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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As of this Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> will give immigration officers more power to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials will now consider a wider range of factors to decide if an applicant is likely to become a “public charge” — someone who is primarily dependent on the government to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-2\">states\u003c/a> that individuals who are likely to become a public charge cannot be admitted to the country, but it does not provide an exact list of factors or circumstances to determine who is a “public charge.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s why different administrations have interpreted the law differently. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Concord Immigration Court in Concord on May 7, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a Biden-era rule that limited what officials could look at when considering an application. Without that guardrail in place, DHS can now consider whether an individual has ever received “means-tested public benefits” — a category that officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/20/2026-14539/public-charge-ground-of-inadmissibility\">have confirmed\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Unemployment benefits (CalWords)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Food stamps (CalFresh) and other nutrition-assistance programs like WIC for women, infants and children\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Housing vouchers\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Early education programs like Head Start (if the applicant is a child)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>School lunch and summer food service programs that an applicant received thanks to food stamps or Medicaid coverage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also considers direct cash aid programs at the local level, like guaranteed or universal basic income programs (also known as UBI). Over the past decade, cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Stockton have developed their own UBI programs for low-income families that don’t take immigration status into account.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What else could immigration officials look at?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DHS insists that the Biden-era rule prevented immigration officials from making more informed decisions. Looking at current and past public benefits, the agency said, is “relevant to determining whether an alien is likely at any time to become a public charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy is not entirely clear about what else immigration officials would consider public benefits, said Robert Yabes, who leads the immigration legal program at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Officials now have much more discretion when making a decision,” he added. “We will have to observe how they use that now in cases,” he said. “And then based on what we learn, we will guide clients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/gettyimages-2238189274-scaled-e1789757180450.jpeg\" alt=\"A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-12085161\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The announcement has sparked uncertainty and anxiety among immigrant families in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The rules are constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not,” said Lydia Bustamante, who leads San José’s Office of Inclusion and Belonging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The result is that people are not accessing the services and resources that they need and deserve in order to support their families in one of the highest-cost-of-living areas in the country,” she added, stressing the importance of talking to legal experts to better understand this new rule.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are many ways to find legal aid in the Bay Area. These are some options recommended by immigrant advocates KQED spoke to:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/get-help/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>: 800-551-5554\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://desj.santaclaracounty.gov/oir/legal-services\">portal of free-to-low-cost immigration legal services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership: 510-241-4011\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Marin County Rapid Response Network: 415-991-4545\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County: 408-290-1144\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Stand Together Contra Costa: 925-900-5151\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>North Bay Rapid Response Network (Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties): 707-800-4544\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are generally not involved in federal immigration affairs, Santa Clara County Executive James Williams pointed out. “All of the care and services we offer to ensure the health and well-being of every family in our community,” he said, “remains fully open and accessible to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re doing all we can to make sure that people continue to access those services,” he added, “and know that their county government is standing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is impacted by this change?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Folks should first find out whether the new public charge rule actually affects them, said Yabes from Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t apply to everybody,” he said. “Families should not automatically withdraw from any program that they’re in right now, especially with children, [without] finding out if the new rule actually applies to their particular immigration situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new rule affects only people who are applying for a green card or a visa, Yabes explained. It doesn’t include naturalized U.S. citizens or current green card holders — unless they leave the country for more than six months. “It also does not apply to people who have refugee or asylum status,” he added, “or even DACA and TPS recipients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protects some people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is granted to immigrants from countries where the situation is too dangerous or unstable to return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Individuals who are applying for legal permanent residence (a green card) will, however, be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-3\">new guidelines\u003c/a> — even if they have an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or are being sponsored by an employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are state and local officials worried about this new public charge rule?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California and 22 other Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration to block the new public charge rule. Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Monday that these guidelines give immigration officials “practically unlimited discretion to deny someone a green card because they used a public benefit program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a cruel policy designed to force immigrant families to forgo healthcare and food assistance programs out of fear that using them could jeopardize their immigration status,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12053793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara County have also sued the federal government over the new policy in a separate lawsuit. “If even a fraction of households are withdrawing from these social services, our city stands to lose millions of dollars in federal reimbursements,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties are already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082251/after-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-free-clinics-are-stepping-up\">expecting to lose\u003c/a> millions of dollars in Medicaid funding thanks to cuts from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. More funding losses could strain local services even more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, DHS said that state leaders pushing back against the policy “are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome,” DHS added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2019, San Francisco and Santa Clara County won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-san-francisco-and-county-of-santa-clara-conclude-public-charge-lawsuit\">legal battle\u003c/a> against the first Trump administration over a similar change to the public charge rule. “This is something that we have fought before,” Chiu said. “This is a cruel attempt by the federal administration to impose a wealth test on families that are seeking a future in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> resident Ben Stein-Lobovits was celebrating his friend’s marriage when he noticed a headache and numbness in his tongue. His friends chalked the neurological symptoms up to a hangover. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On the eve of his 32nd birthday, he was diagnosed with a brainstem glioma, an inoperable brain tumor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I like to say, ‘I-turned-30 tumor,’” Stein-Lobovits said, laughing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What followed is a period of his life that is hard to recall, he said, a “tornado” of appointments. The standard care of treatment was chemo and radiation — with a prognosis of six t0 10 months. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12099890\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ben Stein-Lobovits holds a childhood photo of himself with his father at his home in Berkeley on Sept. 15, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12099891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099891\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260915-CANCERSURVIVOR-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ben Stein-Lobovits sits outside his home in Berkeley on Sept. 15, 2026. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There has to be another solution,” Stein-Lobovits remembered saying at the time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He began reading papers and getting in touch with researchers, eventually leading him to a trial of an experimental treatment — dordaviprone, a drug that blocks survival signals in tumor cells. Nine years later, his tumor has shrunk by about 70%, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thanks to breakthroughs in cancer treatment, reduced smoking and improved detection, cancer rates declined by 35% between 1991 and 2024, according to a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research, the first and largest professional organization dedicated to preventing and curing all cancers. And over the last year alone, new scientific breakthroughs have reached patients in the form of new treatments for their specific disease. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the FDA approved one new treatment device, expanded five previously approved therapies to include new cancer types and green-lit 11 new cancer therapeutics — including dordaviprone. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report, which highlights Stein-Lobovits’ experience with the drug, also notes several advances in cancer prevention and detection — vaccines that prevent cancers in high-risk individuals and train immune systems to eliminate existing tumors; at-home test kits for HPV, a disease linked to cervical cancer; and AI-based tools to help doctors interpret routine medical imaging and carry out complex research tasks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the progress, cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., killing about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm\">610,000\u003c/a> people annually. An estimated 2.1 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in 2026, and this number is projected to rise to 2.5 million by 2050, according to AACR findings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cancer’s risks are not distributed equally — racial and ethnic minority groups and other medically underserved populations in the U.S. continue to shoulder a disproportionate burden of the disease. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even the strongest research system falls short if patients cannot benefit from its advances,” the report states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite significant strides, researchers warned of a major threat to cancer research: another wave of funding cuts following policy changes from the Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A report from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cost-trump-administrations-attacks-research-funding\">Brennan Center for Justice\u003c/a> says the administration’s actions — including the decision to remove all members of the board of advisers to the National Science Foundation — have caused grantmaking to “slow to a crawl” since the start of this fiscal year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In early 2025, the administration cut or froze more than 2,200 active National Institutes of Health research grants and withdrew billions of dollars in previously awarded research funding, according to the AACR report. 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Construction began earlier this year but has been halted following a federal court ruling. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>When a patient comes into Dr. Miguel San Miguel Benavides’ exam room at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> with a cough, a rash, diabetes or high blood pressure, he knows where to start. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But over the past year, people have been bringing him a problem he feels less equipped to tackle as a primary care physician: their fear over immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among other actions, the Trump administration has rolled back protections keeping immigration agents away from healthcare facilities and sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/immigrant-health/potential-implications-of-the-new-medicaid-data-sharing-agreement-between-cms-and-ice/\">give ICE access to Medicaid data\u003c/a>. Since then, San Miguel and colleagues at SF General who work with immigrant patients say they’ve watched with a sense of powerlessness as people avoid or delay treatment, and as mounting stress exacerbates their underlying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/news/ice-tactics-and-deportation-fears-limit-access-to-health-care-for-children-of-immigrants-survey/\">2025 survey\u003c/a> of healthcare workers who serve immigrants echoes that experience: Among hundreds of respondents across 30 states, 84% said patient visits were down substantially; many said their ability to provide preventive care and manage chronic conditions suffered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, poses for a portrait at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a small study from UCSF suggests that immigration policies can force some doctors to practice in a way that’s at odds with their sense of moral or professional duty, taking a toll on them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The experience has become routine for San Miguel as he finishes his residency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the type of care that I always wanted to give,” he said of working with patients who, like him, immigrated to this country. “But I think part of that has become realizing that the amount of support we can give isn’t necessarily enough.