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And it comes as part of a broader crackdown on immigrants, including arrests at immigration courts and routine immigration check-ins, an attempt to revoke thousands of international student visas, suspension of the nation’s refugee program and a shutdown of asylum consideration at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he relied on guidance from advisers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller, a homeland security adviser, to compile a list of countries with deficient security vetting, “a significant terrorist presence” and a high rate of nationals who overstay U.S. visas, among other factors. 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Egypt is not on the travel ban list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack “has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted,” he said. “We don’t want them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban is set to take effect Monday, June 9, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Our country is better than this’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm May afternoon, Butch Larson and David Garcia leaned intently over a makeshift workbench outside Larson’s tent, one of a dozen lining the Guadalupe River Trail in South \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above them, cars roared along an overpass on Highway 85, enveloping the encampment in an unceasing din, but providing the pair a break from the midday sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson tinkered with the underside of a small skateboard. He worked slowly, still recovering mobility in his right arm after suffering a stroke last year. Larson has been unhoused since 2012, living for the last four years in this encampment off Cherry Avenue. Garcia arrived a year or two later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.[aside postID=news_12029843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-10-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg']Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.[aside postID=news_12026437 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Students at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford\">Stanford University\u003c/a> have ended what they say is the longest university \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040753/at-stanford-growing-pro-palestinian-hunger-strike-silence-from-university\">hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three dozen students, staff and alumni have participated in the 24-day effort, which was launched in May in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039733/california-students-hunger-strike-gaza-spreads-stanford\">solidarity with Palestinians at risk of starving in Gaza\u003c/a> due to Israel’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5389740/10-weeks-into-israels-aid-blockade-in-gaza-desperate-families-grind-lentils-for-flour\">monthslong blockade of aid\u003c/a> to the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike began after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038896/student-hunger-strikers-want-sf-states-divestment-deal-to-spread-across-csu-system\">similar movements took root across California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area, calling for university leaders to meet protesters’ demands to divest from companies they say fund Israel’s war in Gaza and take actions meant to ensure campus free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a goal to continue until administrators agreed to negotiate, the protesters announced they would end their effort following the final day of classes, calling the school’s failure to meet with them “shameful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are stopping the hunger strike, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop pushing for what we want in general,” said Yousef Helal, a first-year master’s student who participated in the strike. “It just means we’re going to seek different methods and we’ll do whatever we need to do until we meet our demands and until we can guarantee peace and safety for every Palestinian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person writes “Gaza is starving” at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California, on May 19, 2025. Several Stanford University students have been on a hunger strike for more than a week, pledging not to eat until the university agrees to divest from companies that they say are supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to making Stanford’s investments public and divesting from companies that provide surveillance technology and weapons to Israel, the hunger strikers also called for the school to roll back strict protest regulations put in place last fall, to urge the Santa Clara County district attorney to drop charges against a dozen people linked to a protest on campus last June and to denounce the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian student activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike took place in waves, with about a dozen protesters at a time refusing food for about a week in solidarity. Some participated for at least 10 days, Helal said. Others had to end their protest early due to severe health impacts, according to a health professional supporting the strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, “the administration has refused to talk to us at all,” Helal said. “Their students are literally at their doorsteps, two minutes away from the president’s office, starving, suffering … It’s very shameful.”[aside postID=news_12040753 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05192025_STANFORDHUNGERSTRIKE_EG044-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In a statement last month, Stanford spokesperson Luisa Rapport said the university respects the rights of students to express their views in ways “within the limits of the university’s viewpoint-neutral time, place, and manner rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have urged them to consider forms of expression that do not jeopardize their health and well-being,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the strike reflects a year of growing hostility between pro-Palestinian protesters and administrators on Stanford’s campus, strikers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was among more than 130 schools across the country whose students spent weeks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">camped out on their campuses last spring\u003c/a>, bringing attention to U.S. support for Israel and pressuring their universities to pull financial investments from companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a group of protesters\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\"> occupied the university president’s office\u003c/a> in June and refused to leave until they were arrested, administrators shut down Stanford’s encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the protesters face\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035346/santa-clara-da-charges-12-pro-palestinian-protesters-took-over-stanford-university-presidents-office\"> felony vandalism and trespassing charges\u003c/a>. (In March, the Santa Clara County district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030271/stanford-journalist-can-finally-breathe-after-avoiding-charges-for-reporting-on-protest\">declined to charge a student journalist\u003c/a> who was also arrested