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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:16 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s longest-serving police chiefs is stepping down from the job, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Scott, who has led the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department\">police force\u003c/a> for more than eight years, will depart after assisting in a six-week transition and search for a replacement. He is moving to the newly formed Los Angeles Metro Transit Community Public Safety Department, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/05/police-chief-bill-scott-resigns-from-sfpd/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> reports\u003c/a>. Paul Yep will serve as interim chief beginning next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On behalf of the city, I want to thank you, Chief Scott, for your steady leadership, your commitment to reform, and your dedicated service to the people of San Francisco,” Lurie said, announcing the news at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott was selected to lead the department in 2016, after two years riled by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11621361/s-f-district-attorney-clears-three-police-shootings-two-of-them-fatal\">series of high-profile police shootings\u003c/a>, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752153/san-francisco-to-pay-400000-to-settle-lawsuit-over-police-killing-of-mario-woods\">death of Mario Woods\u003c/a> and increased community scrutiny. Then-Mayor Ed Lee tapped Scott to undertake reforms and transform the department into a “21st Century police force,” he said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott, who also led the department throughout Mayor London Breed’s time in office, came to the Bay Area after 27 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he had most recently served as deputy chief. He arrived in San Francisco planning to make changes within the department — similar to reforms he spearheaded in Los Angeles — but his tenure has been tumultuous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic and the rise of the fentanyl crisis, Scott was blamed in part for increasing overdose deaths and public drug use, as well as rising car break-ins and property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/240830-SFSideshowLegislation-28-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief of Police William Scott speaks during a press conference regarding sideshows in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Police Department headquarters on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott, by all accounts, is an honorable and hardworking police chief, but he was not a very effective police chief. Under his watch, the productivity and the efficacy of our police department continued to decline,” said veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye. “We have, at this point, one of the least productive police forces in California, if not America. And that was happening before he arrived, but that accelerated under his leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dissatisfaction with the department and city leadership culminated in the 2022 recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> and was a key factor in Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017844/exit-interview-london-breed-reflects-on-more-than-6-years-as-san-franciscos-mayor\">failed 2024 mayoral reelection bid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, over the last year, San Francisco has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036408/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-touts-progress-crime-homelessness-first-100-days\">dramatic drop in crime\u003c/a>, and just this January, the department announced that it had completed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020778/state-ends-oversight-sfpd-after-long-reform-effort-followed-fatal-shootings\">eight-year-long reform\u003c/a> process in collaboration with the Department of Justice. In 2016, SFPD began a review of its practices following the series of police shootings and intensifying dissatisfaction, and throughout Scott’s tenure, it has worked with the DOJ to implement more than 270 recommended reforms.[aside postID=news_12037898 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The accomplishments demonstrate that the SFPD can be a national model for policing in the 21st century, showing that reform efforts build community trust, which improves public safety,” the department announced in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s chapter of the NAACP acknowledged Scott led the department through difficult times, including protests following the killing of George Floyd, and thanked him for his service to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott served our city with distinction, compassion, and consistency,” Jonathan Butler, NAACP San Francisco Branch President, said in a statement. “Importantly, Chief Scott consistently demonstrated his commitment to the work of the NAACP San Francisco Branch — participating in many of our meetings and showing up as a partner in our shared pursuit of justice and equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite efforts to reform, the city’s over-policing of Black residents, including disproportionate pretextual stops, persisted under Scott, said James Taylor, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chief Scott largely came in response to the Mario Woods movement, and it is significant that he was in the position during Mayor London Breed’s administration if, for nothing else, the symbolic importance that he represented as an African-American chief of police,” Taylor said. “But having a Black person as the head of SFPD did absolutely nothing to curtail the disproportionate minority contact SFPD has, and it’s worse than any police department in the state of California on police stops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-27-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie attends a press conference announcing the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s plan to resume warrantless searches of criminal defendants who have been released and awaiting trial, outside of City Hall on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Officers’ Association and Scott have also clashed at times over certain policing policies, like avoiding seating handcuffed suspects on the ground. But in a statement on Wednesday, the group thanked him for his service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we may not have always agreed on issues, we valued and respected each other’s roles,” said SFPOA President Tracy McCray. “We always believed that each of us was doing what we felt was best for public safety and best for our officers, and that we were committed to hiring and retaining the best officers for the SFPD. We wish him well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said that Scott will aid him in a six-week transition as he selects a new chief, who will be chosen from a list of options proposed by the citizen Police Commission.[aside postID=news_12038968 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-599_qed-1020x681.jpg']“I am committed to building a leadership team in SFPD that builds on our early progress, strengthens and deepens the ranks of our officers and command staff, and uses all the tools available to continue our comeback,” Lurie said. “And I look forward to working with the Commission, the Board of Supervisors, our officers, and communities across the city to do just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the selection process, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">Paul Yep\u003c/a>, who has been serving as City Hall’s public safety czar for the last four months, will return to SFPD as interim chief. He previously served in the department for 28 years, including as captain of Central Station, overseeing parts of Chinatown and the city’s downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yep resigned from his post as captain in 2018, shortly after a civil lawsuit alleged he rear-ended someone in Burlingame while driving under the influence in a city-owned vehicle and used his position to intimidate the other motorist. In court filings, Yep vehemently denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, Yep, who grew up in San Francisco and now lives in San Mateo, campaigned alongside Lurie and has become a close ally to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Yep is serving as interim chief, Lurie said on Wednesday, “at City Hall, we have an experienced, capable team that will continue the work Paul has been doing” as policy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> will pay more than $200,000 and implement a series of election reforms to settle a lawsuit alleging that former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and several other candidates missed the filing deadline to be eligible to run in the 2022 mayoral election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted Tuesday afternoon to approve the settlement, more than two years after the Alameda County Taxpayers’ Association filed its lawsuit accusing the city of a litany of election-related blunders, violations and coverups stemming from the Oakland City Clerk’s office inadvertently giving mayoral candidates the wrong deadline to submit their candidacy applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon realizing the mistake, on the afternoon of the actual deadline, the office “frantically” called Thao and other candidates who had yet to submit their paperwork, instructing them to come to City Hall to file before the 5 p.m. cutoff, the suit alleges, leaving candidates “scrambling to gather signatures and organize their paperwork at the last minute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the four candidates — Thao, Monesha Carter, Seneca Scott and Allyssa Victory — who showed up to the clerk’s office on the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2022, only Scott turned in his paperwork by the 5 p.m. deadline, the suit alleges, arguing that Thao and the two others should have been disqualified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, also claims that the clerk’s office had to manually operate its malfunctioning timestamp machine and incorrectly timestamped all of the paperwork to make it appear that it had been filed prior to 5 p.m., “when in fact, it had not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An overall lack of election integrity, lack of public accountability, and staggering government dysfunction are at the heart of this lawsuit,” the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao went on to win the election by just 677 votes, narrowly defeating then-Councilmember Loren Taylor. Just two years later, voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014429/what-mayor-sheng-thaos-recall-means-for-oakland\">removed her from office\u003c/a> in an unprecedented recall. She now faces federal bribery charges after a grand jury in January \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022517/fbi-raids-home-san-leandro-council-member-joined-vietnam-trip-sheng-thao\">indicted her\u003c/a> — as well as her romantic partner and the father-son team overseeing the city’s recycling contractor — on several charges related to an alleged corruption scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Attorney Marleen Sacks, who led the suit for the tax foundation, initially demanded that the city redo the mayoral election, alleging that it had also flubbed the ranked choice voting process by only allowing voters to rank five candidates, despite having 10 names on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241015-OAKLANDCHINATOWNTHAORECALL-24-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opposing campaigns for and against the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao rally at Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland on Oct. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacks also claimed city officials didn’t respond to her California Public Records Act requests in a timely manner, and accused them of violating state law by deleting surveillance footage that she said would have shown candidates entering and leaving City Hall on the day of the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Taxpayers Association, no stranger to legal challenges against Oakland and Alameda County, also \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandcityattorney.org/recent-legal-highlights-spring-2024/\">filed suit against the city\u003c/a> in 2022, challenging the validity of Measure Y, a parcel tax to help fund the city’s zoo, which voters approved that November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate suit, Sacks and the group sued the city over alleged illegal public contracting and violations of the state’s Public Records Act. The city settled in February, paying the group roughly $250,000 to cover legal fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, the City Council on Tuesday, during the same meeting, also approved a resolution to recognize “Municipal Clerks Week,” praising employees at Oakland City Clerk’s office.[aside postID=news_12038739 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00119.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council initially authorized the settlement during a closed-door session last month, in which it agreed to pay nearly $208,000 to reimburse attorney’s fees, “without admitting fault or wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, however, is silent on whether Thao or any other particular candidate should have been listed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement, city leaders agreed to a spate of election reforms, including no longer accepting late paperwork from candidates seeking office, providing accurate information about filing deadlines, retaining camera footage at the City Clerk’s office for at least a year and “making best efforts” to ensure timestamp machines at the clerk’s office are functioning accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also agreed “under certain circumstances” to request that the county registrar offer more than five ranked-choice options for city elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a satisfactory result. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council initially authorized the settlement during a closed-door session last month, in which it agreed to pay nearly $208,000 to reimburse attorney’s fees, “without admitting fault or wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, however, is silent on whether Thao or any other particular candidate should have been listed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement, city leaders agreed to a spate of election reforms, including no longer accepting late paperwork from candidates seeking office, providing accurate information about filing deadlines, retaining camera footage at the City Clerk’s office for at least a year and “making best efforts” to ensure timestamp machines at the clerk’s office are functioning accurately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also agreed “under certain circumstances” to request that the county registrar offer more than five ranked-choice options for city elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a satisfactory result. But there are still fundamental issues of accountability and transparency that continue to exist [in Oakland],” Sacks said after the vote. “It shouldn’t require a lawsuit for the city to investigate what led to these problems. But it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an unprecedented deal with a foreign government, the United States has paid millions of dollars to El Salvador for the incarceration of about 300 Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals — many of whom were labeled terrorists and deported without due process under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">the Alien Enemies Act of 1798\u003c/a>, an obscure wartime law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the exact terms of the controversial arrangement to hold these men in a crowded, foreign mega-prison — one that’s been cited for human rights violations — remain murky, even as lawyers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/shaheen_case_act_letter_to_rubio.pdf\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and the public seek answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, a U.S. State Department spokesperson described the payment as “funding for El Salvador’s law enforcement and anticrime needs,” which was “provided in connection with the Government of El Salvador’s offer to receive Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members removed from the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the agreement, but has yet to receive responsive documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, 14 media organizations, including NPR, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>, filed a \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.108.1.pdf\">motion to intervene\u003c/a> in the case of wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, asking the judge to unseal recent filings and release the transcript of an apparently secret proceeding that took place on April 30. KQED is an NPR member station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937603 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An America flag flies near the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/gettyimages-1161630733-c49fd69fe9a132a12a758e5f2ac175c53611ae2c-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American flag flies near the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island on Aug. 14, 2019, in New York City. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The case raises profound questions of separation of powers, civil liberties, and foreign relations,” the filing reads. “Such a case requires maximum transparency so that ‘the public [can] participate in and serve as a check upon’ their government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While much of the dollars-for-detention deal remains mired in secrecy, court filings, government press conferences and officials’ social media statements contain hints about the scope and legality of the unorthodox arrangement. Here’s what to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>President Nayib Bukele makes an offer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last July, then-U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) lauded the massive maximum-security complex, known as Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, during a visit to El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more discipline in this prison than we see in a lot of the prisons in the United States,” Gaetz said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1815184818683904183\">video\u003c/a> President Nayib Bukele posted on social media platform X. “And there are a lot more murderers\u003cem> here.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaetz expressed admiration for El Salvador’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12510\">state of exception\u003c/a>,” the legal mechanism Bukele invoked to suspend many constitutional rights for Salvadorans to combat gang violence in the country. The crackdown has led to a sharp reduction in homicides and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wola.org/analysis/mass-incarceration-and-democratic-deterioration-three-years-of-the-state-of-exception-in-el-salvador/\">mass incarceration\u003c/a> of tens of thousands of people since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the good ideas in El Salvador actually have legs and can go to other places and help other people be safe and secure and hopeful and prosperous,” Gaetz said, the brightly lit bars of prisoners’ cells visible behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in February, Bukele took to X to offer the United States “the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.” In this \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1886606794614587573\">post\u003c/a>, Bukele stated that El Salvador will accept “only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens)” into CECOT.[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg']Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting El Salvador at the time and \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/secretary-rubios-meeting-with-salvadoran-president-nayib-bukele/\">met with\u003c/a> Bukele to discuss the offer. Rubio said in a March \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks-to-the-press-3/\">press conference\u003c/a> that the verbal agreement reached during that visit was later finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the alleged Tren de Aragua members sent to CECOT had no criminal record, according to court filings. When asked by KQED if this violated the understanding between the two countries, the State Department declined to answer. \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-deportations-venezuela-el-salvador.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.tW5w.kzoxheiRdEIK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">reported\u003c/a> that Bukele “wanted assurances” that the Venezuelans he’d agreed to lock up really were members of the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court filings, Robert Cerna, an ICE official responsible for removal operations in South Texas, declared that the agency “carefully vetted each individual alien to ensure they were in fact members of TdA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members and attorneys for some of the men have \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.102.8.pdf\">vehemently denied\u003c/a> their ties to the Venezuelan gang. (U.S. officials have clearly made mistakes in this process, as the related \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf\">case\u003c/a> of Abrego Garcia demonstrates.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Doug Specht, who is an expert on\u003ca href=\"https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/el-salvadors-controversial-offer-housing-u-s-criminals-in-its-mega-prison/#_edn19\"> Central America, human rights and communications\u003c/a> at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, said it is extremely “ unusual for any country to want to — for want of a better phrase — import people who are accused of violent and extreme crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the irregularity of the arrangement is El Salvador’s willingness to accept deportees who were not Salvadoran, but Venezuelan nationals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a repatriation, it’s not an extradition,” Specht said. “That is a movement of human beings beyond their nationality into a state of which they have no rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Price tag: $6 million\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a March 16 \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901245427216978290\">post on\u003c/a> X, Bukele touted the arrival of “the first 238 members” of Tren de Aragua from the United States. He said they would be imprisoned in “CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable). The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-LdmGd920\">said\u003c/a> in a briefing that “approximately $6 million” had been paid to El Salvador “for the detention of these foreign terrorists.” Leavitt said this fee was “pennies on the dollar” when compared with the cost of housing these individuals in a U.S. maximum security prison.\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>The average annual cost of housing someone in a U.S. federal prison is about $44,000, according to a 2024 report by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/06/2024-28743/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration-fee-coif\">U.S. Bureau of Prisons\u003c/a>. Back-of-the-napkin math shows that $6 million divided by 300 comes to an annual cost of about $20,000 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, without knowing the details of the arrangement, it is difficult to accurately assess any cost savings. The $6 million figure does not include the costs of transportation to El Salvador or the legal costs of defending the government’s arrangement against court challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specht said the U.S. government’s financial motives are secondary to its chief goal. “It’s a power play,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the administration faces an uphill battle legally; politically, it’s a winning position, Specht said. “You can’t argue back against it without looking like you want to re-import dangerous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A tool in our toolkit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 26, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also visited CECOT. Her statements in an Instagram \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHrtPr2o311/?hl=en\">reel\u003c/a> underscore the idea that the United States retains a meaningful interest in the detention of the deportees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She characterized their incarceration there as punishment “for the violence that they perpetuated in our communities.” The prison, she said, is now “a tool in our toolkit,” and thus, a part of the machinery of the U.S. detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038928 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. \u003ccite>(Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is important because if the federal government retains custody over the deportees, “it probably would give them the right to bring a habeas corpus here in the United States,” according to Roger Parloff, senior editor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/about/about-lawfare\">Lawfare\u003c/a>, a nonprofit publication covering national security. He pointed to a 2004 Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/137000/rasul-v-bush/\">ruling\u003c/a>, which found that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba had the right to challenge their detention in D.C. courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parloff said the ACLU is relying on this ruling to challenge the foreign imprisonment of Venezuelans who were deported and locked up without due process. In \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=2250b9975bba72ea&docid=173bf7817af41b48_2250b9975bba72ea&page=1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link&dapvm=1&highlight=4db42fc37d5661c4\">court filings\u003c/a>, the administration has asserted it has no jurisdiction over the individuals held at CECOT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the Venezuelan nationals, 23 Salvadorans — including Abrego Garcia — who the U.S. government alleges are MS-13 gang members were also put on planes to El Salvador. A judge later determined that Abrego Garcia should never have been sent to El Salvador, and on April 10, the Supreme Court largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">upheld\u003c/a> the lower court’s ruling that the U.S. government must “facilitate” his return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days later, during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-welcomes-president-of-el-salvador-to-white-house/658588\">meeting\u003c/a> in the Oval Office, Bukele scoffed at the idea he would return Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen, to the United States: “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bukele and Trump administration officials told journalists they lacked the power to return Abrego Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/shaheen_case_act_letter_to_rubio.pdf\">noted\u003c/a> the “absurdity” of the administration’s position in a letter to Rubio, given that “the administration is funding these detentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisoner swap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason the Venezuelan nationals were sent to El Salvador, rather than their home country, is that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had refused to receive them, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-meets-with-president-of-el-salvador/658589\">public statements\u003c/a> from Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maduro was involved in the “intensive and delicate negotiations” that led to the multimillion-dollar arrangement to send alleged Tren de Aragua members to CECOT, according to a declaration from a senior State Department official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But after the outcry and lawsuits over the deportation of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act, Maduro labeled the deportation a “kidnapping” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/americas/venezuela-el-salvador-us-migrant-deportations-intl-hnk/index.html\">called\u003c/a> on Bukele to return his citizens home. (He also agreed to again receive Venezuelan deportees from the United States.