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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was March when a group of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> lawmakers decided they’d broach a sticky topic: child marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next three months, Democrats would devise a plan to persuade reluctant colleagues to finally outlaw the practice and contend with special interest groups that might work against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what might come as a surprise, it’s legal for anyone \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/child-marriage-california/\">younger than 18\u003c/a> to get married in California, so long as a parent and judge approve. Perhaps even more surprising, two influential groups in Democratic politics — the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood — have historically staunchly supported the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children have a right to marry, the ACLU argues, and stripping them of that right would take away a pathway to their emancipation and independent healthcare decisions. For Planned Parenthood, the freedom for children to marry is about allowing people reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two other states — New Mexico and Mississippi — have no minimum age to wed. And while minors can marry at any age in California, advocates say it’s hard to hire a divorce attorney before 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 9,000 children are married each year in California, the vast majority of them girls marrying adult men, according to the nonprofit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://unchainedatlast.org/\">Unchained at Last\u003c/a>. Because the age of consent for sexual activity is 18, advocates say marriages between children under 18 and adults implicitly legalize a sexual relationship that would otherwise be considered statutory rape under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in white wedding gowns and lacey veils walk toward California's Capitol Building. Some have black tape over their mouths in an X shape. Each individual also wears a red stop sign on their chest that reads, "Stop Child Marriage in CA."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forced and child marriage survivors arrive at a protest, organized to support a ban on child marriage, at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization has worked for the past decade to push for bans in New York, Oklahoma, Washington and a dozen other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their efforts have repeatedly failed in California, where Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have lobbied hard against restricting child marriage, although those groups have largely stayed silent on the issue in other Democratic-controlled states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can partially be explained by their outsize influence in California politics. Planned Parenthood advocates on behalf of some of the most cherished liberal causes and has donated at least $2.7 million to Democratic lawmakers since 2002, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/organizations/-9294\">CalMatters’ Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats faced different circumstances with the organization, prompting Democratic lawmakers in June to introduce \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1267\">Assembly Bill 1267\u003c/a> to finally bar children from marrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/gail-pellerin-149519\">Gail Pellerin\u003c/a> authored the bill through what’s called a “gut-and-amend” when lawmakers strip the language of an unrelated bill to fast-track a new one after the deadline to introduce bills the typical way had passed. Democrats missed the deadline because they wanted to make sure Planned Parenthood wouldn’t get in the way, according to advocates.[aside postID=news_12100528 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ImmigrationCourtSFGetty.jpg']While the ACLU again opposed the legislation this year, there were no lobbyists to be found advocating for minors’ right to marry in committee hearings this summer, and Planned Parenthood stayed “neutral” on the bill, declining to take a position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as some Democrats expressed hesitation about not allowing two teenagers in love to tie the knot, the ban passed the Legislature with near-unanimous support in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make it clear that girls, despite their perceived maturity, are children,” Pellerin said in an interview. “Children don’t have unprotected freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade of failed attempts to outlaw child marriage, the bill now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature or veto. He has until Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU spokesperson Carmen King declined to respond to questions about why the group opposes the bill and did not make anyone available for an interview with CalMatters for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a June opposition letter, the organization wrote, “Prohibiting minors from marrying in every case is a departure from California’s longstanding commitment to honoring minors’ ability to make important personal decisions for themselves, particularly in the realm of reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood did not say anything official about the bill and spokesperson Shelby McMichael declined to make anyone available for an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, McMichael said the group “takes positions on a bill-by-bill basis each session. Given the ‘defund’ of Planned Parenthood health centers this past year, we made the decision to prioritize issues related to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans’ ongoing attacks on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Planned Parenthood’s voice matters’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Its abortion care services at more than 100 clinics across the state have made Planned Parenthood a symbol of reproductive freedom in California for decades, though the group notes that abortion services make up only a fraction of its services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its enmeshment with Democrats politics has only accelerated during the first and second Trump administrations as party leaders worked overtime to stave off federal defunding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/10/california-gives-planned-parenthood-140-million-boost-to-keep-clinics-open/\">$140 million in emergency funding\u003c/a> for the group to offset federal cuts. And on its website, Planned Parenthood keeps a \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/88/50/8850755d-bb8a-405e-bc9a-6799147c4cf0/ppac_legislative_scorecard_2025.pdf\">scorecard\u003c/a> of how often legislators vote in agreement with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its 2025 scorecard, all but one Democrat had a score of 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Planned Parenthood Northern California health center in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Irvine Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/cottie-petrie-norris-165040\">Cottie Petrie-Norris\u003c/a>, a Democrat, introduced Assembly Bill 2924 to ban minors from marrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> told advocates that Planned Parenthood had to drop its opposition before lawmakers could consider voting on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Democrat, who chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said banning minors from marriage would threaten their right to an abortion, which he said California hadn’t yet codified into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters enshrined the right to an abortion in 2022, two years before the 2024 bill was introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers were also skeptical about whether the data on child marriages was accurate, Kalra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never gave the bill a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that absolutely was one of the factors, certainly,” Kalra said of Planned Parenthood’s opposition and his decision to kill the legislation. “Planned Parenthood’s voice matters in that, and in other issues that come before us in the Capitol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women speak outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Napa on Nov. 4, 2022, about the dangers of abortion and birth control. She distributes pamphlets and refers people to the Napa Women’s Center, a facility next door opened by faith-based non-profit Napa Valley Culture of LIfe. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This reasoning harkened to earlier failed attempts, including in 2017 when Democrats killed another bill to change the state’s child marriage laws over similar reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/people/66\">Jerry Hill\u003c/a> said he sought an outright ban on the practice after he learned of a 13-year-old girl in his district who was engaged to a 38-year-old man from another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Who could oppose that? Who could say that it was wrong?’” Hill said of the bill he introduced to ban child marriage. But he was left perplexed that what he thought was a commonsense policy proposal evolved into a larger debate about cultural differences, childhood freedom and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cultures it’s acceptable for girls to be wedded to older men or be placed into arranged marriages, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-marriage/#status\">United Nations report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in recent years have proposed measures to clamp down on forced marriages, which are already a crime. Kalra is among them, this year authoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2534\">Assembly Bill 2534\u003c/a> which would allow victims to file a restraining order against anyone coercing them into a marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra and women’s rights groups say it would be the first policy of its kind in the country if enacted into law. Planned Parenthood supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Planned Parenthood-East Los Angeles Health Center in East Los Angeles on Aug. 8th, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the 2017 child marriage legislation, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood were staunch opponents, and then-Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/people/53\">Lorena Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a Democratic labor leader who chaired the Assembly Appropriations Committee at the time, told Hill she wouldn’t let a ban move forward unless it was amended to lower the minimum age to 16- or 17-year-olds instead of 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was eventually weakened to become current law: Any young person can get married if a parent and the courts sign off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said his attempt and others were killed by special interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so powerful, these interest groups in Sacramento. They have a lot of say and sway over what comes out of the Legislature,” said Hill, who represented Silicon Valley for 12 years. “Politics trumps policy about 80% of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez recalled it differently. While it’s true she refused to let an outright ban pass, she said, she doesn’t remember Planned Parenthood opposing the bill or considering it in her decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when older teenage girls in her district got pregnant, it was common for some Latino families to encourage them to marry the father if he was the same or of similar age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had girls where they were telling me this is the best choice,” Gonzalez told CalMatters. She said the difference in age between partners seemed to matter more than the marriage itself. “At the time, it seemed very classist” to impose an outright ban, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘At least we’re here now’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s push to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/07/planned-parenthood-california-defunded/\">defund Planned Parenthood\u003c/a> clinics put more political pressure on the group than usual in recent years and made the organization more reliant on state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were made worse last November, when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/opinion/child-marriage-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.m5zB.NnTZyMPzpl2G&smid=url-share\">New York Times opinion\u003c/a> piece criticized the ACLU and Planned Parenthood for their roles in blocking legislation against child marriage while Republican-controlled states such as Arkansas and Louisiana imposed tighter restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For survivor and advocate Sara Tasneem, California’s failure to act for several decades allowed her to be forcibly married at 15 to a 28-year-old man by her father, who she said was part of a Northern California “Sufi cult” that orchestrated it. When her father learned Tasneem was dating a high school classmate, he found someone for her to marry, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11312440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_5616-e1486854590713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Muntean, right, protests in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco as part of a nationwide effort to get the federal government to cut off funding to the program. