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This is a matter of basic humanity, and I won’t stand for this wanton cruelty and disregard for human rights, particularly in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the facility’s closure, hundreds of women were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984115/women-forced-to-relocate-from-fci-dublin-prison-report-traumatizing-journey-seek-compassionate-release\">quickly transferred to other federal prisons\u003c/a> throughout the country during the facility’s closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past several years at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) has taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure — and most critical — employee misconduct,” then-BOP Director Colette S. 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In California, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">federal judge\u003c/a> this week temporarily blocked the administration’s plan to slash research funding for institutions and universities after more than 20 attorneys general filed suit against top health agencies. Meanwhile, inspectors general from eight federal agencies are taking Trump to court over his abrupt dismissal of 17 watchdogs last month without notifying Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People need to realize that much of what the president is doing could be stopped in a nanosecond if Congress stepped up,” Gerston said. “Congress — by virtue of doing nothing — is not only acceding to the president’s actions but emboldening him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial branch can strike down a president’s actions as unconstitutional, but challenges must first work their way through the courts, a process that varies in length and outcome, Gerston said. With legal battles often uncertain, he emphasized that Congress must step up and fulfill its role in the system of checks and balances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that the executive branch and Trump’s power grows, it’s certainly going to lead to a different set of roles for the national government,” Gerston said. “I firmly expect that the elections in 2026 will give us a major insight into whether people find what’s done [is] acceptable or not … That will tell us much more about where our democracy is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President JD Vance said in a post on social media platform X last week that judges are not permitted to challenge a president’s executive powers, adding fuel to the debate over how far the authority of the president goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. 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This has raised critical questions about whether the executive branch holds the authority to dictate the allocation of federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, D-CA, told KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Thursday that the idea of any government official appointing a “best friend” to dismantle departments and agencies without prior experience is unacceptable. The executive branch, she said, does not have control over the purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has no qualms about violating the Constitution and the limits of his authority and has done so repeatedly since coming into office, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has acted outside his executive authority, and he’s done it multiple times,” Bonta told KQED. “The Constitution sets forth what authority the president has. 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The union said the strike has been scheduled for Feb. 26–28 and will involve members across all UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It represents the latest escalation in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011878/thousands-of-uc-san-francisco-workers-are-preparing-to-strike\">conflict over top union concerns such as staffing levels and compensation\u003c/a> that sparked a two-day work stoppage at UC San Francisco in November. Also on Friday, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents more than 37,000 UC patient care and service workers, announced a strike at all UC campuses and five medical centers from Feb. 26–27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between UPTE and UC, the state’s third-largest employer, began eight months ago. However, both parties remain far apart on the union’s goal of fixing the alleged recruitment and retention crisis that is harming patients, research and students, according to Dan Russell, UPTE’s president and lead negotiator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to have to strike. But we’re also not going to let this crisis continue to drag out,” said Russell, a business technology support analyst at UC Berkeley. “We hear these stories from almost every group of workers, whether it’s pay is too low, people are leaving to go to Kaiser or people just feeling disaffected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physician assistants, mental health clinicians, laboratory scientists, IT workers and other UC employees are fed up with the lack of progress, he added. The union declared an impasse on Jan. 3, and the two parties met with mediators later in the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">proposed\u003c/a> wage increases for UPTE-represented employees of 5% starting in July, 3% in 2026 and 3% in 2027. The university also offered to streamline some of its career growth mechanisms and expand access to vacation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the university called the union’s talk of preparing for a work stoppage “disheartening.”[aside postID=forum_2010101908476 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10714834-thumb.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university has been and remains ready to settle these contracts: we have offered UPTE what it has asked for,” Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said in a statement. “In the event of a strike, the University is prepared to make every effort to ensure the critical operations of the University system, which includes patient care, continue at a level of excellence UC patients, students, faculty and staff expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE and UC have accused each other of engaging in bad-faith bargaining on key issues. The union charged the university with unfair labor practices before the California Public Employment Relations Board, including for allegedly failing to provide job vacancy and financial data to assess the extent of staffing issues, increasing employee health care costs without negotiating over the changes and \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/news/upte-files-major-charge-against-ucs-crackdown-on-free-speech\">limiting worker and union speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen told KQED last October that the university was working to produce information on vacancy rates and other data. But Russell said the union has yet to receive that information. In a Friday email, Hansen told KQED UC has provided turnover rate data, as well as data that show headcount is going up as separations decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor standoff comes as a federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked this week the National Institutes of Health from reducing funding that supports biomedical and public health research at universities, after California and 21 other states sued. The NIH is the largest funder of UC research, and the university said it could lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year, leading to layoffs and disruptions to life-saving research. A hearing in the case is set for Feb. 21.