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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> officials gathered Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to send a message to President Trump, reaffirming the city’s pledge not to use local resources to support his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023991/republicans-target-sfs-presidio-for-tax-cuts-immigration-crackdown\">immigration enforcement efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press conference came ahead of a Board of Supervisors meeting where members unanimously passed a resolution upholding San Francisco’s long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">sanctuary city ordinance\u003c/a>, which prevents city agencies from aiding federal immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are factions of this city and this country that want to see cities like San Francisco roll back their sanctuary policies,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the press conference, which was well attended by the city’s local political figures, from Mayor Daniel Lurie to state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What [this] should communicate to Trump, to anyone that wants to see us roll back, is we are not going back,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance promises to provide resources and tools to the city’s immigrant community, which it says is “an essential part of ensuring public safety, public health, and community integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors’ vote comes just over a week after Trump took office, intensifying \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">fears over local Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids\u003c/a>. Fielder said she proposed the resolution reaffirming San Francisco’s sanctuary status after hearing from residents who felt unsafe seeking city services for fear that they could be reported to immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here with our immigrant neighbors,” said Fielder, who newly represents the Mission District, where about half of the residents identify as Latinx. “We will be here whether you are a tech CEO, a tech worker, a student, a janitor — no matter your status, you deserve to feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024332 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192874110-1020x680.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a now-disproven email from SFUSD said a student reported seeing immigration officials on a Muni bus, sending panic through many school communities. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025026/ice-redadas-desinformacion\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">panic about his promised “mass deportations”\u003c/a> — and raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — was already spreading throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in an early January operation unrelated to ICE, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://sheriff.santaclaracounty.gov/misinformation-about-raids-triggers-panic-among-immigrant-communities\">served two search warrants related to retail theft\u003c/a>. But photos of the vans used by the sheriff’s office began spreading on social media, accompanied by messages claiming that ICE was present and detaining people in East San José, where thousands of immigrant families live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in the community were reaching out to me to ask me if this was true,” said Huy Tran, executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), an organization with offices in San José and Fresno that offers legal aid, trainings and leadership development to immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, there are networks of dedicated volunteers and attorneys who are responding to possible ICE activity around the clock — called \u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">Rapid Response Networks\u003c/a>. SIREN, for example, forms part of Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which, on Jan. 26, responded to reports from neighbors about ICE sightings in East San José. This time around, the Rapid Response Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=641298691891287&set=pcb.641298741891282\">confirmed that the rumors were true\u003c/a>: ICE agents were indeed transferring individuals who had received deportation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFgRPYWzrAD/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/immigration-advocates-ice-raids-deportation-social/\"> social media posts about apparent ICE sightings in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities have ramped up\u003c/a> — bringing understandable concern and panic with them. Last week, a San Francisco middle student’s report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/student-reports-ice-agent-asked-for-id-on-muni-bus-sfusd/\">they were questioned by an immigration agent on a city Muni bus\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/\">SFUSD officials to send emails to local families warning them about the alleged incident\u003c/a> — even though representatives for both ICE and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office ultimately denied any involvement in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>be difficult to distinguish fact from rumor while you’re scrolling, especially when the news is concerning. We spoke to immigration experts and advocates about what to know about current ICE operations in California and how to avoid sharing misinformation about ICE raids yourself — even with the best of intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ice-raids-on-social-media\">How can I verify an ICE sighting before sharing on social media?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#what-does-ice-look-like\">How can I recognize an ICE agent in a video?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>ICE, fear and perception\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, a state with roughly 2 million undocumented individuals, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, advocates say Trump has been weaponizing fear, along with harsher enforcement of immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is more likely going to do the things that can get the Trump administration visibility,” said Lourdes Martínez, who helps lead the immigrants’ rights practice at Oakland legal services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>. “They only have to detain a few people for the fear to really reverberate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s normal to feel scared about ICE showing up in your community, said Tran from SIREN. “I understand the desire to want to do something, to share information right away,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear also makes it hard for people to sort bad information from good, and panic can lead folks to quickly share online posts without checking them out further. “Anxiety, fear, it spreads incredibly quickly,” Tran said. “When people send information out to these huge networks, it spreads far, wide and fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and supporters of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) rally in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2019. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BrownAFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Q. What have ICE arrests looked like in Trump’s first days, and what is the focus?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised his administration would launch “\u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/15/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-border/\">the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.\u003c/a>” He even \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/donald-trump-military-deportation-plan-00190168\">promised to deploy the military for deportations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first week back as president, Trump signed both an executive order declaring “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/\">an invasion” at the southern border\u003c/a> and ended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\">2011 Homeland Security policy\u003c/a> that restricted immigration officers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">detaining people at “sensitive locations” like schools, churches and hospitals\u003c/a>. ICE detentions have also \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/27/ice-arrests-dozens-in-chicago-as-part-of-targeted-operation-with-dr-phil-broadcasting-live/\">intensified in Chicago\u003c/a> since the inauguration, where officials said they have launched “enhanced targeted operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Trump still said his administration would go ahead with mass deportations, officials appointed by him are being more careful with their words — laying emphasis, for now, on people with criminal convictions. “If you’re in the country illegally, ICE can visit you,” said Tom Homan, who Trump designated as “border czar.” “But right now … we’re concentrating on the worst first,” he clarified during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. “The public safety threats.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn the same interview, Homan said that ICE had arrested 308 undocumented individuals with criminal convictions the previous day alone. For context, that’s still way below \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not\">the average daily number of arrests and deportations during the Obama administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Trump’s promise of using the military for deportations, the only evidence of the administration doing this is \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-aircraft-deport-migrants-pentagon-readies-more-troops-border-2025-01-24/\">using military aircraft to fly migrants detained by ICE to their countries of origin\u003c/a>. Additional troops have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/01/24/camp-pendleton-troops-arrive-at-us-mexico-border\">arrived in San Diego\u003c/a>, but the Pentagon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-troops-us-mexico-border/\">these troops will not be involved in law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ice-raids-on-social-media\">\u003c/a>Q. What should I do if I see an online post about ICE in the community?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The major takeaway: If you think you see ICE in your neighborhood or see ICE reported nearby on social media, \u003cstrong>advocates advise that you call them \u003cem>instead \u003c/em>of circulating anything online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran of SIREN explained further: Before posting anything, you should first reach out to your local Rapid Response Network — a coalition of volunteers, organizations and attorneys that work together to confirm ICE sightings and connect people who have been detained by ICE to legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BarrioDrive/status/1882505353289769141\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find the Rapid Response Network that serves your community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that the Rapid Response Network in your city has already checked out the reported ICE sighting you’re seeing on your feed — so by calling them, you can get information from folks who are at the scene. You could also be \u003ca href=\"https://library.witness.org/product/verify-ice-raids/\">alerting them to an ICE sighting\u003c/a> that isn’t already on their radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco community organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/\">Mission Action\u003c/a> urged people to avoid sharing unverified information, with Executive Director Laura Valdez saying that such rumors “can unnecessarily heighten fear and confusion” and that communities should trust Rapid Response Networks to “verify reports and share clear, actionable updates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said that anyone directly witnessing ICE activity can contact the 24-hour San Francisco hotline at 415-200-1548. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find other hotlines available in Northern California.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a general rule, to be wary of misinformation online, check which organization is posting about apparent ICE sightings, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">users of social media platform X can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet. For example, an image purporting to show a recent “ICE raid” could be, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021954/misinformation-about-the-la-fires-spreads-fast-heres-how-to-spot-it#how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">Read more tips for spotting misinformation online.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"what-does-ice-look-like\">\u003c/a>Q. How can I recognize an ICE agent in real life or in a video?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can sometimes wear uniforms or gear that \u003cem>suggests \u003c/em>they are police officers or probation officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">the American Civil Liberties Union Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sometimes convince people to let \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/516488396/without-warrants-immigration-agents-often-pose-as-police-officers\">agents enter a home without a warrant\u003c/a>. In 2018, several San Francisco police commissioners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642905/s-f-police-commissioners-want-ice-agents-to-stop-impersonating-police\">called on ICE\u003c/a> to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-foia/\">these practices\u003c/a>, saying it interfered with local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can also wear civilian clothes or plain dark clothing with a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers, however, usually wear a more specific-looking uniform “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">with identifying insignias,\u003c/a>” ACLU SoCal said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12019638,news_12024082,forum_2010101908578\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Q. What is the difference between ICE and CBP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, are both immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations. CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” – at land borders, seaports, and airports. And the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP, polices the land borders in between the official ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP officers generally need an administrative warrant (signed by an ICE or CBP supervisor) in order to arrest a person. However they can make an arrest without a warrant if they see a person illegally entering the country, or they have “reason to believe” a person is here illegally and likely to escape before they can get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have more protections if the encounter happens when you are in your home. Under the Fourth Amendment, if ICE or CBP agents (or any law enforcement officer) comes to your door and wants to enter your home, they either need to present a warrant signed by a judge (not just an administrative warrant from their agency) – or they need your consent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Agents could also technically enter without permission if they report hearing an emergency\u003c/a> happening inside the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want the agent to come in, legal advocates say, you don’t have to open the door unless the agent shows you a judicial warrant. (Advocates suggest asking the agent to slide the warrant under the door or hold it up to a window where you can read it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to ICE, CBP officers \u003ca href=\"https://careers.cbp.gov/s/career-paths/ofo/cbpo\">may have “police” written prominently on their uniform\u003c/a>. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” may be written on their sleeve or on their back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law grants additional powers to CBP within \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone\">a wide border zone\u003c/a> that the government has defined as 100 air miles from an “external boundary” of the U.S. Within that zone – which covers most coastal cities in the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801962/immigration-advocates-call-sending-border-patrol-agents-to-sanctuary-cities-a-scare-tactic\">San Francisco\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10559\">CBP agents can stop and question people\u003c/a>, and board vessels, buses and trains to search for unauthorized immigrants without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, you do still have constitutional protections, including the right to remain silent so you don’t say something that could incriminate you. Immigration officers cannot detain you without “reasonable suspicion” of a crime, and they cannot search you or your belongings without “probable cause” – unless you give your consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Read more from Axios on how ICE agents apply warrants to entering a home and making arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hotlines for ICE encounters and sightings:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">San Francisco’s 24-hour hotline\u003c/a> to either report ICE sightings or get legal assistance: \u003cstrong>415-200-1548\u003c/strong>. This is run by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfilen.org/\">San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Alameda County, local organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.acilep.org/\">are working to establish a hotline that will be operational on Feb. 17\u003c/a>. In the meantime, folks can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at \u003cstrong>510-437-1554\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pactsj.org/\">Santa Clara County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>408-290-1144\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://montereycountyrrn.com/\">Monterey County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>831-643-5225\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YARRsantacruz/\">Santa Cruz County’s\u003c/a> hotline:\u003cstrong> 831-239-4289\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinrrn.org/\">Marin County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>415-991-4545\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">San Mateo County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>203-666-4472\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fresno County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sacramento County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>916-245-6773\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://northbayop.org/rapidresponse/\">Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties’\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>707-800-4544\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Central Valley (Fresno, San Joaquin, Merced, Stanislaus, and Kern counties) hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>888-624-4752\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/mobilejustice\">Mobile Justice\u003c/a>, which sends information, incident reporting and more to the ACLU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If someone is inside a detention facility, they can dial \u003cstrong>9233# from a facility phone\u003c/strong> on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to reach the \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources\">National Immigration Detention Hotline\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Selected resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.larazacrc.org/\">La Raza Community\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/\">Mission Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mujeresunidas.net/en/programas/\">Mujeres Unidas y Activas \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/undocuhealth-wellness/\">UndocuHealth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/get-involved/\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/attorney-of-the-day-resources-for-our-immigrant-community/\">Bar Association of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory for California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.informedimmigrant.com/help/\">Informed Immigrant\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">Private immigration lawyer lookup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks and Samantha Lim contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the policy preventing ICE from operating in schools and churches was President Biden-era guidance. This was in fact\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\"> guidance from 2011,\u003c/a> which Biden had \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">expanded\u003c/a> upon during his term. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025026/ice-redadas-desinformacion\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023560/bay-area-officials-vow-uphold-sanctuary-immigrants-despite-threats-from-trump\">panic about his promised “mass deportations”\u003c/a> — and raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — was already spreading throughout California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in an early January operation unrelated to ICE, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://sheriff.santaclaracounty.gov/misinformation-about-raids-triggers-panic-among-immigrant-communities\">served two search warrants related to retail theft\u003c/a>. But photos of the vans used by the sheriff’s office began spreading on social media, accompanied by messages claiming that ICE was present and detaining people in East San José, where thousands of immigrant families live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in the community were reaching out to me to ask me if this was true,” said Huy Tran, executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), an organization with offices in San José and Fresno that offers legal aid, trainings and leadership development to immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, there are networks of dedicated volunteers and attorneys who are responding to possible ICE activity around the clock — called \u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">Rapid Response Networks\u003c/a>. SIREN, for example, forms part of Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which, on Jan. 26, responded to reports from neighbors about ICE sightings in East San José. This time around, the Rapid Response Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=641298691891287&set=pcb.641298741891282\">confirmed that the rumors were true\u003c/a>: ICE agents were indeed transferring individuals who had received deportation orders.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since the inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/immigration-advocates-ice-raids-deportation-social/\"> social media posts about apparent ICE sightings in the Bay Area’s immigrant communities have ramped up\u003c/a> — bringing understandable concern and panic with them. Last week, a San Francisco middle student’s report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/student-reports-ice-agent-asked-for-id-on-muni-bus-sfusd/\">they were questioned by an immigration agent on a city Muni bus\u003c/a> prompted \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd-confirms-no-ice-activity-on-muni-but-sfusd-helped-to-spread-rumor/\">SFUSD officials to send emails to local families warning them about the alleged incident\u003c/a> — even though representatives for both ICE and the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office ultimately denied any involvement in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>can \u003c/em>be difficult to distinguish fact from rumor while you’re scrolling, especially when the news is concerning. We spoke to immigration experts and advocates about what to know about current ICE operations in California and how to avoid sharing misinformation about ICE raids yourself — even with the best of intentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ice-raids-on-social-media\">How can I verify an ICE sighting before sharing on social media?