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers call that kind of ethical conflict “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war\">moral injury\u003c/a>,” a term coined by a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist working with Vietnam War veterans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Marlene Martín, a UCSF clinical medicine professor, was inspired to do the study last summer, around the time ICE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">conducting widespread raids\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. A colleague who works with immigrant patients told her no one had shown up to their appointment that day at SF General. If that was happening in San Francisco, where there was relatively little high-profile ICE activity at the time, Martín wondered what doctors elsewhere were seeing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So she and her colleagues interviewed 38 primary care doctors in 13 states about their experiences caring for immigrant patients in this climate. They recently published their findings \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2851433\">in JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The interviews confirmed that doctors across the country were seeing patients miss appointments, with some suffering more from chronic diseases as their treatment lapsed. For instance, Martín said, one interviewee described a patient whose diabetes had spiraled out of control because his son, who’d been driving him to his appointments, had been arrested by ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t fix that,” she said. “You can’t address that in a clinical visit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some doctors told the researchers they were afraid to even ask their patients how they were doing, “because it would open this whole topic that they didn’t know how to answer. They didn’t know how to make it better,” Martín said. “In medicine we’re used to being able to address things that patients are talking about and to help them get better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One doctor described to researchers the kind of dilemmas they face, given fears about encountering immigration agents in hospitals: “Would I rather have [my patient] be at home while they’re having substernal, crushing chest pain vs. what are the costs and benefits of going [to the hospital]?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. 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Since then, San Miguel and colleagues at SF General who work with immigrant patients say they’ve watched with a sense of powerlessness as people avoid or delay treatment, and as mounting stress exacerbates their underlying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/news/ice-tactics-and-deportation-fears-limit-access-to-health-care-for-children-of-immigrants-survey/\">2025 survey\u003c/a> of healthcare workers who serve immigrants echoes that experience: Among hundreds of respondents across 30 states, 84% said patient visits were down substantially; many said their ability to provide preventive care and manage chronic conditions suffered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, poses for a portrait at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a small study from UCSF suggests that immigration policies can force some doctors to practice in a way that’s at odds with their sense of moral or professional duty, taking a toll on them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The experience has become routine for San Miguel as he finishes his residency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the type of care that I always wanted to give,” he said of working with patients who, like him, immigrated to this country. “But I think part of that has become realizing that the amount of support we can give isn’t necessarily enough.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers call that kind of ethical conflict “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war\">moral injury\u003c/a>,” a term coined by a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist working with Vietnam War veterans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Marlene Martín, a UCSF clinical medicine professor, was inspired to do the study last summer, around the time ICE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">conducting widespread raids\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. A colleague who works with immigrant patients told her no one had shown up to their appointment that day at SF General. If that was happening in San Francisco, where there was relatively little high-profile ICE activity at the time, Martín wondered what doctors elsewhere were seeing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So she and her colleagues interviewed 38 primary care doctors in 13 states about their experiences caring for immigrant patients in this climate. They recently published their findings \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2851433\">in JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The interviews confirmed that doctors across the country were seeing patients miss appointments, with some suffering more from chronic diseases as their treatment lapsed. For instance, Martín said, one interviewee described a patient whose diabetes had spiraled out of control because his son, who’d been driving him to his appointments, had been arrested by ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t fix that,” she said. “You can’t address that in a clinical visit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some doctors told the researchers they were afraid to even ask their patients how they were doing, “because it would open this whole topic that they didn’t know how to answer. They didn’t know how to make it better,” Martín said. “In medicine we’re used to being able to address things that patients are talking about and to help them get better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One doctor described to researchers the kind of dilemmas they face, given fears about encountering immigration agents in hospitals: “Would I rather have [my patient] be at home while they’re having substernal, crushing chest pain vs. what are the costs and benefits of going [to the hospital]?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some cases, the interviewees reported their clinics had stopped accepting undocumented patients altogether, for fear of losing federal funding. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Those experiences, day after day, are what can lead to moral injury.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What surprised study co-author Dr. Alicia Fernandez was how much doctors changed the way they practiced in response to immigration policy changes. “What we saw was many physicians and practices, entire practices, altering their patterns of care,” the UCSF professor and SF General primary care doctor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some transitioned to telehealth appointments. Others switched medications so patients didn’t have to go into the clinic or pharmacy as often. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Fernandez said the changes can come at a cost — both for the patients and the doctors who care for them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Alicia Fernandez, a UCSF professor and general internist at SF General, talk at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We definitely feel that our patients are getting worse, and we feel that the care that we are giving is an inferior form of care, and that’s why it’s associated with moral distress,” Fernandez said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She points to a recent experience with an undocumented patient who’d avoided being seen out of fear. “He came in already having damage from his diabetes,” she said. “That’s a terrible feeling.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This kind of distress isn’t just bad for individual doctors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Moral injury can contribute to burnout,” said Dr. Robert Pearl, a physician and Stanford professor who served as CEO of the Permanente Medical Group for nearly two decades. And data show burnout affects doctors’ quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the patient before you required all this extra work, has had this added fear, had all these challenges,” he said, referencing the study, “when the clinician sees you, he or she may not be as good and sharp as you would like them to be.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Individuals walk towards the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Burnout and moral injury can also lead doctors and other healthcare workers to leave their professions, he said, with particularly dire effects in primary care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We already have a shortage,” he said, so “when you need a primary care doctor, that individual might not be there. And we’re certainly seeing that in many communities across the United States, where it’s almost impossible to find a primary care physician with an open panel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For doctors in the study who were themselves immigrants, the distress was compounded. That has broad implications given that almost half of the country’s internal medicine doctors are foreign-born, according to \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852745?guestAccessKey=da3ba888-5ff2-456f-9d94-b301cf5d2884&utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=081226\">a study\u003c/a> released last month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the UCSF study on moral injury is small and qualitative, it points to ways healthcare institutions can support staff in an increasingly difficult environment. Doctors whose clinics protected patients’ immigration-related information and expanded telehealth, for example, described ways those changes helped them care for patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A sense of powerlessness contributed to the moral distress doctors in the study felt. Carolyn Dewa, a psychiatry and behavioral medicine professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine, said social support can protect against that. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you feel supported by colleagues and peers, or you feel supported by supervisors,” she said, “if people are not isolated from one another but feel that they’re part of a group, it also is protective.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The doctors interviewed for the study also described the importance of having a sense of agency. “This paper pointed out that feeling like you could take an active role does help mitigate some of the distress,” said Dr. Anne Rosenthal, who runs the adult primary care clinic at SF General, where Fernandez and San Miguel work. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her clinic has tried to do that in part by training staff on what to do if immigration enforcement shows up and proactively educating patients about what they need to do to keep Medi-Cal coverage as state enrollment rules change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/over-two-million-more-californians-projected-to-lack-health-insurance-by-2030/\">UC Berkeley Labor Center projects\u003c/a> half of undocumented residents in California under age 65 could be uninsured by 2030, double the rate now.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We live in fear of losing our patients, because we know that their physical health will suffer, the health of their kids will suffer, and the health of the community will suffer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>On a sunny Tuesday in August, a group of volunteers rinsed the soil off of freshly harvested greens on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/urban-agriculture\">urban farm\u003c/a> in North \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a>, beside beehives and greenhouses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By the week’s end, the vegetables will be packed and delivered to doorsteps across Richmond and San Pablo, or will stock the tables of free farm stands in five neighborhoods. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What began as an East Bay nonprofit and community garden in 2005 has grown into a food access program serving hundreds. For some, the North Richmond farm is one of the few places they can reliably get fresh produce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A neighborhood with no grocery store\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Richmond has no full-service grocery store and limited infrastructure, said Chinue Fields, who directs food access programs for Urban Tilth, the Richmond nonprofit that runs the farm. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Getting to a grocery store means a car or a bus, Fields said, and the neighborhood doesn’t have many sidewalks. Corner stores and liquor stores dot residential streets. The farm is within sight of a landfill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001777/residents-near-chevrons-richmond-refinery-face-higher-risk-of-cancer-air-district-says\">Chevron refinery\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The access is gone. The infrastructure is gone,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta places bags of produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purple carrots in a CSA box at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/\">produce\u003c/a> share, a community-supported agriculture subscription, reaches more than 400 households across West Contra Costa County. Half of recipients pay nothing. Since need is greater than what the 10-acre farm can grow, the organization buys from about a dozen small farms, prioritizing growers within 200 miles. The free farm stands open four days a week at five sites until the produce runs out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth said turnout at its free farm stands rose roughly 150% in the first quarter of this year, during the coldest and thinnest stretch of the growing calendar, when demand normally sags. Fields said that timing indicated food needs in the area were rising. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal at each stand is a bag per household, enough for one meal. During those busy weeks, Fields said, when supply is stretched thin, the bags include three to four items. Now, with new federal rules pushing Californians off food assistance, staff say more residents are turning to the farm for sustenance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>HR 1, the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed in 2025, put more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">650,000 Californians\u003c/a> at risk of losing CalFresh — the state’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs/keep-benefits\">changes\u003c/a> took effect on paper in June, but they land household by household as annual recertification deadlines come due. The changes also rolled back exemptions that protected veterans, former foster youth and people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County and food bank officials expect the effects to become visible around October and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078490/hundreds-of-thousands-could-be-booted-from-calfresh-and-medi-cal-this-bill-aims-to-help\">continue into next year\u003c/a>. The farm bill, the sprawling federal law that sets both agriculture policy and the rules for SNAP, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naco.org/news/senate-agriculture-committee-holds-farm-bill-markup-remains-committee\">expires Sept. 30\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘It’s survival mode out here’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">1 in 4\u003c/a> California adults experienced food insecurity. As many as 104,900 Contra Costa County residents rely on CalFresh as of June, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/data-portal/research-and-data/calfresh-data-dashboard\">state data\u003c/a>. In District 1, which includes Richmond, a county \u003ca href=\"https://contra-costa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14903929&GUID=9C3B6018-6D20-4170-97F3-739C6E6AE6C4\">presentation\u003c/a> counted 28,035 individuals and 17,399 households — over a quarter of the county’s caseload — as having received CalFresh in September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth’s free weekly delivery has a long waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Cost of life has gone up. It’s survival mode out here,” said Adam Boisvert, Urban Tilth’s deputy director and director of education programs. “Sometimes we don’t have enough food to give to everybody, and that’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta, left, and procurement specialist Josue Mejia, right, place produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The strain has also started moving up the supply chain. Fields said churches that normally draw their distributions from the regional food bank began calling Urban Tilth directly after the food bank came up short.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was really eye-opening and a little bit scary, to be honest,” she said. “We consider the cut to SNAP as an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Costs are climbing on Urban Tilth’s side, too. Fuel surcharges have appeared on top of delivery fees from partner farms, and produce prices have risen. Urban Tilth raised its standard weekly share from $35 to $50 this year. A subsidized share runs $15 for the same bag and the same delivery, Fields said, and a third tier is free for residents who are unemployed, undocumented, unhoused, elderly or disabled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Folks who really, really need that type of service and wouldn’t otherwise have access to that type or produce,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The model Urban Tilth uses — buying from small local growers at full price to feed people who can’t pay — is the same one the federal Local Food Purchase Assistance Program ran until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088977/a-lifeline-for-californias-small-farms-just-expired-what-comes-next\">Trump administration ended it\u003c/a>. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget in June that includes $15 million to keep the state’s version alive for one more year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food as medicine, and as a job\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/veggierx\">VeggieRx\u003c/a> program, Urban Tilth delivers free produce to two groups of residents. For patients on Medi-Cal at LifeLong Medical Care, a doctor can decide the produce is part of their care, generally for people managing a chronic illness or recently out of the hospital, and the farm fills it through the same weekly share. A second, state-funded version covers anyone living in Richmond’s Iron Triangle, Santa Fe or Coronado neighborhoods. It runs through July 2027 and is already full, with a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fields said people rarely mention a diagnosis when they first come by the stand. There’s shame and stigma around nutrition-related disease, she said, especially in Black and other communities with people of color. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the stands set up in the same spots week after week, year after year, and eventually people volunteer the information themselves: an A1C reading that dropped, a mother who came off her blood-pressure medication.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Mackie fillls CSA boxes with produce at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Mackie works with Urban Tilth through nonprofit Vistability, which helps individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“We offer a high level of dignity with our food distribution,” Fields said. “We are there to really engage with people and get to know them on a personal level. We don’t want it to be a transactional relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Staff record what city someone lives in, and more than 90% come from Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo. They don’t ask about income, need or disability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The volunteers are usually borrowed. Local businesses, nonprofits and school groups schedule time to help pack, Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The staff, roughly 85% local, have largely come through the same pipeline: garden lessons at Verde Elementary, the urban agriculture course Boisvert teaches at Richmond High, a summer apprenticeship, a job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097666\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval stands for a portrait at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Cathy Sandoval came up through Urban Tilth’s Rudy Lozito Fellowship Program four years ago, driving CSA deliveries, and now works in the greenhouses. She said the neighborhood changed how she understood the work. Growing food in a place with little access to organic produce, she said, is “basically political because you are going against what people here in the community are lacking, not having organic food and produce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anytime that I come here to the farm on a bad day, it always ends on a good day, always,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On bad days, she amends a bed, breaking up the rocky soil and aerating it — challenging, physical labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re giving it life through anger and emotion, sadness, happiness, whatever it is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s grandfather and father farmed in Mexico, and growing food, in a way, helps her connect to her heritage and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We tend to forget about our history and our culture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uniting neighbors over shared land\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than 20 Japanese American families grew flowers \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">across Richmond and El Cerrito\u003c/a> for decades, according to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Most of the local flower families were sent to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where they were incarcerated for four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the Nabeta family returned, and their business began to bounce back, their land was \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">seized\u003c/a> by the state in 1947 to build Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-1536x704.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval places weeds into a bucket at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. 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(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>They then rebuilt in North Richmond — a Black neighborhood that was brimming with blues clubs and quickly becoming a nightlife hot spot in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Redlining and restrictive covenants had made it one of the few places in the area where Black families could live, according to Urban Tilth’s \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history\u003c/a> of the neighborhood, and people who came from the South to work in the shipyards built homes there with their wages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The area was also contending with violent crime, and becoming a backdrop to some of the era’s radical politics: In 1967, one of the first pushes of the rising Black Panther Party involved investigating the killing of a North Richmond man by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually most of the nurseries closed. 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They would rather sell to Urban Tilth if the price could be met, they said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Executive Director Doria Robinson \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-02/urban-farm-japanese-flower-nursery-warehouse-distribution-center-bay-area\">raised\u003c/a> more than $4.5 million to purchase it. The farm grew from 3 acres to 10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth is part of a long lineage of people who have worked the land — the Ohlone, the Black cowboys who once kept horses here and the Japanese American nursery families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We aren’t the original light bearers of this movement,” he said. “Urban Tilth is gonna be a moment in history now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘By whatever means necessary’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In late 2024, Contra Costa County won a federal grant that would have paid for a new resilience center on the farm. 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The county did not receive formal notice that the EPA had terminated the grant until May of that year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We took it off the books as soon as we got wind that it wasn’t coming through,” Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d8774ef4-9c01-4ae5-b06b-88b18f55d0c9\">new buildings\u003c/a> now stand on the farm, paid for without federal money: a greenhouse, a native plant nursery, a watershed learning center, a toolshed and what Urban Tilth says is the first permitted public composting toilet in an urban area of Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth says it has raised more than $9.3 million of the roughly $14.3 million this phase will cost. 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His two urban agriculture classes at Richmond High started back up with 80 students, and the farm still runs after-school sessions, senior gardening and a volunteer day every fourth Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By whatever means necessary, we’re going to see this thing through,” Boisvert said. “Piece by piece, one day at a time, one grant at a time, getting buildings finished, getting projects done.”\u003c/p>\n",
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For some, the North Richmond farm is one of the few places they can reliably get fresh produce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A neighborhood with no grocery store\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Richmond has no full-service grocery store and limited infrastructure, said Chinue Fields, who directs food access programs for Urban Tilth, the Richmond nonprofit that runs the farm. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Getting to a grocery store means a car or a bus, Fields said, and the neighborhood doesn’t have many sidewalks. Corner stores and liquor stores dot residential streets. The farm is within sight of a landfill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001777/residents-near-chevrons-richmond-refinery-face-higher-risk-of-cancer-air-district-says\">Chevron refinery\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The access is gone. 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(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/\">produce\u003c/a> share, a community-supported agriculture subscription, reaches more than 400 households across West Contra Costa County. Half of recipients pay nothing. Since need is greater than what the 10-acre farm can grow, the organization buys from about a dozen small farms, prioritizing growers within 200 miles. The free farm stands open four days a week at five sites until the produce runs out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth said turnout at its free farm stands rose roughly 150% in the first quarter of this year, during the coldest and thinnest stretch of the growing calendar, when demand normally sags. Fields said that timing indicated food needs in the area were rising. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal at each stand is a bag per household, enough for one meal. During those busy weeks, Fields said, when supply is stretched thin, the bags include three to four items. Now, with new federal rules pushing Californians off food assistance, staff say more residents are turning to the farm for sustenance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>HR 1, the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed in 2025, put more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">650,000 Californians\u003c/a> at risk of losing CalFresh — the state’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs/keep-benefits\">changes\u003c/a> took effect on paper in June, but they land household by household as annual recertification deadlines come due. The changes also rolled back exemptions that protected veterans, former foster youth and people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County and food bank officials expect the effects to become visible around October and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078490/hundreds-of-thousands-could-be-booted-from-calfresh-and-medi-cal-this-bill-aims-to-help\">continue into next year\u003c/a>. The farm bill, the sprawling federal law that sets both agriculture policy and the rules for SNAP, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naco.org/news/senate-agriculture-committee-holds-farm-bill-markup-remains-committee\">expires Sept. 30\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘It’s survival mode out here’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">1 in 4\u003c/a> California adults experienced food insecurity. As many as 104,900 Contra Costa County residents rely on CalFresh as of June, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/data-portal/research-and-data/calfresh-data-dashboard\">state data\u003c/a>. In District 1, which includes Richmond, a county \u003ca href=\"https://contra-costa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14903929&GUID=9C3B6018-6D20-4170-97F3-739C6E6AE6C4\">presentation\u003c/a> counted 28,035 individuals and 17,399 households — over a quarter of the county’s caseload — as having received CalFresh in September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth’s free weekly delivery has a long waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Cost of life has gone up. It’s survival mode out here,” said Adam Boisvert, Urban Tilth’s deputy director and director of education programs. “Sometimes we don’t have enough food to give to everybody, and that’s heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta, left, and procurement specialist Josue Mejia, right, place produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The strain has also started moving up the supply chain. Fields said churches that normally draw their distributions from the regional food bank began calling Urban Tilth directly after the food bank came up short.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was really eye-opening and a little bit scary, to be honest,” she said. “We consider the cut to SNAP as an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Costs are climbing on Urban Tilth’s side, too. Fuel surcharges have appeared on top of delivery fees from partner farms, and produce prices have risen. Urban Tilth raised its standard weekly share from $35 to $50 this year. A subsidized share runs $15 for the same bag and the same delivery, Fields said, and a third tier is free for residents who are unemployed, undocumented, unhoused, elderly or disabled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Folks who really, really need that type of service and wouldn’t otherwise have access to that type or produce,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The model Urban Tilth uses — buying from small local growers at full price to feed people who can’t pay — is the same one the federal Local Food Purchase Assistance Program ran until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088977/a-lifeline-for-californias-small-farms-just-expired-what-comes-next\">Trump administration ended it\u003c/a>. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget in June that includes $15 million to keep the state’s version alive for one more year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food as medicine, and as a job\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/veggierx\">VeggieRx\u003c/a> program, Urban Tilth delivers free produce to two groups of residents. For patients on Medi-Cal at LifeLong Medical Care, a doctor can decide the produce is part of their care, generally for people managing a chronic illness or recently out of the hospital, and the farm fills it through the same weekly share. A second, state-funded version covers anyone living in Richmond’s Iron Triangle, Santa Fe or Coronado neighborhoods. It runs through July 2027 and is already full, with a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fields said people rarely mention a diagnosis when they first come by the stand. There’s shame and stigma around nutrition-related disease, she said, especially in Black and other communities with people of color. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the stands set up in the same spots week after week, year after year, and eventually people volunteer the information themselves: an A1C reading that dropped, a mother who came off her blood-pressure medication.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Mackie fillls CSA boxes with produce at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Mackie works with Urban Tilth through nonprofit Vistability, which helps individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“We offer a high level of dignity with our food distribution,” Fields said. “We are there to really engage with people and get to know them on a personal level. We don’t want it to be a transactional relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Staff record what city someone lives in, and more than 90% come from Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo. They don’t ask about income, need or disability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The volunteers are usually borrowed. Local businesses, nonprofits and school groups schedule time to help pack, Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The staff, roughly 85% local, have largely come through the same pipeline: garden lessons at Verde Elementary, the urban agriculture course Boisvert teaches at Richmond High, a summer apprenticeship, a job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097666\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval stands for a portrait at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Cathy Sandoval came up through Urban Tilth’s Rudy Lozito Fellowship Program four years ago, driving CSA deliveries, and now works in the greenhouses. She said the neighborhood changed how she understood the work. Growing food in a place with little access to organic produce, she said, is “basically political because you are going against what people here in the community are lacking, not having organic food and produce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anytime that I come here to the farm on a bad day, it always ends on a good day, always,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On bad days, she amends a bed, breaking up the rocky soil and aerating it — challenging, physical labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re giving it life through anger and emotion, sadness, happiness, whatever it is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s grandfather and father farmed in Mexico, and growing food, in a way, helps her connect to her heritage and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We tend to forget about our history and our culture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uniting neighbors over shared land\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than 20 Japanese American families grew flowers \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">across Richmond and El Cerrito\u003c/a> for decades, according to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Most of the local flower families were sent to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where they were incarcerated for four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the Nabeta family returned, and their business began to bounce back, their land was \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">seized\u003c/a> by the state in 1947 to build Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-1536x704.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval places weeds into a bucket at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Right: Rows of crops at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>They then rebuilt in North Richmond — a Black neighborhood that was brimming with blues clubs and quickly becoming a nightlife hot spot in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Redlining and restrictive covenants had made it one of the few places in the area where Black families could live, according to Urban Tilth’s \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history\u003c/a> of the neighborhood, and people who came from the South to work in the shipyards built homes there with their wages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The area was also contending with violent crime, and becoming a backdrop to some of the era’s radical politics: In 1967, one of the first pushes of the rising Black Panther Party involved investigating the killing of a North Richmond man by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually most of the nurseries closed. In 2022, the Nabeta family decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-06/questions-of-justice-flare-in-bay-area-warehouse-dispute\">sell their land\u003c/a> to a developer. Urban Tilth, whose farm sat against the property line, learned the plan was a five-story warehouse, said Chito Floriano, the farm programs director.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It [would have been] shaded out by about five to six hours of sunlight,” Floriano said. What followed was what the farm called the “No Shade Campaign”: letters to the developer, letters to the family, a street mural on Brookside Drive.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About three months in, Floriano said, members of the Nabeta family walked over. They would rather sell to Urban Tilth if the price could be met, they said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Executive Director Doria Robinson \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-02/urban-farm-japanese-flower-nursery-warehouse-distribution-center-bay-area\">raised\u003c/a> more than $4.5 million to purchase it. The farm grew from 3 acres to 10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth is part of a long lineage of people who have worked the land — the Ohlone, the Black cowboys who once kept horses here and the Japanese American nursery families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We aren’t the original light bearers of this movement,” he said. “Urban Tilth is gonna be a moment in history now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘By whatever means necessary’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In late 2024, Contra Costa County won a federal grant that would have paid for a new resilience center on the farm. The farm planned a solar-powered building where neighbors could wait out a heat wave, a refinery accident or a stretch of dangerous wildfire smoke, stocked with cots, first-aid supplies and portable showers, with a battery system able to run the air-filtration and refrigeration systems for up to three days off the grid. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano estimated construction would cost $6 million. It was one of \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/epa-community-change-grant-status/\">nine\u003c/a> projects across North Richmond covered by a $19 million grant to Contra Costa County from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA (community-supported agriculture) coordinator Marco Huerta fills bags with fruit at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Weeks after the county secured the contract, the federal government pulled the plug. In February 2025, the nonprofit lost contact with the EPA’s grant administrator and later learned the staffer had been fired. The county did not receive formal notice that the EPA had terminated the grant until May of that year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We took it off the books as soon as we got wind that it wasn’t coming through,” Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d8774ef4-9c01-4ae5-b06b-88b18f55d0c9\">new buildings\u003c/a> now stand on the farm, paid for without federal money: a greenhouse, a native plant nursery, a watershed learning center, a toolshed and what Urban Tilth says is the first permitted public composting toilet in an urban area of Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth says it has raised more than $9.3 million of the roughly $14.3 million this phase will cost. It needs $5 million more to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among the \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/the-north-richmond-farm-project/\">remaining\u003c/a> line items is $250,000 for a \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history walk\u003c/a>, a path running the length of the farm that tells the story of the neighborhood: the Ohlone, the blues clubs, the Black Panthers and the Japanese American nursery families, including the Nabetas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth receives almost no federal funds now, and is instead carried by state contracts, city creek restoration work, foundations and individual donors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth recently finished two outdoor classrooms, one in the crop rows and one in the orchard, and Boisvert said the spaces get more use as more kids cycle through. His two urban agriculture classes at Richmond High started back up with 80 students, and the farm still runs after-school sessions, senior gardening and a volunteer day every fourth Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By whatever means necessary, we’re going to see this thing through,” Boisvert said. “Piece by piece, one day at a time, one grant at a time, getting buildings finished, getting projects done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is at risk of losing nearly $12 billion in federal funding for public assistance programs after the Trump administration threatened to cut off grants to states unless they report every known unauthorized immigrant to immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The threat came in the form of a new legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-clarifies-duty-states-report-known-illegal-aliens-under-welfare-reform\">opinion\u003c/a> this month reinterpreting a 1990s welfare-reform law to mean that all agencies in states receiving welfare funding — which is every state in the nation — must report all “individuals known to be not lawfully present” to the federal government or risk losing grants that aid low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a dramatic reversal from the Clinton-era interpretation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which said that only state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office was defiant in its opposition to the threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. 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Gavin Newsom’s office was defiant in its opposition to the threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a statement. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In fact, people who are not lawfully present in the U.S. are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/ofa/policy-guidance/acf-ofa-im-25-01\">not eligible\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm\">either program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If California were to comply with the new federal requirements, however, it would spotlight for federal immigration enforcement many of the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cmsny.org\">estimated 2.6 million people\u003c/a> in the state without legal status, including those who have lived in the U.S. for years and have U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has information on a lot of residents without legal immigration status because, over the past two decades, lawmakers have made them eligible for public resources, including driver’s licenses, emergency health care and in-state tuition, UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The risk is bigger in California because California has been willing, in exercising its legislative judgment, to provide more services and benefits to undocumented immigrants than many other states,” Johnson said. “It’s done so legally, and it’s done so without the knowledge that it might be required to share information with the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla, during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\">More than a million\u003c/a> unauthorized immigrants have California driver’s licenses, thanks to a 2013 law known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/assembly-bill-ab-60-driver-licenses/\">AB 60\u003c/a> that allows residents to obtain a license regardless of their immigration status. And more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/\">100,000 students\u003c/a> without status are enrolled in California public universities, where they qualify for in-state tuition and some state financial aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/california-nonresident-tuition-exemption\">under AB 540\u003c/a>, passed by the Legislature in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, who helped spearhead AB 60 when he was a state lawmaker, called the administration’s move an effort to vilify immigrants by holding hostage aid to seniors, people with disabilities and struggling families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Instead of doing anything to make life more affordable, this administration is choosing to distract from their disastrous policies by sowing chaos and fear,” Padilla told KQED in a statement. “Kids and working families will pay an even greater price because of their cruelty, and I won’t stop fighting for the justice they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Johnson called the Department of Justice’s new opinion unusual from a legal standpoint, and he said he expects it to be challenged in court by states such as California on the grounds that it is arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t consider the interests of those who’ve relied on the Clinton-era understanding of the law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very rare to reinterpret an interpretation that was put into place a quarter-century ago and has never been questioned or undermined by legislation or a court decision in any way,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Johnson cautioned that the opinion was carefully written and could be challenging to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the office is reviewing it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is continuing to try to coerce states into its hateful agenda, this time by attempting to rewrite decades-old law,” spokesperson Nina Sheridan said. “We’re evaluating the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the legal fight over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump’s mail-in voting order\u003c/a> continues, here’s what to know about the state of voting by mail for the midterms:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has the USPS plan directly changed mail-in voting for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No, key parts of the plan, including requirements for states, are currently blocked by a court order. 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Many studies and audits show, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5462836/noncitizen-voting-trump-ceir-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that problem is incredibly rare\u003c/a>. While USPS claims its revised rule is an effort to regulate mail, challengers of the USPS plan argue it is illegal because the mailing agency has no authority to control voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasn’t the Supreme Court already ruled on Trump’s mail-in voting order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yes, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5909592/trump-mail-voting-order-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled in August on a procedural question\u003c/a> about one of the lawsuits. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Historians consider the Civil War election of 1864 — the year Abraham Lincoln was reelected president — as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5060433/voting-by-mail-history-absentee-smithsonian-national-postal-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the start of large-scale voting by mail\u003c/a>, although there are earlier examples of mail-in voting at the state and local levels going back to the 18th century.\u003c/p>\n",
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Voting by mail is still available to all voters who are eligible for it in their states, and USPS is expected to deliver mail-in ballots for the midterm election as usual.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How could the USPS plan change mail-in voting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State election officials would be required to turn over lists of mail-in voters’ names and addresses to USPS and have certain barcodes on their mail ballot envelopes, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-17238/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revised rule\u003c/a> for federal ballot mail the Postal Service issued in August. USPS says it would not deliver ballots to voters for election officials that don’t meet those requirements.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When does mail-in voting start for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Carolina has to start mailing out its absentee ballots on Friday, which officially kicks off the voting season for this year’s midterms. Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-7-when-states-mail-out-absentee-mail-ballots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other states\u003c/a> are set to begin sending out their mail-in ballots later this month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it possible for the USPS plan to be carried out for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many election experts say it is too late for USPS to carry out this plan without causing major disruptions. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/01/nx-s1-5950869/trump-mail-in-voting-usps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whistleblower report\u003c/a> claims USPS has not properly tested the online portal system that would collect mail-in voters’ information. The report also alleges the agency has set up a policy for verifying ballot envelopes that could result in many voters not getting their ballots in time for the midterm election or at all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the legal arguments for and against the USPS plan?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>USPS came up with this plan in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March executive order\u003c/a> by President Trump, who said he issued the directives to USPS to stop illegal voting by non-U.S. citizens. Many studies and audits show, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5462836/noncitizen-voting-trump-ceir-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that problem is incredibly rare\u003c/a>. While USPS claims its revised rule is an effort to regulate mail, challengers of the USPS plan argue it is illegal because the mailing agency has no authority to control voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasn’t the Supreme Court already ruled on Trump’s mail-in voting order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yes, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5909592/trump-mail-voting-order-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled in August on a procedural question\u003c/a> about one of the lawsuits. But so far, the justices have not ruled on the legality of the order or the USPS plan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long has mail-in voting been around in the United States?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Historians consider the Civil War election of 1864 — the year Abraham Lincoln was reelected president — as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5060433/voting-by-mail-history-absentee-smithsonian-national-postal-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the start of large-scale voting by mail\u003c/a>, although there are earlier examples of mail-in voting at the state and local levels going back to the 18th century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> The U.S. Postal Service is a financial supporter of NPR.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1157496779/megan-pratz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cem>Megan Pratz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>A group of California lawmakers called on federal officials to halt and reject \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097316/trump-administration-reportedly-considers-development-of-private-road-in-yosemite\">a proposed land exchange\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park that would allow a private developer to take control of a strip of land in the park for an access road to the park’s main attractions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L2Dvbwl_sEEu_lf3TiVOTtok7kmVOm2U/view\">letter\u003c/a> to Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday was signed by a bipartisan group of 61 state legislators led by Assemblymember Greg Wallis, a Republican who represents Riverside and San Bernardino counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Republicans and Democrats from both houses of the Legislature are standing together because some things are bigger than politics,” Wallis said in a statement. “Yosemite is not a subdivision. It is not a bargaining chip. And it is not for sale. Secretary Burgum and the administration should put an end to this proposal.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12048542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BurgumSFVisit1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Interior Secretary Doug Burgum (center) visited the Tunnel Tops in San Francisco in 2025 after he and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz ahead of their announcement to reopen the former federal prison. (Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The group argued that the proposed land exchange is counter to the mission of the National Park Service and the founding of Yosemite in 1864, which set aside the start of the park for public use and protection for the first time in the history of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What is being proposed now runs directly against that founding principle, more than a century and a half later,” the letter states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It continues later: “Our national parks belong equally to every American. They are not the Department’s to trade away, and they are not for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">first reported\u003c/a> by news outlet NOTUS, which published a story last week alleging that members of the Trump administration were meeting with representatives of Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a private equity group that owns an 83-acre parcel next to the park. In an email to KQED, Kingsbarn’s lawyer Lanny J. Davis confirmed the group is pursuing the land exchange to build a new access road from its property to the park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Previous owners have pushed for the same deal since the early 2000s and \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/press/2012/new-roads-into-yosemite-valley-rejected-by-federal-court\">failed\u003c/a> in court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), who signed on to the letter, called the proposal “indefensible,” and said he’s looking at state laws to ensure a similar proposal could never slip through.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the Trump administration can’t defend this publicly in broad daylight, then they shouldn’t be doing it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Marin) told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915115/trump-administration-allow-private-development-in-yosemite\">KQED’s Forum on Wednesday\u003c/a> that he’s worried there isn’t enough opposition among his Republican colleagues in Congress to stop the Trump administration’s efforts. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I have not seen a single Republican colleague willing to stand up to Donald Trump when he decides that he’s just going to do something,” Huffman said. “So that is my concern, that he just plows ahead with this — even if it has dubious legal authority, or even if it’s an open violation of the law. He’s doing stuff like that anyway. And in this Congress, there’s no one here to stop him.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil (R-Jackson), whose district includes parts of Yosemite, said she will “keep pressing the Department [of the Interior] for a clear answer that this exchange will not proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since the news of the deal broke late last week, it has sparked condemnation from a number of Democratic state leaders, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alexpadilla4ca/posts/yosemite-is-not-for-sale-smidurl-share/1614990713322959/\">Sens. Alex Padilla\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2093448467758690464\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a>, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2093447502632796326\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and Bonta’s predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/becerraforgovernor/posts/yosemite-is-not-for-saleit-is-unacceptable-that-the-trump-administration-is-repo/1625938552231560/\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095034/becerra-easily-leading-california-governors-race-defined-by-partisan-split-poll-shows\">leads the race\u003c/a> for California governor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California, on March 1, 2025. (Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The secretive backroom land-exchange scheme has gotten everyone’s attention,” said Neal Desai, senior Pacific regional director of the National Parks Conservation Association. “I can’t recall another issue — and I’ve been working in the conservation space for over a couple of decades — where the response has been this sharp and so one-sided that this is a terrible idea that should not happen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The backlash comes at a turbulent time for National Park Service employees, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060911/new-trump-layoffs-could-put-hundreds-more-national-park-service-employees-on-the-chopping-block\">faced layoffs,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066741/a-morale-bomb-national-park-workers-face-wage-cuts-and-dubiously-legal-review-system\">staffing cuts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">fear of retaliation\u003c/a> for speaking up against Trump administration policies since the start of the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some former employees have also raised concerns about a potential reorganization of the National Park Service, according to a separate \u003ca href=\"https://protectnps.org/2026/09/02/former-national-park-superintendents-warn-interior-secretary-national-parks-are-in-crisis/\">letter\u003c/a> sent to Burgum’s office Wednesday. According to an email seen by KQED, park superintendents have been asked to attend in-person regional meetings in September — with no clear agenda beyond discussing “agency priorities, our FY 2026 outlook, and other matters important to the work ahead.