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, on April 22, Bukele made a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1914802146325004726\">counteroffer\u003c/a> — posted in Spanish on X — proposing a “humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and delivery of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners that you hold.” Bukele asked Maduro to let Venezuelan activists and journalists out of prison and to release about 50 foreign prisoners from the U.S. and two dozen other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, a State Department spokesperson said that “while this is a matter for El Salvador and the Maduro regime,” the administration supports the proposal and calls for the immediate release of “all Americans unjustly detained by the Maduro regime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maduro’s deeply unpopular authoritarian rule has plunged Venezuela into an economic and civic crisis, according to analysis from the \u003ca href=\"https://2017-2021.state.gov/a-democratic-crisis-in-venezuela/\">State Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theowp.org/venezuelas-justice-system-perpetuating-human-rights-abuses/\">international organizations\u003c/a>. Specht sees Bukele’s deal with the U.S. as a strategic move to further disrupt Venezuelan politics and expand his own power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ That kind of influence will ripple across the region,” Specht said. He worries it won’t end with a deal over a few hundred prisoners: “ I’m fearful for what that means for the millions and millions of people who live in these countries who are often just trying to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Source of funds: ‘Foreign assistance’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While a federal judge has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/jav-v-trump?document=ORDER#legal-documents\">blocked\u003c/a> further removals under the Alien Enemies Act, the Trump administration clearly made plans to send more people to the prison, costing taxpayers more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upwards of $15 million in International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) funds have been set aside to send to El Salvador to house additional detainees,” Shaheen wrote in her letter to Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement “supports counter-drug activities through foreign assistance,” according to the 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/FY-2019-Budget-Summary-FINAL.pdf\">National Drug Control Strategy\u003c/a>. Shaheen called the use of these funds for the foreign detention of unconvicted deportees “unprecedented and inappropriate.”[aside postID=news_12037508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-1020x680.jpg']There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf\">legal restrictions\u003c/a> on foreign assistance, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy Law\u003c/a>, which prohibits the use of federal money for international security forces “where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights.” A 2022 State Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/el-salvador/\">report\u003c/a> on El Salvador found “significant human rights issues,” which included “life-threatening” and inhumane prison conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department did not confirm the amount of money that had been set aside for this deal going forward, but said its goal is “to ensure our partners are well-equipped to handle the challenges they face, ultimately contributing to a more stable and secure region,” and that it is following “all applicable laws related to foreign assistance, including the Leahy law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specht pointed out that the United States has used foreign assistance money for dubious purposes dating back to the Contra war in Nicaragua and the civil war in El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The idea that this is also being funded through foreign assistance money, rather suggests that the U.S. approach to Latin America hasn’t changed a great deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with restrictions on the programs and countries eligible for “foreign assistance,” that spending is also supposed to be transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transparency implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taxpayers have a right to see where and how American dollars are being used overseas,” then-Sen. Rubio \u003ca href=\"https://www.usglc.org/media/2017/04/USGLC-FATAA-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">said\u003c/a> that in 2015, in support of the Foreign Assistance Transparency and Accountability \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ191/PLAW-114publ191.pdf\">Act\u003c/a>, which he co-sponsored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, which passed with near-unanimous support, established rigorous reporting and monitoring requirements for foreign assistance, and a public-facing dashboard that the Secretary of State is required to update quarterly to reflect foreign payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Evelyn Hockstein/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of publication, the \u003ca href=\"https://foreignassistance.gov/\">dashboard\u003c/a> does not reflect a $6 million payment to El Salvador from the Bureau of International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letters to Rubio from Shaheen and \u003ca href=\"https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/4/meeks-castro-send-letter-to-rubio-demanding-answers-on-el-salvador-agreement\">members\u003c/a> of the House Foreign Affairs Committee also invoked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/treaty-negotiation-and-signing#:~:text=The%20Case%2DZablocki%20Act%20(1,agreements%20upon%20entry%20into%20force.\">Case-Zablocki Act\u003c/a>, which requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress with information about all international treaties and agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parloff, the Lawfare editor, said even non-binding agreements are supposed to be shared if “they could reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on the foreign policy of the United States.”[aside postID=news_12021919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_JapaneseAmericanActivism_GC-47-1020x680.jpg']Rep. Joaquin Castro (D/R-Texas) is among those still pushing for transparency. On April 22, he submitted a \u003ca href=\"https://castro.house.gov/imo/media/doc/roi_42925.pdf\">resolution\u003c/a> which, if passed, would require the administration to turn over all records, transcripts, calls and even artificial intelligence chats related to the negotiations and agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department did not answer KQED’s follow-up questions regarding its compliance with transparency laws or the legitimacy of using taxpayer funds to detain people abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While complex legal wranglings are still playing out in U.S. courts, Specht said that in the broadest sense, the deal “flies in the face” of how international law has been understood and interpreted across the world. For the people who are in prison in CECOT, he fears that it may not matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They no longer exist as human beings,” he said. Even if a court finds they were removed illegally, “It’s already too late for most of these people. They won’t be found again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with support from \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom#:~:text=About%20the%20California%20Newsroom&text=The%20California%20Newsroom%3A&text=provides%20one%2Don%2Done%20mentorship,UC%20Berkeley%20Journalism%20Fellows%20program.\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a KQED-led collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state, with NPR as its national partner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the agreement, but has yet to receive responsive documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, 14 media organizations, including NPR, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>, filed a \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.108.1.pdf\">motion to intervene\u003c/a> in the case of wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, asking the judge to unseal recent filings and release the transcript of an apparently secret proceeding that took place on April 30. 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Here’s what to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>President Nayib Bukele makes an offer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last July, then-U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) lauded the massive maximum-security complex, known as Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, during a visit to El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more discipline in this prison than we see in a lot of the prisons in the United States,” Gaetz said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1815184818683904183\">video\u003c/a> President Nayib Bukele posted on social media platform X. “And there are a lot more murderers\u003cem> here.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/MattGaetzAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. 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The crackdown has led to a sharp reduction in homicides and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wola.org/analysis/mass-incarceration-and-democratic-deterioration-three-years-of-the-state-of-exception-in-el-salvador/\">mass incarceration\u003c/a> of tens of thousands of people since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the good ideas in El Salvador actually have legs and can go to other places and help other people be safe and secure and hopeful and prosperous,” Gaetz said, the brightly lit bars of prisoners’ cells visible behind him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in February, Bukele took to X to offer the United States “the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.” In this \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1886606794614587573\">post\u003c/a>, Bukele stated that El Salvador will accept “only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens)” into CECOT.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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When asked by KQED if this violated the understanding between the two countries, the State Department declined to answer. \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-deportations-venezuela-el-salvador.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.tW5w.kzoxheiRdEIK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">reported\u003c/a> that Bukele “wanted assurances” that the Venezuelans he’d agreed to lock up really were members of the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court filings, Robert Cerna, an ICE official responsible for removal operations in South Texas, declared that the agency “carefully vetted each individual alien to ensure they were in fact members of TdA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members and attorneys for some of the men have \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.102.8.pdf\">vehemently denied\u003c/a> their ties to the Venezuelan gang. (U.S. officials have clearly made mistakes in this process, as the related \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf\">case\u003c/a> of Abrego Garcia demonstrates.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Doug Specht, who is an expert on\u003ca href=\"https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/el-salvadors-controversial-offer-housing-u-s-criminals-in-its-mega-prison/#_edn19\"> Central America, human rights and communications\u003c/a> at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, said it is extremely “ unusual for any country to want to — for want of a better phrase — import people who are accused of violent and extreme crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the irregularity of the arrangement is El Salvador’s willingness to accept deportees who were not Salvadoran, but Venezuelan nationals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not a repatriation, it’s not an extradition,” Specht said. “That is a movement of human beings beyond their nationality into a state of which they have no rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Price tag: $6 million\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a March 16 \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901245427216978290\">post on\u003c/a> X, Bukele touted the arrival of “the first 238 members” of Tren de Aragua from the United States. He said they would be imprisoned in “CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable). The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-LdmGd920\">said\u003c/a> in a briefing that “approximately $6 million” had been paid to El Salvador “for the detention of these foreign terrorists.” Leavitt said this fee was “pennies on the dollar” when compared with the cost of housing these individuals in a U.S. maximum security prison.\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>The average annual cost of housing someone in a U.S. federal prison is about $44,000, according to a 2024 report by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/06/2024-28743/annual-determination-of-average-cost-of-incarceration-fee-coif\">U.S. Bureau of Prisons\u003c/a>. Back-of-the-napkin math shows that $6 million divided by 300 comes to an annual cost of about $20,000 per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, without knowing the details of the arrangement, it is difficult to accurately assess any cost savings. The $6 million figure does not include the costs of transportation to El Salvador or the legal costs of defending the government’s arrangement against court challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specht said the U.S. government’s financial motives are secondary to its chief goal. “It’s a power play,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the administration faces an uphill battle legally; politically, it’s a winning position, Specht said. “You can’t argue back against it without looking like you want to re-import dangerous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A tool in our toolkit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On March 26, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also visited CECOT. Her statements in an Instagram \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHrtPr2o311/?hl=en\">reel\u003c/a> underscore the idea that the United States retains a meaningful interest in the detention of the deportees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She characterized their incarceration there as punishment “for the violence that they perpetuated in our communities.” The prison, she said, is now “a tool in our toolkit,” and thus, a part of the machinery of the U.S. detention system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038928 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CECOTKristiNoemGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. \u003ccite>(Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is important because if the federal government retains custody over the deportees, “it probably would give them the right to bring a habeas corpus here in the United States,” according to Roger Parloff, senior editor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/about/about-lawfare\">Lawfare\u003c/a>, a nonprofit publication covering national security. He