while covering the demonstration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Allen Cu, 21, a third-year student at Stanford University, stands for a portrait at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California, on Monday, May 19, 2025. Cu is one of the several Stanford University students participating in a hunger strike, pledging not to eat until the university agrees to divest from companies that they say are supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just before the current academic year began, the university announced updated “freedom of expression” policies, including a new requirement that demonstrators remove face coverings when asked and a clarification of their camping policy, requiring that tents and structures be removed overnight regardless of whether people are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had one major rally where we marched here from White Plaza around the main quad and back, and within five minutes, you saw administrators swarming, asking us to disperse, threatening to send the police to come and disperse us,” first-year Owen Martin told KQED in May. He said the relationship between the protesters and the school had changed since the previous spring, when he visited the encampment during a campus tour.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']Other students said they felt like the protests were held to a “double standard” by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, the university also declined to take action on students’ requests to make its investments public and divest from companies protesters have said were benefiting Israel’s war in Gaza, citing their interest that the school’s massive endowment remain unpolitical and confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as the University does not take positions on partisan or political issues, the Trustees maintain a strong presumption against using the endowment as an instrument to advance any particular social or political agenda,” the Board of Trustees’ Special Committee on Investment Responsibility said in a statement in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helal said Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine plans to find new ways to put pressure on the administration next fall. Throughout the summer, Stanford’s Students for Justice in Palestine will be holding an online “summer school” focused on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really trying to keep the energy high,” he said. “While maybe the hunger strike wasn’t as effective as we had hoped, that only means that we have to find other methods, and we will continue to push. We will not stop, we will not be scared into silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Wednesday unveiled his final city budget plan, setting up a handful of contentious votes next week on city spending, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031266/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahans-aggressive-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\">homelessness \u003c/a>and council pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his June Budget Message, the mayor asked the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">shift city funds\u003c/a> toward interim housing and shelter, in order to fill a $35.6 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The council will vote on that idea on Tuesday, along with a pair of ambitious Mahan proposals: one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">potentially arrest\u003c/a> unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter and another that would tie the pay of city leaders to a series of performance metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget message is all about focusing on the basics and increasing accountability for results,” Mahan told KQED. “I think accountability for the leadership at city hall is important, I’m calling on the city and county to be accountable for expanding shelter … and I’m saying that individuals in our community should be held accountable for coming indoors when there’s an appropriate shelter or treatment placement that is repeatedly offered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s budget is in relatively good shape compared to the large deficits faced by city leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">Oakland\u003c/a>. As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">successfully\u003c/a> pushed to shift more of that money toward temporary housing in his first two budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he proposed to spend up to 90% of Measure E revenue on shelter — a nearly $40 million shift that will cover the ongoing costs of the city’s interim housing units and erase the deficit — and to make that change permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move has drawn criticism from affordable housing advocates and some council members who argue a permanent funding shift will make it harder for new affordable apartments to get off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we create opportunities for folks to come indoors through shelter, we need a place for folks who have stability to then transition and move forward,” Councilmember Pamela Campos told KQED. She called for investments “both in creating shelter opportunities and creating the outflow of affordable housing that allows people to continue on their journey to improving their lives.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. On Monday, the council will hold a hearing to solicit public comment on the city’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. On Monday, the council will hold a hearing to solicit public comment on the city’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s leading proponents of oil refinery oversight is pushing back against the Trump administration’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014622/trump-tried-cut-agency-investigates-oil-gas-accidents-will-he-do-it-again\"> latest effort to scrap the federal agency\u003c/a> that investigates chemical disasters, including fires and explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-desaulnier\">Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a>, whose Contra Costa County district includes three major refineries, said the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board — known as CSB — serves a critical role in protecting the public health and safety of communities that live and work near refineries and chemical plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent oversight board “has people who are dedicated to understanding these very complex facilities, and go in and provide the best information to make sure that they’re safe,” DeSaulnier told KQED. “This is a small but mighty agency that we have helped create in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under easily overlooked language in the partial budget proposal the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/trump-administration-budget-proposal/\">released Friday\u003c/a>, the agency would be shuttered by October 2026, as “part of the Administration’s plans to move the Nation towards fiscal responsibility and to redefine the proper role of the Federal Government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration, which has staunchly advocated for unfettered oil and gas production, has consistently sought to reduce or outright eliminate oversight of fossil fuel and chemical industries, arguing they can adequately police themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, a former member of California’s Air Resources Board, said that notion flies in the face of basic human nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-CA, speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a vested interest in [something], there’s a conflict of interest when it comes to the greater good,” he said. “We’ve had instances in the Bay Area where refineries were self-regulating, and we had explosions and people died, and the economy and the price of gasoline changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desaulnier noted that the board was targeted for elimination during the first Trump administration as well, but was saved after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle supported an amendment he authored to preserve its funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to Republican colleagues and to the industry, and we actually not only saved it, but we put more money back into it,” he said. “So I’m hopeful that will happen again.”