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"content": "\u003cp>Justin Sweeney’s desk is piled with file folders and law books. He’s been practicing immigration law for five years, and so far this has been the busiest of his career -- he's seen a 400 percent increase in consultations and new client contracts over the same period last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to do an appointment every hour, but now because there’s so many people coming in we do an appointment every half-hour,” he says. “It gets crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A steady stream of clients files through Sweeney’s small downtown Fresno office. While he meets with one client, his secretary helps another. A toddler crawls around in the hallway while her parents wait for their appointment. 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Can’t do it,” she tells me. “It’s all low-income families that work out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santoyo lives in rural Firebaugh, about an hour outside Fresno. She’s eager to get her husband some legal help. She says he’s had his green card for 30 years, but he’s scared to apply for citizenship because of an old DUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really is afraid,” she says, explaining his concern that submitting the application requires alerting immigration authorities to this criminal history: “‘What if I submit the application and they’re going to deport me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers are hard to come by in Santoyo’s town, and money’s tight. 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Hardly anyone here says they’ve consulted with any kind of immigration provider, and everyone is bursting with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna stay to answer a few individual questions,” Davenport says, “but they’ve got to be quick because there are so many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of attorneys in the area, a lot of their caseload is cleaning up the mess created by fraudulent providers.'\u003ccite>Allison Davenport\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Lupe Santoyo the advice was well worth the wait -- she got some good news about her husband. “The lawyer said, 'Tell him to go ahead and fill it out and become a United States citizen.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Santoyo’s challenge is finding trustworthy help with the paperwork. 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In the entire Central Valley there are barely 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for this small number of immigration lawyers, there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.cmsny.org/puma.html\">close to 300,000 legal immigrants eligible to become citizens in the region\u003c/a> -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=818\">almost as many undocumented immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of attorneys poses one challenge to potential clients, as well as the fact that most of the lawyers are based in the cities that dot this vast agricultural region. But money also keeps a lot of people from getting legal help. Sweeney is well aware that most of his clients are farmworkers, with little cash to spare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11477450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11477450 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-1180x764.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-960x621.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233-520x337.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3845-e1495743457233.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sweeney has seen an uptick in family-based immigration cases as well as deportation cases. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"This is an expensive case,\" Sweeney tells a green-card client who’s trying to help his undocumented wife become a legal resident. “I charge $5,000, and I need a $1,000 retainer upfront.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds: “I know, it’s a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For someone like Lupe Santoyo, that’s just too much. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where are you gonna get that? Can’t do it,” she tells me. “It’s all low-income families that work out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santoyo lives in rural Firebaugh, about an hour outside Fresno. She’s eager to get her husband some legal help. She says he’s had his green card for 30 years, but he’s scared to apply for citizenship because of an old DUI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really is afraid,” she says, explaining his concern that submitting the application requires alerting immigration authorities to this criminal history: “‘What if I submit the application and they’re going to deport me?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers are hard to come by in Santoyo’s town, and money’s tight. So when she heard about a presentation on immigration law in town, she jumped at the chance to get advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a local library, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/allison-davenport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attorney Allison Davenport of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a> leads a presentation on immigration law basics. To reach people like Santoyo, Davenport is going out into rural communities. Nonprofit groups like hers are trying to fill the gap for those who can’t afford private lawyers. But they’re overwhelmed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11477449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11477449 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-800x635.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-800x635.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-1020x810.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-1180x937.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-960x762.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-375x298.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614-520x413.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_3699-e1495742976614.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Allison Davenport presents on immigration law basics at a forum in Firebaugh, California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California-based \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://onejustice.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OneJustice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an organization that works to expand access to legal help, has been mapping immigration services in the state. It has identified more than 400 nonprofit immigration providers in California. Only 28 of them work in the Central Valley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason there are so few immigration attorneys or nonprofits working here, Davenport says, comes down to logistics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Geography makes it a complicated place to practice,” she says. The nearest immigration courts are in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and though attorneys can often make their appearances by phone, in some instances they’ve got to show up in person. That makes for lots of driving, and additional expenses for clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Davenport’s Firebaugh presentation comes to an end, a crowd forms around her. Hardly anyone here says they’ve consulted with any kind of immigration provider, and everyone is bursting with questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna stay to answer a few individual questions,” Davenport says, “but they’ve got to be quick because there are so many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A lot of attorneys in the area, a lot of their caseload is cleaning up the mess created by fraudulent providers.'\u003ccite>Allison Davenport\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Lupe Santoyo the advice was well worth the wait -- she got some good news about her husband. “The lawyer said, 'Tell him to go ahead and fill it out and become a United States citizen.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Santoyo’s challenge is finding trustworthy help with the paperwork. Because there are so few lawyers, the Central Valley is ripe for immigration fraud. “When you cannot connect people to quality service providers,” Davenport says, “they’re going to go to the person nearest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often that means an unqualified provider. In California, immigration consultants -- often known as \u003cem>notarios\u003c/em> in Spanish -- are barred from giving legal advice to clients, as they are not attorneys. In Mexico, \u003cem>notarios,\u003c/em> or notaries, are licensed to practice law, which leads some immigrants in the United States to trust any legal services they charge for. Some of these businesses are incompetent, while others are swindlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big, big problem,” Davenport says. “A lot of attorneys in the area, a lot of their caseload is cleaning up the mess created by fraudulent providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno attorney Sweeney does his share of cleanup. But sometimes it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two weeks ago, a grown man in my office, crying because his wife is in Mexico,” Sweeney tells me. “The notary sent her to Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweeney says the notary wrongly told the family the wife would be eligible for a green card after returning to Mexico for an interview at an American consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In five minutes I determined she was not eligible,” Sweeney says. “And he’s like, ‘What can we do now?’ Nothing. There’s nothing legally that I can do to bring her back. And I literally see that every week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Documentary filmmaker Christopher Woon-Chen says he wanted to understand his own relationship with hip-hop culture and breakdancing. He’s Chinese-American and he asked himself, \"Can Asian-Americans be a part of hip-hop, and can we be so authentically?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he thought he could answer this question by “seeking out stories of others doing it, and not just in isolated experiences. I wanted to know about groups of Asian-Americans who were doing hip-hop en masse, and outside of Filipino-Americans in the '90s, that was also Hmong-Americans in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vaSK9TaTtRXgMsTgxWwaugDD2JUUQQzU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he started in the Central Valley and found the stories so interesting that he made a 2011 documentary called \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/ondemand/amongbboys/69136669\">\"Among B-Boys.\"\u003c/a> And, he says, the answer to his question about Asian-Americans being a part of hip-hop \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/hmong-youth-finding-a-place-among-b-boys.php\">was an unequivocal yes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historians Romeo Guzman and Sean Slusser at Fresno State agree. They’re currently working alongside graduate students to collect oral histories from Fresno’s Hmong b-boys and b-girls. The \"b\" stands for \"break.\" The project will be archived at Fresno State as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FresnoStatePublicHistory/\">Valley Public History Initiative.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Yang, Bobby Bilatout and Ville Thao (L-R) were all Hmong b-boys in the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Valley Public History Initiative)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The oral histories start with kids whose parents had fled Laos after the Vietnam War. Many of the older generation had helped the U.S. in the CIA’s Secret War and later came to Fresno after living in refugee camps in Thailand. But the neighborhood they moved into wasn’t exactly easy: lots of crime, a high murder rate and rival gangs everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser writes in \u003ca href=\"https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/smurfs-wizards-and-the-history-of-hmong-b-boy-culture-in-southeast-fresno/\">\"Tropics of Meta\"\u003c/a> that the b-boy and b-girl crews \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“fulfilled the same function as more traditional community organizations or even gangs. Yet, these bonds were forged through the quintessentially American expression and language of hip-hop.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also were using hip-hop to survive economic depression and crime. Slusser writes, “Ultimately, b-boying was at once a form of self-expression, a way to cope with high levels of poverty, and a tool for refugees and the children of refugees to build community among each other while simultaneously establishing roots in a new land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-year-old James Vang says he got into a lot of trouble as a teenager and was in a gang. But then he found dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really helped save my life, you know, to help me do something else with my time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[The Hmong b-boys] were known throughout the city as the best b-boys. So if you wanted to earn your stripes, if you wanted to earn your reputation as a b-boy, you had to kind of get their respect first.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was one of Fresno’s first generation Hmong b-boys.\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We didn’t really have anyone to teach us,” he says. “We were just watching it off of movies [like \"Beat Street\"\u003cem>]\u003c/em> and catching what we could. Kind of make things up as we went. Try to get a signature move, try to create your own identity.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other kids taught their younger siblings and their cousins. The Hmong community was tight-knit and breakdancing spread like wildfire, not only in Fresno but eventually to other Hmong communities in the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time, just being Asian was hard. Once we started breakdancing, it opened up a whole different world,” Vang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different world that gave Hmong kids a stake in this new land. It was a world their elders didn’t understand at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There wasn’t really a term for 'breakdancing' in the Hmong language,” says Billy Xiong, who also danced in the '90s. He says his mother worried about his safety. She didn’t like him dancing on his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser says breakdancing had died down around the country after the '80s dance craze. B-boys revived it in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the Hmong b-boys that were kind of the gatekeepers, They were known kind of throughout the city as the best b-boys. So if you wanted to earn your stripes, if you wanted to kind of earn your reputation as a b-boy, you had to kind of get their respect first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95MGpzuOjvY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Charles Montgomery, aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.thespincap.com/bboy-goku-charles-montgomery.html\">B-boy Goku\u003c/a>, He’s part Creole, part Mexican, but he got the gatekeepers’ respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is Fresno’s most well-known b-boy today. Goku grew up in the same rough area as the Hmong b-boys. He says it makes sense that they embraced hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, you’re coming out of like rural areas, you just got people struggling, they just want to find some type of way to let it out. We were like a country-town Bronx, you know?