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But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. 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Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. 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He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As she gets older, she said, eating healthy, locally grown food is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.[aside postID=news_11956856 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67156_230721-CoastMiwokLandMarin-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.[aside postID=news_11966087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With shaking hands, Rolla Alaydi flipped through the stack of papers she received in the mail in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of her nieces — Haya, 6; Alma, 6; and Ola, 4 — topped each letter. What followed were nearly identical denials of humanitarian parole from the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government\">government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carefully reviewed your application in accordance with the law, regulation, and USCIS policy and determined that parole is not warranted for the following reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">USCIS website\u003c/a>, “petitioners should expect processing delays. It will take time for us to work through the unprecedented number of parole requests we have received since Fall 2021 and return to normal processing times.” In the fall of 2021, the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040425/bay-area-afghans-allies-decry-trumps-end-of-tps-theyre-terrified\">withdrew from Afghanistan\u003c/a> and the Taliban took over its capital, Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS data shows that 80% of I-131 applications in California’s service center take \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">12 months to process\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12028230 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Panetta1-1020x765.jpeg']That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11997602 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-39_qed-1020x680.jpg']Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 6:15 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED announced Tuesday it’s laying off 45 people and losing 12 more who took voluntary departure offers, marking a 15% reduction in staff as the organization faces a significant budget shortfall and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048108/will-congress-cut-funds-to-npr-pbs-and-foreign-aid-this-week\">mounting financial uncertainty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the third round of layoffs in five years for one of the most-listened-to public radio stations in the country and comes as federal funding for public media is under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts impact every level of the organization, from top executives to custodial staff, but content-producing departments account for nearly three-quarters of them. KQED is disbanding its digital video team and slashing its education department, which produces media literacy curriculum, as part of a plan to sharpen its focus on local news and community events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In these uncertain times, the prudent, responsible thing to do is address what we have control over and to stabilize the organization so we can better navigate whatever challenges and uncertainty comes our way,” President and CEO Michael Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is operating at a $12 million deficit in the current fiscal year. The reductions are expected to bring down the shortfall by about 90% going into next year, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to paring back its staff, the nonprofit said it will stop contributing to employees’ retirement accounts and freeze salary increases beginning this fall. The current plan is to restart both next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders with the unions representing many of KQED’s workers said the company will have to negotiate before freezing pay for union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents radio, digital news and podcast employees, said in a statement that the union is “committed to protecting the rights of our members in accordance with our collective bargaining agreements and ensuring that those impacted are treated fairly and equitably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KQED sign in the lobby of the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cuts whittle KQED’s workforce to 312, down from 369 full-time employees. An additional 10 vacant positions will go unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four senior leaders are among those leaving the company, including Chief Operations and Administrative Officer Maria Miller and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams. Isip said they were “mutual agreements that this was a good time for them to transition,” and he added that Abrams’ departure was not a response to pressure from the Trump administration to roll back DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrice Gaskin, KQED’s director of mid-level giving who worked with Abrams as co-chair of the organization’s DEI council, lamented the optics of losing him in this climate. “At the same time, we acknowledge that this is a tough time period for everyone,” she said, “we’re really fighting for survival here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited Abrams with building a healthier culture at KQED, in part by making space to navigate difficult conversations. “KQED as a whole, people want to be nice and kind, but sometimes being nice gets in the way of addressing difficult topics that have to be unpacked that aren’t nice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Devastating’ cuts to some teams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED’s education department is among those hardest hit; it’s losing eight of its 13 regular members. “It’s pretty devastating. 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The department will still help young people produce and publish media through the Youth Media Challenge showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still committed to youth voice, and we will still continue to do it in the best ways we can with the resources we have for as long as we are allowed to do that,” Parker said.[aside postID=news_11987176 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png']The small remaining team will provide fewer educator workshops and less curriculum development than in the past, but it will keep professional development courses for K–12 teachers available through the \u003ca href=\"https://teach.kqed.org/\">KQED Teach platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissolving its digital video team, the organization is focusing its online video offerings on expanding the audiences of existing shows and podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really rethinking digital video,” Editor in Chief Ethan Toven-Lindsey said. “In terms of our local and news growth, it made sense for [the team] to be disbanded and to not have this separate, standalone unit, but to be integrated into different units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station’s call-in radio show, Forum, already \u003ca href=\"https://video.kqed.org/show/kqedforum/\">produces videos\u003c/a> that stream on KQED’s website and YouTube, while its Political Breakdown podcast team is considering making its own video content. “That’s the map,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital video team’s work had centered on the often \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11550/kqed-receives-seven-northern-california-emmy-awards\">Emmy-lauded\u003c/a> Deep Look and other resource-intensive programs. Now, just two members of the 13-person team will remain at KQED, with one of them reporting to newsroom leadership. A scaled-back version of Deep Look will live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the reductions, Chief Content Officer \u003ca href=\"https://wpln.org/post/nashville-public-radio-names-holly-kernan-of-kqed-as-president-and-ceo/\">Holly Kernan left last month to become CEO of Nashville Public Radio\u003c/a>. Rather than replace her, Isip named Toven-Lindsey editor in chief, a new position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an indication that KQED’s future sustainability, our future strategy, our future growth — the backbone is local news,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the staff cuts will come from the newsroom, including four layoffs and two people who took voluntary departure offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Augusta, who took the buyout offer after six years with KQED’s fundraising team, said she “decided to make a total right angle career switch” and open an independent bookstore in Martinez this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said her team, which works with some of the organization’s largest donors, at times felt under-resourced, she added that “this place also attracts some of the most fascinating, interesting, creative people I’ve ever worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A volatile financial picture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The station has been running a board-approved deficit since 2022. Based on revenue projections at the time, leadership expected to get back in the black by fiscal year 2027, according to a KQED spokesperson. The timeline banked on revenue growth of 2.4% a year, but it’s only grown 1.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board chair Jennifer Cabalquinto said the broader economic situation has thrown those projections out the window. “The volatility is very real, and that’s really impacted the revenue sources,” she said, noting that the threat of losing federal funding compounds the picture. “It’s a double whammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is working on multiple fronts to gut federal support for public media. