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Its programming — including immigration support and leadership development — had already been halted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But since then, things for Rimi and her organization have turned around: This week, the city’s Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/53261?view_id=10&redirect=true\">unanimously approved\u003c/a> a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/bag092926_agenda.pdf\">allocate\u003c/a> $150,000 to Parivar Bay Area through its fiscal sponsor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.transcanwork.org/\">TransCanWork\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060836\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251021-DIWALI-PARIVAR-NK-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kaj (left) dances during the Diwali celebrations at Parivar Bay Area in San Francisco on Oct. 20, 2025. (Nisa Khan/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said the money is a “lifeline” and that she was “extremely relieved and eternally grateful for the City and County of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for truly coming through in these times and helping us rebuild.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are staying in San Francisco, we’re rebuilding, and we’re opening our doors again,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The resolution was \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8145043&GUID=ECF08B98-28F2-4B32-82DB-7516AF0277AF\">sponsored\u003c/a> by supervisors Mandelman, Connie Chan, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood. It will now head to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s desk to be signed and approved. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parivar Bay Area fills a role no other organization does — it’s the only trans-led group focused on South Asian and Global South trans immigrants,” Mandelman said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091922/san-francisco-trans-led-space-fears-closure-9-months-after-opening\">in a July statement to KQED\u003c/a>. “Building that kind of trust and infrastructure took years, and it’s important to do what we can to keep it in place.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While Parivar Bay Area did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060818/we-are-home-center-supporting-transgender-immigrants-opens-in-sf-during-diwali\">lose its original community space\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco, Rimi said it has moved to an office at \u003ca href=\"https://stmarkssquare.org/\">St. Mark’s Square\u003c/a> near Japantown. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added that Parivar aims to start bringing back its programming early to mid-October, with a Diwali celebration slated for November. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Diwali [celebration] is kind of the testament of what it symbolizes — which is light over darkness, and saying, ‘This is now us getting back to doing the work,’” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>However, Rimi said that the full breadth of Parivar’s programming may not be able to return to its original scale. For example, Parivar may not be able to provide direct immigration and legal navigation support but switch to referrals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We can’t bring everything back overnight,” she said. “But most important is that we have a physical space. We have a dot on the map in San Francisco … where one can walk through the doors during our opening hours and find support, culture and belonging.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said she saw ways the San Francisco community came to support Parivar — the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/saveparivar\">received over $5,000 in donations\u003c/a> — but the experience highlighted to her that “impact alone doesn’t guarantee sustainability” and that the long-term future “cannot depend on one source of funding.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Community shouldn’t have to lose an institution or a grassroots organization like Parivar to realize how much they need it,” she said. “Because these services are sometimes not deemed as core services, but they’re the only services offered anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration has ended a longstanding agreement that kept immigration authorities largely out of workplaces that the U.S. Department of Labor was actively investigating for potential abuses, KQED has learned. The move, the latest in a federal rollback of immigrant worker protections, could further undermine efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081923/california-wage-theft-law-needs-more-enforcement-muscle-advocates-say\">uphold minimum wage\u003c/a>, child labor and other laws covering most employees regardless of immigration status, according to worker advocates. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The government has long recognized that non-citizens living in the U.S. without permanent legal status are less likely to complain about wage theft or unsafe job conditions if they fear their employer will retaliate by reporting them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That understanding prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, and the Labor Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OASP/DHS-DOL-MOU_4.19.18.pdf\">to agree\u003c/a> more than a decade ago to essentially separate their enforcement activities and share information to combat abusive employment practices. 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Federal labor regulators have told workers for years that they have the right to minimum wage, safe job sites and other safeguards, no matter their citizenship status.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memorandum of understanding “concerning enforcement activities at worksites” was later \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OASP/MOU-Addendum_4.19.18.pdf\">expanded in 2016\u003c/a> to include the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, agencies tasked with protecting employees’ rights to unionize and be free from discrimination. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the agreement has quietly been terminated, a Labor Department spokesperson confirmed to KQED. They declined to answer follow-up questions about when the change took place and why. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Until last week, several employment attorneys in California, as well as former federal labor officials, doubted the worksite enforcement deal was still being vigorously enforced, but believed the administration had not officially rescinded it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12013823\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael. 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They declined to answer follow-up questions about when the change took place and why. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Until last week, several employment attorneys in California, as well as former federal labor officials, doubted the worksite enforcement deal was still being vigorously enforced, but believed the administration had not officially rescinded it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12013823\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2130942018-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael. 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California lawmakers are advancing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">a bill\u003c/a> that would clarify that it is also illegal to threaten employees with immigration consequences to dissuade them from exercising their rights. Employers could be liable for up to $10,000 in civil penalties per violation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Biden administration went a step further by offering temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to people who came forward to report labor violations and cooperated with investigations, through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/dhs-support-of-the-enforcement-of-labor-and-employment-laws\">Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement\u003c/a> program, launched in 2023. 