[aside postID=news_12014622 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1020x680.jpg']But in contrast with his first term, Trump is now attempting to establish greater control over independent agencies, a move the Supreme Court appears to at least partially accept. Last month, a divided Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-commissioners-independent-officials/\">declined to\u003c/a> immediately reinstate two independent regulators who were fired by the administration, arguing that doing so may be within the president’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he’s confident the agency can once again be rescued from Trump’s hatchet, and expects some of his Republican colleagues to again stand up for it. But he also acknowledged that it’s “a very, very strange time here in D.C. with this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are doing damage to lots of institutions,” he said. “Everybody can always be looked at for greater efficiencies, and Republicans and Democrats should do this together, and I endeavor to do that. But just eliminating organizations without analyzing them is a horrible, horrible practice. And unfortunately, that’s the atmosphere right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established by Congress in 1990, the board has no regulatory authority, and last year operated on only a modest budget of just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/final_-_fy25_csb_congressional_budget_justification.pdf\">$14 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it has nonetheless played a key role in investigating the root causes of some of the nation’s most catastrophic chemical accidents, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html\">the Deepwater Horizon\u003c/a> offshore drilling explosion in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion\u003c/a> in Georgia last year that forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the CSB investigated the explosion and fire at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\"> Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, most of them with respiratory problems. More recently, it investigated safety violations that resulted in a fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">injured a worker last year at Marathon Petroleum’s\u003c/a> Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s safety recommendations have also prompted new federal environmental and workforce safety regulations that have prevented countless disasters, DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the actual operators [of the facilities] understand that there’s value to having these people come in and make sure that they are not missing anything,” he said. “So just eliminating [the agency] will be detrimental to everyone, including the people who are in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s leading proponents of oil refinery oversight is pushing back against the Trump administration’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014622/trump-tried-cut-agency-investigates-oil-gas-accidents-will-he-do-it-again\"> latest effort to scrap the federal agency\u003c/a> that investigates chemical disasters, including fires and explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-desaulnier\">Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a>, whose Contra Costa County district includes three major refineries, said the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board — known as CSB — serves a critical role in protecting the public health and safety of communities that live and work near refineries and chemical plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent oversight board “has people who are dedicated to understanding these very complex facilities, and go in and provide the best information to make sure that they’re safe,” DeSaulnier told KQED. “This is a small but mighty agency that we have helped create in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in contrast with his first term, Trump is now attempting to establish greater control over independent agencies, a move the Supreme Court appears to at least partially accept. Last month, a divided Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-commissioners-independent-officials/\">declined to\u003c/a> immediately reinstate two independent regulators who were fired by the administration, arguing that doing so may be within the president’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he’s confident the agency can once again be rescued from Trump’s hatchet, and expects some of his Republican colleagues to again stand up for it. But he also acknowledged that it’s “a very, very strange time here in D.C. with this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are doing damage to lots of institutions,” he said. “Everybody can always be looked at for greater efficiencies, and Republicans and Democrats should do this together, and I endeavor to do that. But just eliminating organizations without analyzing them is a horrible, horrible practice. And unfortunately, that’s the atmosphere right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established by Congress in 1990, the board has no regulatory authority, and last year operated on only a modest budget of just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/final_-_fy25_csb_congressional_budget_justification.pdf\">$14 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it has nonetheless played a key role in investigating the root causes of some of the nation’s most catastrophic chemical accidents, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html\">the Deepwater Horizon\u003c/a> offshore drilling explosion in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion\u003c/a> in Georgia last year that forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the CSB investigated the explosion and fire at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\"> Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, most of them with respiratory problems. More recently, it investigated safety violations that resulted in a fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">injured a worker last year at Marathon Petroleum’s\u003c/a> Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s safety recommendations have also prompted new federal environmental and workforce safety regulations that have prevented countless disasters, DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the actual operators [of the facilities] understand that there’s value to having these people come in and make sure that they are not missing anything,” he said. “So just eliminating [the agency] will be detrimental to everyone, including the people who are in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> is calling out the swift reversal of many of her landmark initiatives just over 100 days after her successor, Ursula Jones Dickson, took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the county’s Board of Supervisors appointed Jones Dickson following Price’s recall in February, she has quietly withdrawn death row resentencing efforts for at least four people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias. For decades, Price has said, the office under prior district attorneys had covered up its practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson has also dropped what Price called historic environmental justice charges and restructured her landmark Public Accountability Unit, which aimed to review police misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.