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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:18 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Trump apparently blessed the meeting his son held with a Russian delegation to get dirt on opponents in 2016 and welcomed advance word of efforts by WikiLeaks to disrupt the election, his former lawyer told Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were only a few of the politically incendiary allegations Michael Cohen made in a landmark hearing before the House oversight committee on Wednesday. He stopped short of accusing Trump and his campaign of a full-on conspiracy with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/586099619/the-russia-investigations-what-you-need-to-know-about-russian-active-measures\">the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen did, however, allege that GOP \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721322/roger-stone-indictment-raises-more-big-questions-about-russia-trump-2016-campaign\">political consultant Roger Stone\u003c/a> phoned Trump to tell him that WikiLeaks intended to release a batch of emails that would embarrass the Democratic National Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmOUXYLHzw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen described being in Trump's office when Stone called to say he had just talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the release. Stone has denied that, but he too is facing charges of lying to Congress, in a federal case in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Assange also denied on Wednesday that he had spoken by phone with Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian intelligence officers stole emails from the Democrats and others as part of a concerted attack on the U.S. election, although it still isn't clear how much Trump and his campaign knew about Russia's efforts or whether the material WikiLeaks obtained had originated from the work of Russia's intelligence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your 'fixer,' Mr. Trump.'\u003ccite>Michael Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen was asked whether he believed it was possible that Trump and his family might have been compromised or whether they might have been willing to collude with the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also suggested that Donald Trump Jr. may have told his father about the June 2016 meeting he scheduled at Trump Tower following an offer of help from the Russian government — one President Trump has denied he knew about at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump knew about everything, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was nothing that happened at the Trump Organization ... that did not go through Mr. Trump for his approval and sign-off,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A laundry list of alleged wrongdoing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cohen also made \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5753152-Michael-Cohen-Prepared-Testimony-for-House\">a number of other accusations\u003c/a> against Trump:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That Trump paid Cohen, while in office, to cover the costs associated with buying the silence of a woman who said she had had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier. Trump has acknowledged the payment but denied the underlying allegations about a sexual relationship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That Trump's camp encouraged Cohen to lie to Congress and the public about the negotiations the Trump business had carried on with powerful Russians about a potential Trump Tower real estate deal in Moscow. The statement Cohen prepared, he said, was edited by Trump's lawyers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cohen said Trump told him to lie about the medical deferments that Trump received that excused him from the draft during the Vietnam War. Cohen said Trump had no medical records to back up his claim of a medical deferment but said he wasn't \"stupid\" and had no intention of being drafted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Trump ordered Cohen to find a fake buyer for a portrait of Trump to make it appear that the painting had sold for a lot of money and was therefore valuable; actually, Cohen said, Trump arranged to use money from his foundation to inflate the sale price.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5753217-Michael-Cohen-Prepared-Testimony-for-House.html\" width=800 height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also faulted Trump for remarks that Cohen called racist and for his years as a \"con man,\" treating nearly everyone as a sucker and using his political aspirations as an \"informercial\" for himself — not as a way to serve the United States as the holder of its highest office.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Republicans reject Cohen's claims out of hand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Republicans and the White House rejected Cohen's allegations before he even made them, pointing out that he has pleaded guilty to federal charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671864979/trump-moscow-real-estate-talks-continued-into-presidential-run-documents-show\">of lying to Congress\u003c/a> and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/676040070/michael-cohen-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-following-plea-that-implicated-trum\">sentenced to three years in prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100683974899363840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1100683974899363840&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F02%2F27%2F696752450%2Fmichael-cohen-to-testify-publicly-before-congress-on-alleged-trump-lawbreaking\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., objected to the proceedings on Wednesday before Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., had even delivered his opening statement, leading to a dispute over whether the hearing could continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it went ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100683974899363840\">Trump said on Twitter\u003c/a> that Cohen is only trying to get a lighter punishment, having been sentenced to three years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed the House oversight committee for giving Cohen a venue to air public complaints against the president when Cohen is a \"convicted liar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schemes within schemes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cohen's opening statement addressed directly his history of lying — yes, he said, he had lied many times in the past. But, he said, that was when he was in Trump's thrall and those days are over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who question my motives for being here today, I understand,\" he said. \"I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your 'fixer,' Mr. Trump.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen provided members of Congress what what he said were documents that backed up his testimony, including a check signed by Trump that Cohen said was part of the reimbursement \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607943366/giuliani-says-trump-did-know-about-stormy-daniels-payment\">for paying off adult film actress Stormy Daniels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5753253-Trump-Cohen-Check.html\" width=800 height=800]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, Cohen and Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of Trump's company, worked out the arrangement under which Cohen would be repaid the $130,000 he gave Daniels to keep her from talking, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They agreed on a year's worth of periodic smaller payments that would make it look like Cohen was getting a retainer as Trump's lawyer, he said. Trump signed some of the checks, one of which Cohen gave to the committee. At least one was signed by Trump Jr. and Weisselberg, which Cohen also gave committee members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729043/rep-jackie-speier-michael-cohen-hearing-will-get-closer-to-the-truth-of-trump-as-businessman\">Rep. Jackie Speier: Michael Cohen Hearing Will Get Closer to the Truth of Trump as Businessman\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729043/rep-jackie-speier-michael-cohen-hearing-will-get-closer-to-the-truth-of-trump-as-businessman\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1132275081-1020x795.