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was handed over to this complete stranger who I just met,” she said. She dropped out of school and was repeatedly raped, feeling trapped and unable to leave before she turned 18 because she couldn’t hire an attorney as a minor. Tasneem said she had two kids with her rapist, who she left in 2003, at age 23, taking her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back and realizing she “didn’t grow up with a lot of power,” Tasneem turned to advocacy more than a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most advocates are hopeful Newsom will sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should it have happened a decade earlier? Yes, it should have,” said Unchained at Last executive director Fraidy Reiss, who at 19 was forced to marry an older man in her New York Orthodox Jewish community. “But at least we’re here now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-child-marriage/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children have a right to marry, the ACLU argues, and stripping them of that right would take away a pathway to their emancipation and independent healthcare decisions. For Planned Parenthood, the freedom for children to marry is about allowing people reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two other states — New Mexico and Mississippi — have no minimum age to wed. And while minors can marry at any age in California, advocates say it’s hard to hire a divorce attorney before 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 9,000 children are married each year in California, the vast majority of them girls marrying adult men, according to the nonprofit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://unchainedatlast.org/\">Unchained at Last\u003c/a>. Because the age of consent for sexual activity is 18, advocates say marriages between children under 18 and adults implicitly legalize a sexual relationship that would otherwise be considered statutory rape under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01.jpg\" alt=\"Protestors in white wedding gowns and lacey veils walk toward California's Capitol Building. Some have black tape over their mouths in an X shape. Each individual also wears a red stop sign on their chest that reads, "Stop Child Marriage in CA."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/ChildBridesCM01-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forced and child marriage survivors arrive at a protest, organized to support a ban on child marriage, at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization has worked for the past decade to push for bans in New York, Oklahoma, Washington and a dozen other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their efforts have repeatedly failed in California, where Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have lobbied hard against restricting child marriage, although those groups have largely stayed silent on the issue in other Democratic-controlled states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can partially be explained by their outsize influence in California politics. Planned Parenthood advocates on behalf of some of the most cherished liberal causes and has donated at least $2.7 million to Democratic lawmakers since 2002, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/organizations/-9294\">CalMatters’ Digital Democracy\u003c/a> database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Democrats faced different circumstances with the organization, prompting Democratic lawmakers in June to introduce \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1267\">Assembly Bill 1267\u003c/a> to finally bar children from marrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/gail-pellerin-149519\">Gail Pellerin\u003c/a> authored the bill through what’s called a “gut-and-amend” when lawmakers strip the language of an unrelated bill to fast-track a new one after the deadline to introduce bills the typical way had passed. Democrats missed the deadline because they wanted to make sure Planned Parenthood wouldn’t get in the way, according to advocates.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While the ACLU again opposed the legislation this year, there were no lobbyists to be found advocating for minors’ right to marry in committee hearings this summer, and Planned Parenthood stayed “neutral” on the bill, declining to take a position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even as some Democrats expressed hesitation about not allowing two teenagers in love to tie the knot, the ban passed the Legislature with near-unanimous support in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make it clear that girls, despite their perceived maturity, are children,” Pellerin said in an interview. “Children don’t have unprotected freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade of failed attempts to outlaw child marriage, the bill now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature or veto. He has until Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU spokesperson Carmen King declined to respond to questions about why the group opposes the bill and did not make anyone available for an interview with CalMatters for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a June opposition letter, the organization wrote, “Prohibiting minors from marrying in every case is a departure from California’s longstanding commitment to honoring minors’ ability to make important personal decisions for themselves, particularly in the realm of reproductive autonomy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood did not say anything official about the bill and spokesperson Shelby McMichael declined to make anyone available for an interview with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, McMichael said the group “takes positions on a bill-by-bill basis each session. Given the ‘defund’ of Planned Parenthood health centers this past year, we made the decision to prioritize issues related to the Trump administration and congressional Republicans’ ongoing attacks on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Planned Parenthood’s voice matters’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Its abortion care services at more than 100 clinics across the state have made Planned Parenthood a symbol of reproductive freedom in California for decades, though the group notes that abortion services make up only a fraction of its services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its enmeshment with Democrats politics has only accelerated during the first and second Trump administrations as party leaders worked overtime to stave off federal defunding efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/10/california-gives-planned-parenthood-140-million-boost-to-keep-clinics-open/\">$140 million in emergency funding\u003c/a> for the group to offset federal cuts. And on its website, Planned Parenthood keeps a \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/88/50/8850755d-bb8a-405e-bc9a-6799147c4cf0/ppac_legislative_scorecard_2025.pdf\">scorecard\u003c/a> of how often legislators vote in agreement with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its 2025 scorecard, all but one Democrat had a score of 100%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12086554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12086554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/PlannedParenthoodSF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Planned Parenthood Northern California health center in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Irvine Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/cottie-petrie-norris-165040\">Cottie Petrie-Norris\u003c/a>, a Democrat, introduced Assembly Bill 2924 to ban minors from marrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/ash-kalra-100938\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a> told advocates that Planned Parenthood had to drop its opposition before lawmakers could consider voting on the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Democrat, who chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said banning minors from marriage would threaten their right to an abortion, which he said California hadn’t yet codified into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters enshrined the right to an abortion in 2022, two years before the 2024 bill was introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers were also skeptical about whether the data on child marriages was accurate, Kalra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never gave the bill a hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that absolutely was one of the factors, certainly,” Kalra said of Planned Parenthood’s opposition and his decision to kill the legislation. “Planned Parenthood’s voice matters in that, and in other issues that come before us in the Capitol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/011_KQED_CrisisPregnancyCenter_11042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women speak outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Napa on Nov. 4, 2022, about the dangers of abortion and birth control. She distributes pamphlets and refers people to the Napa Women’s Center, a facility next door opened by faith-based non-profit Napa Valley Culture of LIfe. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This reasoning harkened to earlier failed attempts, including in 2017 when Democrats killed another bill to change the state’s child marriage laws over similar reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/people/66\">Jerry Hill\u003c/a> said he sought an outright ban on the practice after he learned of a 13-year-old girl in his district who was engaged to a 38-year-old man from another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Who could oppose that? Who could say that it was wrong?’” Hill said of the bill he introduced to ban child marriage. But he was left perplexed that what he thought was a commonsense policy proposal evolved into a larger debate about cultural differences, childhood freedom and bodily autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cultures it’s acceptable for girls to be wedded to older men or be placed into arranged marriages, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-marriage/#status\">United Nations report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in recent years have proposed measures to clamp down on forced marriages, which are already a crime. Kalra is among them, this year authoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2534\">Assembly Bill 2534\u003c/a> which would allow victims to file a restraining order against anyone coercing them into a marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra and women’s rights groups say it would be the first policy of its kind in the country if enacted into law. Planned Parenthood supports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/080822-LA-Planned-Parenthood-RN-CM-05-copy-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Planned Parenthood-East Los Angeles Health Center in East Los Angeles on Aug. 8th, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the 2017 child marriage legislation, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood were staunch opponents, and then-Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/people/53\">Lorena Gonzalez\u003c/a>, a Democratic labor leader who chaired the Assembly Appropriations Committee at the time, told Hill she wouldn’t let a ban move forward unless it was amended to lower the minimum age to 16- or 17-year-olds instead of 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was eventually weakened to become current law: Any young person can get married if a parent and the courts sign off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said his attempt and others were killed by special interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re so powerful, these interest groups in Sacramento. They have a lot of say and sway over what comes out of the Legislature,” said Hill, who represented Silicon Valley for 12 years. “Politics trumps policy about 80% of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez recalled it differently. While it’s true she refused to let an outright ban pass, she said, she doesn’t remember Planned Parenthood opposing the bill or considering it in her decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when older teenage girls in her district got pregnant, it was common for some Latino families to encourage them to marry the father if he was the same or of similar age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had girls where they were telling me this is the best choice,” Gonzalez told CalMatters. She said the difference in age between partners seemed to matter more than the marriage itself. “At the time, it seemed very classist” to impose an outright ban, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘At least we’re here now’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s push to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/07/planned-parenthood-california-defunded/\">defund Planned Parenthood\u003c/a> clinics put more political pressure on the group than usual in recent years and made the organization more reliant on state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were made worse last November, when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/opinion/child-marriage-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.m5zB.NnTZyMPzpl2G&smid=url-share\">New York Times opinion\u003c/a> piece criticized the ACLU and Planned Parenthood for their roles in blocking legislation against child marriage while Republican-controlled states such as Arkansas and Louisiana imposed tighter restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For survivor and advocate Sara Tasneem, California’s failure to act for several decades allowed her to be forcibly married at 15 to a 28-year-old man by her father, who she said was part of a Northern California “Sufi cult” that orchestrated it. When her father learned Tasneem was dating a high school classmate, he found someone for her to marry, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11312440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11312440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/IMG_5616-e1486854590713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Muntean, right, protests in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco as part of a nationwide effort to get the federal government to cut off funding to the program. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was handed over to this complete stranger who I just met,” she said. She dropped out of school and was repeatedly raped, feeling trapped and unable to leave before she turned 18 because she couldn’t hire an attorney as a minor. Tasneem said she had two kids with her rapist, who she left in 2003, at age 23, taking her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back and realizing she “didn’t grow up with a lot of power,” Tasneem turned to advocacy more than a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most advocates are hopeful Newsom will sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should it have happened a decade earlier? Yes, it should have,” said Unchained at Last executive director Fraidy Reiss, who at 19 was forced to marry an older man in her New York Orthodox Jewish community. “But at least we’re here now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-child-marriage/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The federal government\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/07/ice-detention-center-sales-why/\"> purchased the facility\u003c/a> earlier this month but CoreCivic continues to operate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article315241424.html\">appointed the monitor\u003c/a> in March as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/11/ice-california-city-detainee-lawsuit/\">ongoing lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by seven detainees who allege the conditions in the California City facility are a violation of their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The facility lacks a reliable system to consistently provide adequate health care, placing individuals at serious risk of both immediate and long-term harm,” Anandkumar wrote. “This pattern indicates broader problems in the facility’s healthcare delivery system rather than occasional lapses in care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fault, Anandkumar wrote, was not with the individual healthcare workers, but rather an issue of staffing, management and oversight. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those caught piling trash next to city garbage cans, as well as auto parts and furniture — a misdemeanor offense — may receive a citation. Fines can reach up to $1,000 per dump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move from San Francisco comes after Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2026/04/10/drones-illegal-dumping-oakland-aerbits/\">approved\u003c/a> a six-month deal with a San Francisco company to operate a similar program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084819\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2249629711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2249629711.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2249629711-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2249629711-1536x1015.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, a surveillance camera is seen on a light post on Dec. 2, 2025, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview with KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084482/oakland-mayor-barbara-lee-signals-shell-run-for-full-term-in-november\">Mayor Barbara Lee touted\u003c/a> the program as one of the successes of her tenure so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates, however, have called for more transparency for how the technology would be used and what guidelines would be in place for what data the surveillance drones capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Katz-Lacabe, advocate and director of research for Oakland Privacy, questioned what the city will do with any footage inevitably captured that is unrelated to the dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then what oversight of this program would there be?” Katz-Lacabe said. “And who would be conducting that oversight?\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to Esther Lee, government affairs liaison with San Francisco Public Works, access to data is limited to specific employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data retention policies are exactly the way city and county of San Francisco policies are, 30 days for raw data,” Lee said. “Only video clips and images will be retained for authorized use in this policy, which is related to illegal dumping. Sharing of data with external parties is prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public works illegal dumping camera system currently consists of a two-camera system at each location, a video camera with pan-tilt-zoom capabilities and an automated license plate reader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said that authorized video clips would be shared with city departments on a case-by-case basis to pursue criminal charges for illegal dumping only.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n“\u003c/em>We plan to put this on our website and on social media,” she said. “And it’s polite to say it’s public education, but to us, we plan to shame these people for coming into San Francisco and dumping their trash onto our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10643255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of a unmanned aircraft, or drone, flying over a house.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978-400x287.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978-1440x1033.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS8329_IMG_1308.JPG-alt_319-e1439586720978-960x689.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unmanned drone flying over a house. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Shilpi Agarwal, legal director with the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, said it’s hard for “any public body” to say that “they can safely and warrantlessly use drones for civil enforcement without actually spying on people.”\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“The power of drone technology, the specificity of the images, the degree to which they can fit, the depth and detail with which they capture sort of the goings on that they are surveilling is really sort of unparalleled and has never before been kind of tested in the courts,” Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full Board of Supervisors will review the committee’s recommendations on June 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Casey Pitts quizzed lawyers for the government, as well as for the Bay Area civil rights organizations that brought the lawsuits alleging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has essentially turned mandatory court hearings and ICE check-ins into traps — ensnaring people who are following the rules in hopes of winning a legal way to stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060821/bay-area-advocates-head-to-court-to-halt-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\">part of a larger legal pushback\u003c/a> by immigrant advocacy groups across the country, challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been handcuffing asylum seekers and others in the halls of immigration courthouses and at required check-ins with ICE, resulting in more than 100 arrests in Northern and Central California. Many of those arrested had previously been granted conditional release and allowed to remain out of custody, typically after border agents had determined they were not dangerous and would show up for their hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers representing immigrants in the two cases argued that both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-16-Dkt-No-94-705-Motion-Courthouse-Arrests.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1765332439579751&usg=AOvVaw2ilDpL-79bjt4YO7Bha2hI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courthouse arrests\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/2025.10.16%2520%255B48%255D%2520Plts%2520705%2520Motion%2520to%2520Postpone%2520Effective%2520Date%2520of%2520Agency%2520Action%2520or%2520Preserve%2520Status%2520or%2520Rights.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1765332475568008&usg=AOvVaw1zmcS1lxWUxXtP8-mIRY04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rearrest of people\u003c/a> who had been previously released were unheard of before this year — and called the actions arbitrary and illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just imagine if the government changed a [policy] and all of a sudden you could be thrown in jail at any time. 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This Administration is once again implementing the rule of law.”[aside postID=news_12062774 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg']With regard to rearresting immigrants who are following the law and abiding by the terms of their release, the government lawyers deny there’s a new policy and say the Trump administration is simply reinterpreting the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bernwanger said the administration has radically reversed a four-decade-long policy of not redetaining immigrants unless there is a material change in their circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress has never interpreted the detention statutes that way,” she said. “Immigration agencies, under every prior president since these immigration statutes were enacted, have never interpreted the laws that way. 