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It is difficult to enforce one vigorously without causing some damage on the other front,” he said. “What we see now is a prioritization that emphasizes immigration enforcement, even if that does come at some increased risk with respect to the wage and hour enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, employees can report immigration-related threats by employers to the state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office, which also investigates allegations of wage theft. But other states that rely more on the federal government to protect worker rights, such as Tennessee and Texas, could feel a bigger impact, Rosenthal, with the Asian Law Caucus, said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When immigrant workers are protected under our workplace laws, everyone is protected because it keeps bad actors from exploiting vulnerable workers on the basis of their immigration status,” he said. “The administration is weakening the rights of all workers. 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I’m grieving.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092016\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Decorations from Parivar Bay Area’s inaugural Diwali celebration in October hang in the organization’s office in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The organization has been in operation since 2018, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parivarbayarea.net/\">describes itself\u003c/a> as a trans-led organization centering Indian, South Asian and Global South transgender, gender-diverse and intersex immigrants and asylees. Among its services are immigration and resettlement support, legal clinics partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://okanlaw.com/\">Okan Law\u003c/a> and a leadership development program that has over 200 graduates. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But all of those programs have “been at a standstill” since April, according to Rimi. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The hardest part is not that Parivar Bay Area wasn’t funded,” she said. “It’s knowing what the decision means for people who depend on us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“With a rent increase from our space, we are looking like we need to move out if the place gets sold or we are told to move out,” Rimi said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Parivar Bay Area, she said, had been advocating early in the year for city support. Though Rimi acknowledged that the state of public funding “is very tight these days” — especially for LGBTQ+ organizations, which saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089007/san-fran\">some funding restored\u003c/a> during the budget process — she said that Parivar Bay Area did not get a sufficient chance to make its case to leaders.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvtYXjHC-8/\">Trans Advocacy Week\u003c/a> in April — an annual opportunity for organizations serving trans people in San Francisco to speak with elected officials through meetings and roundtables — organizers from the group who were best positioned to advocate for funding were dealing with serious immigration issues, Rimi said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened is that during this very critical time window of budget advocacy, our own leaders, including myself, were facing severe immigration challenges,” Rimi said. “We’re not assigning blame … It’s to ensure that everybody recognizes that communities we serve are not left without support.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Instead, J Jha, a community adviser with Parivar Bay Area, said they were then asked to represent the organization on behalf of others. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While they were happy to support the organization, Jha said they haven’t been as involved as they have been in its founding years, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">stringent immigrant policies\u003c/a> have prevented the right person from making it to the meetings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jha said among the 12 to 15 groups serving trans people — like youth support nonprofit LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth — Parivar Bay Area was the only one that did not receive funding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I felt shocked,” Jha said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson from the city’s HRC, Devi Zinzuvadia, confirmed that a representative from Parivar took part in meetings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Zinzuvadia said this period saw “critical funding gains and other positive outcomes for many trans-led and trans-serving organizations across San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“OTI continues to work with all partners — including Parivar, the mayor’s office, the Board of Supervisors and city departments — to best serve and advocate for the needs of trans residents,” Zinzuvadia said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092017\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parivar Bay Area’s office in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stanley echoed this statement, saying that “MOHCD remains committed to supporting transgender and immigrant communities and will continue working with partner organizations to ensure essential services remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said right now, Parivar is seeking $1.1 million — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parivarbayarea.net/\">at least $675,000\u003c/a> — and is reaching out to public officials like Lurie, philanthropists, corporate partners and other nonprofits for support. The group is also seeking help \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/parivar-bay-area\">from the community\u003c/a>, and will be fundraising at events like \u003ca href=\"https://www.bhangraandbeats.com/\">Bhangra & Beats\u003c/a> Night Market, selling jewelry, saris and other accessories. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We remain hopeful that Mayor Lurie will do right by us as well as he has done right by many, many organizations,” Rimi said. She added that officials like Mandelman, who also serves as the Board’s President, have been supportive during this time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parivar Bay Area fills a role no other organization does — it’s the only trans-led group focused on South Asian and Global South trans immigrants,” Mandelman said in a statement to KQED. “Building that kind of trust and infrastructure took years, and it’s important to do what we can to keep it in place.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie spokesperson Charles Lutvak said the mayor’s office is “working right now with the Board of Supervisors to secure additional funding to support the work Parivar has been doing, and we would welcome them applying for funding in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though Parivar’s programs are currently suspended, staff is still trying to connect people to resources. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All of our services have been put on hold,” she said. “If there is a community member who reaches out to us with immense threat, with immense danger, with immense need for support … we will connect them with other partners who may not be essentially the same sphere, who may not be … affirming, completely, of their gender journey or identity.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While other organizations may provide similar support, Rimi said that Parivar Bay Area has an understanding of background and gender identity that can specifically serve trans immigrants because its leaders have those very “lived experiences,” Rimi said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That helps us build trust,” she said. “That cannot be easily replicated by any other organization that may have those services”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jha said the experience of an asylum seeker can be isolating and “extremely soul-crushing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This land — which is supposedly a land of opportunity and liberation, but really everybody is rowing their own canoe in waters that are murky and dangerous,” they said. “You are crushed in this absolutely confusing and terrifying maze of legality which can completely upend your life in a second, as you can see with this administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“On top of that is the fact that you don’t see anyone like you,” they said. “There’s no one around you. Who do you talk to about the stories you’ve left behind?