that I had a way to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an American citizen who is fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish and Thai, Maciejewski Cortez particularly works with people going through the asylum-seeking process. Primed by NorCal Resist on what the organization calls “accompaniment training,” Maciejewski Cortez helps people with the administrative side of court hearings, including translating, going through paperwork and taking notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to make sure that they have the best chance at being heard,” Maciejewski Cortez said. “I have perfect English and \u003cem>I\u003c/em> still find some of these forms and terminology to be confusing and complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supporting court logistics, accompaniment volunteers like Maciejewski Cortez also help provide a sense of protection and safety for the asylum seeker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of immigration offices around the world, and it’s really scary to go alone,” she said. “I can’t imagine how somebody, who has recently arrived and has lived through a traumatic life experience, [is] trying to navigate this system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Centro Legal de la Raza offices in San Francisco on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘I don’t know what would have happened to him’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea of accompaniment work grew from faith communities in the 1980s, Gonzalez said. Volunteers would help new immigrants and refugees find apartments and enroll their kids into schools — supporting every step of settling into a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, accompaniment to immigration court — and to check-ins with ICE — has become the primary need, Gonzalez said. And in recent months, volunteers have found themselves with an increasingly important extra role: keeping watch on applicants in the event that ICE detains a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, the volunteer then immediately alerts the person’s legal support team or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">a local Rapid Response Network\u003c/a>, a separate group of dedicated volunteers and attorneys who respond to reports of possible ICE activity around the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, the fact that we have folks there with their eyes on what’s going on will provide deterrence to ICE from taking these actions,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is something Maciejewski Cortez witnessed. In mid-June, while accompanying an applicant to immigration court in Sacramento, she saw ICE agents walking down the hall with handcuffs “hanging off their side.” After turning to follow them, she watched them apprehend a man whose case had been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maciejewski Cortez immediately tracked down the man’s details and alerted the local Rapid Response network. A pro bono lawyer with NorCal Resist promptly arrived at the courthouse and met with the detainee “and they both were out of the courthouse in two hours,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I hadn’t seen who it was or caught the name of the man in the court, I don’t know what would have happened to him,” she said. “I don’t know how long he would have been in their custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Mission Street in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Access and alternatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are now reporting they’re having trouble even accessing courtrooms to accompany immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration court hearings are “generally open to the public but can be closed or held with limited attendance at any time,” according to a representative of the federal Department of Justice’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>. Scenarios where \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1333591/dl?inline\">proceedings can be closed\u003c/a> include cases involving protective orders or domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said that the court in Sacramento has had “inconsistent rules regarding our access.” Maciejewski Cortez said she’d experienced being denied access to the Sacramento immigration courtroom in late June during the start of a hearing after court staff told her the courtroom would be full. Despite this, she said she saw empty seats still available.[aside postID=news_12043596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg']“This arbitrary restriction makes it difficult to catch important information announced by the judge within the early minutes of proceedings, such as the name of the DHS attorney or the respondents to be addressed first,” Maciejewski Cortez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this uncertainty and the anxiety caused by in-person appearances, lawyers are scrambling to find other ways to support their clients and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">remind them of their civil rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Raza Centro Legal’s Weiner said her “first line of defense” is to file motions for all of her cases to be heard online, rather than at the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving a case online — using \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/virtual-hearings-in-immigration-court/\">the Zoom-like application WebEx —\u003c/a> is actually something anyone with an immigration court hearing can do, Weiner said, by filing \u003ca href=\"https://nipnlg.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/pro-se-web.pdf\">a “Motion to Change Hearing Format\u003c/a>” and mailing it to their court. Applicants can work with a nonprofit to help them fill out this legal document. (KQED has a guide to seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just filing the motion isn’t enough to get a person’s hearing moved online, Weiner said— an applicant still needs to wait for the judge’s decision to grant it or not. While “you don’t need a special reason to ask for your hearing to be online,” Weiner recommended that applicants still provide one — which could include a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/asylum-video-court-heari/\">lack of child care or transportation\u003c/a> — “because it gives the judge more of a reason to say yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an applicant \u003cem>is \u003c/em>detained at court and ICE immediately begins the expedited removal process, the applicant should ask the immigration officer for a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/questions-and-answers-credible-fear-screening\">credible fear interview\u003c/a>” — loudly and clearly, since \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/human-rights-first-analysis-of-the-trump-administrations-initial-immigration-executive-actions/\">the officer may not ask if they want one\u003c/a>, Weiner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The applicant will have to prove they are afraid to return to their country for safety reasons, either due to persecution or torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can pass that interview, then they may be able to see a judge again,” Weiner said. “They might be detained during that process, but at least they just won’t be quickly deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamphlets at Centro Legal de la Raza in San Francisco on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Hope for the best and prepare for the worst’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Weiner said that while she didn’t want to “be part of scaring people from going to court,” immigrants should nonetheless be as prepared as possible before heading to any court appearance — not just for their individual asylum case, but also for the very real risk of detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes having a plan for any children they may have, key phone numbers for lawyers and family on hand or memorized, and leaving copies of all of their documents with their lawyer. 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According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/\">a Public Policy Institute of California report\u003c/a>, more than a quarter of California’s population is foreign-born, and nearly half of California’s children have at least one immigrant parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘An impossible decision’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Showing up for immigration court is a routine reality for many, including those who entered the United States to apply for asylum for reasons including fear of persecution in their home country. Immigration court proceedings are already a stressful process that can take years, especially in a place like San Francisco, where the court faces a backlog of \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/backlog/\">over 123,000 pending cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent weeks, ICE appears to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5409403/trump-immigration-courts-arrests\">collaborating with Department of Homeland Security lawyers\u003c/a> to get judges to dismiss asylum cases, Weiner said. If the applicant has been in the United States for less than two years, having their case dismissed this way makes them immediately subject to expedited removal — deportation without the right to see a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Weiner at Centro Legal de la Raza in San Francisco on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security lawyers will “ask the immigration judge to dismiss their case in the courtroom,” Weiner said. “And if the judge agrees, the person will walk out in the hallway and ICE is waiting there for them to arrest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, judges have given applicants at least 10 days to respond to ICE’s request to dismiss. 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Her office is also receiving fewer calls from prospective asylum applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people have to decide between fighting their asylum case and potentially getting deported to a country where they fear persecution, or just missing court and living in the shadows — that’s an impossible decision,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration court is just over,” Weiner said. “I don’t know how the institution can recover from this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Amid fear, volunteers show up\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the organization has observers in the courtroom “every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Atkinson said they have also anecdotally observed “a marked increase in the number of individuals not appearing for their hearings at the hearings we are able to cover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these cases, time is of the essence. 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After 13 years outside the United States, she moved to Sacramento last September and almost immediately began volunteering for NorCal Resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coming back this time, I knew the political climate was going to be scary for my community,” said Maciejewski Cortez, who has experience working with Latin American, immigrant and refugee organizations. “I wanted to make sure that I had a way to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an American citizen who is fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish and Thai, Maciejewski Cortez particularly works with people going through the asylum-seeking process. Primed by NorCal Resist on what the organization calls “accompaniment training,” Maciejewski Cortez helps people with the administrative side of court hearings, including translating, going through paperwork and taking notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to make sure that they have the best chance at being heard,” Maciejewski Cortez said. “I have perfect English and \u003cem>I\u003c/em> still find some of these forms and terminology to be confusing and complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supporting court logistics, accompaniment volunteers like Maciejewski Cortez also help provide a sense of protection and safety for the asylum seeker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of immigration offices around the world, and it’s really scary to go alone,” she said. “I can’t imagine how somebody, who has recently arrived and has lived through a traumatic life experience, [is] trying to navigate this system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250629-IMMIGRANT-ADVOCATES-MD-3_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Centro Legal de la Raza offices in San Francisco on June 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘I don’t know what would have happened to him’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The idea of accompaniment work grew from faith communities in the 1980s, Gonzalez said. Volunteers would help new immigrants and refugees find apartments and enroll their kids into schools — supporting every step of settling into a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, accompaniment to immigration court — and to check-ins with ICE — has become the primary need, Gonzalez said. And in recent months, volunteers have found themselves with an increasingly important extra role: keeping watch on applicants in the event that ICE detains a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, the volunteer then immediately alerts the person’s legal support team or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">a local Rapid Response Network\u003c/a>, a separate group of dedicated volunteers and attorneys who respond to reports of possible ICE activity around