[aside postID=news_12011878 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSF-Strike.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union was relieved the proposed NIH funding cuts were paused, Russell said, though he noted that reductions would represent a relatively small fraction of the \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4862#:~:text=UC%20Budget%20Currently%20Is%20%2451.4,Fund%20and%20student%20tuition%20revenue.\">$51.4 billion budget\u003c/a> for UC in 2023–24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Logan, who chairs the labor and employment studies department at San Francisco State University, said UC is bracing for challenges with the Trump administration over various issues that could impact federal funding, including policies affecting transgender, LGBTQ and undocumented students, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial uncertainty under the Trump administration could make UC administrators reluctant to give out generous multi-year labor deals. However, the timing of a large, disruptive walkout could also be disastrous, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A strike which would cause major disruptions — would be the absolute last thing that university administrators would want at this time when it is trying to protect its funding and talk about the value of medical research at places like UCSF and UC San Diego,” Logan said. “The university, while being very concerned about the potential financial implications of what the Trump administration is trying to do, should also be concerned about its public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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And highly effective preventative treatments like preexposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP, help people avoid contracting HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When PrEP came around, for me and for so many other people, it was a game changer that we actually had a tool to protect our health and to stay negative,” said Wiener, who was the first elected official to publicly acknowledge being on the medication. “PrEP is an absolutely essential part of any strategy to end new HIV infections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts now hope to dramatically reduce the number of HIV transmissions by the end of the decade, but a lawsuit filed by a business in Texas against parts of the Affordable Care Act could derail ambitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004484\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1271\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1536x976.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/AIDSLifecycleGetty1-1920x1220.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd cheers on cyclists at the beginning of the second annual AIDS/LifeCycle event on June 8, 2003, in San Francisco, California. 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Not only are new yearly transmissions in the low hundreds, but other data points look promising as well. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than 40 years after the national HIV/AIDS epidemic began, San Francisco still holds the reminders — in memorials, in murals, in the stories of survivors and in the voids left by the tens of thousands of deaths — of the deep loss suffered during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came of age as a gay man in the late 1980s during the absolute worst period in the AIDS crisis, with gay men and others having a mass die-off,” state Sen. Scott Wiener said. “It was absolutely terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story is not just one of loss but also eventual triumph. Medical advancements mean that people with HIV can live longer with minimal to no risk of transmitting the disease to partners. And highly effective preventative treatments like preexposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP, help people avoid contracting HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Attorney General Rob Bonta joined blue state attorneys general in seeking to stop Trump orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">freeze federal funding\u003c/a>, including grants funding research at public and private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the announced candidates for the 2026 gubernatorial election await a decision from a possible contender: former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.[aside postID=news_12019149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-2181827064-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has never had a female governor, and Harris, as well as the other women running, could break that barrier. Aimee Allison, whose organization She the People advocates for electing more women of color, said at this moment, that alone is not enough for any candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even more important than representation, they have to make an argument that the old guard and the old way of politicking isn’t going to work in Trump’s America, not Trump 2.0,” Allison said. “There’s too many attacks, and they’re coming from so many different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom has pivoted from criticizing Trump to figuring out how to flatter him enough to get what California needs in disaster relief, Allison said accommodation is not an option for the next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be willing to get into the arena, set your agenda and fight like hell. That’s who we want right now,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris would not be the first former vice president who ran for president and lost, then turned around and ran for governor of California two years later. Richard Nixon did it in 1962 after losing a razor-thin race to John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost a bitter campaign to Pat Brown, the incumbent Democratic governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After saying he was done with politics, Nixon reemerged eight years later and was elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what the downsides of Harris running for governor were, Schnur’s answer was simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could lose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They included roughly $3 billion for wildfire mitigation efforts, often known as hazardous fuels reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peace said those programs are continuing if funded by other congressional appropriations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a forest management nonprofit that develops and implements programs to reduce hazardous fuels and wildfire threat in Oregon, northern California and Idaho, has stopped work on projects funded by Biden’s legislation, which provides 65% of its $17 million budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director Marko Bey said he laid off 15 full-time employees after being told by federal officials the funding was frozen pending review, with no information on when it would be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t make good business sense to keep operating, not knowing if we’re going to get paid or if at some point the administration is going to rescind some of this,” Bey said. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the first day of his second term, President Trump sat behind neat stacks of executive orders in the Oval Office and started signing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023109/3-california-members-jan-6-committee-pardoned-biden-trump-takes-office\">pardoned\u003c/a> the more than 1,500 “hostages,” as he called them, who’d been convicted or charged in connection with the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. He went on to sign a slew of immigration-related orders, including one titled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/\">Protecting The American People Against Invasion\u003c/a>,” which called for a dramatic surge in border enforcement and, among other things, the dissolution of the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force was born out of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964656/settlement-over-trump-family-separations-at-the-border-limits-future-separations-for-8-years\">federal settlement agreement\u003c/a>, reached in 2023 between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union after a yearslong lawsuit, that required the government to reunite thousands of families who were forcibly separated during Trump’s first term. The separations were part of the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” immigration policy, a crackdown on illegal border crossings in 2018. As reports emerged of weeping children being taken from their parents’ arms and languishing behind chain-link fences, the policy drew global condemnation for its inhumane treatment of people seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter if he expected his new immigration orders to be challenged in the courts, Trump responded that he didn’t think they could be. “They’re very straight up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and civil rights attorneys who work with separated families disagree, saying the sweeping changes will test the strength of the federal settlement agreement, which also banned most separations for eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s broad focus on total enforcement of all immigration laws, without specifying who exactly the orders apply to, has the ACLU and immigrant advocates on alert for anything that resembles a new family separation policy or undermines the settlement. And they’re spring-loaded to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be monitoring very closely to see whether the Trump administration faithfully applies the settlement,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU attorney who led the lawsuit. “And if they don’t, we’ll be back in court immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven years after Zero Tolerance, hundreds of children remain apart from their families. For the more than 3,000 families who have already been reunited and for thousands more making their way toward the border today, even a relatively minor or temporary policy change could jeopardize their claims for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, [the administration is] trying to shut down the border again to all asylum seekers,” said Laura Peña, director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR). “And that is going to affect children. It is going to affect families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about family separation under President Trump, then and now.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘shameful chapter’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To understand how so many families ended up separated, you have to go back to pre-Trump America. Unauthorized entry to the U.S. is illegal, but for decades, adults who crossed the border illegally with their children, many of whom were fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, were generally not prosecuted for that infraction alone. Instead, families would either be allowed to stay in the U.S. pending immigration rulings or be deported together. But things changed after Trump took office in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That spring, the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, started toying with a new way to deter people from crossing the border illegally: prosecute every adult, including those crossing with kids. In April of 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/dl\">took the policy border-wide\u003c/a>, dubbing it “Zero Tolerance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution,” Sessions \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-addresses-recent-criticisms-zero-tolerance-church-leaders#:~:text=That%20is%20what%20the%20law,to%20jail%20with%20their%20parents.\">later said\u003c/a> of the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11797878]Now, when families were apprehended at the border, federal agents began sending children and their parents or guardians to separate holding facilities. A 14-year-old boy and his older sister, who had raised him, crossed the border into Texas, where they surrendered to the Border Patrol. “On the third day, they took me out of my cage and said I would be separated from my sister, but they didn’t tell me where I was going,” the boy later \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-cages-inhumane-treatment-border\">told a visitor from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>. “I don’t understand why they separated us. They didn’t give me a chance to say goodbye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after Zero Tolerance was formally implemented, the Trump administration began touting a dip in illegal border crossings but did not mention it was a small dip, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jul/19/did-zero-tolerance-policy-reduce-illegal-immigrati/\">typical for that time of year\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, border-area prosecutors complained that their dockets were overwhelmed by all the misdemeanor immigration cases and that people accused of serious crimes were \u003ca href=\"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-028_0.pdf\">slipping through the cracks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an even more problematic consequence of Zero Tolerance: the massive number of children