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77572/npr-pbs-funding-rescission-congress\">The Senate faces a Friday deadline\u003c/a> to decide whether to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move already approved by the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">KQED received $7.6 million from CPB\u003c/a>. If that’s pulled, Cabalquinto said the organization would likely rely on cash reserves in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, NPR and PBS are suing Trump to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/\">an executive order\u003c/a> that aims to cut off their federal funding, and the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the underwriting practices of local member stations — a move that Isip said has had “a chilling effect” among some corporate sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s financial troubles stem from the organization’s growth in recent years, driven by multimillion-dollar investments, and sluggish revenue growth can no longer support its size. But they are also indicative of the existential challenges bearing down on the nation’s public media system and news industry writ large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New economic headwinds are contributing to a longstanding struggle to find financial footing in a digital environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t just one thing that’s causing this deficit, it’s multiple investments in growing our service,” Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2013 and 2018, the nonprofit added 60 employees, mostly focused on digital services, according to Isip. During that period, the education department nearly tripled in size, he said, and the station added journalists, building among the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to do that,” Isip said. “Broadcast audiences are declining. If we didn’t expand into new areas, that would threaten our future and our relevancy to our audiences moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth was made possible in part by $45 million in one-time money from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/campaign21\">a fundraising campaign\u003c/a> that also bankrolled a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11576/kqed-plan-for-opening\">$94 million building renovation\u003c/a>, and station leaders were betting that expanding services would boost the station’s audience, bringing an uptick in ongoing revenue to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has been the case,” Isip said. “But our financial support has not grown at the same rate as our expense growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrie Biggs-Adams, president of NABET Local 51, which represents the company’s radio and television engineers, among many other employees, voiced concerns about leaders’ management of KQED’s assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just stunning to have this happen in a place that had so much money a few years ago,” she said. Four NABET members are being laid off, according to Biggs-Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past eight years, KQED’s revenue has grown by 3.2%, while expenses have risen 4.7%, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blamed a number of factors, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While individual donations from community members are strong — the May pledge drive brought in an annualized total of about $1.9 million, and the February drive brought in $2.3 million, the biggest since 2018 — corporate sponsorship and underwriting have “softened,” Isip said. Funding from foundations and grants is about flat, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987509/kqed-cuts-34-positions-amid-budget-shortfall\">the company eliminated 34 positions\u003c/a> amid other cuts, with leadership again citing rising costs and flagging expenses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is operating at a $12 million deficit in the current fiscal year. The reductions are expected to bring down the shortfall by about 90% going into next year, Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to paring back its staff, the nonprofit said it will stop contributing to employees’ retirement accounts and freeze salary increases beginning this fall. The current plan is to restart both next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders with the unions representing many of KQED’s workers said the company will have to negotiate before freezing pay for union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which represents radio, digital news and podcast employees, said in a statement that the union is “committed to protecting the rights of our members in accordance with our collective bargaining agreements and ensuring that those impacted are treated fairly and equitably.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240522-KQEDheadquarters-10-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A KQED sign in the lobby of the organization’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cuts whittle KQED’s workforce to 312, down from 369 full-time employees. An additional 10 vacant positions will go unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four senior leaders are among those leaving the company, including Chief Operations and Administrative Officer Maria Miller and Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer Eric Abrams. Isip said they were “mutual agreements that this was a good time for them to transition,” and he added that Abrams’ departure was not a response to pressure from the Trump administration to roll back DEI initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrice Gaskin, KQED’s director of mid-level giving who worked with Abrams as co-chair of the organization’s DEI council, lamented the optics of losing him in this climate. “At the same time, we acknowledge that this is a tough time period for everyone,” she said, “we’re really fighting for survival here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She credited Abrams with building a healthier culture at KQED, in part by making space to navigate difficult conversations. “KQED as a whole, people want to be nice and kind, but sometimes being nice gets in the way of addressing difficult topics that have to be unpacked that aren’t nice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Devastating’ cuts to some teams\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED’s education department is among those hardest hit; it’s losing eight of its 13 regular members. “It’s pretty devastating. The folks who we are losing … every single one of them has contributed to the success of our work in pretty significant ways,” said Michelle Parker, executive director of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts mean listeners won’t hear as many young voices on the airwaves, and staff won’t see clusters of teens around the studio each year during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/youthtakeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a> week, as the station is ending the eight-year-old tradition of giving swaths of airtime over to local youth once a year. The department will still help young people produce and publish media through the Youth Media Challenge showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still committed to youth voice, and we will still continue to do it in the best ways we can with the resources we have for as long as we are allowed to do that,” Parker said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The small remaining team will provide fewer educator workshops and less curriculum development than in the past, but it will keep professional development courses for K–12 teachers available through the \u003ca href=\"https://teach.kqed.org/\">KQED Teach platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dissolving its digital video team, the organization is focusing its online video offerings on expanding the audiences of existing shows and podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really rethinking digital video,” Editor in Chief Ethan Toven-Lindsey said. “In terms of our local and news growth, it made sense for [the team] to be disbanded and to not have this separate, standalone unit, but to be integrated into different units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The station’s call-in radio show, Forum, already \u003ca href=\"https://video.kqed.org/show/kqedforum/\">produces videos\u003c/a> that stream on KQED’s website and YouTube, while its Political Breakdown podcast team is considering making its own video content. “That’s the map,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital video team’s work had centered on the often \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/11550/kqed-receives-seven-northern-california-emmy-awards\">Emmy-lauded\u003c/a> Deep Look and other resource-intensive programs. Now, just two members of the 13-person team will remain at KQED, with one of them reporting to newsroom leadership. A scaled-back version of Deep Look will live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate from the reductions, Chief Content Officer \u003ca href=\"https://wpln.org/post/nashville-public-radio-names-holly-kernan-of-kqed-as-president-and-ceo/\">Holly Kernan left last month to become CEO of Nashville Public Radio\u003c/a>. Rather than replace her, Isip named Toven-Lindsey editor in chief, a new position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an indication that KQED’s future sustainability, our future strategy, our future growth — the backbone is local news,” Toven-Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the staff cuts will come from the newsroom, including four layoffs and two people who took voluntary departure offers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Augusta, who took the buyout offer after six years with KQED’s fundraising team, said she “decided to make a total right angle career switch” and open an independent bookstore in Martinez this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said her team, which works with some of the organization’s largest donors, at times felt under-resourced, she added that “this place also attracts some of the most fascinating, interesting, creative people I’ve ever worked with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A volatile financial picture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The station has been running a board-approved deficit since 2022. Based on revenue projections at the time, leadership expected to get back in the black by fiscal year 2027, according to a KQED spokesperson. The timeline banked on revenue growth of 2.4% a year, but it’s only grown 1.3%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board chair Jennifer Cabalquinto said the broader economic situation has thrown those projections out the window. “The volatility is very real, and that’s really impacted the revenue sources,” she said, noting that the threat of losing federal funding compounds the picture. “It’s a double whammy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is working on multiple fronts to gut federal support for public media. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77572/npr-pbs-funding-rescission-congress\">The Senate faces a Friday deadline\u003c/a> to decide whether to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move already approved by the House of Representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">KQED received $7.6 million from CPB\u003c/a>. If that’s pulled, Cabalquinto said the organization would likely rely on cash reserves in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, NPR and PBS are suing Trump to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/\">an executive order\u003c/a> that aims to cut off their federal funding, and the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the underwriting practices of local member stations — a move that Isip said has had “a chilling effect” among some corporate sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s financial troubles stem from the organization’s growth in recent years, driven by multimillion-dollar investments, and sluggish revenue growth can no longer support its size. 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"content": "\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 federal judge in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> on Friday granted a temporary restraining order against the federal government’s aggressive, month-long immigration sweep across Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of civil rights, immigrant rights and local government agencies \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/la-immigration-raids-lawsuit/\">sought the order\u003c/a>, arguing the raids have violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures by conducting warrantless stops on people who simply appear to be Latino, and due process rights to access to counsel in immigration detention, where they say detainees are facing “dungeon-like conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 52-page order issued late Friday evening, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong wrote that the two questions before the court were if the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in proving that the government “is conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers?” and “what should be done about that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling could have far-reaching implications for the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. Over the last month, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/07/patterns-in-california-immigration-raids/\">heavily armed immigration agents\u003c/a>, often in masks and battle fatigues, have been \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/taken-la-immigration-raids/\">aggressively detaining immigrants\u003c/a> and U.S. citizens at Home Depots, car washes, and Latino markets across Los Angeles. Trump and other leaders have promised to bring similar raids to other major U.S. cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frimpong wrote, “the individuals and organizations who have brought this lawsuit have made a fairly modest request: that this court order the federal government to stop.” Frimpong wrote: “The court grants their request.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order bars federal agents from conducting detention stops in the district unless the agent has “reasonable suspicion” the person stopped is in “violation of U.S. immigration law.” The order prohibits agents from relying solely on four factors, either alone or in combination, that include “apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, presence at a particular location (e.g. bus stop, car wash, tow yard, day laborer pick up site, agricultural site, ect), the type of work one does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/031523-ICE-Arrest-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/031523-ICE-Arrest-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/031523-ICE-Arrest-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/031523-ICE-Arrest-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort a man detained at an immigration and customs processing facility in San Diego on March 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“No matter the color of their skin, what language they speak, or where they work, everyone is guaranteed constitutional rights to protect them from unlawful stops,” Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California said in a statement. “While it does not take a federal judge to recognize that marauding bands of masked, rifle-toting goons have been violating ordinary people’s rights throughout Southern California, we are hopeful that today’s ruling will be a step toward accountability for the federal government’s flagrant lawlessness that we have all been witnessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second ruling orders the federal government to allow immigrants who have been detained to have access to counsel, and repeats concerns about the conditions in which they’ve been detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals … are being kept in small, windowless rooms with dozens or more other detainees in cramped quarters. Detainees are also routinely deprived of food, and some have not even been given water other than what comes out of the combined sink and toilet in the group detention room,” the order states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it unlawful to prevent people from having access to lawyers who can help them in immigration court? Yes it is,” the judge wrote, describing an incident in which federal officers deployed chemical agents against family members, attorneys and representatives seeking access to people being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a basement holding area meant to only temporarily process immigrants, people have been held for extended periods of time and denied access to necessary medical care and medications. “The facility cannot provide detainees with basic hygiene; individuals who are menstruating have had to wait long periods before receiving menstrual pads, if they receive them at all,” Frimpong wrote.[aside postID=news_12047875 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-13-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday court hearing on the order, attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security argued that the plaintiffs should provide a $30 million bond to pay for training for agents to comply with the court’s order. Frimpong denied that request, writing that her restraining order “does not require any deviation from the training and the policies that appear to be in place, but rather compliance with the existing law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint, brought by the ACLU and a host of other rights groups, labeled the raids an unconstitutional “immigration dragnet,” driven by arrest quotas rather than probable cause or credible evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol carried out a similar, though smaller scale, operation in Kern County in January. Patrol agents arrested farmworkers and daylaborers after slashing tires, breaking windows, pulling people out of their cars, and throwing a grandmother to the ground. That too was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">halted by a federal judge\u003c/a> along similar grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to that lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security said it would be retraining some 900 Border Patrol agents on the constitution and following the Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles area sweeps began more than a month ago with Homeland Security Investigations agents serving warrants at the Ambiance Apparel factory and storefront on June 6; dozens of people were detained. Since then, DHS says it has arrested 2,792 unauthorized immigrants in the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those raids turned deadly on Friday when a farmworker fell several stories off a greenhouse during Thursday’s large-scale operation at a marijuana farm in Camarillo, according to the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Farm workers rise before dawn to feed this country — there is no labor more dignified,” said Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers. “No one should be targeted, profiled, or terrorized for being brown and working hard. We are pleased the court recognized what’s at stake: the basic right to live and work without fear. We will keep fighting until that right is fully protected for all farm workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU and Public Counsel filed the lawsuit on behalf of several immigrants arrested at Los Angeles area bus stops and two U.S. citizens who were also caught up