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goku still travels the world breakdancing. But he’ll never forget how the Hmong b-boys inspired him when he was a teenager back in the '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Hmong really picked it up here,” he says. “It was the thing to do in the Central Valley. Windmills and flares and 90s and head-spins. You’re just like, ‘Wow, this is like a comic book, live-action comic book,' you know?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(l-r) Yoshi Yang, Billy Xiong, Gary Yang and Ville Thao share their stories at a Fresno State oral history event run by Sean Slusser. (far right). \u003ccite>(Valley Public History Initiative)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven-year-old Ville Thao can still show off the moves, and today -- the first Saturday in April -- he’s dancing in front of a crowd at Fresno State as part of the oral history project. Earlier in the day, he was part of a panel discussing the Hmong b-boys’ contributions to hip-hop in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could show more but I don’t want to get hurt today. I’ll be hurting tomorrow,” he says, a little breathlessly. “I’m gonna feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s OK. There are plenty of younger folks ready to step up. Even now, new generations of Hmong b-boys perform at the huge Hmong New Year festival in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have nephews and nieces now. They come up and they’ll breakdance in front of me, and then their auntie would like say, ‘Yeah, you know your uncle used to breakdance,’ and they look at me and they’re like ‘him?' \" says Thao with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser writes in \u003ca href=\"https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/smurfs-wizards-and-the-history-of-hmong-b-boy-culture-in-southeast-fresno/\">\"Tropics of Meta\"\u003c/a> that the b-boy and b-girl crews \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“fulfilled the same function as more traditional community organizations or even gangs. Yet, these bonds were forged through the quintessentially American expression and language of hip-hop.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also were using hip-hop to survive economic depression and crime. Slusser writes, “Ultimately, b-boying was at once a form of self-expression, a way to cope with high levels of poverty, and a tool for refugees and the children of refugees to build community among each other while simultaneously establishing roots in a new land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty-year-old James Vang says he got into a lot of trouble as a teenager and was in a gang. But then he found dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really helped save my life, you know, to help me do something else with my time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[The Hmong b-boys] were known throughout the city as the best b-boys. So if you wanted to earn your stripes, if you wanted to earn your reputation as a b-boy, you had to kind of get their respect first.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was one of Fresno’s first generation Hmong b-boys.\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We didn’t really have anyone to teach us,” he says. “We were just watching it off of movies [like \"Beat Street\"\u003cem>]\u003c/em> and catching what we could. Kind of make things up as we went. Try to get a signature move, try to create your own identity.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other kids taught their younger siblings and their cousins. 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So if you wanted to earn your stripes, if you wanted to kind of earn your reputation as a b-boy, you had to kind of get their respect first.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/95MGpzuOjvY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/95MGpzuOjvY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Take Charles Montgomery, aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.thespincap.com/bboy-goku-charles-montgomery.html\">B-boy Goku\u003c/a>, He’s part Creole, part Mexican, but he got the gatekeepers’ respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is Fresno’s most well-known b-boy today. Goku grew up in the same rough area as the Hmong b-boys. He says it makes sense that they embraced hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course, you’re coming out of like rural areas, you just got people struggling, they just want to find some type of way to let it out. We were like a country-town Bronx, you know?” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goku still travels the world breakdancing. But he’ll never forget how the Hmong b-boys inspired him when he was a teenager back in the '90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Hmong really picked it up here,” he says. “It was the thing to do in the Central Valley. Windmills and flares and 90s and head-spins. You’re just like, ‘Wow, this is like a comic book, live-action comic book,' you know?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11439163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11439163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/panel-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(l-r) Yoshi Yang, Billy Xiong, Gary Yang and Ville Thao share their stories at a Fresno State oral history event run by Sean Slusser. (far right). \u003ccite>(Valley Public History Initiative)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-seven-year-old Ville Thao can still show off the moves, and today -- the first Saturday in April -- he’s dancing in front of a crowd at Fresno State as part of the oral history project. Earlier in the day, he was part of a panel discussing the Hmong b-boys’ contributions to hip-hop in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could show more but I don’t want to get hurt today. I’ll be hurting tomorrow,” he says, a little breathlessly. “I’m gonna feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s OK. There are plenty of younger folks ready to step up. Even now, new generations of Hmong b-boys perform at the huge Hmong New Year festival in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>La Buena Vista is a corner store with a butcher in the back, a taco truck out front and a stray dog for a mascot. It’s the type of place that sells everything from lotto scratchers to engine oil to cilantro. It’s in East Porterville, a small farmworker town at the edge of the Central Valley where there aren’t any sidewalks, and there are as many dirt roads as paved streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an agricultural town in Tulare County, home to plenty of undocumented farmworkers who are feeling vulnerable nowadays. The guy behind the register at La Buena Vista, though, is an immigrant whose life has been turned upside down by recent changes in immigration policy. And he's an American citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a big guy with weary eyes and a warm smile. He's from Yemen. His real name is Saber Askar, but he saves that for the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, he’s \"Moe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My family] cannot find enough food to eat and every week it's getting worse. They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.'\u003ccite>Moe\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was 15 when he immigrated. Moe's dad had been living in the U.S. for a while when he sent for him. Moe spent more than a decade working in factories in Indiana, then moved to East Porterville to help his cousin with the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been here eight years now, and picked up a lot of Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como estamos, hermano?” (How you doing, brother?) he asks a guy in a cowboy hat. “Trabajar hoy o no?” (Working today or no?) He’s also taught his customers some Arabic, so the store’s official language is a kind of patois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shouts a greeting in Arabic as customers walk in. “Halahala!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respond in kind, putting their own accented gloss on the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market everyone knows Moe as the goofy guy behind the cash register. But the cheerful demeanor masks another side of Moe -- one I saw when I visited him at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moe has a wife and three daughters in Yemen. He calls them most nights. He says he always planned to bring them to the U.S. He wanted to save up money and buy a house so they’d have a nice place to live. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\" target=\"_blank\">since the civil war started two years ago\u003c/a>, he’s been desperate to get them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he calls his family in Sanaa, Yemen, his 16-year-old daughter answers. He asks how she’s doing. Moe interprets for me: \"She says the airplanes is all the time in the air and they scared they’re gonna drop stuff to them. She said she cannot sleep at nighttime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe is especially worried about his 10-year-old daughter. The bombing has taken a toll, physically and psychologically. She has a hard time keeping her food down, so she’s lost a lot of weight. Moe says she has to go to a clinic for IV treatments regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www1.wfp.org/yemen-emergency\" target=\"_blank\">They cannot find enough food to eat\u003c/a> and every week it’s getting worse,\" Moe says. \"They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/i-130\" target=\"_blank\">the applications to bring his family to America\u003c/a> about two years ago. Because of the war in Yemen, it’s been difficult to provide all the required documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to [my family], just give me a little time and then you guys gonna be here, then you guys gonna be OK,” Moe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/521999595/federal-judge-in-hawaii-extends-his-block-on-trump-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\">the Trump administration’s looming travel ban\u003c/a>, though, it’s hard for them to believe that. Moe and his family are left praying it won’t go into effect -- or that they get approval to come before it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the phone call, Moe looks crushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They make me bleed inside,\" he says. \"I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they not answer anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qjlQWVMYf4C4AD8qk6gbxr65iu1BnXcx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day at the local mosque, people are gathered for Friday prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mosque manager, Basem Aqra, says it draws more than 100 families from Porterville and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re from all over, from Yemen, Palestine, from Egypt, from Jordan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some came as refugees or asylum seekers fleeing conflicts. Others, like Moe, followed family members here. The weather and agricultural lifestyle in the valley are familiar, and some started out working in farming. Aqra says today most of them are business owners, and he says recently they’re scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen anything like that,” he says, referring to the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era. “People even they worry if they’re stopped with a traffic ticket or something they’re gonna be targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Aqra says,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mosque-letters-trump-20161126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this mosque hasn’t gotten any threats like others around the state\u003c/a>. But that doesn’t give Moe much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get afraid, you know, if something’s going to happen,\" he says. “They’re shooting people when they pray in mosques, stuff like that. So I think about this kind of stuff, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe lived through 9/11 in the U.S., and it was hard. He says the climate today feels worse. For more than a year Moe watched the presidential campaign whip up anti-immigrant feeling among some of his fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple months I feel different,” he says. “They make me feel different. Even if you're an American citizen, you're nothing. That hurts my feelings bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0068-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after 17 years as a citizen, Moe’s place in this country feels precarious. He’s not just worried for himself, his family and fellow Muslims. He's also worried for his customers: the vulnerable farmworker families that keep his market in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through all of this he has one solid source of support: his best friend, Darla. She’s been helping him with the immigration paperwork for his family. But even this friendship is strained now. Darla voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a dinner of chicken and orange rice one night, Moe broaches the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At least say you’re sorry, you know,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I did anything wrong!” she responds. But before she can explain, Moe butts in. “Yes you did! Do you feel it now? He’s not good!” Moe shouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darla is quiet for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I do feel bad,” she says finally. “I feel bad if you feel insulted that I would choose a president who is so discriminating and so racist. I had no idea. I had no idea that he was going to do any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe's face softens a little as he listens, and Darla continues, \"I just have total faith that everything will be OK,” she says. “Inshallah\" (God willing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe replies softly, “Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>La Buena Vista is a corner store with a butcher in the back, a taco truck out front and a stray dog for a mascot. It’s the type of place that sells everything from lotto scratchers to engine oil to cilantro. It’s in East Porterville, a small farmworker town at the edge of the Central Valley where there aren’t any sidewalks, and there are as many dirt roads as paved streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an agricultural town in Tulare County, home to plenty of undocumented farmworkers who are feeling vulnerable nowadays. The guy behind the register at La Buena Vista, though, is an immigrant whose life has been turned upside down by recent changes in immigration policy. And he's an American citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a big guy with weary eyes and a warm smile. He's from Yemen. His real name is Saber Askar, but he saves that for the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, he’s \"Moe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[My family] cannot find enough food to eat and every week it's getting worse. They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.'