the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, the fact that we have folks there with their eyes on what’s going on will provide deterrence to ICE from taking these actions,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is something Maciejewski Cortez witnessed. In mid-June, while accompanying an applicant to immigration court in Sacramento, she saw ICE agents walking down the hall with handcuffs “hanging off their side.” After turning to follow them, she watched them apprehend a man whose case had been dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maciejewski Cortez immediately tracked down the man’s details and alerted the local Rapid Response network. A pro bono lawyer with NorCal Resist promptly arrived at the courthouse and met with the detainee “and they both were out of the courthouse in two hours,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I hadn’t seen who it was or caught the name of the man in the court, I don’t know what would have happened to him,” she said. “I don’t know how long he would have been in their custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-17-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters march down Mission Street in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Access and alternatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some advocates are now reporting they’re having trouble even accessing courtrooms to accompany immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration court hearings are “generally open to the public but can be closed or held with limited attendance at any time,” according to a representative of the federal Department of Justice’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>. Scenarios where \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1333591/dl?inline\">proceedings can be closed\u003c/a> include cases involving protective orders or domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said that the court in Sacramento has had “inconsistent rules regarding our access.” Maciejewski Cortez said she’d experienced being denied access to the Sacramento immigration courtroom in late June during the start of a hearing after court staff told her the courtroom would be full. Despite this, she said she saw empty seats still available.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This arbitrary restriction makes it difficult to catch important information announced by the judge within the early minutes of proceedings, such as the name of the DHS attorney or the respondents to be addressed first,” Maciejewski Cortez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this uncertainty and the anxiety caused by in-person appearances, lawyers are scrambling to find other ways to support their clients and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">remind them of their civil rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Raza Centro Legal’s Weiner said her “first line of defense” is to file motions for all of her cases to be heard online, rather than at the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving a case online — using \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/virtual-hearings-in-immigration-court/\">the Zoom-like application WebEx —\u003c/a> is actually something anyone with an immigration court hearing can do, Weiner said, by filing \u003ca href=\"https://nipnlg.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/pro-se-web.pdf\">a “Motion to Change Hearing Format\u003c/a>” and mailing it to their court. Applicants can work with a nonprofit to help them fill out this legal document. (KQED has a guide to seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">free legal aid in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just filing the motion isn’t enough to get a person’s hearing moved online, Weiner said— an applicant still needs to wait for the judge’s decision to grant it or not. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/nx-s1-5454841/house-republicans-trump-tax-bill-medicaid\">signature domestic policy bill\u003c/a> is headed to his desk, marking a historic federal investment in immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text\">cleared\u003c/a> Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Thursday — meeting the president’s self-imposed deadline of July 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive package sets aside \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5445352/trumps-mass-deportation-policy-could-cost-the-economy\">about $170 billion\u003c/a> to support the Trump’s administration’s border and immigration goals, which includes detaining and deporting a record number of people from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, White House border czar Tom Homan told reporters that Congress needed to pass the bill in order for the federal government to buy more detention beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more beds that we have, the more bad guys we arrest,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both critics and supporters say carrying out Trump’s immigration agenda will depend on how effectively federal agencies implement and deploy those resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will absolutely supercharge immigration enforcement over time, but it’s not gonna happen overnight,” said Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “So how quickly the Trump administration is able to use this money to fuel its mass deportations campaign is a real question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration enforcement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The final bill allocates $45 billion for immigration detention centers, as well as about $30 billion to hire more ICE personnel, for transportation costs, and to maintain ICE facilities, among other spending. It comes as detention centers operate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5417980/private-prisons-and-local-jails-are-ramping-up-as-ice-detention-exceeds-capacity\">beyond their capacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Immigration Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/house-reconciliation-bill-immigration-border-security/\">estimates\u003c/a> that the new funding could expand detention capacity to “at least 116,000 beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12047037 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/NancyPelosiGetty2.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush-Joseph said the money may help reduce overcrowding and improve staffing. But she is also concerned that it will lead to a broader use of detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After migrants are identified as removable from the U.S., they may be released ahead of their court dates, held in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5417980/private-prisons-and-local-jails-are-ramping-up-as-ice-detention-exceeds-capacity\">local jails\u003c/a>, or placed in ICE detention. The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43650/trump-inauguration-day-one-immigration\">has made plans\u003c/a> to end the policy known as “catch and release” — which allows people to be released from detention while they await an immigration court hearing — but ending it would require more detention space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush-Joseph said that individuals in immigration custody tend to face greater challenges with communication, obtaining counsel, interpretation, and understanding their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nature of immigration detention in and of itself is that it’s harder for people to win relief in immigration court,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Border security\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill provides roughly $46.5 billion to complete Trump’s border wall. It also sets aside $5 billion for Customs and Border Protection facilities and $10 billion for border security initiatives more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $13.5 billion is put toward reimbursing states and local governments engaging in immigration and border-related enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics have questioned the need for more border security funding, given that the number of people crossing the southern border has fallen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/extraordinary-president-trump-drives-illegal-border-crossings-to-a-new-historic-low/\">its lowest level in decades\u003c/a> — with slightly over 6,000 apprehensions in June, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/02/dhs-shatters-nationwide-border-records-once-again-delivering-most-secure-border\">preliminary figures\u003c/a> released by the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that supports restricting immigration, argued that its better to invest in border infrastructure now than wait until another surge in crossings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we wait until 250,000 people arrive per month, it’s going to be too late,” he added, referring to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-s1-4991917/biden-executive-order-asylum-migration-border\">peak of monthly arrests\u003c/a> hit under former President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration fees\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Republicans also sought to make the immigration process more expensive with increased or new fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the immigration provisions from the House to the Senate version is the reduction in the minimum fee required to apply for asylum: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5403815/congress-reconciliation-immigrants-benefits\">from $1,000 in the initial House version\u003c/a> to $100 in the final bill. The adjustment came after the Senate parliamentarian determined that the higher fee did not meet the rules needed to qualify for a simple majority vote.[aside postID=news_12044974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1020x765.jpg']Arthur said adjudicating each application can be costly. “ It’s not unreasonable to expect them to pay at least $100 for their asylum application if only to cover a portion — and a very small portion of that — of the processing and adjudication fees,” he added, speaking about migrants seeking asylum to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, argued that the new or increased fees will put an “unaffordable price tag on due process” for many immigrants. According to Altman, among the biggest increases is the fee to appeal an immigration judge’s decision: from the current $110 to $900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these fees are going to become barriers or obstacles to people making their way through the very basic requirements of the immigration court system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safety net programs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The initial House bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5403815/congress-reconciliation-immigrants-benefits\">already stripped health coverage\u003c/a> under Affordable Care Act marketplaces and Medicare for a range of lawfully present immigrants including refugees, asylees, and those with other humanitarian protections. It also restricted eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final version maintains those cuts while extending similar limitations to federal funding for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to Shelby Gonzales, the vice president for immigration policy at the left-leaning think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that already a lot of people are barred from insurance just based off of not having the right kind of immigration status,” Gonzales said. “The changes that are made in this law go even further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those remaining eligible for these public benefits are green card holders who have completed the five-year waiting period, certain Cubans and Haitians, and individuals residing in the U.S. under the Compacts of Free Association, which includes people from Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur from the Center for Immigration Studies argued that the U.S. already faces a challenge supporting a large number of low-income citizens — even without the additional strain on the country’s social safety nets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is reasonable to expect those who come to this country to be able to provide for themselves,” he said. Arthur added that states who want to provide benefits should be able to fund them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said her most immediate concern is the limits to SNAP benefits, adding that she is worried whether food banks can meet potential increased demand in the future. “I don’t think that they have the capacity to help people in huge numbers that might be losing access to food immediately,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s changes to the Child Tax Credit will also have an impact on immigrant families. Currently, only the child needs to have a Social Security number to qualify for the benefit. While the House initially proposed requiring both parents to have a Social Security number, the final version requires just one parent to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The child tax credit will be effectively cut off for kids with two undocumented parents,” said Tara Watson, director of the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity at the Brookings Institution. “That’s a significant amount of money that assists with the wellbeing of citizen children and it will be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over $3 billion is allocated to the Justice Department for immigration-related activities. That includes the hiring of more immigration judges to address the growing case backlog, which was at \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1344791/dl?inline\">nearly 4 million cases\u003c/a> as of April, the latest data available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush-Joseph from the Migration Policy Institute said the immigration court system is vastly underfunded compared to ICE and CBP, therefore the additional funding is promising. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:05 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Representatives narrowly passed President Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046831/cruel-ugly-nasty-immoral-democrats-slam-mega-bill-ahead-of-house-vote\">federal budget proposal on Thursday\u003c/a>, slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046134/a-big-bad-betrayal-san-jose-groups-protest-trumps-tax-bill\">social safety net programs\u003c/a> and extending tax cuts that Bay Area lawmakers say are a betrayal of the American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Votes largely fell along party lines, with the exception of Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who joined Democrats to vote against the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation heads to Trump’s desk next, and he is expected to sign it on July Fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill is a betrayal that abandons the needs of hardworking Americans and balloons the national debt by over $4 trillion — not to invest in the future, but to reward the wealthiest in our country at the expense of everyone else,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said in a statement on Thursday, referring to the legislation as the “Big, Ugly Bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the legislation makes the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028454/potential-medicaid-cuts-who-would-be-affected-and-what-are-republicans-proposing\">largest cuts to Medicaid\u003c/a>, Medicare and federal food stamps programs in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2 million California residents could also lose healthcare coverage as a result of more than $28.4 billion slashed from Medicaid funding to the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that rural hospitals could see services reduced or close their doors entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BigBeautifulBillAP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BigBeautifulBillAP1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BigBeautifulBillAP1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BigBeautifulBillAP1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, speaks in the House chamber as House Democrats stand to applaud him, prior to the final vote for President Donald Trump’s signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol, on Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Washington. \u003ccite>(Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marnie Regan, director of government relations at Larkin Street Youth Services, said that the nonprofit’s clients, many of whom are homeless or formerly homeless young people, are especially at risk of losing access to these services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 18- to 25-year-olds Larkin supports work gig jobs, or hold multiple part-time roles that don’t include health benefits, or allow them to cobble together the income necessary to afford enough food — making them dependent on public assistance for healthcare and nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s that sort of invisible part of the workforce that we are very, very concerned about losing their benefits,” she said, adding that many of these young people are especially likely to forgo routine and preventative health care when they don’t have access to Medicaid.[aside postID=news_12046831 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/LateefahSimonGetty2-1020x680.jpg']“They’re worried about the cost … they don’t do dental care, there’s a lot of things that they just don’t access,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also blocks abortion care providers, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a federal law already prevents Medicaid from paying for abortions unless the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest or there is a threat to the pregnant person’s life, the bill would block Medicaid reimbursements for other care offered at these sites, like pregnancy testing, cancer screenings and contraceptives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on its website this week, Planned Parenthood said the bill could put as many as 200 of its health centers at risk of shutting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health and lives of 1.1 million patients across the country are at risk,” the organization said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called the move to defund Planned Parenthood a “backdoor abortion ban.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republican-proposed-calfresh-cuts-put-millions-of-californians-at-risk-of-hunger/\">5.5 million\u003c/a> Californians rely on food assistance benefits in California, which are nearly entirely funded by the federal government, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republican-proposed-calfresh-cuts-put-millions-of-californians-at-risk-of-hunger/\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gina Fromer, the executive director of the service organization GLIDE, told KQED that its meal lines have already grown in anticipation of cuts to CalFresh, California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" 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2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Gina Fromer, CEO of GLIDE, speaks at an event highlighting the work of the GLIDE Community Ambassadors program in the lobby of the GLIDE building in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization serves three hot meals on weekdays, and previously offered bagged food instead of a full lunch and dinner service on weekends. This week, she said, GLIDE returned to a more full meal schedule on the weekend because of growing demand — especially as other city food providers, like Saint Anthony’s — \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-tenderloin-st-anthony-layoffs/\">face cuts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have families in our food line who can’t afford the third meal [of the day], now they’re not going be able to afford the second meal,” she told KQED. “The impact is going to be devastating to GLIDE because it’s a strain on our resources already that are [stretched thin].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Republican members of Congress from California, including those in purple districts such as Rep. David Valadao, R-Bakersfield, voted in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not an easy decision for me,” Valadao said in a statement on Thursday. “I’ve been a vocal advocate for protecting and preserving Medicaid for the most vulnerable in my district. I know how important the program is for my constituents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump earlier blasted the three Senate Republicans who voted against the bill — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina — threatening to support their challengers in upcoming primaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillis announced his decision not to seek reelection on Sunday, the day after Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/donald-trump-threatens-thom-tillis-00431472\">threatened \u003c/a>the senator online for opposing cuts to Medicaid that Tillis warned would devastate his state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg\" alt=\"North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been very, very clear that if a Republican does not vote for this bill, then Trump is going to come after them,” Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, told KQED this week after the bill passed the Senate. “They fear Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to preserving tax cuts, the federal budget bill significantly ramps up funding for Trump’s immigration agenda. The bill includes nearly $45 billion for new detention centers and $14 billion for increased deportation operations and hiring more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have a choice between governance for the people or cruelty,” Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, said Thursday in a statement. “It is undeniable that the policies in the bill will hurt communities in my district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights groups fighting against the bill said the impacts on vulnerable communities could be devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill will inflict generational harm on Black communities, people with disabilities, low-income families, veterans, immigrants, and countless others who already struggle to access basic necessities,” Janai Nelson, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231206-LateefahSimon-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lateefah Simon poses for a portrait on Dec. 6, 2023, after signing paperwork for her congressional campaign candidacy at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Immigrant Policy Center, in a statement, called on Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They’re worried about the cost … they don’t do dental care, there’s a lot of things that they just don’t access,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also blocks abortion care providers, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a federal law already prevents Medicaid from paying for abortions unless the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest or there is a threat to the pregnant person’s life, the bill would block Medicaid reimbursements for other care offered at these sites, like pregnancy testing, cancer screenings and contraceptives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on its website this week, Planned Parenthood said the bill could put as many as 200 of its health centers at risk of shutting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The health and lives of 1.1 million patients across the country are at risk,” the organization said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called the move to defund Planned Parenthood a “backdoor abortion ban.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republican-proposed-calfresh-cuts-put-millions-of-californians-at-risk-of-hunger/\">5.5 million\u003c/a> Californians rely on food assistance benefits in California, which are nearly entirely funded by the federal government, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/republican-proposed-calfresh-cuts-put-millions-of-californians-at-risk-of-hunger/\">California Budget & Policy Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gina Fromer, the executive director of the service organization GLIDE, told KQED that its meal lines have already grown in anticipation of cuts to CalFresh, California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009979\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Gina Fromer, CEO of GLIDE, speaks at an event highlighting the work of the GLIDE Community Ambassadors program in the lobby of the GLIDE building in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization serves three hot meals on weekdays, and previously offered bagged food instead of a full lunch and dinner service on weekends. This week, she said, GLIDE returned to a more full meal schedule on the weekend because of growing demand — especially as other city food providers, like Saint Anthony’s — \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-tenderloin-st-anthony-layoffs/\">face cuts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have families in our food line who can’t afford the third meal [of the day], now they’re not going be able to afford the second meal,” she told KQED. “The impact is going to be devastating to GLIDE because it’s a strain on our resources already that are [stretched thin].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Republican members of Congress from California, including those in purple districts such as Rep. David Valadao, R-Bakersfield, voted in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not an easy decision for me,” Valadao said in a statement on Thursday. “I’ve been a vocal advocate for protecting and preserving Medicaid for the most vulnerable in my district. 