[aside postID=news_12042069 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-04-1020x680.jpg']Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.[aside postID=news_12034231 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20161112_181430-qut-1020x765.jpg']“The bottom line is we can not move forward ethically on a case that we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the case was reviewed along with others in the consumer division, some of which had been delegated out to a contracted law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not seen that before — a law firm being hired by a district attorney to do the work of DAs,” Jones Dickson said, adding that it was a concern to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she could not comment on whether the office would bring a civil case against Radius Recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about her motivation for speaking out against Jones Dickson, Price confirmed she isn’t planning to mount another campaign for office or a recall effort against her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that I feel it’s important [is] that the public should understand what is truly happening,” she told reporters. “It became clear in the last few days, and certainly with the 100-day report, that there are some things that the public needs to know about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a new direction. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In President Donald Trump’s second term, one phrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038481/may-day-thousands-bay-area-take-streets-immigrant-worker-rights\">keeps showing up\u003c/a>: “due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Trump’s critics claim that many actions taken by his administration violate due process, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/oversight-agency-finds-trumps-federal-worker-firings-unlawful-asks-some-employees-be-reinstated/403218/\">terminating federal workers\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372214/harvard-sues-trump-administration-research\">freezing federal grants for universities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5385355/perkins-coie-trump-executive-order-law-firms\">targeting law firms the White House sees as its enemies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the president is testing his ability to challenge due process most frequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/g-s1-63187/trump-courts-immigration-judges-due-process\">in the area of immigration\u003c/a>. The administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy871w21d3vo\">invoked a wartime power\u003c/a> to rush deportations of alleged gang members, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">stripped thousands of foreign students of their visas\u003c/a> and is quietly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041326/this-ethiopian-woman-was-tortured-by-her-government-the-us-is-sending-her-home-anyway\">whittling away legal protections for torture survivors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both legal scholars and immigration advocates say that disregarding due process for immigrants could have serious consequences for the civil liberties of everyone else, and potentially, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-constitution-abrego-garcia/682487/\">the country’s democracy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what exactly is due process?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution — the document that establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">the powers and limitations of government\u003c/a> — first mentions \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-v\">due process in the Fifth Amendment\u003c/a>: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this simply means is that the government can’t impose harm on somebody unless there are fair procedures,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1920x1318.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky at his home in Oakland, California, on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The government has tremendous power: the power to take away somebody’s property, their freedom, even their life,” he said — but due process of law dictates that “the government shouldn’t be able to do that without notice, hearings, a fair decision maker, appeals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet recent declarations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">several White House officials\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">even Trump himself\u003c/a> suggest that this administration believes some immigrants are not actually entitled to due process. If the government believes an individual is undocumented or part of a gang or terrorist organization, due process “is going to look different,” a top spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who does due process actually protect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the federal government, it’s the Supreme Court that is tasked with \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx\">interpreting the Constitution\u003c/a> — not the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Supreme Court has established multiple times that every person \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Boumediene-v-Bush\">on U.S. soil\u003c/a> — regardless of their immigration status — is entitled to due process. In the 1976 case, \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/426/67/\">\u003cem>Mathews v. Diaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the court declared that the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protects the millions of non-citizens living in the U.S. “from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trump administration and due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these rulings from the Supreme Court, the White House insists on its own definition of due process. The case of Kilmar Abrego García — a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/g-s1-61475/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation\">was deported to a prison in El Salvador last April\u003c/a> — shows what can happen when the administration’s interpretation is put into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision\">pulled over Abrego García\u003c/a> on his way home from work in Baltimore. At the time, Abrego García was living in the U.S. with a legal status protecting him from deportation, but when ICE officials detained him, they told his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708\">that his “status had changed.