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., emphasized that the check was drawn on the trust that Trump created to give up control of his business after he was elected. That indicated that he stayed involved, despite his claims, and interacted with Trump Jr. and Weisselberg to make the payments to Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's garden variety financial fraud,\" Khanna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment to another woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, was made on behalf of Trump by the publisher of the \u003cem>National Enquirer\u003c/em>, American Media, Inc., run by Trump's friend David Pecker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arrangement had been used before, Cohen said, although he didn't detail every other instance in which Pecker had helped Trump \"catch and kill\" damaging stories, as the practice was called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676233447/what-you-need-to-know-about-another-wild-week-in-the-russia-investigation\">AMI reached an agreement with prosecutors in New York City \u003c/a>in which it was not charged with a crime because it cooperated with investigators in Cohen's case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A brand allegedly built on lies\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The chicanery that Cohen described involved nearly every aspect of Trump's public life and career, according to his allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, for example, was in the practice of falsifying the value of his assets so that he would rank higher in listings of wealthy people, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen told Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., about the practices used within the Trump Organization to take the real value of a building and make it appear greater, which would in turn make Trump appear to be richer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also described Trump telling him to call a reporter for \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> magazine to argue about his wealth on its ranking one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729195/house-passes-resolution-to-block-trumps-national-emergency-declaration\">House Passes Resolution to Block Trump's National Emergency Declaration\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729195/house-passes-resolution-to-block-trumps-national-emergency-declaration\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Trump-1020x660.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump schemed with Cohen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686182230/trumps-ex-lawyer-cohen-acknowledges-scheme-to-rig-polls-in-presidential-race\">rig online polls\u003c/a> in 2014 and 2015 to make it appear voters were supporting him and thus make his political aspirations seem more plausible, the former lawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's sensitivities, according to Cohen, even allegedly included his grades and SAT scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen told members of Congress that Trump told him to threaten his former schools with lawsuits if they released records about him to reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Fordham University told NPR on Wednesday that the school received an initial phone call from the Trump campaign and a follow-up letter from a Trump attorney \"reminding us that they would take action against the university if we did, in fact, release Mr. Trump's records.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fordham also said it was a moot point because it was \"bound by federal law, and that we could/would not reveal/share any records (as we would not reveal any student records) with anyone except Mr. Trump himself, or any recipient he designated, in writing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, meanwhile, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/24/donald-trump-october-surprise-video\">preoccupied with the release\u003c/a> of President Barack Obama's college transcripts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A contentious hearing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Trump's allies called the hearing a political circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This might be the first time someone convicted of lying to Congress has appeared again so quickly in front of Congress,\" said the oversight committee's ranking member, Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen described being in Trump's office when Stone called to say he had just talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the release. Stone has denied that, but he too is facing charges of lying to Congress, in a federal case in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Assange also denied on Wednesday that he had spoken by phone with Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian intelligence officers stole emails from the Democrats and others as part of a concerted attack on the U.S. election, although it still isn't clear how much Trump and his campaign knew about Russia's efforts or whether the material WikiLeaks obtained had originated from the work of Russia's intelligence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I have lied, but I am not a liar. I have done bad things, but I am not a bad man. I have fixed things, but I am no longer your 'fixer,' Mr. Trump.'\u003ccite>Michael Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen was asked whether he believed it was possible that Trump and his family might have been compromised or whether they might have been willing to collude with the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also suggested that Donald Trump Jr. may have told his father about the June 2016 meeting he scheduled at Trump Tower following an offer of help from the Russian government — one President Trump has denied he knew about at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump knew about everything, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was nothing that happened at the Trump Organization ... that did not go through Mr. Trump for his approval and sign-off,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A laundry list of alleged wrongdoing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cohen also made \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5753152-Michael-Cohen-Prepared-Testimony-for-House\">a number of other accusations\u003c/a> against Trump:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That Trump paid Cohen, while in office, to cover the costs associated with buying the silence of a woman who said she had had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier. Trump has acknowledged the payment but denied the underlying allegations about a sexual relationship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That Trump's camp encouraged Cohen to lie to Congress and the public about the negotiations the Trump business had carried on with powerful Russians about a potential Trump Tower real estate deal in Moscow. The statement Cohen prepared, he said, was edited by Trump's lawyers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cohen said Trump told him to lie about the medical deferments that Trump received that excused him from the draft during the Vietnam War. Cohen said Trump had no medical records to back up his claim of a medical deferment but said he wasn't \"stupid\" and had no intention of being drafted.