\u003ccite>Moe\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was 15 when he immigrated. Moe's dad had been living in the U.S. for a while when he sent for him. Moe spent more than a decade working in factories in Indiana, then moved to East Porterville to help his cousin with the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been here eight years now, and picked up a lot of Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Como estamos, hermano?” (How you doing, brother?) he asks a guy in a cowboy hat. “Trabajar hoy o no?” (Working today or no?) He’s also taught his customers some Arabic, so the store’s official language is a kind of patois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shouts a greeting in Arabic as customers walk in. “Halahala!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some respond in kind, putting their own accented gloss on the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market everyone knows Moe as the goofy guy behind the cash register. But the cheerful demeanor masks another side of Moe -- one I saw when I visited him at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407085\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0002-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe riding a horse with his two youngest daughters near the Red Sea in Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moe has a wife and three daughters in Yemen. He calls them most nights. He says he always planned to bring them to the U.S. He wanted to save up money and buy a house so they’d have a nice place to live. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\" target=\"_blank\">since the civil war started two years ago\u003c/a>, he’s been desperate to get them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he calls his family in Sanaa, Yemen, his 16-year-old daughter answers. He asks how she’s doing. Moe interprets for me: \"She says the airplanes is all the time in the air and they scared they’re gonna drop stuff to them. She said she cannot sleep at nighttime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe is especially worried about his 10-year-old daughter. The bombing has taken a toll, physically and psychologically. She has a hard time keeping her food down, so she’s lost a lot of weight. Moe says she has to go to a clinic for IV treatments regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/IMG_0050-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The war has been especially hard on Moe's 10-year-old daughter, Tuhfh. She regularly needs IV treatment because she has a hard time eating. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www1.wfp.org/yemen-emergency\" target=\"_blank\">They cannot find enough food to eat\u003c/a> and every week it’s getting worse,\" Moe says. \"They want to come here, but they don’t know what to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/i-130\" target=\"_blank\">the applications to bring his family to America\u003c/a> about two years ago. Because of the war in Yemen, it’s been difficult to provide all the required documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to explain to [my family], just give me a little time and then you guys gonna be here, then you guys gonna be OK,” Moe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/521999595/federal-judge-in-hawaii-extends-his-block-on-trump-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\">the Trump administration’s looming travel ban\u003c/a>, though, it’s hard for them to believe that. Moe and his family are left praying it won’t go into effect -- or that they get approval to come before it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the phone call, Moe looks crushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They make me bleed inside,\" he says. \"I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they not answer anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day at the local mosque, people are gathered for Friday prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mosque manager, Basem Aqra, says it draws more than 100 families from Porterville and surrounding towns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re from all over, from Yemen, Palestine, from Egypt, from Jordan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some came as refugees or asylum seekers fleeing conflicts. Others, like Moe, followed family members here. The weather and agricultural lifestyle in the valley are familiar, and some started out working in farming. Aqra says today most of them are business owners, and he says recently they’re scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never seen anything like that,” he says, referring to the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era. “People even they worry if they’re stopped with a traffic ticket or something they’re gonna be targeted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Aqra says,\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mosque-letters-trump-20161126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this mosque hasn’t gotten any threats like others around the state\u003c/a>. But that doesn’t give Moe much comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I get afraid, you know, if something’s going to happen,\" he says. “They’re shooting people when they pray in mosques, stuff like that. So I think about this kind of stuff, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe lived through 9/11 in the U.S., and it was hard. He says the climate today feels worse. For more than a year Moe watched the presidential campaign whip up anti-immigrant feeling among some of his fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple months I feel different,” he says. “They make me feel different. Even if you're an American citizen, you're nothing. That hurts my feelings bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11407091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11407091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20000101_Moe_0068-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moe outside La Buena Vista market in East Porterville, where he works. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after 17 years as a citizen, Moe’s place in this country feels precarious. He’s not just worried for himself, his family and fellow Muslims. He's also worried for his customers: the vulnerable farmworker families that keep his market in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through all of this he has one solid source of support: his best friend, Darla. She’s been helping him with the immigration paperwork for his family. But even this friendship is strained now. Darla voted for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a dinner of chicken and orange rice one night, Moe broaches the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At least say you’re sorry, you know,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I did anything wrong!” she responds. But before she can explain, Moe butts in. “Yes you did! Do you feel it now? He’s not good!” Moe shouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darla is quiet for a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I do feel bad,” she says finally. “I feel bad if you feel insulted that I would choose a president who is so discriminating and so racist. I had no idea. I had no idea that he was going to do any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moe's face softens a little as he listens, and Darla continues, \"I just have total faith that everything will be OK,” she says. “Inshallah\" (God willing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican Congressman Devin Nunes has gotten a lot of flak for his role in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. And protesters made sure he wasn’t getting away from the controversy during a visit back home on Friday to the Central Valley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes, who chairs the committee, is under fire from Democrats who argue he is biased in favor of the Trump administration and should give up his role in leading the investigation. Nunes dismisses the criticism and says there’s no reason to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a speech by the Tulare congressman to a meeting \u003ca href=\"http://www.aglenders.org/annual-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">of agriculture industry lenders\u003c/a> in Fresno, a few hundred protesters lined a street near a busy intersection carrying signs and bullhorns. Passing cars honked their approval and gave the crowd a thumbs up. A loudspeaker blared the Russian national anthem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people here, we haven’t been out since the ‘60s,” said Dave Derby, a former Clovis school principal turned community organizer. “I never thought we’d be back doing this again, but here we are. We’re in our 60s and 70s — I think it’s amazing what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11385513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican Congressman Nunes spoke to a farming industry group in Fresno on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derby and his wife started the group Every Tuesday Vigil, which holds weekly demonstrations outside Nunes’ Clovis district office. He said the group was one of several that grew out of protests at the Fresno airport in the wake of President Trump’s travel ban announcement earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few people drove in from out of town, like a group from Stockton that rejects Nunes’ stance on California water issues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But most were Central Valley constituents. \u003c/span>One of them, a lifelong Republican named John Essex who voted for Nunes in 2004, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521776396/trump-supporter-or-investigator-5-problems-for-devin-nunes-and-the-trump-white-h\" target=\"_blank\">Nunes’ recent secret intelligence briefing with White House officials\u003c/a> raises serious questions about the congressman’s ability to lead an investigation into that very administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think our congressman needs to be making midnight trips in Uber to the White House,” he said, referring to reports that’s how Nunes met up with officials for the intelligence briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385514 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-800x1198.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 7\" width=\"800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-800x1198.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-960x1438.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-375x562.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-520x779.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people people lined the street outside the Fresno restaurant where Congressman Nunes spoke to a farming industry group on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Howard Watkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the recent controversy has shoved the little-known Republican from rural California into the national spotlight, Essex and others here say their beef with him goes way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything, Devin Nunes needs to come and talk to us. It’s been years and years since he’s held a public town hall. No one sees Nunes!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that didn’t change today. Nunes slipped into the event through a back entrance and left without demonstrators getting a glimpse of him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are more photos of the protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385516 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-800x672.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 9\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-960x806.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-520x437.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646.jpg 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators outside an event where Republican Congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group in Fresno on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-960x789.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-240x197.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-375x308.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-520x427.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many signs at the demonstration in Fresno on March 31, 2017, made reference to the Russia investigation that has Congressman Devin Nunes in the national spotlight. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385520 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-240x180.jpg 240w, 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many demonstrators at the protest in Fresno on said while they’re upset about Nunes’ role in the Russia investigation, they’re most angry that he hasn’t held a town hall meeting. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385522 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators outside an event in Fresno where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385523 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters in Fresno didn’t catch a glimpse of Congressman Nunes: He slipped into the event through a back door and left without addressing the crowd. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11385518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-800x600.jpg 800w, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican Congressman Devin Nunes has gotten a lot of flak for his role in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. And protesters made sure he wasn’t getting away from the controversy during a visit back home on Friday to the Central Valley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes, who chairs the committee, is under fire from Democrats who argue he is biased in favor of the Trump administration and should give up his role in leading the investigation. Nunes dismisses the criticism and says there’s no reason to step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a speech by the Tulare congressman to a meeting \u003ca href=\"http://www.aglenders.org/annual-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">of agriculture industry lenders\u003c/a> in Fresno, a few hundred protesters lined a street near a busy intersection carrying signs and bullhorns. Passing cars honked their approval and gave the crowd a thumbs up. A loudspeaker blared the Russian national anthem. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people here, we haven’t been out since the ‘60s,” said Dave Derby, a former Clovis school principal turned community organizer. “I never thought we’d be back doing this again, but here we are. We’re in our 60s and 70s — I think it’s amazing what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385513\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11385513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican Congressman Nunes spoke to a farming industry group in Fresno on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Derby and his wife started the group Every Tuesday Vigil, which holds weekly demonstrations outside Nunes’ Clovis district office. He said the group was one of several that grew out of protests at the Fresno airport in the wake of President Trump’s travel ban announcement earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few people drove in from out of town, like a group from Stockton that rejects Nunes’ stance on California water issues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But most were Central Valley constituents. \u003c/span>One of them, a lifelong Republican named John Essex who voted for Nunes in 2004, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521776396/trump-supporter-or-investigator-5-problems-for-devin-nunes-and-the-trump-white-h\" target=\"_blank\">Nunes’ recent secret intelligence briefing with White House officials\u003c/a> raises serious questions about the congressman’s ability to lead an investigation into that very administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think our congressman needs to be making midnight trips in Uber to the White House,” he said, referring to reports that’s how Nunes met up with officials for the intelligence briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385514 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-800x1198.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 7\" width=\"800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-800x1198.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-960x1438.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-375x562.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7-520x779.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-7.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people people lined the street outside the Fresno restaurant where Congressman Nunes spoke to a farming industry group on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Howard Watkins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the recent controversy has shoved the little-known Republican from rural California into the national spotlight, Essex and others here say their beef with him goes way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anything, Devin Nunes needs to come and talk to us. It’s been years and years since he’s held a public town hall. No one sees Nunes!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that didn’t change today. Nunes slipped into the event through a back entrance and left without demonstrators getting a glimpse of him.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are more photos of the protest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385516 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-800x672.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 9\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-800x672.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-160x134.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-1180x991.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-960x806.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-240x202.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-375x315.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646-520x437.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-9-e1491001197646.jpg 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators outside an event where Republican Congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group in Fresno on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-960x789.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-240x197.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-375x308.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402-520x427.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-8-e1491001345402.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many signs at the demonstration in Fresno on March 31, 2017, made reference to the Russia investigation that has Congressman Devin Nunes in the national spotlight. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385520 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few hundred people lined the street outside the Fresno restaurant where Congressman Nunes spoke to a farming industry group on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385521 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 2\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many demonstrators at the protest in Fresno on said while they’re upset about Nunes’ role in the Russia investigation, they’re most angry that he hasn’t held a town hall meeting. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385522 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators outside an event in Fresno where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group on March 31, 2017. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11385523 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nunes protest TCR size 4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters in Fresno didn’t catch a glimpse of Congressman Nunes: He slipped into the event through a back door and left without addressing the crowd. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11385518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11385518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event where Republican congressman Devin Nunes spoke to a farming industry group.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Nunes-protest-TCR-size-11-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators show off their signs outside an event in Fresno where Republican congressman Devin Nunes 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"content": "\u003cp>Tulare isn’t known much for demonstrations, but last Thursday the small Central Valley farming town became the latest stop in a campaign to call out members of Congress who were skipping town hall meetings during the congressional recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 demonstrators gathered in a city park at dusk. With signs reading “No Wall” and “Yes to the ACA,” marchers chanted “Keep our health care! No repeal!” as they were escorted across a busy street by police officers. They walked back and forth on the sidewalk outside of the gated neighborhood where Rep. Devin Nunes owns a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Carroll, a public school teacher in nearby Farmersville, held up a large white sign that listed some of his concerns: “No Reductions to Social Security. No Keystone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he read out loud from the bottom of the sign: “I am not a paid protester. I live in the 93292 ZIP code and I am a constituent in California’s 22nd District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carroll said he’s met all his former representatives at town hall meetings or other public events. He said one even came to talk to his eighth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressmen are supposed to get out and meet their constituents,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11331760\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11331760\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Carroll signs a list to hear about upcoming protests\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/photo-6-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Carroll signs a list to hear about upcoming protests \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one marcher, Roberto Bustos, had some experience in acts of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m one of the original strikers of the 1965 Delano Grape Strike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bustos also helped lead the historic United Farm Workers march from Delano to Sacramento. He said he joined the Tulare vigil to continue the fight for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Connor of the California-based \u003ca href=\"https://couragecampaign.org/\">Courage Campaign\u003c/a> was one of the organizers for the event. She said people across the state held candlelight vigils asking “Have You Seen my Congressperson?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called out David Valadao (CA-21), Rep. Jeff Denham (CA-10) Rep. Kevin McCarthy (CA-23), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48), Rep. Ed Royce (CA-39) and Rep. Steve Knight (CA-25) for not scheduling town hall meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connor said last week was a good one to hold a town hall event because most representatives, including Nunes, were back in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that he was home. He had an event in Bakersfield just two nights ago,” she said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes, who is a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was a keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the GOP.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Inside the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aaccot.club/home.html\">Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock\u003c/a> there’s a large banquet hall, a catering company and a radio station that broadcasts Assyrian music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music that you’re hearing, this is the original language. We speak the modern Aramaic dialect,” says the club’s president, Sam David.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assyrians are some of the earliest Christians. They're indigenous to Mesopotamia, which is defined as the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, including much of modern-day Iraq. Assyrians also scattered to parts of modern-day Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/02/2017-02-17c-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/AssyriansMain-800x560.jpg\" Title=\"Long Persecuted, Assyrians Find Safe Haven in the Central Valley\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assyrians are a stateless nation, and the diaspora is huge. In California, Turlock has the largest number of Assyrians, about 20,000. That’s a quarter of the town. And the civic club has become a gathering place for everyone, not just Assyrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s the city’s community center,” says David. “The majority of events are here. We have a lot of quinceaneras, weddings ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And funeral receptions. Like the one in early February for 92-year-old Hank Adams, the first Assyrian born in Turlock. His father, the Rev. Isaac Adams, founded an Assyrian farming community here in 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire waged \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/center-study-genocide-conflict-resolution-and-human-rights/genocide-ottoman-greeks-1914-1923\">genocide\u003c/a> against Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, the Assyrians are never talked about,” says David. “There were 750,000 Assyrians massacred. And this genocide has been going on and on for the last 100 years. And we just had another genocide in 2014, where the Christians were being massacred because they were Christians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David says Assyrians have been persecuted over and over again. It’s why some Assyrians are not opposed to President Trump’s travel ban that targets seven majority-Muslim countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s important for this country to protect its security interests, and for us as Assyrian-Americans it’s equally important, if not more important,\" says David.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledges it's complicated. The ban would also keep Assyrians out of the United States, at least temporarily. \"Of course we're not happy they're stuck there,” he says. “But it’s just another waiting process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leader Carmen Morad says Assyrians continue to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-christians-persecuted-by-isis-60-minutes/\">persecuted\u003c/a> in Iraq and Syria by ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you and I speak, there are Assyrian Christians that are in refugee camps. They are awaiting their resettlement paperwork to come,” she says. “Their homes have been destroyed. They are seeking an environment where they can go to school without fear of being blown up, where they can worship freely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the vetting process is rigorous and expensive. “Being a stateless nation, for them to be able to come over here, my opinion is they should be allowed to enter even though they still go through the vetting process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morad and I visit a family who has experienced the vetting process: Mervat Shlemoun and her 17-year-old son, Matius Anioel. They escaped Baghdad 10 years ago and ended up in Syria. It took them five years to come to California as refugees. Shlemoun feels fortunate she got a job at a fast-food place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Taco Bell,” she says. “Thanks for God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11321856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11321856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"Matius Anioel says he may return to Iraq one day to help his people. He wants to be a doctor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-1020x1202.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-1180x1391.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-960x1132.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-375x442.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-520x613.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matius Anioel says he may return to Iraq one day to help his people. He wants to be a doctor. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She worked so hard when she first moved here that she rarely saw her son. She missed spending time with him. But he was safe. She was no longer thinking, ‘How is he? Where is he? What’s happening?