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-scaled-e1745537471811.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men wearing suits shake hands while seated in chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days later, the administration placed Abrego García on a deportation flight to El Salvador — before a judge could actually hold a new hearing to review his immigration status. The Salvadoran government now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-prison-rcna203429\">has custody over Abrego García\u003c/a> and has refused to return him to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House, for its part, acknowledged that Abrego García’s deportation \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-mistake-el-salvador-ed94130580412b81d5ff5c86aea5c0c7\">was an “administrative error,”\u003c/a> but has since then insisted he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58709/trump-immigration-dhs-maryland-el-salvador\">involved with the gang MS-13\u003c/a> — something his lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-trump-state-secrets-privilege/\">have repeatedly denied\u003c/a>. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15.[aside postID=news_12034742 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']On social media, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1919377123266937140\">wrote that\u003c/a> due process “guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.” But the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">has criticized the administration’s actions\u003c/a> and stated that the government “must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with ‘due process of law,’ including notice and an opportunity to be heard, in any future proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">by NBC journalist Kristen Welker\u003c/a> if he thought citizens and non-citizens alike deserve due process, Trump said, “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” Welker then reminded the president that due process was enshrined by the Fifth Amendment, to which Trump replied, “It might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But having too many legal cases is not a good enough reason to ignore due process, said Matt Coles, professor of practice at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The due process clause results in a lot of cases all the time,” he said. “Every single criminal case we have in the United States in a sense exists because we require due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Habeas corpus: The White House’s latest focus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past few weeks, judges around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html\">have frozen many of the White House’s immigration plans\u003c/a>, slowing down what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants\">Trump promised to be\u003c/a> “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House has become even more defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Miller \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo\">told reporters\u003c/a> that the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: a legal right that allows individuals held by the government to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/habeas-corpus-trump-migrants-deportations-constitution-28a598363d03bfc9448b5132c72f2b3d\">challenge their detention\u003c/a> in court. This term originally comes from the Latin phrase “you should have the body” because the detained person has to be brought to court so a court can review their situation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043762/can-trump-suspend-habeas-corpus\">a form of due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump who is expected to join the incoming administration, speaks during a rally for the president-elect in Coachella on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mike Blake/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through habeas corpus, multiple individuals detained by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nd0dwlpgo\">have been able to regain their freedom\u003c/a> and avoid deportation after a court decided the federal government broke the law when arresting them. Without habeas corpus, the administration could move even faster with certain deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the administration eyes this new target, some officials have shown a lack of knowledge about what habeas corpus actually entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noem-homeland-security-habeas-corpus-trump-338604206f40fed32c2790608d3e5da6\">a congressional hearing last month\u003c/a>, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated that habeas corpus allows “the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.”[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire quickly pushed back and described habeas corpus as “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The writ of habeas corpus is available to anyone who’s been held by the government and who says that they’re being held illegally,” said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky, who added that the Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/\">only allows one part of government to suspend habeas corpus\u003c/a>: Congress — not the president — and only when “cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration, however, insists that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-immigration.html\">there is a historical precedent\u003c/a> for the president to freeze habeas corpus: In 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without permission from Congress during the Civil War. And although Lincoln argued that this only impacted suspected Confederate spies and sympathizers, the courts soon decided that the president’s actions were unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lincoln had no authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,” Chemerinsky said. “The fact that this was a constitutional violation back in the mid-19th century certainly doesn’t justify one now in the early 21st century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Due process: A final failsafe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/\">signed a proclamation\u003c/a> claiming that the gang Tren de Aragua — founded in a Venezuelan prison in 2011 — is cooperating with the regime of Nicolás Maduro to perpetrate “an invasion of and predatory incursion” into the U.S. Any Venezuelan immigrant the administration believes to be a TDA member, according to the proclamation, is “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed” from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind this aggressive deportation policy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts#:~:text=Be%20it%20enacted%20by%20the%20Senate%20and%20House%20of%20Representatives,attempted%2C%20or%20threatened%20against%20the\">Alien Enemies Act of 1798\u003c/a> — a law that’s only been invoked before when the U.S. was at war with a foreign nation. On April 7, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf\">ruled that the administration could move forward\u003c/a> with