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"content": "\u003cp>Khatchadour Khatchadourian’s voice is a troubadour’s voice. Round and gentle, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/music\">sound\u003c/a> seems to emanate from his soul rather than from his chest, filling any room he’s in with warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with his mesmerizing voice, the Bay Area musician may be better known for playing an instrument than using his God-given pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, it’s a really cool instrument: the \u003cem>duduk\u003c/em>, an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind carved from apricot wood. The duduk’s melancholy voice is an enduring \u003ca href=\"http://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo/page/334/mode/2up\">symbol\u003c/a> of Armenia, its plaintive tone said to express the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo/page/334/mode/2up\">soul\u003c/a> and tragedy of the country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you might not recognize the name, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the haunting, almost otherworldly sound the duduk makes. This humble shepherd’s flute wandered out of the Armenian countryside and into Hollywood, making cameos on the scores of movies and shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxEDN3909M&list=RD_nxEDN3909M&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>The Gladiator\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrpVgVOYEgc&list=RDJrpVgVOYEgc&start_radio=1\"> \u003cem>The Last Temptation of Christ.\u003c/em>\u003c/a> The duduk was even recently synthesized on both \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOVzpJQTNhk&list=RDwOVzpJQTNhk&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>Dune\u003c/em> \u003c/a>soundtracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audiences in the Bay Area don’t get many chances to hear the instrument live — unless they’re able to catch Khatchadourian. Those who follow him know him by his Instagram handle: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dudukwhisperer/\">The Duduk Whisperer.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3756810110\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good marketing gimmick,” he joked, on a recent phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood reaches for the instrument, time and time again, for many of the same reasons Khatchadourian does. The sounds of the duduk transport you somewhere beyond yourself. “When it hits you, it hits you,” he told KQED. “The duduk takes you to where it wants to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00463_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadourian displays two of his duduks, Armenian folk instruments, in his backyard in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You’ll have to catch him while you can. Save \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayecalendar.com/?p=2613\">one performance \u003c/a>this weekend, Khatchadourian, 39, is taking a break from performing publicly for the time being to focus on crafting his sixth studio album, which he’s calling \u003cem>Breath\u003c/em> — a fitting title for a performer whose ability to sing and produce tones with the physically-demanding double reed depends on his lung strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title is also a nod to the technique of breathing to move forward through pain. In his newly-built home studio in Santa Rosa, Khatchadourian is working out how an artist can create in the face of personal and collective hardship — which these days, he said, feels like is all around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album concept took shape in 2023, following the shock and anguish Khatchadourian and Armenians around the world experienced witnessing Azerbaijan’s forced displacement of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954142/more-california-armenians-are-moving-back-to-their-parents-native-land\">100,000 Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh\u003c/a>, an enclave within the country that Armenians call “Artsakh.” That dispersal followed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841878/this-one-feels-different-bay-area-armenians-call-for-solidarity-as-homeland-faces-attacks\">pattern of war, starvation and violence \u003c/a>that led Luis Moreno Ocampo, an Argentinian lawyer and former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/22/nagorno-karabakh-genocide-armenia/\">call\u003c/a> the crisis “the Armenian genocide of 2023.”[aside postID=news_12058796 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250913-NIMISHAAUNTY00688_TV-KQED.jpg']The events “left a wound in the collective Armenian psyche,” Khatchadourian said. The world’s silence made it all the more painful. That, in relation to the “ethnic cleansing and the ongoing genocide happening to Palestinians in Gaza,” left Khatchadourian temporarily frozen, he said, weighed down by the “heartbreak, the disappointment” of the politics of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the musician learned a long time ago how to channel and transmute his pain into music. “My early years on this planet,” he said, “have given me enough psychological material to process through my 30s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khatchadourian was born in Beirut, a Middle Eastern city of myth. While older generations remember a cultural metropolis, known as the Paris of the Middle East, Khatchadourian’s earliest memories are of the Lebanese Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brutal conflict, which racked the country from 1975–1991, separated his family. His dad fled to Los Angeles in search of work opportunities, while his mother took then-3-year-old Khatchadour and his sister to Aleppo to live with his paternal grandparents. As a child in Syria, Khatchadourian caught his first glimpse of the duduk in the hands of a young musician who was part of a traveling folk music troupe from Armenia. For the most part, his musical education came in the form of a children’s choir, singing Armenian, Arabic and some English-language music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian plays the duduk in his backyard in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, the family reunited in California. The transition to life in a new country was rough, Khatchadourian said, especially for a teenager who had lived through so much turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this chapter, he didn’t do “any music for about 10 years, just total silence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to leave the nest and strike out on his own, Khatchadourian moved to the Bay Area to study political science at UC Berkeley. He almost became an academic, researching the Armenian community of Lebanon, which had formed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/armenian-genocide\">1915 Armenian genocide\u003c/a>, and had been fractured by the civil war. But studying his own experience only brought Khatchadourian more darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at that point that he discovered the duduk.[aside postID=news_12058091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00140_TV-KQED.jpg']“I was suffering … tremendously isolated, and trying to find kind of a meaning within myself, and the duduk spoke to that,” he reflected, before adding, “I wouldn’t say it’s cheaper than therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This forthcoming album has been the most challenging to produce to date, he said. He’s composed more than 250 hours of original or arranged pieces so far, some formed out of the folk music and other sonic relics from Artsakh and written in the region’s unique Armenian dialect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording the foundations of the album left him feeling raw and emotional, he said. “I was processing the war, and at the same time processing the shifting nature of Armenian identity,” he said. “It shakes quite a bit inside of me every time I hear it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Khatchadourian’s guides in this wilderness is the 19th century Armenian composer and ethnomusicologist, Komitas Vardapet. Born Soghomon Soghomonian, in what is now western Turkey, Komitas went from village to village collecting Armenian and Kurdish folk songs and traditions and transcribing them into western musical notation. He also composed his own songs, many of which received \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/21/komitas-vardapet-folk-music-armenia\">acclaim\u003c/a> beyond his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Komitas was said to be on the verge of deciphering \u003ca href=\"https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/45*.html\">\u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an Armenian musical notation system, when on April 24, 1915, he was rounded up with nearly 300 other Armenian intellectuals to be slaughtered by the Ottoman government, although Turkey continues to deny that a genocide occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Komitas survived the genocide, thanks in part to intervention from the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire \u003ca href=\"https://aurorahumanitarian.org/en/henry-morgenthau\">Henry Morgenthau\u003c/a>, he suffered a mental breakdown, and spent his final years in an asylum. The key to \u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>, as well as a vast archive of folk music, was lost. The handful of songs that survived, however, would go on to become the foundation of contemporary Armenian classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian’s duduk collection rests on a desk in his home studio in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Khatchadourian performed and sang the Komitas song, \u003cem>Make a Breeze,\u003c/em> at an art gallery in Berkeley. The singer begs the mountains, clouds and rivers to send a gust of air that will soothe the singer’s pain. As Khatchadourian played, a handful of audience members sighed audibly in peaceful relief. The performance seemed to capture the audience’s collective heartache, and transform it, even for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s a song from the 1700s or the 1800s, there is a continuity of wisdom,” Khatchadourian told the crowd. “Maybe that will be an invitation to healing, or letting it be, or letting it live within you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Want to hear the duduk yourself? \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayecalendar.com/?p=2613\">\u003cem>Khatchadour Khatchadourian \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>will play at St. John Armenian Apostolic Church on Oct. 25, at 275 Olympic Way in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thanks to Barbar Band for providing some of the music in the piece, performed and arranged by Khatchadour Khatchadourian and Karine Vann.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The events “left a wound in the collective Armenian psyche,” Khatchadourian said. The world’s silence made it all the more painful. That, in relation to the “ethnic cleansing and the ongoing genocide happening to Palestinians in Gaza,” left Khatchadourian temporarily frozen, he said, weighed down by the “heartbreak, the disappointment” of the politics of the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the musician learned a long time ago how to channel and transmute his pain into music. “My early years on this planet,” he said, “have given me enough psychological material to process through my 30s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khatchadourian was born in Beirut, a Middle Eastern city of myth. While older generations remember a cultural metropolis, known as the Paris of the Middle East, Khatchadourian’s earliest memories are of the Lebanese Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brutal conflict, which racked the country from 1975–1991, separated his family. His dad fled to Los Angeles in search of work opportunities, while his mother took then-3-year-old Khatchadour and his sister to Aleppo to live with his paternal grandparents. As a child in Syria, Khatchadourian caught his first glimpse of the duduk in the hands of a young musician who was part of a traveling folk music troupe from Armenia. For the most part, his musical education came in the form of a children’s choir, singing Armenian, Arabic and some English-language music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061346\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00444_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian plays the duduk in his backyard in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twelve years later, the family reunited in California. The transition to life in a new country was rough, Khatchadourian said, especially for a teenager who had lived through so much turmoil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During this chapter, he didn’t do “any music for about 10 years, just total silence,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to leave the nest and strike out on his own, Khatchadourian moved to the Bay Area to study political science at UC Berkeley. He almost became an academic, researching the Armenian community of Lebanon, which had formed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/armenian-genocide\">1915 Armenian genocide\u003c/a>, and had been fractured by the civil war. But studying his own experience only brought Khatchadourian more darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at that point that he discovered the duduk.