who were suddenly in the care of the federal government. Children went to holding pens — many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">tents\u003c/a> erected for the purpose — while they waited to be placed in shelters or foster homes. Over 40% of those detention centers were located in California, Arizona and Texas. Humanitarian workers reported that federal authorities were not prepared to care for them, so older children took care of younger ones and illnesses went untreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the government lost track of which children belonged to which parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ap_19276669107972-4157dfa405bb5b5b5ae1512bc469aa8dc930c533-e1639768153780.jpg\" alt=\"Children walk in a line past barricades toward a large white tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant youth line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida., in Feb. 2019. The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a lawsuit in October 2019, on behalf of thousands of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003ccite>(Wilfredo Lee/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers and therapists asked traumatized kids who they came with, while immigration lawyers tried to calm hysterical parents who had no idea where authorities had taken their children. Many kids panicked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy\">crying endlessly\u003c/a>, or went catatonic. In one case, after Border Patrol agents forcibly removed a Honduran father’s 3-year-old son from his hands, the man became so agitated he had to be moved to a Texas jail, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-family-was-separated-at-the-border-and-this-distraught-father-took-his-own-life/2018/06/08/24e40b70-6b5d-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html\">strangled himself to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU filed its class-action lawsuit on behalf of these families, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, in February of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, under growing public pressure, Trump ordered an end to family separations without revoking Zero Tolerance. Separations slowed but didn’t stop. By the time Trump left office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">well over 5,000 children\u003c/a> had been taken from their families. While many had been reunited by then, some parents had been deported, leaving their children in the United States with other family members or in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2023, the Biden administration settled the ACLU’s lawsuit by agreeing to aid in the reunification of separated families and to provide a pathway for their claims to asylum, including access to work permits, various forms of support and a three-year legal status called humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before approving the settlement, federal judge Dana Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/separation-families-border-ruling-00130938\">said\u003c/a> family separation “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of the frying pan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Gelernt said there could be as many as 1,000 children still separated from their parents or guardians. Those families have been identified using the sparse records kept by the Trump administration during Zero Tolerance, which often yield little more than a name. The government and a coalition of nonprofit advocacy organizations have not been able to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11843100]Lesly Tayes, an attorney in Guatemala, has been working to track down separated parents by combing through Guatemalan government records for information on their possible whereabouts. When she finds them, often in rural indigenous communities, she helps them travel to the Guatemalan capital to formally regain custody of their kids. But some parents Tayes worked with had never been to a city in their lives. “I had to support them with transportation or hotels,” she said. “Many of them didn’t even speak Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who want to join their children in the U.S. and seek asylum often need help removing bureaucratic obstacles first; a sibling may need a passport for the journey or a legal guardian proof of their relationship with the child from whom they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after families are together again in the United States, their struggle is hardly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, has spent the last several years conducting clinical research and consulting as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. “There was trauma everywhere,” he said. “These children were experiencing difficulties integrating into an environment that abused them,” by which he meant the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Dreby, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Albany who has studied the impact of immigration policies on families for the past two decades, said that even after separated families are reunited, parents and children can struggle to repair their relationships. In some cases, children who were separated when very young are reunited with parents they don’t remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids might be like, ‘Why did they even go? Why did they do that? It led to this mess,’” Dreby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11843880]The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement promises that, once reunified in the United States, families will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-approves-historic-settlement-in-aclus-family-separation-lawsuit\">supported\u003c/a> with mental health and other medical care, housing and legal assistance and the ability to apply for work permits. But advocates say these resources have fallen short of what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in mental health services for this population is still very scarce and very limited,” Mercado said. “There’s no continuity of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S., families face an avalanche of urgent problems. Tayes said parents and guardians often wait months to get authorization to work. “Some of them were struggling with food, housing. It wasn’t easy for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging over these families is the specter of another deportation. According to the ACLU, the 2023 court settlement should supersede any immigration-related orders from the Trump administration. But the agreement doesn’t guarantee asylum, and the application process can be difficult to navigate, even with the help of an attorney. Non-governmental organizations serving Ms L. class members say they have struggled to provide pro bono legal help, especially after family separations were no longer a front-page issue and funding sources dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of legal status can be complicated by the fact that members of separated families are often pursuing separate