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Parivar’s work, and Rimi herself, have been recognized and awarded many times by the city — including during the opening Diwali ceremony in October. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And while “that visibility is meaningful,” Rimi said, “that’s not matched for the investment that happens for these particular intersectional folks who need support.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not asking to be remembered after we are gone,” she said. “We’re asking for the chance to keep serving those vulnerable folks while we’re still here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I’m grieving.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092016\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Decorations from Parivar Bay Area’s inaugural Diwali celebration in October hang in the organization’s office in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The organization has been in operation since 2018, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parivarbayarea.net/\">describes itself\u003c/a> as a trans-led organization centering Indian, South Asian and Global South transgender, gender-diverse and intersex immigrants and asylees. Among its services are immigration and resettlement support, legal clinics partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://okanlaw.com/\">Okan Law\u003c/a> and a leadership development program that has over 200 graduates. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But all of those programs have “been at a standstill” since April, according to Rimi. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The hardest part is not that Parivar Bay Area wasn’t funded,” she said. “It’s knowing what the decision means for people who depend on us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“With a rent increase from our space, we are looking like we need to move out if the place gets sold or we are told to move out,” Rimi said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Parivar Bay Area, she said, had been advocating early in the year for city support. Though Rimi acknowledged that the state of public funding “is very tight these days” — especially for LGBTQ+ organizations, which saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089007/san-fran\">some funding restored\u003c/a> during the budget process — she said that Parivar Bay Area did not get a sufficient chance to make its case to leaders.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvtYXjHC-8/\">Trans Advocacy Week\u003c/a> in April — an annual opportunity for organizations serving trans people in San Francisco to speak with elected officials through meetings and roundtables — organizers from the group who were best positioned to advocate for funding were dealing with serious immigration issues, Rimi said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened is that during this very critical time window of budget advocacy, our own leaders, including myself, were facing severe immigration challenges,” Rimi said. “We’re not assigning blame … It’s to ensure that everybody recognizes that communities we serve are not left without support.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Instead, J Jha, a community adviser with Parivar Bay Area, said they were then asked to represent the organization on behalf of others. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While they were happy to support the organization, Jha said they haven’t been as involved as they have been in its founding years, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">stringent immigrant policies\u003c/a> have prevented the right person from making it to the meetings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jha said among the 12 to 15 groups serving trans people — like youth support nonprofit LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth — Parivar Bay Area was the only one that did not receive funding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I felt shocked,” Jha said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson from the city’s HRC, Devi Zinzuvadia, confirmed that a representative from Parivar took part in meetings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Zinzuvadia said this period saw “critical funding gains and other positive outcomes for many trans-led and trans-serving organizations across San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“OTI continues to work with all partners — including Parivar, the mayor’s office, the Board of Supervisors and city departments — to best serve and advocate for the needs of trans residents,” Zinzuvadia said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092017\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260721-PARIVAR-FUNDING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parivar Bay Area’s office in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stanley echoed this statement, saying that “MOHCD remains committed to supporting transgender and immigrant communities and will continue working with partner organizations to ensure essential services remain available.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rimi said right now, Parivar is seeking $1.1 million — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parivarbayarea.net/\">at least $675,000\u003c/a> — and is reaching out to public officials like Lurie, philanthropists, corporate partners and other nonprofits for support. The group is also seeking help \u003ca href=\"https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/parivar-bay-area\">from the community\u003c/a>, and will be fundraising at events like \u003ca href=\"https://www.bhangraandbeats.com/\">Bhangra & Beats\u003c/a> Night Market, selling jewelry, saris and other accessories. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We remain hopeful that Mayor Lurie will do right by us as well as he has done right by many, many organizations,” Rimi said. She added that officials like Mandelman, who also serves as the Board’s President, have been supportive during this time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Parivar Bay Area fills a role no other organization does — it’s the only trans-led group focused on South Asian and Global South trans immigrants,” Mandelman said in a statement to KQED. “Building that kind of trust and infrastructure took years, and it’s important to do what we can to keep it in place.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie spokesperson Charles Lutvak said the mayor’s office is “working right now with the Board of Supervisors to secure additional funding to support the work Parivar has been doing, and we would welcome them applying for funding in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though Parivar’s programs are currently suspended, staff is still trying to connect people to resources. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All of our services have been put on hold,” she said. “If there is a community member who reaches out to us with immense threat, with immense danger, with immense need for support … we will connect them with other partners who may not be essentially the same sphere, who may not be … affirming, completely, of their gender journey or identity.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While other organizations may provide similar support, Rimi said that Parivar Bay Area has an understanding of background and gender identity that can specifically serve trans immigrants because its leaders have those very “lived experiences,” Rimi said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That helps us build trust,” she said. “That cannot be easily replicated by any other organization that may have those services”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jha said the experience of an asylum seeker can be isolating and “extremely soul-crushing.