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was suffering … tremendously isolated, and trying to find kind of a meaning within myself, and the duduk spoke to that,” he reflected, before adding, “I wouldn’t say it’s cheaper than therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This forthcoming album has been the most challenging to produce to date, he said. He’s composed more than 250 hours of original or arranged pieces so far, some formed out of the folk music and other sonic relics from Artsakh and written in the region’s unique Armenian dialect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording the foundations of the album left him feeling raw and emotional, he said. “I was processing the war, and at the same time processing the shifting nature of Armenian identity,” he said. “It shakes quite a bit inside of me every time I hear it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Khatchadourian’s guides in this wilderness is the 19th century Armenian composer and ethnomusicologist, Komitas Vardapet. Born Soghomon Soghomonian, in what is now western Turkey, Komitas went from village to village collecting Armenian and Kurdish folk songs and traditions and transcribing them into western musical notation. He also composed his own songs, many of which received \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/21/komitas-vardapet-folk-music-armenia\">acclaim\u003c/a> beyond his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Komitas was said to be on the verge of deciphering \u003ca href=\"https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/45*.html\">\u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an Armenian musical notation system, when on April 24, 1915, he was rounded up with nearly 300 other Armenian intellectuals to be slaughtered by the Ottoman government, although Turkey continues to deny that a genocide occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Komitas survived the genocide, thanks in part to intervention from the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire \u003ca href=\"https://aurorahumanitarian.org/en/henry-morgenthau\">Henry Morgenthau\u003c/a>, he suffered a mental breakdown, and spent his final years in an asylum. The key to \u003cem>khaz\u003c/em>, as well as a vast archive of folk music, was lost. The handful of songs that survived, however, would go on to become the foundation of contemporary Armenian classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061343\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251022-DUDUKWHISPERER00169_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khatchadour Khatchadourian’s duduk collection rests on a desk in his home studio in Santa Rosa on Oct. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Khatchadourian performed and sang the Komitas song, \u003cem>Make a Breeze,\u003c/em> at an art gallery in Berkeley. The singer begs the mountains, clouds and rivers to send a gust of air that will soothe the singer’s pain. As Khatchadourian played, a handful of audience members sighed audibly in peaceful relief. The performance seemed to capture the audience’s collective heartache, and transform it, even for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s a song from the 1700s or the 1800s, there is a continuity of wisdom,” Khatchadourian told the crowd. “Maybe that will be an invitation to healing, or letting it be, or letting it live within you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Want to hear the duduk yourself? \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayecalendar.com/?p=2613\">\u003cem>Khatchadour Khatchadourian \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>will play at St. John Armenian Apostolic Church on Oct. 25, at 275 Olympic Way in San Francisco. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thanks to Barbar Band for providing some of the music in the piece, performed and arranged by Khatchadour Khatchadourian and Karine Vann.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">the federal government shutdown\u003c/a> enters its second month, with no sign of ending any time soon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-detail?chartId=55416\">around 42 million people in the United States\u003c/a> have already \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/01/millions-lose-food-aid-snap-trump-shutdown-00632404\">gone without their food benefits \u003c/a>from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 6, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/11/06/californians-are-beginning-to-see-cash-on-their-snap-cards-following-major-win-against-the-trump-administration/\">some CalFresh recipients \u003cem>have\u003c/em> begun to see benefits payments\u003c/a> arrive in full onto their EBT cards, after a judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled a second time that the White House must pay these benefits\u003c/a> in full by Nov. 7. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance\">The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced\u003c/a> it will comply with the court order and start sending out full November SNAP benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not yet clear how these funds will continue to roll out, especially since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b\">the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Nov. 7 to block the judge’s order\u003c/a>, and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">now appealed to the Supreme Court\u003c/a> after that request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How we got here: On Oct. 25, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program\">the USDA posted a notice to its site \u003c/a>stating that “the well has run dry” and “At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown\">use the USDA’s contingency fund to provide SNAP payments\u003c/a> in November after all, having previously claimed that it could not tap this fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the White House warned that payments would still only be half of people’s regular benefits, and that there could be lengthy delays before EBT cards are reloaded. And on Nov. 4, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/us/trump-shutdown-news#cities-nonprofits-food-stamp-snap-payments\">Trump again threatened to withhold SNAP payments\u003c/a> entirely — before the judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-6-2025#0000019a-5af9-d003-addb-deffec620000\">ruled that the White House must pay these benefits in full\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062034/san-francisco-will-cover-full-snap-benefits-for-november-amid-federal-shutdown\">San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie announced Oct. 29\u003c/a> that the city’s roughly 112,000 residents on SNAP will have their benefits covered in November through an $18 million public-private partnership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the week of Nov. 3, the city’s Human Services Agency will mail instructions to CalFresh users on how they can access pre-paid gift cards that will cover that month’s benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/grocery-debit-cards-going-107000-contra-costa-county-calfresh-recipients\">Contra Costa County has also announced plans\u003c/a> to provide alternative funding for its CalFresh users through grocery debit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to June state data, there are \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.department.of.social.services/viz/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\">5.5 million Californians on CalFresh\u003c/a>, the food nutrition program that supports lower-income residents and families. These include hundreds of thousands of people living in the Bay Area, where Alameda County has the highest share — 176,133 — of people using CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#calfresh-ebt-snap-shutdown-delay\">What people on CalFresh should know right now\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>USDA manages \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.guide/how-the-calfresh-program-is-structured/\">SNAP on the national level\u003c/a> and handles the costs of all benefits distributed to participants through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards using federal dollars. [aside postID=news_12061440 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/013_KQED_SanFranciscoMarinFoodBank_03182020_9229_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All CalFresh enrollees will see their payments affected in November, but people newly enrolling in the program have already been affected and gone without October payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you signed up in the month of October, you’re more than likely not going to receive any CalFresh benefits for the month of October, nor likely November,” said Assemblymember Alex Lee, who chairs the state Legislature’s Human Services Committee with oversight of CalFresh policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"calfresh-ebt-snap-shutdown-delay\">\u003c/a>What should people on CalFresh know right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With so much uncertainty at the federal level, it’s not yet known what this SNAP “delay” could look like, and whether payments could still come through sometime in November on a later schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for CalFresh payments being back-issued when the government eventually reopens, “we’re not sure about retroactivity on certain things,” cautioned Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Tell us: \u003ca href=\"#snap-calfresh-ebt-share\">Will your family be affected by the CalFresh delays?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>During the last government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history, lasting \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/government-shutdown-republicans-longest-history\">35 days\u003c/a> from December 2018 to January 2019 during Trump’s first term — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/snap-food-stamps-november-government-shutdown\">USDA initially said SNAP benefits would run out \u003c/a>by the end of January 2019. But February 2019 SNAP benefits were ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.crfb.org/papers/government-shutdowns-qa-everything-you-should-know\">distributed early\u003c/a> at the end of January, although food stamp beneficiaries then had to wait until March for the next round of payments.[aside postID=news_12061005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1457114961-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/firestorm-over-food-stamps-erupts-with-funds-set-to-expire\">According to reporting by Bloomberg\u003c/a>, this time around CalFresh recipients will still be able to use any benefits on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards in November, if they have leftover funds in their account. And the state says that “as of now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/calfresh-frequently-asked-questions\">you will be able to use your EBT card\u003c/a> with your existing benefits as usual through the federal government shutdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee warned that CalFresh users should ultimately decide what’s right for them and their families, when it comes to spending down their funds now to stock up ahead of November or to save that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also warned of the risk that layoffs and furloughs among the federal workers who manage SNAP’s IT systems could potentially impact the EBT system over the coming weeks. While CalFresh users “may still be able to use their EBT cards for the time being, they will probably come to a point … probably relatively soon where that system won’t function,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s Monday statement also warned of “further stress on local food banks” as the Thanksgiving holiday draws closer. On Wednesday, Newsom announced that he would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/22/california-to-deploy-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-fast-track-funding-as-trumps-shutdown-strips-families-of-food-benefits/\">“fast-tracking upwards of $80 million in state support”\u003c/a> for food banks during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/find-food/\">use the state’s tool to find a food bank near you\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/calfresh-frequently-asked-questions\">monitor the latest updates on CalFresh delays on the Department of Social Services site.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also learn about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">restaurants near you offering free and discounted meals to CalFresh recipients\u003c/a> during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fears about hunger amid SNAP delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, seniors and children make up 63.2% of SNAP users, according to state data from last year. “More than likely, you know someone or you are someone that has needed CalFresh,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have expressed deep concern at the idea of CalFresh benefits being stopped or delayed in November because of the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalFresh is a lifeline for more than 5 million Californians, including 2 million children,” said Shimica Gaskins, the president and CEO of End Child Poverty California. “It is unconscionable that families are just days away from major consequences to their November food benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaskins said that “even brief periods of hunger for children cause physical and psychological damage that brings lifelong harms to their growth and development,” and urged the USDA to “follow the law that SNAP is a federal entitlement, drawing on the contingency fund and any other resources, and direct states to issue full November benefits as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11792620 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_17271692702067-ea1b97e98e157d598fa245d9c752f917e6c25c57-e1576950264238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to June state data, there are 5.5 million Californians on CalFresh, the food nutrition program that supports lower-income residents and families. \u003ccite>(Danny Moloshok/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How did we get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://static.politico.com/f5/80/bc6534ea40138384f2dd885c83c5/snap-november-2025-issuance-file-guidance.pdf\">a letter obtained by Politico\u003c/a> dated Oct. 10, the United States Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/10/snap-could-run-out-of-federal-support-within-weeks-trump-administration-warns-00604276\">warned state nutrition agencies\u003c/a> that it will run out of money if the shutdown continues to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA Acting Associate Administrator Ronald Ward wrote that “SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October.”