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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#locations\">How to help, and how to find help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Over four months since the fall of Kabul, some Afghan evacuees are still working to find a sense of stability here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some families, it’s an ongoing search for an affordable home and a job. For others, like Sadaat, it’s fighting with bureaucracy to obtain the necessary paperwork for their loved ones in Afghanistan to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadaat arrived in the Bay Area on Oct. 21 — flying from Abu Dhabi with her three children, ages 8, 10 and 12. She preferred to use a pseudonym for fear of Taliban retaliation against her husband and other family members who are still in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sadaat, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘It’s not easy to survive in this country. We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.’[/pullquote]Before leaving her country, Sadaat worked for a U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, project on agricultural development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received her visa in August before Kabul fell to the Taliban, but her husband was still waiting for his paperwork. She waited another two months, leaving the country with her children. Now she’s in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here with my three children, I’m just struggling with that — finding resources and finding different sources to help me out. How can I get him out of there?” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her husband had previously worked with the U.S. government, and now he has to live in hiding from the Taliban regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not living a normal life,” Sadaat said. But she acknowledges that caring for three kids by herself in the U.S. is also far from normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she has to take her kids to school and pick them up, Sadaat hasn’t been able to find a job. Her brother lives in Fremont and has been helping her move around the city until she can get her own license and car to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy to survive in this country,” she said. “We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pending situation is very frustrating for me,” Sadaat said. Her kids are having trouble focusing as well, living in a new country without their father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890467\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg\"]Aminah Abdullah, who is the charity coordinator at the Pleasanton \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Community Center in the East Bay\u003c/a> (MCC), says that for many recently arrived evacuees, the biggest challenge is housing, and once housing is secured, everything else becomes easier. To help bridge the gap and provide food, MCC has been \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/event/afghan-refugee-food-drive/2021-11-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coordinating food drop-offs\u003c/a> for families who are in need of support, many of whom are waiting for state benefits to kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdullah said they’re also asking for used cars so they can fix them up for families. “A lot of people are working from home now. They might have an extra vehicle they no longer need. They could donate it to MCC and we would fix it up if needed and pass it along to a refugee family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MCC works with refugee resettlement organizations like the International Rescue Committee and Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay who assist with housing and support in the first few months of arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Searching for stability\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For M. Shakir, who left Kabul with her husband and 4-year-old son, the journey since mid-August has been long and slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping on the floor overnight at the airport in Kabul, they left Afghanistan Aug. 17, landed in Qatar and were then moved to Germany. After five days, Shakir said, they arrived in Washington, D.C., and from there were moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2021-09-23/fort-bliss-builds-village-for-afghan-evacuees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Bliss in Texas\u003c/a>, where about 10,000 evacuees were placed, with 100 people to a tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really hard … I must say terrible,” she said. At Fort Bliss they lived in a tent with several families, but she said that hygiene was very poor. After staying there for two and a half months, they left to move in with relatives in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887630\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\"]But within the first week of their arrival, they were told by a manager of the building complex that there was an occupancy limit and they would need to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they have to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the financial support they receive from the government is not enough to provide a security deposit, and some places ask for a credit history, something they also don’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are totally lost in this situation,” she said and added that some landlords were asking for a five-month deposit on a one-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Afghanistan, Shakir said, her husband was a contract worker for U.S.-based companies and they were in the process of applying for a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> (SIV) when they left, but she said they applied for humanitarian parole and have received approval to stay for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/explainer-humanitarian-parole-and-the-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> was seen as a temporary workaround that would allow individuals to enter and stay in the U.S. without a visa for “urgent humanitarian reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and community groups say they expect to file at least 30,000 humanitarian parole applications, but nationwide only about 100 applications have been approved since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Shakir, who received temporary status under humanitarian parole, it hasn’t solved all of the challenges. Her CalFresh card stopped working, so the family needs help with food in addition to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We waited for four weeks and it didn’t arrive at our mail address. Then they said, ‘Wait, one week more.’ We waited one week more. Still, it didn’t arrive,” she explained. “Then they said, ‘OK, you apply for replacement.’ We applied for a replacement again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shakir, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘We don’t want to be a load on the government. We have experience. We can work, you know?’[/pullquote]For now, this has meant they are forgoing meals so their son has enough to eat and they rely on family members for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are affected and sometimes we feel very heavy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a good life there back in Kabul, in Afghanistan … life before was quite amazing. Like my husband was a civil engineer. And also he had his own business,” she said. Shakir was a professor at a university, teaching management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to be a load on the government. We have experience. We can work, you know?” she said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ongoing humanitarian parole backlog\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasirilaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spojmie Nasiri\u003c/a>, an immigration attorney in the Bay Area, said she began frantically filing humanitarian parole petitions for people seeking to evacuate Afghanistan soon after the Taliban takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those in Afghanistan, “humanitarian parole is the last resort,” she said. “The unicorn of seeking relief into the U.S. The criteria has always been very stringent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the U.S. embassy in Kabul is closed down, Afghans need to travel to another country with an operating American embassy or consulate to be approved for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885170\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]“And we all know that with the dire situation in Afghanistan, particular minority groups, women judges, lawyers, other groups that are targeted by the Taliban are in dire danger right now and are living in Afghanistan either in safe houses or in hiding,” Nasiri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And how are they going to possibly go to a third country that is not issuing visas?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration attorneys working with clients in Afghanistan are calling for the U.S. government to lower the requirements for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paris Etemadi Scott, the legal director of the Pars Equality Center in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>, said one of her clients in Afghanistan has been moving constantly to stay safe because his experience as a contractor for the American government and education in the U.S. puts him at imminent risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott explains that even this client is likely to have his application for humanitarian parole denied because it would be so difficult to get a third party to corroborate that he is at risk of imminent harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very high evidentiary standard, basically asking Afghans who are in hiding, who don’t have enough to eat, to try to find a person to write a statement specifically naming them and the risk of harm they’re suffering,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Potentially going to Taliban and asking them to notarize the statement. And that’s just, that’s basically tantamount to abandoning our Afghan allies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/project_anar/status/1470834153146904579\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other advocates are calling for an Afghan parole program with a criteria based on general risk rather than showing evidence for individual harm. “At this stage, it just seems like the U.S. is washing its hands of Afghanistan and just moving on,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyra Lilien, director of the immigration legal services program at Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay, said while the organization has resettled 300 people in the Bay Area over the last four months, none of her clients has been approved for humanitarian parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jane Pak, co-executive director, Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\"]‘What’s been beautiful is how the communities have been coming together in solidarity … doing everything they can to volunteer, to raise resources, to welcome people.’