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#what-does-ice-look-like\">How can I recognize an ICE agent in a video?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>ICE, fear and perception\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, a state with roughly 2 million undocumented individuals, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/\">the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, advocates say Trump has been weaponizing fear, along with harsher enforcement of immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government is more likely going to do the things that can get the Trump administration visibility,” said Lourdes Martínez, who helps lead the immigrants’ rights practice at Oakland legal services nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>. “They only have to detain a few people for the fear to really reverberate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s normal to feel scared about ICE showing up in your community, said Tran from SIREN. “I understand the desire to want to do something, to share information right away,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fear also makes it hard for people to sort bad information from good, and panic can lead folks to quickly share online posts without checking them out further. “Anxiety, fear, it spreads incredibly quickly,” Tran said. “When people send information out to these huge networks, it spreads far, wide and fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1181956018-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and supporters of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) rally in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2019. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BrownAFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Q. What have ICE arrests looked like in Trump’s first days, and what is the focus?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised his administration would launch “\u003ca href=\"https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/15/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-border/\">the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America.\u003c/a>” He even \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/donald-trump-military-deportation-plan-00190168\">promised to deploy the military for deportations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first week back as president, Trump signed both an executive order declaring “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/\">an invasion” at the southern border\u003c/a> and ended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/21_1027_opa_guidelines-enforcement-actions-in-near-protected-areas.pdf\">2011 Homeland Security policy\u003c/a> that restricted immigration officers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/migrants-can-now-be-arrested-at-churches-and-schools-after-trump-administration-throws-out-policies\">detaining people at “sensitive locations” like schools, churches and hospitals\u003c/a>. ICE detentions have also \u003ca href=\"https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/27/ice-arrests-dozens-in-chicago-as-part-of-targeted-operation-with-dr-phil-broadcasting-live/\">intensified in Chicago\u003c/a> since the inauguration, where officials said they have launched “enhanced targeted operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Trump still said his administration would go ahead with mass deportations, officials appointed by him are being more careful with their words — laying emphasis, for now, on people with criminal convictions. “If you’re in the country illegally, ICE can visit you,” said Tom Homan, who Trump designated as “border czar.” “But right now … we’re concentrating on the worst first,” he clarified during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. “The public safety threats.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn the same interview, Homan said that ICE had arrested 308 undocumented individuals with criminal convictions the previous day alone. For context, that’s still way below \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not\">the average daily number of arrests and deportations during the Obama administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Trump’s promise of using the military for deportations, the only evidence of the administration doing this is \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-aircraft-deport-migrants-pentagon-readies-more-troops-border-2025-01-24/\">using military aircraft to fly migrants detained by ICE to their countries of origin\u003c/a>. Additional troops have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/01/24/camp-pendleton-troops-arrive-at-us-mexico-border\">arrived in San Diego\u003c/a>, but the Pentagon said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-troops-us-mexico-border/\">these troops will not be involved in law enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ice-raids-on-social-media\">\u003c/a>Q. What should I do if I see an online post about ICE in the community?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The major takeaway: If you think you see ICE in your neighborhood or see ICE reported nearby on social media, \u003cstrong>advocates advise that you call them \u003cem>instead \u003c/em>of circulating anything online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran of SIREN explained further: Before posting anything, you should first reach out to your local Rapid Response Network — a coalition of volunteers, organizations and attorneys that work together to confirm ICE sightings and connect people who have been detained by ICE to legal representation.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find the Rapid Response Network that serves your community.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that the Rapid Response Network in your city has already checked out the reported ICE sighting you’re seeing on your feed — so by calling them, you can get information from folks who are at the scene. You could also be \u003ca href=\"https://library.witness.org/product/verify-ice-raids/\">alerting them to an ICE sighting\u003c/a> that isn’t already on their radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco community organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/\">Mission Action\u003c/a> urged people to avoid sharing unverified information, with Executive Director Laura Valdez saying that such rumors “can unnecessarily heighten fear and confusion” and that communities should trust Rapid Response Networks to “verify reports and share clear, actionable updates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said that anyone directly witnessing ICE activity can contact the 24-hour San Francisco hotline at 415-200-1548. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/find-your-local-rr-hotline\">Find other hotlines available in Northern California.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a general rule, to be wary of misinformation online, check which organization is posting about apparent ICE sightings, and look for \u003ca href=\"https://guides.law.stanford.edu/c.php?g=1255722&p=9200578\">any sources for their information\u003c/a>. Keep in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/tech/musk-twitter-blue-check-mark/index.html\">users of social media platform X can purchase “blue check marks\u003c/a>,” so a blue check alone isn’t proof of reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/reverse-images/home\">Google’s reverse image search\u003c/a> can be a \u003ca href=\"https://firstdraftnews.org/long-form-article/too-much-information/\">quick way\u003c/a> to see where a photo has been used on the internet. For example, an image purporting to show a recent “ICE raid” could be, in fact, an archive image from another year entirely. However, keep in mind that Google prioritizes its own AI results at the top of the page. Those results have been proven to sometimes be \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-overviews-96e763ea2a6203978f581ca9c10f1b07\">unreliable, inconsistent\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/google-ai-overview-search-magic-wand/\">even inappropriate\u003c/a>, so it’s best if you actually visit the source through the links provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021954/misinformation-about-the-la-fires-spreads-fast-heres-how-to-spot-it#how-to-spot-ai-and-misinformation\">Read more tips for spotting misinformation online.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"what-does-ice-look-like\">\u003c/a>Q. How can I recognize an ICE agent in real life or in a video?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can sometimes wear uniforms or gear that \u003cem>suggests \u003c/em>they are police officers or probation officers, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">the American Civil Liberties Union Southern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can sometimes convince people to let \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/516488396/without-warrants-immigration-agents-often-pose-as-police-officers\">agents enter a home without a warrant\u003c/a>. In 2018, several San Francisco police commissioners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642905/s-f-police-commissioners-want-ice-agents-to-stop-impersonating-police\">called on ICE\u003c/a> to stop \u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-foia/\">these practices\u003c/a>, saying it interfered with local policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE agents can also wear civilian clothes or plain dark clothing with a bulletproof vest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers, however, usually wear a more specific-looking uniform “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/icenotwelcome\">with identifying insignias,\u003c/a>” ACLU SoCal said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Q. What is the difference between ICE and CBP?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, CBP, are both immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations. CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” – at land borders, seaports, and airports. And the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP, polices the land borders in between the official ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP officers generally need an administrative warrant (signed by an ICE or CBP supervisor) in order to arrest a person. However they can make an arrest without a warrant if they see a person illegally entering the country, or they have “reason to believe” a person is here illegally and likely to escape before they can get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have more protections if the encounter happens when you are in your home. Under the Fourth Amendment, if ICE or CBP agents (or any law enforcement officer) comes to your door and wants to enter your home, they either need to present a warrant signed by a judge (not just an administrative warrant from their agency) – or they need your consent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Agents could also technically enter without permission if they report hearing an emergency\u003c/a> happening inside the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t want the agent to come in, legal advocates say, you don’t have to open the door unless the agent shows you a judicial warrant. (Advocates suggest asking the agent to slide the warrant under the door or hold it up to a window where you can read it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to ICE, CBP officers \u003ca href=\"https://careers.cbp.gov/s/career-paths/ofo/cbpo\">may have “police” written prominently on their uniform\u003c/a>. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” may be written on their sleeve or on their back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law grants additional powers to CBP within \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone\">a wide border zone\u003c/a> that the government has defined as 100 air miles from an “external boundary” of the U.S. Within that zone – which covers most coastal cities in the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801962/immigration-advocates-call-sending-border-patrol-agents-to-sanctuary-cities-a-scare-tactic\">San Francisco\u003c/a> – \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10559\">CBP agents can stop and question people\u003c/a>, and board vessels, buses and trains to search for unauthorized immigrants without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, you do still have constitutional protections, including the right to remain silent so you don’t say something that could incriminate you. Immigration officers cannot detain you without “reasonable suspicion” of a crime, and they cannot search you or your belongings without “probable cause” – unless you give your consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/ice-warrants-undocumented-immigrants-raids-arrests\">Read more from Axios on how ICE agents apply warrants to entering a home and making arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Hotlines for ICE encounters and sightings:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-response\">San Francisco’s 24-hour hotline\u003c/a> to either report ICE sightings or get legal assistance: \u003cstrong>415-200-1548\u003c/strong>. This is run by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfilen.org/\">San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In Alameda County, local organizations \u003ca href=\"https://www.acilep.org/\">are working to establish a hotline that will be operational on Feb. 17\u003c/a>. In the meantime, folks can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at \u003cstrong>510-437-1554\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://pactsj.org/\">Santa Clara County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>408-290-1144\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://montereycountyrrn.com/\">Monterey County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>831-643-5225\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YARRsantacruz/\">Santa Cruz County’s\u003c/a> hotline:\u003cstrong> 831-239-4289\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinrrn.org/\">Marin County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>415-991-4545\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podersf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-California-Rapid-Response-Network.pdf\">San Mateo County’s\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>203-666-4472\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fresno County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sacramento County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>916-245-6773\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://northbayop.org/rapidresponse/\">Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties’\u003c/a> hotline: \u003cstrong>707-800-4544\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Central Valley (Fresno, San Joaquin, Merced, Stanislaus, and Kern counties) hotline: \u003cstrong>559-206-0151\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Los Angeles County’s hotline: \u003cstrong>888-624-4752\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/mobilejustice\">Mobile Justice\u003c/a>, which sends information, incident reporting and more to the ACLU.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If someone is inside a detention facility, they can dial \u003cstrong>9233# from a facility phone\u003c/strong> on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to reach the \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources\">National Immigration Detention Hotline\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Selected resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.larazacrc.org/\">La Raza Community\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/\">Mission Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mujeresunidas.net/en/programas/\">Mujeres Unidas y Activas \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/undocuhealth-wellness/\">UndocuHealth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/get-involved/\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/attorney-of-the-day-resources-for-our-immigrant-community/\">Bar Association of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory for California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.informedimmigrant.com/help/\">Informed Immigrant\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">Private immigration lawyer lookup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Tyche Hendricks and Samantha Lim contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story stated that the policy preventing ICE from operating in schools and churches was President Biden-era guidance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is once again trying to break a policy California Democrats adopted during his first term to protect certain undocumented immigrants from being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his first executive orders targets the state’s so-called sanctuary law, which generally limits how local cops interact with federal immigration officers. Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">order\u003c/a>, titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” would deny federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear yet what kind of federal funds the Trump administration would withhold. But, for a state of 39 million people that relies heavily on federal dollars for its public programs and currently for its wildfire recovery, withholding money could be a crippling blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-lawsuits-against-donald-trump/\">Trump attempted something similar\u003c/a> during his first term. California sued, and the courts sided with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Trump took office, a nonprofit led by his policy adviser Stephen Miller \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">sent letters to hundreds of local elected officials\u003c/a> around the country warning them they faced “legal consequences” if their sanctuary policies interfered with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does the state’s sanctuary law do exactly, and what does it mean for Trump’s mass deportation plans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are five things to know about the California Values Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s about what California cops can do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In October 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-5b325d95a9c548e29b887de8b2303b76\">Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> signed into law Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act, commonly referred to as the state’s sanctuary law. That law bars state and local police from investigating, interrogating, or arresting people for immigration enforcement purposes and limits — but does not entirely prohibit — police cooperation with federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin De Leon, the former state Senate leader who authored the law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/17/551670840/california-state-senator-speaks-on-recently-approved-sanctuary-state-bill\">told NPR in 2017\u003c/a> that the point of the law was to make clear that the feds cannot enlist local police “as a cog in the Trump deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “sanctuary” movement goes back to the 1980s when Central American refugees fled civil war and immigrated to the U.S. When they were denied asylum, they sought protection from deportation in churches and other places of worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the sanctuary law does not actually refer to a place or territory where immigrants can seek protection. Living in California alone does not shield someone from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law clarifies what state and local law enforcement in California can and cannot do with regard to immigration. For example, the law says that local police cannot detain or keep someone in custody more than 48 hours past their release date just for immigration officials to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law does not restrict what the federal government can do in the state. To be clear, that means U.S Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) can still arrest and deport undocumented people living in California and other sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government has a lane that they are entitled to move in, they can enforce immigration law,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said last week during a press conference in San Diego. But “They can’t conscript or force the city or the county or the state law enforcement entities to do their job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who isn’t protected by sanctuary law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">President Trump and his allies\u003c/a> have repeatedly argued that sanctuary laws shield dangerous criminals. They have, at times, pointed to specific crimes committed by undocumented immigrants to argue the sanctuary law puts the greater public at risk. In 2019, for example, Trump pointed to the slaying of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/article224103155.html\">police officer in Stanislaus County\u003c/a> to criticize the sanctuary law and demand more funding for border protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the whole story. The law says police can tell immigration authorities about an inmate’s upcoming release if that person has been convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1192.7\">a serious crime or felony, such as\u003c/a>: murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and arson, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">sheriffs have noted\u003c/a>, there is nothing that stops immigration officials from using jail websites and fingerprints databases to identify people of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is up to ICE to pick up individuals on their release. Between 2018 and 2023, California jails \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">transferred more than 4,000 individuals\u003c/a> to immigration authorities. At the same time, ICE doesn’t always show up when someone is released from jail or prison. For example, ICE picked up about 80% of undocumented immigrants released from state prisons between 2017 and 2020, according to a 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">Senate legislative analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an absurdity to be talking about SB 54 as preventing bad, noncitizens with serious criminal convictions from being turned over to (the Department of Homeland Security), it doesn’t do that,” said Niels Frenzen, a professor at USC’s Gould School of Law and codirector of the school’s immigration clinic. “But those facts are just not part of the political debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are protected by the sanctuary state law are usually those who are arrested for less serious offenses, such as traffic violations and driving without a license or insurance, Frenzen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Courts upheld California’s sanctuary state law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California enacted its Values Act, Trump’s Justice Department took the state to court, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-preemption-lawsuit-against-state-california-stop-interference\">arguing that the state law\u003c/a> “interferes with federal immigration authorities’ ability to carry out their responsibilities under federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigration attorneys, however, have pointed out that the state law seemed to have little impact on ICE’s ability to do its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1041431/dl\">the Justice Department, in its 2018 lawsuit,\u003c/a> said that in 2017, ICE apprehended 20,201 unlawfully present people in California, which represented about 14% of all ICE arrests made that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was on track to exceed that number in the following year. In the first two months of 2018, after the sanctuary law took effect, it arrested 8,588 people in California, or about 14% of all arrests nationwide, according to a filing in the lawsuit by Trump’s Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714882333/federal-appeals-panel-upholds-california-sanctuary-state-law\">the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> that the California Values Act did not impede enforcement of federal immigration law. When the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/16/21291797/supreme-court-trump-immigration-sanctuary-california-values-act\">asked the Supreme Court to review the case\u003c/a>, it refused to do so, leaving the law as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate fight, California sued the Trump administration for its policy to withhold federal law enforcement grants from jurisdictions with sanctuary policies. A federal judge sided with California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Studies show no effect on crime\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics of the law have long claimed that the sanctuary state law harms public safety. The Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hoover.org/research/different-perspective-governor-newsom-californias-state-state\">has linked the law to the fentanyl epidemic\u003c/a>, noting that a spike in fentanyl-related deaths started happening around 2018, soon after the sanctuary policy went into effect. Whether causation or coincidence, there isn’t much in the way of official research that proves this.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12023560,news_12024082,news_12016037\"]To prove such a claim, one would have to isolate the sanctuary state law’s specific impact on crime, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2020/03/05/no-increase-in-crime-under-californias-sanctuary-state-status-uci-study-finds/\">2020 analysis of California’s law\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Irvine examined the state’s 2018 violent and property crime rates and compared them to estimated crime rates had Gov. Brown not signed the sanctuary policy. The study found that the law did not have a significant impact on either violent crime or property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, who authored the study, said the takeaway of her research was that changing the state’s sanctuary status is not likely to result in major reductions in crime. “Getting rid of SB 54, for example, is not going to make crime go down because it didn’t cause crime to go up in the first place,” Kubrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">A separate study\u003c/a> by researchers at Stanford and Princeton looked at sanctuary policies across the country and found that these measures reduced the overall number of deportations by one-third, but they did not reduce the number of deportations of people with violent criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study also found that these policies don’t have much of a direct effect on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conflict expected in ‘sensitive areas’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the Biden administration, the federal government had in place a “sensitive areas” order, which discouraged immigration agents from making arrests in places like schools, hospitals, churches and courthouses. Last week, the Trump administration rescinded that order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When ICE engages in civil immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses it can reduce safety risks to the public,” reads a Jan. 21 memo to staff from ICE Acting Director Caleb Vitello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanctuary state law asks officials at the same places to adopt policies to limit public participation with immigration enforcement, such as requesting a warrant from ICE agents before they attempt to arrest anyone. That could create a conflict for local officials if the immigration crackdown in the new administration hits their venue, said Alvaro Huerta, director of litigation and advocacy at Immigrant Defenders Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given Trump’s recent rule reversal, Huerta said, “The federal government may attempt some (immigration) enforcement in those spaces, but the state government is asking those spaces to require warrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That law bars state and local police from investigating, interrogating, or arresting people for immigration enforcement purposes and limits — but does not entirely prohibit — police cooperation with federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin De Leon, the former state Senate leader who authored the law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/09/17/551670840/california-state-senator-speaks-on-recently-approved-sanctuary-state-bill\">told NPR in 2017\u003c/a> that the point of the law was to make clear that the feds cannot enlist local police “as a cog in the Trump deportation machine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “sanctuary” movement goes back to the 1980s when Central American refugees fled civil war and immigrated to the U.S. When they were denied asylum, they sought protection from deportation in churches and other places of worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the sanctuary law does not actually refer to a place or territory where immigrants can seek protection. Living in California alone does not shield someone from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law clarifies what state and local law enforcement in California can and cannot do with regard to immigration. For example, the law says that local police cannot detain or keep someone in custody more than 48 hours past their release date just for immigration officials to pick them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law does not restrict what the federal government can do in the state. To be clear, that means U.S Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) can still arrest and deport undocumented people living in California and other sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government has a lane that they are entitled to move in, they can enforce immigration law,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said last week during a press conference in San Diego. But “They can’t conscript or force the city or the county or the state law enforcement entities to do their job for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who isn’t protected by sanctuary law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/12/sanctuary-cities-san-diego-letter/\">President Trump and his allies\u003c/a> have repeatedly argued that sanctuary laws shield dangerous criminals. They have, at times, pointed to specific crimes committed by undocumented immigrants to argue the sanctuary law puts the greater public at risk. In 2019, for example, Trump pointed to the slaying of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/article224103155.html\">police officer in Stanislaus County\u003c/a> to criticize the sanctuary law and demand more funding for border protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the whole story. The law says police can tell immigration authorities about an inmate’s upcoming release if that person has been convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=1192.7\">a serious crime or felony, such as\u003c/a>: murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and arson, among many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">sheriffs have noted\u003c/a>, there is nothing that stops immigration officials from using jail websites and fingerprints databases to identify people of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is up to ICE to pick up individuals on their release. Between 2018 and 2023, California jails \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sheriffs-sanctuary-law/\">transferred more than 4,000 individuals\u003c/a> to immigration authorities. At the same time, ICE doesn’t always show up when someone is released from jail or prison. For example, ICE picked up about 80% of undocumented immigrants released from state prisons between 2017 and 2020, according to a 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">Senate legislative analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an absurdity to be talking about SB 54 as preventing bad, noncitizens with serious criminal convictions from being turned over to (the Department of Homeland Security), it doesn’t do that,” said Niels Frenzen, a professor at USC’s Gould School of Law and codirector of the school’s immigration clinic. “But those facts are just not part of the political debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who are protected by the sanctuary state law are usually those who are arrested for less serious offenses, such as traffic violations and driving without a license or insurance, Frenzen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Courts upheld California’s sanctuary state law\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After California enacted its Values Act, Trump’s Justice Department took the state to court, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-preemption-lawsuit-against-state-california-stop-interference\">arguing that the state law\u003c/a> “interferes with federal immigration authorities’ ability to carry out their responsibilities under federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigration attorneys, however, have pointed out that the state law seemed to have little impact on ICE’s ability to do its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1041431/dl\">the Justice Department, in its 2018 lawsuit,\u003c/a> said that in 2017, ICE apprehended 20,201 unlawfully present people in California, which represented about 14% of all ICE arrests made that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE was on track to exceed that number in the following year. In the first two months of 2018, after the sanctuary law took effect, it arrested 8,588 people in California, or about 14% of all arrests nationwide, according to a filing in the lawsuit by Trump’s Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714882333/federal-appeals-panel-upholds-california-sanctuary-state-law\">the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled\u003c/a> that the California Values Act did not impede enforcement of federal immigration law. When the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/16/21291797/supreme-court-trump-immigration-sanctuary-california-values-act\">asked the Supreme Court to review the case\u003c/a>, it refused to do so, leaving the law as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate fight, California sued the Trump administration for its policy to withhold federal law enforcement grants from jurisdictions with sanctuary policies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To prove such a claim, one would have to isolate the sanctuary state law’s specific impact on crime, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.uci.edu/2020/03/05/no-increase-in-crime-under-californias-sanctuary-state-status-uci-study-finds/\">2020 analysis of California’s law\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Irvine examined