[aside postID=news_12058260 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-903911876-2000x1333.jpg']However, “if the current lapse in appropriations continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the Nation,” wrote Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter instructed state agencies to delay sending November benefit issuance files to vendors, who then disperse funds to people on SNAP — which includes people on CalFresh in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House on Oct. 16 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/snap-food-stamps-november-government-shutdown\">SNAP would run out of money in two weeks\u003c/a> if the shutdown continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 24, Axios reported that a memo from USDA stated \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/gov-shutdown-snap-payments-emergency-funds\">the agency wouldn’t use emergency money from its contingency funds\u003c/a> to pay for SNAP during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A banner message on the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/\">Department of Social Services website\u003c/a> attributes the shutdown to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/\">“the failures of the President and Congress to continue government funding”\u003c/a> and warns Californians visiting government websites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hhs.gov\">hhs.gov\u003c/a> for more information to “be wary of potential highly partisan political messaging while visiting federal government websites” — a response to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act\"> language posted to the official websites of various federal agencies\u003c/a> that refers to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-1-2025#00000199-a08e-de91-adfb-b8cf52820000\">“the Radical Left Democrat shutdown.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11665754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ap_280051064851_custom-4b2f9763a560df0f3638e47794a33a8e40090371-e1525207334845.jpg\" alt=\"A box of food prepared at a food bank distribution in Petaluma. California ranks near the bottom in enrolling people for food assistance. To change that, it's taking lessons from its robust Medi-Cal health insurance program, which targets much the same population.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A box of food prepared at a food bank distribution in Petaluma. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How are other programs affected by the shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061005/wic-snap-shutdown-california-november-payments\">the Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC)\u003c/a> received \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">a $300 million infusion\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump’s administration — which the White House said came from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">unspent tariff revenue from the last fiscal year\u003c/a>. The California Department of Public Health has confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061005/wic-snap-shutdown-california-november-payments\">these additional funds are allowing WIC to continue through the shutdown\u003c/a>, through at least Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WIC provides food assistance to lower-income families who have young children or are expecting a new child, including grandparents. Like CalFresh, it’s federally funded and income-based, but you can receive WIC benefits on top of your CalFresh benefits. \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/HowCanIGetWIC\">See if you qualify for WIC.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state says \u003ca href=\"https://benefitscal.com/Dashboard/DBANN\">it expects “to fund CalWORKs [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] benefits for November 2025,”\u003c/a> but that “a continued federal government shutdown will put December 2025 CalWORKs benefits at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BenefitsCal website also warns that while “no immediate disruptions to Medi-Cal are expected, an extended federal shutdown lasting past December 2025 could impact the program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058260/will-my-social-security-be-affected-by-the-government-shutdown\">Social Security payments remain unaffected\u003c/a> during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"snap-calfresh-ebt-share\">\u003c/a>Want to share your story?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSep1AINaCxvNFFW4Pay4HnOcCYWtNZUaietXl2725dD7l6m9g/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/firestorm-over-food-stamps-erupts-with-funds-set-to-expire\">According to reporting by Bloomberg\u003c/a>, this time around CalFresh recipients will still be able to use any benefits on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards in November, if they have leftover funds in their account. And the state says that “as of now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/calfresh-frequently-asked-questions\">you will be able to use your EBT card\u003c/a> with your existing benefits as usual through the federal government shutdown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee warned that CalFresh users should ultimately decide what’s right for them and their families, when it comes to spending down their funds now to stock up ahead of November or to save that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also warned of the risk that layoffs and furloughs among the federal workers who manage SNAP’s IT systems could potentially impact the EBT system over the coming weeks. While CalFresh users “may still be able to use their EBT cards for the time being, they will probably come to a point … probably relatively soon where that system won’t function,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s Monday statement also warned of “further stress on local food banks” as the Thanksgiving holiday draws closer. On Wednesday, Newsom announced that he would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/22/california-to-deploy-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-fast-track-funding-as-trumps-shutdown-strips-families-of-food-benefits/\">“fast-tracking upwards of $80 million in state support”\u003c/a> for food banks during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafoodbanks.org/find-food/\">use the state’s tool to find a food bank near you\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/food-nutrition-services/calfresh/calfresh-frequently-asked-questions\">monitor the latest updates on CalFresh delays on the Department of Social Services site.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also learn about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">restaurants near you offering free and discounted meals to CalFresh recipients\u003c/a> during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fears about hunger amid SNAP delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, seniors and children make up 63.2% of SNAP users, according to state data from last year. “More than likely, you know someone or you are someone that has needed CalFresh,” said Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have expressed deep concern at the idea of CalFresh benefits being stopped or delayed in November because of the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalFresh is a lifeline for more than 5 million Californians, including 2 million children,” said Shimica Gaskins, the president and CEO of End Child Poverty California. “It is unconscionable that families are just days away from major consequences to their November food benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaskins said that “even brief periods of hunger for children cause physical and psychological damage that brings lifelong harms to their growth and development,” and urged the USDA to “follow the law that SNAP is a federal entitlement, drawing on the contingency fund and any other resources, and direct states to issue full November benefits as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11792620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11792620 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_17271692702067-ea1b97e98e157d598fa245d9c752f917e6c25c57-e1576950264238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to June state data, there are 5.5 million Californians on CalFresh, the food nutrition program that supports lower-income residents and families. \u003ccite>(Danny Moloshok/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How did we get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://static.politico.com/f5/80/bc6534ea40138384f2dd885c83c5/snap-november-2025-issuance-file-guidance.pdf\">a letter obtained by Politico\u003c/a> dated Oct. 10, the United States Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/10/snap-could-run-out-of-federal-support-within-weeks-trump-administration-warns-00604276\">warned state nutrition agencies\u003c/a> that it will run out of money if the shutdown continues to November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA Acting Associate Administrator Ronald Ward wrote that “SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, “if the current lapse in appropriations continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the Nation,” wrote Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter instructed state agencies to delay sending November benefit issuance files to vendors, who then disperse funds to people on SNAP — which includes people on CalFresh in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House on Oct. 16 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/snap-food-stamps-november-government-shutdown\">SNAP would run out of money in two weeks\u003c/a> if the shutdown continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 24, Axios reported that a memo from USDA stated \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/gov-shutdown-snap-payments-emergency-funds\">the agency wouldn’t use emergency money from its contingency funds\u003c/a> to pay for SNAP during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A banner message on the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/\">Department of Social Services website\u003c/a> attributes the shutdown to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/\">“the failures of the President and Congress to continue government funding”\u003c/a> and warns Californians visiting government websites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.hhs.gov\">hhs.gov\u003c/a> for more information to “be wary of potential highly partisan political messaging while visiting federal government websites” — a response to\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act\"> language posted to the official websites of various federal agencies\u003c/a> that refers to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-1-2025#00000199-a08e-de91-adfb-b8cf52820000\">“the Radical Left Democrat shutdown.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11665754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/ap_280051064851_custom-4b2f9763a560df0f3638e47794a33a8e40090371-e1525207334845.jpg\" alt=\"A box of food prepared at a food bank distribution in Petaluma. California ranks near the bottom in enrolling people for food assistance. To change that, it's taking lessons from its robust Medi-Cal health insurance program, which targets much the same population.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A box of food prepared at a food bank distribution in Petaluma. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How are other programs affected by the shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061005/wic-snap-shutdown-california-november-payments\">the Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutrition Program (WIC)\u003c/a> received \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">a $300 million infusion\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump’s administration — which the White House said came from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">unspent tariff revenue from the last fiscal year\u003c/a>. The California Department of Public Health has confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061005/wic-snap-shutdown-california-november-payments\">these additional funds are allowing WIC to continue through the shutdown\u003c/a>, through at least Nov. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WIC provides food assistance to lower-income families who have young children or are expecting a new child, including grandparents. 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"content": "\u003cp>East Bay officials say they are still prepared for a possible increase in federal immigration enforcement in the absence of clear information about what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">President Trump’s decision to call off a federal “surge” in San Francisco\u003c/a> means for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a press conference at Oakland City Hall Thursday morning, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said the city was monitoring the situation and would keep residents informed of any developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very fluid,” Lee said, flanked by East Bay officials at the local, state and federal levels. “There’s no information we can bring to you today to bring you up to date on what plans they have in place, but we are moving forward with our plans and we are prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s press conference was called Wednesday afternoon after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-immigration-operation-21114328.