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"content": "\u003cp>Seven years ago, the first Trump administration triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/616257822/immigration-rights-activists-protest-trump-administration-child-separation-polic\">global condemnation\u003c/a> when news broke that it was\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\"> forcibly separating children\u003c/a> from their families at the U.S.-Mexico Border. The outcry led the administration to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621798823/speaker-ryan-plans-immigration-votes-amid-doubts-that-bills-can-pass\">shutter the program\u003c/a>, but thousands of families remained shattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics called the policy “government-sanctioned child abuse.” Physicians who examined statements from many separated parents and children noted that most met the diagnostic criteria for major mental health disorders as a result of their experience at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A class-action lawsuit followed, and the Biden administration later \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/ms-l-amended-settlement\">settled the case.\u003c/a> In the settlement agreement, the federal government promised to repair some of the damage by reuniting the families in the U.S. and providing them with a path to asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the second Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">quietly abandoning that promise\u003c/a>, putting thousands of once-separated families at risk of being split up a second time. At least four families have been deported already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the original lawsuit, known as \u003cem>Ms. L. v. ICE\u003c/em>, on behalf of separated families. The ACLU filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday asking for the recently deported families to be returned to the U.S., alleging that at least one of the deportations violated an explicit court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only one skirmish in a pitched battle that the ACLU and advocates across the country have been fighting since Trump was reelected. The organization said the settlement agreement is now in danger of unraveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12060144 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand that children be reunited with their families in Irvine on Saturday, June 30, 2018. \u003ccite>(Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since April, the administration has chipped away at \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> in a series of technical maneuvers that have profoundly impacted families covered by the settlement, according to ACLU filings. Most notably, the government pulled funding for services laid out in the agreement — like help navigating the complex immigration process, assistance with housing and medical costs, and mental health treatment. Defending its actions in court, government lawyers cited the president’s agenda to cut costs and purge contractors with diversity, equity and inclusion policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the services were eventually restored, the families are still facing the consequences of the lapse, and the government has only continued to make things harder for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite orders from a judge to give \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> class members more time to stay in the country legally while plodding through the asylum process, court filings say the administration has failed to demonstrate that it is doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started off slowly, but now we’re seeing breach after breach” of the settlement agreement, said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney in the case. “The administration, while claiming the settlement is still in place, is trying to undermine it in various ways that will have the effect of allowing families to be reseparated and deported.”[aside postID=news_12026959 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBP-family-border-1020x680.jpg']It’s not unusual or improper for the government to renegotiate court-ordered settlement agreements, said David Super, an administrative law expert at Georgetown University who has litigated against both Democratic and Republican administrations. But, he said, it’s “extraordinary” for the government to change its policy before receiving permission from the court, as the DOJ has done in \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the government unilaterally stops complying, that’s not negotiation,” he said. “That’s contempt of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice declined to answer questions about its challenges to the settlement agreement, saying it doesn’t comment on matters that are in litigation. But in hearings before Judge Dana M. Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, DOJ attorneys have maintained that government agencies are “trying to meet their obligations under the settlement agreement,” and that the deportations are legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom also asked the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, how it avoids reseparating families that are entitled to protection under the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE does not separate families,” an unnamed DHS spokesperson wrote in an email. “Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those deported was a mother of five who was detained at a routine ICE check-in, along with her two youngest children, according to an ACLU court filing. The woman, whose family members had been separated during the first Trump presidency, had permission to stay in the United States under the terms of the settlement. She and the toddlers were deported to Honduras anyway, while the rest of their family was left behind in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My two youngest children cry for their father and siblings every day,” the woman, who was identified only by her initials, wrote in a declaration to the court. “It breaks my heart to see them in such pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The sole purpose of causing them harm’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Upon approving the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> settlement agreement in December 2023, Sabraw called family separation “one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the federal government\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45266\"> rarely separated families\u003c/a> at the border, often allowing them to stay in the country together while they pursued asylum. But soon after Trump took office in 2017, immigration officials began a coordinated effort to apprehend all adults who crossed without authorization, including those with children in tow. While adults were detained and deported, kids — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/the-weekly/trump-immigration-border-separation-family.html\">some only a few months old\u003c/a> — were placed in federal custody. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">slept on the floors\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-s-tent-cities-cost-more-keeping-migrant-kids-n884871\">makeshift detention centers\u003c/a> and were later sent to other relatives or foster homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent.jpg\" alt=\"CBP agent detains migrants\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody in 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward undocumented immigrants. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration called the policy “zero tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its rush to scale up the campaign, the government \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/19/politics/undocumented-immigrant-children-not-located-detention-released\">lost track\u003c/a> of which children belonged to which families. Anguished parents were \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/migrant-parents-in-their-own-words-tell-a-judge-whats-like\">kept in the dark\u003c/a> about where immigration officials had taken their kids — and when they could see them again. Families \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/16/we-need-take-away-children/zero-accountability-six-years-after-zero-tolerance\">remained separated\u003c/a> for weeks, months, and in some cases even years. As many as 1,000 children, parents and guardians may still be separated today, according to the ACLU, which is struggling to locate and reunite them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials have said, both during and since “zero tolerance,” that the explicit purpose of family separation was to make the crossing so painful that it would discourage other families from trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain has lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These events caused by the government have integrated into the psyche,” said Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in South Texas who has done clinical research and consulted as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. The trauma, he added, makes it difficult for families to function as they struggle to move on with a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11331900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11331900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol.jpg\" alt=\"Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody on January 4, 2017 near McAllen, Texas. Thousands of families and unaccompanied children, most from Central America, are crossing the border illegally to request asylum in the U.S. from violence and poverty in their home countries.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were intentionally tearing parents and kids from each other with the sole purpose of causing them harm,” said Sara Van Hofwegen of Acacia Center for Justice, the main contractor tasked with providing separated families with legal help. “Part of what the government did through \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> was it promised to help people rebuild their lives and give them a small piece of redress for everything that they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> settlement agreement applies to roughly 8,000 people, including close family members who were affected by the separation. California is home to the largest proportion — about 12% — of class members with known addresses, according to Acacia. The organization placed two of its eight contractors in California to manage the heavier caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the families came to the U.S. seeking refuge from violence or persecution in their home countries, Van Hofwegen said. But before pursuing asylum cases, attorneys working with families through Acacia’s legal-services contract have helped them establish temporary immigration status and get permission to work, so they can support themselves and not worry about being deported during the asylum process, which can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work ground to a halt with little warning in April, when the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037508/aclu-fights-trump-court-preserve-legal-aid-border-separated-families\">abruptly cut off funding\u003c/a> for Acacia’s legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rolling back protections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pulling the plug on the Acacia contract was only the first of a series of government steps that have made it more difficult for formerly separated families to stay in the U.S., according to the ACLU’s court filings and advocates who provide services to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, for example, the government stopped paying travel expenses for reuniting families. It also lets invoices pile up from an adjudicator who handles disputes about who qualifies for protections. Both services are required under the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12060151 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Honduran migrant and his daughter, who are taking part