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Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It has been very, very clear that if a Republican does not vote for this bill, then Trump is going to come after them,” Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> student governments are banned from boycotting Israel, the university system told campus presidents on Wednesday in an apparent concession to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration’s effort to crack down on pro-Palestinian movements on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael Drake told chancellors in a letter that their campuses have an obligation to make financial decisions that are “grounded in sound business practices,” prohibiting them from boycotting companies based on associations with particular countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter applies to all countries, but comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Science Foundation sent notices to federal grantees in May with updated guidelines prohibiting recipients of new grants from engaging in boycotts of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, UC student governments, including at Berkeley and Davis campuses, have been among \u003ca href=\"https://uscpr.org/activist-resource/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/bdswins/\">dozens\u003c/a> of campus organizations at universities throughout the U.S. that have passed legislation boycotting Israeli companies and those that supply weapons or surveillance technology to the nation as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said existing UC policy prohibits these kinds of boycotts, since universities and their student governments are required to include competitive bidding in their financial and business decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counterprotester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The right of individuals and groups to express their views on public matters is distinct from the responsibility of University entities to conduct their financial affairs in a manner consistent with University policy and applicable law,” Drake’s letter reads. “This letter reaffirms both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abigail Verino, the president of the Associated Students of the University of California at UC Berkeley, said in a statement that her office was committed to upholding the decisions made by the student body. In May 2024, the organization passed legislation divesting from companies it said contribute to genocide in Gaza with little opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has been at the forefront of pro-Palestinian student-activist movements, earning it a spot on the list of schools the Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">currently probing over claims of antisemitism\u003c/a>, along with Stanford, Columbia, Harvard and others. UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons is among three university chancellors who have been called to speak at a congressional committee hearing on antisemitism this month.[aside postID=news_12034707 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“We take seriously our responsibility to reflect student voices, especially when they concern matters of conscience and global justice,” Verino wrote in her email to KQED. “We’re navigating this moment thoughtfully and deliberately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, UC Davis suspended its law school’s student association after it passed legislation banning the use of student funds for businesses that are part of the BDS movement’s list of companies that fund Israel and vowing not to approve funding requests for events featuring speakers they say represent the Israeli government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the university took control of the law student association’s $40,000 annual budget over the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dov Baum, the director of corporate accountability for American Friends Service Committee, an organization supporting the university BDS movement, said the recent change to the grant eligibility policy represents a larger aim of the Trump administration to stifle free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we all see how the Trump administration is trying to crack down on universities, just like other authoritarian regimes are trying to crack down on locations where independent free thoughts can happen, and universities are one such place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign that reads “Divest” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baum said that the administration’s focus on activism that opposes Israel is especially effective, since BDS has been divisive, even among progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically in this country, there was a big movement of what we call PEPs — ‘progressives except Palestine.’ People who believe in human rights and equality and liberation, but somehow leave behind the Palestinians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new grant conditions from the National Science Foundation also warned that grants would not be provided to entities that operate any programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, but the letter from Drake does not discuss DEI efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university system had pulled back some diversity initiatives, including a requirement that applicants for faculty positions submit diversity statements, which \u003ca href=\"https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/2025-03-20-provost-ltr-re-diversity-statements.pdf\">the UC’s Board of Regents discontinued in March\u003c/a>, but its diversity statement and information, as well as the UC Office of the President’s \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Equity, Diversity and Inclusion department\u003c/a> are still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baum said she understood that there was significant political pressure on universities to comply with the Trump administration, especially given their reliance on financial funding for research efforts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> student governments are banned from boycotting Israel, the university system told campus presidents on Wednesday in an apparent concession to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration’s effort to crack down on pro-Palestinian movements on university campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC President Michael Drake told chancellors in a letter that their campuses have an obligation to make financial decisions that are “grounded in sound business practices,” prohibiting them from boycotting companies based on associations with particular countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter applies to all countries, but comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Science Foundation sent notices to federal grantees in May with updated guidelines prohibiting recipients of new grants from engaging in boycotts of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, UC student governments, including at Berkeley and Davis campuses, have been among \u003ca href=\"https://uscpr.org/activist-resource/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/bdswins/\">dozens\u003c/a> of campus organizations at universities throughout the U.S. that have passed legislation boycotting Israeli companies and those that supply weapons or surveillance technology to the nation as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said existing UC policy prohibits these kinds of boycotts, since universities and their student governments are required to include competitive bidding in their financial and business decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counterprotester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The right of individuals and groups to express their views on public matters is distinct from the responsibility of University entities to conduct their financial affairs in a manner consistent with University policy and applicable law,” Drake’s letter reads. “This letter reaffirms both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abigail Verino, the president of the Associated Students of the University of California at UC Berkeley, said in a statement that her office was committed to upholding the decisions made by the student body. In May 2024, the organization passed legislation divesting from companies it said contribute to genocide in Gaza with little opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has been at the forefront of pro-Palestinian student-activist movements, earning it a spot on the list of schools the Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">currently probing over claims of antisemitism\u003c/a>, along with Stanford, Columbia, Harvard and others. UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons is among three university chancellors who have been called to speak at a congressional committee hearing on antisemitism this month.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We take seriously our responsibility to reflect student voices, especially when they concern matters of conscience and global justice,” Verino wrote in her email to KQED. “We’re navigating this moment thoughtfully and deliberately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, UC Davis suspended its law school’s student association after it passed legislation banning the use of student funds for businesses that are part of the BDS movement’s list of companies that fund Israel and vowing not to approve funding requests for events featuring speakers they say represent the Israeli government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the university took control of the law student association’s $40,000 annual budget over the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dov Baum, the director of corporate accountability for American Friends Service Committee, an organization supporting the university BDS movement, said the recent change to the grant eligibility policy represents a larger aim of the Trump administration to stifle free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we all see how the Trump administration is trying to crack down on universities, just like other authoritarian regimes are trying to crack down on locations where independent free thoughts can happen, and universities are one such place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008670\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student holds a sign that reads “Divest” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baum said that the administration’s focus on activism that opposes Israel is especially effective, since BDS has been divisive, even among progressives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically in this country, there was a big movement of what we call PEPs — ‘progressives except Palestine.’ People who believe in human rights and equality and liberation, but somehow leave behind the Palestinians,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new grant conditions from the National Science Foundation also warned that grants would not be provided to entities that operate any programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, but the letter from Drake does not discuss DEI efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university system had pulled back some diversity initiatives, including a requirement that applicants for faculty positions submit diversity statements, which \u003ca href=\"https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/2025-03-20-provost-ltr-re-diversity-statements.pdf\">the UC’s Board of Regents discontinued in March\u003c/a>, but its diversity statement and information, as well as the UC Office of the President’s \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Equity, Diversity and Inclusion department\u003c/a> are still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baum said she understood that there was significant political pressure on universities to comply with the Trump administration, especially given their reliance on financial funding for research efforts. The UC received more than $4 billion — more than half of its total research budget — in research funding from federal agencies in 2024, according to university data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are willing to compromise, especially when it comes to issues around Palestine. This is where, usually, progressives compromise, unfortunately,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone — who has presided over three decades of massive taxable property value increases as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalley\">Silicon Valley’s industries\u003c/a> boomed, busted and boomed again — is retiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, 84, announced last week he is stepping down on July 6, a little more than thirty years after he began running the assessor’s office, and nearly 50 years after he was first elected to public office. He is the longest-serving elected official in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s my time,” Stone told KQED. “I don’t want to embarrass myself,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone is a regional icon, not only because his name is on the property value assessment notices sent to hundreds of thousands of residents every year — “I call them love notes,” he said — but also because of his deep involvement in community building and political work outside of his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccassessor.org/images/k2%20article/2022CURRENTCURRICULUMVITAE-LarryStone.pdf\">dozens\u003c/a> of boards, commissions, councils, task forces and advisory groups, sharing his time, knowledge and money supporting the arts, education, professional sports, economic development and housing, and has long been recognized as one of the most powerful leaders in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone is seen in front of several pallets containing hundreds of thousands of this year’s property assessment notices on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Santa Clara County Assessor's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not one to not be active. I mean, that’s not in my DNA, ever,” Stone said in his office this week, which even in the process of a move out, was still largely full of memorabilia from his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walls and shelves are lined with framed photos of Stone with his family, or world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, local politicians, as well as clippings from just some of the many news articles and features written about him through the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them – a story published in the \u003cem>Sunnyvale Sun\u003c/em> 20 years ago – focused on Stone’s prominence and ubiquity in the region even then, and noted he “won the honor of being named the 2004 ‘Royal Schmoozer’ by the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also led campaigns to try to bring the San Francisco Giants to the South Bay in the 1980s, and later supported the effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/61898/the-as-to-san-jose-san-joseans-speak-out-pro-and-con\">bring the then-Oakland A’s to San José\u003c/a>, neither of which materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his experience served the region well, as he would later help broker the deal that brought the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara and led the campaign to pass Measure J, which authorized the construction of Levi’s Stadium.