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that the Trump administration would dispatch more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the federal agents would do was called into question Thursday morning after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced he had spoken to Trump via phone late Wednesday and that the president had said he was calling off plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Trump, in a \u003ca href=\"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127\">Truth Social post\u003c/a>, said he was cancelling a “surge” in the city planned for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person attending Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s press conference holds a sign that reads ‘Immigrants Are Essential’ at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters gathered at the road leading to Coast Guard Base Alameda Thursday where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">they told KQED\u003c/a> that vans of CPB officials had entered early in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference in Oakland, Lee told reporters she had spoken with Lurie about his conversation with the president, and had been in touch with the governor’s office, but had not spoken with anyone in the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,” Lee said. “We know that Border Patrol agents are being stationed on Coast Guard Island. But let me be clear, [in] our city, as I said, we are fully prepared. We’re monitoring developments closely and will keep our residents informed if there are any confirmed changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday afternoon, Lee’s office said that she still had not received any communication from the White House or the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will engage with anyone, at any level of government, to protect Oakland residents, as long as it respects our community’s values and constitutional rights,” Lee said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, law enforcement officials from Oakland and Alameda County reassured residents that local police would not assist federal immigration officers should they ramp up enforcement in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-12-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also urged protestors not to give the administration an excuse to escalate any possible response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that they’re baiting Oakland and that’s why San Francisco all of a sudden is off the table,” said Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson. “I’m not going to be quiet about what we know is coming. We know that their expectation is that Oakland is going to do something to cause them to make us the example. That’s not what we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said local law enforcement cannot stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, but the DA’s office will protect the rights of victims of crime, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD Assistant Chief James Beere reminded residents that local police should be identifiable by their uniforms or their credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Beere, assistant chief of police with the Oakland Police Department, speaks at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to make it clear, if anyone attempts to enter your house and detain you and they are not in uniform, or they do not show official credentials, please call 911 immediately,” Beere said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other officials from the region, including State Senators Jesse Arreguin and Aisha Wahab, State Assemblymembers Mia Bonta and Liz Ortega and Alameda County Supervisors Nikki Fortunato Bas and Elisa Marquez were also in attendance, along with Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington, OUSD Superintendent Denise Sadler and members of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell, who recently announced he will leave the department in December, was absent.[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Immigrant rights advocates disseminated a hotline phone number and urged people to call if they witnessed immigration officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are anticipating an escalation,” Lourdes Martinez with Centro Legal de la Raza said at the press conference. “What has happened in other cities, such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Portland, is that if there has been deployment of additional federal law enforcement, it has really strengthened ICE and their ability to execute more detentions. So that is what we are bracing for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his post on Truth Social just minutes before the press conference, Trump wrote that he had decided to call off the San Francisco operation after receiving calls from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the post, East Bay Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, said she was more concerned about Trump’s decision-making processes than the influence tech has on his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s really concerning to me,” Simon said, “[is] not just Silicon Valley, but the fact that the president of the United States would move our men and women, our military, based on hunches and then get a phone call, not based on data, and then call it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That tells you all you need to know about an administration not focused on fact, not focused on public safety, not focused on coordination, not focused on ensuring that the people of this district and beyond are doing well,” she added. “I think that we’re in trouble as a nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two people have been arrested at the entrance to Alameda’s Coast Guard Island Thursday, where hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents have been stationed for hours, protesting the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Coast Guard Base Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents began arriving early Thursday morning, according to activists, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated expansion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said they began picketing at the intersection near the sole access bridge to the Coast Guard base overnight, before San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and President Donald Trump announced Thursday that a planned federal “surge” into San Francisco this weekend had been called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Munger Jr., the Bay Area megadonor leading the campaign against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50\">Proposition 50\u003c/a>, said he remained confident opponents can defeat the redistricting measure on the November ballot, despite a recent slowdown in their campaign spending and the measure \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-california-prop-50-redistricting-trump/\">pulling ahead \u003c/a>in most \u003ca href=\"https://app.displayr.com/Dashboard?id=707a2765-e49a-4b3e-923d-761bedaf3c37#page=4172bb6a-a0e3-4c41-a979-45229cdbea14\">polls.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palo Alto physicist has spent nearly $33 million against Proposition 50, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/electionsnews\">would replace\u003c/a> California’s current congressional lines, drawn by a citizen commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052376/here-is-how-democrats-plan-to-redraw-californias-congressional-map\">with a map favoring Democrats\u003c/a>. Munger Jr. bankrolled the 2008 ballot measure that created the citizen commission and is far and away the top spender in this year’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve spent a literal fortune now and a great deal of time, energy and frankly agony in trying to keep this future from overtaking the people of California,” Munger Jr. said. “And it’s now up to them what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megadonor-opposing-proposition-50-explains-his/id79681292?i=1000733153673\"> interview with KQED’s The California Report\u003c/a>, the normally reclusive Munger Jr. pushed back against supporters of the measure, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054630/in-picking-a-fight-with-trump-newsom-gambles-on-his-own-political-future\">has argued\u003c/a> that Proposition 50 is needed to combat Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059049/who-draws-the-lines-a-history-of-gerrymandering\">gerrymandering\u003c/a> in states such as Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats in California placed Proposition 50 before voters after President Donald Trump called on GOP-led states to redraw their maps mid-decade, to give Republicans a better chance of hanging on to control of Congress in next year’s midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munger Jr. said Democrats should work to win back control of the House fair and square — with California’s current maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2239624348-scaled-e1761240194179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of voter guide materials listing Proposition 50, a ballot measure in California, in Lafayette, Contra Costa County, on Oct. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can win as many seats in the fair districts that we have as you can win by this gerrymander,” Munger Jr. said. “The only difference is the politicians aren’t choosing which Democrats and which Republicans are going to be elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Democratic-aligned groups have saturated the airwaves in recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060736/recall-redux-democrats-and-republicans-bring-back-familiar-arguments-in-prop-50-battle\">framing the contest in partisan terms\u003c/a> and billing Proposition 50 as an antidote to total Republican control of government in Washington, D.C..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, ad spending against the measure has plateaued, according to AdImpact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 12, advertisers supporting Proposition 50 have spent $26.8 million compared with just $341,000 by opponents. And supporters have reserved nearly $10 million in advertisements for the closing two weeks of the campaign, compared to just $9,000 from opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if he still believes the measure can be defeated, Munger Jr. said, “The short answer is yes.”[aside label=\"2025 California Special Election\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/proposition-50,Learn about Proposition 50' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Aside-2025-Special-Election-Voter-Guide-Proposition-50-1200x675-1.png]“One of the things we’re trying to do is build enough of a coalition of those people [who] understand the issues and what’s good for the country, that the participation between the merely partisan Democrats and the merely partisan Republicans and their money will cancel out — leaving a majority on the right side of the issue,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few big-dollar Republicans have joined Munger Jr. in the fight against Proposition 50. On the other side, Democratic megadonor George Soros and Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the redistricting campaign, joined by powerful teacher and nurses unions and thousands of small-dollar donors across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who partnered with Munger Jr. in 2008 to win voter support for the commission, has done \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057779/aoc-and-schwarzenegger-take-their-stances-on-prop-50\">relatively little\u003c/a> campaigning to save the commission’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munger Jr. described his own role in passing the measure creating the commission, Proposition 20, “as close to a one-man show as it ever gets in politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I’m quite committed to this because of the labor I put into it and because I think I understand the issues well enough to justify that labor,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munger Jr. said the commission’s work has resulted in a competitive congressional map that forces California candidates to campaign hard and listen to constituents’ needs. In the last two congressional elections, California has had 21 House races finish within 10 percentage points, compared to 11 in Texas and Florida combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Proposition 50 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053249/california-approves-redistricting-plan-now-its-up-to-voters\">is written to expire\u003c/a> after the 2030 election and hand line-drawing power back to the citizens’ commission, Munger Jr. warned of a future campaign to make the pro-Democratic lines permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course they’re going to do that,” he said. “Name a politician, name a state in the union where gerrymandering occurs, where the gerrymandering power did not seek to keep that power. You won’t find one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bimonthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Wiener has represented San Francisco in the state Senate since 2017. In those eight years, the 55-year-old Democrat has become one of the most prolific and effective lawmakers, particularly on housing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wiener’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059533/newsom-signs-ambitious-bill-to-boost-housing-density-near-public-transit\">landmark SB 79\u003c/a>, which allows greater housing density — up to nine stories — along public transit corridors and major bus stops statewide, even in neighborhoods where local zoning restricts development to single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fight hard and I can be stubborn about it, but I’m being stubborn because people need housing and the system is broken,” Wiener said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has been a leading advocate for removing barriers to housing construction, including the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, which has often been used to stop, delay or scale down housing projects since its passage in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s authored some really big, really consequential bills — including bills that have a lot of opposition,” said Brian Hanlon, founder of the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/\">California YIMBY\u003c/a> (Yes in My Backyard). Hanlon called Wiener “one of our strongest housing champions,” and said he often goes the extra mile to get controversial bills over the finish line. “He’s just not afraid to stand up for what’s right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener also seems to relish taking on contentious issues, including legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, protect gay and trans youth and to prohibit federal immigration agents from concealing their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political courage has won him plenty of admirers — and more than a few enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of different situations where I’ve been willing to break glass and sometimes piss people off, but it was the right thing to do. And so I want to take that approach to Congress,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has faced “thousands of death threats,” primarily from “the MAGA hard right,” over his bills supporting LGBT youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. SB 79 from San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener builds on years of advocacy to add more housing stock in California’s biggest metro areas, overriding local zoning laws. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was widely assumed that Wiener, who has long expressed interest in running for Congress, would wait until Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement before entering the race. But he said this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">he could no longer wait\u003c/a> to see whether the 85-year-old Democrat will retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really isn’t about Nancy Pelosi,” Wiener said. “Nancy Pelosi has moved mountains for the country and for San Francisco and I think the world of her. She’s not said whether she’s running again and we’re now to the point where we’re just a few months out from the filing deadline. And so it was time to enter the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesperson Ian Krager declined to comment directly on Wiener’s announcement, though he confirmed Wiener called the speaker emerita before declaring his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pelosi is fully focused on her mission to win the Yes on 50 special election in California on November 4th,” Krager said in a statement. “She urges all Californians to join in that mission on the path to Democrats taking back the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi is likely to clarify her political plans after next month’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office at the San Francisco Federal Building on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An advisor to Wiener said his decision to move forward was partly prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a wealthy software engineer capable of self-funding his campaign. Chakrabarti has generated buzz for his insurgent campaign against a San Francisco icon he says should step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti knows something about knocking off entrenched incumbents. In 2018, he managed the upstart congressional campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unexpectedly defeated incumbent New York Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley. He later served as Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff in the House, helping draft the Green New Deal.[aside postID=news_12033097 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-SAIKAT-CHAKRABARTI-ON-PB-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']According to his \u003ca href=\"https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2025/10063516.pdf\">economic disclosure form\u003c/a>, Chakrabarti, who officially launched his campaign against Pelosi earlier this year, is worth at least $167 million, much of it equity in Stripe, the payment processing company where he was a founding engineer. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who opened his congressional campaign committee last year, reported raising more than $1 million in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/\">most recent filing\u003c/a> with the Federal Election Commission, with $867,105 cash on hand at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Chakrabarti’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6CA11219/\">FEC filing\u003c/a> shows total contributions of just under $1 million, about half from personal loans to his campaign. After spending on infrastructure, he reported $95,384 cash on hand and $755,000 in outstanding loans and debts. But given his net worth, he can presumably self-fund this campaign going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, long one of the Democratic Party’s most prolific fundraisers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00213512/\">reported contributions\u003c/a> of just over $2 million for 2025, including at least $450,000 transferred to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She reported $1.5 million cash on hand through September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect Wiener to cast Chakrabarti as a kind of political dilettante with weak ties to San Francisco and little experience governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough just to say, ‘Oh I want to challenge the establishment and do all these things,’ when you don’t necessarily have the track record of showing that you know how to do that,” Wiener said, without mentioning Chakrabarti by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti responded in a statement: “I have experience turning big ideas into reality even in a gridlocked Congress. Scott has experience tinkering with regulations in an overwhelmingly Democratic Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian activists attempt to block access to the Port of Oakland in September. A bill languishing in the House would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that could separate Chakrabarti from Wiener, who is Jewish, is Gaza. Israel’s war there has drawn widespread condemnation for the devastation and deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on a music festival in southern Israel that killed hundreds and took about 240 civilians hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill currently languishing in the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3565/text\">H.R. 3565\u003c/a>, would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. Chakrabarti has \u003ca href=\"https://www.saikat.us/en/blockthebombs\">aired ads\u003c/a> calling on Pelosi to support the bill, which has not passed out of committee. Interviewed this week, Wiener twice declined to say how he’d vote on H.R. 3565, but said, “I do not think that we should be selling offensive arms to Israel under this government or any government like it. We need to get a government that’s committed both to democracy and to peace and not to this devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye said while he disagrees with many of Wiener’s policy positions, he acknowledges his effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scott Wiener has been one of the most productive legislators we’ve ever seen in San Francisco, and in many respects he’s the Nancy Pelosi of his generation. He’s the Willie Brown of his generation. He’s the Phil Burton of his generation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this congressional seat became vacant after the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi received a deathbed endorsement from Burton’s widow but she was relatively unknown beyond Democratic Party insiders. More than a dozen people ran including four San Francisco supervisors. Jaye doubts there will be that kind of candidate stampede this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Pelosi) didn’t scare anybody out. Now, if it’s Wiener and Pelosi, I don’t think others will look at that and say, ‘I could beat one of those two,’” Jaye said. At the same time, he added that Pelosi “suffers from a suspicion that grew in the American electorate about octogenarian leaders, based on what happened with former President Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, an open House seat is too enticing for politicians to ignore. Supervisor Connie Chan is reportedly considering a run. Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, has also considered running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever enters the race, Jaye said, will face “a moment in San Francisco politics, California politics, national politics where voters are pretty frustrated with the slow pace of change. So it’s a very, very roiled political environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has been a leading advocate for removing barriers to housing construction, including the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, which has often been used to stop, delay or scale down housing projects since its passage in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s authored some really big, really consequential bills — including bills that have a lot of opposition,” said Brian Hanlon, founder of the pro-housing group \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/\">California YIMBY\u003c/a> (Yes in My Backyard). Hanlon called Wiener “one of our strongest housing champions,” and said he often goes the extra mile to get controversial bills over the finish line. “He’s just not afraid to stand up for what’s right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener also seems to relish taking on contentious issues, including legislation to regulate artificial intelligence, protect gay and trans youth and to prohibit federal immigration agents from concealing their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His political courage has won him plenty of admirers — and more than a few enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in a lot of different situations where I’ve been willing to break glass and sometimes piss people off, but it was the right thing to do. And so I want to take that approach to Congress,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has faced “thousands of death threats,” primarily from “the MAGA hard right,” over his bills supporting LGBT youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. SB 79 from San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener builds on years of advocacy to add more housing stock in California’s biggest metro areas, overriding local zoning laws. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was widely assumed that Wiener, who has long expressed interest in running for Congress, would wait until Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement before entering the race. But he said this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060826/state-sen-scott-wiener-is-running-for-pelosis-house-seat-saying-it-was-time\">he could no longer wait\u003c/a> to see whether the 85-year-old Democrat will retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really isn’t about Nancy Pelosi,” Wiener said. “Nancy Pelosi has moved mountains for the country and for San Francisco and I think the world of her. She’s not said whether she’s running again and we’re now to the point where we’re just a few months out from the filing deadline. And so it was time to enter the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi’s spokesperson Ian Krager declined to comment directly on Wiener’s announcement, though he confirmed Wiener called the speaker emerita before declaring his candidacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speaker Pelosi is fully focused on her mission to win the Yes on 50 special election in California on November 4th,” Krager said in a statement. “She urges all Californians to join in that mission on the path to Democrats taking back the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi is likely to clarify her political plans after next month’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_01540-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office at the San Francisco Federal Building on Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An advisor to Wiener said his decision to move forward was partly prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033097/hes-challenging-nancy-pelosi-and-the-democratic-party\">candidacy of Saikat Chakrabarti\u003c/a>, a wealthy software engineer capable of self-funding his campaign. Chakrabarti has generated buzz for his insurgent campaign against a San Francisco icon he says should step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti knows something about knocking off entrenched incumbents. In 2018, he managed the upstart congressional campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unexpectedly defeated incumbent New York Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley. He later served as Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff in the House, helping draft the Green New Deal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to his \u003ca href=\"https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2025/10063516.pdf\">economic disclosure form\u003c/a>, Chakrabarti, who officially launched his campaign against Pelosi earlier this year, is worth at least $167 million, much of it equity in Stripe, the payment processing company where he was a founding engineer. If elected, he would be one of the wealthiest members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who opened his congressional campaign committee last year, reported raising more than $1 million in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/\">most recent filing\u003c/a> with the Federal Election Commission, with $867,105 cash on hand at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Chakrabarti’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6CA11219/\">FEC filing\u003c/a> shows total contributions of just under $1 million, about half from personal loans to his campaign. After spending on infrastructure, he reported $95,384 cash on hand and $755,000 in outstanding loans and debts. But given his net worth, he can presumably self-fund this campaign going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi, long one of the Democratic Party’s most prolific fundraisers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00213512/\">reported contributions\u003c/a> of just over $2 million for 2025, including at least $450,000 transferred to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She reported $1.5 million cash on hand through September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect Wiener to cast Chakrabarti as a kind of political dilettante with weak ties to San Francisco and little experience governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough just to say, ‘Oh I want to challenge the establishment and do all these things,’ when you don’t necessarily have the track record of showing that you know how to do that,” Wiener said, without mentioning Chakrabarti by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chakrabarti responded in a statement: “I have experience turning big ideas into reality even in a gridlocked Congress. Scott has experience tinkering with regulations in an overwhelmingly Democratic Sacramento.