pointed to a 2004 Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/137000/rasul-v-bush/\">ruling\u003c/a>, which found that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba had the right to challenge their detention in D.C. courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parloff said the ACLU is relying on this ruling to challenge the foreign imprisonment of Venezuelans who were deported and locked up without due process. In \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=2250b9975bba72ea&docid=173bf7817af41b48_2250b9975bba72ea&page=1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link&dapvm=1&highlight=4db42fc37d5661c4\">court filings\u003c/a>, the administration has asserted it has no jurisdiction over the individuals held at CECOT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the Venezuelan nationals, 23 Salvadorans — including Abrego Garcia — who the U.S. government alleges are MS-13 gang members were also put on planes to El Salvador. A judge later determined that Abrego Garcia should never have been sent to El Salvador, and on April 10, the Supreme Court largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf\">upheld\u003c/a> the lower court’s ruling that the U.S. government must “facilitate” his return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four days later, during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-welcomes-president-of-el-salvador-to-white-house/658588\">meeting\u003c/a> in the Oval Office, Bukele scoffed at the idea he would return Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen, to the United States: “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bukele and Trump administration officials told journalists they lacked the power to return Abrego Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/shaheen_case_act_letter_to_rubio.pdf\">noted\u003c/a> the “absurdity” of the administration’s position in a letter to Rubio, given that “the administration is funding these detentions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisoner swap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason the Venezuelan nationals were sent to El Salvador, rather than their home country, is that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had refused to receive them, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-meets-with-president-of-el-salvador/658589\">public statements\u003c/a> from Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maduro was involved in the “intensive and delicate negotiations” that led to the multimillion-dollar arrangement to send alleged Tren de Aragua members to CECOT, according to a declaration from a senior State Department official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/NicolasMaduroAP-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 31, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But after the outcry and lawsuits over the deportation of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act, Maduro labeled the deportation a “kidnapping” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/americas/venezuela-el-salvador-us-migrant-deportations-intl-hnk/index.html\">called\u003c/a> on Bukele to return his citizens home. (He also agreed to again receive Venezuelan deportees from the United States.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, on April 22, Bukele made a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1914802146325004726\">counteroffer\u003c/a> — posted in Spanish on X — proposing a “humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100% of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and delivery of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners that you hold.” Bukele asked Maduro to let Venezuelan activists and journalists out of prison and to release about 50 foreign prisoners from the U.S. and two dozen other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, a State Department spokesperson said that “while this is a matter for El Salvador and the Maduro regime,” the administration supports the proposal and calls for the immediate release of “all Americans unjustly detained by the Maduro regime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maduro’s deeply unpopular authoritarian rule has plunged Venezuela into an economic and civic crisis, according to analysis from the \u003ca href=\"https://2017-2021.state.gov/a-democratic-crisis-in-venezuela/\">State Department\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://theowp.org/venezuelas-justice-system-perpetuating-human-rights-abuses/\">international organizations\u003c/a>. Specht sees Bukele’s deal with the U.S. as a strategic move to further disrupt Venezuelan politics and expand his own power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ That kind of influence will ripple across the region,” Specht said. He worries it won’t end with a deal over a few hundred prisoners: “ I’m fearful for what that means for the millions and millions of people who live in these countries who are often just trying to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Source of funds: ‘Foreign assistance’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While a federal judge has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/jav-v-trump?document=ORDER#legal-documents\">blocked\u003c/a> further removals under the Alien Enemies Act, the Trump administration clearly made plans to send more people to the prison, costing taxpayers more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Upwards of $15 million in International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) funds have been set aside to send to El Salvador to house additional detainees,” Shaheen wrote in her letter to Rubio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement “supports counter-drug activities through foreign assistance,” according to the 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/FY-2019-Budget-Summary-FINAL.pdf\">National Drug Control Strategy\u003c/a>. Shaheen called the use of these funds for the foreign detention of unconvicted deportees “unprecedented and inappropriate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf\">legal restrictions\u003c/a> on foreign assistance, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy Law\u003c/a>, which prohibits the use of federal money for international security forces “where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights.” A 2022 State Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/el-salvador/\">report\u003c/a> on El Salvador found “significant human rights issues,” which included “life-threatening” and inhumane prison conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Department did not confirm the amount of money that had been set aside for this deal going forward, but said its goal is “to ensure our partners are well-equipped to handle the challenges they face, ultimately contributing to a more stable and secure region,” and that it is following “all applicable laws related to foreign assistance, including the Leahy law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specht pointed out that the United States has used foreign assistance money for dubious purposes dating back to the Contra war in Nicaragua and the civil war in El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The idea that this is also being funded through foreign assistance money, rather suggests that the U.S. approach to Latin America hasn’t changed a great deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with restrictions on the programs and countries eligible for “foreign assistance,” that spending is also supposed to be transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Transparency implications\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taxpayers have a right to see where and how American dollars are being used overseas,” then-Sen. Rubio \u003ca href=\"https://www.usglc.org/media/2017/04/USGLC-FATAA-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">said\u003c/a> that in 2015, in support of the Foreign Assistance Transparency and Accountability \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ191/PLAW-114publ191.pdf\">Act\u003c/a>, which he co-sponsored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, which passed with near-unanimous support, established rigorous reporting and monitoring requirements for foreign assistance, and a public-facing dashboard that the Secretary of State is required to update quarterly to reflect foreign payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Evelyn Hockstein/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As of publication, the \u003ca href=\"https://foreignassistance.gov/\">dashboard\u003c/a> does not reflect a $6 million payment to El Salvador from the Bureau of International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letters to Rubio from Shaheen and \u003ca href=\"https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2025/4/meeks-castro-send-letter-to-rubio-demanding-answers-on-el-salvador-agreement\">members\u003c/a> of the House Foreign Affairs Committee also invoked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/treaty-negotiation-and-signing#:~:text=The%20Case%2DZablocki%20Act%20(1,agreements%20upon%20entry%20into%20force.\">Case-Zablocki Act\u003c/a>, which requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress with information about all international treaties and agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parloff, the Lawfare editor, said even non-binding agreements are supposed to be shared if “they could reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on the foreign policy of the United States.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is shifting how the city governs — and now describes — its goals around substance use and overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a largely symbolic measure aimed at changing the city’s framing around the drug crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Recovery First” ordinance, introduced by District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, establishes the city’s overall goal for drug use and addiction programs to prioritize helping people reach “long-term remission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This legislation accomplished what I hoped it would, to align our civic aspiration with what any of us would wish for a loved one struggling with drug addiction,” Dorsey said during Tuesday’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city defines remission as “overcoming the illness of substance use disorder to the point of living a self-directed and healthy life, free from illicit drug use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14119526&GUID=3570BE8E-779A-4A00-8F3A-29A67C371133\">The version passed on Tuesday\u003c/a> is different from Dorsey’s original version, which prioritized an “abstinence-first” approach and named “long-term recovery” as the city’s North Star for addiction-related services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990724\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DrugFreeRecoveryHousing01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey (top-center) speaks from a podium at City Hall on June 17. Together, he and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman announced their new legislation to prioritize drug-free recovery housing in front of advocates and the community. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The change came after doctors pointed to the fact that many people who are trying to curb their drug use may still experience relapse or could be seeking different outcomes than complete abstinence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health experts, including members of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society, representing more than 3,500 physicians, recommended that the ordinance broaden the definition of recovery to show that harm reduction and recovery are not mutually exclusive concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data shows that recovery is often a non-linear process of self-actualization where harm reduction efforts, abstinence, and treatment are not in opposition with one another or mutually exclusive,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14150937&GUID=D2FA34F8-1232-47E2-9CC7-0C2D2AA182D8\">a letter recommending the amendments\u003c/a> from the medical society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other advocates for harm reduction, a philosophy that emphasizes meeting drug users where they are at by promoting safer use practices, also called on supervisors to amend the policy. Programs such as safe needle exchanges and Narcan distribution provide life-saving tools that should also remain a priority within the city’s approach, speakers said at a recent committee hearing for the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12038376 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said both recovery and harm reduction have a role to play. But in the yearslong battle to reduce overdose deaths and outdoor drug use, these two camps have become political lightning rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the brevity of its one-sentence operative provision, (the ordinance) became something of a flashpoint in our drug policy debate,” said Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict in recovery. “In the end, I think that debate was truly helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder was among those pushing for adjustments in the final version of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank the social workers, the street outreach workers and medical professionals who advocated for a more expansive and inclusive definition of recovery and a substance use disorder policy that affirms the dignity and potential of every single person struggling with addiction,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who represents District 9, will lead a hearing next week on a proposal for San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">incorporate a model used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, where outdoor drug use and overdoses were similarly a major problem. The model calls for strong coordination and support for addressing all stages of drug-related issues, including prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey has also expressed support for the approach, known as the Four Pillars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Mayor Daniel Lurie has already taken steps to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">scale back the city’s harm reduction efforts\u003c/a>, as some voters have grown frustrated over a lack of progress on the drug crisis. His recent directive required health providers to only distribute safer use supplies, such as clean needles, to drug users who agree to participate in some form of counseling or treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has also ended all outdoor distribution of safer smoking supplies like pipes and foil, which some studies have shown can help drug