the state’s 2018 violent and property crime rates and compared them to estimated crime rates had Gov. Brown not signed the sanctuary policy. The study found that the law did not have a significant impact on either violent crime or property crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, who authored the study, said the takeaway of her research was that changing the state’s sanctuary status is not likely to result in major reductions in crime. “Getting rid of SB 54, for example, is not going to make crime go down because it didn’t cause crime to go up in the first place,” Kubrin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2014673117\">A separate study\u003c/a> by researchers at Stanford and Princeton looked at sanctuary policies across the country and found that these measures reduced the overall number of deportations by one-third, but they did not reduce the number of deportations of people with violent criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study also found that these policies don’t have much of a direct effect on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Conflict expected in ‘sensitive areas’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the Biden administration, the federal government had in place a “sensitive areas” order, which discouraged immigration agents from making arrests in places like schools, hospitals, churches and courthouses. Last week, the Trump administration rescinded that order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When ICE engages in civil immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses it can reduce safety risks to the public,” reads a Jan. 21 memo to staff from ICE Acting Director Caleb Vitello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sanctuary state law asks officials at the same places to adopt policies to limit public participation with immigration enforcement, such as requesting a warrant from ICE agents before they attempt to arrest anyone. That could create a conflict for local officials if the immigration crackdown in the new administration hits their venue, said Alvaro Huerta, director of litigation and advocacy at Immigrant Defenders Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given Trump’s recent rule reversal, Huerta said, “The federal government may attempt some (immigration) enforcement in those spaces, but the state government is asking those spaces to require warrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The judge ruled that it would be paused until Monday afternoon, when another hearing is scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, California Attorney General Rob Bonta slammed the directive, saying it “puts at risk a lot of very important, essential, critical social safety net services,” including health care, food assistance, housing programs and emergency funding for recovery from the Los Angeles fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging directive, issued late Monday by the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, caused immediate confusion throughout the nation about which programs would and would not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite insistence from the White House that the move would not restrict funds directly provided to individuals, Democratic officials said Tuesday that they were \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RonWyden/status/1884303421894975874\">receiving reports\u003c/a> that state portals for federally funded programs, including Medicaid, were not working. That was true briefly in California, Bonta said — but he added that the portal was reopened within hours “perhaps after the outcry and political blowback.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed by the states challenges President Trump’s power to restrict funding already appropriated by Congress, the group of Democratic attorneys general said. In announcing the suit, they said Trump’s move threatens funding covering disaster relief, law enforcement grants, infrastructure projects, nutrition assistance, child care and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand by while the president attempts to disrupt vital programs that feed our kids, provide medical care to our families and support housing in our communities. We won’t stand by while the president breaks the law and oversteps his authority,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is reckless. It is dangerous, unprecedented in scope and devastating in its attendant effect. It’s thrown state programs into chaos and created confusion among our residents,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration insisted that the order is simply aimed at ensuring that federal spending aligns with the new president’s priorities and is not going to what White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called “illegal DEI programs … transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024194 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/SacramentoDelta-17_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance that includes — I’m not naming everything that’s included, but just to give you a few examples: Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause,” Leavitt said at a briefing Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Trump administration blamed the media for confusion over what funding the directive will affect, Bonta said he believes the ambiguity in the memo was intentional — both to test the bounds of the law and to confuse and scare federal officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very broad, and it’s very expansive. It’s very ambiguous and imprecise,” he said. “They could have enumerated with great precision everything that it included and everything that it didn’t. Instead, they wanted to play politics, and they used a bunch of buzzwords that mean different things to different people. Like what’s wokeism?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said that if the directive is allowed to stand, it could result in states facing immediate cash shortfalls — something that could have particularly “devastating” impacts in California, where the state is working to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024151/trump-and-newsom-embrace-in-fire-ravaged-la-but-the-president-wants-to-tie-federal-aid-to-voter-id\">respond to the recent Los Angeles wildfires\u003c/a>. Bonta said he believes the state’s FEMA funding would be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Democratic lawmakers also reacted in anger. California Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:28 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s latest sweeping executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">related to California water\u003c/a> tees up a legal fight with the state over whether the federal government can use an emergency to sidestep local environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday evening, Trump appeared to double down on his battle over water policy when he posted on social media that the “United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post triggered a terse statement from the California Department of Water Resources, which noted that the military had not entered California but that the federal government had simply restarted some water pumps that had been offline for maintenance for three days. “State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That came after Trump directed the government on Friday to immediately find ways to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024183/trump-orders-more-central-valley-water-deliveries-claiming-it-would-help-la-fires\">move more water through the Central Valley\u003c/a> to the southern half of the state, circumventing California’s strict environmental rules related to water quality and citing the wildfires around Los Angeles in doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked Cabinet members to report back on ways that they could do so within 15 days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/emergency-measures-to-provide-water-resources-in-california-and-improve-disaster-response-in-certain-areas/\">“including emergency authorities,”\u003c/a> signaling that he is considering using the disaster — which has killed at least 28 people and caused billions of dollars in destruction — as a reason to declare an emergency and force changes to California’s water policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11945152 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A cloudy, blue sky rests on top of a calm river with healthy brush hugging the riverbend.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS51470_SacramentoDelta-5-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wetland marshes of Sherman Island, California, on Threemile Slough, which is part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, on the morning of Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. The Delta is the hub of California’s water supply. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But, as state officials and environmentalists were quick to point out, the federal government does not deliver water to Southern California, and the water deliveries Trump references in his order service mostly farms in the San Joaquin Valley, which would be the primary beneficiaries of increased federal deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman (D–San Rafael) called Trump’s comments “lies” and accused the president of using the fires as an excuse for a water grab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the policies in this executive order will move even a single drop of water to communities devastated by these wildfires,” Huffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural irrigation agency in the country, disagreed and said in a statement that “the challenges that [Trump] highlights are real, and his leadership in addressing the barriers to water delivery are welcomed.” The district serves primarily farms in Fresno and Kings counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were Trump to be successful in overriding policy on water deliveries from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, “it’s a zero-sum game,” said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow specializing in water at the Public Policy Institute of California. “The state then has to take on the burden of keeping the delta fresh enough so that farmers can use that water. And the state has to take on the burden of meeting the needs for fish in the delta and wildlife. Bottom line, that results in less water for Southern California. Not more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024206 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-038-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karrigan Börk, a law professor at UC Davis and co-director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center, said that Trump’s directive, were it to be operationalized by his government, will no doubt be met with a lawsuit from California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key legal question is: to what extent state environmental laws can constrain what the federal government does? For years, the federal government has been deferential to California when it comes to its rules around water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really serious issue, which is significant both for California — because it’s a question of how much we’re in control of our own destiny here — but also throughout the West, where there’s a lot of states that don’t want the federal government disregarding their state laws on water or on environmental protection,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Börk noted that — as with all things related to California water policy — it will be difficult for Trump to make any changes, especially because water and the environment are so heavily regulated at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this fight sounds familiar, that’s because it happened once before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1938750/trump-pressure-on-california-water-plan-excludes-public-rushes-science-emails-show\">reported that the Trump administration ordered federal biologists\u003c/a> to speed up decisions about whether to send more water from Northern California to farmers in the Central Valley, a move that critics said threatened the integrity of the science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, the administration moved ahead with plans to\u003cbr>\nlet farmers take more water from the state’s largest river systems, and California sued, arguing it would push endangered populations of delta smelt, chinook salmon and steelhead trout to extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration eventually reversed the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference this time around is that Trump is considering using the L.A. fires as a reason for exempting the project entirely from coverage by the Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get there, it takes a lot of administrative work up front,” Börk said. “That will probably take a year or two to get done. 