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Go talk to Democrats in the Legislature who have brought us this crappy project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Thursday, Wiener blamed Republicans for the bullet train delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are most vocal in criticizing high-speed rail for delays and cost increases, the Republicans, are some of the very people who have caused those delays and cost increases,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10912057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of high-speed rail train.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of a high-speed rail train published in 2016. But, 17 years after voters approved a $10 billion bond measure to help pay for the project and a decade since construction began in the Central Valley, California high-speed rail faces a pivotal year that could make or break the project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California High-Speed Rail Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he was confident that spending by the California High-Speed Rail Authority will stand up to the new federal scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this investigation is fair and objective, then it will show a project that is underway, that’s happening, and that has been slowed down by permit problems, and that needs to be sped up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the high-speed-rail agency said it has been subject to multiple federal and state audits and that “every dollar is accounted for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome this investigation and the opportunity to work with our federal partners,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and others mentioned the results of a recent Emerson College poll that asked 1,000 registered California voters whether the high-speed rail project “is a good use of state funds or a bad use of state funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll reported that 54% had a favorable view. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appearing at L.A.’s Union Station, Duffy’s remarks on Thursday highlighted both the partisan nature of the review and his own personal distaste for the state’s high-speed rail effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump has thought about this project. He’s talked about the project,” Duffy said. “And I think he was very kind when he said this project has been mismanaged. I would agree it has been more than likely mismanaged. And the president has called for an investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several dozen protesters who had turned out for Duffy’s press conference jeered his remarks, prompting him to snap: “If you want to go protest somewhere; if you want to shout at someone; go to the governor’s mansion. Go talk to Democrats in the Legislature who have brought us this crappy project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Thursday, Wiener blamed Republicans for the bullet train delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are most vocal in criticizing high-speed rail for delays and cost increases, the Republicans, are some of the very people who have caused those delays and cost increases,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912057\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10912057\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg\" alt=\"Rendering of high-speed rail train.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HSR-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of a high-speed rail train published in 2016. But, 17 years after voters approved a $10 billion bond measure to help pay for the project and a decade since construction began in the Central Valley, California high-speed rail faces a pivotal year that could make or break the project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the California High-Speed Rail Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he was confident that spending by the California High-Speed Rail Authority will stand up to the new federal scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this investigation is fair and objective, then it will show a project that is underway, that’s happening, and that has been slowed down by permit problems, and that needs to be sped up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the high-speed-rail agency said it has been subject to multiple federal and state audits and that “every dollar is accounted for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome this investigation and the opportunity to work with our federal partners,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and others mentioned the results of a recent Emerson College poll that asked 1,000 registered California voters whether the high-speed rail project “is a good use of state funds or a bad use of state funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll reported that 54% had a favorable view. That’s in line with past survey findings and very close to the 52.6% “yes” vote attained by 2008’s Proposition 1A, which approved floating bonds to build the L.A.-San Francisco rail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Biologists, trail builders, maintenance workers, foresters, mapping experts — these are all examples of positions that have been terminated in widespread layoffs affecting U.S. Forest Service employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5300050\">NPR and Oregon Public Broadcasting\u003c/a> that 2,000 mostly probationary workers were fired in the Forest Service, though\u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/us-forest-service-to-terminate-3-400-workers-union-leader-says\"> the union representing\u003c/a> them estimates 3,400 are being laid off. Some workers were told low performance was the grounds for their dismissal despite receiving excellent performance reviews, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-workers-were-fired-for-performance-their-records-say-otherwise-2025-02-20/\">documents seen by Reuters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These layoffs, experts said, leave Californians at greater \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027096/trump-wants-states-to-clean-up-forests-to-stop-wildfires-but-his-administration-cut-off-funds\">risk of fire on federal lands\u003c/a> and will delay mitigation projects designed to protect communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service manager and fire chief who is now retired, said there was “no doubt” communities near federal lands would be less prepared going into the 2025 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of thousands of federal workers is part of the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024788/suspicion-anger-grow-among-california-federal-employees-over-trumps-resignation-proposal\">scale