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/OaklandGazaProtest1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian activists attempt to block access to the Port of Oakland in September. A bill languishing in the House would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One issue that could separate Chakrabarti from Wiener, who is Jewish, is Gaza. Israel’s war there has drawn widespread condemnation for the devastation and deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on a music festival in southern Israel that killed hundreds and took about 240 civilians hostage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill currently languishing in the House, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3565/text\">H.R. 3565\u003c/a>, would block the sale or transfer of certain bombs and other weapons to Israel. Chakrabarti has \u003ca href=\"https://www.saikat.us/en/blockthebombs\">aired ads\u003c/a> calling on Pelosi to support the bill, which has not passed out of committee. Interviewed this week, Wiener twice declined to say how he’d vote on H.R. 3565, but said, “I do not think that we should be selling offensive arms to Israel under this government or any government like it. We need to get a government that’s committed both to democracy and to peace and not to this devastation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veteran San Francisco political consultant Eric Jaye said while he disagrees with many of Wiener’s policy positions, he acknowledges his effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scott Wiener has been one of the most productive legislators we’ve ever seen in San Francisco, and in many respects he’s the Nancy Pelosi of his generation. He’s the Willie Brown of his generation. He’s the Phil Burton of his generation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this congressional seat became vacant after the death of Rep. Sala Burton, Pelosi received a deathbed endorsement from Burton’s widow but she was relatively unknown beyond Democratic Party insiders. More than a dozen people ran including four San Francisco supervisors. Jaye doubts there will be that kind of candidate stampede this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Pelosi) didn’t scare anybody out. Now, if it’s Wiener and Pelosi, I don’t think others will look at that and say, ‘I could beat one of those two,’” Jaye said. At the same time, he added that Pelosi “suffers from a suspicion that grew in the American electorate about octogenarian leaders, based on what happened with former President Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, an open House seat is too enticing for politicians to ignore. Supervisor Connie Chan is reportedly considering a run. Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, has also considered running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever enters the race, Jaye said, will face “a moment in San Francisco politics, California politics, national politics where voters are pretty frustrated with the slow pace of change. So it’s a very, very roiled political environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal agents are set to arrive in Alameda this week as part of a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> enforcement operation in the Bay Area, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda’s Coast Guard base will serve as a “place of operation” for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, a spokesperson said, as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on undocumented immigration with expanded raids and surges of federal officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support of [Department of Homeland Security] agencies continues the Coast Guard’s action to provide its unique authorities and capabilities as part of [the] government’s approach to control, secure and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches by dismantling transnational criminal organizations, including drug and human smuggling operations, narcoterrorists and other hostile activity before they reach the border,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas told KQED that Trump is sending 60 to 100 Border Patrol agents, who are expected to begin arriving at the base as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, he has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threatened to expand his operation\u003c/a> to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">escalating operations\u003c/a> throughout the Bay Area, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and arresting them outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 people were arrested in San Francisco’s “Area of Responsibility” between January and July 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rapid response networks said Wednesday that they were prepared to respond to heightened immigration enforcement in the region.[aside postID=news_12061106 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg']Alameda County is activating emergency operations, according to Centro Legal de La Raza attorney Lourdes Martinez, and would be operating its Immigration Legal and Education Partnership hotline through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the city’s rapid response network was also aware of the potential for increased operations targeting San Francisco and is “prepared to respond from a place of power, not panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will also provide attorney activation for rapid response networks in the region, according to communications manager Alex Mensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local political leaders were also quick to respond to the news Wednesday, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who offered his most forceful rejection of the Trump administration in a virtual press conference, saying he had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">signed an emergency directive\u003c/a> to build on the city’s preparation for possible federal troop deployment and was activating the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged anyone who protests to do so peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Barbara Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will notify our community with as much information as possible about any federal deployment,” she said in a statement. “Real public safety comes from Oakland-based solutions, not federal military occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Barbara Lee speaks during a press conference at Oakland City Hall in Oakland on Aug. 14, 2025, condemning President Trump’s recent remarks about Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Based on what they’re doing in other parts of the country, we certainly are going to be very vigilant around places where there may be large numbers of our immigrant community members,” Fortunato Bas said. “We have your back, and we are going to work very hard to defend the rights of our immigrant community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-immigration-operation-21114328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em> first reported that the Trump administration had dispatched federal agents to Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the officials arriving on Wednesday aren’t members of the National Guard, the planned deployment comes after Trump told Fox News on Sunday that he planned to make San Francisco his next target for federal military deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">City Attorney David Chiu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> have already vowed to take legal action immediately should troops be sent to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We understand the anticipated increase in immigration enforcement in the area may be a precursor to that deployment,” a spokesperson for the California Department of Justice said. “Federal agents like CBP can enforce immigration laws, but we will continue to monitor the Trump Administration’s actions closely for compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus far, lawsuits have hindered deployments in Chicago and Portland, though the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked troops’ access to the Oregon city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he could use the Insurrection Act to deploy troops in San Francisco. The law allows the president to federalize state National Guard units and deploy federal troops to cities during times of heightened civil disorder or insurrection, giving him “unquestioned power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that [the Insurrection Act] and there are no more court cases, there is no more anything. We’re trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act,” he said on Fox News’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383070885112\">\u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051925 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas told KQED that Trump is sending 60 to 100 Border Patrol agents, who are expected to begin arriving at the base as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, he has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threatened to expand his operation\u003c/a> to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">escalating operations\u003c/a> throughout the Bay Area, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and arresting them outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 people were arrested in San Francisco’s “Area of Responsibility” between January and July 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rapid response networks said Wednesday that they were prepared to respond to heightened immigration enforcement in the region.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alameda County is activating emergency operations, according to Centro Legal de La Raza attorney Lourdes Martinez, and would be operating its Immigration Legal and Education Partnership hotline through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the city’s rapid response network was also aware of the potential for increased operations targeting San Francisco and is “prepared to respond from a place of power, not panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will also provide attorney activation for rapid response networks in the region, according to communications manager Alex Mensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local political leaders were also quick to respond to the news Wednesday, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who offered his most forceful rejection of the Trump administration in a virtual press 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href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> have already vowed to take legal action immediately should troops be sent to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, 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The law allows the president to federalize state National Guard units and deploy federal troops to cities during times of heightened civil disorder or insurrection, giving him “unquestioned power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that [the Insurrection Act] and there are no more court cases, there is no more anything. We’re trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act,” he said on Fox News’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383070885112\">\u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051925 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-giants\">The San Francisco Giants\u003c/a> have hired Tennessee Volunteers coach Tony Vitello as manager for his first pro coaching job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco announced the move Wednesday, an unprecedented gamble by president of baseball operations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/buster-posey\">Buster Posey\u003c/a> on a coach with no pro experience. The 47-year-old Vitello is making the jump after spending his entire career at the college level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tony is one of the brightest, most innovative and most respected coaches in college baseball today,” Posey said. “Throughout our search, Tony’s leadership, competitiveness and commitment to developing players stood out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey said the Giants look forward to the energy and direction Vitello brings with his passion for baseball aligning with the club’s values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m incredibly honored and grateful for this opportunity,” Vitello said in the Giants’ announcement. “I’m excited to lead this group of players and represent the San Francisco Giants. 