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The letter to Burgam, signed by 20 retired parks superintendents warns: “An ill-advised and hastily planned reorganization could dismantle that structure, putting our parks — and those who visit them — at great risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tour guide William Fontana points visitors to climbers on El Capitan during a tour of the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Emily Thompson, executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, which organized the letter, said the email about regional meetings “raises some alarm bells.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Park Service is already operating from a difficult place, from a place of crisis,” she said. “And any additional cuts, any movements or actions that would further jeopardize the capacity of the folks that are left, that’s concerning. It’s worrying, and it’ll have a devastating impact on the Park Service.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among the letter’s signatories is Don Neubacher, retired Yosemite superintendent, who has been a vocal advocate for parks amid the Trump administration’s changes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thompson said she’s worried parks leaders will be stretched even further than they already are, and local decision-making over parks could be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Morale is low,” Thompson said. “It’s a hard time to be a federal employee. Anything that … contributes to this culture of fear, it’s just not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n",
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They are not the Department’s to trade away, and they are not for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">first reported\u003c/a> by news outlet NOTUS, which published a story last week alleging that members of the Trump administration were meeting with representatives of Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a private equity group that owns an 83-acre parcel next to the park. In an email to KQED, Kingsbarn’s lawyer Lanny J. 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Jared Huffman (D-Marin) told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915115/trump-administration-allow-private-development-in-yosemite\">KQED’s Forum on Wednesday\u003c/a> that he’s worried there isn’t enough opposition among his Republican colleagues in Congress to stop the Trump administration’s efforts. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I have not seen a single Republican colleague willing to stand up to Donald Trump when he decides that he’s just going to do something,” Huffman said. “So that is my concern, that he just plows ahead with this — even if it has dubious legal authority, or even if it’s an open violation of the law. He’s doing stuff like that anyway. And in this Congress, there’s no one here to stop him.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil (R-Jackson), whose district includes parts of Yosemite, said she will “keep pressing the Department [of the Interior] for a clear answer that this exchange will not proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since the news of the deal broke late last week, it has sparked condemnation from a number of Democratic state leaders, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alexpadilla4ca/posts/yosemite-is-not-for-sale-smidurl-share/1614990713322959/\">Sens. Alex Padilla\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/2093448467758690464\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a>, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGRobBonta/status/2093447502632796326\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and Bonta’s predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/becerraforgovernor/posts/yosemite-is-not-for-saleit-is-unacceptable-that-the-trump-administration-is-repo/1625938552231560/\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095034/becerra-easily-leading-california-governors-race-defined-by-partisan-split-poll-shows\">leads the race\u003c/a> for California governor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalParkServiceGetty-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California, on March 1, 2025. (Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The secretive backroom land-exchange scheme has gotten everyone’s attention,” said Neal Desai, senior Pacific regional director of the National Parks Conservation Association. “I can’t recall another issue — and I’ve been working in the conservation space for over a couple of decades — where the response has been this sharp and so one-sided that this is a terrible idea that should not happen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The backlash comes at a turbulent time for National Park Service employees, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060911/new-trump-layoffs-could-put-hundreds-more-national-park-service-employees-on-the-chopping-block\">faced layoffs,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066741/a-morale-bomb-national-park-workers-face-wage-cuts-and-dubiously-legal-review-system\">staffing cuts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">fear of retaliation\u003c/a> for speaking up against Trump administration policies since the start of the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some former employees have also raised concerns about a potential reorganization of the National Park Service, according to a separate \u003ca href=\"https://protectnps.org/2026/09/02/former-national-park-superintendents-warn-interior-secretary-national-parks-are-in-crisis/\">letter\u003c/a> sent to Burgum’s office Wednesday. According to an email seen by KQED, park superintendents have been asked to attend in-person regional meetings in September — with no clear agenda beyond discussing “agency priorities, our FY 2026 outlook, and other matters important to the work ahead.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The letter to Burgam, signed by 20 retired parks superintendents warns: “An ill-advised and hastily planned reorganization could dismantle that structure, putting our parks — and those who visit them — at great risk.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-YOSEMITESHUTDOWN-93-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tour guide William Fontana points visitors to climbers on El Capitan during a tour of the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Oct. 28, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Emily Thompson, executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, which organized the letter, said the email about regional meetings “raises some alarm bells.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Park Service is already operating from a difficult place, from a place of crisis,” she said. “And any additional cuts, any movements or actions that would further jeopardize the capacity of the folks that are left, that’s concerning. It’s worrying, and it’ll have a devastating impact on the Park Service.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among the letter’s signatories is Don Neubacher, retired Yosemite superintendent, who has been a vocal advocate for parks amid the Trump administration’s changes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thompson said she’s worried parks leaders will be stretched even further than they already are, and local decision-making over parks could be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Morale is low,” Thompson said. “It’s a hard time to be a federal employee. Anything that … contributes to this culture of fear, it’s just not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> science bond measure to counter the Trump administration’s research cuts is back from the dead after state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a deal last week to place the $7.5 billion request to voters on the March 2028 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb895\">Senate Bill 895\u003c/a> by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, passed the Legislature with minimal opposition and bipartisan support on Monday and now awaits Newsom’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been in the works for more than a year and began as a $23 billion bond proposal but got a steep haircut mid-year, down to $12 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to clear a June legislative deadline to get on this year’s ballot, the bond proposal appeared moribund — and was slashed to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener and a united front led by the University of California and the union representing graduate students, two forces that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/12/uc-strike-civil-disobedience/\">often\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">loggerheads\u003c/a>, continued working to restore the bill. Both significantly benefit, as the money fuels scientific discovery while also supplementing the pay of graduate students conducting essential research for professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer hustle paid off: For the first time, leaders of the Assembly, Senate and Newsom are all backing the measure, which was heavily amended in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State address on Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have performed a ritual legislative resurrection of the bill,” Wiener quipped at a press conference Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would allocate $1 billion to the UC and California State University to build more science facilities and create a system of scientific panels to review research proposals based on their scientific merits. The bulk of the funding would pay for a wide array of priorities such as biomedical research, wildfire prevention and water supply. Portions of the bond would also support science breakthroughs that can be commercialized and provide opportunities for early-career researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds are a kind of debt that government agencies issue and then pay down over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public or private research companies, universities, academic medical centers, institutes, and organizations would be eligible for the grants or loans under this bond measure. A newly formed California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council would write more specific rules on how the money can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why backers say the bond is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener and the coalition in support of the measure view it as a backstop against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to terminate existing and new research funding for the UC and other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Department of Justice has argued in courts that grants the administration canceled violated his prohibitions on research into diversity issues and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the grants sought to better understand diseases, and focused on new disease-fighting drugs, cancer and dementia. About half of the UC system’s spending on research comes from the federal government — in 2024-25 that totaled \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2026-27-budget-detail.pdf#page=21\">around $3 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12097112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year the White House suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 California science grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration admitted in court filings that it used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">bulk keyword searches\u003c/a> for terms related to DEI and climate change to target grants to cancel. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=At%20one%20point%20last%20year%20the%20Trump%20administration%20froze%20or%20terminated%20more%20than%201%2C000%20California%20science%20grants%20from%20the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%20and%20National%20Science%20Foundation.\">Most of those\u003c/a> have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/ucla-research-grants/\">restored\u003c/a> for now through various court orders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc/\">after professors\u003c/a> sued last year. But at least one major case is unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration seeks to further expand control over federal research by proposing to require political appointees to decide \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/well/omb-scientific-grant-proposal.html?eafs_enabled=false\">which science grants are funded\u003c/a>, departing from a practice in which peer-review scientific committees select the worthiest grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s desire to bring federal science increasingly under his control spurred esteemed U.S. scientists to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers.html\">move to other countries\u003c/a> that recently passed budgets to entice researchers to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Harold R. Collard, vice chancellor for research at research powerhouse UC San Francisco, said at Friday’s press event that the Wiener bond measure could keep more researchers in California and attract new ones. Experts say every dollar of NIH spending amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-economic-report/\">$2.57 of economic activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the measure came back from dead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The measure initially sped through the Senate but stalled in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political insiders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=Several%20legislative%20and%20political%20insiders%20told%20CalMatters%20that%20another%20reason%20the%20science%20research%20bond\">suspected\u003c/a> that the holdup was over worry it would compete with the Assembly’s priority bond, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/#:~:text=Affordable%20developers%20and%20other%20housing%20advocates%20are%20hoping%20voters%20will%20back%20an%20%2411.25%20billion%20state%20bond%20in%20November%20to%20replenish%20the%20coffers.