back the size of the federal government\u003c/a>. The orders were meant to exclude firefighters, but many of those Forest Service workers who were laid off were trained and qualified in wildland firefighting and would step in as backup firefighters on crews or engines when fires got intense and resources were stretched thin, providing surge capacity. If firefighting units — such as an engine or the elite ground crews known as hotshots — are not fully staffed, they can’t be assigned to a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service firefighter sets a controlled burn as the Post Fire burns through Castaic, California, on June 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are instrumental in providing fire support to the crews,” said Duncan, who is now vice president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group for federal firefighters. “But also, if their own forest or national park has fires any time of the year, that’s who’s there. So those are the people who help them out on their local units when there’s a fire or prescribed burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the effect on fire response, Duncan said, mitigation work that is done ahead of fires will also be slowed. Projects like fire breaks, vegetation removal or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">prescribed burning\u003c/a> can save lives and homes when a fire breaks out, but they must be done legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agencies have to go through the environmental analysis process dictated by law,” Duncan said. “And a lot of these folks are the ones doing that work — the archeologists, for example. And so they’re doing all that planning before a match hits the ground or a chipper starts chipping. We don’t know who’s going to be able to do that work [now].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Los Angeles firestorm of early January, Elon Musk blamed the destruction of homes in part on the lack of fire breaks and brush clearing in messages posted on his social media platform X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/IMG_7960-scaled-e1736446701514.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has said Musk is in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appears-contradict-white-house-says-elon-musk-charge-doge-2025-02-20/\">charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — the newly created initiative leading the push to do away with large swaths of the federal government —\u003c/a> though White House court filings have said he is an advisor with no power to make decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forest Service biologist Ben Vizzachero was one of those professionals who helped get mitigation projects done, indirectly, who no longer has a job. He learned first via a phone call from his supervisor that his job would be cut as part of DOGE’s trimming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of my work was making sure a project complied with the law,” said Vizzachero, who was recently hired at the Los Padres National Forest and was still in the agency’s one-year probationary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biology can be the bottleneck preventing projects from going forward,” Vizzachero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working on several community wildfire protection plans designed to foresee and mitigate fire risk, including plans for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Monterey. He handed that work over to a biologist on staff who still has their job but who already had a full plate of other projects. The result, he said, is that the plan will move slower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vizzachero said he was drawn to a career in public service because it’s a way to help people and the natural world. Personal stories from other federal workers have echoed this sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954241\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Forest Service crew feeds foliage into a wood chipper in the woods.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/AP23177646988222-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Forest Service crew members put tree branches into a wood chipper as they prepare the area for a prescribed burn in the Tahoe National Forest on June 6, 2023, near Downieville, Sierra County. \u003ccite>(Godofredo A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service manager and fire chief who is now retired, said there was “no doubt” communities near federal lands would be less prepared going into the 2025 fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firing of thousands of federal workers is part of the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024788/suspicion-anger-grow-among-california-federal-employees-over-trumps-resignation-proposal\">scale back the size of the federal government\u003c/a>. The orders were meant to exclude firefighters, but many of those Forest Service workers who were laid off were trained and qualified in wildland firefighting and would step in as backup firefighters on crews or engines when fires got intense and resources were stretched thin, providing surge capacity. If firefighting units — such as an engine or the elite ground crews known as hotshots — are not fully staffed, they can’t be assigned to a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/GettyImages-2157340569_qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service firefighter sets a controlled burn as the Post Fire burns through Castaic, California, on June 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are instrumental in providing fire support to the crews,” said Duncan, who is now vice president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, an advocacy group for federal firefighters. “But also, if their own forest or national park has fires any time of the year, that’s who’s there. So those are the people who help them out on their local units when there’s a fire or prescribed burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the effect on fire response, Duncan said, mitigation work that is done ahead of fires will also be slowed. Projects like fire breaks, vegetation removal or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021125/la-fires-renew-debate-over-prescribed-burns-and-fire-preparedness-in-california\">prescribed burning\u003c/a> can save lives and homes when a fire breaks out, but they must be done legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agencies have to go through the environmental analysis process dictated by law,” Duncan said. “And a lot of these folks are the ones doing that work — the archeologists, for example. And so they’re doing all that planning before a match hits the ground or a chipper starts chipping. We don’t know who’s going to be able to do that work [now].