its plan as long as suspected gang members were given “reasonable time” to challenge their deportations in court — due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People fill a plaza holding signs in front of a large ornate building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold signs at a rally held by immigrant and union groups as they march to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations at the San Francisco City Hall on May 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by the time the court announced its ruling, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-el-salvador-9988b667199e1b02fc0a6a83570225c1\">had already deported hundreds of Venezuelan citizens\u003c/a> without a hearing. Many of these individuals are now held in prisons in El Salvador, per an agreement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038872/what-us-taxpayers-getting-6-million-deal-salvadoran-mega-prison\">between the U.S. and the government of Nayib Bukele\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that 50 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s maximum security CECOT prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law\">came to the U.S. legally, with advanced government permission\u003c/a>. “Because these men were denied due process, the public had no opportunity to obtain a real accounting of any evidence against them,” the Cato Institute report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New evidence also puts into question Trump’s claim that the Venezuelan government is collaborating with TDA. The Freedom of the Press Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/SOCM_2025-11374_Redacted.pdf\">obtained last month an internal memo\u003c/a> from the administration’s own intelligence agencies that states the Maduro regime “probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement” into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government can still make mistakes, Chemerinsky said. “The only way we can check the government is to have a fair process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rewriting — or eliminating completely due process — for one group could make everyone else vulnerable in the future, added Coles. “The guarantees of individual rights are only meaningful if the government doesn’t get to pick and choose who’s got the rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what exactly is due process?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution — the document that establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">the powers and limitations of government\u003c/a> — first mentions \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-v\">due process in the Fifth Amendment\u003c/a>: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this simply means is that the government can’t impose harm on somebody unless there are fair procedures,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ErwinChemerinskyGetty-1920x1318.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky at his home in Oakland, California, on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The government has tremendous power: the power to take away somebody’s property, their freedom, even their life,” he said — but due process of law dictates that “the government shouldn’t be able to do that without notice, hearings, a fair decision maker, appeals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet recent declarations by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">several White House officials\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">even Trump himself\u003c/a> suggest that this administration believes some immigrants are not actually entitled to due process. If the government believes an individual is undocumented or part of a gang or terrorist organization, due process “is going to look different,” a top spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382400/dhs-spokesperson-tricia-mclaughlin-deporations\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who does due process actually protect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the federal government, it’s the Supreme Court that is tasked with \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx\">interpreting the Constitution\u003c/a> — not the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Supreme Court has established multiple times that every person \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/Boumediene-v-Bush\">on U.S. soil\u003c/a> — regardless of their immigration status — is entitled to due process. In the 1976 case, \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/426/67/\">\u003cem>Mathews v. Diaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the court declared that the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protects the millions of non-citizens living in the U.S. “from deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Trump administration and due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite these rulings from the Supreme Court, the White House insists on its own definition of due process. The case of Kilmar Abrego García — a Salvadoran citizen who lived in Maryland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/g-s1-61475/trump-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-abrego-garcia-deportation\">was deported to a prison in El Salvador last April\u003c/a> — shows what can happen when the administration’s interpretation is put into practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision\">pulled over Abrego García\u003c/a> on his way home from work in Baltimore. At the time, Abrego García was living in the U.S. with a legal status protecting him from deportation, but when ICE officials detained him, they told his family \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-el-salvador-trump-immigration-what-know-rcna201708\">that his “status had changed.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-scaled-e1745537471811.jpeg\" alt=\"Two men wearing suits shake hands while seated in chairs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three days later, the administration placed Abrego García on a deportation flight to El Salvador — before a judge could actually hold a new hearing to review his immigration status. The Salvadoran government now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-prison-rcna203429\">has custody over Abrego García\u003c/a> and has refused to return him to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House, for its part, acknowledged that Abrego García’s deportation \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-mistake-el-salvador-ed94130580412b81d5ff5c86aea5c0c7\">was an “administrative error,”\u003c/a> but has since then insisted he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58709/trump-immigration-dhs-maryland-el-salvador\">involved with the gang MS-13\u003c/a> — something his lawyers \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-trump-state-secrets-privilege/\">have repeatedly denied\u003c/a>. Trump and Bukele were expected to discuss a range of bilateral issues, including the detention of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who has been held in a prison in El Salvador since March 15.