immigration cases. Children’s asylum claims, for example, were often filed after the initial separation, when the government designated them as “unaccompanied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [parents] lose their asylum cases,” Gelernt said, “then they’re going to be in real trouble of being removed and/or re-separated from their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Separations continue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In settling \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em>, the federal government agreed to halt further family separation at the border through 2031, though there are exceptions that have allowed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/october-2024-monthly-report-on-separated-children.pdf\">hundreds more separations\u003c/a> since the settlement went into effect. For example, parents and children crossing the border illegally are still detained separately when the adults are deemed a national security or public safety risk, a danger to their children or if they’ve been charged with a felony other than crossing the border without authorization. However, the wording of the exceptions allows for broad interpretation. “You can basically run an 18-wheeler through them,” said one immigration law expert with knowledge of family separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman protests family separations at the border as a coalition of activist groups and labor unions participate in a May Day march in Los Angeles for workers and human rights in 2021. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peña, whose organization ProBAR is a project of the American Bar Association, said cases in which border crossers are flagged for national security reasons are hard for attorneys like her to challenge because they often involve classified information. “The government can cite national security risk without revealing what information exactly is underlying that determination,” she said. “So it’s hard to determine the source of the risk and advocate for family reunification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent is flagged under one of the exceptions, they often go into federal immigration custody while their child goes to a shelter operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Many parents are later released from custody if they successfully fight their case, but because the government has become legally responsible for their children’s welfare, strict guidelines kick in for releasing them into the care of someone else — even their parents. As a result, it can take much longer to reunite a family than to separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement mandates that families who are separated be given written notice of the reason. Agencies have to facilitate communication between parents and children, and if parents are being deported, they must be given the option to be deported with or without their children. But Peña said this doesn’t always happen: “There are certain rights that the parents have under this settlement agreement that they’re not going to know about if they don’t have a lawyer who is also educated on these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt said the ACLU is relying on organizations like Peña’s to report apparent patterns in immigration enforcement. Cases of parents being flagged under the exceptions could suddenly increase, for example, creating what, in effect, becomes a new separation policy. If that happens, Gelernt said, “We’d go back to court and say, it can’t be that four out of five parents all of a sudden are abusing their children, or four out of every five parents are a public safety threat to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the Trump administration knows better than to try to renegotiate or oppose the settlement agreement or to reestablish a formal separation policy. “I’d be surprised if they do forcible separation again, given the outcry against it,” he said. “But I’ve been wrong before about where they’re willing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates say it’s too early to tell how Trump’s spiking the task force, which has been a collaboration between the departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, State, and Justice, will impact reunification efforts. The group’s main purpose in recent months has been to determine whether separated families were eligible for relief under the settlement agreement and to smooth the way for reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement remains in effect, Gelernt said, so even without a task force, the Trump administration will have to do something to meet its requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House could not immediately be reached for comment as to whether the Trump administration intends to honor the court-ordered settlement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses several federal agencies involved in immigration issues, did not respond to the same question by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NGOs working with separated families said that, so far, the government appears to be meeting its obligations under the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/family-reunification-task-force\">the task force’s website\u003c/a> was updated to reflect the new secretaries of Homeland Security and the State Department, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio, and to remove references to the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11907020]The settlement agreement stipulates that the federal website where separated families can register for relief, \u003ca href=\"http://together.gov/\">Together.gov\u003c/a>, has to stay up and that the registration process has to remain open until December 2026. Gelernt worries that potential class members may be afraid to come forward in the current enforcement climate but urges them to register: “Otherwise, they are very vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dismantling of the task force is only symbolic, Gelernt sees it as a tactic to erase Zero Tolerance from the collective consciousness. “That they immediately eliminated the task force highlights the Trump administration’s failure to admit there was such a policy, much less acknowledge the brutal abuse it inflicted on little children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even without a formal policy of family separation, sweeping changes to the bureaucracy — especially when they’re rushed — can get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña worries that, as Trump’s orders take effect, there may not be clear guidance for immigration authorities on the ground. “Law enforcement agencies could really be looking at anybody who’s not a citizen and trying to figure out, ‘Okay, are they a priority or not?’” she said. “Because of the complexity, a lot of people who should not be on this priority list are going to get caught up in it. And that’s where we’re going to see mass family separations, potentially not just at the border, but across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU believes they should be notified if class members are picked up for removal, but Gelernt acknowledges the government may hold a different view. DHS did not respond to questions about how it will handle those encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Pinheiro, executive director of Al Otro Lado, an organization that supports migrants on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the border, said her office has been fielding calls from separated families asking how the new executive orders could affect them. “Unfortunately, we can tell them what we know, which isn’t much at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreby, the sociologist, has observed that the mere threat of deportation and separation weighs heavily on immigrants, even those with legal status. “The ongoing anxiety is a really big deal,” she said, adding that cultural shifts can matter, as well as changes in policy. “When you have moments of really strong anti-immigrant rhetoric, the anxiety bubbles to the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado put it more succinctly: “As a psychologist, I am very concerned about what’s to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gelernt and other legal advocates are confident that the \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement, and their fight against Zero Tolerance during Trump’s first term, have prepared them for potential legal battles. “By the time we understood that it was systematic, it had already been happening for months and months,” Gelernt said of the original wave of family separations. “This time, I think everyone’s attuned to watching for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 8:50 p.m. This story has been updated to reflect that “Protecting The American People Against Invasion” was not Trump’s second executive order; it was signed later in the same sitting. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 5:30 p.m.: This story was updated to clarify that the Ms. L settlement agreement may not require the government to alert the ACLU when it detains a member of the settlement class. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, when families were apprehended at the border, federal agents began sending children and their parents or guardians to separate holding facilities. A 14-year-old boy and his older sister, who had raised him, crossed the border into Texas, where they surrendered to the Border Patrol. “On the third day, they took me out of my cage and said I would be separated from my sister, but they didn’t tell me where I was going,” the boy later \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-cages-inhumane-treatment-border\">told a visitor from Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>. “I don’t understand why they separated us. They didn’t give me a chance to say goodbye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after Zero Tolerance was formally implemented, the Trump administration began touting a dip in illegal border crossings but did not mention it was a small dip, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/article/2018/jul/19/did-zero-tolerance-policy-reduce-illegal-immigrati/\">typical for that time of year\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, border-area prosecutors complained that their dockets were overwhelmed by all the misdemeanor immigration cases and that people accused of serious crimes were \u003ca href=\"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-028_0.pdf\">slipping through the cracks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was an even more problematic consequence of Zero Tolerance: the massive number of children who were suddenly in the care of the federal government. Children went to holding pens — many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border\">tents\u003c/a> erected for the purpose — while they waited to be placed in shelters or foster homes. Over 40% of those detention centers were located in California, Arizona and Texas. Humanitarian workers reported that federal authorities were not prepared to care for them, so older children took care of younger ones and illnesses went untreated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the government lost track of which children belonged to which parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ap_19276669107972-4157dfa405bb5b5b5ae1512bc469aa8dc930c533-e1639768153780.jpg\" alt=\"Children walk in a line past barricades toward a large white tent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrant youth line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida., in Feb. 2019. The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a lawsuit in October 2019, on behalf of thousands of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. \u003ccite>(Wilfredo Lee/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworkers and therapists asked traumatized kids who they came with, while immigration lawyers tried to calm hysterical parents who had no idea where authorities had taken their children. Many kids panicked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy\">crying endlessly\u003c/a>, or went catatonic. In one case, after Border Patrol agents forcibly removed a Honduran father’s 3-year-old son from his hands, the man became so agitated he had to be moved to a Texas jail, where he \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-family-was-separated-at-the-border-and-this-distraught-father-took-his-own-life/2018/06/08/24e40b70-6b5d-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html\">strangled himself to death\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU filed its class-action lawsuit on behalf of these families, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice\">Ms. L v. ICE\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, in February of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of that year, under growing public pressure, Trump ordered an end to family separations without revoking Zero Tolerance. Separations slowed but didn’t stop. By the time Trump left office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782685/new-tally-totals-over-5500-kids-taken-from-parents-at-the-border\">well over 5,000 children\u003c/a> had been taken from their families. While many had been reunited by then, some parents had been deported, leaving their children in the United States with other family members or in foster care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2023, the Biden administration settled the ACLU’s lawsuit by agreeing to aid in the reunification of separated families and to provide a pathway for their claims to asylum, including access to work permits, various forms of support and a three-year legal status called humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before approving the settlement, federal judge Dana Sabraw, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/separation-families-border-ruling-00130938\">said\u003c/a> family separation “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Out of the frying pan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Gelernt said there could be as