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Los Angeles firestorm of early January, Elon Musk blamed the destruction of homes in part on the lack of fire breaks and brush clearing in messages posted on his social media platform X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He learned first via a phone call from his supervisor that his job would be cut as part of DOGE’s trimming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of my work was making sure a project complied with the law,” said Vizzachero, who was recently hired at the Los Padres National Forest and was still in the agency’s one-year probationary period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Biology can be the bottleneck preventing projects from going forward,” Vizzachero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had been working on several community wildfire protection plans designed to foresee and mitigate fire risk, including plans for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Monterey. He handed that work over to a biologist on staff who still has their job but who already had a full plate of other projects. The result, he said, is that the plan will move slower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vizzachero said he was drawn to a career in public service because it’s a way to help people and the natural world. 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It’s about fear-mongering and scapegoating immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way this legislature goes for this,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones disagreed and said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014260/is-california-back-to-tough-on-crime-policies-not-necessarily\">the politics around criminal justice and public safety have shifted\u003c/a> in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a sunny Thursday in San Francisco’s Presidio, groups of elementary school students ate lunch outside the Walt Disney Museum, people waited in line at food trucks lining the lawn and groups chatted in red low-back chairs overlooking the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Cook, who’s visiting from Maine, was spending her final day in the city sitting just north of the lawn, looking out at the bridge with a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just talking about how absolutely beautiful this place is, and that a group of people had the vision to make this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That vision appears to be threatened by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Trump\u003c/a>, who signed a sweeping executive order Wednesday night to all but eliminate certain federal agencies, including the Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trust, which Congress formed in 1996 to manage and protect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972756/the-hidden-history-of-fort-scott-in-san-franciscos-presidio\">historic 1,500-acre park\u003c/a> that looks out on the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay, is one of four agencies named in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/\">“Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” order,\u003c/a> which calls for shrinking agencies that the administration deems “unnecessary” to “minimize government waste and abuse.” They have been ordered to eliminate their non-statutory operations “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” and reduce their statutory function to the minimum required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office in the San Francisco Federal Building, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio Trust is statutory, and it has been protected from assaults over time by its statutory strength,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–San Francisco) said in a statement Wednesday night. “We will be carefully reviewing the language of the President’s executive order and its purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also targets the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the order will face legal contest wasn’t immediately clear Thursday, but Californians have already mounted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027149/california-battles-trumps-executive-orders-in-court-as-legal-and-political-tensions-rise\">multiple fights against Trump in court\u003c/a> since he took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who represents the park area, said that while it’s still unclear exactly what the order will do, he is working with the trust and local lawmakers to protect the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that this does is create completely unnecessary fear,” he told KQED. “I’ll be incredibly supportive of our city attorneys and of our federal officials in pushing back at this. We have to remember there are 3,000 San Francisco residents that live in the Presidio. These are my constituents; this is deeply, deeply personal to me and to my neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mostly empty lawn of the Main Parade Ground in front of the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco, on Mar. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday in the park, Elizabeth Bradburn’s goldendoodle Charles was among about a dozen running off-leash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely bring the dog here and meet other dog parents and families,” she said, adding that her family often brings visiting friends down to see the bridge and eat at restaurants in the Presidio. “I think it’s a destination spot for a lot of people from outside of San Francisco, but then we who live here also use it regularly on a daily basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military’s Base Realignment and Closure process in the 1990s shuttered a number of old Army bases, including the one that used to occupy the Presidio land. It could have become a national park at the time, said Jim Wunderman, who was working for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, but the Republican-led federal government pushed back.