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On social media, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/StephenM/status/1919377123266937140\">wrote that\u003c/a> due process “guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.” But the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">has criticized the administration’s actions\u003c/a> and stated that the government “must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with ‘due process of law,’ including notice and an opportunity to be heard, in any future proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514\">by NBC journalist Kristen Welker\u003c/a> if he thought citizens and non-citizens alike deserve due process, Trump said, “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” Welker then reminded the president that due process was enshrined by the Fifth Amendment, to which Trump replied, “It might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or two million or three million trials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But having too many legal cases is not a good enough reason to ignore due process, said Matt Coles, professor of practice at UC Law San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The due process clause results in a lot of cases all the time,” he said. “Every single criminal case we have in the United States in a sense exists because we require due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Habeas corpus: The White House’s latest focus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past few weeks, judges around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html\">have frozen many of the White House’s immigration plans\u003c/a>, slowing down what \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/trump-mass-deportations-detention-camps-military-migrants\">Trump promised to be\u003c/a> “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the White House has become even more defiant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Miller \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qgz18glljo\">told reporters\u003c/a> that the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: a legal right that allows individuals held by the government to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/habeas-corpus-trump-migrants-deportations-constitution-28a598363d03bfc9448b5132c72f2b3d\">challenge their detention\u003c/a> in court. This term originally comes from the Latin phrase “you should have the body” because the detained person has to be brought to court so a court can review their situation — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043762/can-trump-suspend-habeas-corpus\">a form of due process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/122724-Stephen-Miller-MB-REUTERS-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Miller, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump who is expected to join the incoming administration, speaks during a rally for the president-elect in Coachella on Oct. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Mike Blake/Reuters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through habeas corpus, multiple individuals detained by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3nd0dwlpgo\">have been able to regain their freedom\u003c/a> and avoid deportation after a court decided the federal government broke the law when arresting them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire quickly pushed back and described habeas corpus as “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The writ of habeas corpus is available to anyone who’s been held by the government and who says that they’re being held illegally,” said UC Berkeley’s Chemerinsky, who added that the Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/\">only allows one part of government to suspend habeas corpus\u003c/a>: Congress — not the president — and only when “cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration, however, insists that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus-immigration.html\">there is a historical precedent\u003c/a> for the president to freeze habeas corpus: In 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus without permission from Congress during the Civil War. And although Lincoln argued that this only impacted suspected Confederate spies and sympathizers, the courts soon decided that the president’s actions were unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lincoln had no authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,” Chemerinsky said. “The fact that this was a constitutional violation back in the mid-19th century certainly doesn’t justify one now in the early 21st century.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Due process: A final failsafe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/\">signed a proclamation\u003c/a> claiming that the gang Tren de Aragua — founded in a Venezuelan prison in 2011 — is cooperating with the regime of Nicolás Maduro to perpetrate “an invasion of and predatory incursion” into the U.S. Any Venezuelan immigrant the administration believes to be a TDA member, according to the proclamation, is “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed” from the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind this aggressive deportation policy is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts#:~:text=Be%20it%20enacted%20by%20the%20Senate%20and%20House%20of%20Representatives,attempted%2C%20or%20threatened%20against%20the\">Alien Enemies Act of 1798\u003c/a> — a law that’s only been invoked before when the U.S. was at war with a foreign nation. On April 7, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf\">ruled that the administration could move forward\u003c/a> with its plan as long as suspected gang members were given “reasonable time” to challenge their deportations in court — due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People fill a plaza holding signs in front of a large ornate building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230815-IMMIGRATION-RALLY-AP-JC-KQED-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold signs at a rally held by immigrant and union groups as they march to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations at the San Francisco City Hall on May 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by the time the court announced its ruling, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-el-salvador-9988b667199e1b02fc0a6a83570225c1\">had already deported hundreds of Venezuelan citizens\u003c/a> without a hearing. Many of these individuals are now held in prisons in El Salvador, per an agreement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038872/what-us-taxpayers-getting-6-million-deal-salvadoran-mega-prison\">between the U.S. and the government of Nayib Bukele\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that 50 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s maximum security CECOT prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law\">came to the U.S. legally, with advanced government permission\u003c/a>. “Because these men were denied due process, the public had no opportunity to obtain a real accounting of any evidence against them,” the Cato Institute report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New evidence also puts into question Trump’s claim that the Venezuelan government is collaborating with TDA. The Freedom of the Press Foundation \u003ca href=\"https://media.freedom.press/media/documents/SOCM_2025-11374_Redacted.pdf\">obtained last month an internal memo\u003c/a> from the administration’s own intelligence agencies that states the Maduro regime “probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement” into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government