in a caravan heading to the U.S., rest as they wait to cross the border from Ciudad Tecun Uman in Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Oct. 22, 2018. \u003ccite>(Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next month, the DOJ let another contract lapse, this one with Oakland-based Seneca Family of Agencies, which provided mental health care, medical copays and general case management for separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the ACLU fought to get funding reinstated, some families couldn’t afford medications or access mental health care on their own. Some parents, who should have been flying to reunite with their children, were stuck in their home countries. One of the deported mothers searched for legal help to keep her family in the country, but none was available during the lapse of Acacia’s contract, according to the recent ACLU filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the M.O.s of the Trump administration in this case has been to wait until there’s almost no time to fix things and then force us to rush into court,” said Gelernt, the ACLU attorney. “But while we’re litigating that issue, there’s this lapse in services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ lawyers defended cutting off the Acacia contract by saying it would be cheaper for the agency to provide some legal services itself and let pro bono lawyers do the rest. The ACLU argued there aren’t enough private lawyers with the willingness and expertise to do that. The Justice Department also told the court that the government had only “temporarily paused” the travel and adjudication payments while officials reviewed the contracts for cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18207644894177-bf4e7bceee939dda2a4262cf80ca6777a3d16a80-e1536865057762.jpg\" alt=\"Asylum seekers line up at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. The ACLU announced today a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration to allow some parents already in the U.S. but separated from their children at the border to apply for asylum.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum seekers line up at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sept. 13, 2018. The ACLU announced on Tuesday a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration to allow some parents already in the U.S. but separated from their children at the border to apply for asylum. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the checks the government stopped cutting to Seneca, the administration suggested the organization’s efforts to hire a diverse staff may have violated anti-discrimination laws, an allegation that Seneca rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take pride in our compliance with civil rights and employment laws and have received no specific evidence of any violations,” Seneca wrote in a June statement. “Should such information emerge, we would welcome the opportunity to review and address it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four separate orders throughout the summer, Sabraw found the government was in breach of the settlement agreement by withholding funding for services. After a series of failed attempts to push back, the DOJ finally reinstated the Acacia and Seneca contracts and paid for the other lapsed services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say they welcome the reversal, but don’t expect the government to give up its fight against the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re really grateful that our contract is reinstated and that people are getting services,” Acacia’s Van Hofwegen said, “we’re prepared for ongoing attempts to roll back protections for class members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In real jeopardy’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In fact, while Acacia and Seneca scramble to rebuild teams they were forced to lay off during the lapse in services, slog through their backlog of cases and attempt to reach families they’d turned away, the government has continued to undermine the settlement agreement and fight the court on multiple fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, it challenged Sabraw’s standing order that requires DHS to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains anyone covered by the settlement agreement, and to provide a list of those already in ICE custody or required to check in with the agency. The DOJ told Sabraw that following the orders would be too “operationally challenging,” and in early September, it appealed them in the 9th Circuit. The case is not scheduled to be heard until December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap21089772775412-a8735e2cecb75d66dc4f6b59c06f7845a07e1342-scaled-e1760642201475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young migrants lie down inside a pod at a Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, on March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods have more than 500 children in them. \u003ccite>(Dario Lopez-Mills/AP/Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the ACLU remains in the dark about how many \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> families are at risk of being swept up by immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s entitled to notice and everyone’s entitled to good faith in the exercise of their contractual rights,” Sabraw told DOJ lawyers during a July 17 hearing. “The fear, of course, is that the government is detaining and removing people, and to the extent they fall within the corners of the settlement agreement, it seems to me it would have an obligation, no matter how burdensome, to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ also recently opened an entirely new objection to the settlement agreement, arguing that noncitizens applying for legal status — including \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> families — should pay hundreds of dollars in fees per person and be required to reapply annually, as laid out in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July. Under the settlement agreement, applying should be free and status should last for three years at a time, according to an ACLU court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In declarations filed with the court, legal services providers wrote that nearly 30 people protected by the settlement agreement have already been denied work authorization renewals over the fees, even though Sabraw has not yet ruled on whether they should have to pay. According to one example in the ACLU’s court filings, a family of 10 could not come up with the $2,475 to renew their papers. Several of them have lost their jobs because their work authorization expired during the lapse in legal services.[aside postID=news_12038327 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1020x680.jpg']If the chaos continues, Van Hofwegen said, the added burden of renewing status more often will also tax legal-services providers, delay asylum applications and ultimately eat away at the support the settlement agreement is supposed to provide for separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes every piece of this legal process that’s supposed to exist for them harder and harder, with the goal of denying permanency in the U.S. to as many class members as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the lapse in legal services, Sabraw recently extended deadlines for class members to apply for immigration documents and ordered the government to reinstate their legal status or work authorizations that expired during the stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear if the government has complied with that order, according to the filings. Attorneys advising class members say the administration has not responded to their requests for proof of the extension. Without official documents, the attorneys said, \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> families can’t show they have a right to be in the country if they’re stopped by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the administration eventually complies with the court’s orders, say advocates, formerly separated families can only be protected by the settlement agreement if the government is willing to honor it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the work the court did and all the work the parties did over two years to reach this settlement is in real jeopardy,” Gelernt told the court during one of many hearings this summer. “We cannot leave these families drifting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Seven years ago, the first Trump administration triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/616257822/immigration-rights-activists-protest-trump-administration-child-separation-polic\">global condemnation\u003c/a> when news broke that it was\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\"> forcibly separating children\u003c/a> from their families at the U.S.-Mexico Border. The outcry led the administration to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621798823/speaker-ryan-plans-immigration-votes-amid-doubts-that-bills-can-pass\">shutter the program\u003c/a>, but thousands of families remained shattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics called the policy “government-sanctioned child abuse.” Physicians who examined statements from many separated parents and children noted that most met the diagnostic criteria for major mental health disorders as a result of their experience at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A class-action lawsuit followed, and the Biden administration later \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/ms-l-amended-settlement\">settled the case.\u003c/a> In the settlement agreement, the federal government promised to repair some of the damage by reuniting the families in the U.S. and providing them with a path to asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the second Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">quietly abandoning that promise\u003c/a>, putting thousands of once-separated families at risk of being split up a second time. At least four families have been deported already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the original lawsuit, known as \u003cem>Ms. L. v. ICE\u003c/em>, on behalf of separated families. The ACLU filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday asking for the recently deported families to be returned to the U.S., alleging that at least one of the deportations violated an explicit court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only one skirmish in a pitched battle that the ACLU and advocates across the country have been fighting since Trump was reelected. The organization said the settlement agreement is now in danger of unraveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12060144 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand that children be reunited with their families in Irvine on Saturday, June 30, 2018. \u003ccite>(Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since April, the administration has chipped away at \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> in a series of technical maneuvers that have profoundly impacted families covered by the settlement, according to ACLU filings. Most notably, the government pulled funding for services laid out in the agreement — like help navigating the complex immigration process, assistance with housing and medical costs, and mental health treatment. Defending its actions in court, government lawyers cited the president’s agenda to cut costs and purge contractors with diversity, equity and inclusion policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the services were eventually restored, the families are still facing the consequences of the lapse, and the government has only continued to make things harder for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite orders from a judge to give \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> class members more time to stay in the country legally while plodding through the asylum process, court filings say the administration has failed to demonstrate that it is doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started off slowly, but now we’re seeing breach after breach” of the settlement agreement, said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney in the case. “The administration, while claiming the settlement is still in place, is trying to undermine it in various ways that will have the effect of allowing families to be reseparated and deported.