many as 1,000 children still separated from their parents or guardians. Those families have been identified using the sparse records kept by the Trump administration during Zero Tolerance, which often yield little more than a name. The government and a coalition of nonprofit advocacy organizations have not been able to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lesly Tayes, an attorney in Guatemala, has been working to track down separated parents by combing through Guatemalan government records for information on their possible whereabouts. When she finds them, often in rural indigenous communities, she helps them travel to the Guatemalan capital to formally regain custody of their kids. But some parents Tayes worked with had never been to a city in their lives. “I had to support them with transportation or hotels,” she said. “Many of them didn’t even speak Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who want to join their children in the U.S. and seek asylum often need help removing bureaucratic obstacles first; a sibling may need a passport for the journey or a legal guardian proof of their relationship with the child from whom they were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after families are together again in the United States, their struggle is hardly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Mercado, a psychologist in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, has spent the last several years conducting clinical research and consulting as an expert witness in family separation cases at the border. “There was trauma everywhere,” he said. “These children were experiencing difficulties integrating into an environment that abused them,” by which he meant the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Dreby, a sociologist at the State University of New York at Albany who has studied the impact of immigration policies on families for the past two decades, said that even after separated families are reunited, parents and children can struggle to repair their relationships. In some cases, children who were separated when very young are reunited with parents they don’t remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids might be like, ‘Why did they even go? Why did they do that? It led to this mess,’” Dreby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement promises that, once reunified in the United States, families will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-approves-historic-settlement-in-aclus-family-separation-lawsuit\">supported\u003c/a> with mental health and other medical care, housing and legal assistance and the ability to apply for work permits. But advocates say these resources have fallen short of what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in mental health services for this population is still very scarce and very limited,” Mercado said. “There’s no continuity of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S., families face an avalanche of urgent problems. Tayes said parents and guardians often wait months to get authorization to work. “Some of them were struggling with food, housing. It wasn’t easy for them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging over these families is the specter of another deportation. According to the ACLU, the 2023 court settlement should supersede any immigration-related orders from the Trump administration. But the agreement doesn’t guarantee asylum, and the application process can be difficult to navigate, even with the help of an attorney. Non-governmental organizations serving Ms L. class members say they have struggled to provide pro bono legal help, especially after family separations were no longer a front-page issue and funding sources dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of legal status can be complicated by the fact that members of separated families are often pursuing separate immigration cases. Children’s asylum claims, for example, were often filed after the initial separation, when the government designated them as “unaccompanied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [parents] lose their asylum cases,” Gelernt said, “then they’re going to be in real trouble of being removed and/or re-separated from their children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Separations continue\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In settling \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em>, the federal government agreed to halt further family separation at the border through 2031, though there are exceptions that have allowed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/october-2024-monthly-report-on-separated-children.pdf\">hundreds more separations\u003c/a> since the settlement went into effect. For example, parents and children crossing the border illegally are still detained separately when the adults are deemed a national security or public safety risk, a danger to their children or if they’ve been charged with a felony other than crossing the border without authorization. However, the wording of the exceptions allows for broad interpretation. “You can basically run an 18-wheeler through them,” said one immigration law expert with knowledge of family separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11877202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11877202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman protests family separations at the border as a coalition of activist groups and labor unions participate in a May Day march in Los Angeles for workers and human rights in 2021. \u003ccite>(David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peña, whose organization ProBAR is a project of the American Bar Association, said cases in which border crossers are flagged for national security reasons are hard for attorneys like her to challenge because they often involve classified information. “The government can cite national security risk without revealing what information exactly is underlying that determination,” she said. “So it’s hard to determine the source of the risk and advocate for family reunification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a parent is flagged under one of the exceptions, they often go into federal immigration custody while their child goes to a shelter operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Many parents are later released from custody if they successfully fight their case, but because the government has become legally responsible for their children’s welfare, strict guidelines kick in for releasing them into the care of someone else — even their parents. As a result, it can take much longer to reunite a family than to separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement agreement mandates that families who are separated be given written notice of the reason. Agencies have to facilitate communication between parents and children, and if parents are being deported, they must be given the option to be deported with or without their children. But Peña said this doesn’t always happen: “There are certain rights that the parents have under this settlement