in what the plaintiffs argue were “indiscriminate sweeps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044791\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CaliforniaFarmworkersGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CaliforniaFarmworkersGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CaliforniaFarmworkersGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CaliforniaFarmworkersGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker works in a strawberry field on June 12, 2025 in Oxnard, California. Anti-immigration crackdowns ordered by President Donald Trump has seen federal authorities target factories and work sites since June 6, sparking days of angry protests in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The federal government argues agents are conducting highly targeted operations, indicating they are arresting specific people. The leader of the LA operation, Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/06/los-angeles-border-patrol-chief/\">made the same claim\u003c/a> about the Kern County operation, which he led. But Border Patrol \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/border-patrol-records-kern-county/\">documents later showed\u003c/a> it had no previous record of 77 of the 78 people it arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin continued to make the same argument in response to the judge’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A district judge is undermining the will of the American people,” she said. “America’s brave men and women are removing murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists—truly the worst of the worst from Golden State communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling does not stop the federal government from obtaining search warrants and continuing workplace raids. 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That too was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/\">halted by a federal judge\u003c/a> along similar grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to that lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security said it would be retraining some 900 Border Patrol agents on the constitution and following the Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles area sweeps began more than a month ago with Homeland Security Investigations agents serving warrants at the Ambiance Apparel factory and storefront on June 6; dozens of people were detained. 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Some Senate Republicans, like Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, have criticized NPR, arguing that its news coverage is ideologically biased, but suggested the Senate should tweak the bill to continue supporting local public media stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told reporters he’s working to ensure that stations that serve Native Americans in his state continue to receive federal resources. “This has got to be resolved because this is where — in these rural areas — they get their emergency services, they get their announcements. They’re not political in nature,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds, said on X today that the Trump administration has agreed to find money outside the rescissions package to fund tribal radio stations. 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Referring to some of his GOP colleagues, he said, “We have some unique personalities we’ve got to deal with, like the House does.” But Mullin said he believed the Senate would pass something this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package is the first attempt by the Trump administration to formally adopt some of the cuts that the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” the effort to slash federal spending, announced on its own. OMB Director Russ Vought also said the administration was considering additional rescissions packages to submit in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vought is expected to attend the weekly closed-door Senate GOP lunch on Tuesday to discuss the requests and concerns from individual senators. “I think it will be very helpful,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who sponsored the bill, told reporters. He said the original mission of the CPB “may have been laudable at the time. There’s such a greater diffusion of media now and personally I don’t feel the need and I don’t think the broad swath of our conference does either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday the package “suffocates public broadcasting” and warned it “sets the stage for even more party line cuts in the future.” He has also warned that if Senate Republicans move ahead with rescissions packages that undo funding levels set in bipartisan spending bills, Democrats could walk away from future talks on upcoming spending bills, increasing the odds of a government shutdown this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any proposed changes to the package would need to be vetted first by the Senate parliamentarian because of the process Republicans are using to pass the bill with a simple majority. If leaders secure the votes to begin debating the measure, senators can offer an unlimited number of amendments in a vote-a-rama, which could last hours. 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The interim president of Georgetown University and the Chancellor of the City University of New York also testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This hearing will focus on the underlying factors instigating antisemitic upheaval and hatred on campus,” committee chair Rep. 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He was also repeatedly asked about Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor who was made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003861/uc-berkeley-launches-new-palestinian-studies-program-this-fall\">inaugural chair of Palestinian and Arab Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sofia Liashcheva via UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing is part of a crusade by the Trump administration to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at some of the top universities in the country. UC Berkeley now joins a list of schools that have appeared before the committee, which includes Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, both of whose presidents resigned after their hearings in December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these and other hearings, the Republican House majority has also threatened to revoke federal funding if some schools don’t comply with requested reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also comes at a time when institutions of higher education are under a flurry of investigations by the administration — not just for antisemitism, but also for race and sex based hiring practices, and other programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Critics of the administration see it as a thinly veiled attempt to exert influence on higher education and an attack on academic freedoms.[aside postID=news_12034707 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) characterized diversity, equity and inclusion practices as fundamentally divisive. He questioned the chancellors about whether a practice that categorizes people on the basis of “oppressor or oppressed” makes college campuses safer for Jewish students. Similar language appeared in President Donald Trump’s executive order on so-called “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ This whole crusade against antisemitism is a Trojan horse,” said Amanda Goldstein, a Jewish associate professor of English at UC Berkeley and a member of the group \u003ca href=\"https://speaklearnteach.org/2025/04/16/about-bff2l/\">Berkeley Faculty for the Freedom to Learn\u003c/a>. “ They feel threatened by our form of free inquiry and free thought, and they’re using antisemitism as a pretext to crack down on very many aspects of our legitimate and rigorous research and teaching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein said BFF2L formed in the spring in response to what she calls an escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, including revoking student visas based on their perceived political views and making federal funding contingent on things like the “severe curtailment of faculty input and governance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Jewish faculty members from UC Berkeley has penned an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVjAp1A88aXlahHxCtKEqHvy2UQFH_zW7CUlP96dLvvkpTpQ/viewform\">open letter\u003c/a> to Lyons ahead of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034299\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC8380_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold up homemade signs and shirts to protest against UC Berkeley during the 2024 commencement ceremony at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This letter does not dismiss the real challenges Jewish students, staff, and faculty have faced, including moments of unease and, at times, physical threats. Isolated incidents of hostile speech and even acts of violence have occurred,” the letter said. “However, as Jewish faculty who frequently engage with campus leadership and remain vigilant about the well-being of the Jewish campus community, we reject the claim that Berkeley is an antisemitic campus or that widespread antisemitism exists here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldstein called the previous hearings by the Committee on Education and Workforce a “bad-faith show trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that that capitulation has not worked to protect the important work of education and research that we do in our universities, and we hope that our chancellor will continue to clearly and forcefully defend the research, teaching and scholarship that we do at UC Berkeley.”