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This land — which is supposedly a land of opportunity and liberation, but really everybody is rowing their own canoe in waters that are murky and dangerous,” they said. “You are crushed in this absolutely confusing and terrifying maze of legality which can completely upend your life in a second, as you can see with this administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“On top of that is the fact that you don’t see anyone like you,” they said. “There’s no one around you. Who do you talk to about the stories you’ve left behind?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Parivar’s work, and Rimi herself, have been recognized and awarded many times by the city — including during the opening Diwali ceremony in October. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And while “that visibility is meaningful,” Rimi said, “that’s not matched for the investment that happens for these particular intersectional folks who need support.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> archaeologist Laura Jones wasn’t looking for flower farms — at least not at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was researching the school’s early land-leasing practices when a retiring colleague gave her some maps of Stanford from the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jones looked closer, she noticed familiar areas — where Stanford Shopping Center, the school’s research park and graduate student housing are today — shaded in with what seemed like colored pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re coded for what flower is being grown,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones cross-checked the map with aerial photographs from the time. What emerged were patterns — clear outlines of fields in bloom. The layouts of the plots were similar, recognizable in terms of shape and size. Plus, Jones said, there was usually a small greenhouse on each field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jones, the parcels were notable for another reason, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next to the colors, in … dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flower fields. Asian American growers. She wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flowers in Santa Clara Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For much of the 20th century, this stretch of the Peninsula was home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 1948 issue of the University of California’s \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em> journal, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums — imagine roughly 150 football fields — were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the time. The total valuation of the crop amounted to roughly $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corsage-making workshop was held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. His dad, Arthur Y. Chin, came to the U.S. in 1923 and quickly found his way into the flower business, following in Mok’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Chin said the farm was the center of family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was the backbone of it all — working the fields, preparing cut flowers for sale, cooking meals for the crew and raising three children who chipped in too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin sits on his backyard patio beside chrysanthemums at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was a teenager, there was a little bit of resentment,” Chin said. “I cannot join the sports club or after-school activities because I have to be home working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Ching remembers her childhood similarly. She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. But why flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large part for corsages, which is a tradition we don’t really follow as much anymore,” Jones said. “It’s really rare, but it was huge between 1920 and about 1960.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at a corsage-making event at Stanford University revive a historic tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Old photographs of Cal vs. Stanford football games serve as evidence of this flower-mania. Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. At the same time, Bay Area real estate was starting to boom alongside the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stanford-themed corsage made during the workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Flower growers were starting to sell their land,” Ching said. “They closed down the farms, and cashed in and they made the money and invested it elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm Ching grew up on is now home to a 7-11, among other buildings. Chin’s childhood stomping ground is now a condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin, it’s all the more reason to keep this history alive, and Jones’ Forgotten Flowers Project is working to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jones and Chin helped organize a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/11/vintage-big-game-fashion-makes-a-comeback\">corsage-making event on Stanford’s campus\u003c/a>. They brought in corsage kits from San Francisco’s Chinatown, and about 200 participants showed up to take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of exciting because you are seeing people really intensely learning from the past,” Chin said. “That history is still alive, the tradition is still alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones cross-checked the map with aerial photographs from the time. What emerged were patterns — clear outlines of fields in bloom. The layouts of the plots were similar, recognizable in terms of shape and size. Plus, Jones said, there was usually a small greenhouse on each field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jones, the parcels were notable for another reason, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next to the colors, in … dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flower fields. Asian American growers. She wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flowers in Santa Clara Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For much of the 20th century, this stretch of the Peninsula was home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 1948 issue of the University of California’s \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em> journal, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums — imagine roughly 150 football fields — were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the time. The total valuation of the crop amounted to roughly $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corsage-making workshop was held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. His dad, Arthur Y. Chin, came to the U.S. in 1923 and quickly found his way into the flower business, following in Mok’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Chin said the farm was the center of family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was the backbone of it all — working the fields, preparing cut flowers for sale, cooking meals for the crew and raising three children who chipped in too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin sits on his backyard patio beside chrysanthemums at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was a teenager, there was a little bit of resentment,” Chin said. “I cannot join the sports club or after-school activities because I have to be home working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Ching remembers her childhood similarly. She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. But why flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large part for corsages, which is a tradition we don’t really follow as much anymore,” Jones said. “It’s really rare, but it was huge between 1920 and about 1960.