[aside postID=news_12045682 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-28-KQED-1020x680.jpg'] Inside the walls of the assessor’s office, Stone has presided over a greater than 500% increase in value of the assessment roll — the entire estimated value of all real property like land and buildings, and business personal property, like computers, machines and furniture — in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first stepped into the office in January 1995, the assessment roll was worth about $115 billion. But due in large part to the continued growth of the computing and technology industry, land, buildings and homes alike have grown in value, now worth about $725 billion altogether, Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t changed Stone’s approach to the work, which he said is more of an art than a science, and requires an even keel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assessing property in California is already unique because of Proposition 13’s limitations on property taxes. But working in Silicon Valley, taking on tech behemoths and other private industry billionaires armed with benches of attorneys angling to pay less in property taxes can be a taxing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Stone said, Apple’s spaceship campus in Cupertino is “the most unique property probably in the United States,” and not something that can easily be assessed with standard metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long time 49ers season ticket holder, Stone also vehemently disagreed with a decision by the county’s Assessment Appeals Board, which reduced the tax bill owed by the team for Levi’s Stadium by about half, from $12 million to $6 million annually, after the team appealed Stone’s assessment for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone argued the appeals board used an overly simplistic approach to value the stadium, not accounting for all the special events and concerts it hosts outside of football games, and he later sued the board, but lost in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-wont-appeal-san-francisco-49ers-nfl-tax-break-ruling/\">court\u003c/a> in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Assessor Larry Stone with politicians sit on a bookshelf at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe that that building, the stadium, is not properly assessed. But I did all I could — my office did all we could — to arrive at an accurate value. The court disagreed,” Stone said, recalling the saga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone didn’t grow up hoping to be an assessor, but there may have been signs early on that he’d be a good fit for the role. Sifting through a stack of personal photos, Stone pulled out a grade-school image of his smiling young face during his campaign for school secretary. His campaign promise to his classmates was written across the image: “Dependable and accurate records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young, single man, Stone started his professional career as an investment banker working on Wall Street in New York, living in an apartment on Manhattan’s east side with a coworker, a gig and a lifestyle he said was “heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being transferred to the Bay Area, where he met his wife Carmen and had three children, Stone and two business partners started a real estate investment firm on Sand Hill Road, where the company neighbored Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.[aside postID=news_12046134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250626-SJBBB-JG-5-KQED.jpg']He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.[aside postID=news_12044954 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SJEarthquakesGetty.jpg']After choosing to run again in 2022, only to retire in the midst of his term, Stone’s decision forced the Board of Supervisors to call for a special election to find a replacement to finish the term that runs through 2026, due to existing state and county laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1296/2025-06/press-release-special-election-called-to-fill-the-vacancy-of-the-santa-clara-county-assessor.pdf?VersionId=1Jv0eFrLsu6xgDks7HC9jVbKRyGsntVm\">approved \u003c/a>the special election for Nov. 4 of this year. If a candidate in that race doesn’t win a majority of votes, there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates on Dec. 30. The cost to run the first special election will be roughly $13 million, and roughly $26 million total if a runoff is needed, due to the voting infrastructure that is required under state law, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga, during the special June 25 meeting to approve the election, called the situation “very unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to stomach the cost of this, but we really have no legal options otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Stone’s retirement, Assistant Assessor Greg Monteverde will serve as the acting assessor, and the Board of Supervisors will appoint an interim assessor later this year, likely in August, to run the office until the special election is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2026, the assessor’s seat will be up for a standard election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he thinks the special election requirement is a “total waste of money” and said he plans to advocate for changes to requirements for such situations in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to concerns about his choice to retire now, leading to the high costs for the county, Stone said, “I didn’t create the rules. 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He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, two candidates have announced their intention to run for the office in 2026, though they could also run in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is Saratoga City Council Member Yan Zhao, and the other is Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor, who are both terming out of their city roles next year. Fligor, who has worked with Stone to head up the software replacement project and previously worked in the county counsel’s office, has received Stone’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Larry is a true public servant to his core,” Williams said of Stone’s decades of work, adding that whoever steps into the role next will need to carry that same passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had an incredibly effective assessor office in Santa Clara County, and I’m absolutely confident that that will continue to be the case and that’s part of the legacy that Larry leaves us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone is a regional icon, not only because his name is on the property value assessment notices sent to hundreds of thousands of residents every year — “I call them love notes,” he said — but also because of his deep involvement in community building and political work outside of his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccassessor.org/images/k2%20article/2022CURRENTCURRICULUMVITAE-LarryStone.pdf\">dozens\u003c/a> of boards, commissions, councils, task forces and advisory groups, sharing his time, knowledge and money supporting the arts, education, professional sports, economic development and housing, and has long been recognized as one of the most powerful leaders in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone is seen in front of several pallets containing hundreds of thousands of this year’s property assessment notices on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Santa Clara County Assessor's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not one to not be active. I mean, that’s not in my DNA, ever,” Stone said in his office this week, which even in the process of a move out, was still largely full of memorabilia from his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walls and shelves are lined with framed photos of Stone with his family, or world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, local politicians, as well as clippings from just some of the many news articles and features written about him through the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them – a story published in the \u003cem>Sunnyvale Sun\u003c/em> 20 years ago – focused on Stone’s prominence and ubiquity in the region even then, and noted he “won the honor of being named the 2004 ‘Royal Schmoozer’ by the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also led campaigns to try to bring the San Francisco Giants to the South Bay in the 1980s, and later supported the effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/61898/the-as-to-san-jose-san-joseans-speak-out-pro-and-con\">bring the then-Oakland A’s to San José\u003c/a>, neither of which materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his experience served the region well, as he would later help broker the deal that brought the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara and led the campaign to pass Measure J, which authorized the construction of Levi’s Stadium.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Inside the walls of the assessor’s office, Stone has presided over a greater than 500% increase in value of the assessment roll — the entire estimated value of all real property like land and buildings, and business personal property, like computers, machines and furniture — in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first stepped into the office in January 1995, the assessment roll was worth about $115 billion. But due in large part to the continued growth of the computing and technology industry, land, buildings and homes alike have grown in value, now worth about $725 billion altogether, Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t changed Stone’s approach to the work, which he said is more of an art than a science, and requires an even keel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assessing property in California is already unique because of Proposition 13’s limitations on property taxes. But working in Silicon Valley, taking on tech behemoths and other private industry billionaires armed with benches of attorneys angling to pay less in property taxes can be a taxing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Stone said, Apple’s spaceship campus in Cupertino is “the most unique property probably in the United States,” and not something that can easily be assessed with standard metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long time 49ers season ticket holder, Stone also vehemently disagreed with a decision by the county’s Assessment Appeals Board, which reduced the tax bill owed by the team for Levi’s Stadium by about half, from $12 million to $6 million annually, after the team appealed Stone’s assessment for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone argued the appeals board used an overly simplistic approach to value the stadium, not accounting for all the special events and concerts it hosts outside of football games, and he later sued the board, but lost in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-wont-appeal-san-francisco-49ers-nfl-tax-break-ruling/\">court\u003c/a> in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Assessor Larry Stone with politicians sit on a bookshelf at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe that that building, the stadium, is not properly assessed. But I did all I could — my office did all we could — to arrive at an accurate value. The court disagreed,” Stone said, recalling the saga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone didn’t grow up hoping to be an assessor, but there may have been signs early on that he’d be a good fit for the role. Sifting through a stack of personal photos, Stone pulled out a grade-school image of his smiling young face during his campaign for school secretary. His campaign promise to his classmates was written across the image: “Dependable and accurate records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young, single man, Stone started his professional career as an investment banker working on Wall Street in New York, living in an apartment on Manhattan’s east side with a coworker, a gig and a lifestyle he said was “heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being transferred to the Bay Area, where he met his wife Carmen and had three children, Stone and two business partners started a real estate investment firm on Sand Hill Road, where the company neighbored Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:50 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As U.S. representatives gear up for a vote on Donald Trump’s federal budget proposal, House Democrats are planning to buy time and delay the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041305/californias-members-congress-vote-along-party-lines-house-budget-bill\">so-called “big, beautiful bill.