[aside postID=news_11985335 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2152066925-1020x680.jpg']In a reflection of the tensions that have existed on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023, the hearing was punctuated by multiple interruptions from pro-Palestinian protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chancellor Lyon, you are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Free Palestine, free Palestine,” shouted one protester, who was quickly removed from the room. Another shouted, “You’re burning children alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Justice Department employees are alarmed at how the Trump administration is using its authority to extract concessions out of universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that the Trump administration is doing right now is subverting institutional norms,” said Jen Swedish, a former lawyer with the employment litigation section of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ. “It’s weaponizing the department and in this situation, it’s using civil rights laws as a way to bully employers and other entities into doing what it wants them to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish pointed to a recent example: the Trump administration successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html\">demanded the resignation\u003c/a> of the president of the University of Virginia as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of threatening a university president to resign as a way to settle a Title VII case is completely out of the norm,” Swedish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ is currently investigating whether the UC system allowed an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">antisemitic hostile work environment\u003c/a>” to exist for professors, staff and other employees, while UC Berkeley itself is one of 60 schools being \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigated\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly failing to “fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons is the second Berkeley education official to be called before the committee to testify about antisemitism in schools. In May 2024, Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985335/berkeley-schools-chief-rejects-allegations-of-pervasive-antisemitism-in-capitol-hill-testimony\">firmly denied accusations\u003c/a> that antisemitism had become “pervasive” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons took the helm as chancellor of Berkeley just over a year ago in July 2024. He inherited a UC system that has beefed up rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000770/uc-president-orders-new-rules-on-encampments-masks-as-students-return-to-school\">preventing student encampments\u003c/a> and restricted how students can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">protest on campuses\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12047925 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/RobBontaSFAP-1020x680.jpg']“In universities, there is a freedom to express one’s views — even if there’s some learning that needs to happen through that process,” Lyons said during his testimony. “If somebody is expressing pro-Palestine views, that’s not necessarily antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Michigan) and several other representatives questioned Lyons on statements Makdisi had made regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. McClain said the professor previously described the attack as an act of “resistance” and said he could have been one of the people “who broke through on the siege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a celebration of the terrorist attack on Oct. 7,” Lyons said after being questioned by McClain on the subject for several minutes. He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. During the 2023–24 school year, students led monthslong encampments calling for divestment from companies that supported Israel’s military, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewish students and allies on those same campuses responded with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978998/uc-berkeley-jewish-community-members-march-on-campus-amid-rising-tensions\">marches and demonstrations\u003c/a> of their own, claiming they felt unsafe at school due to outspoken activism against Israel and Israeli soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his first month in office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at fighting antisemitism, particularly on college campuses. The administration’s DOJ formed a multi-agency task force to combat antisemitism shortly after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold signs that read “No Votes for Genocide” at a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Lyon’s testimony isn’t explicitly linked to the multitude of investigations into the UC System and UC Berkeley itself, it certainly is related, according to Swedish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish said if the UC system is found to have engaged in a pattern or practice of workplace discrimination against Jewish employees, the DOJ would enter into a settlement agreement with the UC System “ to take certain measurable steps that we believe would prevent it from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on Harvard University may foreshadow other potential impacts upon the UC system or UC Berkeley itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, the DOJ’s joint antisemitism task force notified Harvard that its investigation found that the university was in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act for failing to adequately protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.” The task force said in a press release that “failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice does not currently have an open investigation into whether the UC system or UC Berkeley has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to prevent antisemitism on campus. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the meeting, Walberg identified a number of groups that he said “incite antisemitism on college campuses,” including faculty and student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, faculty unions and Middle East Studies centers, as well as DEI policies and funding sources from outside the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walberg said the hearing marked the “next phase” of the committee’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons was questioned by the committee on several issues, including collective bargaining with pro-Palestinian labor groups, foreign investments in the university, progressive leanings in higher education, doxxing and student safety. He was also repeatedly asked about Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor who was made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003861/uc-berkeley-launches-new-palestinian-studies-program-this-fall\">inaugural chair of Palestinian and Arab Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1368\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1536x1051.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/UCBerkeleyMakdisi-1920x1313.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sofia Liashcheva via UC Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hearing is part of a crusade by the Trump administration to root out what it describes as pervasive antisemitism at some of the top universities in the country. UC Berkeley now joins a list of schools that have appeared before the committee, which includes Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, both of whose presidents resigned after their hearings in December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these and other hearings, the Republican House majority has also threatened to revoke federal funding if some schools don’t comply with requested reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also comes at a time when institutions of higher education are under a flurry of investigations by the administration — not just for antisemitism, but also for race and sex based hiring practices, and other programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Critics of the administration see it as a thinly veiled attempt to exert influence on higher education and an attack on academic freedoms.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a reflection of the tensions that have existed on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023, the hearing was punctuated by multiple interruptions from pro-Palestinian protestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chancellor Lyon, you are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Free Palestine, free Palestine,” shouted one protester, who was quickly removed from the room. Another shouted, “You’re burning children alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Justice Department employees are alarmed at how the Trump administration is using its authority to extract concessions out of universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything that the Trump administration is doing right now is subverting institutional norms,” said Jen Swedish, a former lawyer with the employment litigation section of the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ. “It’s weaponizing the department and in this situation, it’s using civil rights laws as a way to bully employers and other entities into doing what it wants them to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swedish pointed to a recent example: the Trump administration successfully \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html\">demanded the resignation\u003c/a> of the president of the University of Virginia as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of threatening a university president to resign as a way to settle a Title VII case is completely out of the norm,” Swedish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-UCB-CAMPUS-WALKOUT-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Singh (center), a pro-Israel student at Berkeley, counter-protests a walkout and rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the University of California, Berkeley on Oct. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The DOJ is currently investigating whether the UC system allowed an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">antisemitic hostile work environment\u003c/a>” to exist for professors, staff and other employees, while UC Berkeley itself is one of 60 schools being \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigated\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly failing to “fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons is the second Berkeley education official to be called before the committee to testify about antisemitism in schools. In May 2024, Enikia Ford Morthel, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985335/berkeley-schools-chief-rejects-allegations-of-pervasive-antisemitism-in-capitol-hill-testimony\">firmly denied accusations\u003c/a> that antisemitism had become “pervasive” in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyons took the helm as chancellor of Berkeley just over a year ago in July 2024. He inherited a UC system that has beefed up rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000770/uc-president-orders-new-rules-on-encampments-masks-as-students-return-to-school\">preventing student encampments\u003c/a> and restricted how students can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000859/uc-system-implements-new-rules-on-protests-encampments\">protest on campuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He also referred to Makdisi several times throughout the hearing as a “fine scholar,” and acknowledged the professor’s academic contributions to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, 2023, university campuses across the Bay Area have become hotbeds for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">student-led demonstrations\u003c/a> decrying Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four years after the Taliban took control of Kabul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898843/theres-a-lot-thats-not-working-within-the-system-afghan-evacuees-struggle-with-housing-and-immigration-bureaucracy\">thousands of fragmented Afghan families\u003c/a> are still waiting for the U.S. to fulfill promises it made to take them in for helping the American war effort. But now, the Trump administration appears set to kick thousands of recently arrived refugees out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan turned the South Asian country into a war zone, waves of Afghan refugees have landed in California looking to build new lives and reunite with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Afghan has their own journey,” said Fouzia Azizi, who left Afghanistan in 1994. She now directs refugee services at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, a local office of one of the nation’s largest resettlement agencies. “But one thing they all have in common is, in one way or another, they have all faced some level of persecution. There is no hope to go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true, she added, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894472/walking-from-san-francisco-to-mountain-view-as-an-ode-to-lgbtq-afghans-and-refugees\">children, women, religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a> and any Afghan who helped the U.S. military in the 20 years after Americans invaded in 2001 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living in a limbo,” Azizi said. “There is a sense of trauma. There is a sense of anxiety. Mental health is to the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. The business became a staple for the Afghan community in the East Bay, who have come together over the past three and a half years to create networks of support for incoming Afghan families, who fled their country after the Taliban takeover in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives\">chaotic withdrawal of American troops\u003c/a> in 2021, roughly 198,000 Afghans have come to the U.S., according to internal government documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them came with official refugee status or were granted special visas for working for the U.S. mission as lawyers, interpreters and drivers. They have a path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship. But tens of thousands more are in limbo, with only temporary humanitarian protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/13/2025-08201/termination-of-the-designation-of-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status#citation-26-p20311\">has terminated\u003c/a> one of those protections, known as Temporary Protected Status, for an estimated 11,700 Afghans. While some of them have obtained green cards, as the program ends on July 14, roughly 8,000 Afghans with TPS are now vulnerable to deportation. Some refugees have also sought temporary protection through humanitarian parole and are applying for asylum, but the Trump administration has deported people with pending asylum applications and could also revoke parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\"> historically allowed people already in the U.S.\u003c/a> to stay and work legally if their countries are deemed unsafe. This includes countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions. The U.S. State Department still lists Afghanistan as “\u003ca href=\"https://2021-2025.state.gov/afghanistan-inquiries/\">Level 4: Do Not Travel\u003c/a>” because of the risk of terrorism, unlawful detention, civil unrest and kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing of the notice in the \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08201.pdf\">Federal Register\u003c/a> rescinding TPS for Afghan refugees asserted conditions in Afghanistan are improving, noting that Chinese tourism there has increased, as the rates of kidnappings have dropped. In that same notice, Noem noted the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan has dropped to 23.7 million this year, compared to 29 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11890467 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As former governor of South Dakota, Noem\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1JG492yg8s\"> criticized\u003c/a> the Biden administration programs taking in Afghan refugees during and after the fall of Kabul, doubting the adequacy of the vetting process. In recent days, Matthew Tragesser, chief of public affairs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, echoed that partisan language in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USCIS/status/1921928708216045702\">post\u003c/a> on social media platform X announcing the end of TPS: “Bad actors are taking advantage of this humanitarian program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who fled Afghanistan under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/information-for-afghan-nationals\">Operation Allies Welcome\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.militaryonesource.mil/benefits/enduring-welcome-program/\">Operation Enduring Welcome\u003c/a> waited for years in third countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, often at U.S. military bases, as U.S. immigration authorities adjudicated their claims. Hundreds of thousands of people who have qualified to be in the pipeline for some kind of U.S. visa, including roughly 211,000 still in Afghanistan, now presumably have no hope of reuniting with family members in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, 2025, the Trump administration’s attack on immigration to the U.S. began with a \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/u-s-department-of-state-abandons-u-s-responsibility-for-safely-resettling-refugees/\">“no work”\u003c/a> order for resettlement services like JFCS East Bay. Since then, an unknown number of Afghans in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://abc11.com/post/department-homeland-security-deportation-afghan-refugees-triangle-receive-dhs-email-urging-deport/16188536/\">received emails\u003c/a> telling them to self-deport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afghan refugees in the U.S. have been trying to lay low since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. “They’re so afraid. They’re terrified,” said Harris Mojadedi, a child of refugees born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harris Mojadedi, Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives, poses for a portrait at UC Berkeley on May 14, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are people who are really ‘enemy number one’ for the Taliban, and so to send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our federal representatives, I know, are advocating and supporting us, but the actions this government is taking are just so out of the realm of how, you know, the government typically operates,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Eric Swalwell represents most of eastern Alameda County and its Afghan community. In a statement, he condemned the decision to end TPS and called upon the administration to reverse course. He also called attention to the administration’s recent choice to extend refugee status to white South Africans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know many of my Republican colleagues feel the same, but it is time for them to grow a spine and stand up to Trump,” he wrote. “Trump is apparently more concerned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/10/afrikaner-refugees-trump-welcoming-white-south-africans/83557827007/\">protecting white South Africans\u003c/a> who have done nothing to protect American troops than he is with our Afghan Allies. It is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mojadedi said he understands there’s a limit to what California’s predominantly Democratic representatives can do in a G.O.P.