[/pullquote]“The question of the hour is, what other option is there? And really, there is none,” Lilien said. “There’s sort of the false option that the U.S government is advancing, which is that Afghans should find their own way out of Afghanistan somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 13, over 200 organizations sent \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TchmLvdvWUwQlUsblvNd_65TahuAkTSKlKcpKCfOBSI/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a> to the Biden administration regarding humanitarian parole denials for Afghans. The letter, spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/225-organizations-slam-uscis-policy-on-afghans-seeking-humanitarian-protections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project ANAR\u003c/a> (Afghan Network for Advocacy and Resources), marks the second appeal by the group to the White House and members of Congress. According to The Wall Street Journal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-than-60-000-interpreters-visa-applicants-remain-in-afghanistan-11639689706?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">60,000 visa applicants remain in Afghanistan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jane Pak, co-executive director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a> in Oakland, it’s been hard to see the different parts of the system that don’t connect — from people in Afghanistan being told to apply for humanitarian parole without the structure in place to do so — to what appears to be blanket rejections of applicants already in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']“All these efforts to do the right thing are met by systemic flaws that are damaging and hurtful,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although dealing with all the immigration hurdles has been very difficult, Pak said, the support from the already settled Bay Area Afghan community has been a source of joy and warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s been beautiful is how the communities have been coming together in solidarity,” she said, “doing everything they can to volunteer, to raise resources, to welcome people who are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said, at the root of it, “there’s a lot that’s not working within the system … and I just want to call attention to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"locations\">\u003c/a>Resources\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legal assistance \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PARS Equality Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sf-cairs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Coalition of Asylee, Immigrant, and Refugee Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EastBayRefugeeandImmigrantForum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Refugee and Immigrant Forum\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immigrant Legal Services \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/48721/637118335366670000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">referral list\u003c/a> from the City of San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food assistance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaTTNOrXKdD98sdbtsowmPJGT2G461-rQIo2OfUyJu3y9Kag/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Request food assistance (from MCC East Bay).\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Volunteer with the Muslim Community Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sign up to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7r0ER-PDEeHRYlt9fSRqOF3kdfmVmc4cgAYtQ4KeyVgYfYw/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">volunteer\u003c/a> with the food pantry.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/donate-furniture/\">Donate furniture\u003c/a> in like-new condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Learn more about \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/vehicle-donation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donating used cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/vehicle-donation/\">Share housing or employment referrals\u003c/a> and/or to indicate willingness to co-sign a lease.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Resources in all Bay Area counties\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDial 211 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.211bayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Way’s resource line\u003c/a> (150 languages).\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Welcome to America!” That’s how Mohammad, a special immigrant visa (SIV) holder, remembers being greeted upon his arrival in the Bay Area from Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fondly recalls the volunteers and others from \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a> who first greeted him when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will always remember that,” he says. “My kids remember and ask, ‘Where is that lady?’ ” It was one of the volunteers from JFCS who first welcomed him and his family to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Taliban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028117811/taliban-takeover-kabul-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">takeover of Kabul in mid-August\u003c/a>, JFCS has resettled 77 Afghans in the East Bay – about as many people as it typically resettles in six months. JFCS said in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">update\u003c/a> that it expects September to be about the same. The organization has received an outpouring of community support for Afghan refugees in the form of volunteers, with 2,800 people in the Bay Area signing up to support resettlement efforts, from greeting families at the airport to connecting families to needed services – everything that goes into creating a new life in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mohammad, SIV holder now living in Concord\"]‘We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights.’[/pullquote]Mohammad, whose name KQED has changed due to fears of violence against his family still in Afghanistan, is now based in Concord with his wife, a former teacher, and their three kids. Prior to coming to the U.S., he worked as a technical advisor for an international organization doing development work in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked a lot to build our country,” he told KQED. “We struggled to develop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last year, Mohammad said the security situation was very bad. His organization was attacked and he was stopped several times and asked who he worked for. While he says he might have been able to continue working, Mohammad wanted to provide a better life for his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to immigrate here. We are now happy that at least my kids will have a bright future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885170 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885908 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Demonstrators-Marching-East-on-Thorton-Ave-copy-1020x574.jpg']Christopher Cambises, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/racial-equity/immigrant-affairs/afghanistan-refugee-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immigrant affairs manager at the Office of Racial Equity\u003c/a> for the city of San Jose, helps ensure refugees and immigrants are welcomed and able to connect to services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now a major need is housing, and everyone recognizes that housing is a challenge in Silicon Valley, in California as a whole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond housing, there’s a need for everything else that comes with starting a new life in a new country — getting kids into schools, getting connected to mental health resources, and basic furniture and household goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambises, himself an immigrant from the United Kingdom, said there’s a shared sense of belonging amid displacement. “This is a city that has an extremely long history of welcoming refugees from around the world and fostering that sense of community belonging for new arrivals,” he said. “We’re tied together by a shared sense of displacement, relocation and resettlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From California to Afghanistan, and back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“When I think about refugee resettlement, I think about housing,” said Shawn VanDiver, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanproject.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman National Security Project\u003c/a> San Diego chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a major housing crisis here,” VanDiver said. “But also California is a welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver, a 12-year Navy veteran, said he wants to make sure Afghans, specifically those who served the U.S., are welcomed. One of the people he worked with on civic engagement projects is a former Afghan interpreter named Lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky, a nickname given to him because he survived two improvised explosive device blasts (he prefers this name, for fear of what the Taliban might do to his family still in Afghanistan), received his SIV in 2016 after working as an interpreter for the U.S. for nearly 10 years. He now has a green card. Lucky had been living in San Diego for the past several years, but went back to Afghanistan in May to see his aging mother and to help her with care. While visiting his mother in the hospital, his brother told him the Taliban were attempting to take their village. Around Aug. 13, he went to help. Without enough people or ammunition to support the village, he said they had to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stuck there,” Lucky said. He ended up pretending to be a truck driver to make his way back to Kabul, and then spent 12 hours at the airport, waiting for a flight with his wife and their 4-year-old and 7-month-old children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, with the assistance of \u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Evac\u003c/a>, a San Diego-based initiative started by veterans, Lucky arrived back in the U.S. at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids, they just can’t sleep,” he said. “They have nightmares. … My daughter, she’s not letting me go. She’s still scared, she thinks she’s still in Afghanistan, and there’s going to be bombing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky told KQED he was planning to move to Texas to be closer to family and because the cost of living is high in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bay Area organizations assisting with refugee services\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a week after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, Afghan Americans in the Bay Area are feeling the toll. Many are asking elected officials and residents to support those seeking refuge in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have people contacting me just because I’m a lawyer,” Roya Massoumi said. She is an attorney and an Afghan American working on employment discrimination issues. For the past week, she’s barely slept and her phone has been inundated with messages from people attempting to leave Afghanistan. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Muzhdah Aziz, Fremont resident with relatives in Afghanistan\"]‘We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless … They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of sitting at home, she decided to organize a protest in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of Afghan Americans and their allies showed up in Fremont on Saturday, demanding that local representatives pressure President Biden to ensure military-led evacuations from the Kabul airport continue beyond the expected Aug. 31 withdrawal date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high: People have told Massoumi, “‘I’m lesbian, I’m gay, I’m a musician, I’ve gotten death threats from the Taliban.’” Some are U.S. citizens, have green cards or qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/siv-iraqi-afghan-translators-interpreters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Immigrant Visa\u003c/a>, while others don’t qualify under the current visa system, yet fear for their lives. Massoumi would like to see a new visa category allowing more people to qualify for a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/5xLsX1IvEwPB9dUw3AuuTa\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Mayor Pro Tempore Aisha Wahab, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pri.org/file/2021-08-19/first-afghan-american-woman-elected-public-office-us-speaks-afghan-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first Afghan American woman elected to public office in the U.S.\u003c/a>, said people can support by uplifting Afghan voices. “Repost what we’re sharing. Make sure our voice does not die,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also noted that it’s important to support people in the long term. “How are we going to make sure that the Afghans that do come here are still supported, not just dropped off here,” she said. [aside postID=news_11885170]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab believes everyone has a role to play. “It’s literally just being kind, compassionate and asking how you can help,” she said. “Sharing and understanding our pain and making sure that this conversation doesn’t die when the media stops paying attention to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Hayward has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/residents/equity-inclusion/afghan-relief-and-assistance-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage with information\u003c/a> on Afghan relief efforts, and residents of Fremont can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fremont.gov/ARHelp\">donate to a relief fund\u003c/a> to support new arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muzhdah Aziz, who lives and works in Fremont, also attended the march and rally to show support for her brother-in-law, who is currently stuck in Afghanistan. Her sister, who is four months pregnant, returned to the Bay Area from Afghanistan a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Fremont-Family-Resting-in-the-Shade-After-the-March-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a long afternoon of marching in the sun, Layla, Ali, Aziza, Lina and Roshan (who did not give their last name) rest together in the shade at Thornton Jr. High in Fremont on Aug. 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has a baby on the way and he’s fighting every day, standing at the airport, getting beaten by the Taliban, just to come here to be with my sister,” she said. “We’re just trying to show our support.” Her parents left Afghanistan 20 years ago. But the stress of watching from afar has taken a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all devastated and exhausted mentally because we feel so helpless,” Aziz said. “They have their visas in hand. They have their paperwork but they can’t go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Pak, who works for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee and Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a> in Oakland, also attended the march and said it’s important to support community members with loved ones in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to support our Afghan community,” Pak said. 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Bay Area mosques report fundraising has hit an all-time low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junaid Shaikh is a board member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mcabayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Community Association\u003c/a>, a “mega-mosque” in Santa Clara with more than 2,000 worshippers. “It’s a month of fasting, but it’s also a month of giving,” Shaikh said. “It’s like about eight to 10 times more than regular months. That’s how much Muslims give.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the pandemic, mosques are holding online services, and they’re fundraising digitally, too. However, results have been disappointing for many mosques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, MCA runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.granadaschool.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Granada Islamic School\u003c/a>, a private Islamic schools for grades K-12. On May 15, the school held a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/128289646540/videos/237500914016848/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Live fundraiser\u003c/a> with special guest speakers urging people to donate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school hoped to raise $100,000 by the end of Ramadan, but they’ve only raised half that, and the community association wanted to raise $1.5 million by the end of this week, but they’re \u003ca href=\"http://live.mcabayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">far behind\u003c/a> the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaikh believes online fundraising simply isn’t as effective as traditional, in-person methods. “People can tune out anytime, versus in a physical space [like a mosque], the doors are closed,” he joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11819853\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11819853\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/1920-1920x1245.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the largest mosques in the Bay Area, the Muslim Community Association says that without people coming into the mosque to donate money, fundraising is significantly lower than usual. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Smaller the Mosque, the Harder the Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hatem Bazian, chair of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.norcalcouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Northern California Islamic Council (NCIC)\u003c/a>, works with mosques across the Bay Area. Smaller mosques, he said, employ “one to two employees at most, and it’s part-time employment at best.” [aside tag=\"religion\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bazian added that smaller mosques don’t have the digital resources bigger mosques do. “What we need is to figure out how to make sure that the larger mosques support the smaller mosques and begin to plan for long-term strategy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCIC is helping smaller mosques fundraise, but Bazian is unsure how much longer they can survive under shelter-in-place restrictions. For now, houses of worship won’t be allowed to open until the third phase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814720/beginning-of-california-reopening-businesses-is-weeks-away-says-newsom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outlined by Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.icfbayarea.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Islamic Center of Fremont\u003c/a> is a mid-size mosque that has been around for 20 years. They too have struggled to switch to virtual services since Alameda County’s shelter-in-place restrictions were enacted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people from different backgrounds, like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan,” said Salim Mastan, an ICF volunteer. Mastan said they serve a variety of people with mixed incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICF is doing the best they can to fundraise, but again, it’s hard to reach people online. ICF usually holds an Eid celebration at Fremont’s popular Lake Elizabeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, they likely won’t be able to have their Eid prayers at the lake. “That would [have] a very huge financial impact, not getting the funds that would be collected on Eid,” Mastan said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A week after welcoming thousands of workers back to its electric car plant in Fremont in defiance of Alameda County health orders, Tesla is officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tesla-tells-employees-that-Fremont-factory-got-15276512.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">resuming full production\u003c/a> at the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Alameda County joined other jurisdictions in the region Monday in taking the next step toward reopening businesses on a broader scale. With the number of new coronavirus cases and COVID-19 deaths leveling off, the county \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/577747/press%20release%202020.05.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">will allow\u003c/a> curbside retail along with manufacturing and warehouse firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the battle between the company and the county is not over, with \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887676/Tesla-v-Alameda-County.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Tesla lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the health officials’ authority to shut down the plant during the coronavirus pandemic still pending in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics of Tesla CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his false and inflammatory statements about shelter-at-home orders, threats to move the company, personal insults to health officials and open contempt for directives intended to protect company workers remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Reich, UC Berkeley professor of public policy and former US secretary of labor\"]‘Who is calling the shots here? Public health authorities … who are there to protect people, or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/12/elon-musk-tesla-reopening-lockdown-timeline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has publicly questioned\u003c/a> the seriousness of the coronavirus threat ever since pandemic began. When six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley imposed the nation’s first shelter-at-home orders in mid-March, Musk told Tesla employees he intended to continue working. The Fremont plant shut down a week late and only after a public dispute involving the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s displeasure with the COVID-19 measures spilled out in a Tesla earnings call on April 29, when he noted that the Fremont factory’s continued closure posed a “serious risk” to the company’s financial performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to describe the health orders, which had just been extended, as “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people’s freedom in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t finished. In answer to another question, he repeated his baseless claim that people were subject to arrest if they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is fascist,” he said. “This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give the people back their goddamn freedom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the week before last. In the midst of discussions between Alameda County and Tesla plant officials that appeared \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon-musk-tesla-california.