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when I’m living in the Iraq,” Shlemoun says, “I send him to school, sometimes we listen to the bomb, and I’m running to him at school, I wanna see if he safe or no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matius is doing well. He’s volunteering at a medical center and plans to be a family practice doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, she says, she can freely practice her religion. Orthodox Christian icons hang on her living room wall above an altar with candles and crosses. She shows Morad an Assyrian star around her neck and then goes to the bookshelf to pick up a new license plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my country I cannot drive. Here I drive, I’m working, going to the church,” she says. Shlemoun is almost giddy with excitement. She’s speaking in Aramaic now, and Morad interprets for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She says in Iraq she would never wear her necklace or display her flag,” says Morad. “She says here she feels her freedom where she can display the Assyrian flag on her license plate on her car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the center of the flag, there’s a four-pointed star symbolizing the four corners of the world, what the diaspora calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11321448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11321448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration lawyer Patrick Kolasinski is interviewed on Assyria Today via Skype. 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Carmen Morad serves as the interpreter.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shlemoun and her son still have friends in Iraq and Syria. “They always say, ‘It is not good, no water, no electricity, it’s not safe,’” says Matius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matius says he understands Trump’s role is to protect America, but he worries about Assyrians and others who are targeted by ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s trying to target like the extremists, but he’s not only targeting extremists but he’s targeting Christian communities and other people who are being persecuted and trying to get out just to survive,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of concerns are exactly why the hosts of \u003ca href=\"http://assyriatodaynetwork.com/tv-programs/\">Assyria Today \u003c/a>are doing an interview with Patrick Kolasinski, an immigration lawyer in Modesto. Kolasinski is answering questions via Skype about the travel ban. 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The ban would also keep Assyrians out of the United States, at least temporarily. \"Of course we're not happy they're stuck there,” he says. “But it’s just another waiting process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leader Carmen Morad says Assyrians continue to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-christians-persecuted-by-isis-60-minutes/\">persecuted\u003c/a> in Iraq and Syria by ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you and I speak, there are Assyrian Christians that are in refugee camps. They are awaiting their resettlement paperwork to come,” she says. “Their homes have been destroyed. They are seeking an environment where they can go to school without fear of being blown up, where they can worship freely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the vetting process is rigorous and expensive. “Being a stateless nation, for them to be able to come over here, my opinion is they should be allowed to enter even though they still go through the vetting process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morad and I visit a family who has experienced the vetting process: Mervat Shlemoun and her 17-year-old son, Matius Anioel. They escaped Baghdad 10 years ago and ended up in Syria. It took them five years to come to California as refugees. Shlemoun feels fortunate she got a job at a fast-food place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Taco Bell,” she says. “Thanks for God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11321856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11321856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"Matius Anioel says he may return to Iraq one day to help his people. He wants to be a doctor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-1020x1202.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-1180x1391.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-960x1132.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-375x442.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Matius-520x613.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matius Anioel says he may return to Iraq one day to help his people. He wants to be a doctor. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She worked so hard when she first moved here that she rarely saw her son. She missed spending time with him. But he was safe. She was no longer thinking, ‘How is he? Where is he? What’s happening?’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because when I’m living in the Iraq,” Shlemoun says, “I send him to school, sometimes we listen to the bomb, and I’m running to him at school, I wanna see if he safe or no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matius is doing well. He’s volunteering at a medical center and plans to be a family practice doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, she says, she can freely practice her religion. Orthodox Christian icons hang on her living room wall above an altar with candles and crosses. She shows Morad an Assyrian star around her neck and then goes to the bookshelf to pick up a new license plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my country I cannot drive. Here I drive, I’m working, going to the church,” she says. Shlemoun is almost giddy with excitement. She’s speaking in Aramaic now, and Morad interprets for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She says in Iraq she would never wear her necklace or display her flag,” says Morad. “She says here she feels her freedom where she can display the Assyrian flag on her license plate on her car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the center of the flag, there’s a four-pointed star symbolizing the four corners of the world, what the diaspora calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11321448\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11321448\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration lawyer Patrick Kolasinski is interviewed on Assyria Today via Skype. Carmen Morad serves as the interpreter. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/patrick-e1487365690311-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration lawyer Patrick Kolasinski is interviewed on Assyria Today'via Skype. Carmen Morad serves as the interpreter.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shlemoun and her son still have friends in Iraq and Syria. “They always say, ‘It is not good, no water, no electricity, it’s not safe,’” says Matius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matius says he understands Trump’s role is to protect America, but he worries about Assyrians and others who are targeted by ISIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s trying to target like the extremists, but he’s not only targeting extremists but he’s targeting Christian communities and other people who are being persecuted and trying to get out just to survive,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These kinds of concerns are exactly why the hosts of \u003ca href=\"http://assyriatodaynetwork.com/tv-programs/\">Assyria Today \u003c/a>are doing an interview with Patrick Kolasinski, an immigration lawyer in Modesto. Kolasinski is answering questions via Skype about the travel ban. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307877957\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\"Just One Breath\"\u003c/strong>: Read More \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/valleyfever\" target=\"_blank\">Investigations\u003c/a> About Valley Fever\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/valleyfever\" target=\"_blank\">“Just One Breath”\u003c/a> project results from an innovative reporting venture, the Center for Health Journalism Collaborative, which currently involves the Bakersfield Californian, Radio Bilingüe in Fresno, Valley Public Radio in Fresno and Bakersfield, Vida en el Valle in Fresno, Hanford Sentinel, the Voice of OC in Santa Ana, the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and La Estrella de Tucsón. The collaborative is an initiative of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When the wind kicks up in the town of Coalinga, dust devils whirl over almond orchards and pumpjacks. You can even see the narrow brown funnels from the grounds of Pleasant Valley State Prison, on the outskirts of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the prison itself, there’s hardly any dust. That's evidence of years of work by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce and control the San Joaquin Valley's ubiquitous wind-borne dust. The dust carries the spores of the debilitating fungal disease known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/diseases/coccidioidomycosis/\" target=\"_blank\">coccidioidomycosis\u003c/a>, or \"valley fever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you can see, it’s a slight breeze but there’s nothing blowing around,” says prison spokesman Matt Martin, gesturing toward dirt-packed exercise yards and the unpaved shoulders of nearby roads. \"It’s a dirt spray, it’ll keep the dust down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inhaling the dust can be deadly. Spores of the dangerous fungus lurk inside the dust, and if prisoners inhale those spores, they can get sick.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2011, hundreds of state prisoners were falling ill with the disease every year. Annual prisoner deaths from the disease ranged between six to nine. Pleasant Valley had the most cases; in 2011, the prison's diagnosis rate was more than 600 times the general California rate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisoners are especially vulnerable to valley fever. They can’t install new air filters or double-paned windows. And they obviously can’t leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Preventing this disease is challenging because we all breathe, and many of us live in areas where this fungus is found,” says Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dfwed/mycotics/\" target=\"_blank\">mycotic diseases branch \u003c/a>of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in the last few years, California’s state prisons have made progress. They’ve worked to screen out the prisoners most vulnerable to the disease and have taken measures to lower the risk to inmates incarcerated there. Between 2011 and 2015, while background valley fever rates in the southwest dropped by 30 to 50 percent, rates in state prisons fell close to 90 percent overall. Those improvements did not happen quickly or easily, and some required intervention by outsiders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some prisoners more vulnerable than others\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Nuwintore was barely three weeks into his sentence at Taft Correctional Institution when he began to cough and experience chest pain. Within a few days, it was obvious something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could touch my skin and I was really hot,” Nuwintore recalls. “I had the coughing, the night sweats. My appetite was gone. I couldn't eat. I couldn't swallow, and I was losing weight really, really fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valley fever is endemic to dusty areas of the southwestern United States. Most who inhale the spores overcome the disease without ever knowing it. Some develop symptoms resembling pneumonia or bronchitis. In a small minority, the disease causes severe lung infection or disseminates throughout the body, requiring lifelong treatment. In the worst cases, the infection leads to fatal meningitis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease draws its name from the San Joaquin Valley, the agricultural belt in the center of the state where the disease is concentrated. Kern County — where Nuwintore was incarcerated at Taft — has the highest valley fever incidence of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally a refugee from the east African country of Burundi, Nuwintore had never heard of the disease before arriving at Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other inmates were telling me about valley fever, and I was like, ‘What is it? What is it?’ ” he says. “It was something scary, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuwintore was a victim of confinement in an endemic area, but weather and genetics also played a role. In 2011, when he was diagnosed, valley fever rates in Arizona and California were skyrocketing — a peak experts largely attribute to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/special/just-one-breath/valley-fever-cases-spike-is-it-the-weather/article_7ce6b232-d0a0-5674-bdf6-e512a3d46d42.html\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weather cycles of rain and drought\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And research shows that individuals of African-American or African descent, like Nuwintore, are especially prone to the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taft is a federal prison and its health data have not been made available. But in state prisons all around Taft, the disease simmered. Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever — many of whom, like Nuwintore, still struggle to manage the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Prisons take steps to reduce risk\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began taking steps to prevent valley fever long before the alarming 2011 spike in cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2006, prison officials began excluding inmates with weakened immune systems — due to factors such as HIV or chemotherapy — from all eight prisons in the Central Valley. But valley fever rates still rose among prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More sweeping interventions arrived in 2013, at the behest of federal officials who by that time had taken over the administration of prison health care in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal oversight officials added a new rule specifically for prisoners who are African-American or Filipino, another group that is especially susceptible to the disease. The rule held that inmates from those two ethnic groups could \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be sent to the two most affected prisons, Pleasant Valley and nearby Avenal State Prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At those two prisons, officials have distributed dust masks that inmates can wear outside. Prisoners also have the option to stay indoors when wind speeds are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think [valley fever] is one of the biggest issues that we've had in this system,” says Janet Mohle-Boetani, a health administrator with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We're taking precautions for every prison in the Central Valley, and we're taking extra special precautions for the two prisons that have the very high rates of valley fever.