[aside postID=news_12027607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']Instead, the Presidio Trust was formed, creating a public-private partnership that lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior and garnered bipartisan support. The agency would get federal money to help it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-bay-area-military-bases-are-transforming-and-why-it-takes-so-long\">transition from an Army base\u003c/a> and work closely with the National Park Service, but it had to become financially independent by 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the trust said it “has not received regular annual appropriations from Congress since 2013,” and now relies on funds earned by leasing historic buildings it has renovated, including the Walt Disney Museum, the Bay School and many restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget in two weeks, as required by the order, but is confident that its operations are statutorily based, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio is a one-of-a-kind national park site, and all of its services and business will continue to operate as normal, welcoming visitors and serving all who live and work here,” the trust’s statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national landmark has been on Republican lawmakers’ radar as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023991/republicans-target-sfs-presidio-for-tax-cuts-immigration-crackdown\">place to recoup funds\u003c/a> for weeks, first floated in a 50-page list of potential cost reductions to pay for Trump’s immigration crackdown and tax cuts in January. The list that circulated among GOP leaders called for the Presidio Trust to return $200 million secured by Pelosi in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to make infrastructure upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list claimed that the way the transfer of the funds was requested “was not consistent with standard agency practices for selecting priority deferred maintenance projects,” but Presidio spokespeople have said the money is already in use. It’s unclear whether these funds will be affected by the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said during a press conference Thursday that it was unclear if those funds could be clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know,” she said. “That’s a matter of law. They are committed and when they are committed there are certain standards that are examined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the president’s targeting everyone,” Pelosi continued. “But when we wrote our bill, we wrote it, as I said, prepared for an assault. 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Lower-income families rely on the center for child care while they work or look for a job. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will mean delays in processing applications and providing technical assistance, which will impede our ability to serve children and families,” Cottrill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty prompted Cisneros to think about how to keep services going in the event of another funding disruption. He said he lost confidence in the payment system and thinks the Trump administration may make cuts to early childhood education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect that there’s going to be more, so we’re just trying to prepare and have a Plan B should something else happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child Start receives an annual $19 million grant to operate 17 child care and early education centers, but the grant is not paid out in a lump sum. Instead, it draws down about $800,000 from a federal account two times per month in order to pay rent, payroll, food and other operating expenses. Receiving those funds on time is important because it does not have a lot of reserve funds and isn’t allowed to use federal funds to pay late fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a system that’s up and running and reliable to be able to access those funds when we need them,” Cisneros said. “This is really the first time that the [payment] system wasn’t available, and it just felt like we were intentionally being denied access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027072\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027072\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lead teacher Retchel Armas leads children in a painting exercise at Vineyard Crossings Head Start in American Canyon. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>News of the funding pause prompted board members of Child Start Inc. to consider spending cuts and work with local nonprofits to figure out how to leverage other sources of funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees and parents said they didn’t know how federal grants work until they were suddenly confronted with the prospect of losing their jobs and access to Head Start services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know the logistics,” said Neale Losito, who directs one of Child Start’s early learning centers in American Canyon, a suburb located between Vallejo and Napa. “I thought we’re granted this much money, and we get it all at once. I didn’t know that we don’t have it, really.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']She said she’s worried about what might happen to the lower-income or homeless families who rely on her center for child care while they work or look for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to stay open so that the child can come to preschool, so mom can go to work. And if we’re suddenly cut off, there’s just a domino effect for everyone,” Losito said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Jovan Polk said the eight hours of care his 3-year-old son, Jayce, receives at the center each day enables him to work a full shift as a security guard. Polk said he and his wife don’t have relatives nearby to help with child care, and they can’t afford a babysitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hours are perfect. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A White House memo announcing a funding pause to federal grants, loans and programs sparked worry that Child Start Inc. would have to close classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A payment came a day after a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024387/california-22-other-states-sue-to-block-trumps-federal-funding-freeze\">temporarily blocked the funding freeze\u003c/a>, Cisneros said, but he’s worried about future funding delays because at least 45 Head Start grant recipients in other parts of California and states reported \u003ca href=\"https://nhsa.org/press_release/ongoing-issues-accessing-federal-grant-funds-continue-to-impact-head-start-programs/\">payment delays\u003c/a> more than a week after the judge’s order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health and Human Services blamed the problem on “technical issues” with the payment portal, which has been fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been no additional reports of payment delays among members of Head Start California, said the association’s executive director, Melanee Cottrill. However, she’s concerned that the firing of several dozen federal employees at the Administration for Children and Families, which oversees Head Start grants, will affect local programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250213-HEADSTARTFUNDINGINTERRUPTION-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregiver Briggit Cervantes works with children ages two to three at Vineyard Crossings Head Start in American Canyon on Feb. 13. Lower-income families rely on the center for child care while they work or look for a job. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will mean delays in processing applications and providing technical assistance, which will impede our ability to serve children and families,” Cottrill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty prompted Cisneros to think about how to keep services going in the event of another funding disruption. He said he lost confidence in the payment system and thinks the Trump administration may make cuts to early childhood education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect that there’s going to be more, so we’re just trying to prepare and have a Plan B should something else happen,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child Start receives an annual $19 million grant to operate 17 child care and early education centers, but the grant is not paid out in a lump sum. Instead, it draws down about $800,000 from a federal account two times per month in order to pay rent, payroll, food and other operating expenses. 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"content": "\u003cp>A major component of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> approach to cracking down on immigration focuses on so-called sanctuary jurisdictions — cities, counties and states that have laws or policies restricting local officials from helping with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 13 states and hundreds of cities and counties nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016037/california-is-a-sanctuary-state-how-much-protection-will-that-give-immigrants-from-trumps-deportation-plans\">have policies\u003c/a> that set rules on how and when local police can assist federal authorities with immigration actions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024325/sf-leaders-reaffirm-sanctuary-city-status-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown\">Supporters argue\u003c/a> the policies keep communities safe by ensuring that immigrants feel comfortable reporting crimes and cooperating with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump’s political rise has forced this debate to the forefront, sanctuary laws and policies are not new, and some are decades old. However, they are facing renewed scrutiny in both courts and public opinion because of Trump’s aggressive stance against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he took office on Jan. 20, Trump has issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02006/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion\">executive order\u003c/a> directing the federal government to cut off funding for sanctuary cities, counties and states. The Department of Justice issued two \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388531/dl?inline\">memos\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25501154-doj-all-staff-memo-jan-21/\">instructing\u003c/a> federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute local officials who don’t actively assist in immigration enforcement. Additionally, the Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against Illinois and New York, challenging their sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary jurisdictions have also gone on the offensive, with San Francisco and Santa Clara counties \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-07-Complaint.pdf\">leading a lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the administration’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11367881/long-history-of-sanctuary-laws-debate-in-san-francisco\">Here’s how we got here in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which was among the first places to enact sanctuary policies and laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How did sanctuary policies emerge?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary policies arose in the 1980s in response to civil wars in Central America and refugees fleeing war-torn countries in the region. Berkeley was the first to have one in the Bay Area, followed by San Francisco. Initially, these were either policy statements passed by lawmakers without legal teeth behind them or simply police agency policies. Eventually, many were passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-President Ronald Reagan’s administration refused to recognize Central American migrants as asylum seekers. Federal immigration authorities would regularly show up at jails to look at records and question incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did San Francisco become a sanctuary city?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pivotal moment occurred in 1989 when San Francisco police officers joined federal immigration authorities to raid a Mission District dance club, Club Elegante. Dozens of people were detained for hours, some of them American citizens, and it sparked a political firestorm. Later that year, the city’s sanctuary ordinance was passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has there always been support for these policies in San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally, yes, but there have been moments of controversy, including after a horrific triple murder in 2008 when Gov. Gavin Newsom was San Francisco’s mayor. An undocumented gang member gunned down Tony Bologna and two of his children in a case of mistaken identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter, Edwin Ramos, had previously been convicted of several violent felonies as a minor, but city officials didn’t turn him over to immigration officials because, at the time, San Francisco had a policy never to hand over juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027154 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ensuing political outrage, including national attention, prompted Newsom to change city policy and begin turning over undocumented juveniles merely accused of felonies, a move that sparked backlash in the broader community and at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors ultimately passed a law clarifying only juveniles convicted of a felony should be handed over. (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">Current state law\u003c/a> mandates that anyone convicted of serious or violent crime can be handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement from prisons and jails; thousands have been in recent years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another tragic case in 2015 again focused attention on San Francisco when 32-year-old Kate Steinle was fatally shot as she walked along an Embarcadero pier. Her accused killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had previously been deported five times and had just been released from San Francisco County Jail when the shooting occurred. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633296/steinle-trial-verdict\">acquitted of murder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although federal officials blamed San Francisco’s sanctuary policy in both cases, evidence shows immigration officials were aware of both men and could have deported them. Lopez-Sanchez was in federal custody before authorities transferred him to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge, a relatively minor offense. And the gun he used was stolen from a federal park ranger who had left it in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities decided not to deport Ramos because they were trying to build a larger case around gang activity. Additionally, Ramos had applied for legal status, so they knew his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Did the controversies result in San Francisco changing its law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There were attempts to tighten city law, but the 10 amendments to San Francisco’s sanctuary ordinance made it even harder for local officials to cooperate with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those changes were initiated not in response to a Republican administration in Washington, D.C., but to policies rolled out under former Democratic President Barack Obama. Most of the pushback focused on a program called “Secure Communities,” which automatically sent the fingerprints of every person booked into a jail to immigration officials so they could check their legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer escorts a man in handcuffs during an operation in Escondido on July 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also allowed ICE to send requests to local jails to hold undocumented immigrants after they qualified for release. Some counties ignored the requests and sued. In 2014, a federal appeals court ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/us/politics/fearing-lawsuits-sheriffs-balk-at-us-request-to-detain-noncitizens-for-extra-time.html?_r=0\">jails could be legally liable\u003c/a> for violating someone’s civil rights against unlawful detention since the requests were not legally binding warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Secure Communities, San Francisco passed a law in 2013 that limits the city’s cooperation with ICE to cases involving violent felons. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB4\">similar law\u003c/a> was passed at the state level around the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, though, the city passed another law making it slightly easier for local officials to cooperate with ICE. The law lets the sheriff notify immigration officials about an incarcerated person accused of a violent felony if the person was convicted of a violent or serious felony in the past seven years and if a judge decides there’s probable cause for the current charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s at stake now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco believe the law is on their side and that constitutional provisions will protect them from the Trump administration’s attacks. Currently, the debate is largely playing out in court, with lawsuits pending in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">California\u003c/a>, Illinois and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more about the history of San Francisco’s sanctuary laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11367881/long-history-of-sanctuary-laws-debate-in-san-francisco\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he took office on Jan. 20, Trump has issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02006/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion\">executive order\u003c/a> directing the federal government to cut off funding for sanctuary cities, counties and states. The Department of Justice issued two \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388531/dl?inline\">memos\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25501154-doj-all-staff-memo-jan-21/\">instructing\u003c/a> federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute local officials who don’t actively assist in immigration enforcement. Additionally, the Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against Illinois and New York, challenging their sanctuary laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary jurisdictions have also gone on the offensive, with San Francisco and Santa Clara counties \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-07-Complaint.pdf\">leading a lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the administration’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11367881/long-history-of-sanctuary-laws-debate-in-san-francisco\">Here’s how we got here in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which was among the first places to enact sanctuary policies and laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How did sanctuary policies emerge?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary policies arose in the 1980s in response to civil wars in Central America and refugees fleeing war-torn countries in the region. Berkeley was the first to have one in the Bay Area, followed by San Francisco. Initially, these were either policy statements passed by lawmakers without legal teeth behind them or simply police agency policies. Eventually, many were passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-President Ronald Reagan’s administration refused to recognize Central American migrants as asylum seekers. Federal immigration authorities would regularly show up at jails to look at records and question incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How did San Francisco become a sanctuary city?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pivotal moment occurred in 1989 when San Francisco police officers joined federal immigration authorities to raid a Mission District dance club, Club Elegante. Dozens of people were detained for hours, some of them American citizens, and it sparked a political firestorm. Later that year, the city’s sanctuary ordinance was passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has there always been support for these policies in San Francisco?