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at a corsage-making event at Stanford University revive a historic tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Old photographs of Cal vs. Stanford football games serve as evidence of this flower-mania. Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. At the same time, Bay Area real estate was starting to boom alongside the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stanford-themed corsage made during the workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Flower growers were starting to sell their land,” Ching said. “They closed down the farms, and cashed in and they made the money and invested it elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm Ching grew up on is now home to a 7-11, among other buildings. 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Anti-Hispanic and anti-Latino hate crimes also rose by more than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It matters how leaders speak and what they say,” Bonta said during a press conference announcing the crime trends Wednesday. “When our president and administration and members of his party continue to spout racist, xenophobic and transphobic rhetoric; When the people leading our country spread misinformation and fan the flames of division, we can’t be all too surprised to see the numbers that follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arne Johnson, an advocate for the Bay Area-based group Rainbow Families Action, said he’s seen a sharp increase in anti-trans hate in California since 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The primary thing we’ve noticed is just how the rhetoric, laws and executive orders have emboldened hateful action and words on every level — things that previously would’ve been shameful or said privately,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said that while efforts to pass legislation that harms trans students haven’t succeeded in the Bay Area, their consideration “opens up opportunities for hateful rhetoric to be spoken in the presence of our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250331-TRANS-NEWSOM-RALLY-AC-67-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250331-TRANS-NEWSOM-RALLY-AC-67-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250331-TRANS-NEWSOM-RALLY-AC-67-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250331-TRANS-NEWSOM-RALLY-AC-67-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Lohf bears an LGBTQ+ flag during a march for trans youth in Kentfield on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086891/supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship\">birthright citizenship\u003c/a>, after President Donald Trump tried to end the practice, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088215/states-can-ban-trans-girls-from-sports-competition-supreme-court-rules\">ruling upholding states’ bans\u003c/a> preventing transgender girls from playing on women’s school sports teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state law includes protections for transgender children and student-athletes, but anti-trans controversy has surrounded the state’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081357/they-picked-on-the-wrong-kid-how-families-are-speaking-up-for-trans-athletes\">interscholastic federation meetings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12084083/california-quietly-brings-back-controversial-scoring-policy-for-trans-student-athletes\">track-and-field championships\u003c/a>, and collegiate volleyball after San José State University’s team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071407/trump-officials-say-san-jose-state-broke-civil-rights-law-by-letting-trans-athlete-play\">included a transgender athlete\u003c/a> in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly questioned the fairness of trans girls’ participation in women’s sports and suggested that state law should be changed to clarify when they can play on gendered teams. Sonja Shaw, one of the candidates who advanced to the runoff for the role of Superintendent of Public Instruction in November, has focused her campaign on parental rights and “protect[ing] our daughters.”[aside postID=news_12089236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GroceriesAP.jpg']According to Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/\">data \u003c/a>collected in 2025, Americans have become more supportive of laws restricting trans rights, including limiting the sports teams they can play on and gender-affirming care for minors, in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, a United Nations watchdog committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/usa-racial-profiling-and-racist-hate-speech-political-leaders-heightened\">warned\u003c/a> that “racist hate speech” by Trump and other political leaders, along with the administration’s immigration crackdowns, “sparked grave human rights violations,” including growing use of derogatory and dehumanizing language and stereotyping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the President,” the U.N. committee said, “may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been at the forefront of fighting Trump’s immigration crackdown, with Bonta leading multiple high-profile legal challenges to policies that withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039912/california-sues-trump-over-efforts-link-federal-grants-immigration-enforcement\">federal funding over immigration enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the increases in some targeted hate incidents, overall hate crime incidents in the state decreased, along with other major crime levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said Wednesday that last year was the “safest on record” in terms of homicides and shootings since the state began collecting data in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084253\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/OaklandPoliceCarKQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/OaklandPoliceCarKQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/OaklandPoliceCarKQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/OaklandPoliceCarKQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police vehicle in Oakland, California, on Nov. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homicide rate decreased 18%, while violent crime was down 10.2%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property crime also dropped, spurred by a 25% decline in motor vehicle theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the downward trends are in line with national progress, but are especially significant in the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, July 1, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workers’ compensation benefits are intended to help people injured on the job. But sometimes, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089491/oakland-airport-skycap-says-workplace-injury-left-her-homeless\">fall through the cracks. \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California civil rights leaders are expressing relief and gratitude. That’s after the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that all children born on US soil are US citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089491/oakland-airport-skycap-says-workplace-injury-left-her-homeless\">Oakland airport skycap says workplace injury left her homeless\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Jan. 1, 2025, Oakland airport skycap Keiana Vernon collapsed while helping passengers check luggage outside Terminal 2. Coworkers rushed to lift her to her feet, but she could barely walk. Pain radiated from the right side of her body, where she said she felt the impact most. Her supervisors were alerted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was in excruciating pain,” Vernon, 47, said. “It was very painful to walk on my leg because I lost a lot of movement in my right leg. And that’s what’s bothering me to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident and her employer’s response became a turning point that unraveled her life. The once-active Oakland native now spends her days in a wheelchair, living at an Alameda County skilled nursing facility with no income. Vernon blames her employer, Prospect Airport