-dominated Washington D.C., but the cause of the Afghans is not politically partisan, any more than it was for Vietnamese refugees following the Vietnam War. Vietnamese refugees were offered permanent status under three congressional acts, but Congress has yet to offer something similar for Afghans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought that President Trump was going to be a champion for the Afghans,” said Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and president of the San Diego-based non-profit #\u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/about\">AfghanEvac\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11887630 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51406_021_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg']“If we hearken back, he is the one who negotiated the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-middle-east-taliban-doha-e6f48507848aef2ee849154604aa11be\">Doha agreement\u003c/a>. He brought the Taliban to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-harris-slams-trump-for-taliban-negotiations\">Camp David\u003c/a>. He brought Afghans to the White House in the first administration and lauded them during Medal of Honor ceremonies. We thought that, for sure, they would be supportive. And then on day one, they shut down the ongoing relocation program,” VanDiver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver said he’s been unable to meet with anybody in the second Trump Administration. It’s possible that other groups that are more politically conservative and not specifically nonpartisan, like #AfghanEvac, might have a better chance of getting an audience with the president. VanDiver said he hopes someone can convince President Trump he has an opportunity to “be a hero” and reverse the policies targeting Afghan immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think veterans and frontline civilians and everybody who’s involved in this are shocked at how it seems like these folks are just being thrown away,” VanDiver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If appeals to the president’s ego — or moral decency — don’t work, a lawsuit might force the current administration to at least hit the pause button on the decision to end TPS for Afghans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s1-59939/trump-afghanistan-tps-kristi-noem-dhs\">Noem signaled\u003c/a> last month that she would terminate the TPS designation for Afghans, a Maryland-based immigrant rights organization filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2025/05/TPS-Complaint.pdf\">federal lawsuit\u003c/a>. The suit argues for a stay and alleges the Trump administration’s decision was influenced by racial animus, violating the equal protection guarantees of the Fifth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presiding judge denied CASA’s request to keep the protections in place during the litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on May 15, 2025.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In recent days, Matthew Tragesser, chief of public affairs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, echoed that partisan language in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USCIS/status/1921928708216045702\">post\u003c/a> on social media platform X announcing the end of TPS: “Bad actors are taking advantage of this humanitarian program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who fled Afghanistan under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/information-for-afghan-nationals\">Operation Allies Welcome\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.militaryonesource.mil/benefits/enduring-welcome-program/\">Operation Enduring Welcome\u003c/a> waited for years in third countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, often at U.S. military bases, as U.S. immigration authorities adjudicated their claims. 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They’re terrified,” said Harris Mojadedi, a child of refugees born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040223\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harris Mojadedi, Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives, poses for a portrait at UC Berkeley on May 14, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are people who are really ‘enemy number one’ for the Taliban, and so to send them back, to deport them, would really be a death sentence,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our federal representatives, I know, are advocating and supporting us, but the actions this government is taking are just so out of the realm of how, you know, the government typically operates,” Mojadedi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Eric Swalwell represents most of eastern Alameda County and its Afghan community. In a statement, he condemned the decision to end TPS and called upon the administration to reverse course. He also called attention to the administration’s recent choice to extend refugee status to white South Africans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know many of my Republican colleagues feel the same, but it is time for them to grow a spine and stand up to Trump,” he wrote. “Trump is apparently more concerned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/10/afrikaner-refugees-trump-welcoming-white-south-africans/83557827007/\">protecting white South Africans\u003c/a> who have done nothing to protect American troops than he is with our Afghan Allies. It is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mojadedi said he understands there’s a limit to what California’s predominantly Democratic representatives can do in a G.O.P.-dominated Washington D.C., but the cause of the Afghans is not politically partisan, any more than it was for Vietnamese refugees following the Vietnam War. 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But its cost-saving provisions are expected to boot millions of people from health coverage and food assistance, and the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that it will add $3.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House officials argue that individual components of the law would be popular if people understood them. Luntz agrees. But if Republicans can’t make that pitch stick, he said, they are going to have a problem in the midterms next year. Trump did highlight elements of the law during a Cabinet meeting this week that was carried live on cable. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democrats have been driving that message for weeks: that this is a law that will benefit the wealthy at the expense of the working class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Congressional Budget Office analysis found that the United States’ highest-paid workers are expected to be the biggest winners under the package, while middle-income families would see smaller gains and those at the bottom of the income ladder would be worse off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This law is like “trying to give people a bill for their own robbery,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist. “There is no way to convince people that it is a good idea to raise costs for health care, energy and food to give tax breaks to people who are already wealthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic groups are already running ads about the One Big Beautiful Bill and plan to make highlighting its downsides the centerpiece of their effort to win back Congress next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is already trying to counter the criticism. Moments before signing the bill into law, Trump said, “And I just want you to know, if you see anything negative put out by Democrats, it’s all a con job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tariffs-inflation-hasbro-ukraine-patriot-missiles-nato-russia-rcna218125\">interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker\u003c/a> Thursday, Trump said he would be hitting the road “a little bit” to promote his bill, but he added, “Honestly, it’s been received so well I don’t think I have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks before President Donald Trump signed into law the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047037/a-betrayal-bay-area-leaders-react-to-us-house-passing-trumps-tax-and-welfare-cuts\">massive spending and tax plan\u003c/a> known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, California officials warned about its potential impacts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/health/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million lower-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqbn1FK1Ac\">called Trump’s budget plan\u003c/a> “reckless, cruel and damaging,” citing \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/newsom-medicaid-impacts-memo.pdf\">state estimates\u003c/a> that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage if the legislation moved forward. While the White House insists that the OBBB \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">will not kick people off their health care plan\u003c/a>, the back-and-forth has sown confusion among many Californians about their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re hearing from members is: One, is my information protected? And two, have there been any changes to my benefits and when can I expect a change?” said Michael Hunn, CEO of CalOptima Health, which serves Medi-Cal patients in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunn said that his team has been assuring members that their personal health information is protected and that “there have been no changes to either benefits or eligibility right now in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want any of our members to think that somehow their coverage or their health insurance has gone away because it has not,” he said. “Please continue to get the care you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029302\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A doctor examines a child at Southern Orange County Pediatric Associates in Ladera Ranch on July 28, 2020. \u003ccite>(Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Medi-Cal remains the same for the time being, the OBBB — along with other state and federal legislation — is expected to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1/BILLS-119hr1eas.pdf\">big changes to the program\u003c/a> in the coming years, impacting different groups of recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for a timeline of when these changes will kick in and how to prepare. We will be updating this guide as more information becomes available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31, 2025: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End of subsidies for those who bought health coverage through Covered California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Congress approved additional tax credits for people who bought health insurance through an Affordable Care Act marketplace, with Covered California being one.