users move away from more risky forms of consumption like injecting drugs. He has also ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">increased police crackdowns\u003c/a> on drug users and dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034214 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250218-SFDowntown-07-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many health providers are still waiting for answers on where funding for the newly required counseling services will come from. Earlier this month, the city has opened up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">new emergency mental health clinic at 822 Geary\u003c/a> for individuals experiencing panic attacks, suicidal ideation or other psychiatric emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stabilization center at 822 Geary currently has the capacity for four clients, but officials there said they eventually plan to scale that up to 16, so people can walk in or first responders can drop off people they encounter struggling on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over 190 people died of overdose in San Francisco from January to March of this year, according to the most recent city data available. Fielder pointed out that at the current pace, the city is on track to reach its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">second-highest year for overdose deaths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Factions of the city want to present a false choice between harm reduction and treatment when both are sorely needed at this moment,” Fielder said. “The moment demands all of us to come together to achieve a steep and lasting decline in overdose deaths and the long-term remission of substance use disorders in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said both recovery and harm reduction have a role to play. But in the yearslong battle to reduce overdose deaths and outdoor drug use, these two camps have become political lightning rods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the brevity of its one-sentence operative provision, (the ordinance) became something of a flashpoint in our drug policy debate,” said Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict in recovery. “In the end, I think that debate was truly helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder was among those pushing for adjustments in the final version of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank the social workers, the street outreach workers and medical professionals who advocated for a more expansive and inclusive definition of recovery and a substance use disorder policy that affirms the dignity and potential of every single person struggling with addiction,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who represents District 9, will lead a hearing next week on a proposal for San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">incorporate a model used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, where outdoor drug use and overdoses were similarly a major problem. The model calls for strong coordination and support for addressing all stages of drug-related issues, including prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey has also expressed support for the approach, known as the Four Pillars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Mayor Daniel Lurie has already taken steps to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">scale back the city’s harm reduction efforts\u003c/a>, as some voters have grown frustrated over a lack of progress on the drug crisis. His recent directive required health providers to only distribute safer use supplies, such as clean needles, to drug users who agree to participate in some form of counseling or treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has also ended all outdoor distribution of safer smoking supplies like pipes and foil, which some studies have shown can help drug users move away from more risky forms of consumption like injecting drugs. He has also ordered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">increased police crackdowns\u003c/a> on drug users and dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dozen pro-Palestinian student activists are on a hunger strike calling for California State University to follow its San Francisco and Sacramento campuses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">divesting from companies\u003c/a> that supply weapons and surveillance technology to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic deal between activists and officials at San Francisco State University, which came as a result of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up on campus last spring\u003c/a>, pulled investments from weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five hunger strikers at the Cal State campuses in San Francisco, Sacramento, San José and Long Beach are calling on San José and Long Beach to follow suit, along with the entire university system. The hunger strike includes seven students at San José State and six in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they are striving to raise awareness of Palestinians’ increasing risk of starvation more than two months into an Israeli blockade that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5386511/israel-gaza-food-supplies-hamas-palestinians\">banned food and aid from entering Gaza\u003c/a>, a year and a half after Israel launched its offensive following Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California State University system remains complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people through millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers,” said Max Flynt, a member of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State University. “This act of solidarity aims to shed light on what exactly the people of Gaza are facing, and make it inescapable for the administrations of these universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Flynt, an SF State student, makes a public comment during the SF State Foundation Board meeting to discuss investment in weapons manufacturing companies at the Seven Hills Conference Center on campus in San Francisco on Dec. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement between student activists and the SF State Foundation, an organization that supports the school by investing donations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">investments are screened\u003c/a> to identify companies that earn more than 5% of their revenue from weapons manufacturing on an ongoing basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential investment targets that surpass the threshold would not be added to the foundation’s portfolio, and any existing holdings whose revenues change to cross the limit would be screened out, according to university spokesperson Bobby King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy does not apply only to companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to Israel. It says the foundation will “strive not to invest in companies that consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitate or enable severe violations of international law and human rights.”[aside postID=news_12038385 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> is poised to extend some public safety service cuts through the next two years in order to balance a more than $200 million deficit over the next two years, according to an overview of the budget proposed Monday by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the passage of an additional sales tax to fund police and fire services, the budget would maintain the closure of two fire stations and a cap on police overtime — unpopular cuts that took effect in January after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">sale of the Oakland Coliseum was delayed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city faces an anticipated $260 million deficit, questions around federal funding and sharp increases in pension and benefit costs, Jenkins said the budget is the first step toward stability, but that more changes — including a potential parcel tax — could be on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[This is] Oakland’s pathway to fiscal stability,” he said. “We want to ensure that public safety is a priority and that we are doing a good job at our core statutory services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most noteworthy cuts will be to public safety departments, which account for about 75% of the city’s unrestricted spending. The budget sets a $34 million cap on police overtime, down from the roughly $50 million the department has spent on extra hours in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell said that the department has been able to pare down that spending by ending discretionary overtime since the city made large public safety in January, after determining the $60 million in revenue it expected to receive from the sale of the Oakland Coliseum wouldn’t be available by the end of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031059\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031059\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00029-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The silhouette of Carina Lieu, Inclusive Community Engagement Officer for the city of Oakland, at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitchell said the proposed overtime budget will allow him to restore overtime staffing for large gatherings and events and respond to critical incidents. It also restores funding for one fire academy and three police academies during each of the next two years, which Mitchell said is key to helping the department cut overtime further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD is just over 20 officers short of its guaranteed minimum staffing of 700 sworn officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting us back to at least that 700 number [is] where we can staff different events without the use of overtime,” he said. “It’s going to take a little time to do that over the next two years, but this is an important first step that the mayor has put forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021505 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00091-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029499/oakland-halts-plan-close-4-fire-stations-amid-budget-crisis\">continued fire cuts\u003c/a> seem less welcome by department leaders. Two of the city’s 25 fire stations will remain shuttered on a rotating basis, saving about $11 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Chief Damon Covington said the department plans to reopen the two stations in the fire-prone Oakland Hills that have been closed since January and a third that has been closed since 2022 for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the department will identify two other stations that can be closed while minimizing the impact on response times and service capacity as fire season approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, the fire department’s union president, said he’s frustrated with the budget proposal, especially after voters overwhelmingly approved the sales tax proposed during May’s special election, which he said he advocated for under the assumption that it would restore all fire services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that Measure A was going to reopen and keep these firehouses open is exactly how I personally helped pass this measure,” he told KQED. “Oaklanders deserve fully staffed open fire houses all around the city, and it doesn’t look like that’s what the city is proposing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that the measure, which will generate $20 million this year, prevented more dire public safety cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without Measure A passing, there would have been four fire stations closed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, is located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It’s one of two stations scheduled to close until June. The closure is part of the city’s effort to confront its $129 million budget deficit. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also plans to eliminate over 400 positions, most of which are currently vacant and have remained unfilled in recent months because of the city’s ongoing hiring freeze. About 85 positions being cut are currently filled, but only about a dozen are expected to result in layoffs. Other employees might be eligible to move into a different city role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big question mark that looms over the proposal is about $40 million in revenue it relies on beginning in the 2027 fiscal year — money that could come from a potential parcel tax, which may appear on the June 2026 ballot if approved by city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the passage of such a measure is a risk, it is a necessary step toward a comprehensive structural balancing plan,” Jenkins, who will be succeeded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037110/barbara-lee-wins-special-election-to-become-oaklands-next-mayor\">Mayor-elect Barbara Lee\u003c/a> later this month, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the budget marks the first step toward returning Oakland to a sustainable financial path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working very diligently to restore public safety in this city,” Jenkins said. “We see from the election that recently happened that residents are demanding that they want to feel safe in the city that they love. … and I definitely think[this budget] gets to the mayor-elect’s goals of prioritizing public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029499/oakland-halts-plan-close-4-fire-stations-amid-budget-crisis\">continued fire cuts\u003c/a> seem less welcome by department leaders. Two of the city’s 25 fire stations will remain shuttered on a rotating basis, saving about $11 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Chief Damon Covington said the department plans to reopen the two stations in the fire-prone Oakland Hills that have been closed since January and a third that has been closed since 2022 for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the department will identify two other stations that can be closed while minimizing the impact on response times and service capacity as fire season approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Olyer, the fire department’s union president, said he’s frustrated with the budget proposal, especially after voters overwhelmingly approved the sales tax proposed during May’s special election, which he said he advocated for under the assumption that it would restore all fire services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that Measure A was going to reopen and keep these firehouses open is exactly how I personally helped pass this measure,” he told KQED. “Oaklanders deserve fully staffed open fire houses all around the city, and it doesn’t look like that’s what the city is proposing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said that the measure, which will generate $20 million this year, prevented more dire public safety cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without Measure A passing, there would have been four fire stations closed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, is located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It’s one of two stations scheduled to close until June. The closure is part of the city’s effort to confront its $129 million budget deficit. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city also plans to eliminate over 400 positions, most of which are currently vacant and have remained unfilled in recent months because of the city’s ongoing hiring freeze. About 85 positions being cut are currently filled, but only about a dozen are expected to result in layoffs. Other employees might be eligible to move into a different city role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big question mark that looms over the proposal is about $40 million in revenue it relies on beginning in the 2027 fiscal year — money that could come from a potential parcel tax, which may appear on the June 2026 ballot if approved by city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the passage of such a measure is a risk, it is a necessary step toward a comprehensive structural balancing plan,” Jenkins, who will be succeeded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037110/barbara-lee-wins-special-election-to-become-oaklands-next-mayor\">Mayor-elect Barbara Lee\u003c/a> later this month, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the budget marks the first step toward returning Oakland to a sustainable financial path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working very diligently to restore public safety in this city,” Jenkins said. “We see from the election that recently happened that residents are demanding that they want to feel safe in the city that they love. … and I definitely think[this budget] gets to the mayor-elect’s goals of prioritizing public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/david-koranyi/\">David Koranyi\u003c/a> attended his mother’s 70th birthday party back home in Hungary, but the indirect route he took highlights the \u003ca href=\"https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220909IPR40137/meps-hungary-can-no-longer-be-considered-a-full-democracy\">autocratic rule\u003c/a> that grips his homeland. Instead of flying straight to Hungary, Koranyi flew to neighboring Austria and then turned off his phone and drove across the border where there was no passport control and he knew he could slip in undetected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koranyi runs an organization called \u003ca href=\"https://www.actionfordemocracy.org/\">Action for Democracy\u003c/a> that has mobilized Hungarians overseas to vote back home, where political scientists say Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has tilted the electoral landscape toward his ruling party. The government says Koranyi threatens Hungary’s sovereignty; pro-government media routinely call him an “enemy of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Friends and even embassies in Hungary … told me that maybe it’s better if I don’t come back to Hungary anytime soon,” says Koranyi, who was concerned Orbán’s government might try to detain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threats like this are one reason Koranyi came to America and became a citizen in 2022. So, he’s been struck to see U.S. government agents stopping and aggressively questioning people — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/us/us-citizen-detained-canada/index.html\">citizens\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-detention-of-european-and-canadian-tourists-creates-fear-over-traveling-to-america\">tourists\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained\">green-card holders\u003c/a> — returning to America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-2-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amir Makled is a Michigan-based attorney who was detained by federal agents when returning to the US from a family vacation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amir Makled)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detained-by-immigration-authorities\">Michigan lawyer Amir Makled\u003c/a>, who was stopped at Detroit Metro Airport in early April as he returned from a family vacation. Makled, who said agents asked to search his phone, thinks he was targeted because he represents a pro-Palestinian protester at the University of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m not going to be a dictator’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I never in a million years would have imagined that atmosphere of fear and that random searches at border crossings and looking into people’s phones … is something that I would live through in my life in the United States,” says Koranyi, who lives in New York.[aside postID=news_12026783 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1148899659-1020x736.jpg']Countless people have left authoritarian countries for the promise of freedom and safety in the United States. NPR reached out to Koranyi and a dozen others to get their impressions of the Trump administration’s first several months in power. Most — but not all — said some of the administration’s tactics reminded them of those used by the regimes they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a survey in February found that \u003ca href=\"https://brightlinewatch.org/\">hundreds of U.S.-based scholars\u003c/a> think the United States is moving swiftly from a liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an elected government, obviously, but it is behaving as an authoritarian one,” says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of \u003cem>How Democracies Die\u003c/em>. “It is engaging in a rapid and systematic weaponization of the machinery of government and its deployment to punish rivals, to protect allies and to bully elements of the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some immigrants say Trump is the victim\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, President Trump insisted he would not be an autocrat beyond Inauguration Day, when he said he would all but lock down the southern border and green-light drilling for energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that I’m not going to be a dictator,” Trump pledged to applause at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0TfaIpr9s\">Fox News town hall\u003c/a> during the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. immigrants from authoritarian countries say Trump has kept his word. \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage.org/china/heritage-explains/lily-tang-williams-growing-communist-china\">Lily Tang Williams\u003c/a>, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmur.com/article/lily-tang-williams-2026-campaign-congress-nh-0425/64437326\">running for Congress\u003c/a> for a third time in New Hampshire as a Republican, says it wasn’t Trump but former President Joe Biden, who most reminded her of the authoritarian leaders back in her homeland, China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who censored us during the COVID times [and] put us in Facebook jail?” Tang Williams said in an interview with NPR. “It was not Trump. Trump himself was censored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tang Williams says she blames the Biden administration for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic\">putting pressure\u003c/a> on Facebook and Twitter to crack down on certain posts, including a meme she said she posted about mask mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has said it was encouraging responsible action to protect public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Trump administration’s tactics have unsettled immigrants such as Koranyi, they’ve instilled fear in others, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/fulya-pinar\">Fulya Pinar\u003c/a>, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán shake hands after a joint statement at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, in 2023. \u003ccite>(Denes Erdos/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Similar authoritarian tactics by Turkey’s Erdogan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinar grew up in Turkey and says she watched Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/13/1175887249/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-leader-president-election\">autocratic president\u003c/a>, attack scholars and consolidate power over the news media. She says she moved to the U.S. in 2016 to study for her Ph.D. and to have intellectual freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about survival as an academic,” Pinar recalls, “to be able to continue thinking, teaching, writing without fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Trump has withheld or threatened to withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229717/who-loses-when-trump-cuts-funding-to-universities\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> in federal contracts and research grants from universities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\">Harvard\u003c/a>, saying they haven’t done enough to fight antisemitism. In this atmosphere, Pinar worries some students could report her. She’s teaching Anthropologies of the Middle East this semester and doing so differently than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her lectures, for instance, Pinar used to cite death tolls for conflicts such as the war in Gaza. Now, she directs students to readings where they can find answers on their own. It’s a way to insulate herself from charges of bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fear in college classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to be more careful,” says Pinar, who is untenured. “At the end of the semester, students usually provide feedback about professors, and then your promotion depends on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinar’s worries are representative, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://criticalissues.umd.edu/middle-east-scholar-barometer\">Middle East Scholar Barometer\u003c/a>, which tracks the opinions of scholars who teach about the region. A survey in February found 57% of professors in the U.S. felt more pressure under the Trump administration to self-censor when discussing Israeli-Palestinian issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having left Turkey’s autocracy for America’s freedom, Pinar says she never saw a period like this coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel quite fragile because I feel like I can’t work freely here,” Pinar continues. “It just feels like I’m stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to taking on universities, the Trump administration has also targeted news organizations that cover the president critically. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating broadcast news networks — including ABC, CBS and NBC — over allegations that they have \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2025/01/fcc-complaints-trump-cbs-nbc-abc-1236263995/\">favored Democrats\u003c/a>. Trump has also attacked public broadcasters. In a social media post, he called NPR and PBS\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366151/president-trump-plans-order-to-cut-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\"> “radical left monsters”\u003c/a> that hurt the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Ressa gestures after she and her online news outfit Rappler were acquitted of tax evasion cases against her at the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City, Metro Manila, in January 2023. \u003ccite>(Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Threatening to strip licenses from TV news broadcasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Journalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/maria-ressa\">Maria Ressa\u003c/a> says Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ autocratic former president, used similar tactics. In 2020, Duterte’s government refused to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/853217038/it-s-unbelievable-shutdown-of-philippines-major-broadcaster-worries-many\">renew the license\u003c/a> of the country’s largest broadcaster and shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duterte left office in 2022 and is now awaiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326081/rodrigo-duterte-to-face-trial-in-the-hague-for-charges-of-crimes-against-humanity\">trial in The Hague\u003c/a> on charges of crimes against humanity for allegedly allowing tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings during his war on the country’s drug trade. But Ressa says the damage he did to the news media endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That network, even after the end of Duterte’s reign, never got its license … back,” says Ressa, who once ran the broadcaster herself. “What is damaged in this time period, what is destroyed, stays destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for standing up to Duterte’s attacks on her and her news site, Rappler. At one point, she faced the possibility of more than a century in prison on tax evasion and cyber-libel charges that human rights groups say were politically motivated. Ressa is spending this semester teaching at Columbia University. A dual citizen, she has a message for people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans are slow to respond, but I know what fear does,” she says. “Don’t let fear paralyze you because you are at your strongest now, and every day you do not act and hold the line on your rights, you get weaker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Most — but not all — said some of the administration’s tactics reminded them of those used by the regimes they fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, a survey in February found that \u003ca href=\"https://brightlinewatch.org/\">hundreds of U.S.