Services, for allegedly failing to follow California’s requirements for responding to workplace injuries. As weeks passed without her returning to work, Vernon’s job was terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s workers’ compensation system is intended to ensure employees injured on the job quickly receive medical care while claims are investigated. Benefits may also include partial wage replacement during recovery. But interviews with Vernon, several coworkers and a former supervisor suggest those protections may have broken down in her case, illustrating how workers can fall through the system’s cracks with devastating financial and medical consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vernon lost her housing, car and life’s savings after 22 years of working for airline services contractors at the Oakland airport, she said, including five years as a Prospect employee. “It’s unfair. I needed a lot of help throughout the process, and I felt like they failed me. I didn’t know where to begin as far as medical coverage, how to seek any type of support,” Vernon said. “I hit rock bottom. I became homeless because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most California employers are responsible for arranging prompt medical attention for a work-related injury. State law also required the company to give Vernon a workers’ compensation claim form within a day and report the incident to its insurance company within five days, both critical steps to beginning the benefits process. None of that happened, according to Vernon and a former supervisor. Instead, Vernon said her manager, Salesh Prasad, told her to go home shortly after her fall. He directed a coworker to drive her to the airport employee parking lot, where she was left alone in her car, with no clear guidance about medical care. She tried contacting Prasad in the days that followed, but he became unresponsive, she said, finally asking her to turn in her security badge. Attempts to reach Prospect Airport Services were unsuccessful. Unifi Aviation, which owns Prospect, declined several requests for comment. Unifi, North America’s largest provider of aviation services, operates at more than 240 airports. The Atlanta-based\u003ca href=\"https://www.carlyle.com/media-room/news-release-archive/carlyle-announces-strategic-financing-unifi-aviation\"> company\u003c/a>, which generates about $2 billion in revenue, is a subsidiary of the privately held Argenbright Holdings, its majority owner, and Delta Air Lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether the company’s alleged failure to respond to Vernon’s injury as required by law was an isolated incident or part of a broader pattern. Failures to follow workers’ compensation laws are often the result of employers not properly training or overseeing their managers, said Jason Marcus, former president of the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association, whose members represent injured workers in the workers’ compensation system. “I’ve certainly seen my fair share of what we kind of refer to as horror stories,” said Marcus, who has nearly two decades of experience. “Somebody gets hurt, suffers a serious injury, and is kind of left to their own devices without any real help or guidance from their employer. And that’s just not how it’s supposed to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089306/birthright-citizenship-is-the-story-of-san-francisco-advocates-celebrate-ruling\">‘Birthright citizenship is the story of San Francisco’: advocates celebrate ruling\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For the first time in months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033789/lets-fight-back-127-years-after-momentous-supreme-court-ruling-san-francisco-honors-wong-kim-ark\">Norman Wong\u003c/a> breathed a sigh of relief. The Bay Area resident and great-grandson of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088125/as-america-turns-250-san-franciscos-role-in-defining-citizenship-endures\">Wong Kim Ark\u003c/a> — a San Francisco-born Chinese American cook whose case helped establish birthright citizenship 128 years ago — spent the last year crisscrossing the country, defending a right he couldn’t believe was in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12086891/supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship\">rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts\u003c/a> to undo the right with a 2025 executive order, Norman Wong allowed himself a rare moment of celebration. “It’s nice not to be mad. It is nice to be happy,” Norman Wong said. “I don’t consider it a personal victory. I consider it a victory for America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling in \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em> preserved a constitutional right that has stood for more than a century: that nearly anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen. For Norman Wong and other immigrants-rights advocates, and local officials who helped challenge Trump’s order, the decision was a vindication and a warning. While they hailed the ruling as an affirmation of the 14th Amendment, some noted that the ideological divide on the court and a broad wave of restrictive immigration rulings signaled the fight was far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was the first city in the country to sue over Trump’s order, filing within 24 hours of his second inauguration, according to City Attorney David Chiu — a birthright citizen and the first Asian American to lead the office. “I know my place in this country is possible because of the 14th Amendment and the courage of Wong Kim Ark 128 years ago, and immigrants like my parents,” said Chiu, whose parents immigrated from Taiwan in the 1960s. The story of birthright citizenship, he said, “is the story of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winnie Kao, senior counsel at the Asian Law Caucus and part of the legal team for the plaintiffs, said the executive order “felt very personal.” Wong Kim Ark “was born just blocks from our Chinatown office.” She noted that the Wong Kim Ark ruling came during a period of extreme hostility toward Chinese immigrants. Wong’s victory came at the height of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1882 law restricting Chinese immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though legal scholars described the decision as decisive on the law, questions were left open about whether birthright citizenship could ever not be constitutionally guaranteed. Huy Tran, executive director of the San José immigrant rights group SIREN, noted that in Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion, he concluded that Congress could amend laws to create exceptions to birthright citizenship. “This is one of those cases that should have been a slam dunk,” Tran said. “Instead, what we have now is that Justice Kavanaugh has basically rolled out a blueprint for how birthright citizenship can be challenged again in the future.” But for now, the ruling continues to cover almost anyone born in the territory of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Initially introduced in response to laws in Southern states restricting the rights of formerly enslaved Black Americans after the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled in 1898 that the 14th Amendment applies to all children born in the U.S. to parents “domiciled” within the country. This case was brought by Wong Kim Ark, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015449/a-129-year-old-san-francisco-lawsuit-could-stop-trump-from-ending-birthright-citizenship\">a San Francisco-born man\u003c/a> who successfully defended his claim to citizenship — after officials claimed that the fact that his parents were Chinese nationals at the time of his birth disqualified him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, only narrow exceptions existed for children whose parents were high-ranking foreign diplomats or were in the U.S. as an invading army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-365/383785/20251106155818044_25-365%20Trump%20v.%20Barbara.pdf\">case briefs\u003c/a>, the Trump administration argued that the 14th Amendment was never intended to be extended to “the children of aliens illegally or temporarily” in the U.S. \u003cem>United States v. Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, they argued, involved a child with parents who had “permanent domicil and residence,” and therefore Trump’s order is lawful and constitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court held that, in\u003cem> Wong Kim Ark\u003c/em>, the 14th Amendment was “‘declaratory’ of the ‘fundamental rule of citizenship by birth’ that prevailed at common law … Under that understanding, aliens who traveled to the United States for ‘business or pleasure’ received no ‘exemption from the jurisdiction of the country.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the contrary, they were subject to that jurisdiction for as long as they remained here — and any children born to them were American citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 cities across the U.S., including San José and San Francisco, filed briefs with the court in support of birthright citizenship. San José Mayor Matt Mahan, a former public school teacher, said a ruling in the opposite direction would have created immense uncertainty for many local school children whose parents are undocumented or are on temporary visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would have opened the question of are they, in fact, citizens or not,” Mahan said. “And imagine the fear of being someone who was born here as a U.S. Citizen, as per the Constitution, now having that questioned and what the consequences of that could be… It’s horrific that we’re even contemplating that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the power to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088417/supreme-court-immigration-decision-leaves-thousands-of-californians-in-limbo\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians without court oversight, threatening a decades-old federal program that allows people to stay in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s 6-3 \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-1083_f204.pdf\">ruling\u003c/a> concluded in general, “federal courts have no power to review” \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/06/25/dhs-issues-statement-following-multiple-supreme-court-wins\">the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s\u003c/a> decision-making when it comes to TPS, said Ahilan Arulanantham, a UCLA law professor and an attorney for Syrian plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#AreyouaffectedbythisTPSruling\">Are you affected by this TPS ruling?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’d successfully stopped the first Trump administration’s attempts to end TPS illegally in 2018,” he said. “Even though it has been a consistently hostile Supreme Court when it comes to major immigration cases, it still was — at some level — shocking to see this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision may also jeopardize the status of individuals from other TPS-designated countries, like Venezuela and Nepal. According to federal data from early last year, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844\">1.3 million people \u003c/a>from 17 different countries are TPS holders, with almost 80,000 of those in California alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haitian flags are displayed on a store on June 25, 2026, in the Little Haiti neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s effort to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians, who were legally in the U.S. and protected from deportation, including many who have lived legally in the country for years. \u003ccite>( Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emi MacLean, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California and co-counsel in the case, called the decision “a deeply painful blow” to these residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are more afraid, more at risk, and far more vulnerable than they have been,” she said. “What the decision means today is that the Supreme Court is rubber-stamping lawless actions by the administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the situation for TPS holders is quickly changing, read more to see what advocates and experts are telling people impacted by the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please keep in mind that this article is not legal advice, and it’s always best to consult with an immigration attorney about your specific situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"AreyouaffectedbythisTPSruling\">\u003c/a>Who is most affected by this TPS ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mullin v. Doe \u003c/em>specifically focused on reviewing TPS designation for people from Haiti and Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300,000 Haitians have been living in the U.S. since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-supreme-court-haiti-syria-tps-1bbbf8115f984a0d53336656924e989d\">2010\u003c/a>, after the catastrophic earthquake that year that killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/8732\">hundreds of thousands\u003c/a> of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,5000 Syrians have also held TPS since 2012, due to the country’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22\">civil war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in support of possible U.S. military action in Syria, on Capitol Hill, on Sept. 9, 2013 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s administration has, in the past, announced \u003ca href=\"https://forumtogether.org/article/temporary-protected-status-fact-sheet/\">its intent\u003c/a> to remove the TPS status of several countries, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Afghanistan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cameroon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>South Sudan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Burma\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ethiopia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Somalia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yemen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Venezuela\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nepal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Honduras\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nicaragua\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham said there are some countries for which no decision has been made yet around TPS holders, like El Salvador and Ukraine. Both of their statuses, however, are \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">set to expire\u003c/a> this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When does the Supreme Court’s TPS decision take effect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the TPS cases involving Syria and Haiti, it will likely take effect “in a little over a month,” Arulanantham said. “But there’s no fixed deadline for that. That’s usually what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is harder to answer for the timeline of other countries like Venezuela and Honduras, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will depend on when the government attempts to apply these rulings to those cases and then also when those courts respond,” he said. “I think it’s fair to say that in something like weeks or a few months, we’ll see the devastating effects of this decision on TPS communities around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens when TPS expires?