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Generally, yes, but there have been moments of controversy, including after a horrific triple murder in 2008 when Gov. Gavin Newsom was San Francisco’s mayor. An undocumented gang member gunned down Tony Bologna and two of his children in a case of mistaken identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooter, Edwin Ramos, had previously been convicted of several violent felonies as a minor, but city officials didn’t turn him over to immigration officials because, at the time, San Francisco had a policy never to hand over juveniles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ensuing political outrage, including national attention, prompted Newsom to change city policy and begin turning over undocumented juveniles merely accused of felonies, a move that sparked backlash in the broader community and at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors ultimately passed a law clarifying only juveniles convicted of a felony should be handed over. (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">Current state law\u003c/a> mandates that anyone convicted of serious or violent crime can be handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement from prisons and jails; thousands have been in recent years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another tragic case in 2015 again focused attention on San Francisco when 32-year-old Kate Steinle was fatally shot as she walked along an Embarcadero pier. Her accused killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had previously been deported five times and had just been released from San Francisco County Jail when the shooting occurred. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633296/steinle-trial-verdict\">acquitted of murder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although federal officials blamed San Francisco’s sanctuary policy in both cases, evidence shows immigration officials were aware of both men and could have deported them. Lopez-Sanchez was in federal custody before authorities transferred him to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge, a relatively minor offense. And the gun he used was stolen from a federal park ranger who had left it in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities decided not to deport Ramos because they were trying to build a larger case around gang activity. Additionally, Ramos had applied for legal status, so they knew his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Did the controversies result in San Francisco changing its law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There were attempts to tighten city law, but the 10 amendments to San Francisco’s sanctuary ordinance made it even harder for local officials to cooperate with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those changes were initiated not in response to a Republican administration in Washington, D.C., but to policies rolled out under former Democratic President Barack Obama. Most of the pushback focused on a program called “Secure Communities,” which automatically sent the fingerprints of every person booked into a jail to immigration officials so they could check their legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026446\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/020625-ICE-Arrest-AP-GB-01-CM-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer escorts a man in handcuffs during an operation in Escondido on July 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also allowed ICE to send requests to local jails to hold undocumented immigrants after they qualified for release. Some counties ignored the requests and sued. In 2014, a federal appeals court ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/us/politics/fearing-lawsuits-sheriffs-balk-at-us-request-to-detain-noncitizens-for-extra-time.html?_r=0\">jails could be legally liable\u003c/a> for violating someone’s civil rights against unlawful detention since the requests were not legally binding warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Secure Communities, San Francisco passed a law in 2013 that limits the city’s cooperation with ICE to cases involving violent felons. A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB4\">similar law\u003c/a> was passed at the state level around the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, though, the city passed another law making it slightly easier for local officials to cooperate with ICE. 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"content": "\u003cp>From private school vouchers to threats over “woke” curriculum, the Trump administration has launched a slew of reforms intended to reshape K–12 schools. But it’s still too soon to determine how — or if — those efforts will play out in California, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a strategy of rapid-fire change, and Trump is very publicly testing his authority,” said Julie Marsh, executive faculty director at Policy Analysis for California Education. “That’s led to a lot of anxiety and uncertainty. 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In some areas, superintendents say attendance has declined significantly, a blow to school funding and student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration and symbolism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, the threat of deportation has been a top concern about the Trump presidency, said County Superintendent Cesar Morales. Schools throughout the county have seen drops in attendance over the past few weeks, and school districts are taking steps to reassure families. They’ve held community meetings and set up resource websites, and Morales has done interviews in Spanish on local radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other threats may also have equally serious consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable students, Morales said. With the proposed elimination of the Department of Education, Morales worries about disruptions to special education and Title I funding for students with low income. Special education would likely move to another federal agency, but Project 2025, the conservative policy roadmap, calls for \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">phasing out Title I (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, districts use their Title I money to hire tutors, classroom aides and counselors; train teachers; and provide other services to students who need extra help. 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States make most decisions about schools, and receive relatively little federal funding — about 8% of their overall education budgets, even though much of that money goes to districts with high poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more urgent concern, he said, is whether — and how — the Republican-controlled Congress will reach a budget agreement before the mid-March deadline. A budget deal could include cuts to education, reflecting Trump’s desire to slash federal spending. That could affect everything from student loans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">funding for rural schools\u003c/a>. This week, Trump cut nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/elon-musk-and-doge-cancel-education-department-research-contracts/\">$900 million\u003c/a> in contracts at the U.S. Department of Education, affecting research and program evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum changes are a little more nuanced, Rotherham said. 