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">headed toward an agreement\u003c/a> to open the Fremont facility on May 18, Musk began agitating for an immediate restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla filed suit, arguing that county health orders were in conflict with state directives that allowed some manufacturing to resume. Musk also took a swipe at Alameda County’s interim health officer, Dr. Erica Pan — calling her “ignorant and unelected”— and warned that he was ready to move his company out of California altogether. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came last week’s reopening — signaled first by the appearance of thousands of employee cars at the plant, then by Musk’s tweet that the plant was resuming production and that he was willing to be arrested, and finally by Alameda County’s repeated conciliatory statements that it was working things out with plant managers and that the company had a satisfactory plan to go ahead with a ramp up from “basic minimum operations” in preparation for a restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday whether Tesla had been given preferential treatment when it suffered no legal consequences for disobeying the health orders, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/17/sotu-newsom-tesla-treatment.cnn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">what he called\u003c/a> “the spirit of cooperation” shown by the county and company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s remarks were in line with sentiments expressed last week by Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a group representing hundreds of businesses and public agencies in the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the world’s most iconic automobile manufacturer here in the Bay Area, which we’d like to keep,” Wunderman said in an interview. “It’s not just an auto manufacturer. They’re making the kind of vehicles that are the future of the world. They’re contributing something very special.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the council was “very satisfied” with Tesla getting back to work, though “under no circumstances are we suggesting any business owner violate any regs or anything like that. We didn’t in this case, and we wouldn’t in any other case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what he would make of the situation if he were a bookseller or florist or other small business owner required to remain closed while Musk and Tesla defied the Alameda County orders, Wunderman said the automaker’s situation is unique. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, in the real world, as a bookseller or a florist — and we love our booksellers and we revere our florists — they don’t have the leverage Tesla had with 10,000 employees and the kind of financial value and impact that a plant like (Fremont) has,” Wunderman said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11817565,news_11801138,news_11788180\" label=\"Elon Musk and Tesla\"]Wunderman said the Bay Area counties had been “heroes — they save maybe hundreds or thousands of lives” by imposing shelter-at-home orders when they did. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not kid around about that — they did a great job,” he said. “But now they have to do the great job of getting folks back to work.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, says the way Tesla went about its reopening sets a terrible precedent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It puts every business owner in an awkward and difficult position, because if you have enough wealth and power, you have political clout and you can defy orders and you can get what you want,” Reich said. “But most people who are in business can’t do that and should not do that. They understand that they have to obey the law, that they have certain social responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said Musk failed in those responsibilities by reopening the plant before health authorities had signed off on the company’s safety measures. He was especially critical of Musk for putting employees who have exhausted their paid time off in the position of having to report to work amid the pandemic or not get paid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the worst and most inhumane choice you can impose,” Reich said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said he believes Tesla and Musk should face some state sanction for defying the county health orders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is calling the shots here?” he asked. “Public health authorities and authorities who are there to protect people or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said last week that Musk’s behavior followed a familiar arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley leaders unfortunately have a reputation for disregard for laws and regulations, and they tend to wear it as a badge of honor,” Skeet said. “It’s not necessarily productive, and it’s certainly not considerate of the rest of the community and the broader society they’re operating in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said there were other aspects of Musk’s confrontation with county authorities that “were not a good look.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another overlay that’s really unfortunate is a highly qualified female authority being challenged by a male tech CEO in a community, Silicon Valley, that already has not a great reputation for gender relationships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said she believes that companies’ behavior will have lasting effects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to have long memories on how leaders have responded in this moment,” she said. “And leaders who have put the health and well-being of their workers and customers front and center are going to bounce back more quickly, I think, than those that haven’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>These days, thoughts of the silent screen era in the San Francisco Bay Area typically call up footage of Market Street shot by the Miles Brothers just days before the 1906 earthquake laid the city to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was a choice location for movie shoots at the turn of the 20th century, but fog and chill led at least one filmmaker from parts East to settle a wee bit farther south, in Niles, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this because José Muñoz, who grew up in Fremont, asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> to look into the history for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been fascinated by movies, always watched movies,” Muñoz said, and his parents told him something he’s wondered about for years: Movies were once made in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to reach out to you guys to get more insight on the matter, to see if we could say that Fremont was the first Hollywood,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, before Niles became a Fremont neighborhood, it used to be its own town, with sunny, warm weather more akin to that in Southern California — and easy access by train to San Francisco and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That all had tremendous appeal for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., run in part by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Broncho Billy” Anderson\u003c/a> (born Maxwell Henry Aronson), the first Western movie star cowboy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anderson had been traveling around the United States for three years, looking for the perfect weather and filming location for the Westerns that he was making,” explained David Kiehn, historian for the \u003ca href=\"http://nilesfilmmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum\u003c/a>, one of the most delightful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778612/12-off-beat-museums-in-the-bay-area-to-visit-this-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offbeat museums\u003c/a> you can visit in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson settled on Niles in 1912, and over the next four years Essanay made more than 350 films there. “It was the most successful silent film company in the Bay Area,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fast and Furious\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Film companies of the time churned out movies at the rate of several a week. They tended to be thin on plot and big on action; chase scenes and slapstick comedy. The companies hired a lot of actors from the world of vaudeville theater, actors with the physical stamina and comedic chops for this kind of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broncho Billy spotted a rising talent at a rival film company in Hollywood: a young English comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789153 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Back in the 1910s, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. was a big deal in Niles, California, as well as West Coast filmmaking. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back in the 1910s, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. was a big deal in Niles, California, as well as West Coast filmmaking. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chaplin had been working at the Keystone Film Co. for $150 a week, and his contract was almost up. And Broncho Billy’s righthand man, Jess Robbins, signed him at Essanay for $1,250 a week — and a $10,000 signing bonus,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an expensive bet that paid off for Essanay. Chaplin didn’t particularly like Niles, which was, after all, a bit of a backwater compared to Los Angeles, but he made five films in Niles that cemented his standing as a movie star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those was “The Tramp.” You can still visit the places where scenes were shot. For instance, consider the final, iconic scene of this movie, when our brokenhearted tramp waddles away from the camera in Niles Canyon. The area still looks a lot like it did back then, with big trees waving over a winding country road, albeit paved now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essanay allowed Chaplin to transition from being an ensemble performer, with a popular bit in someone else’s film, to a filmmaker himself, exercising creative control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Niles is pivotal,” said film history expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisonarchives.com/aboutmarc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Wanamaker\u003c/a>. Chaplin, he said, fought for and achieved great autonomy with Essanay. “He could do whatever he wanted. This was the beginning of Chaplin as we know him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin itched to return to Hollywood, though, which by then was well on its way to becoming the center of the moviemaking universe. There, Chaplin made a few more movies for the company before striking out on his own as a producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Niles studio kept on keeping on, until talkies became popular in the 1920s, and the film studio’s proximity to train tracks became an insurmountable problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Temple to Silent Film\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to today, and the studio’s theater has become home to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, itself home to an impressive and ever-growing archive of silent movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789166 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut.jpg\" alt=\"David Kiehn demonstrates the working projectors in the back of the theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California. "This is the original booth from 1913, tin lined, as you can see." Why? "Because of the nitrate fire hazard. You needed some kind of protection on the wood so that if a fire did start, it wouldn't burn the whole place down."