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most significant change, perhaps, arrived in 2015 on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/new-valley-fever-skin-test-shows-promise-obstacles-remain\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skin test called Spherusol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that can detect valley fever immunity, and it’s offered to every inmate entering the state prison system. An individual who tests positive has already been exposed to the fungus and fought it off successfully, and is henceforth immune. Inmates who test negative are still at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If they inhale the dust with the fungus in it and they've tested negative, they're much more likely to get the disease than someone who has a positive test,” says Mohle-Boetani. “So if someone comes into the reception center and then they test negative, we put a medical restriction on those patients so they are not sent to live in Avenal or Pleasant Valley State Prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People gain immunity after successfully fighting off the disease. In a mass screening in early 2015, around 35,000 inmates in the California prison system took the test and roughly 9 percent were shown to be immune.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC recommended Spherusol to the state prison system shortly after the test became commercially available in 2014. The FDA has not actually approved Spherusol for this purpose, but like other medical products, it is being used off-label to sort the prisoners by risk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Given the fact that they were having such high rates of cocci, we knew that we needed to do whatever we could to try to help them lower the risk,” says the CDC’s Tom Chiller, referring to valley fever by its scientific nickname, cocci. “We immediately thought 'Maybe this could be used to understand which prisoners could exist in an area with the fungal spores but not get infected, or at least have an extremely low risk of getting infected.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Galgiani, director of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence, is optimistic about the decline in valley fever reported in California’s prisons, but he says it’s too early to determine the exact reasons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think they should be given credit for the drop to some extent,” Galgiani says, “but it'll take time to see if it stays low, to see if it's because of the policies that are now put in place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Health impacts linger after prison sentence\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Richard Nuwintore lives on a suburban cul-de-sac outside Sacramento with his mother and girlfriend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He may be free from prison, but he’s not free of the disease. He’s too sick to work, and he’ll probably be on antifungal medications for the rest of his life. The fat pink and blue pills keep him alive, but their side effects are almost as bad as the disease itself.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You wake up, you have a little bit of energy, but as the day goes by you start to just feel pain in the joints,” he says. “Of course, your stomach is still on fire because the medicine is kind of powerful. And [there's] fatigue, and sometimes you get dizzy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Nuwintore and another inmate won a landmark case that established the right of prisoners to sue the federal government for damages related to the disease, even though Taft is managed by a private contractor. They’ve now filed a second lawsuit to recoup their medical costs and lost earnings — a sum that could reach millions.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By 2011, hundreds of state prisoners were falling ill with the disease every year. Annual prisoner deaths from the disease ranged between six to nine. Pleasant Valley had the most cases; in 2011, the prison's diagnosis rate was more than 600 times the general California rate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisoners are especially vulnerable to valley fever. They can’t install new air filters or double-paned windows. And they obviously can’t leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pleasant Valley State Prison in western Fresno County has reported the most cases of valley fever of any California state prison. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Preventing this disease is challenging because we all breathe, and many of us live in areas where this fungus is found,” says Dr. Tom Chiller, chief of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dfwed/mycotics/\" target=\"_blank\">mycotic diseases branch \u003c/a>of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in the last few years, California’s state prisons have made progress. They’ve worked to screen out the prisoners most vulnerable to the disease and have taken measures to lower the risk to inmates incarcerated there. Between 2011 and 2015, while background valley fever rates in the southwest dropped by 30 to 50 percent, rates in state prisons fell close to 90 percent overall. Those improvements did not happen quickly or easily, and some required intervention by outsiders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Some prisoners more vulnerable than others\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Nuwintore was barely three weeks into his sentence at Taft Correctional Institution when he began to cough and experience chest pain. Within a few days, it was obvious something was wrong.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could touch my skin and I was really hot,” Nuwintore recalls. “I had the coughing, the night sweats. My appetite was gone. I couldn't eat. I couldn't swallow, and I was losing weight really, really fast.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Valley fever is endemic to dusty areas of the southwestern United States. Most who inhale the spores overcome the disease without ever knowing it. Some develop symptoms resembling pneumonia or bronchitis. In a small minority, the disease causes severe lung infection or disseminates throughout the body, requiring lifelong treatment. In the worst cases, the infection leads to fatal meningitis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disease draws its name from the San Joaquin Valley, the agricultural belt in the center of the state where the disease is concentrated. Kern County — where Nuwintore was incarcerated at Taft — has the highest valley fever incidence of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally a refugee from the east African country of Burundi, Nuwintore had never heard of the disease before arriving at Taft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other inmates were telling me about valley fever, and I was like, ‘What is it? What is it?’ ” he says. “It was something scary, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuwintore was a victim of confinement in an endemic area, but weather and genetics also played a role. In 2011, when he was diagnosed, valley fever rates in Arizona and California were skyrocketing — a peak experts largely attribute to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/special/just-one-breath/valley-fever-cases-spike-is-it-the-weather/article_7ce6b232-d0a0-5674-bdf6-e512a3d46d42.html\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">weather cycles of rain and drought\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And research shows that individuals of African-American or African descent, like Nuwintore, are especially prone to the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taft is a federal prison and its health data have not been made available. But in state prisons all around Taft, the disease simmered. Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever — many of whom, like Nuwintore, still struggle to manage the disease.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Prisons take steps to reduce risk\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began taking steps to prevent valley fever long before the alarming 2011 spike in cases.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2006, prison officials began excluding inmates with weakened immune systems — due to factors such as HIV or chemotherapy — from all eight prisons in the Central Valley. But valley fever rates still rose among prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_291430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-291430\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2017/02/PleasantValley1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Between 2007 and 2015, almost 3,500 state prisoners in California were diagnosed with valley fever. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More sweeping interventions arrived in 2013, at the behest of federal officials who by that time had taken over the administration of prison health care in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal oversight officials added a new rule specifically for prisoners who are African-American or Filipino, another group that is especially susceptible to the disease. The rule held that inmates from those two ethnic groups could \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be sent to the two most affected prisons, Pleasant Valley and nearby Avenal State Prison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At those two prisons, officials have distributed dust masks that inmates can wear outside. Prisoners also have the option to stay indoors when wind speeds are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think [valley fever] is one of the biggest issues that we've had in this system,” says Janet Mohle-Boetani, a health administrator with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “We're taking precautions for every prison in the Central Valley, and we're taking extra special precautions for the two prisons that have the very high rates of valley fever.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most significant change, perhaps, arrived in 2015 on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/post/new-valley-fever-skin-test-shows-promise-obstacles-remain\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skin test called Spherusol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that can detect valley fever immunity, and it’s offered to every inmate entering the state prison system. An individual who tests positive has already been exposed to the fungus and fought it off successfully, and is henceforth immune. Inmates who test negative are still at risk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If they inhale the dust with the fungus in it and they've tested negative, they're much more likely to get the disease than someone who has a positive test,” says Mohle-Boetani. “So if someone comes into the reception center and then they test negative, we put a medical restriction on those patients so they are not sent to live in Avenal or Pleasant Valley State Prison.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People gain immunity after successfully fighting off the disease. In a mass screening in early 2015, around 35,000 inmates in the California prison system took the test and roughly 9 percent were shown to be immune.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC recommended Spherusol to the state prison system shortly after the test became commercially available in 2014. The FDA has not actually approved Spherusol for this purpose, but like other medical products, it is being used off-label to sort the prisoners by risk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Given the fact that they were having such high rates of cocci, we knew that we needed to do whatever we could to try to help them lower the risk,” says the CDC’s Tom Chiller, referring to valley fever by its scientific nickname, cocci. “We immediately thought 'Maybe this could be used to understand which prisoners could exist in an area with the fungal spores but not get infected, or at least have an extremely low risk of getting infected.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Galgiani, director of the University of Arizona’s Valley Fever Center for Excellence, is optimistic about the decline in valley fever reported in California’s prisons, but he says it’s too early to determine the exact reasons.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think they should be given credit for the drop to some extent,” Galgiani says, “but it'll take time to see if it stays low, to see if it's because of the policies that are now put in place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Health impacts linger after prison sentence\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, Richard Nuwintore lives on a suburban cul-de-sac outside Sacramento with his mother and girlfriend.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He may be free from prison, but he’s not free of the disease. 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"content": "\u003cp>FRESNO — Land in the Central Valley is sinking so much from over-pumping of groundwater during the drought that officials said Thursday they will press for new laws to limit drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sinking threatens to curtail as much as one-fifth of water deliveries through the vital California Aqueduct to San Joaquin Valley farms and millions of Southern California residents, state water managers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They cited NASA satellite images that show the land dropping in places by as much as a foot a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WKsmUP3fsVnZWahCcIjUOXAyOIrKVWlG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/09/17/what-to-know-about-californias-new-groundwater-law/\" target=\"_blank\">lawmakers approved legislation\u003c/a> ending a Gold Rush-era policy that generally let property owners pump as much water as they wanted. However, the law gave local agencies until 2040 to fully implement groundwater plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Considering the damage we've seen now, we can't wait until 2040,\" said Jeanine Jones, a California Department of Water Resources manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Aqueduct stretches 444 miles from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta east of San Francisco to Southern California, providing water to 25 million people and nearly a million acres of farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sections of the concrete canal have dropped more than two feet in some places, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11309208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"The sinking Central Valley threatens to curtail as much as one-fifth of water deliveries through the vital California Aqueduct to San Joaquin Valley farms and millions of Southern California residents.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11309208\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-960x603.