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That worked out with Johnson winning two Super Bowl trophies in 1992 and 1993 in a Hall of Fame career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posey is striving for stability at manager after so much turnover for the franchise in recent years, including Posey taking over as President of Baseball Operations last fall when Farhan Zaidi was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/giants-bob-melvin-fired-da8601e27e07ffec4713a1f188856480\">The Giants dismissed manager Bob Melvin\u003c/a> after two years, and Posey quickly ruled out beloved longtime Giants skipper Bruce Bochy as an option to replace him once Bochy parted ways with Texas following a three-year managerial stint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants finished 81-81 for one more victory than in Melvin’s first year. They haven’t reached the postseason since winning the NL West with a franchise-record 107 victories to edge the rival Dodgers by one game in 2021 under then-skipper Gabe Kapler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is getting a colorful and brash manager in Vitello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA suspended Vitello twice during his Tennessee tenure, first for spending too much time arguing a call in 2018. During that two-game suspension, he raised money for charity with a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WBIRSports/status/995056049022488576?s=20&t=PULr03IYpStMwmwM8MFAag\">pizza and lemonade stand\u003c/a> while the Vols played.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/11point7/status/1515456939777536004\">Chest-bumping an umpire\u003c/a> in 2022 led to a four-game suspension, and Vitello spent that time working with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-baseball-mens-college-basketball-tennessee-d8e9bed939becaab50bdccc1f9b507f0\">Tennessee fraternity\u003c/a> offering a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OldRowVols/status/1516826966904786944?s=20&t=ump0c8VkfUKCXBEmu3bmQg\">chest bump\u003c/a> to anyone donating $2 to the Wounded Warriors Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello isn’t a stranger to Northern California. In 2002, he was associate head coach of the Salinas Packers in the California Collegiate League. The team went 50-14 and reached the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He played three seasons at Missouri as an infielder and began his coaching career there before stints at TCU and Arkansas, the last where he was hitting coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native of St. Louis, Vitello went 341–131 at Tennessee. In his second season in 2019, he led the Vols to their first NCAA berth since 2005. Vitello then led the Vols to their first national title in baseball, winning the 2024 College World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tennessee has reached the College World Series three times with Vitello. He has two Southeastern Conference regular-season titles and a pair of SEC Tournament titles, the last in 2024. Tennessee is finishing up an expansion and renovation of the baseball stadium to meet interest in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello was earning $3 million a year and signed a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-baseball-vitello-contract-1bc604ac7606d18ea20c78802a6ff3df\">five-year extension in 2024\u003c/a> that includes a $3 million buyout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tennessee athletic director Danny White congratulated Vitello on the job and said university officials are focused on players and the coaching staff in an “evolving process” while they finalize the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to continuously investing in the program at a championship level across all areas,” White said. “Furthermore, the upcoming $109 million renovation of Lindsey Nelson Stadium will transform it into one of the premier baseball venues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Sports Writer Teresa M. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a series of recent class action lawsuits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> civil rights advocates are calling on the federal courts to halt what they call illegal Trump administration policies that are leading to the arrest of asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">people attending immigration court hearings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three lawsuits filed in federal courts in California in recent weeks are part of a larger legal pushback by advocacy groups across the country challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when Homeland Security officials tout arrests of “heinous” criminals they call the “worst of the worst,” the lawsuits put the focus on the ways U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted vulnerable people such as domestic violence survivors and those who’ve fled persecution, said UC Davis Law Professor Kevin Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are serious constitutional and statutory claims … challenging the efforts of the Trump administration to tighten the immigration enforcement machinery around non-citizens,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE rearrest immigrants who were already released?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/%5B38%5D%202025%2010%2010%20AMENDED%20COMPLAINT%20and%20Amended%20Petition%20for%20Writ%20of%20Habeas.pdf\">case\u003c/a> before a federal judge in San José, Bay Area legal groups are seeking to block ICE from rearresting immigrants who had previously been granted conditional release, typically after border agents had determined they were not dangerous and not a flight risk, meaning they were expected to show up for their proceedings in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say ICE has arrested and detained more than 100 immigrants in recent months as they attended mandatory court hearings and ICE supervision check-ins in Northern and Central California, even though they were abiding by the terms of their release and their circumstances had not changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-ANTIFAROUNDTABLEFOLO-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the ICE Field Office in downtown San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2025, for scheduled check-ins and immigration-related appointments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bree Bernwanger, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, one of the groups filing the suit, said until things shifted abruptly in May, such rearrests were unheard of for ICE’s San Francisco field office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>ICE’s new policy allows them to make arrests and throw people back into detention without any justification,” she said. “[It] has disrupted people’s lives, it’s torn families apart, and it’s fundamentally unfair and unreasoned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment, but the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those arrested was Gabriela Vargas Plasencia, who was an engineering student in Peru before she fled death threats and came to the U.S. last year seeking asylum, according to her declaration to the court. She said she and her boyfriend were detained at the border, then released with instructions on attending immigration hearings.[aside postID=news_12060135 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty1.jpg']They settled in Oakland, submitted their asylum applications and enrolled in English classes. Once she was granted a work permit, Vargas Plasencia said she found two jobs, at Target and FedEx, working 50 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at court on Sep. 4, she said, a government attorney asked the immigration judge to dismiss their cases. When the couple left the courtroom, Vargas Plasencia said agents in plain clothes grabbed them, took them to the basement and shackled them – all with no explanation. Hours later, they were driven to Bakersfield and locked up at the Mesa Verde Immigration Detention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lawyers intervened, a federal judge ordered Vargas Plasencia’s release. But in the meantime, she said, her car was towed and she was reprimanded for missing work. Her partner is still in custody. And she said she still has flashbacks to what she called “one of the most difficult and painful experiences I have ever endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each time I have to check in with ICE, I feel anxiety and panic all over again,” Vargas Plasencia said in her declaration. “I have never committed any crime, in the United States or anywhere else. I only wish to continue my asylum case peacefully and to build a safe, stable life here; and for my partner to be released soon, as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernwanger, the ACLU attorney, says rearresting people who are complying with the conditions of their release is an arbitrary exercise of power that violates the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should all be concerned,” she said. “Are we comfortable with a system in which people can just be grabbed off of the street and thrown into detention?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest immigrants at immigration courthouses?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the lawsuit involving Vargas Plasencia centers on the question of \u003cem>why\u003c/em> ICE can arrest someone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056762/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-sue-the-trump-administration-to-end-courthouse-arrests\">another recent case\u003c/a> deals with the question of \u003cem>where\u003c/em> those arrests can take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/32.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed last month by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco, along with the ACLU and others, takes on Trump administration policies \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/policy/11072.4.pdf\">instructing ICE\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://perma.cc/S9CB-FP96\">the immigration courts\u003c/a> that arresting people at courthouses, formerly off limits, is now acceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060987\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2216992312-scaled-e1761161311555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child, whose father was detained by ICE after a court hearing in the early morning, stands inside the N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court on May 23, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates say detaining people who are following the rules, and may, like Vargas Plasencia, have pending claims to asylum or other relief, will have a “chilling effect,” keeping them away from hearings and denying them access to justice. The administration has denied there’s any evidence for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conducting these arrests at courthouses, and conducting arrests of people without a justification when you’ve already released them, both of those policies are unlawful for different reasons,” said Bernwanger. “We are seeing ICE use them in coordination to absolutely terrorize people in our community who are just trying to do what the immigration system asks of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same judge, P. Casey Pitts, who was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden, will hear both Bay Area cases. Pitts has set hearings in both cases for Dec. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest survivors of trafficking and domestic violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a class action \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gBGtsW_qv9e_Cdd71E9EDbpUWIymIyS/view\">case\u003c/a> filed in federal court in Los Angeles last week blasts ICE for arresting, and even deporting, immigrants applying for legal visas as survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence or other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hernandez is with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which is representing the immigrants. She said, under the Violence Against Women Act and other laws, these immigrants have permission to be in the U.S while their visas are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055266\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2221046205-scaled-e1761161380689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1345\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester carries a sign reading “Immigrants Built America!” as anti-ICE demonstrators protest outside a federal building on June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who have been granted legal protection by Congress,” she said. “The government is basically violating those legal protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the named plaintiffs in the case, identified as Camila B., has lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades. In 2021, she was attacked at a bus stop and beaten unconscious, according to the complaint. She cooperated with police, helping them to arrest her attacker, and applied for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-criminal-activity-u-nonimmigrant-status\">U Visa\u003c/a>, which offers legal status to undocumented immigrants who’ve suffered serious crimes and assist law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the long backlog for applications, the government granted Camila, 46, temporary protection from deportation to her native Mexico while she awaited her visa. But on July 1, as part of ICE’s immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, officers surrounded her tamale stand and arrested her. She was held in detention until July 30, when a judge ordered her released on bond.