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After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ivano Aiello, the chair of San José State’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, said that after the fire, his lab tested the soil in a 2-mile radius of the plant, which is near the Elkhorn Slough estuary. After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It would also allow insurance companies to seek damages from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim, Wiener said, is to allow insurers to recoup losses from climate disasters without having to rely solely on raising rates. “So that those increased costs that insurance companies are facing aren’t only passed along to policyholders,” Wiener said, “but that the fossil fuel companies are also helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers and governments generally bear the expense of climate disasters. Fossil fuel giants such as ExxonMobil, meanwhile, have been accused of casting doubt on the effects of human-caused climate change despite having internal research that showed otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an industry that has known that its product was fueling climate change and was going to lead to these disasters,” Wiener said at a Monday press conference. “They sat on that science, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148376084/exxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt%5d\">they suppressed it\u003c/a>. And then the fossil fuel industry for decades has played a huge role in incapacitating government policymakers from taking the steps that need to be taken to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a clean energy economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The third aspect of the bill is that it opens the possibility that the California FAIR plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, could also sue for damages. The bill calls for an evaluation of whether it makes financial sense for the FAIR plan to do so. If it does, the state’s insurer of last resort will be required to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR plan, which will be especially strained by its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">financial exposure in the area of the Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, is in danger of running out of money. If it does, California policyholders will be chipping in to replenish it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oil industry should be part of that solution as well,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry currently in courts, but they have been so far typically brought by state officials, including officials from Hawaii suing over increased fire risk. Allowing citizens and businesses to seek damages would be a new step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-30-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gives consumers a fair shot at getting true accountability for these crises. To improve insurance affordability and availability, we must make fossil fuel companies pay their fair share,” said Consumer Federation of California executive director Robert Herrell, who supports the bill. “This will help level the playing field between consumers and the raw exercise of corporate power that they’re facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While insurance companies are accustomed to being able to sue utility companies whose equipment causes wildfires, such as the more than $10 billion PG&E paid to settle claims from the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, they have yet to go after fossil fuel companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies, including State Farm, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/the-two-big-insurers-still-betting-on-fossil-fuels-fa31bb15\">many billions of dollars\u003c/a> invested in fossil fuels (collectively, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/insurers-still-have-over-half-a-trillion-invested-in-fossil-fuels-458310.aspx\">half a trillion\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry is slamming the proposed bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a shame that Sen. Scott Wiener and Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez see the Los Angeles fires as nothing more than a political opportunity. We need real solutions to help victims in the wake of this tragedy, not theatrics,” Western States Petroleum Association CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, consumers, including Sen. Wiener, rely on and choose to use gasoline-powered cars and purchase products made from fossil fuels. Our economy depends on oil and gas even as California looks to reduce its carbon footprint,” Reheis-Boyd said. “The vulnerabilities in the existing oil and gas infrastructure must be addressed. 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All 11 members of the Board of Supervisors have said they intend to support the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906012/latinos-in-la-mision-a-story-of-resistance-and-community\">represents the Mission District\u003c/a> where many Latinx residents live, said she’s heard from constituents who are fearful of their status under Trump’s administration. But she’s not looking to the mayor for proclamations denouncing the president. Fielder said the primary thing Lurie can do is support community groups that work directly with targeted communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest desire from his administration is to have actual resources committed to immigration legal defense so that we can get the 1,200 people off the waitlist for processing their cases,” Fielder told KQED. “This also will allow people who are seeking asylum to get work permits, and that will only help our local economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Justice Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/justice-department-immigration-enforcement.html\">issued a memo\u003c/a> stating that state and local government officials must cooperate with federal law enforcement carrying out Trump’s executive orders on immigration or face criminal or civil penalties. Lurie responded that San Francisco would both comply with federal law while maintaining its sanctuary city policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand with local law enforcement in upholding our policies. Their purpose is not to interfere with lawful federal immigration enforcement,” Lurie said in a statement. “San Francisco is in full compliance with federal law and residents should feel safe interacting with local law enforcement and other city agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has not signaled whether he will support Fielder’s resolution, and a spokesperson for his office said he would not comment on proposed resolutions. Rather, Lurie has emphasized that his priorities are improving the city’s streets, closing down drug markets and building shelter and housing to address local issues.[aside postID=news_12023560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-22-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged that Lurie has taken a different approach than himself or other high-profile Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom when it comes to responding to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor has a big task ahead in terms of taking San Francisco into the future, and he needs to be focused like a laser on the huge problems we have here,” Wiener said. “I know that he will do that, but I know he’s going to be with us when we need to defend our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant David Ho said Lurie’s softer approach reminds him of the late Mayor Ed Lee, who led the city during Trump’s first term. However, it contrasts starkly with former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">Mayor London Breed,\u003c/a> who often took a stronger position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d be surprised if Lurie’s administration doesn’t carve out a louder response” to Trump’s orders on immigration, Ho said, noting that it would deeply affect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003096/public-safety-takes-center-stage-as-sf-mayoral-hopefuls-court-chinese-american-voters\">Chinese American community\u003c/a> that Lurie fought hard to win votes from on the campaign trail. “People forget the first federal law to target an entire ethnicity was the Chinese Exclusion Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with the city facing a nearly billion-dollar deficit, Lurie is walking a fine line to ensure San Francisco receives federal funding for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine if HUD withheld funding from San Francisco? 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"content": "\u003cp>Cesar Padilla was operating a clamp forklift, moving merchandise pallets at a Safeway warehouse dock, when he collided with another forklift. The collision flung Padilla into the air, and he fell hard on the ground, injuring his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was out of work for a month, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the three years since Padilla’s accident, which resulted in a pinched nerve in his lower back, he said he still suffers from leg numbness and throbbing pain in his neck and shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pain is every day. It’s hard,” said Padilla, who has worked for 19 years at Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy, about an hour’s drive from San Francisco. “Emotionally, physically, it has taken a burden on my life and my family’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s injury is one of hundreds employees sustained in recent years at the warehouse complex, the supermarket chain’s largest. The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amazon is the county’s largest employer. Walmart, Target, Costco and other companies have built sprawling warehouse operations in Tracy due its proximity to larger markets and relatively more affordable land prices and workforce costs, according to Thomas Pogue, who directs the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That locational advantage has been key,” Pogue said. “With any sector growing, you need to make sure that there are good jobs being created and not increasing hazardous employment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, semi-trailer trucks drove in and out of the fenced Safeway facility, which has several buildings. The property’s largest warehouse is the size of about 18 football fields, more than 1 million square feet, according to San Joaquin County Assessor’s Office records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DishesRestaurantGetty-1020x602.