%C2%A0\">$11.25 billion ballot measure\u003c/a> for this November to expand housing construction and affordability in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of that measure feared it might be defeated if another large bond was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s some legitimate political concerns about placing something competing with the housing bond,” said Chris Micheli, a veteran lobbyist and law professor, in an interview in June when Wiener’s bill was derailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during an election night event at his campaign headquarters in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener validated that suspicion on Friday. “We already placed a housing bond on the ballot. There are a lot of items on the state ballot, and you know I understand why some people were concerned about placing yet additional items on the ballot for November, and that’s why we were able to, after the deadline passed, work collaboratively towards March of 2028.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing bond experienced a similar journey: It got skipped over by political leaders in 2024 to make room \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/\">for two\u003c/a> $10 billion bonds for school construction and to combat the effects of climate change.[aside postID=news_12097632 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-183300309.jpg']This November voters will see another science research bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 38, is backed by a billionaire funder and would approve $8.4 billion for research into immunology and immunotherapies, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of that funding appears to benefit \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">just one institute\u003c/a> that is significantly supported by that billionaire funder, CalMatters reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener doesn’t think that Prop. 38 will compete with his bond effort some two years later. “That ballot measure primarily funds one particular institute. It’s not a broad science policy funding measure, and so it’s just very different,” he said on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus will be on the coalition backing the bond to convince voters to pass it in 2028, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/science-research-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After failing to clear a June legislative deadline to get on this year’s ballot, the bond proposal appeared moribund — and was slashed to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener and a united front led by the University of California and the union representing graduate students, two forces that are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/12/uc-strike-civil-disobedience/\">often\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">loggerheads\u003c/a>, continued working to restore the bill. Both significantly benefit, as the money fuels scientific discovery while also supplementing the pay of graduate students conducting essential research for professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer hustle paid off: For the first time, leaders of the Assembly, Senate and Newsom are all backing the measure, which was heavily amended in the past two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069108\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GavinNewsomStateoftheState2026AP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State address on Jan. 8, 2026, in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have performed a ritual legislative resurrection of the bill,” Wiener quipped at a press conference Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would allocate $1 billion to the UC and California State University to build more science facilities and create a system of scientific panels to review research proposals based on their scientific merits. The bulk of the funding would pay for a wide array of priorities such as biomedical research, wildfire prevention and water supply. Portions of the bond would also support science breakthroughs that can be commercialized and provide opportunities for early-career researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds are a kind of debt that government agencies issue and then pay down over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public or private research companies, universities, academic medical centers, institutes, and organizations would be eligible for the grants or loans under this bond measure. A newly formed California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council would write more specific rules on how the money can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why backers say the bond is needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiener and the coalition in support of the measure view it as a backstop against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to terminate existing and new research funding for the UC and other campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s Department of Justice has argued in courts that grants the administration canceled violated his prohibitions on research into diversity issues and climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the grants sought to better understand diseases, and focused on new disease-fighting drugs, cancer and dementia. About half of the UC system’s spending on research comes from the federal government — in 2024-25 that totaled \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2026-27-budget-detail.pdf#page=21\">around $3 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12097112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12097112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/UCLACM-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year the White House suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 California science grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration admitted in court filings that it used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">bulk keyword searches\u003c/a> for terms related to DEI and climate change to target grants to cancel. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=At%20one%20point%20last%20year%20the%20Trump%20administration%20froze%20or%20terminated%20more%20than%201%2C000%20California%20science%20grants%20from%20the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health%20and%20National%20Science%20Foundation.\">Most of those\u003c/a> have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/ucla-research-grants/\">restored\u003c/a> for now through various court orders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/11/uc/\">after professors\u003c/a> sued last year. But at least one major case is unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration seeks to further expand control over federal research by proposing to require political appointees to decide \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/well/omb-scientific-grant-proposal.html?eafs_enabled=false\">which science grants are funded\u003c/a>, departing from a practice in which peer-review scientific committees select the worthiest grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s desire to bring federal science increasingly under his control spurred esteemed U.S. scientists to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers.html\">move to other countries\u003c/a> that recently passed budgets to entice researchers to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Harold R. Collard, vice chancellor for research at research powerhouse UC San Francisco, said at Friday’s press event that the Wiener bond measure could keep more researchers in California and attract new ones. Experts say every dollar of NIH spending amounts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-economic-report/\">$2.57 of economic activity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the measure came back from dead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The measure initially sped through the Senate but stalled in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political insiders \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/newsom-uc-cal-state-billion-dollars-more/#:~:text=Several%20legislative%20and%20political%20insiders%20told%20CalMatters%20that%20another%20reason%20the%20science%20research%20bond\">suspected\u003c/a> that the holdup was over worry it would compete with the Assembly’s priority bond, an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/#:~:text=Affordable%20developers%20and%20other%20housing%20advocates%20are%20hoping%20voters%20will%20back%20an%20%2411.25%20billion%20state%20bond%20in%20November%20to%20replenish%20the%20coffers.%C2%A0\">$11.25 billion ballot measure\u003c/a> for this November to expand housing construction and affordability in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of that measure feared it might be defeated if another large bond was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s some legitimate political concerns about placing something competing with the housing bond,” said Chris Micheli, a veteran lobbyist and law professor, in an interview in June when Wiener’s bill was derailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12085954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12085954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260602-DISTRICT11SCOTTWIENER-15-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks during an election night event at his campaign headquarters in San Francisco on June 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener validated that suspicion on Friday. “We already placed a housing bond on the ballot. There are a lot of items on the state ballot, and you know I understand why some people were concerned about placing yet additional items on the ballot for November, and that’s why we were able to, after the deadline passed, work collaboratively towards March of 2028.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing bond experienced a similar journey: It got skipped over by political leaders in 2024 to make room \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/\">for two\u003c/a> $10 billion bonds for school construction and to combat the effects of climate change.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This November voters will see another science research bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 38, is backed by a billionaire funder and would approve $8.4 billion for research into immunology and immunotherapies, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of that funding appears to benefit \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">just one institute\u003c/a> that is significantly supported by that billionaire funder, CalMatters reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener doesn’t think that Prop. 38 will compete with his bond effort some two years later. “That ballot measure primarily funds one particular institute. It’s not a broad science policy funding measure, and so it’s just very different,” he said on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus will be on the coalition backing the bond to convince voters to pass it in 2028, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/09/science-research-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is considering a deal to allow a private developer to take control of a strip of land in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/yosemite-national-park\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> and build an access road, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nevada-based real estate developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital wants to build a short road connecting an 83-acre plot, known as Hazel Green Ranch, just outside the park to Yosemite’s main attractions, first \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">reported\u003c/a> by the publication \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em>. The deal, if it goes through, would exchange property of equal value owned by the developer for the property that is part of the park, according to documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney Lanny J. Davis, who is representing Kingsbarn in talks with the National Park Service, confirmed the developer’s intent to build the access road and argued the more direct access route is “supportive of environmental values, since it will reduce air pollution from the longer, less safe route.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over the last six months, Kingsbarn Realty Capital and I have been working directly and cooperating with National Park Service staff at Yosemite National Park in California to provide safe access from the Hazel Green property to the park entrance,” Davis wrote Friday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal would revive a bid dating back to the early 2000s, when a prior owner pushed to build the private road. That attempt failed under the Bush and Obama administrations and \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/press/2012/new-roads-into-yosemite-valley-rejected-by-federal-court\">lost in court\u003c/a>. When the land changed hands to Kingsbarn in 2024, the \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em> investigation found that the new owners tried to reopen the issue — this time with more interest from the Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1846156476-scaled-e1759449061670.jpg\" alt=\"state parks\" class=\"wp-image-11970738\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A welcome sign is seen at Yosemite National Park on Dec. 13, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The National Parks Conservation Association’s Senior Pacific Regional Director Neal Desai told KQED by email that his organization has verified the administration’s communications to Congress cited in the \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em> article. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our national parks right now are in crisis, and Yosemite National Park is in chaos,” he said. “The public expects the parks service to be protecting our national parks, not sitting through meetings with developers and scheming up ways to sell Yosemite. This is absurd to the highest levels.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the Department of the Interior denied the framing of \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em>’ report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This story relies on anonymous allegations to manufacture a political narrative that simply is not true,” the department wrote. “There has been no political pressure to reach a predetermined outcome, and claims suggesting the Department is secretly working to hand over National Park Service land to a private developer are false.