[aside postID=news_12060893 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/PeterOrtizKQED.jpg']Many of the affected immigrants are in the U.S. illegally. But, beginning with the 1994 passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/abused-spouses-children-and-parents\">Violence Against Women Act\u003c/a>, Congress repeatedly expanded protections for immigrant survivors of crime, encouraging them to seek safety and cooperate with law enforcement. Among the protections are \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-of-human-trafficking-and-other-crimes\">special visas for victims of trafficking and other serious crimes\u003c/a> that eventually lead to a green card. Congress also provided work authorization, and for years, immigration authorities had policies not to deport people who were in the process of applying for the visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges the Trump administration’s reversal flies in the face of a federal law against “arbitrary and capricious” policy changes, and says the detentions violate people’s constitutionally guaranteed due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and Homeland Security officials did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment about the case, but Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin has told other news outlets that every immigrant deported by ICE “has had due process and has a final order of removal — meaning they have no legal right to be in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, said defending laws like the Violence Against Women Act is very personal to her. 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Casey Pitts, who was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden, will hear both Bay Area cases. Pitts has set hearings in both cases for Dec. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can ICE arrest survivors of trafficking and domestic violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a class action \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gBGtsW_qv9e_Cdd71E9EDbpUWIymIyS/view\">case\u003c/a> filed in federal court in Los Angeles last week blasts ICE for arresting, and even deporting, immigrants applying for legal visas as survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence or other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hernandez is with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which is representing the immigrants. 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Payments typically arrive within the first 10 days of each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the federal government directed states to hold the month’s benefit data, which is usually used to allocate CalFresh funds to residents with benefit cards, he said.[aside postID=news_12060106 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016_FOODBANKSHUTDOWN-_GH-5-KQED.jpg']It’s not clear whether CalFresh recipients will receive future benefits payments at all if the shutdown continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters last week that SNAP would run out of money in two weeks if the shutdown continued, and the Department of Agriculture hasn’t provided a \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/blog/how-will-government-shutdown-affect-snap-benefits\">2025 contingency plan\u003c/a>, according to the Food Research and Action Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department could technically tap into reserves, but it’s unknown how flush that fund is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown could also begin causing delays to state-funded food benefit programs, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California Guard troops, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiavolunteers.ca.gov/\">California Volunteers members\u003c/a>, will help food banks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060106/alameda-county-food-bank-delivers-to-tsa-employees-working-without-pay-at-oakland-airport\">absorb higher demand\u003c/a> — especially as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Military Department, under the direction of the Governor’s Office, is proud to support food bank operations across the state,” said Major General Matthew P. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> now in its third week, and with no signs of ending anytime soon, Californians who use national social services programs are becoming increasingly concerned about the impacts on their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned that the shutdown “will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">likely delay food benefits” in November for people using CalFresh\u003c/a> — California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps — “if President Trump and Congress do not reopen the federal government by October 23, or take action to fund benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#DoIneed\">Jump straight to: Do I need to do anything right now if I’m on WIC?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nAnother federally funded initiative that’s been the cause of concern during the shutdown is the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/food/women-infants-children-supplemental-nutrition-program-wic\"> Women, Infants, & Children Supplemental Nutrition Program\u003c/a> (WIC), which provides support to low-income families with young children or who are expecting a child. WIC helps parents receive food assistance to \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/WAFL\">purchase items like fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, formula and baby food\u003c/a>, as well as offering \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/HowWICHelps\">infant nutrition aid, including free breastfeeding support.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, the California Department of Public Health confirms that families using WIC can at least be assured that \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/FederalBudget\">these particular benefits should stay in place throughout November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1031437072-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1031437072-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WIC helps parents receive food assistance to purchase items like fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, formula and baby food, as well as offering infant nutrition aid, including free breastfeeding support. The program is expected to stay operational during the shutdown. \u003ccite>(Photo by Rawpixel/iStock / Getty Images Plus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We project to remain fully operational through November 30, assuming no unexpected changes at the federal government level,” CDPH said in a statement on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge number of Californians depend on WIC. According to CDPH, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DWICSN/Pages/AboutWIC/ProgramOverview.aspx\">the program serves approximately 1 million participants statewide each month\u003c/a>. Additionally, around “60 percent of all California resident births in a given year are eligible for the WIC program,” CDPH said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How is WIC funded?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>WIC is handled by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The program is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DWICSN/Pages/ResearchandData/WICProgramCostInfo.aspx\">funded by different sources of money\u003c/a>, including money granted by Congress, reallocations of unspent funds from the year prior and rebates from infant formula manufacturers. States can also use \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/tariff-revenue-federal-food-aid\">their own funds\u003c/a> to supplement their WIC program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the USDA’s $150 million contingency fund for WIC \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/10/congress/usda-wic-tariff-revenue-nutrition-benefits-trump-00600666\">quickly\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/government-shutdown-threatens-wic-food-program-used-by-millions-of-families\">used up by states in the first week of the shutdown\u003c/a>, on Oct. 10, the WIC program received \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">a $300 million infusion\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump’s administration — which the White House said came from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-wic-food-a6d66fa0ce3d02257b5b43a79355b1bf\">unspent tariff revenue from the last fiscal year\u003c/a>. CDPH said these additional funds are allowing WIC to continue through the shutdown.[aside postID=news_12060770 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/SNAPGetty.jpg']However, some \u003ca href=\"https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/01/wa-nutrition-program-for-babies-mothers-at-risk-in-shutdown/\">states facing financial difficulties, like Washington\u003c/a>, may still struggle to continue their WIC program in the coming weeks. “Several [states] are set to run out of funds to pay for WIC benefits on November 1 and may need to start making contingency plans as early as next week,” read \u003ca href=\"https://www.nwica.org/press-releases/national-wic-association-urges-additional-funding-to-prevent-disruption-in-wic-on-november-1\">an Oct. 21 statement\u003c/a> from Georgia Machell, the president of the National WIC Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“NWA is calling on the White House to make additional emergency funds available to avoid a short-term crisis for the millions of American families who count on WIC while Congress negotiates full-year funding for FY 2026,” Machell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while WIC is expected to stay afloat in California, the state may still face a difficult road ahead. Sarah Diaz, a coordinator with the California WIC Association, said about half of the families in the WIC program also receive support from CalFresh, meaning that half a million of those people could\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\"> potentially see their SNAP payments stop in November during the shutdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"DoIneed\">\u003c/a>What to do right now if you’re on WIC\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDPH said that the agency “continues to monitor the federal budget situation and the potential impact of a government shutdown on the WIC program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the shutdown, “things can always change depending on different variables and USDA actions,” Diaz said. “But right now, the expectation is that WIC should continue operations in November and participants should continue coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means people in California should still keep their appointments, use their WIC cards at stores and apply for benefits, she said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, some \u003ca href=\"https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/01/wa-nutrition-program-for-babies-mothers-at-risk-in-shutdown/\">states facing financial difficulties, like Washington\u003c/a>, may still struggle to continue their WIC program in the coming weeks. “Several [states] are set to run out of funds to pay for WIC benefits on November 1 and may need to start making contingency plans as early as next week,” read \u003ca href=\"https://www.nwica.org/press-releases/national-wic-association-urges-additional-funding-to-prevent-disruption-in-wic-on-november-1\">an Oct. 21 statement\u003c/a> from Georgia Machell, the president of the National WIC Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“NWA is calling on the White House to make additional emergency funds available to avoid a short-term crisis for the millions of American families who count on WIC while Congress negotiates full-year funding for FY 2026,” Machell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while WIC is expected to stay afloat in California, the state may still face a difficult road ahead. Sarah Diaz, a coordinator with the California WIC Association, said about half of the families in the WIC program also receive support from CalFresh, meaning that half a million of those people could\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\"> potentially see their SNAP payments stop in November during the shutdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"DoIneed\">\u003c/a>What to do right now if you’re on WIC\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CDPH said that the agency “continues to monitor the federal budget situation and the potential impact of a government shutdown on the WIC program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the shutdown, “things can always change depending on different variables and USDA actions,” Diaz said. “But right now, the expectation is that WIC should continue operations in November and participants should continue coming in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means people in California should still keep their appointments, use their WIC cards at stores and apply for benefits, she said. Diaz added there could be some “interruptions” if the “shutdown continues for a really extended period,” but for now, “nothing has changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government employees who have been furloughed during the shutdown may also be eligible for WIC benefits since \u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/FederalBudget\">“even temporary changes in income can make you qualify\u003c/a>,” Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/FederalBudget\">See the latest updates about WIC in California.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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