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway workers have suffered debilitating strains and sprains from manually lifting and throwing loads of up to 80 pounds or pulling hundreds of cases an hour, according to one current and one former employee interviewed by KQED. They recalled seeing men breaking bones, cutting their hands and forearms on equipment, and hitting their heads on sharp metal rack edges in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are injured while rushing to meet Safeway’s increasingly demanding production standards, but the company has refused to prevent serious injuries, said Phil Creamer, who worked nearly 30 years at the Tracy facility until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to go as fast as they can just to try to keep from getting fired, and that’s when they get injured,” said Creamer, now a Teamsters Local 439 business agent representing most drivers, selectors, loaders and other warehouse workers at the Safeway distribution center. “The shocking thing is, how do you own a facility like this and just ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we try to talk to [Safeway] about safety, they just brush us off. We keep telling them that we got massive injuries here at the facility,” he added. “It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safeway declined an interview with KQED. In a statement, a spokesperson said the company is committed to ensuring safety across all its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking this matter very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “While we disagree with the investigation’s outcome, we are collaborating with OSHA to address their concerns, including conducting a comprehensive review at our Tracy Distribution Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to comment on the facility’s injury rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators, Cal/OSHA, recently determined that Safeway’s work pace poses a danger, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-02.html#:~:text=Oakland%E2%80%94The%20Department%20of%20Industrial,company's%20warehouse%20in%20Tracy%2C%20their\">issuing $182,000 in proposed penalties\u003c/a> for dozens of safety violations at the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A months-long Cal/OSHA inspection found Safeway failed to correct hazards for warehouse workers and truck drivers and did not effectively train managers, supervisors and other employees on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It is critical that employers recognize the physical demands and potential dangers faced by warehouse workers and take measures to protect their safety,” Cal/OSHA Chief Debra Lee said in a Jan. 7 press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serious hazards outlined in the citation included workers manually throwing cases above pallet heights of nearly 6 feet high, handling excessively heavy loads, lacking adequate access to eye wash stations when handling toxic materials and being without sufficient cool-down areas during scorching summer days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Widess, who served as Cal/OSHA chief from 2011–13, said the high injury rate at Safeway’s Tracy distribution center was unacceptable and questioned whether the agency’s fines would compel the company to address unsafe practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worry that those proposed penalties, even if they stand, are not enough of an incentive. There has to be a very serious change of corporate culture,” Widess told KQED. “It just looks like there is not adequate attention to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022402 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240110-CAWindStorm-004-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway, a division of Albertsons Companies, operates 290 stores across Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii under banners including Andronico’s, Safeway, Pak N’ Save and Vons. Albertsons reported a \u003ca href=\"https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-details/2024/Albertsons-Companies-Inc.-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Results/default.aspx\">net income\u003c/a> of $1.3 billion in 2023, according to the most recent full-year financial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, businesses with 100 or more warehouse employees are prohibited from enforcing production quotas so intense they lead to unsafe working conditions or prevent workers from taking meal or bathroom breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency enforcing that state law, the Labor Commissioner’s Office, could not confirm whether it is currently investigating Safeway’s facility due to confidentiality reasons, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA gave Safeway until Jan. 3 to fix eight serious violations and until Jan. 27 to correct all others cited at the Tracy facility. Safeway filed an intent to appeal the citation on Jan. 17, which would delay the deadlines until the case is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creamer and Padilla said they have not seen any recent changes to improve safety for the facility’s mostly Latino workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safeway just don’t care about you,” said Padilla, who takes pain medicine almost daily to manage his workday. “Safeway, all they care about is their money and their numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The father of two children, ages 9 and 4, said he struggles to push a lawnmower at home or help his wife lift grocery bags. He wishes to be more active in his kids’ basketball and softball teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m limited as far as what I can actually do,” Padilla said. “It’s really sad that this company knows what they’ve done and what they’re doing and treats their employees the way they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The distribution center, which employs about 1,700 people, reported to federal regulators that most incidents were serious enough to require days away from work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, workers at Safeway’s facility faced the nation’s top injury rate in 2022 and the third highest in 2023 when compared to other large general warehousing and storage establishments with more than 1,000 employees, a KQED analysis of the most recently available \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">federal data\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023302 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00039-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Padilla, left, 39, of Tracy, a Safeway warehouse worker, and Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Occupational safety regulators consider warehousing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/warehousing/hazards-solutions\">high-hazard industry\u003c/a> due to its risks of repetitive motion and musculoskeletal disorders, falls, heat illness and other injuries. Forklifts and other equipment often move near workers doing strenuous labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Safeway’s facility, which supplies dozens of stores in the Bay Area, stood out with an injury rate that was five times the nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/iif/nonfatal-injuries-and-illnesses-tables/table-1-injury-and-illness-rates-by-industry-2022-national.htm\">industry’s average\u003c/a> of 5.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2022. The following year, it was three times higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, California workplace safety regulators fined Safeway nearly $200,000 for violations at the distribution center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, 92% of roughly 650 injuries recorded in 2022 and 2023 required days away from work, according to the data. Many employers must report work-related injuries and illnesses to the Occupational and Health Safety Administration, though experts say some businesses under-report these incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City of Tracy, with just under 100,000 inhabitants, became a distribution hub for millions of customers in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Monterey Bay over the last decade, coinciding with the rise of e-commerce. Between 2014-2022, San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, Lodi and Tracy, saw transportation and warehousing jobs triple to about 64,000, according to data compiled by the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023307 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00235-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor-trailer exits Safeway’s distribution center in Tracy on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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They recalled seeing men breaking bones, cutting their hands and forearms on equipment, and hitting their heads on sharp metal rack edges in the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are injured while rushing to meet Safeway’s increasingly demanding production standards, but the company has refused to prevent serious injuries, said Phil Creamer, who worked nearly 30 years at the Tracy facility until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to go as fast as they can just to try to keep from getting fired, and that’s when they get injured,” said Creamer, now a Teamsters Local 439 business agent representing most drivers, selectors, loaders and other warehouse workers at the Safeway distribution center. “The shocking thing is, how do you own a facility like this and just ignore it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time we try to talk to [Safeway] about safety, they just brush us off. We keep telling them that we got massive injuries here at the facility,” he added. “It’s like they don’t care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023306\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00192-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Creamer, with Teamsters Local 439, at the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safeway declined an interview with KQED. In a statement, a spokesperson said the company is committed to ensuring safety across all its operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are taking this matter very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “While we disagree with the investigation’s outcome, we are collaborating with OSHA to address their concerns, including conducting a comprehensive review at our Tracy Distribution Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson declined to comment on the facility’s injury rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California workplace regulators, Cal/OSHA, recently determined that Safeway’s work pace poses a danger, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-02.html#:~:text=Oakland%E2%80%94The%20Department%20of%20Industrial,company's%20warehouse%20in%20Tracy%2C%20their\">issuing $182,000 in proposed penalties\u003c/a> for dozens of safety violations at the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A months-long Cal/OSHA inspection found Safeway failed to correct hazards for warehouse workers and truck drivers and did not effectively train managers, supervisors and other employees on prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023301\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00016-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign in front of the Safeway distribution center in Tracy, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Wednesday marked the second anniversary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973071/survivors-of-half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-struggle-to-rebuild-1-year-later\">a mass shooting\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay that left seven farmworkers dead, an alleged act of workplace violence that exposed laborers’ poor living conditions and low pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started the week so emotional, and we knew that this was coming,” Hernandez-Arriaga said. “We cannot lose sight of the pain and the tragedy but also the tremendous contributions that our farmworkers make to all of us. 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