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Kiehn demonstrates the working projectors in the back of the theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California. “This is the original booth from 1913, tin-lined, as you can see.” Why? “Because of the nitrate fire hazard. You needed some kind of protection on the wood so that if a fire did start, it wouldn’t burn the whole place down.” \u003ccite>(Carina Woudenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over 400 different silent feature films and over 600 silent short films. We’ve got a collection of 10,000 film prints that we show every Saturday night since Jan. 22, 2005, almost 15 years now,” Kiehn boasted, as he toured me around an impressive repository for beautifully restored and framed movie posters of the period, and the machinery of filmmaking, like early cameras and projectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiehn also repairs and researches the background of footage that people send here because they know Niles is a good home for silent film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing what’s out there and what still is turning up. A family, not too long ago, brought us five nitrate films that were under a house in Stockton, rare films that I’ve never seen before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the cache was one film, shot by the Miles Brothers in 1912 at Tanforan Park, of an aviation meet. Also, there was footage from the San Francisco earthquake aftermath in 1906. “Some pretty amazing stuff,” marveled Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11789167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California has become a repository for all sorts of artifacts, ranging from era posters to film projectors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California has become a repository for all sorts of artifacts, ranging from era posters to film projectors. \u003ccite>(Carina Woudenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The silent film era lasted almost 40 years, from the 1890s through the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing how many films that were made in that time period. Thousands and thousands of films. Only a fraction survive, but because there were so many made, there are still a lot of them around,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, you could just watch some of these films on YouTube. But the musical choices are typically awful, and there’s something to be said for the visceral experience of watching a movie in a theater, with a live piano player, on a Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiehn curates the schedule, which typically involves a feature and two shorts on any given night. Chaplin gets a lot of love, but so do some of the talents lesser known today but big in their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider \u003ca href=\"https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-mabel-normand/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mabel Normand\u003c/a>, with bouncy curls and expressive eyebrows. She was the first actress to be tied to the railroad tracks. She was at Keystone when Charlie Chaplin arrived, and taught him a few things before he moved on to Essanay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsYq2MbFOI]She also directed some of the movies he was in, and served as his first leading lady for a stretch. Eventually, she even ran her own production company, just like Chaplin. Thanks to historians like Kiehn, we’re rediscovering treasures \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13836539/the-eradication-of-memory-on-netflix-amazon-and-other-streaming-video-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hidden in plain sight\u003c/a> for close to a century now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does José Muñoz, who asked the question that prompted this story, have to say about what we found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only just a piece of history for Fremont or the Bay Area, but also all of California, ’cause people think moviemaking was born and still lives in SoCal, but this is as much as of a NorCal story as it is anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>These days, thoughts of the silent screen era in the San Francisco Bay Area typically call up footage of Market Street shot by the Miles Brothers just days before the 1906 earthquake laid the city to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was a choice location for movie shoots at the turn of the 20th century, but fog and chill led at least one filmmaker from parts East to settle a wee bit farther south, in Niles, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know this because José Muñoz, who grew up in Fremont, asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> to look into the history for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always been fascinated by movies, always watched movies,” Muñoz said, and his parents told him something he’s wondered about for years: Movies were once made in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to reach out to you guys to get more insight on the matter, to see if we could say that Fremont was the first Hollywood,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, before Niles became a Fremont neighborhood, it used to be its own town, with sunny, warm weather more akin to that in Southern California — and easy access by train to San Francisco and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That all had tremendous appeal for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., run in part by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Broncho Billy” Anderson\u003c/a> (born Maxwell Henry Aronson), the first Western movie star cowboy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anderson had been traveling around the United States for three years, looking for the perfect weather and filming location for the Westerns that he was making,” explained David Kiehn, historian for the \u003ca href=\"http://nilesfilmmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum\u003c/a>, one of the most delightful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778612/12-off-beat-museums-in-the-bay-area-to-visit-this-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offbeat museums\u003c/a> you can visit in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson settled on Niles in 1912, and over the next four years Essanay made more than 350 films there. “It was the most successful silent film company in the Bay Area,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fast and Furious\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Film companies of the time churned out movies at the rate of several a week. They tended to be thin on plot and big on action; chase scenes and slapstick comedy. The companies hired a lot of actors from the world of vaudeville theater, actors with the physical stamina and comedic chops for this kind of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broncho Billy spotted a rising talent at a rival film company in Hollywood: a young English comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789153 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Back in the 1910s, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. was a big deal in Niles, California, as well as West Coast filmmaking. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40306_IMG_8320-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back in the 1910s, the Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. was a big deal in Niles, California, as well as West Coast filmmaking. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chaplin had been working at the Keystone Film Co. for $150 a week, and his contract was almost up. And Broncho Billy’s righthand man, Jess Robbins, signed him at Essanay for $1,250 a week — and a $10,000 signing bonus,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an expensive bet that paid off for Essanay. Chaplin didn’t particularly like Niles, which was, after all, a bit of a backwater compared to Los Angeles, but he made five films in Niles that cemented his standing as a movie star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those was “The Tramp.” You can still visit the places where scenes were shot. For instance, consider the final, iconic scene of this movie, when our brokenhearted tramp waddles away from the camera in Niles Canyon. The area still looks a lot like it did back then, with big trees waving over a winding country road, albeit paved now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essanay allowed Chaplin to transition from being an ensemble performer, with a popular bit in someone else’s film, to a filmmaker himself, exercising creative control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Niles is pivotal,” said film history expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisonarchives.com/aboutmarc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Wanamaker\u003c/a>. Chaplin, he said, fought for and achieved great autonomy with Essanay. “He could do whatever he wanted. This was the beginning of Chaplin as we know him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin itched to return to Hollywood, though, which by then was well on its way to becoming the center of the moviemaking universe. There, Chaplin made a few more movies for the company before striking out on his own as a producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Niles studio kept on keeping on, until talkies became popular in the 1920s, and the film studio’s proximity to train tracks became an insurmountable problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Temple to Silent Film\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to today, and the studio’s theater has become home to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, itself home to an impressive and ever-growing archive of silent movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11789166 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut.jpg\" alt=\"David Kiehn demonstrates the working projectors in the back of the theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California. "This is the original booth from 1913, tin lined, as you can see." Why? "Because of the nitrate fire hazard. You needed some kind of protection on the wood so that if a fire did start, it wouldn't burn the whole place down."