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Trump ordered Cohen to find a fake buyer for a portrait of Trump to make it appear that the painting had sold for a lot of money and was therefore valuable; actually, Cohen said, Trump arranged to use money from his foundation to inflate the sale price.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The highly anticipated testimony that Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney, provides before a House committee on Wednesday will give Congress the sharpest portrait yet of Trump in the years before he became president, according to congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the closest that any of us will come to understanding Donald Trump, the businessman,\" said Speier, who sits on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is set to hear from Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698098372/cohen-to-detail-alleged-trump-lawbreaking-white-house-hes-a-convicted-liar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony\u003c/a> before the oversight committee will be broadcast live nationally. It comes two months before he is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to tax evasion, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen has admitted to facilitating so-called hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal for them to stay quiet before the presidential election about alleged affairs with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hush money paid to both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal may just be the tip of the iceberg,\" Speier said. \"I think Mr. Trump, the businessman, conducted himself in a manner that was inconsistent with the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, noted the hearings won't touch on areas that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't want to do anything that makes their work more difficult to get to the truth,\" DeSaulnier said. \"So we're more of a broad look at a number of things: the pavements, the hush money paid to the two women who allegedly had affairs with Mr. Trump; his foundation's use of funds; and things of that nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday's hearing, Cohen is reportedly prepared to present evidence related to what he says is criminal conduct by Trump before and after he became president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Michael Cohen is bringing documents that can buttress what he is saying, that becomes very compelling,\" said Speier, who also sits on the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an opportunity really for the country and for the Congress to find out who's telling the truth and go after the facts,\" DeSaulnier said. He also pointed out that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform is a \"quasi-judicial proceeding\" — though he fully expects it to be mired in theatrics on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Mr. Cohen was staring at some very dire consequences and decided to tell the truth. And I think he's going to tell the truth tomorrow,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House issued a statement Tuesday dismissing Cohen's allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements,\" said press secretary Sarah Sanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sadly, he will go before Congress this week and we can expect more of the same,\" Sanders said. \"It's laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story will be updated.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He said employers who turn to international applicants do so as a last resort, putting up with legal fees and ever-expanding visa approval times because they have no other choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just at the point where there’s no one else to hire,” said Wilson, who estimates his firm turned away about $1 million in projects last year because it didn’t have enough staff to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after taking office, Trump issued his “Buy American and Hire American” \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\">executive order\u003c/a> , directing Cabinet officials to suggest reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the “most-skilled or highest-paid” applicants to help promote the hiring of Americans for jobs that might otherwise go to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent memos have allowed for greater discretion in denying applications without first requesting additional information from an applicant, tossed the deference given to people seeking to renew their H-1Bs, and raised concern that the government would revoke work permits for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707255/what-silicon-valley-could-lose-if-trump-revokes-h-1b-spousal-work-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spouses of H-1B holders\u003c/a>. 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An RFE can delay a visa for months or longer as applicants and employers are forced to submit additional documentation over things such as the applicability of a college degree to a prospective job or whether the wage being offered is appropriate. 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Approvals also dipped in two other visa programs for foreign workers, including one for individuals with extraordinary abilities in areas such as science, sports and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for USCIS, linked the changes to the president’s executive order, saying the goal was to reduce “frivolous” petitions and that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers note traditional three-year renewable terms of H-1Bs have also been changing; one \u003ca href=\"https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Doc-1-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> by an organization representing information technology companies claims some visas were valid for only a few days or had expired before they were even received.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">Deported Oakland Nurse Reunites With Children in the Bay Area After 16 Months\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34481_Maria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a vague \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?RIN=1615-AC13&pubId=201810\">entry\u003c/a> published in the Federal Register last fall advised that the Department of Homeland Security would propose additional revisions to focus on attracting “the best and the brightest” and to “ensure employers pay appropriate wages” to H-1B visa holders, which has raised alarms that the administration will move to narrow the definition of who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught in the crosshairs are workers like Leo Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang, 32, spent six years after college in his native China learning all he could about data and analytics. He got into the University of Southern California, interned at a major venture capital firm and wasted no time after finishing his master’s before starting on another degree. He couch-surfed, passed up an enticing foreign job offer and amassed educational debt all in pursuit of the dream that ultimately came true: A six-figure Silicon Valley job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as it took Wang to achieve his goal, it disappeared in record time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang was working at Seagate Technology under an immigration provision known as Optional Practical Training, which gives those on student visas permission to work. But that expired last year, and because his H-1B application was in flux, he was forced to take a leave from Seagate and withdraw from the master’s program he was pursuing at Berkeley. He says he and his company dutifully responded to an RFE, compiling examples of his work at Seagate. But on Jan. 11, Wang got a final answer: He was denied an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I wanted was to be able to see my American dream,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Feist, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, said talented foreigners discouraged by the visa process are beginning to look at opportunities in other countries, and she questions what that means for America’s future, especially if top-tier researchers who could contribute to science and medicine are turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time to restrict access to talent.’