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s not unusual or improper for the government to renegotiate court-ordered settlement agreements, said David Super, an administrative law expert at Georgetown University who has litigated against both Democratic and Republican administrations. But, he said, it’s “extraordinary” for the government to change its policy before receiving permission from the court, as the DOJ has done in \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the government unilaterally stops complying, that’s not negotiation,” he said. “That’s contempt of court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice declined to answer questions about its challenges to the settlement agreement, saying it doesn’t comment on matters that are in litigation. But in hearings before Judge Dana M. Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, DOJ attorneys have maintained that government agencies are “trying to meet their obligations under the settlement agreement,” and that the deportations are legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Newsroom also asked the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, how it avoids reseparating families that are entitled to protection under the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE does not separate families,” an unnamed DHS spokesperson wrote in an email. “Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those deported was a mother of five who was detained at a routine ICE check-in, along with her two youngest children, according to an ACLU court filing. The woman, whose family members had been separated during the first Trump presidency, had permission to stay in the United States under the terms of the settlement. She and the toddlers were deported to Honduras anyway, while the rest of their family was left behind in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My two youngest children cry for their father and siblings every day,” the woman, who was identified only by her initials, wrote in a declaration to the court. “It breaks my heart to see them in such pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The sole purpose of causing them harm’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Upon approving the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> settlement agreement in December 2023, Sabraw called family separation “one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the federal government\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45266\"> rarely separated families\u003c/a> at the border, often allowing them to stay in the country together while they pursued asylum. But soon after Trump took office in 2017, immigration officials began a coordinated effort to apprehend all adults who crossed without authorization, including those with children in tow. While adults were detained and deported, kids — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/the-weekly/trump-immigration-border-separation-family.html\">some only a few months old\u003c/a> — were placed in federal custody. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">slept on the floors\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/trump-admin-s-tent-cities-cost-more-keeping-migrant-kids-n884871\">makeshift detention centers\u003c/a> and were later sent to other relatives or foster homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent.jpg\" alt=\"CBP agent detains migrants\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBPAgent-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody in 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward undocumented immigrants. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration called the policy “zero tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its rush to scale up the campaign, the government \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/19/politics/undocumented-immigrant-children-not-located-detention-released\">lost track\u003c/a> of which children belonged to which families. Anguished parents were \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/migrant-parents-in-their-own-words-tell-a-judge-whats-like\">kept in the dark\u003c/a> about where immigration officials had taken their kids — and when they could see them again. Families \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/16/we-need-take-away-children/zero-accountability-six-years-after-zero-tolerance\">remained separated\u003c/a> for weeks, months, and in some cases even years. As many as 1,000 children, parents and guardians may still be separated today, according to the ACLU, which is struggling to locate and reunite them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials have said, both during and since “zero tolerance,” that the explicit purpose of family separation was to make the crossing so painful that it would discourage other families from trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain has lasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These events caused by the government have integrated into the psyche,” said Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in South Texas who has done clinical research and consulted as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. The trauma, he added, makes it difficult for families to function as they struggle to move on with a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11331900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11331900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol.jpg\" alt=\"Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody on January 4, 2017 near McAllen, Texas. Thousands of families and unaccompanied children, most from Central America, are crossing the border illegally to request asylum in the U.S. from violence and poverty in their home countries.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/ChildBorderPatrol-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Border Patrol agents take Central American immigrants into custody on Jan. 4, 2017, near McAllen, Texas. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were intentionally tearing parents and kids from each other with the sole purpose of causing them harm,” said Sara Van Hofwegen of Acacia Center for Justice, the main contractor tasked with providing separated families with legal help. “Part of what the government did through \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> was it promised to help people rebuild their lives and give them a small piece of redress for everything that they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> settlement agreement applies to roughly 8,000 people, including close family members who were affected by the separation. California is home to the largest proportion — about 12% — of class members with known addresses, according to Acacia. The organization placed two of its eight contractors in California to manage the heavier caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of the families came to the U.S. seeking refuge from violence or persecution in their home countries, Van Hofwegen said. But before pursuing asylum cases, attorneys working with families through Acacia’s legal-services contract have helped them establish temporary immigration status and get permission to work, so they can support themselves and not worry about being deported during the asylum process, which can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That work ground to a halt with little warning in April, when the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037508/aclu-fights-trump-court-preserve-legal-aid-border-separated-families\">abruptly cut off funding\u003c/a> for Acacia’s legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rolling back protections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pulling the plug on the Acacia contract was only the first of a series of government steps that have made it more difficult for formerly separated families to stay in the U.S., according to the ACLU’s court filings and advocates who provide services to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, for example, the government stopped paying travel expenses for reuniting families. It also lets invoices pile up from an adjudicator who handles disputes about who qualifies for protections. Both services are required under the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12060151 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Honduran migrant and his daughter, who are taking part in a caravan heading to the U.S., rest as they wait to cross the border from Ciudad Tecun Uman in Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Oct. 22, 2018. \u003ccite>(Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next month, the DOJ let another contract lapse, this one with Oakland-based Seneca Family of Agencies, which provided mental health care, medical copays and general case management for separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the ACLU fought to get funding reinstated, some families couldn’t afford medications or access mental health care on their own. Some parents, who should have been flying to reunite with their children, were stuck in their home countries. One of the deported mothers searched for legal help to keep her family in the country, but none was available during the lapse of Acacia’s contract, according to the recent ACLU filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the M.O.s of the Trump administration in this case has been to wait until there’s almost no time to fix things and then force us to rush into court,” said Gelernt, the ACLU attorney. “But while we’re litigating that issue, there’s this lapse in services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ lawyers defended cutting off the Acacia contract by saying it would be cheaper for the agency to provide some legal services itself and let pro bono lawyers do the rest. The ACLU argued there aren’t enough private lawyers with the willingness and expertise to do that. The Justice Department also told the court that the government had only “temporarily paused” the travel and adjudication payments while officials reviewed the contracts for cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11692190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/ap_18207644894177-bf4e7bceee939dda2a4262cf80ca6777a3d16a80-e1536865057762.jpg\" alt=\"Asylum seekers line up at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. The ACLU announced today a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration to allow some parents already in the U.S. but separated from their children at the border to apply for asylum.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asylum seekers line up at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sept. 13, 2018. The ACLU announced on Tuesday a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration to allow some parents already in the U.S. but separated from their children at the border to apply for asylum. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for the checks the government stopped cutting to Seneca, the administration suggested the organization’s efforts to hire a diverse staff may have violated anti-discrimination laws, an allegation that Seneca rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take pride in our compliance with civil rights and employment laws and have received no specific evidence of any violations,” Seneca wrote in a June statement. “Should such information emerge, we would welcome the opportunity to review and address it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In four separate orders throughout the summer, Sabraw found the government was in breach of the settlement agreement by withholding funding for services. After a series of failed attempts to push back, the DOJ finally reinstated the Acacia and Seneca contracts and paid for the other lapsed services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say they welcome the reversal, but don’t expect the government to give up its fight against the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re really grateful that our contract is reinstated and that people are getting services,” Acacia’s Van Hofwegen said, “we’re prepared for ongoing attempts to roll back protections for class members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘In real jeopardy’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In fact, while Acacia and Seneca scramble to rebuild teams they were forced to lay off during the lapse in services, slog through their backlog of cases and attempt to reach families they’d turned away, the government has continued to undermine the settlement agreement and fight the court on multiple fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, it challenged Sabraw’s standing order that requires DHS to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains anyone covered by the settlement agreement, and to provide a list of those already in ICE custody or required to check in with the agency. The DOJ told Sabraw that following the orders would be too “operationally challenging,” and in early September, it appealed them in the 9th Circuit. The case is not scheduled to be heard until December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868594\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap21089772775412-a8735e2cecb75d66dc4f6b59c06f7845a07e1342-scaled-e1760642201475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young migrants lie down inside a pod at a Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, on March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods have more than 500 children in them. \u003ccite>(Dario Lopez-Mills/AP/Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the ACLU remains in the dark about how many \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> families are at risk of being swept up by immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone’s entitled to notice and everyone’s entitled to good faith in the exercise of their contractual rights,” Sabraw told DOJ lawyers during a July 17 hearing. “The fear, of course, is that the government is detaining and removing people, and to the extent they fall within the corners of the settlement agreement, it seems to me it would have an obligation, no matter how burdensome, to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ also recently opened an entirely new objection to the settlement agreement, arguing that noncitizens applying for legal status — including \u003cem>Ms. L.\u003c/em> families — should pay hundreds of dollars in fees per person and be required to reapply annually, as laid out in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in Southern California ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to reinstate a contract with a legal aid nonprofit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040537/some-families-separated-at-the-border-got-free-legal-aid-the-us-just-cut-that-contract\">helping immigrant families\u003c/a> who had been forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government began funding the program as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of the thousands of separated families during the first Trump administration. Those families were reunited in the U.S. and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">offered legal services\u003c/a> to help with applying for permission to live and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When federal officials announced in April that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">would not renew the contract\u003c/a> with Acacia Center for Justice, they said they would instead administer the legal program themselves to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen, according to District Judge Dana M. Sabraw’s ruling, which said the government violated the settlement agreement by failing to provide the services that Acacia had been offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although numerous Class members have been referred to [Executive Office for Immigration Review] and some have requested services under the new ‘federalized’ Program … there is no evidence that any of those services have actually been provided,” Sabraw wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, said the nonprofit staffers “are really relieved with the court’s ruling that recognized the clear violations of the settlement agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a written declaration submitted to the court, one nonprofit that was offering legal services as a subcontractor under Acacia wrote that it had referred over 80 people to the federal program under EOIR, but only one received services in the form of an online orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very vindicating,” said Danielle Fritz, directing attorney for the San Francisco-based Immigration Center for Women and Children, another subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the government allowed the contract to lapse at the end of April, the immigration center continued offering services without funding. Fritz said her organization was prioritizing cases with imminent deadlines for renewing work authorization or parole to remain in the country, but she warned at the time that the situation was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been limiting it to ongoing services with people we’ve already been working with,” Fritz said. “So, hopefully, if things move quickly, we’d be able to reopen to new referrals, really, as soon as we get the new contract.”[aside postID=news_12043582 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Sabraw also ruled that the government must notify the American Civil Liberties Union if federal officials detained any class members, since some have missed important immigration deadlines without legal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were hundreds of class members whose parole expired in May, who we are worried about, who are now in the United States without parole and are even more vulnerable to enforcement actions,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 4, the ACLU was aware of three class members or their close family members who had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One had active parole but was mistakenly detained for at least a week “on the verge of removal,” according to Van Hofwegen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for ICE and EOIR did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen said there is currently no clear timeline for when the contract will be reinstated, but she hopes to hear from government officials in the coming days. Subcontractors will also need time to rehire laid-off staff and reconnect with former clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that time, class members continue to be vulnerable,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s especially an issue because we know that the deadline for many class members to apply for asylum is coming up in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw declined to extend the deadline for asylum applications, which ACLU lawyers had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/DonaldTrump100DaysGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks alongside U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a hearing on June 4, lawyers for the ACLU, who first brought the class-action lawsuit in 2018, argued that the government’s plan to cancel the Acacia contract and take over the legal program had several holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, it relied largely on referring class members to pro bono attorneys. But the ACLU argued that the government was unlikely to find enough lawyers willing to work for free to meet the needs of thousands of people with unique cases — especially after other recent federal funding cuts to organizations that could offer those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are extremely pleased with the court’s ruling,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “Had the court ruled the other way and allowed the government to eliminate legal assistance, I think there’s no doubt that hundreds, if not thousands, of these families might have been re-separated and re-traumatized.”[aside postID=news_12043548 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/AP25160742848163-2000x1333.jpg']Lawyers for the government admitted that as of May 23, no cases had been placed with a pro bono attorney, and Sabraw wrote that “the current landscape strongly suggests Defendants’ placement rate, which is presently zero, is not likely to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although government lawyers insisted that they would have been able to run the program, they simultaneously argued in court that they were not obligated to offer every service that Acacia had offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they argued that the settlement agreement only required them to help with initial applications for parole and work authorization, but not with applications for re-parole, which is necessary every three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might not look exactly like what Acacia had run previously and it may not be at lightning speed placing class members, but it is sufficient under the settlement agreement, and there was no requirement that an independent contractor facilitate or run this program,” Department of Justice attorney Daniel Schutrum-Boward said in the June 4 hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt pushed back in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people don’t get legal advice and they don’t have the ability to have re-parole and get a chance, a meaningful chance, to get asylum, they’re going to be re-separated from their children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Attacks on other immigrant services\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the government chose not to renew another contract for services stemming from the settlement, according to Oakland-based Seneca Family of Agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its contract with the government, Seneca had been offering supportive services including behavioral health, medical referrals, housing placement assistance and efforts to track down separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man and young boy hold hands as they walk in silhouette on an urban sidewalk in early morning sun.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1031228044-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Honduran father and his 6-year-old son walk to Sunday Mass on Sept. 9, 2018, in Oakland, California. They were one of almost 2,600 families separated due to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Reunification alone does not erase the trauma of separation for families,” a statement on the organization’s website said. “A family’s journey toward healing is an ongoing process that is unique to each parent, child, and family, and services must be individualized and responsive to each family’s situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government wrote in a court filing that it is searching for a new provider of those services “because it has been determined that Seneca has likely violated anti-discrimination civil rights laws through its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(DEI) program.”[aside postID=news_11821950 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64575_022_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1020x680.jpg']Government lawyers are now asking the court to temporarily relieve them of their responsibility to provide the aforementioned services while they find a new provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has also moved to cut other immigrant legal services in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration ended a separate contract with Acacia that provided direct legal representation for tens of thousands of children who are in the country without a parent or legal guardian. 