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40307_IMG_8297-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Kiehn demonstrates the working projectors in the back of the theater at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California. “This is the original booth from 1913, tin-lined, as you can see.” Why? “Because of the nitrate fire hazard. You needed some kind of protection on the wood so that if a fire did start, it wouldn’t burn the whole place down.” \u003ccite>(Carina Woudenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over 400 different silent feature films and over 600 silent short films. We’ve got a collection of 10,000 film prints that we show every Saturday night since Jan. 22, 2005, almost 15 years now,” Kiehn boasted, as he toured me around an impressive repository for beautifully restored and framed movie posters of the period, and the machinery of filmmaking, like early cameras and projectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiehn also repairs and researches the background of footage that people send here because they know Niles is a good home for silent film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing what’s out there and what still is turning up. A family, not too long ago, brought us five nitrate films that were under a house in Stockton, rare films that I’ve never seen before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the cache was one film, shot by the Miles Brothers in 1912 at Tanforan Park, of an aviation meet. Also, there was footage from the San Francisco earthquake aftermath in 1906. “Some pretty amazing stuff,” marveled Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11789167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California has become a repository for all sorts of artifacts, ranging from era posters to film projectors.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/RS40308_IMG_8321-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, California has become a repository for all sorts of artifacts, ranging from era posters to film projectors. \u003ccite>(Carina Woudenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The silent film era lasted almost 40 years, from the 1890s through the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing how many films that were made in that time period. Thousands and thousands of films. Only a fraction survive, but because there were so many made, there are still a lot of them around,” said Kiehn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, you could just watch some of these films on YouTube. But the musical choices are typically awful, and there’s something to be said for the visceral experience of watching a movie in a theater, with a live piano player, on a Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kiehn curates the schedule, which typically involves a feature and two shorts on any given night. Chaplin gets a lot of love, but so do some of the talents lesser known today but big in their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider \u003ca href=\"https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-mabel-normand/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mabel Normand\u003c/a>, with bouncy curls and expressive eyebrows. She was the first actress to be tied to the railroad tracks. She was at Keystone when Charlie Chaplin arrived, and taught him a few things before he moved on to Essanay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GUsYq2MbFOI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GUsYq2MbFOI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>She also directed some of the movies he was in, and served as his first leading lady for a stretch. Eventually, she even ran her own production company, just like Chaplin. Thanks to historians like Kiehn, we’re rediscovering treasures \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13836539/the-eradication-of-memory-on-netflix-amazon-and-other-streaming-video-sites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hidden in plain sight\u003c/a> for close to a century now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does José Muñoz, who asked the question that prompted this story, have to say about what we found?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only just a piece of history for Fremont or the Bay Area, but also all of California, ’cause people think moviemaking was born and still lives in SoCal, but this is as much as of a NorCal story as it is anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]ulieta Aquino strolls proudly through her gleaming new home, a modest split-level condo on a busy thoroughfare in Fremont. With her 14-year-old daughter in tow, she scans the still-sparsely furnished, open floor plan living room-kitchen, pointing out the glistening, stainless steel fixtures and laminate countertops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty decent-sized kitchen, considering it’s just two of us,” said Aquino. “I’m going for a farmhouse style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 31-year-old single mom with a limited income and no college degree, Aquino has done the seemingly impossible: become a homeowner in one of the most brutally expensive housing markets in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all she had to do was help build it herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Julieta Aquino\"]‘It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Aquino and her daughter, Alexys, were among 11 low-income families who received keys to their new homes in Central Commons, a small development they all helped build over the past two years as participants in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.habitatebsv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Habitat for Humanity East Bay-Silicon Valley\u003c/a> project. Like all future homeowners in the Habitat program, each family was required to put in 500 hours of so-called sweat equity, pounding nails and pouring concrete alongside project managers and volunteer work crews on the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my first time using a hammer,” Aquino admitted, noting the steep learning curve, one that exposed her to everything from fundamental carpentry skills to a basic understanding of California’s building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really neat because even while we were building, we were signing our names on the studs. [My daughter] would come around and just trace her hand, so she knew that behind the Sheetrock and the wall there was her imprint there. It’s cool to know that we left a little piece of us by building the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino opens the sliding doors in the living room, stepping onto a small balcony with a table and gas grill. Below us, a construction crew is building a set of adjacent units, where 19 other families are expected to move within the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really excited about my grill,” she says, amid the screeching of circular saws and nail guns. “I look forward to summer cookouts, and having breakfast out here. Brunches with family and friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11767831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/DSC0871-e1565915186695.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino in her bedroom at the new condo she owns in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Definitely Within My Budget’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although Habitat still owns the property that the development sits on, Aquino and her new neighbors are the legal owners of their individual units. In addition to their sweat equity hours, each family pays a 30-year low-interest mortgage guaranteed to never exceed 35% of their monthly income. That, along with no down payment and minimal closing costs, puts the prospect of homeownership squarely within the realm of possibility for low-income families like Aquino’s, who make between 30-80% of the area median income, in a region where average home prices easily bubble over $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely within my budget,” she said, noting that the program requires every participant to be on a monitored savings plan from the minute they’re selected. “I can assure you there is no other place in the Bay Area that I would be able to afford for the amount of money that I’m paying for this monthly. And it’s new. I helped build it. I helped create it. So it’s definitely a unique situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 33-year-old local Habitat program, which annually serves more than 1,200 residents in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, is by no means a panacea for the Bay Area’s formidable housing crisis. But it does offer a glimmer of hope in what can be a grim and daunting housing landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino steps back into her new living room, closing the double-paned glass doors, which impressively mask the noise outside. She heads up a flight of stairs to Alexys’ bedroom, explaining that it’s the first real personal space her daughter has ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Personal Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For years after she and Alexys’ father split up, mother and daughter shared a room — and a bed — in her parents’ cramped two-bedroom house in San Jose, where Aquino’s brother, his girlfriend and their newborn son were also staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll be there for a year or two and then we’ll move back out.’ But that didn’t happen as quickly as I thought it would,” she said. “It got really crowded at times. And so I was desperate to find a place for Alexys and I to just move out and have some quiet, some space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stay at her parents’ house stretched to more than five years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial thought was I want to go to the low-income housing areas for the rental market,” she added. “It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexys also has asthma and the house in San Jose had a serious mold problem, one that resulted in multiple trips to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Aquino’s bedroom is now just a few feet down the hall from her daughter’s, she admits that sleeping in separate rooms for the first time in years has been a harder transition than she’d anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so used to her just sleeping with me that it’s going to take some time for me to fully let go,” Aquino said. “But she’s really excited to have her own room and have her own space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different experience,” said Alexys, a thoughtful and soft-spoken teen, of her new room. “It’s your own space, your own privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite being only 30 miles north of San Jose, she added, she felt far away from her old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried last night because I don’t get to see my friends,” she said. “But I think Fremont will be a good fresh start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino's daughter Alexys in her new room, the first personal space she's ever had.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino’s daughter, Alexys, in her new room, the first personal space she’s ever had. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexys had been too young to participate in the construction process but became a fixture on the work site over the last two years, decorating signs to place around the grounds while watching her mom help build their future home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was interesting because you pass by these buildings every day, and you never really know all the hard work that goes into them. So seeing it from behind the scenes, and how you have to put Sheetrock in certain areas and studs between the walls,” she said. “But it did take some time. It was a process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Long Waiting Game\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aquino, who works full time in the accounting department of a medical device company, found out about the program roughly five years ago. She immediately applied, but was initially rejected because of her poor credit history. A Habitat financial counselor, she said, worked with her to improve her credit score, and when she reapplied a year later, she was approved and put on a housing waitlist with scores of other applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2½ years later that she received a call informing her that Habitat had secured a piece of land in Fremont, in partnership with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then another year passed by and I was anxious,” she said. “I was constantly emailing my rep at Habitat. It felt like it was just never gonna happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2017 — more than three years after she’d first applied — Aquino was told the project was finally ready to break ground. She entered a final elimination process, in which program staff visited her parents’ San Jose home to assess her current living conditions and confirm her need to move elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after that, Aquino found out that she and her daughter were one of the 11 families — out of the hundreds in the selection pool — chosen to move into the first set of still-to-be-built units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I felt like it was a miracle, like I had just won the lottery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino in her spotless new kitchen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Julieta-Aquino-kitchen.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino in her spotless new kitchen. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sweat Equity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Homeownership, though, still seemed elusive, in no small part because there wasn’t any physical structure yet and she still needed to put in her sweat equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was overwhelming to think that I was going to have to do 500 community service hours alone, knowing that I’m a full-time mom and full-time employee and it was 30 miles away from where I lived at the time,” said Aquino. But the program offered some flexibility, allowing her friends and family to contribute up to 200 hours of the required time, and giving her the option to work some hours off the construction site, helping out with Habitat fundraising projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, Aquino slowly fulfilled her work requirements, putting in time on weekday evenings after picking up her daughter from school, and spending every weekend getting her hands dirty at the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it was possible, but it was a lot,” she said. “I think as long as you really want it, you’ll find a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Julieta Aquino\"]‘I think as long as you really want it, you’ll find a way.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she acknowledges that if she hadn’t had the option to stay with her parents, she might not have been able to swing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Blessed’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aquino estimates that roughly 30% of the family and friends she grew up with in San Jose have now moved away. “Not just out of the Bay Area to go to Central Valley or to Sacramento,” she said. “No, it’s just moving completely out of state. … It’s completely impossible for them to own their own home in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region’s skyrocketing land and construction costs have also placed significant strain on the Habitat’s ability to find affordable building opportunities. The group, which relies on land partnerships with the cities it operates in, recently decided to offer the additional 19 units under construction in the Central Commons complex to families with more moderate incomes, earning 80-120% of the area median income, rather than the low-income families, like Aquino’s, who moved into the first 11 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11767898\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS37791__DSC0888-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These homes are still affordable, being sold significantly below market rate with mortgages affordable for a moderate-income family,” Patti Wang Cross, a spokeswoman for Habitat for Humanity East Bay-Silicon Valley, said in an email, noting that the organization’s decision was furthered by a recent decline in funding sources. “It’s a population of families severely impacted by the housing crisis, too often priced out of the homeownership market but seldom served by affordable housing initiatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new higher-income requirement is yet another reason Aquino is so quick to acknowledge how fortunate she and her daughter are. “Blessed” is an adjective she uses frequently to describe the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my daughter when I was 16 and it’s been quite a journey,” she said. “And being able to say that I’m a homeowner at the age of 31, and she’s 14, I feel like I’ve come a long way. 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Like all future homeowners in the Habitat program, each family was required to put in 500 hours of so-called sweat equity, pounding nails and pouring concrete alongside project managers and volunteer work crews on the construction site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my first time using a hammer,” Aquino admitted, noting the steep learning curve, one that exposed her to everything from fundamental carpentry skills to a basic understanding of California’s building codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really neat because even while we were building, we were signing our names on the studs. [My daughter] would come around and just trace her hand, so she knew that behind the Sheetrock and the wall there was her imprint there. It’s cool to know that we left a little piece of us by building the home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aquino opens the sliding doors in the living room, stepping onto a small balcony with a table and gas grill. 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In addition to their sweat equity hours, each family pays a 30-year low-interest mortgage guaranteed to never exceed 35% of their monthly income. That, along with no down payment and minimal closing costs, puts the prospect of homeownership squarely within the realm of possibility for low-income families like Aquino’s, who make between 30-80% of the area median income, in a region where average home prices easily bubble over $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely within my budget,” she said, noting that the program requires every participant to be on a monitored savings plan from the minute they’re selected. “I can assure you there is no other place in the Bay Area that I would be able to afford for the amount of money that I’m paying for this monthly. And it’s new. I helped build it. I helped create it. 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She heads up a flight of stairs to Alexys’ bedroom, explaining that it’s the first real personal space her daughter has ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Personal Space\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For years after she and Alexys’ father split up, mother and daughter shared a room — and a bed — in her parents’ cramped two-bedroom house in San Jose, where Aquino’s brother, his girlfriend and their newborn son were also staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll be there for a year or two and then we’ll move back out.’ But that didn’t happen as quickly as I thought it would,” she said. “It got really crowded at times. And so I was desperate to find a place for Alexys and I to just move out and have some quiet, some space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stay at her parents’ house stretched to more than five years, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial thought was I want to go to the low-income housing areas for the rental market,” she added. “It was never a thought in my mind to be a homeowner because that just seemed so far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexys also has asthma and the house in San Jose had a serious mold problem, one that resulted in multiple trips to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Aquino’s bedroom is now just a few feet down the hall from her daughter’s, she admits that sleeping in separate rooms for the first time in years has been a harder transition than she’d anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so used to her just sleeping with me that it’s going to take some time for me to fully let go,” Aquino said. “But she’s really excited to have her own room and have her own space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a different experience,” said Alexys, a thoughtful and soft-spoken teen, of her new room. “It’s your own space, your own privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite being only 30 miles north of San Jose, she added, she felt far away from her old life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cried last night because I don’t get to see my friends,” she said. “But I think Fremont will be a good fresh start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Julieta Aquino's daughter Alexys in her new room, the first personal space she's ever had.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alexys-at-home.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julieta Aquino’s daughter, Alexys, in her new room, the first personal space she’s ever had. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexys had been too young to participate in the construction process but became a fixture on the work site over the last two years, decorating signs to place around the grounds while watching her mom help build their future home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was interesting because you pass by these buildings every day, and you never really know all the hard work that goes into them. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]afne, a high school senior in San Jose, is one of a small fraction of California's estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/nearly-100000-unauthorized-immigrants-graduate-high-school-every-year-new-mpi-analysis-finds\">27,000 undocumented students\u003c/a> graduating from high schools and enrolling in four-year colleges this year. Barred from federal financial aid and facing the gnawing uncertainty she’ll ever be able to legally work in the U.S. even after earning a degree, Dafne, 17, knows firsthand the hurdles undocumented students face to succeed in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=“medium” align=”right” citation=\"Julio Navarrete, American High School teacher of the year\"]'I tell [my students] that nobody can take away their education regardless of whether or not in the future they’ll be able to work. Education is our freedom.