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be there in the morning to fight this cruel, ugly, nasty, immoral bill,” Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, told KQED while heading to the airport on Tuesday shortly after Senate Republicans passed the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate bill narrowly passed after an all-night session on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaker vote. The latest version of the bill extends tax cuts that Republicans passed in 2017 while slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046134/a-big-bad-betrayal-san-jose-groups-protest-trumps-tax-bill\">food assistance funding and Medicaid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, who represents the East Bay, is among Democrats presenting amendments to further delay Trump’s tax-and-spending mega-bill’s advance. A core amendment she is proposing would maintain federal funding for food benefits and health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor families in my district and across the country are surviving off of $6 equivalent of SNAP benefits per day, and Republicans want to cut those. So I’m going to say ‘Hell no,’” Simon said, adding that the changes will be difficult to get through in the Republican-majority House. “Our job is to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg\" alt=\"North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. John Garamendi of the East Bay is also offering amendments, including to limit tax reductions for Americans who earn more than $500,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the deficit is a result of the tax cut for billionaires,” Garamendi told KQED. “Nurses, construction workers, teachers — they’re not the ones causing the deficit. If the billionaire tax cut were to be eliminated, we would be in a much better situation dealing with the healthcare services that 16 million Americans will lose, unless there’s a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill adds nearly $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and $14 billion for ongoing deportation efforts that include hiring thousands of more agents, on the heels of mass deportation raids, often by unidentified officers in unmarked vans.[aside postID=news_12046684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240517-TKBilingualLearners-128-BL_qed.jpg']Democrats who spoke to KQED said the ICE funding would further entrench the terror enveloping communities across the country, in the place of creating substantive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The connections between the head of ICE and Stephen Miller, to companies that they once owned — and have an interest in — is gross corruption,” Garamendi said. Increased funding for ICE “not only goes to a very corrupt program, but it doesn’t solve the problem. The problem is that our immigration laws are so out of date.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., earlier this week proposed an amendment to ensure the bill would not increase the deficit, in response to changes made by the Senate that would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load. Republicans rejected the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senate Republicans just voted to let President Trump and his billionaire buddies steal from working families in order to cut their own taxes by trillions of dollars,” Padilla said. “Americans are struggling to keep up with rising costs from Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Instead of trying to reduce costs, Senate Republicans have chosen to cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid, kicking 17 million people — including over 2.3 million Californians — off their health insurance. Their votes will cause rural hospitals across the country to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a gray suit and a purple tie.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/022_SanJose_VTAShootingPressBriefing_05262021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Liccardo, former mayor of San José, speaks during a press conference on May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Representatives across the Bay Area took their opportunity on Wednesday to slam the budget bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a sacred duty to act in [our children’s] best interest. But we are spending their money and borrowing from their future to pay for our present,” Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, said to the House Rules Committee, calling the bill a “shit show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Congress know the battle ahead will be ugly. Democrats are expected to vote against the bill, and they need to get at least five Republicans to join them in order to kill it. A vote could come down as soon as Thursday, but Democrats said they are hoping to delay the vote as long as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans are still on the fence, but most are expected to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a Republican does not vote for this bill, then Trump is going to come after them,” Garamendi said. “A delay is probably our best option. There is absolutely no reason this bill has to pass before the 4th of July, other than an artificial deadline set by the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this article misquoted Rep. John Garamendi as saying his amendment would limit tax reductions for Americans for those who earn less than $500,000 per year. The article has been updated to reflect that. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, who represents the East Bay, is among Democrats presenting amendments to further delay Trump’s tax-and-spending mega-bill’s advance. A core amendment she is proposing would maintain federal funding for food benefits and health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor families in my district and across the country are surviving off of $6 equivalent of SNAP benefits per day, and Republicans want to cut those. So I’m going to say ‘Hell no,’” Simon said, adding that the changes will be difficult to get through in the Republican-majority House. “Our job is to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg\" alt=\"North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. John Garamendi of the East Bay is also offering amendments, including to limit tax reductions for Americans who earn more than $500,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the deficit is a result of the tax cut for billionaires,” Garamendi told KQED. “Nurses, construction workers, teachers — they’re not the ones causing the deficit. If the billionaire tax cut were to be eliminated, we would be in a much better situation dealing with the healthcare services that 16 million Americans will lose, unless there’s a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill adds nearly $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and $14 billion for ongoing deportation efforts that include hiring thousands of more agents, on the heels of mass deportation raids, often by unidentified officers in unmarked vans.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area school districts stand to lose millions of federal dollars budgeted for programs that support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002815/lawmakers-push-to-fully-implement-english-learner-roadmap-in-california-schools\">English language learners\u003c/a>, children of migrant families and others this fall after the Trump administration made a last-minute move to freeze funding for the fiscal year that begins Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Education notified states Monday afternoon that it would withhold more than $6.8 billion for six grant programs under review, including those that fund language instruction, after-school programs, teacher training and more. The freeze is expected to affect upwards of $1 billion meant for California school districts, threatening to exacerbate their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">already squeezed wallets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The actions at this time represent an incredible disruption,” state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said during a press conference on Tuesday. “As schools are preparing for the next school year, as many of our programs are already in their summer programming, it couldn’t come at a worse time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration is punishing children for the sole reason that states refuse to cater to Trump’s political ideology, so we are here in California today to say we’re not going to let that happen,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State offices of education were informed Monday that, given the change in presidential administrations, the Department of Education was reviewing congressionally appropriated grant allocations for the 2025 fiscal year, which states had expected to begin drawing down on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The messages said final decisions had not been made for the upcoming academic year, and that the department would not issue grant award notifications until that review was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2000x1332.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2048x1364.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear what the timeline would be. The Trump administration and the Department of Education did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edgar Zazueta, the executive director of the Association of California School Administrators, said the cuts will have a disproportionate effect on those public school students who need some of the most support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“English learners, our migrant students, adult education, after-school programs — all those who need more are the ones that are being targeted,” he said during the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, $1.47 million in Title III grant funding is allocated to pay for salaries and programming in language instruction for English learners this year, and another $2 million is planned to supplement teaching instruction. 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She never was asked to resign, nor did she offer to resign,” public relations consultant Sam Singer told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042148/in-power-struggle-at-sf-zoo-embattled-ceo-appears-to-come-out-on-top\">position at the zoo has been hard-fought\u003c/a> in recent months. In May, the San Francisco Zoological Society, the nonprofit that runs the facility, held a series of closed-door discussions as part of an effort to oust her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Zoo director Tanya Peterson visits the giraffes in the African Savanna exhibit in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 7, 2011. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While she ultimately stayed, at least five members of the board of directors have resigned since. Matthew Miller, the former chair of the society’s risk committee, cited the board’s inability to decide on Peterson’s employment as the reason for his departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to remove Peterson followed a scathing report from the city’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission that found the zoo’s infrastructure was “extremely outdated,” lacked running water in some areas, flooded in others and was unsafe for animals and visitors last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months following, the union that represents about 100 zoo workers took an overwhelming vote of no confidence in Peterson and the Board of Supervisors requested a performance audit of the zoo, which is ongoing.[aside postID=news_12042683 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SanFranciscoZooGetty-1020x744.jpg']The zoo is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042683/as-turmoil-mounts-at-sf-zoo-city-auditor-threatens-to-step-up-investigation\">at risk of losing $4 million in annual funding\u003c/a> for failing to comply with that audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s office accused Peterson and zoo management of being uncooperative with its process, failing to turn over dozens of documents requested as far back as January, while making false claims about the status of others and providing contradictory financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s audit threatens to escalate to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for further action to force compliance. Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>that Lurie told her Peterson was planning to resign, has already asked the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee to hold the zoo’s annual funding in reserve until it complies. The board will vote on that request next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid disarray at the zoo, Peterson and city leaders, led by former mayor London Breed, have been negotiating a $25 million deal to bring a pair of giant pandas from China to the site next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his statement on Friday, Lurie said the plan, which aims to help the zoo rebound from low visitorship and profits, is among the reasons new leadership is needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that stable, permanent leadership will strengthen the zoo and our city’s ability to welcome pandas,” he said, adding that the zoo’s board had decided to develop a plan to name a new CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910383/how-trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-playing-out-in-the-bay-area\">ramps up immigration arrests\u003c/a>, flooding the streets of Los Angeles with masked agents, it is simultaneously stripping half a million people of humanitarian protections that allowed them to enter the country legally — essentially turning them into undocumented immigrants and threatening to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is a Nicaraguan journalist who escaped \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1198540870/nicaragua-ortega-repression-journalism\">a crackdown on the free press\u003c/a> in her homeland, and recently landed here in the Bay Area. The journalist, a woman in her 40s, asked KQED to identify her only by her first initial, E., because she fears what the Nicaraguan government could do to her if she’s deported, or to the family she left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met on a sunny morning earlier this month at her new apartment in a suburban housing complex in Concord. E. had just rented the place but she had no furniture, so we sat down to talk on the brown living room carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E. told her story as the Trump administration began \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/12/dhs-issues-notices-termination-chnv-parole-program-encourages-parolees-self-deport\">sending letters out\u003c/a> this month notifying her and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">more than 530,000 others\u003c/a> from four unstable and authoritarian countries — Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — that a Biden-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/setting-the-record-straight-on-chnv/\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a> under which they had come to the U.S. lawfully, had been terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking back to what brought her to this point, E., who’s a mother of two, described her path to become a journalist. She was in high school when she discovered the profession, and she said interviewing politicians and covering the news of the day seemed exciting. She built a career spanning TV, radio and newspapers and, over time, her work took on increasing urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave me the opportunity to give voice to the voiceless and hold power to account — to question what’s permitted under the laws and the constitution,” she said. “Of course in some countries it can be dangerous to bring to light what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Nicaragua has become such a country. The government of President Daniel Ortega has taken control of some news outlets and shut others down entirely, locking up journalists on false charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. in her home in Concord on June 12, 2025. The journalist is seeking asylum from persecution in Nicaragua and did not want to expose her name or face. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“If you’re on the list … The only thing to do is to run.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ortega first came to power as part of the Sandinista leadership that waged\u003ca href=\"https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/newshour-cold-war/nicaragua\"> a leftist revolution\u003c/a> to topple the 43-year Somoza family dictatorship in 1979. He was elected president in 1985, but when he was voted out five years later, he stepped down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After winning re-election in 2006, though, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaragua-congress-gives-final-approval-sweeping-constitutional-reforms-2025-01-30/\">Ortega tightened his grip on power\u003c/a>. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/nicaraguas-deepening-repression-un-experts-call-urgent-global-action\"> bloody crackdown on protesters\u003c/a> in 2018 was followed by a 2021 election in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/1080204905/nicaragua-has-convicted-more-than-a-dozen-opponents-of-president-daniel-ortega\">Ortega jailed most opposition candidates\u003c/a>. His party dominates the legislature and he has progressively gained control of the police, the military \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/setting-the-record-straight-on-chnv/\">and the courts\u003c/a>. He has made his wife, Rosario Murillo, co-president. And earlier this month, a former general who became a critic \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/roberto-samcam-killed-costa-rica-president-daniel-ortega\">was assassinated\u003c/a> in Costa Rica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of the risk, E. stayed, even as others left the country. Journalists from formerly competing media outlets teamed up to report clandestinely and publish news without bylines, getting information out about human rights violations however they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12044974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They learned of an “enemies list” compiled by the regime, and contacted the people whose names were on it, so they could try to escape, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re on the list, they will get you. The only thing to do is to run,” she said. “I have friends who wanted to stay and face justice. They said, ‘I don’t have anything to fear.’ I told them, ‘No! Go! Get out!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in late 2023, E. found out that she was targeted. “My source told me: ‘Run! You’re on the list.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E. said she kissed her children goodbye and, with the help of her journalism network, went into hiding. Soon, police began violently questioning her family about her whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will never regret becoming a journalist,” she said, brushing her long dark hair away from her face. “But my family shouldn’t have to pay. When I decided to be a journalist I didn’t know that this was part of the package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Safe in exile, but for how long?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nicaraguan journalists already in exile in Florida helped her find a U.S. sponsor and apply for the parole program, which Biden officials had designed as a way to shift the growing number of migrants from the four countries away from the border and into a lawful, if temporary, pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, last spring, E.’s parole was approved and she flew to Florida legally — with a two-year work permit and, once on U.S. soil, the chance to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of \u003ca href=\"https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-01-18/journalists-on-the-verge-of-extinction-in-nicaragua.html\">more than 40 journalists who fled Nicaragua last year\u003c/a>, she said, while five colleagues who stayed are now in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she landed in the U.S., she said, she touched the earth and thought, ‘Thank God! This land is welcoming me and I can start over.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“E.’s case is a great example for why we even had the program,” said Reena Arya, E.’s immigration lawyer with Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay. “The United States vetted her, ran her fingerprints. … They stamped her passport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, she found work she loved, doing public relations for nonprofits. And she applied for humanitarian parole for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day President Donald Trump took office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268986/trump-humanitarian-parole-immigration#:~:text=In%20an%20executive%20order%20signed,National\">he issued an executive order ending the program\u003c/a>, along with other “categorical” parole programs, such as one for Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion and Afghans who escaped after the Taliban takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After waiting 70 days for her kids’ applications to be approved, E. knew they would instead be void. She says when she found out, she cried the entire day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. in her home in Concord on June 12, 2025. She is among dozens of Nicaraguan journalists who have fled a violent crackdown on the free press. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Parole revoked\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://justiceactioncenter.org/svitlana-doe-v-noem-class-action/\">Advocates sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration to preserve the humanitarian protections, including the so-called CHNV parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, as well as those for Ukrainians, Afghans and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 70 years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, humanitarian parole has been a longstanding and effective lynchpin of our immigration system,” said Esther Sung, legal director for Justice Action Center, the pro-immigrant group that brought the suit. “It has been a lifeline for people facing humanitarian crises in their countries of origin and has been one of the last remaining lawful pathways for people to secure temporary protection in the U.S.”[aside postID=news_12040425 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In April, a federal judge in Massachusetts halted the parole terminations, and an appeals court declined to reverse that decision. But in late May, the Supreme Court ruled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/30/dhs-releases-statement-major-scotus-victory-trump-administration-and-american\">government can start revoking parole \u003c/a>while the case, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, plays out in court. The next hearing is July 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung called the revocations unprecedented, and added that she considers them part of a plan by the Trump administration “to de-legalize people here lawfully to advance its anti-immigrant agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement June 12, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin called the CHNV parole “disastrous,” saying the Biden administration had poorly vetted parolees and suggesting those admitted were responsible for “chaos” and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different observer, award-winning Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz, who’s a former \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> editor and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, has seen the impact of the parole — and its termination — up close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz came to the U.S. on a fellowship, but as then-President Hugo Chavez consolidated power in Venezuela, Muñoz decided it wasn’t safe to go back. He has since become a U.S. citizen, and he’s watched over the years as other Venezuelan journalists flee the growing repression in their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHNV parole offered them a legal way to get here. And the \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/2024/08/press-freedom-in-nicaragua-nearly-nonexistent-cpj-and-rights-groups-tell-un/\">crackdown on press freedom\u003c/a> in all four countries covered by the program is well documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In particular for journalists, it’s crucial,” Muñoz said. “Because they cannot live in their countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that the journalists who arrived with parole are now in limbo, as their work permits are canceled and the possibility of deportation looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a cruel measure that’s not addressing the promise Trump made to clean the country of criminals,” he said. “These people are not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking for sanctuary in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leaving her office in Florida one afternoon in February, in the early weeks of the Trump presidency, E. said she saw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up immigrants on a nearby avenue and loading them onto buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had thought that with the protection of parole, she had nothing to fear from ICE. Now she realized that she could be next. E. felt hunted again, as she had in Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘I can’t stay here,’ and I called some friends in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told her they thought she’d be safer if she joined them, because California’s sanctuary laws prevent local police from helping ICE with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So E. uprooted once more, arriving in the Bay Area with nothing. She said she slept on friends’ couches until she found the apartment in Concord. And she landed a supermarket job to pay the bills while she looked for work in her field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she recently received the DHS letter canceling her parole and her work permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of deportation is terrifying, she said, fighting back tears, because she expects she would be imprisoned, as others have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me if I fear going back to my country, the answer is ‘Yes,’” she said, fighting back tears. “I’ve never been scared in my life. I’ve always been strong and brave. But I’ve seen what they’re capable of. I’ve seen people who were tortured, who were held in deplorable conditions. I don’t want to suffer. I don’t want my children to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Arya’s help, E. applied for asylum so, if normal rules apply, it’s unlikely she’ll be deported any time soon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In April, a federal judge in Massachusetts halted the parole terminations, and an appeals court declined to reverse that decision. But in late May, the Supreme Court ruled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/30/dhs-releases-statement-major-scotus-victory-trump-administration-and-american\">government can start revoking parole \u003c/a>while the case, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, plays out in court. The next hearing is July 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung called the revocations unprecedented, and added that she considers them part of a plan by the Trump administration “to de-legalize people here lawfully to advance its anti-immigrant agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement June 12, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin called the CHNV parole “disastrous,” saying the Biden administration had poorly vetted parolees and suggesting those admitted were