agreement that they’re not going to know about if they don’t have a lawyer who is also educated on these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt said the ACLU is relying on organizations like Peña’s to report apparent patterns in immigration enforcement. Cases of parents being flagged under the exceptions could suddenly increase, for example, creating what, in effect, becomes a new separation policy. If that happens, Gelernt said, “We’d go back to court and say, it can’t be that four out of five parents all of a sudden are abusing their children, or four out of every five parents are a public safety threat to the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thinks the Trump administration knows better than to try to renegotiate or oppose the settlement agreement or to reestablish a formal separation policy. “I’d be surprised if they do forcible separation again, given the outcry against it,” he said. “But I’ve been wrong before about where they’re willing to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The next chapter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorneys and immigrants’ rights advocates say it’s too early to tell how Trump’s spiking the task force, which has been a collaboration between the departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, State, and Justice, will impact reunification efforts. The group’s main purpose in recent months has been to determine whether separated families were eligible for relief under the settlement agreement and to smooth the way for reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement remains in effect, Gelernt said, so even without a task force, the Trump administration will have to do something to meet its requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House could not immediately be reached for comment as to whether the Trump administration intends to honor the court-ordered settlement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses several federal agencies involved in immigration issues, did not respond to the same question by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NGOs working with separated families said that, so far, the government appears to be meeting its obligations under the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/family-reunification-task-force\">the task force’s website\u003c/a> was updated to reflect the new secretaries of Homeland Security and the State Department, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio, and to remove references to the Biden-Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The settlement agreement stipulates that the federal website where separated families can register for relief, \u003ca href=\"http://together.gov/\">Together.gov\u003c/a>, has to stay up and that the registration process has to remain open until December 2026. Gelernt worries that potential class members may be afraid to come forward in the current enforcement climate but urges them to register: “Otherwise, they are very vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if the dismantling of the task force is only symbolic, Gelernt sees it as a tactic to erase Zero Tolerance from the collective consciousness. “That they immediately eliminated the task force highlights the Trump administration’s failure to admit there was such a policy, much less acknowledge the brutal abuse it inflicted on little children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even without a formal policy of family separation, sweeping changes to the bureaucracy — especially when they’re rushed — can get messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña worries that, as Trump’s orders take effect, there may not be clear guidance for immigration authorities on the ground. “Law enforcement agencies could really be looking at anybody who’s not a citizen and trying to figure out, ‘Okay, are they a priority or not?’” she said. “Because of the complexity, a lot of people who should not be on this priority list are going to get caught up in it. And that’s where we’re going to see mass family separations, potentially not just at the border, but across the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU believes they should be notified if class members are picked up for removal, but Gelernt acknowledges the government may hold a different view. DHS did not respond to questions about how it will handle those encounters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Pinheiro, executive director of Al Otro Lado, an organization that supports migrants on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the border, said her office has been fielding calls from separated families asking how the new executive orders could affect them. “Unfortunately, we can tell them what we know, which isn’t much at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dreby, the sociologist, has observed that the mere threat of deportation and separation weighs heavily on immigrants, even those with legal status. “The ongoing anxiety is a really big deal,” she said, adding that cultural shifts can matter, as well as changes in policy. “When you have moments of really strong anti-immigrant rhetoric, the anxiety bubbles to the surface.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercado put it more succinctly: “As a psychologist, I am very concerned about what’s to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gelernt and other legal advocates are confident that the \u003cem>Ms. L\u003c/em> settlement agreement, and their fight against Zero Tolerance during Trump’s first term, have prepared them for potential legal battles. “By the time we understood that it was systematic, it had already been happening for months and months,” Gelernt said of the original wave of family separations. “This time, I think everyone’s attuned to watching for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>February 13, 8:50 p.m. This story has been updated to reflect that “Protecting The American People Against Invasion” was not Trump’s second executive order; it was signed later in the same sitting. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Its next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy announced by the National Institutes of Health would set a 15% cap on overhead reimbursements going to research institutions. The money, also referred to as indirect cost reimbursements, is used by grantees to cover non-research-related costs such as waste management and electricity. Previously, reimbursement rates were determined through negotiations between the NIH and individual research institutions, and it is still unclear whether the agency has the legal authority to do away with those regulatory procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research institutions in California rely on federal funding to offset operating costs, and the NIH provides a significant portion of those federal grants, according to a press release issued by Bonta’s office. The University of California, for example, received over $2 billion in contract and grant funding in the last academic year. 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