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basketball player and cheerleader was 8 years old when her parents brought her from Mexico to San Jose. KQED is not using her full name to protect her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school, she realized why her mother wouldn’t let her go on a school trip to visit the Capitol or why she couldn’t get a job at fast-food chains like her friends. She said she felt ashamed and limited by her immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she’s trying to break free. She will attend UC Davis in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, for me, college is my ticket. It's a ticket for me to do something greater, to be something else than just my status,” said Dafne, who hopes U.S. immigration laws will change so she can work as a high school teacher one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"Dafne looks at a wall with images of classmates who've been admitted to college on May 23, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752872\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates-1020x656.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates-1200x771.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dafne-Classmates.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dafne looks at a wall with images of classmates who've been admitted to college on May 23, 2019. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/06/RomeroTeacheroftheyear190618.mp3\" Image=\"\" Title=\"Undocumented Students Graduating from High School\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Undocumented Student to Teacher of the Year\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eighteen years ago, another local undocumented high school graduate contemplated the same prospect as Dafne. Julio Navarrete also dreamed of becoming a high school teacher, but wasn’t sure he could be legally employed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 34, Navarrete has been named “Teacher of the Year” at American High School, the largest in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, he won political asylum in the U.S. and a life-changing work permit. By then Navarrete had earned a master’s degree in education and a teaching certificate at The National Hispanic University in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day I wake up feeling grateful,” said Navarrete, in his fourth year as a Spanish teacher at American High. “Just the fact that I'm able to step into a high school classroom and be with my students and teach and be part of this community. That's all I could ever ask for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching-800x608.jpg\" alt=\"Julio Navarrete in his classroom at American High School. Through tutoring his peers throughout his own high school and college days, Navarette says he grew a passion for teaching.\" width=\"800\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching-800x608.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching-160x122.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching-1200x913.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Julio-Navarrete-Teaching.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Navarrete in his classroom at American High School. Through tutoring his peers throughout his own high school and college days, Navarette says he grew a passion for teaching. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dafne and Navarrete are at different points of their strikingly similar paths. They were born in Puerto Vallarta and grew up in east San Jose. Their parents worked hard to barely scrape out a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They navigated college applications without the Obama-era program that allows nearly 200,000 unauthorized young immigrants in California to temporarily work and be protected from deportation. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has been closed to new applicants and tied up in the courts after the Trump administration took steps to end it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11752482]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more undocumented students graduate from high school without DACA, Navarrete said he encourages students in his classroom to pursue their aspirations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them that nobody can take away their education regardless of whether or not in the future they’ll be able to work,” said Navarrete. “Education is our freedom, and we need to educate ourselves. And, when they finish university, maybe things will be different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the leap of faith Dafne has taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am full of hope,” she said. “That’s all I have right now to keep myself sane and motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Navarrete, the path to teaching had roadblocks that once seemed insurmountable. After graduating from college, he felt depressed about his inability to legally work. He even considered moving back to Mexico, a country where he fears persecution because of his sexual orientation, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of desperation, he took a teaching job at a charter school but was forced to resign mid-year, he said, after administrators found out he didn’t have proper work authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Living in hiding is so difficult,” said Navarrete. “I really empathize with anybody who cannot be open about their identity, whichever part of the identity that may be, because it's really a source of anxiety and stress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=“medium” align=”right” citation=\"Steve Musto, American High School principal\"]'He shows uncommon dedication to his students, to his school and to the community. We are just very lucky to have him.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he regretted most, he said, was hiding his immigration status from students and colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a disservice,” said Navarrete. “I think when we share each other's stories truthfully we just have so much to learn from each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coworkers and students at American High School know Navarrete’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s extremely uplifting and honestly, it makes the school a better place,” said sophomore Nadin Souki, 15. “It's crazy because like he's been through so much so you wouldn't expect him to be this awesome at what he's doing. And on top of that, like, making it genuinely not lame to learn Spanish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators nominated Navarette for the “Teacher of the Year” award, said Steve Musto, principal at American High, which has more than 2,400 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shows uncommon dedication to his students, to his school and to the community,” said Musto. “We are just very lucky to have him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753330\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto-800x578.jpg\" alt=\"American High School Principal Steven Musto says Navarrete's care for his students and active involvement in school activities has been a very positive influence in the school.\" width=\"800\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto-800x578.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Principal-Musto.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American High School Principal Steven Musto says Navarrete's care for his students and active involvement in school activities has been a very positive influence in the school. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Navarrete was able to fix his immigration status and work to fulfill his potential, many other undocumented high school graduates in California are being confined to the underground economy under current policies, said experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All children in the U.S. have the right to a K-12 education, but it’s “another universe” after they graduate from high school, said Kent Wong, who directs the Labor Center at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"undocumented-immigrants\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately for undocumented students when they graduate from high school their world flips upside down,” said Wong. “No longer are they treated as other students. They're barred from federal financial aid, they're barred from legally working, and they're forced into the underground economy and to a life of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thwarting the potential of thousands of young people who can’t legally work and have systemic hurdles to higher education hurts California and the nation, said Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are stripping the contributions that these young people would make as teachers, as nurses, as social workers, as small business people, who could make immense contributions to our society if we were able to fix this broken immigration system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Congress considers a proposal that would open a path to citizenship for up to 2.5 million immigrants, including those eligible to DACA, California has taken steps to expand access to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state offers undocumented residents in-state tuition and financial aid. But school counselors and educators around the state say some students are discouraged from pursuing higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them would say ‘No, I’m going to start working with my parents,’ or ‘Why am I going to be in classes or think of college when there’s nothing for me after?’” said Diana Camilo, co-director of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at San Diego State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher Julio Navarrete passes assignments back to students who are encouraged to speak only in Spanish in class to improve their skills.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete-1020x688.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete-1200x809.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Teacher-Julio-Navarrete.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Julio Navarrete passes assignments back to students who are encouraged to speak only in Spanish in class to improve their skills. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Dafne, the first in her family to attend a four-year university, a big motivation to get a college degree is helping her parents out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, her family shared their house with 12 other relatives who couldn’t afford other housing, she said. 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They're barred from federal financial aid, they're barred from legally working, and they're forced into the underground economy and to a life of poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thwarting the potential of thousands of young people who can’t legally work and have systemic hurdles to higher education hurts California and the nation, said Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are stripping the contributions that these young people would make as teachers, as nurses, as social workers, as small business people, who could make immense contributions to our society if we were able to fix this broken immigration system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Congress considers a proposal that would open a path to citizenship for up to 2.5 million immigrants, including those eligible to DACA, California has taken steps to expand access to higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state offers undocumented residents in-state tuition and financial aid. 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