\u003ccite>a letter from CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of her clients, a computer systems analyst from India with a master’s degree from a U.S. college, filed his petition for an H-1B in April 2017 with 101 pages of documentation. He received an RFE, and a 176-page response was filed, with additional paperwork attempting to prove just how complicated the position was. He was denied. Feist filed a 282-page appeal, requesting that the file be reopened. Though the appeal was approved, there was a second RFE, which Feist said raises the same issues she already responded to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a U.S. work visa unlikely, that client is applying for permanent residency in Canada with his wife and U.S. citizen child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola penned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/letter-to-department-of-homeland-security-on-immigration-policies\">letter\u003c/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in August, saying immigration policy changes were undermining economic growth. “At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages,” they said, “now is not the time to restrict access to talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision for immigration based on skills, education and employer needs dates back to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the visa now known as the H-1B has until recently enjoyed wide support among politicians on both the left and the right. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewglobal.org/2019/01/22/majority-of-u-s-public-supports-high-skilled-immigration/\">survey\u003c/a> last year found broad approval for high-skilled immigrants among the public, as well, with support at 83 percent among Democrats polled and 73 percent of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">Employers, Immigrants Grapple With Uncertainty Over TPS Work Permits\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29269_IMG_1354-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trump has vacillated on the issue. During a March 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Trump was asked about his opposition to visas for skilled workers, to which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/the-fox-news-gop-debate-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.34ce5b34c70d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “I’m changing” and that he saw such policies as a way to keep top international students in the U.S. “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His campaign followed that with a \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20160416001802/https:/www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> saying: “The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Trump again reverted to a more conciliatory note, \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083705208834834433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting\u003c/a> that H1-B holders “can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in China now, Wang isn’t sure what to make of Trump’s words. He’s talked to a friend from Seagate, now at a Swedish firm, about openings there, and a former boss in Singapore has some prospects for him as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still believe in the American dream,” he says. “It’s just that I personally have to pursue it somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just at the point where there’s no one else to hire,” said Wilson, who estimates his firm turned away about $1 million in projects last year because it didn’t have enough staff to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after taking office, Trump issued his “Buy American and Hire American” \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\">executive order\u003c/a> , directing Cabinet officials to suggest reforms to ensure that H-1B visas are awarded to the “most-skilled or highest-paid” applicants to help promote the hiring of Americans for jobs that might otherwise go to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsequent memos have allowed for greater discretion in denying applications without first requesting additional information from an applicant, tossed the deference given to people seeking to renew their H-1Bs, and raised concern that the government would revoke work permits for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707255/what-silicon-valley-could-lose-if-trump-revokes-h-1b-spousal-work-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spouses of H-1B holders\u003c/a>. One order restricted companies’ ability to use H-1B workers off-site at a customer’s place of business, while another temporarily rescinded the option of paying for faster application processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">Indian Entrepreneurs With No Green Cards Pursue Silicon Valley Dreams Elsewhere\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707158/indian-entrepreneurs-with-no-green-cards-pursue-silicon-valley-dreams-elsewhere\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/USA_FamilyPhoto-1020x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attorneys who handle these applications say one of the biggest shifts is an increase in “requests for evidence,” or RFEs, from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. An RFE can delay a visa for months or longer as applicants and employers are forced to submit additional documentation over things such as the applicability of a college degree to a prospective job or whether the wage being offered is appropriate. If the responses are unsatisfactory, a visa may be denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just blocking the avenues so that employers will get frustrated and they won’t employ foreign nationals,” said Dakshini Sen, an immigration lawyer in Houston whose caseload is mostly H-1B applications. “We have to write and write and write and explain and explain and explain each and every point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/h-1B-quarterly-requests-for-evidence-2015-2019-Q1-top-30-employers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USCIS data\u003c/a> released on Friday shows an increase in the number of completed H-1B applications receiving an RFE, from about 21 percent in the 2016 fiscal year to 38 percent last fiscal year. The number continued to rise in the first quarter of this fiscal year, to 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of applications with such requests were ultimately denied, while the approval rate among all applicants has fallen. Approvals also dipped in two other visa programs for foreign workers, including one for individuals with extraordinary abilities in areas such as science, sports and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for USCIS, linked the changes to the president’s executive order, saying the goal was to reduce “frivolous” petitions and that “it is incumbent upon the petitioner, not the government” to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some employers note traditional three-year renewable terms of H-1Bs have also been changing; one \u003ca href=\"https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Doc-1-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> by an organization representing information technology companies claims some visas were valid for only a few days or had expired before they were even received.