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CAAqueduct-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sinking Central Valley threatens to curtail as much as one-fifth of water deliveries through the vital California Aqueduct to San Joaquin Valley farms and millions of Southern California residents. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The NASA images also show the separate Delta-Mendota Canal in the valley has dropped 22 inches, threatening supplies to 2 million residents and 3 million acres of farmland, officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said the satellite images show thousands of existing wells within a few miles of low areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Water Resources said it would like the Legislature to give it authority to establish zones where pumping is limited, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8YVOi7a3iOHtSAg3hAFB5QZkkSvhN5U7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs of the sinking land have been visible since the 1920s. In the current drought, farmers in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley relied heavily on well water because little rain and snow had fallen to fill reservoirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris White, general manager of the Central California Irrigation District, said he would prefer a more targeted approach because each problem caused by over-pumping is unique. He said his district has spent $7 million to repair a buckling canal and a waterlogged bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A big part of this answer is not adopting legislation that handles this in a one-size shoe fits all feet,\" said White, adding that he had not reviewed he state's latest plan. \"They will require understanding each of the specific problems and developing the solutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Merced-County-Sheriff-Posse-221349218281746/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merced County Sheriff’s Posse\u003c/a> has been riding since the 1940s. The group appears in parades around California, and this week members are heading to Washington, D.C. — with 14 horses in tow — for their third \u003ca href=\"http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/inaugural-parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inauguration day parade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302609642″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the election of Donald Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/17/california-gears-up-for-resistance-as-trump-era-begins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California has emerged as a leader in the movement to challenge the incoming administration\u003c/a> on issues like climate change and immigration, and there are a lot of protests planned both here and in D.C. on inauguration day. But for the posse, the chance to be part of this historic tradition transcends politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m the only gunslinger… But what are we gonna be called the, uh, almond tree growers posse? Gotta be sheriff’s posse.’\u003ccite>Sheriff Vern Warnke\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At a fundraiser for the trip last week, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke took the stage in a white Stetson and gleaming belt buckle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna represent not only Merced County, but the Central Valley and not only the Central Valley but the State of California in Washington, D.C., when we go march in front of our newly elected president,” he told the crowd. “Folks, your support to help us get there has been overwhelming. Sometimes, literally, I want to cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They need all the support they can get, because Warnke says it’s costing them $25,000 just to transport the horses across the country. 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They’re mostly farmers and ranchers. But Warnke says it sounds cooler this way. “What are we gonna be called the, uh, almond tree growers posse? Gotta be sheriff’s posse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 20 posse members are heading east, Warnke says, and 14 of them will ride Palominos in the inaugural parade wearing dazzling outfits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The uniforms are actually jeweled with rubies, emeralds and rhinestones,” Warnke says. “This isn’t one of those that you went and bought at K-Mart.” The horses will be decked out, too, in intricate silver-embellished saddles. Posse members will carry American flags and wave as they ride by the new president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6yX6H6bBY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For supporters at the benefit, though, the inaugural ride is more than pomp. Peter and Katherine Stavrianoudakis aren’t Trump fans, but they’re posse supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often our voices aren’t heard,” Katherine says of Central Valley residents. “There are times that people forget about us because we’re lower educated, we have a high crime rate. There’s a lot of problems in the Valley, but there’s a lot to be proud of, and that’s what the posse is — we’re being recognized at a national level.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband Peter chimes in to say he went to high school with Sheriff Warnke and that everybody knows everybody here. “That little hometown feel will be in D.C.,” he says. “That’s kind of special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Merced residents see it that way. Outside the fundraiser a few anti-Trump protesters braved the rain, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/politics-government/article125455954.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to ensure that no public funds\u003c/a> will be used for the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Sheriff Warnke says, the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article125779489.html\">raised over $60,000 in donations\u003c/a>, enough to cover the trip. The posse had decided they’d try to ride in the inauguration parade no matter who won the election. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether you care about the man or not, bottom line is the president is the leader of the greatest nation on Earth,” Warnke says. “We’re going to represent every citizen in our communities and we’ll be doing so with our heads held high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follow the group’s D.C. doings on\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Merced-County-Sheriff-Posse-221349218281746/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the posse Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Merced-County-Sheriff-Posse-221349218281746/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merced County Sheriff’s Posse\u003c/a> has been riding since the 1940s. The group appears in parades around California, and this week members are heading to Washington, D.C. — with 14 horses in tow — for their third \u003ca href=\"http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/inaugural-parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inauguration day parade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302609642″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302609642″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the election of Donald Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/17/california-gears-up-for-resistance-as-trump-era-begins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California has emerged as a leader in the movement to challenge the incoming administration\u003c/a> on issues like climate change and immigration, and there are a lot of protests planned both here and in D.C. on inauguration day. But for the posse, the chance to be part of this historic tradition transcends politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I’m the only gunslinger… But what are we gonna be called the, uh, almond tree growers posse? Gotta be sheriff’s posse.’\u003ccite>Sheriff Vern Warnke\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At a fundraiser for the trip last week, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke took the stage in a white Stetson and gleaming belt buckle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna represent not only Merced County, but the Central Valley and not only the Central Valley but the State of California in Washington, D.C., when we go march in front of our newly elected president,” he told the crowd. “Folks, your support to help us get there has been overwhelming. Sometimes, literally, I want to cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’ll be riding in luxury climate-controlled trailers, he says, with handlers and individual pens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11275790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11275790 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sheriff Warnke on stage \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/RS23663_Sheriff-Warnke-on-stage-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke addresses the crowd at a fundraiser for the posse’s trip to DC. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Warnke admits ‘sheriff’s posse’ is kind of a misnomer for the group. “I’m the only gunslinger,” he says. They’re mostly farmers and ranchers. But Warnke says it sounds cooler this way. “What are we gonna be called the, uh, almond tree growers posse? Gotta be sheriff’s posse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 20 posse members are heading east, Warnke says, and 14 of them will ride Palominos in the inaugural parade wearing dazzling outfits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The uniforms are actually jeweled with rubies, emeralds and rhinestones,” Warnke says. “This isn’t one of those that you went and bought at K-Mart.” The horses will be decked out, too, in intricate silver-embellished saddles. 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There’s a lot of problems in the Valley, but there’s a lot to be proud of, and that’s what the posse is — we’re being recognized at a national level.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband Peter chimes in to say he went to high school with Sheriff Warnke and that everybody knows everybody here. “That little hometown feel will be in D.C.,” he says. “That’s kind of special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Merced residents see it that way. Outside the fundraiser a few anti-Trump protesters braved the rain, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/politics-government/article125455954.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to ensure that no public funds\u003c/a> will be used for the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Sheriff Warnke says, the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article125779489.html\">raised over $60,000 in donations\u003c/a>, enough to cover the trip. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the Central Valley there’s a bumper sticker you see all over the place. It’s shaped like California, and reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.myjobdependsonag.com/\" target=\"_blank\">“My job depends on Ag.\"\u003c/a> In California, that agriculture depends on immigrant labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers here supported Donald Trump despite his hard-line stance on immigration. So as the new Trump administration prepares to take office, what's the thinking of those involved in the region's biggest industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after the workday ends, men in dirty jeans and work boots stream into a small record store in the farming town of \u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Mendota.\u003c/a> Racks of CDs and music posters line the walls, but nobody’s browsing. The guys are in line to use the store’s wire transfer service. They’re sending money home to families in Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just came in from the fields -- nine hours pruning pistachio trees,\" says a weary-looking man in a dust-covered sweatshirt. He’ll say only that his name is Pablo because, like all the farmworkers I talked to for this story, he’s in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him what he thinks of Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think a gringo’s gonna be pruning pistachios?” he asks me in Spanish. He says in his 17 years working the California fields, he's seen only Latinos -- mostly immigrants -- doing this work. So he's not buying the idea that he’s taking away a job from a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visit \u003ca href=\"https://murrayfamilyfarms.com/california-farm-diversifies-for-success/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Murray’s farm\u003c/a> outside Bakersfield, where a few workers are crouched among rows of strawberries that will sell at farmers markets around the region. As Murray watches them work, he explains why he needs foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though this area has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state, Murray says he has a hard time finding people to pick his fruit. He didn't vote for Trump, and he says his business would suffer if the new administration carries through on plans for mass deportations of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the economy went south -- what was that, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 -- and jobs dried up, there were people that returned to Mexico and didn't come back,” he says. \"It's hard to imagine that things could get much worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour north, near \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.porterville.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Porterville\u003c/a>, Dairy farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.barcellosfarms.com/Contact_Us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Barcellos\u003c/a> is feeling more optimistic. He tells me he met Trump, and he’s betting the president-elect’s business-friendly side will win out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course you heard about him saying 'build a wall,' \" Barcellos says. \"Well, what he told us is that wall is going to have a door in it and we're going to talk to the right people that want to come in and work, and they're going to have an opportunity to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11256933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11256933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s already an agricultural guest worker program -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers\" target=\"_blank\">H-2A visa \u003c/a>program. And use has gone up steadily over the past five years as fewer workers enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every farmer I talked to complained about it, calling it cumbersome and expensive. Some experts speculate a Trump administration might strip away worker protections and create a program that's more favorable to employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barcellos says Trump assured him people who have been working in the United States for years will have a chance to get temporary visas, too. But he says, \"Citizenship ... that’s a different animal and let’s not mix up the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A path to citizenship doesn’t seem likely under Trump. And not every farmworker I spoke with wants U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take 36-year-old Eugenio. I meet him while he’s pruning pistachio trees on Steve Murray’s farm near\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bakersfield. \u003c/a>Eugenio’s wife and kids are in Mexico. \"So I make a little money, then go back to Oaxaca where I’m building a house,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ehOfQyjgoFtLx51iJp2ymBUFjGA2292H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenio tells me he’s crossed the border eight times illegally. But he says border security is so tight now he hasn’t been home to Mexico in five years. “I’m trying to figure out how to come with a work visa,” he says. \"I'd really like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are people like Elfego, who’s working on a tree nearby. He doesn’t like the idea of visas. He’s been in the United States 17 years. 