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department went on to say that “any land exchange or access proposal involving National Park Service lands would be subject to all applicable federal laws, regulations and Departmental policies, including required environmental review and public notification processes,” and that if a proposal for the easement advances, the department will follow all federal law. “Anonymous speculation does not change those facts.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No final decisions have been made,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his email to KQED, Davis said the proposal was “consistent” with his “pro-environment and progressive values and life history.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Without a direct access route, every trip from the Hazel Green area requires a significantly longer drive — twice as long, at a minimum — on unpaved forest roads and thus more air pollution,” he wrote. “The new access road would be safer for drivers and generate substantially less vehicle emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advocates worry proposal could set a dangerous precedent\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Former Yosemite Superintendent Don Neubacher called this latest attempt to carve a private road through the park “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s another nightmare for the National Park Service and Yosemite specifically,” Neubacher told KQED. Under his leadership, he said, “We said we didn’t have the authority, and we thought it would be illegal to give it an easement. Now all of a sudden the Trump administration is really pushing this.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher pushed back against the DOI’s characterization of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pope Army Airfield, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, en route to Palm Beach, Florida. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As far as I can tell, that story is 100% accurate,” he said. “And they’re covering up their actions on this. They were hoping, I think, that it would just slide through in a sort of a secret way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said that in 2012, during his tenure at Yosemite, his office did a legal review of this very land exchange and concluded the Park Service didn’t have the authority to go through with it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no legal right for this developer to have access into the Yosemite National Park,” he said. “The only thing that’s changed is you have a new administration that just seems to be pro-development.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mark Rose, senior Sierra Nevada program manager for National Parks Conservation Association, called the move “an attack on the American people that own this national park,” in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle America’s conservation legacy are now taking aim at Yosemite with this secretive, backroom deal that would turn over Park Service land to a private developer,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said he believes it would take an act of Congress to go through with the exchange — or it’s likely to fail in court again. Earlier this year, Congress was informed that the Park Service was considering the land exchange, but declined to include the project on a list they endorsed for a federal funding pot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">\u003cem>NOTUS \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When you do a land exchange, you have to demonstrate it’s in the best interests of the government,” Neubacher said. “I don’t see how anybody can claim that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Yosemite NPS employees union released a statement on Friday criticizing the proposed deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As stewards of Yosemite, the ceding of public lands for private interests is antithetical to what we stand for as employees of the National Park Service,” representatives of the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 465 wrote. “We are dismayed that the administration is choosing to prioritize this deal while dismissing and further exacerbating the issues that negatively impact NPS employees at Yosemite.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12058519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1536x997.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visitors look up at El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California, on May 20, 2025. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jesse Chakrin, director of the philanthropic group, Fund for People in Parks, said he was surprised to hear the particular area, along the drive from Hodgdon Meadow toward Crane Flat, would potentially be up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a beloved area,” he said. “It is a beautiful spot that has the best dogwood in the park, probably. It has amazing and wonderful flowers in the spring and fall colors in the fall.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But his biggest shock, Chakrin said, is what the Trump administration’s approach to the deal could mean for the future of parks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What it indicates to me is that there is no boundary on what they are considering as far as maximizing the benefit to a small number of very wealthy individuals,” he said. “And that’s not what National Parks are for.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is considering a deal to allow a private developer to take control of a strip of land in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/yosemite-national-park\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> and build an access road, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nevada-based real estate developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital wants to build a short road connecting an 83-acre plot, known as Hazel Green Ranch, just outside the park to Yosemite’s main attractions, first \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">reported\u003c/a> by the publication \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em>. The deal, if it goes through, would exchange property of equal value owned by the developer for the property that is part of the park, according to documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorney Lanny J. Davis, who is representing Kingsbarn in talks with the National Park Service, confirmed the developer’s intent to build the access road and argued the more direct access route is “supportive of environmental values, since it will reduce air pollution from the longer, less safe route.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over the last six months, Kingsbarn Realty Capital and I have been working directly and cooperating with National Park Service staff at Yosemite National Park in California to provide safe access from the Hazel Green property to the park entrance,” Davis wrote Friday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal would revive a bid dating back to the early 2000s, when a prior owner pushed to build the private road. That attempt failed under the Bush and Obama administrations and \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/press/2012/new-roads-into-yosemite-valley-rejected-by-federal-court\">lost in court\u003c/a>. When the land changed hands to Kingsbarn in 2024, the \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em> investigation found that the new owners tried to reopen the issue — this time with more interest from the Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1846156476-scaled-e1759449061670.jpg\" alt=\"state parks\" class=\"wp-image-11970738\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A welcome sign is seen at Yosemite National Park on Dec. 13, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The National Parks Conservation Association’s Senior Pacific Regional Director Neal Desai told KQED by email that his organization has verified the administration’s communications to Congress cited in the \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em> article. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Our national parks right now are in crisis, and Yosemite National Park is in chaos,” he said. “The public expects the parks service to be protecting our national parks, not sitting through meetings with developers and scheming up ways to sell Yosemite. This is absurd to the highest levels.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the Department of the Interior denied the framing of \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em>’ report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This story relies on anonymous allegations to manufacture a political narrative that simply is not true,” the department wrote. “There has been no political pressure to reach a predetermined outcome, and claims suggesting the Department is secretly working to hand over National Park Service land to a private developer are false.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department went on to say that “any land exchange or access proposal involving National Park Service lands would be subject to all applicable federal laws, regulations and Departmental policies, including required environmental review and public notification processes,” and that if a proposal for the easement advances, the department will follow all federal law. “Anonymous speculation does not change those facts.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No final decisions have been made,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his email to KQED, Davis said the proposal was “consistent” with his “pro-environment and progressive values and life history.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Without a direct access route, every trip from the Hazel Green area requires a significantly longer drive — twice as long, at a minimum — on unpaved forest roads and thus more air pollution,” he wrote. “The new access road would be safer for drivers and generate substantially less vehicle emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advocates worry proposal could set a dangerous precedent\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Former Yosemite Superintendent Don Neubacher called this latest attempt to carve a private road through the park “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s another nightmare for the National Park Service and Yosemite specifically,” Neubacher told KQED. Under his leadership, he said, “We said we didn’t have the authority, and we thought it would be illegal to give it an easement. Now all of a sudden the Trump administration is really pushing this.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher pushed back against the DOI’s characterization of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pope Army Airfield, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, en route to Palm Beach, Florida. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As far as I can tell, that story is 100% accurate,” he said. “And they’re covering up their actions on this. They were hoping, I think, that it would just slide through in a sort of a secret way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said that in 2012, during his tenure at Yosemite, his office did a legal review of this very land exchange and concluded the Park Service didn’t have the authority to go through with it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no legal right for this developer to have access into the Yosemite National Park,” he said. “The only thing that’s changed is you have a new administration that just seems to be pro-development.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mark Rose, senior Sierra Nevada program manager for National Parks Conservation Association, called the move “an attack on the American people that own this national park,” in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle America’s conservation legacy are now taking aim at Yosemite with this secretive, backroom deal that would turn over Park Service land to a private developer,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said he believes it would take an act of Congress to go through with the exchange — or it’s likely to fail in court again. Earlier this year, Congress was informed that the Park Service was considering the land exchange, but declined to include the project on a list they endorsed for a federal funding pot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">\u003cem>NOTUS \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When you do a land exchange, you have to demonstrate it’s in the best interests of the government,” Neubacher said. “I don’t see how anybody can claim that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Yosemite NPS employees union released a statement on Friday criticizing the proposed deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As stewards of Yosemite, the ceding of public lands for private interests is antithetical to what we stand for as employees of the National Park Service,” representatives of the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 465 wrote. “We are dismayed that the administration is choosing to prioritize this deal while dismissing and further exacerbating the issues that negatively impact NPS employees at Yosemite.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12058519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1536x997.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visitors look up at El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California, on May 20, 2025. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jesse Chakrin, director of the philanthropic group, Fund for People in Parks, said he was surprised to hear the particular area, along the drive from Hodgdon Meadow toward Crane Flat, would potentially be up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a beloved area,” he said. “It is a beautiful spot that has the best dogwood in the park, probably. It has amazing and wonderful flowers in the spring and fall colors in the fall.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But his biggest shock, Chakrin said, is what the Trump administration’s approach to the deal could mean for the future of parks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What it indicates to me is that there is no boundary on what they are considering as far as maximizing the benefit to a small number of very wealthy individuals,” he said. “And that’s not what National Parks are for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">arrested more people\u003c/a> in Northern California in July than at any point since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. 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That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. 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That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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