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">Deported Oakland Nurse Reunites With Children in the Bay Area After 16 Months\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712941/deported-oakland-nurse-reunites-with-children-in-the-bay-area-after-16-months\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34481_Maria-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meantime, a vague \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?RIN=1615-AC13&pubId=201810\">entry\u003c/a> published in the Federal Register last fall advised that the Department of Homeland Security would propose additional revisions to focus on attracting “the best and the brightest” and to “ensure employers pay appropriate wages” to H-1B visa holders, which has raised alarms that the administration will move to narrow the definition of who qualifies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caught in the crosshairs are workers like Leo Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang, 32, spent six years after college in his native China learning all he could about data and analytics. He got into the University of Southern California, interned at a major venture capital firm and wasted no time after finishing his master’s before starting on another degree. He couch-surfed, passed up an enticing foreign job offer and amassed educational debt all in pursuit of the dream that ultimately came true: A six-figure Silicon Valley job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As long as it took Wang to achieve his goal, it disappeared in record time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang was working at Seagate Technology under an immigration provision known as Optional Practical Training, which gives those on student visas permission to work. But that expired last year, and because his H-1B application was in flux, he was forced to take a leave from Seagate and withdraw from the master’s program he was pursuing at Berkeley. He says he and his company dutifully responded to an RFE, compiling examples of his work at Seagate. But on Jan. 11, Wang got a final answer: He was denied an H-1B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I wanted was to be able to see my American dream,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Feist, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, said talented foreigners discouraged by the visa process are beginning to look at opportunities in other countries, and she questions what that means for America’s future, especially if top-tier researchers who could contribute to science and medicine are turned away.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time to restrict access to talent.’\u003ccite>a letter from CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of her clients, a computer systems analyst from India with a master’s degree from a U.S. college, filed his petition for an H-1B in April 2017 with 101 pages of documentation. He received an RFE, and a 176-page response was filed, with additional paperwork attempting to prove just how complicated the position was. He was denied. Feist filed a 282-page appeal, requesting that the file be reopened. Though the appeal was approved, there was a second RFE, which Feist said raises the same issues she already responded to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a U.S. work visa unlikely, that client is applying for permanent residency in Canada with his wife and U.S. citizen child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEOs for companies including Apple, Ford and Coca-Cola penned a \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/letter-to-department-of-homeland-security-on-immigration-policies\">letter\u003c/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in August, saying immigration policy changes were undermining economic growth. “At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages,” they said, “now is not the time to restrict access to talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision for immigration based on skills, education and employer needs dates back to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the visa now known as the H-1B has until recently enjoyed wide support among politicians on both the left and the right. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewglobal.org/2019/01/22/majority-of-u-s-public-supports-high-skilled-immigration/\">survey\u003c/a> last year found broad approval for high-skilled immigrants among the public, as well, with support at 83 percent among Democrats polled and 73 percent of Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">Employers, Immigrants Grapple With Uncertainty Over TPS Work Permits\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648086/confusion-over-tps-work-permits-worries-employers-immigrants\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29269_IMG_1354-qut-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Trump has vacillated on the issue. During a March 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Trump was asked about his opposition to visas for skilled workers, to which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/the-fox-news-gop-debate-transcript-annotated/?utm_term=.34ce5b34c70d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “I’m changing” and that he saw such policies as a way to keep top international students in the U.S. “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His campaign followed that with a \u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20160416001802/https:/www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement\u003c/a> saying: “The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Trump again reverted to a more conciliatory note, \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083705208834834433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting\u003c/a> that H1-B holders “can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in China now, Wang isn’t sure what to make of Trump’s words. 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Because it’s really about the constitution and the separation of powers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">The Fight Over the Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BorderWall-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the border wall has been in contention since the start of the year when the inability to settle on a budget resulted in the longest government shutdown in history. 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But the administration is more likely to tap funding from a federal asset forfeiture fund and Defense Department anti-drug efforts first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said that the House measure would “reassert our system of checks and balances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This clearly is an abuse of power and once again it reflects that this president doesn’t understand that this is a democracy and he has three branches of government.’\u003ccite>Bay Area Congresswoman Barbara Lee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Should the House and the Senate initially approve the measure, Congress seems unlikely to muster the two-thirds majorities in each chamber that would be needed later to override a certain Trump veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure to block Trump’s edict will be closely watched in the Senate, where moderates such as Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., have signaled they would back it. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is only a reluctant supporter of Trump on the topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s GOP allies promised they would uphold any veto denying Democrats the two-thirds votes required to overcome one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats’ angst over Congress’ power of the purse is unwarranted, especially since the commander in chief’s authority to redirect military funds for a national emergency is affirmed in a law passed by their own branch,” said top House Judiciary Committee Republican Doug Collins of Georgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle is over an emergency declaration Trump issued to access billions of dollars beyond what Congress has authorized to start erecting border barriers. Building his proposed wall was the most visible trademark of Trump’s presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week Congress approved a vast spending bill providing nearly $1.4 billion to build 55 miles (89 kilometers) of border barriers in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley while preventing a renewed government shutdown. That measure represented a rejection of Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to construct more than 200 miles (322 kilometers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides signing the bill, Trump also declared a national emergency and used other authorities that he says give him access to an additional $6.6 billion for wall building. That money would be transferred from a federal asset forfeiture fund, Defense Department anti-drug efforts and a military construction fund. Federal officials have yet to identify which projects would be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro said he has already garnered support from a majority of the Democratic-controlled House as co-sponsors and that he has at least one GOP sponsor, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro’s measure says Trump’s emergency declaration “is hereby terminated.” Castro chairs the 38-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi wrote in a letter to her fellow lawmakers that the Republican president’s “decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Because it’s really about the constitution and the separation of powers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">The Fight Over the Border Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/border-wall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/BorderWall-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding for the border wall has been in contention since the start of the year when the inability to settle on a budget resulted in the longest government shutdown in history. Causing issues at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718330/california-airports-create-contingency-plans-for-unpaid-federal-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airports\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national parks \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869197/as-government-shutdown-continues-californias-federal-workers-suffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage delays for federal workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staff aide introduced the measure during a short pro forma session of the House in which Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., presided over an almost empty chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the president is attempting is an unconstitutional power grab,” said Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico traverses hundreds of miles of public lands, including six national parks. Environmentalists have long argued that a border wall has negative impacts on wildlife and on delicate desert and mountainous terrains. With President Trump's national emergency declaration, those concerns will only grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security authority to waive environmental regulations for national security reasons. The government can bypass a whole host of laws, including the Endangered Species and Clean Air Acts, in order to expedite border wall construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concerns environmentalists like Laiken Jordahl, with the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. On a recent overcast morning, he stood in front of a new section of border fence near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in southern New Mexico. The 20-mile-long steel fence was constructed last year, replacing waist-high vehicle barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727929 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/wall1-937797ff260eb587d7c756a5a479566ec095ecc7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"New 18-foot, steel bollard fencing is replacing an old vehicle border near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. Environmentalists are concerned the new fencing will block off wildlife corridors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New 18-foot steel bollard fencing is replacing an old vehicle border near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. Environmentalists are concerned the new fencing will block off wildlife corridors. \u003ccite>(Mallory Falk/KRWG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To think we could do something like this free of significant environmental consequences, it's delusional,\" Jordahl said. \"We're fundamentally changing the landscape here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the Chihuahuan Desert seems somewhat deserted — mostly sand, spotted with mesquite and soaptree yucca. But it's actually home to lots of wildlife, from mountain lions and coyotes to the endangered Mexican gray wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All sorts of animals have evolved for millennia untold to migrate freely through the desert,\" Jordahl said. \"And now we have, really, this landscape-scale obstruction that will stop all species in their tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727546/redistributing-funds-to-build-the-wall\">Redistributing Funds to Build the Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727546/redistributing-funds-to-build-the-wall\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/wallfunds_022019_final-1020x716.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity and other groups have filed numerous lawsuits challenging the government's authority to waive environmental regulations. So far, most have failed. Now, the Center has joined two other conservation groups in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/border-wall-02-16-2019.php\">a new lawsuit\u003c/a> against the national emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection takes issue with claims that the wall is damaging local environments. A CBP official explained that the agency \"conducts all necessary research and surveys to include environmental clearances prior to beginning any construction to identify and avoid or mitigate potential impacts to sensitive locations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some conservationists remain skeptical and frustrated with the rhetoric around border barriers. \"There's a lot of silly semantics going on in the national debate over whether it's a wall or a fence,\" says Kevin Bixby, with the Southwest Environmental Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. \"From our perspective, if it's a big structure that prevents the passage of wildlife, it's a wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of new wall construction is expected along the Rio Grande River in Texas. CBP says they have engaged local, state, federal and non-governmental organizations there to \"identify and address potential impacts to cultural, historical and natural resources that may be within planned barrier alignment in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This is an example of our efforts to protect the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new border fencing in the Rio Grande Valley could end up cutting through critical floodplains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josiah Heyman directs the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. \"The fence-wall is a huge barrier to the normal movement of water,\" he says. Trash and debris can clog the structure, effectively forming a dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/696372731/696399021\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a border wall was constructed in 2008 in parts of Arizona, monsoon floodwaters built up behind the wall and poured into the Mexican city of Nogales. 