[aside postID=news_12033802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']The subsidies include both Medicare and market-rate plans, making it easier for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/inflation-reduction-act-health-insurance-subsidies-what-is-their-impact-and-what-would-happen-if-they-expire/\">millions of Americans to buy health insurance\u003c/a>. But when the credits expire, it will be more expensive for folks to keep their current coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/inflation-reduction-act-health-insurance-subsidies-what-is-their-impact-and-what-would-happen-if-they-expire/#:~:text=The%20enhanced%20subsidies%20in%20the%20Inflation%20Reduction%20Act%20reduce%20net%20premium%20costs%20by%2044%25%2C%20on%20average%2C%20for%20enrollees%20receiving%20premium%20tax%20credits%2C%20though%20the%20amount%20of%20savings%20varies%20by%20person.\">Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based public health research nonprofit, the average annual premium payment for Medicaid in 2024 decreased from $1,593 to $888 — a difference of $705.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two income groups could see the biggest changes in their premiums, said Dylan Roby, professor of health, society and behavior at UC Irvine. “When people start getting their renewals this year for coverage, they will probably see their premiums skyrocket if they make under 150% of the federal poverty level or above 400% of the federal poverty level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/FPL-chart.pdf\">CHART: See where your income falls according to the federal poverty level\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Without enhanced subsidies, people above 400% of the federal poverty level may have to pay the full monthly premium for their insurance. On the other hand, those under 150% of the federal poverty level who previously received enough subsidies to cover all their premiums would have to start paying for part of their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Congress failed to renew the subsidies in the OBBB, it still has time to extend them this year before they end.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jan. 1, 2026: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medi-Cal begins to freeze new enrollment for undocumented Californians \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has gradually expanded Medi-Cal enrollment to lower-income undocumented immigrants, adding new age groups every few years. About 1.6 million undocumented Californians are now covered by Medi-Cal, but the expansion cost the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031544/providing-health-care-for-immigrants-is-costing-california-more-than-expected-is-coverage-at-risk\">$2.7 billion more than it originally projected\u003c/a>, CalMatters reported.[aside postID=forum_2010101908967 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/iStock-1156622320-1-1020x574.jpg']As the state faces a growing deficit, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/06/california-budget-newsom-democrats/\">Newsom and the state Legislature agreed\u003c/a> to freeze Medi-Cal enrollment for undocumented immigrants who are 19 and older at the start of 2026. Then, on July 1, Medi-Cal will stop covering dental services for both undocumented individuals and those with an immigration status the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Budget/Documents/DHCS-TBL-Policy-Changes-to-Individuals-with-UIS-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">state considers\u003c/a> “unsatisfactory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cuts put at risk the yearslong work to improve health care access among the state’s undocumented community, said Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto, senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this progress is now under threat because of our own state budget deficit,” she said, adding that lawmakers in Sacramento are now under greater pressure as the federal government cuts down on funding for state programs. “We currently do not have the funding to help backfill any loss in federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need state leaders to take bold action to equitably raise revenues to help mitigate the impact of these federal funding cuts to our state and Medi-Cal specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Dec. 31, 2026: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>States begin to roll out new Medicaid eligibility rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When then-President Barack Obama \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/affordable-care-act\">signed the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> in 2010, it allowed adults ages 19–64 with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level to qualify for Medicaid. Since then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-expansion-is-a-red-and-blue-state-issue/\">over 21 million adults\u003c/a> have enrolled nationwide, including 5 million in Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the OBBB, states must implement new eligibility requirements for this “expansion population”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Individuals will now have to go through the Medicaid renewal process \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi\">with their county’s health and human services agency\u003c/a> every six months, instead of once a year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Able-bodied adults without dependents must work, attend school classes or do community service for at least 80 hours each month. There are several exceptions, including if your state’s unemployment rate rises above 8%.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This will mean a lot more paperwork for both Medi-Cal recipients and the county offices managing these requirements, UC Irvine’s Roby said. “You could have somebody working two different jobs, but they don’t see the email coming from their eligibility office or maybe they changed addresses,” he said. “Because they don’t turn in proof that they’re working, they could lose their coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual states and counties will have two years to fully implement these changes, said Hunn from CalOptima Health, who added that his team will be working with Orange County officials to make sure that their members are aware of all the new forms they need to complete. “So they know when to look for certain envelopes,” he said, “and that they understand they have X number of days to complete that application redetermination package and turn it in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12047349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2216476723-2000x1363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2216476723-2000x1363.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2216476723-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2216476723-1536x1047.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2216476723-2048x1396.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill forwarding President Donald Trump’s agenda at the US Capitol on May 22, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Jan. 1, 2027: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher premiums for undocumented immigrants on Medi-Cal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of this year’s state budget deal, Medi-Cal recipients ages 19–59 with an immigration status \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Budget/Documents/DHCS-TBL-Policy-Changes-to-Individuals-with-UIS-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">the state considers “unsatisfactory”\u003c/a> — which includes both undocumented immigrants and those with a temporary status — will have to pay a $30 monthly premium starting in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pregnant people will be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone misses three consecutive premium payments, they will be dropped from their coverage — and because of the 2026 enrollment freeze, they would be unable to reenroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 1, 2028: Minimum copays begin at the national level\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OBBB will also require Medicaid recipients in the “expansion population” to begin paying copays for medical care or services. States will set their own copays, but the OBBB requires the amount to be between $1 and $35 per service. There is an exception to this rule: copays are not required for primary care and services for mental health or substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caveat: The total amount that someone pays in copays in one year cannot exceed 5% of their income. This could make things confusing for individual states, Roby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state would have to track how much people are spending out of pocket on their cost sharing in order to make sure they don’t hit the 5% level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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