-based scholars\u003c/a> think the United States is moving swiftly from a liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an elected government, obviously, but it is behaving as an authoritarian one,” says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of \u003cem>How Democracies Die\u003c/em>. “It is engaging in a rapid and systematic weaponization of the machinery of government and its deployment to punish rivals, to protect allies and to bully elements of the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some immigrants say Trump is the victim\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, President Trump insisted he would not be an autocrat beyond Inauguration Day, when he said he would all but lock down the southern border and green-light drilling for energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that I’m not going to be a dictator,” Trump pledged to applause at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0TfaIpr9s\">Fox News town hall\u003c/a> during the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. immigrants from authoritarian countries say Trump has kept his word. \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage.org/china/heritage-explains/lily-tang-williams-growing-communist-china\">Lily Tang Williams\u003c/a>, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmur.com/article/lily-tang-williams-2026-campaign-congress-nh-0425/64437326\">running for Congress\u003c/a> for a third time in New Hampshire as a Republican, says it wasn’t Trump but former President Joe Biden, who most reminded her of the authoritarian leaders back in her homeland, China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who censored us during the COVID times [and] put us in Facebook jail?” Tang Williams said in an interview with NPR. “It was not Trump. Trump himself was censored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tang Williams says she blames the Biden administration for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic\">putting pressure\u003c/a> on Facebook and Twitter to crack down on certain posts, including a meme she said she posted about mask mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has said it was encouraging responsible action to protect public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Trump administration’s tactics have unsettled immigrants such as Koranyi, they’ve instilled fear in others, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/fulya-pinar\">Fulya Pinar\u003c/a>, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán shake hands after a joint statement at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, in 2023. \u003ccite>(Denes Erdos/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Similar authoritarian tactics by Turkey’s Erdogan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pinar grew up in Turkey and says she watched Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/05/13/1175887249/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-leader-president-election\">autocratic president\u003c/a>, attack scholars and consolidate power over the news media. She says she moved to the U.S. in 2016 to study for her Ph.D. and to have intellectual freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was about survival as an academic,” Pinar recalls, “to be able to continue thinking, teaching, writing without fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Trump has withheld or threatened to withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229717/who-loses-when-trump-cuts-funding-to-universities\">billions of dollars\u003c/a> in federal contracts and research grants from universities, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands\">Harvard\u003c/a>, saying they haven’t done enough to fight antisemitism. In this atmosphere, Pinar worries some students could report her. She’s teaching Anthropologies of the Middle East this semester and doing so differently than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her lectures, for instance, Pinar used to cite death tolls for conflicts such as the war in Gaza. Now, she directs students to readings where they can find answers on their own. It’s a way to insulate herself from charges of bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fear in college classrooms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to be more careful,” says Pinar, who is untenured. “At the end of the semester, students usually provide feedback about professors, and then your promotion depends on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinar’s worries are representative, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://criticalissues.umd.edu/middle-east-scholar-barometer\">Middle East Scholar Barometer\u003c/a>, which tracks the opinions of scholars who teach about the region. A survey in February found 57% of professors in the U.S. felt more pressure under the Trump administration to self-censor when discussing Israeli-Palestinian issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having left Turkey’s autocracy for America’s freedom, Pinar says she never saw a period like this coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel quite fragile because I feel like I can’t work freely here,” Pinar continues. “It just feels like I’m stuck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to taking on universities, the Trump administration has also targeted news organizations that cover the president critically. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating broadcast news networks — including ABC, CBS and NBC — over allegations that they have \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2025/01/fcc-complaints-trump-cbs-nbc-abc-1236263995/\">favored Democrats\u003c/a>. Trump has also attacked public broadcasters. In a social media post, he called NPR and PBS\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366151/president-trump-plans-order-to-cut-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\"> “radical left monsters”\u003c/a> that hurt the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Ressa gestures after she and her online news outfit Rappler were acquitted of tax evasion cases against her at the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City, Metro Manila, in January 2023. \u003ccite>(Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Threatening to strip licenses from TV news broadcasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Journalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/maria-ressa\">Maria Ressa\u003c/a> says Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ autocratic former president, used similar tactics. In 2020, Duterte’s government refused to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/853217038/it-s-unbelievable-shutdown-of-philippines-major-broadcaster-worries-many\">renew the license\u003c/a> of the country’s largest broadcaster and shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duterte left office in 2022 and is now awaiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326081/rodrigo-duterte-to-face-trial-in-the-hague-for-charges-of-crimes-against-humanity\">trial in The Hague\u003c/a> on charges of crimes against humanity for allegedly allowing tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings during his war on the country’s drug trade. But Ressa says the damage he did to the news media endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That network, even after the end of Duterte’s reign, never got its license … back,” says Ressa, who once ran the broadcaster herself. “What is damaged in this time period, what is destroyed, stays destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for standing up to Duterte’s attacks on her and her news site, Rappler. At one point, she faced the possibility of more than a century in prison on tax evasion and cyber-libel charges that human rights groups say were politically motivated. Ressa is spending this semester teaching at Columbia University. A dual citizen, she has a message for people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans are slow to respond, but I know what fear does,” she says. “Don’t let fear paralyze you because you are at your strongest now, and every day you do not act and hold the line on your rights, you get weaker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The only marine lab on the San Francisco Bay is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036970/unique-san-francisco-bay-marine-lab-faces-closure-has-days-raise-millions\">on the brink of shuttering\u003c/a>, after failing to secure the funds necessary to cover its operating and maintenance costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco State University’s \u003ca href=\"https://eoscenter.sfsu.edu/\">Estuary and Ocean Science Center\u003c/a>, which has conducted critical marine research in Tiburon for nearly half a century, failed to raise the $10 million the cash-strapped university said was needed by the end of April to keep the lab open, at least in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My deadline was yesterday,” said Katharyn Boyer, an SF State ecology professor, who is the interim director of the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyer said she recently found out her last-ditch grant proposal had been rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that funding, the school is likely to begin phasing out the center’s operations over the next six months. Boyer, two other tenured faculty and their graduate students will move back to the university’s main campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 12 adjunct faculty and employees who are not funded through the university could lose their jobs, Boyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists, conservationists and community members have \u003ca href=\"https://www.friendsofeosc.org/\">rallied\u003c/a> to save the center since the university announced in February that it could \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">no longer afford\u003c/a> to keep the doors open on its 53-acre Tiburon campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036970 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_MARINELAB_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s turmoil is a result of San Francisco State’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">deep financial troubles\u003c/a>. With dropping enrollment and new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">reductions\u003c/a> to state university funding, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030322/sf-state-joins-wave-of-csu-campuses-making-deep-spending-cuts\">the school announced\u003c/a> it would need to slash spending by some $25 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyer said her frenzied fundraising efforts over the last few months have brought in about $3.2 million, just shy of the $3.5 million she said is needed to keep the center operating for the next three years. However, that alone is unlikely to sway university administrators, who note that aside from the operating budget, the center also needs millions of dollars in maintenance and repairs to continue functioning properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I presented a plan to the university leadership for how we would cover our costs so that there would be no cost to the general fund for the next three years,” Boyer said, a day after meeting with administrators. “They don’t pay for anything then. We cover our costs entirely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyer said that the school was also deterred by her “bake-sale” fundraising approach, which involved collecting multiple smaller donations, rather than securing a large — and potentially sustaining — grant from a single source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though it was I think by all accounts a heroic effort to fundraise that amount in a couple of months time, it still might not be considered a successful campaign,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, she noted that if someone donated an additional $300,000 or so, “like today, it wouldn’t hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t know if it’s going to change anybody’s mind at this point,” she said. “I mean, if we had a bigger donor who could step up, that to me is what would change their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250423_MarineLab_GC-7_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katharyn Boyer, interim EOS executive director and professor of biology, talks about tanks used for ocean acidification projects, at San Francisco State’s Estuary and Ocean Science center, in Tiburon on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert King, a spokesperson for SF State, said the amount Boyer has raised “wouldn’t address the long-term issues with the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized that, absent a funding miracle, the site will close, but the center’s work would continue at the school’s main campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effort to find additional funding sources or a partner to help shoulder the burden of the location dates back several years and includes SF State administrators, EOS staff and even assistance from the CSU Chancellor’s Office,” he said in an email. “In addition to the operating fund shortfall, the [university] estimated $3.97 million needed funds just for safety repairs if we found a partner to continue operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university began research at the Romberg Tiburon Campus, once a U.S. Navy base, in 1978. Although many of the defunct military structures are in disrepair, the university’s main lab buildings serve as a regional science hub. The site is also home to the \u003ca href=\"https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/reserves/san-francisco-bay.html\">San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://serc.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Environmental Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only marine biology center in San Francisco Bay, and it’s leading the innovation of how to use nature for sea-level rise resilience,” said Evyan Borgnis Sloane, deputy executive officer of the California State Coastal Conservancy and a San Francisco State alum who studied at the center. “If you don’t want to see the bay shoreline where you kayak, walk and swim be transformed over time to concrete sea walls, then you should care about this center closing.”