can still make mistakes, Chemerinsky said. “The only way we can check the government is to have a fair process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rewriting — or eliminating completely due process — for one group could make everyone else vulnerable in the future, added Coles. “The guarantees of individual rights are only meaningful if the government doesn’t get to pick and choose who’s got the rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A spokesperson for the Pentagon said more information will be available upon the completion of an internal review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all [Department of Defense] installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk, a gay rights trailblazer and former San Francisco city supervisor, was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for several years before he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story/288094/redirect/News/News/\">forced to retire\u003c/a> after the discovery of his sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11706596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8675-e1748995062500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor George Moscone, left, and Harvey Milk were political allies who represented a changing political landscape in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1978, Milk was assassinated at City Hall alongside Mayor George Moscone by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. His untimely death, as well as his years of activism on behalf of the gay community, turned him into a civil rights icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported decision by the Trump Administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis-class is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said San Francisco is proud to have Milk’s name on a naval vessel alongside others that honor civil rights giants. He fought not only for the LGBTQ+ community but for “the dignity and worth of every person,” she added.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']State Sen. Scott Wiener called the decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk a reversal of all the work that’s been done to persuade the Navy to recognize Milk and his service. He rebuked the order as an act of bigotry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The removal of Harvey Milk’s name from a naval vessel — during Pride Month, no less — is absolutely shameful. Harvey Milk was a hero. He was a veteran who served our country. He died for our community,” Wiener told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Hegseth are “determined to erase LGBTQ people from all aspects of public life,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleve Jones, a human rights activist who was a student intern in the office of Supervisor Milk, said the news of the possible name change is unsurprising in light of everything that has transpired since Trump’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it is interesting, however, that the defense secretary has chosen to focus so much attention on the name of a ship in the backdrop of major global conflicts such as the war against Ukraine and China’s threats against Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration … has turned the entire world order upside down and inside out,” Jones said. “It’s really shameful and does not bode well for the security of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how Milk would react to this week’s news, Jones said he thinks the man would be unbothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk “would shrug it off and laugh and double down,” Jones said. “It’s time for us all to focus on the real issues: the real issue of security, the real issues of housing costs, of groceries, of the press — the real issues facing Americans, the ones they talk about at their dinner table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’re talking about the names of these ships at their kitchen table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042452/algunas-familias-separadas-en-la-frontera-recibieron-asistencia-juridica-gratuita-ee-uu-acaba-de-rescindir-ese-contrato\">\u003cem>Leer en español \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Mendoza Pablo said he still remembers the day in early 2018, while being held in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration-detention\">immigration detention\u003c/a> facility near the U.S.-Mexico border, when the officials came to take his daughter away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was only 4 years old, I couldn’t give her to them. She was just starting to talk, but in our dialect. She didn’t know Spanish or English,” Mendoza, who is Mayan from Guatemala and speaks an indigenous dialect called Mam at home, said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he refused to give them his daughter, Mendoza said eight officials grabbed the pair and pushed them up against a wall. Some pried his arms open while others spread his legs, and finally, his daughter was pulled from his chest and taken away screaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Mendoza did not know where his daughter Catalina was or when he would see her again. When he asked the detention center officials about her, he said they’d insist that he had been detained alone and that they did not have his daughter in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Guatemalan Consulate, Mendoza learned that his daughter had been taken to El Paso, Texas, hundreds of miles away. It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. The two sides are set to meet again in court on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>, which is now running the program, declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza at her home in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court filings, lawyers for ICE have laid out some of their plans. They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.[aside postID=news_12042197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']Border Patrol rounded them up with others that were caught, Hernandez said, and they were loaded into separate vehicles: adults in one, children in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was deported, and Celina was sent to live with a family member in Florida. The pair would talk over the phone, but they would not see each other in person for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her, ‘It’s OK, daughter, it is OK. You see how we suffered [in detention], and we were there for a long time. Only God knows if one day we’ll see each other. And if not, you’re there so give it your all,’” Hernandez said. “‘Value what happened to us, I want you to behave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the time apart was difficult and even traumatizing, Hernandez said he thanks God and the legal aid program for how far his family has come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his sons graduated from high school last week, and another daughter will be heading for college soon, but by then, they will need help renewing their parole again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he hopes the program is still around to offer that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. 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Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. 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