responsible for “chaos” and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different observer, award-winning Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz, who’s a former \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> editor and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, has seen the impact of the parole — and its termination — up close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz came to the U.S. on a fellowship, but as then-President Hugo Chavez consolidated power in Venezuela, Muñoz decided it wasn’t safe to go back. He has since become a U.S. citizen, and he’s watched over the years as other Venezuelan journalists flee the growing repression in their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHNV parole offered them a legal way to get here. And the \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/2024/08/press-freedom-in-nicaragua-nearly-nonexistent-cpj-and-rights-groups-tell-un/\">crackdown on press freedom\u003c/a> in all four countries covered by the program is well documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In particular for journalists, it’s crucial,” Muñoz said. “Because they cannot live in their countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that the journalists who arrived with parole are now in limbo, as their work permits are canceled and the possibility of deportation looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a cruel measure that’s not addressing the promise Trump made to clean the country of criminals,” he said. “These people are not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking for sanctuary in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leaving her office in Florida one afternoon in February, in the early weeks of the Trump presidency, E. said she saw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up immigrants on a nearby avenue and loading them onto buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had thought that with the protection of parole, she had nothing to fear from ICE. Now she realized that she could be next. E. felt hunted again, as she had in Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘I can’t stay here,’ and I called some friends in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told her they thought she’d be safer if she joined them, because California’s sanctuary laws prevent local police from helping ICE with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So E. uprooted once more, arriving in the Bay Area with nothing. She said she slept on friends’ couches until she found the apartment in Concord. And she landed a supermarket job to pay the bills while she looked for work in her field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she recently received the DHS letter canceling her parole and her work permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of deportation is terrifying, she said, fighting back tears, because she expects she would be imprisoned, as others have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me if I fear going back to my country, the answer is ‘Yes,’” she said, fighting back tears. “I’ve never been scared in my life. I’ve always been strong and brave. But I’ve seen what they’re capable of. I’ve seen people who were tortured, who were held in deplorable conditions. I don’t want to suffer. I don’t want my children to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Arya’s help, E. applied for asylum so, if normal rules apply, it’s unlikely she’ll be deported any time soon. But Arya says the revocation of parole means the promise of protection has been broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fundamentally unfair,” she said. “It’s not how our immigration system has ever worked. And we’re entering a new era where the government thinks they can do that. And it’s a very scary door to open and walk through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, E. has plans to furnish the apartment. She should eventually get a work permit through her asylum application. And if she wins the asylum case, as Arya thinks she will, E. will eventually be allowed to bring her children here, though that could be years off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she wants to work for a just society, she said, whether for Nicaragua or here in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to help,” she said. “That’s what I’ve always done. And one day, I will be doing it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> released the first-of-its-kind report, documenting harms committed by the government against Black residents — just as the nation’s highest court was dealing a devastating blow to race-conscious policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dramatic split-screen moment: On June 29, 2023, the same day the California Reparations Task Force released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953025/reparations-task-forces-final-report-covers-much-more-than-money\">groundbreaking final report\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court issued its monumental decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954709/timeline-a-heated-history-of-affirmative-action-in-america\">banning affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal hurdles and shifting politics around racial justice have stalled many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">reparations-related proposals\u003c/a> in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California lawmakers are advancing a new strategy: reparations not based on race, but on lineage. They hope to set up a clash over whether descendants of enslaved people can be given preference in areas such as college admissions, mortgage assistance and professional licensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it should go up to the Supreme Court, then let it be there,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, vice chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. “But the country needs to say unequivocally that reparations and repair for slavery are either constitutional or unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the real foundational question that Black Americans are due [to have] answered in the immediate, and we want to pose that question as quickly as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (right) talks to members of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California about two reparations bills in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Tran Nguyen/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move carries legal risk, as opponents argue the bills attempt to circumvent state and federal limits on affirmative action and they, too, welcome a fight in the courts. Years before the Supreme Court’s ruling in \u003cem>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard\u003c/em>, California voters passed their own ban on affirmative action in public education, employment and contracting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills, if they become law, could generate reprisals from a Trump administration that has tried to punish state and local governments that have enacted diversity, equity and inclusion programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">housing\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the unfinished task of determining who qualifies for reparations programs. The Legislature has yet to create a new state agency to implement the report’s proposals or verify ancestry.[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']Despite broad support in the Capitol for the creation of the task force in 2020, legislators have had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents\">mixed success\u003c/a> turning the panel’s recommendations into laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Legislative Black Caucus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027903/california-lawmakers-target-historical-harm-to-black-residents-in-latest-bill-push\">announced a package of bills\u003c/a> inspired by the task force’s recommendations, including Assembly Bill 7, which would allow California universities to grant preference in admissions to applicants who are descendants of enslaved people. Importantly, said Bryan, the bill’s author, the words “Black” or “African American” do not appear in the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no race in AB7 at all,” he added. “It’s a specific harm-based intervention for a group of people who were previously excluded or harmed by institutions of higher learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Assembly in early June and is set to be heard in the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law School professor Ralph Richard Banks predicted the bill would set off an intense legal fight if it is passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white sign with black lettering reads "Reparations Now 2023" at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, the state's capital.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, “Reparations Now 2023,” at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On one side, you’ll have people saying, ‘Oh, an admissions preference for descendants of slavery — that’s just a transparent proxy for race,” Banks said. “And the other side of the argument will say, ‘Well, actually, there are reasons that we might be concerned about slavery and rectifying and responding to the damage and the harm done by slavery, which is distinct from any concern with race per se.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banks said the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is likely to suppress race-conscious policies beyond college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greater significance is that it would naturally be extended to all other sectors of life,” he said. “Not only college admissions, but employment and government policymaking related to housing … so the implications are dramatic and they’re still playing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a precedent-setting court battle could also include two other bills making their way through the Legislature. Assembly Bill 57 would set aside 10% of funds in the California Dream for All home-loan assistance program for descendants of enslaved people. Assembly Bill 742 would prioritize descendants of enslavement for state licenses required for professions such as barbers, dental hygienists and physical therapists.[aside postID=news_11948198 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Rep-Episode-2_Thumbnail_1-1020x574.png']Last year, a similar bill proposed to prioritize Black Californians for professional licenses was shelved ahead of a committee hearing, in part due to legal concerns. Another bill aimed at weakening Proposition 209, California’s ban on affirmative action, also failed to advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Quinio, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a group opposing the bills, said the legislation is searching for a loophole to enact policies that benefit Black Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely being used as a proxy of a race,” Quinio said. “Not only is the origin and the purpose of AB 7 demonstrative of the fact that it is trying to benefit a racial category, but the ultimate effect will be that only a particular racial category will benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio said the bill’s authors have been explicit about their goal of enacting recommendations of the reparations task force, which was created “to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill package, which includes AB 7, among the other bills, is about repairing centuries of economic damage [and] abuse that was inflicted on Black Californians,” Quinio said. “So it’s very clear as to who the bills were meant to benefit and what the purpose is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio pointed to a 2000 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Hawaii law restricting voting for a particular state office to people with Hawaiian ancestry. But he acknowledged the nation’s highest court has not ruled definitively on the kind of reparations policies being pursued in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a face mask holds a sign that reads \"World Leaders! Reparations for Slavery Now!\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-time Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force listens to public input at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To invite such a legal showdown, the Legislature will first have to pass Senate Bill 518, a bill that would create a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The new agency would be tasked with verifying an individual’s status as a descendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar proposal stalled last year after opposition from the Newsom administration over cost concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, said his hope for the legal survival of the reparations movement has been buoyed by an unlikely source: conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his concurring opinion in the Students for Fair Admissions case, Thomas argued that laws passed by Congress around the time of the 14th Amendment, particularly the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, were race-neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If laws meant to assist freed slaves were considered race-neutral and constitutional, Hunter wondered, could the same be true of laws meant to support their descendants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s happening in the atmosphere is to test that theory out,” Hunter said. “There’s a lot of fear about what they’re going to accept or not accept, but they haven’t yet been made to come into the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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