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So he's not buying the idea that he’s taking away a job from a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visit \u003ca href=\"https://murrayfamilyfarms.com/california-farm-diversifies-for-success/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Murray’s farm\u003c/a> outside Bakersfield, where a few workers are crouched among rows of strawberries that will sell at farmers markets around the region. 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He tells me he met Trump, and he’s betting the president-elect’s business-friendly side will win out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course you heard about him saying 'build a wall,' \" Barcellos says. \"Well, what he told us is that wall is going to have a door in it and we're going to talk to the right people that want to come in and work, and they're going to have an opportunity to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11256933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11256933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s already an agricultural guest worker program -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers\" target=\"_blank\">H-2A visa \u003c/a>program. And use has gone up steadily over the past five years as fewer workers enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every farmer I talked to complained about it, calling it cumbersome and expensive. Some experts speculate a Trump administration might strip away worker protections and create a program that's more favorable to employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barcellos says Trump assured him people who have been working in the United States for years will have a chance to get temporary visas, too. But he says, \"Citizenship ... that’s a different animal and let’s not mix up the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A path to citizenship doesn’t seem likely under Trump. And not every farmworker I spoke with wants U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take 36-year-old Eugenio. I meet him while he’s pruning pistachio trees on Steve Murray’s farm near\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bakersfield. \u003c/a>Eugenio’s wife and kids are in Mexico. \"So I make a little money, then go back to Oaxaca where I’m building a house,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenio tells me he’s crossed the border eight times illegally. But he says border security is so tight now he hasn’t been home to Mexico in five years. “I’m trying to figure out how to come with a work visa,” he says. \"I'd really like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are people like Elfego, who’s working on a tree nearby. He doesn’t like the idea of visas. He’s been in the United States 17 years. His family is here. \"What would happen if Trump starts giving visas to people over there?\" he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elfego worries legal guest workers from Mexico would replace him. “What happens with those of us who are here? He’ll deport us because we’re illegal,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some worry the future under President Trump could bring more immigration raids, less enforcement of farmworker protection laws or the forced use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify\" target=\"_blank\">E-Verify\u003c/a>, a government tool for checking employment eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the only thing certain is that the Central Valley’s $35 billion agricultural economy depends on policies that balance the needs of both growers and workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Politically speaking, the Central Valley is a pretty red region in our mostly blue state. So, with the most controversial candidate in memory at the top of the GOP ticket, I wondered how Republican voters in the valley are feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I figured I should start with agriculture. It’s the biggest industry here, and farmers tends to lean Republican. I ended up in William Bourdeau’s truck, driving down a gravel road in Coalinga, surrounded by bare fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These fields have produced many, many crops over many years,\" Bourdeau said, listing off a dozen fruits and vegetables. \"But they're all fallow now.\" Bourdeau is vice president of Harris Farms, one of the largest agricultural outfits in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289389481\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in his office, Bourdeau told me his biggest concern this election is water. Like most farmers around here, he says he needs more of it. And going without has a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very difficult for people that are hard-working,\" he said. \"They want to work, but if you can't provide a job because you don't have the water, there's nothing you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames state and federal regulators for prioritizing the environment over agriculture. And he’s made up his mind about which presidential candidate will change that. On the wall he’s got a photo of himself smiling next to Donald Trump. He’s got quite a few Trump signs, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met with Trump three different times,\" Bourdeau said. \"We had a very frank conversation. He was able to incorporate what we talked about into his speech that he delivered to thousands of people. He’s very impressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump held a rally in Fresno in May he told the crowd: \"We have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. If I win, believe me we’re gonna start opening up the water so you can have your farmers survive.\" He got huge cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has been to the valley twice in the past few months, and has broken fundraising records. Clinton hasn’t been here since before the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg\" alt=\"For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president.\" width=\"800\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1180x612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-960x498.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-240x125.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-375x195.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-520x270.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next place I went looking for people to talk to about politics was the Big Fresno Fair. I found Democrats and Republicans in the crowd, including one Republican man who was not keen on Trump. Anthony Hill was drinking a beer with a friend near the food stands. He \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">said it bothers him that the nominee has no political experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>I mean, I’m conservative,\" he told me, \"but it’s Donald Trump. He needs to go back to 'Celebrity Apprentice.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also met a guy named Steven. He asked me not to use his last name, but he told me he grew up in a small town here in the valley and he was raised Republican. \"I may be Hispanic, but I'm American,\" he said. \"The U.S. flag is my flag. The Mexican flag is not my flag. That’s just how I see things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven said that’s why he’s not bothered by Trump’s comments about Mexican rapists and his hard-line stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven’s not exactly advertising his support for Trump, though. \"I keep it a secret,\" he said, \"because being from the valley, being brown and being openly gay and voting for Trump is not the thing. It’s not!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told him I thought a rural Central Valley town would be a fairly conservative place. So he explained: \"Because in the valley, it's mainly Latino. That's what it is.\" The Central Valley does have a big Latino population -- and one that’s growing. And Latinos overwhelmingly vote Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, at my next stop -- a naturalization ceremony in Fresno -- I met a Mexican immigrant who also supports Trump. Israel Cervantes is an industrial mechanic who has lived in the United States for 25 years. Now he finally feels like he has a voice in the political process.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\"I feel like I'm fighting for what I want,\" he told me. \"I want security. I want safety. I want peace. I want strong leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"Israel Cervantes (C, with certificate), a Donald Trump supporter, stands with his family after his naturalization ceremony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-1020x811.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-960x764.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-375x298.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Cervantes-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel Cervantes (C, with certificate), a Donald Trump supporter, stands with his family after his naturalization ceremony. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Isael Cervantes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cervantes also says he doesn’t believe in abortion, and he doesn’t want to see a Democrat choose the next Supreme Court justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cervantes’ 19-year-old son, Isael, raised some doubts. \"He's impulsive, quick to anger,\" the younger man said of Trump. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very difficult for people that are hard-working,\" he said. \"They want to work, but if you can't provide a job because you don't have the water, there's nothing you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames state and federal regulators for prioritizing the environment over agriculture. And he’s made up his mind about which presidential candidate will change that. On the wall he’s got a photo of himself smiling next to Donald Trump. He’s got quite a few Trump signs, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met with Trump three different times,\" Bourdeau said. \"We had a very frank conversation. He was able to incorporate what we talked about into his speech that he delivered to thousands of people. He’s very impressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump held a rally in Fresno in May he told the crowd: \"We have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous. If I win, believe me we’re gonna start opening up the water so you can have your farmers survive.\" He got huge cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has been to the valley twice in the past few months, and has broken fundraising records. Clinton hasn’t been here since before the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11139829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg\" alt=\"For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president.\" width=\"800\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11139829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-800x415.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1020x529.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-1180x612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-960x498.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-240x125.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-375x195.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/TrumpSign-520x270.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For many farmers in the Central Valley, water is the most important issue of this election. Donald Trump has vowed to bring farmers more water, and many support him for president. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next place I went looking for people to talk to about politics was the Big Fresno Fair. I found Democrats and Republicans in the crowd, including one Republican man who was not keen on Trump. Anthony Hill was drinking a beer with a friend near the food stands. He \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">said it bothers him that the nominee has no political experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"\u003c/span>I mean, I’m conservative,\" he told me, \"but it’s Donald Trump. He needs to go back to 'Celebrity Apprentice.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also met a guy named Steven. He asked me not to use his last name, but he told me he grew up in a small town here in the valley and he was raised Republican. \"I may be Hispanic, but I'm American,\" he said. \"The U.S. flag is my flag. The Mexican flag is not my flag. That’s just how I see things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven said that’s why he’s not bothered by Trump’s comments about Mexican rapists and his hard-line stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven’s not exactly advertising his support for Trump, though. \"I keep it a secret,\" he said, \"because being from the valley, being brown and being openly gay and voting for Trump is not the thing. It’s not!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told him I thought a rural Central Valley town would be a fairly conservative place. So he explained: \"Because in the valley, it's mainly Latino. That's what it is.\" The Central Valley does have a big Latino population -- and one that’s growing. And Latinos overwhelmingly vote Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, at my next stop -- a naturalization ceremony in Fresno -- I met a Mexican immigrant who also supports Trump. Israel Cervantes is an industrial mechanic who has lived in the United States for 25 years. Now he finally feels like he has a voice in the political process.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\"I feel like I'm fighting for what I want,\" he told me. \"I want security. I want safety. I want peace. 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