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"content": "\u003cp>The National Park Service website exploring the history and significance of the Stonewall Uprising has been stripped of any mention of transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The page was also updated to remove the “T” from the previously used acronym “LGBTQ+” — now, referring to the community as either “LGB” or “LGBQ.” References to the word “queer” have also been removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When describing the Stonewall Uprising, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/ston/learn/education/new-index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the website now reads:\u003c/a> “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal, but the events at the Stonewall Inn sparked fresh momentum for the LGB civil rights movement!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear who called for the change. But it’s seen as the latest pushback on the transgender community by the federal government since President Trump took office. Over the past month, the Trump administration has issued executive orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate the idea of a “gender identity”\u003c/a> separate from sex and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5282137/trump-transgender-sports-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban transgender athletes\u003c/a> from participating in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision to erase the word ‘transgender’ is a deliberate attempt to erase our history and marginalize the very people who paved the way for many victories we have achieved as a community,” the Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative said in a joint statement.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989910,news_11964027,arts_13960471\"]Timothy Leonard, the Northeast program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, a group that advocates for the National Park System and pushed for the Stonewall monument, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/6779-parks-group-responds-to-removal-of-transgender-contributions-at-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u003c/a>, “Erasing letters or webpages does not change the history or the contributions of our transgender community members at Stonewall or anywhere else. History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730444495/nypd-commissioner-apologizes-for-oppressive-1969-raid-on-stonewall-inn\">raided by police\u003c/a>, igniting fierce riots and protests that lasted through the night and into the following days. This came after years of raids, beatings and arrests endured by LGBTQ individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who played a central role in the struggle were transgender activists, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802392326/new-york-state-to-rename-brooklyn-park-after-trans-activist-marsha-p-johnson\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473525644/sylvia-rivera-a-forgotten-hero-of-the-stonewall-riots\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson (center left), along with unidentified others, on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March in New York City on June 27, 1982. \u003ccite>(Barbara Alper/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-6-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American transgender rights activist Sylvia Rivera speaks during a rally in City Hall Park, in New York City, on May 4, 2001. \u003ccite>(Mariette Pathy Allen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Johnson and Rivera were present on the first night of the riots. Rivera has been credited to have thrown the second Molotov cocktail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years following Stonewall, Johnson and Rivera founded a group to help homeless trans youth in New York City called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries\">Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries\u003c/a>, or STAR. Rivera also fought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sylvia-rivera\">ensure transgender people were included\u003c/a> in the victories achieved by the gay-rights movement, like the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was less than a decade ago, in 2016, when the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483385747/obama-names-lgbt-landmark-as-national-monument\">designated a national monument by President Barack Obama\u003c/a> — becoming the first U.S. landmark dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A protest organized by the Stonewall Inn staff and local LGBTQ groups is scheduled at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730444495/nypd-commissioner-apologizes-for-oppressive-1969-raid-on-stonewall-inn\">raided by police\u003c/a>, igniting fierce riots and protests that lasted through the night and into the following days. This came after years of raids, beatings and arrests endured by LGBTQ individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stonewall Uprising was not the first push for LGBTQ equality in the United States, it is regarded as a turning point in sparking a nationwide movement for the equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those who played a central role in the struggle were transgender activists, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802392326/new-york-state-to-rename-brooklyn-park-after-trans-activist-marsha-p-johnson\">Marsha P. Johnson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/08/473525644/sylvia-rivera-a-forgotten-hero-of-the-stonewall-riots\">Sylvia Rivera\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1091\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American gay liberation activist Marsha P. 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Unlike many other immigration-related agencies, ORR is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, not the Department of Homeland Security. 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He said the goal was not to use the data for enforcement but did not rule that out in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent HHS statistics, as of \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/orr/fact-sheet/programs/uc/fact-sheet\">Jan. 29, there were 4,096 unaccompanied children\u003c/a> in the agency’s care; the average length of time an unaccompanied child remained in ORR’s care was 36 days, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s first term, the agreement among ORR, ICE and Customs and Border Protection allowed for details such as arrests, deaths and crimes to be reported to immigration enforcement. Other information, such as the citizenship status, biometric information of all adults living in the household, could also be shared. 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