[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']Ironically, if the center closes, Boyer might have to return millions of dollars in research funding, including out of a recent \u003ca href=\"https://news.sfsu.edu/news/eos-center-aims-expand-workforce-empowerment-increase-local-coastal-resiliency\">$4.3 million grant\u003c/a> from the California State Coastal Conservancy for climate change adaptation and education projects. Boyer said she would also have to give back $5.8 million awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a new aquatic research facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the site shuts down, Boyer said, the university would likely fence it off and hire security guards to monitor it, at a cost of about $500,000 a year, while they tried to sell it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders from across California have joined the Friends of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center, reaching out to their representatives and the university to voice their strong support for the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the agencies responsible for managing California’s coasts and oceans owe a lot to the studies, education and leadership of the Estuary and Ocean Science Center,” said Rebecca Schwartz Lesberg, the president of consulting firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastalpolicysolutions.com/about\">Coastal Policy Solutions\u003c/a>, who organized the coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provide a service and we do it well, and we’re valued for it, but somehow we just can’t seem to convince the outside community that has the means to make a difference that they should,” Boyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco State values the work of the center, she added, they just can’t afford to fund it anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many people who are like, ‘I can’t believe the only marine lab on San Francisco Bay could close,’” Boyer said. “We should be outraged, right? It’s unbelievable to me, anyway, to be in this kind of dire situation and to have had so much press and to have people not step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just have to think that our region has different priorities than what I would have expected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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However, that alone is unlikely to sway university administrators, who note that aside from the operating budget, the center also needs millions of dollars in maintenance and repairs to continue functioning properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I presented a plan to the university leadership for how we would cover our costs so that there would be no cost to the general fund for the next three years,” Boyer said, a day after meeting with administrators. “They don’t pay for anything then. 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"content": "\u003cp>Northern California public radio stations and journalism organizations are raising the alarm after President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night aiming to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038524/trump-targets-public-media-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\">cut off federal funding for NPR and PBS\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/\">order\u003c/a> directs the board of the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting and all federal agencies to withhold money for the nation’s primary public broadcasters, saying that government funding for the news services is “corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the order does not call on CPB to halt funding for local member stations such as KQED, Trump has signaled his desire to ask Congress to rescind nearly all funding for CPB, which distributes funds to more than 1,500 locally owned stations across the country in addition to NPR and PBS. The loss of such funding could put local, rural news outlets in jeopardy and interfere with emergency and disaster alert systems that rely on broadcast partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At small stations like KZYX in Mendocino County, CPB money makes up about a quarter of the budget, leaving them especially vulnerable to federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are tiny,” said Dina Polkinghorne, the interim general manager of KZYX. “There’s threadbare staff, threadbare operational funds, and a 25% [cut] to our revenues — it’s beyond devastating. There’s nothing to cut to make up for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPB leadership asserted that Trump’s executive order overstepped his authority, and both NPR and PBS have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\">vowed to challenge it\u003c/a>, leaving the actual effect of the order still unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1898\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed.jpg 1898w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-180967643_qed-1536x1079.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headquarters for National Public Radio, or NPR, are seen in Washington, DC, September 17, 2013. The USD 201 million building, which opened in 2013, serves as the headquarters of the media organization that creates and distributes news, information and music programming to 975 independent radio stations throughout the US, reaching 26 million listeners each week. \u003ccite>(Saul Loeb /AFP via Getty Image)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, if federal funding were to dry up for small local stations, they might be unable to keep up operations, threatening to exacerbate the growing problem of “news deserts” in rural areas across California and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED also receives CPB funding, which made up 7.6% of the organization’s 2024 budget, but smaller stations like KAZU in Monterey County and KZYX collected 13% and 22% of their revenue in 2023 from CPB, respectively, according to financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The backbone of our local democracy is smaller news outlets, local news outlets, particularly in far-flung parts of California, rural parts of California, suburban parts of California, where large outlets don’t necessarily have as much reach,” said Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, the president of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the research points to the fact that … more bribery, more scandal emerges from local government, state government, government in general, when you don’t have a robust press playing a check on them,” he continued.[aside postID=news_12038481 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250501-MAYDAYRALLYSF-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Polkinghorne said Mendocino residents rely on KZYX to get news in isolated parts of the sprawling Northern California county, where there isn’t a dedicated public television station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have people who call us, they don’t decide what to wear that day until they hear our weather report in the morning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has repeatedly accused NPR and PBS of left-wing bias, spurring a tense \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033078/watch-live-npr-pbs-heads-answer-lawmakers-allegations-of-bias\">congressional hearing\u003c/a> in March during which Republicans criticized the organizations’ CEOs over their news coverage. NPR CEO Katherine Maher was also asked about posts she made on social media criticizing Trump during the 2020 election, before she was the head of the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order not only targets direct CPB funding of NPR and PBS; it also instructs CPB to ensure local stations do not use any federal funds to pay the national networks. Under their current agreements, member stations contribute fees to NPR and PBS in exchange for access to their programming, like \u003cem>Morning Edition \u003c/em>and \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher said that programming provided by NPR, which gets about 2% of its budget from the federal government through direct and indirect means, generates about 25% of local stations’ content and 50% of their listenership. 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"content": "\u003cp>If President Trump has adopted the Silicon Valley ethos of “move fast and break things” for his second term, then “move slow and get out of the way” could be the corresponding marching orders on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has taken about 140 executive actions in his first 100 days in office — a rapid pace that rivals the 162 actions President Biden took in his entire time in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider in the same period of time, Congress has enacted just \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/US/legislation?status=passed\">five laws\u003c/a>, a low watermark in modern congressional history for this time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To a large extent, Trump is enjoying the spoils of unilateral party control of Washington, where there has been no significant pushback as he legislates through executive actions on everything from immigration to election law, ignores statutes that require the White House to inform the Senate on certain actions before taking them, upends the economy with tariffs that Congress could technically block and, most notably, allowed billionaire Elon Musk to lead a government “department” — without confirmation hearings before the Senate — that has unilaterally slashed and cut agencies and programs funded by Congress through its constitutional authority to determine how taxpayer dollars get spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a testament to the strength of Trump’s party loyalty, GOP leaders have taken little issue with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a gross overreaction in the media to what is happening,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters earlier this year when asked whether Musk’s government slashing efforts were trampling on congressional turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson has said the president has the authority to make sure dollars in the executive agencies are well spent. “It looks radical, it’s not. I call it stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are signals that all is not well with some in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, made a stunning admission at an event in Anchorage during the last congressional recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all afraid,” she told constituents. “It’s quite a statement, but we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been before, and I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Meet the new Congress, same as the old Congress\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump didn’t start this, said Joseph Postell, an associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, but he is benefiting from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress has for decades kind of ceded its authority, including authority over fiscal matters, appropriations, budgets, things like that,” he told NPR. “I think it’s a huge concern in this Congress, the extent to which Trump has been able to lead the Congress on fiscal questions, but I also don’t think that’s out of keeping with the way Congress has performed or conducted itself over the last few decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909333 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/Luke-Broadwater-Annie-Karni-1020x574.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress is designed to be a co-equal branch of government and a check on executive power, but in practice when the same party controls the White House, lawmakers in the modern era have proven willing to go along with the usurpation of their legislative power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dynamic applies to both parties — like when Democrats cheered Biden’s executive actions to create a student loan forgiveness program, which the Supreme Court later ruled unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this fertile ground that has allowed Musk’s team to institute cuts across departments, agencies and programs with little pushback from the GOP-led Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressional scholars like Postell say a government that functions like this is a cause for concern. “I see the decline of a Congress that legislates as a serious constitutional crisis that anybody who believes in republican government should be concerned about. So I tend not to see this as just a neutral change. I see it as a serious constitutional concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Show them the money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers also need to decide how they are going to approve the spending bills for fiscal year 2026 — which starts Oct. 1 — after punting on this year’s bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Kosar, a congressional scholar with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said it was understandable for Congress to want to clear the decks at the start of this Congress, but the real test of congressional muscle under Trump will be how they handle next year’s spending bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The patient we know as Congress, I do not think is wholly dead,” Kosar said, adding that House and Senate lawmakers will want some assurances that the money is actually going to be spent, because otherwise it’s a futile process. “I would think, ultimately, the appropriators’ desire for power would kick in. I mean, it’s going to have to kick in at some point. Otherwise, what’s the point of being an appropriator?” Kosar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Binder, a congressional scholar with the centrist Brookings Institution, agrees. “You don’t want to overuse the word, but it is kind of existential for Congress,” she said. “It’s really hard to get around the single most important power that Congress has as the power of the purse, and if the parties can’t be sure that the administration is going to abide by those pots of money that they set into statute, that they put into law, then the jig is up, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosar also nodded to the political reality of the moment, where the House GOP majority is on the line in 2026. Historically, the party in power in the White House tends to lose seats in the midterms. Republicans hold a slim two-seat majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do feel like the administration and congressional Republicans, to a degree, really are operating within a two-year window, and so the amount of deference that legislators are showing is to some degree, like, ‘we just have to do this to see if we can rack up as many wins as possible, because those midterms are probably not going to go our way.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Speaker Johnson has gone so far as to use parliamentary rules to effectively block the House’s ability to vote to repeal Trump’s tariffs, as well as any effort to vote on a resolution calling for an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive military operations. “I think it’s an overreach here,” said Rep. 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In the past, reconciliation has been guided by that person’s judgment. For instance, Democrats wanted to include a $15 federal minimum wage hike in a 2021 pandemic relief package that advanced under reconciliation rules. But the parliamentarian nixed the policy because it did not comply with the complicated rules for what is allowed in such a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in order for a bill to qualify for reconciliation and the lower, 50-vote threshold for passage, it generally cannot increase the federal deficit over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Republicans, backed by Majority Leader Thune, are already looking to bypass that rule — and the parliamentarian — to use a favorable analysis for the deficit impact of the tax cuts. 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