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"content": "\u003cp>A day after the Trump administration put California on notice that it would try to take back as much as $3.5 billion in federal funding for the state's high-speed rail project, just one thing is clear: The dispute is likely to take months to resolve and could well wind up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronald Batory, the head of the Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration, sent \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745224/Batory-Letter-to-Kelly-Re-CAHSR-Termination-021919.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter\u003c/a> to the California High-Speed Rail Authority on Tuesday informing the agency it intended to revoke \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745223/Executed-FY10-Amendment-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2010 agreement\u003c/a> to provide $929 million for construction of the bullet train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also said the FRA would try to recover another \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5745222/HSRFRA-CooperativeGrantAgreement-Amendment6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2.5 billion in funds\u003c/a> granted as part of the federal stimulus program in 2009 -- money that has already been spent on the high-speed rail program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batory said the federal rail agency was acting after finding that the state had \"materially failed to comply\" with the terms of its grant agreements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's FRA letter came in the midst of a dispute between President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom, touched off in part by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725636/state-of-the-state-newsom-pulls-plug-on-s-f-to-l-a-high-speed-rail-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the governor's announcement last week \u003c/a>that the state would focus on building a 160-mile segment of high-speed rail route and essentially put key segments of the project -- building out the route to the Bay Area and Los Angeles -- on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's declaration came after a seemingly unending series of delays and difficulties that have increased the bullet train network's estimated cost from $33 billion to $77 billion and delayed the projected completion date for the San Francisco-Los Angeles link from 2020 to 2033. The problems confronting the project have included lawsuits challenging various aspects of the enterprise, long delays in acquiring land for construction and major cost overruns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump blasted Newsom's announcement last week and vowed to seek repayment of the federal funds already granted for the project. 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It’s unprecedented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art Bauer, a former senior staffer with the state Senate Transportation Committee who was involved in crafting the language for the state's 2008 high-speed rail ballot measure, said he was \"unfamiliar with any precedent\" for such a funding withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certainly, in my 25 or 30 years of being involved in transportation policy development in the state, I'm unfamiliar with the idea of canceling a grant,\" Bauer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer said that the state could have a problem hanging onto the $929 million grant because it hadn't yet filed for reimbursement of some work already done on the rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the grants work is you do a piece of work, then you file a claim with the Department of Transportation for reimbursement, and the grant money flows to you at that point,\" Bauer said. \"Evidently, the state has not done that. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gilroy is known as the garlic capital of the world. And two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are having a mixed impact on this agricultural community southeast of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about 50 degrees outside, but for a moment it looks like it's snowing. 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In the 1990s, he says, the industry was hit hard by cheap Chinese garlic imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"U.S. garlic was trading around $40 a box in the 1990s,\" he says. \"Chinese garlic flooded the market at $10 a box, and it severely undercut a lot of U.S. growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilroy is known for its garlic, but only a few farms survived. Christopher Ranch was the biggest. Ken Christopher says about 6 percent of its garlic is bought from China; the rest is homegrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort out defective garlic at the Christopher Ranch plant. The company employs more than 1,000 people \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was really hard,\" he says. \"We're talking reduction in workforce, we're talking reduction in work hours, we had furlough days simply just to get through the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle went on for years. Then, in 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. And his stance on Chinese imports was pretty clear: tax them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher flew to Washington last year to testify in favor of tariffs on Chinese garlic. They would mean that Chinese garlic at your supermarket would be way more expensive than U.S.-grown garlic. When Christopher talks about tariffs, his face lights up. He says ideally, Chinese garlic would be taxed at rate over 400 percent. In the end, the Trump administration went for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648845578/trump-sets-tariffs-on-200-billion-in-imports-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 percent tariff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher remembers when it was announced: \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth. A coworker of mine actually got me the flag that was flying above the U.S. Capitol the day they got enacted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the plant pulls garlic samples for testing. The Christopher Ranch company saw demand for its garlic grow amid U.S. tariffs on Chinese garlic. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-160x54.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-800x268.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1200x402.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipment trucks (left) are parked at the processing plant (right). \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many American farmers, who export a large amount of their produce, the tariff war with China has dealt a big blow. Christopher says he is very sympathetic to their plight, and he doesn't think tariffs are a long-term solution. But they are certainly helping. Christopher Ranch said sales were up by about 20 percent last year. The company even had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most American agriculture, immigrants are a big part of Gilroy's labor force. And the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented labor has hit many California farmers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pack garlic into boxes at the plant. Ken Christopher, the company's executive vice president, said that when the Trump administration announced tariffs on China, \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth.\" \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic skins fall on operations manager Harald Vaernes (right) at the processing plant. The company had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher says he thinks about this all the time. \"If the Republican Party is pro-business, if they want to support industries across the country, they need to realize that immigration is a critical function of that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerardo Barba, an outreach coordinator for Catholic Charities, says the mood here has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just in general, there has been a lot more fear ... just fear to be out in public,\" he says. Barba says he's \"started noticing changes recently with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/02/08/ice-arrests-went-up-in-2017-with-biggest-increases-in-florida-northern-texas-oklahoma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher amounts of actual arrests that ICE conducts\u003c/a> — generally going to people's homes, knocking on the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving through Gilroy, it's clear that town has close ties to Mexico. The streets are lined with taquerias and discotecas, and sites on the outskirts of town house migrant workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727446\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1816_slide-d080ef414aca9a5111b3b0b00b2dc8f8ab1a10fb-e1550681396733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold storage (left) and empty garlic bins at the plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch currently employs more than 1,000 people. One man who packages garlic there tells NPR they're great bosses. He gets paid $15 an hour — a solid wage for a farmworker. He recently got his green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked that his name not be used because he has family members who are undocumented and are worried about getting deported. If that happens, they've asked him to take care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even though business is booming, there's a lot of fear. And he wonders: If enough people get deported, who's going to harvest all that garlic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gilroy is known as the garlic capital of the world. And two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are having a mixed impact on this agricultural community southeast of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's about 50 degrees outside, but for a moment it looks like it's snowing. But the morning air is pungent and savory, and those flakes falling from the sky are garlic skin pieces, drifting away from the peeling facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727439\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1544_custom-80808e6e579eb790fc828d689970fd9d3e2321e6-e1550681473331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic sits in bins before being processed at the processing plant. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ranch in Gilroy is the largest garlic producer in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Christopher, executive vice president, says it didn't always look this busy. In the 1990s, he says, the industry was hit hard by cheap Chinese garlic imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"U.S. garlic was trading around $40 a box in the 1990s,\" he says. \"Chinese garlic flooded the market at $10 a box, and it severely undercut a lot of U.S. growers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilroy is known for its garlic, but only a few farms survived. Christopher Ranch was the biggest. Ken Christopher says about 6 percent of its garlic is bought from China; the rest is homegrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1154_slide-82d210a1659cbe65ca0c20951b6c8148f9064e54-e1550680524639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers sort out defective garlic at the Christopher Ranch plant. The company employs more than 1,000 people \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It was really hard,\" he says. \"We're talking reduction in workforce, we're talking reduction in work hours, we had furlough days simply just to get through the year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle went on for years. Then, in 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. And his stance on Chinese imports was pretty clear: tax them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher flew to Washington last year to testify in favor of tariffs on Chinese garlic. They would mean that Chinese garlic at your supermarket would be way more expensive than U.S.-grown garlic. When Christopher talks about tariffs, his face lights up. He says ideally, Chinese garlic would be taxed at rate over 400 percent. In the end, the Trump administration went for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648845578/trump-sets-tariffs-on-200-billion-in-imports-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 percent tariff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher remembers when it was announced: \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth. A coworker of mine actually got me the flag that was flying above the U.S. Capitol the day they got enacted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727442\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727442\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a1290.psd1_slide-1f39a1175960d0a472c3d60efa4cda7ab7223cd0-e1550680961367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at the plant pulls garlic samples for testing. The Christopher Ranch company saw demand for its garlic grow amid U.S. tariffs on Chinese garlic. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-160x54.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-800x268.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1020x342.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-13-_custom-5b159137caa36a0e337506629f46fe9474be6995-s1300-c85-1200x402.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipment trucks (left) are parked at the processing plant (right). \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many American farmers, who export a large amount of their produce, the tariff war with China has dealt a big blow. Christopher says he is very sympathetic to their plight, and he doesn't think tariffs are a long-term solution. But they are certainly helping. Christopher Ranch said sales were up by about 20 percent last year. The company even had to pull garlic from storage to meet increased demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like most American agriculture, immigrants are a big part of Gilroy's labor force. And the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented labor has hit many California farmers hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/n0a0893.psd_slide-d385fc5f353778ffdce3e3a777cbf911043e5120-e1550681269110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pack garlic into boxes at the plant. Ken Christopher, the company's executive vice president, said that when the Trump administration announced tariffs on China, \"My coworkers and I started texting each other, emails started flying back and forth.\" \u003ccite>(Talia Herman/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11727451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/image-from-ios-14-_custom-bd2c3e5a9ed7ed7ffd8fc9a0ae4b49a430f3a609-s1300-c85-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic skins fall on operations manager Harald Vaernes (right) at the processing plant. 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He recently got his green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked that his name not be used because he has family members who are undocumented and are worried about getting deported. If that happens, they've asked him to take care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even though business is booming, there's a lot of fear. And he wonders: If enough people get deported, who's going to harvest all that garlic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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