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It also alleges that most of the deployments have specifically targeted residential areas and private properties, occasionally resulting in penalties for code infractions, ground searches and criminal investigations — all without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County’s warrantless drone surveillance program violates the California Constitution, which guarantees the people’s affirmative right to privacy and right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county’s drone program is described in the suit as notable due to its scale and sophistication, it is far from the only one in the state. As more counties and government agencies, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042515/sf-crypto-billionaire-wants-to-donate-millions-for-police-drones-surveillance-efforts\">San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a>, expand their use of drones and other aerial surveillance devices, the lawsuit calls attention to the public’s growing concerns over the right to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10831641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS8331_IMG_1310-e1452733518537.jpg\" alt=\"California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit is about our right to privacy and our right to live private lives in and around our homes as technology moves forward and the government gets powerful devices like drones,” said Matt Cagle, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Sonoma County declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU NorCal attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of three Sonoma County residents and property owners who accused the county of subjecting them to invasive surveillance operations, according to the lawsuit. Other defendants include county officials, code enforcement officers and Permit Sonoma, the agency that oversees land use and permitting, as well as the drone program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichola Schmitz, one of the plaintiffs, said in the lawsuit that she only learned of the drones surveilling her home when a worker on her property pointed it out to her. Schmitz said she immediately ran into her home and was concerned that the drones had seen her naked earlier in the day.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Shortly after the incident, Schmitz received notice that parts of her property were in violation of the county code. She has since paid $25,000 to resolve the issue and is facing $10,000 in additional fees. According to the lawsuit, it was confirmed that drones were used to identify the violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This horrible experience has shattered my sense of privacy and security,” Schmitz said in a statement. “I’m afraid to open my blinds or go outside to use my hot tub because who knows when the county’s drone could be spying on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cagle, drones have been used in the county to monitor private residences near the city of Santa Rosa, backyards, children’s play areas, swimming pools and hot tubs. The county has also made efforts to conceal its drone program from the public, he alleged, adding that officials have killed amendments to its surveillance policy that would restrict how drones can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking a permanent injunction against the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the program and also a judicial warrant requirement for any future drone flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that people have a right to live their lives privately in and around their homes,” he said. “If a government agency is going to monitor private activities or private spaces where people expect to be having their privacy, they need to be getting a warrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the California Constitution, people are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy from government surveillance in their homes and in the areas around their homes, Cagle said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042452/algunas-familias-separadas-en-la-frontera-recibieron-asistencia-juridica-gratuita-ee-uu-acaba-de-rescindir-ese-contrato\">\u003cem>Leer en español \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Mendoza Pablo said he still remembers the day in early 2018, while being held in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration-detention\">immigration detention\u003c/a> facility near the U.S.-Mexico border, when the officials came to take his daughter away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was only 4 years old, I couldn’t give her to them. She was just starting to talk, but in our dialect. She didn’t know Spanish or English,” Mendoza, who is Mayan from Guatemala and speaks an indigenous dialect called Mam at home, said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he refused to give them his daughter, Mendoza said eight officials grabbed the pair and pushed them up against a wall. Some pried his arms open while others spread his legs, and finally, his daughter was pulled from his chest and taken away screaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Mendoza did not know where his daughter Catalina was or when he would see her again. When he asked the detention center officials about her, he said they’d insist that he had been detained alone and that they did not have his daughter in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Guatemalan Consulate, Mendoza learned that his daughter had been taken to El Paso, Texas, hundreds of miles away. It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. The two sides are set to meet again in court on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>, which is now running the program, declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza at her home in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court filings, lawyers for ICE have laid out some of their plans. They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.[aside postID=news_12042197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']Border Patrol rounded them up with others that were caught, Hernandez said, and they were loaded into separate vehicles: adults in one, children in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was deported, and Celina was sent to live with a family member in Florida. The pair would talk over the phone, but they would not see each other in person for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her, ‘It’s OK, daughter, it is OK. You see how we suffered [in detention], and we were there for a long time. Only God knows if one day we’ll see each other. And if not, you’re there so give it your all,’” Hernandez said. “‘Value what happened to us, I want you to behave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the time apart was difficult and even traumatizing, Hernandez said he thanks God and the legal aid program for how far his family has come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his sons graduated from high school last week, and another daughter will be heading for college soon, but by then, they will need help renewing their parole again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he hopes the program is still around to offer that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. 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They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After abruptly declining to renew a contract with a nonprofit to provide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">court-ordered legal assistance\u003c/a> to families separated at the border under the first Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed providing that service itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts worry that’s a conflict of interest that could put those families at risk of deportation and being separated again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Families are] being asked to trust the government that harmed them to tell them how to move forward in the best way for them,” said Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director of legal access programs at Acacia Center for Justice, which has provided the services for the past year. “The government hasn’t shown them that they have their interests in mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Wednesday hearing in federal court, the American Civil Liberties Union contended that the government is not prepared to provide legal advice to what could be as many as 8,000 individuals with complex cases and looming immigration deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU in 2018 filed a class-action lawsuit, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, against the federal government for illegally separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, and reached a settlement agreement with the Biden administration in 2023. The agreement provides a pathway to a temporary immigration status called parole and asylum for families who were separated, along with certain other relatives, as well as legal assistance in navigating the byzantine immigration system.[aside postID=news_12037508 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/026_SanJose_Immigration_08232021.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, that assistance, which includes legal advice and help with immigration applications, as well as referrals to pro bono attorneys, has been provided through Acacia, a nonprofit immigrant legal defense organization, which distributed federal funding to nine subcontractor organizations around the country, including two based in California. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice abruptly informed Acacia it would not renew that contract. The contract ended yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037508/aclu-fights-trump-court-preserve-legal-aid-border-separated-families\">the ACLU asked U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw\u003c/a> of the Southern District of California, who approved the settlement agreement, to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the DOJ specified in court filings that its Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the DOJ, plans to provide legal services to formerly separated families directly “to maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11764527\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1159806928-e1564588162357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After abruptly declining to renew a contract with a nonprofit to provide court-ordered legal assistance to families separated at the border under the first Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed providing that service itself. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Super, a professor of constitutional and administrative law at Georgetown University Law Center, said that EOIR’s plan is likely illegal, violating families’ constitutional right to due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is about as extreme a conflict of interest as you can imagine for the party that is adjudicating matters to provide legal advice,” he said, adding that he knows of no precedent for EOIR’s proposal. “The government ordinarily is quite careful to not put itself in the position of providing this sort of advice in legal matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only analogy that I can think of is when police officers play good cop, bad cop in the interrogation room. But that’s not legal representation and they certainly are not allowed to present themselves as the attorney for the suspects they’re questioning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court filings, EOIR has provided little detail about how it will deliver legal services to class members, noting that by May 15, it “will begin providing regularly scheduled group sessions and self-help workshops” to “equip them with the knowledge and information to successfully navigate their immigration proceedings.”[aside postID=news_12037889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews, legal service providers worried that group sessions would not provide the “ in-depth individualized consultations” required under the settlement agreement and could make it difficult to serve families who speak different languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EOIR said in a court document filed yesterday that it will refer Ms. L class members to private pro bono attorneys who can provide individualized advice. Lee Gelernt, lead counsel for the ACLU in the case, contended during the hearing that this is unrealistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about thousands of cases,” Gelernt told the judge. “It takes a lot of work to get a firm to take one [pro bono] case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement required that the government “ensure that the Program is adequately resourced and funded to provide services for all unrepresented Ms. L. Settlement Class members, with the ability to increase funding to meet projected needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acacia has pointed out that, even under its existing contract, the government only supplied enough funding to provide legal services for about 12% of those who qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization maintains a waitlist with the names and contact information of class members who are eligible for legal services under the settlement agreement, but have not yet received it. 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