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to immigration advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://forumtogether.org/article/temporary-protected-status-fact-sheet/\">The Forum\u003c/a>, once a TPS designation ends and the person does not acquire a new immigration status, the person \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/temporary-protected-status-tps-overview/\">reverts \u003c/a>to their previous status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning, for those without a legal status, they would be considered undocumented again, and “potentially be subject to removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on your rights when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">interacting with immigration officers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should TPS holders do right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look into other protections ASAP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts like MacLean have advised TPS holders for years that they “should seek any other form of relief because of the vulnerability” of the program, and “because TPS on its own does not provide a path to status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s any other paths to legal status for TPS holders, they should seek it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS is meant to “exist alongside other forms of protection,” like asylum status, which can potentially prevent the government from detaining or deporting you, Arulanantham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temporary Protected Status holders along with union leaders and advocates rally as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in Mullin v. Doe on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. The case will determine whether the Trump Administration may terminate the TPS designations. \u003ccite>(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, “is definitely a good time” to consult with an immigration lawyer about those other options, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That being said,” he said. “The reason why TPS is such a powerful and effective form of protection is that it often is available to people who do not have any other form of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just part of the cruelty of the decision the Supreme Court has made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Follow this developing situation around TPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impacted individuals should follow the news to see if new legal avenues for protection arise in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision. Arulanantham said the Supreme Court “closed a lot of doors, but they didn’t necessarily close every door.”[aside postID=news_12088898 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty-1.jpg']Organizations to follow include the \u003ca href=\"https://asaptogether.org/en/temporary-protected-status/\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationaltpsalliance.org/\">National TPS Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should TPS holders not do right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoid international travel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International travel for any TPS holder is “very risky,” Arulanantham said. However, this may be familiar guidance, since even before the decision, “a TPS holder could not travel without something called TPS travel authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even domestic travel, you have to make sure that it’s an airport where people are not likely to check for anything other than a driver’s license,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do not make a panic decision, like leaving your job\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham also said people should not “preemptively quit” their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/AB_450_QA.pdf\">Immigrant Worker Protection Act from 2018\u003c/a> “prohibits employers from reverifying immigration status for employment purposes, unless federal law requires that they do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there is no rule saying “that everybody has to have their employment status reverified every month or every six months,” Arulanantham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can Congress do to protect TPS holders?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some ways for Congress to step up for TPS holders — but it might be a difficult avenue, considering it would need to get a vote and be signed off on by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the House passed legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://pressley.house.gov/2026/04/16/breaking-house-passes-pressley-led-measure-to-extend-temporary-protected-status-for-haiti-now-heads-to-senate/\">extend TPS \u003c/a>for Haitians for the next three years, and the legislation’s author, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), pointed to it as a possible safety net for TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-1357950242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-1357950242.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-1357950242-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-1357950242-1536x1088.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) speaks as Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Dec. 8, 2021 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This fight is not over, and the Senate should take this bill up — our discharge petition that passed the House on April 16 — should take this up immediately and save lives,” said Pressley, who is also co-chair of the House Haiti Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Senate, another piece of legislation called \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/TPS.pdf\">the Safe Environment from Countries Under Repression and in Emergency (SECURE) Act \u003c/a>aims to provide TPS holders who have been in the country for at least three years the chance to apply for legal permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there any immigration-specific resources in the Bay Area to help TPS holders?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>KQED has a guide to free \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">legal aid support in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key organizations to connect with immigration lawyers or experts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aansf.org/\">African Advocacy Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://carecensf.org/programs/immigration-legal-program/\">Carecen SF\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.larazacrc.org/\">La Raza Community\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionaction.org/find-services/\">Mission Action\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mujeresunidas.net/en/programas/\">Mujeres Unidas y Activas\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://immigrantsrising.org/\">Immigrants Rising\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/our-work/undocuhealth-wellness/\">UndocuHealth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/get-involved/\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chirla.org/\">Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/attorney-of-the-day-resources-for-our-immigrant-community/\">Bar Association of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory for California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.informedimmigrant.com/help/\">Informed Immigrant\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">Private immigration lawyer look-up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jfcs.org/find-help/emigres/\">Jewish Family and Children’s Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://clsepa.org/\">Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the power to end \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088417/supreme-court-immigration-decision-leaves-thousands-of-californians-in-limbo\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians without court oversight, threatening a decades-old federal program that allows people to stay in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s 6-3 \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-1083_f204.pdf\">ruling\u003c/a> concluded in general, “federal courts have no power to review” \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/06/25/dhs-issues-statement-following-multiple-supreme-court-wins\">the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s\u003c/a> decision-making when it comes to TPS, said Ahilan Arulanantham, a UCLA law professor and an attorney for Syrian plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#AreyouaffectedbythisTPSruling\">Are you affected by this TPS ruling?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’d successfully stopped the first Trump administration’s attempts to end TPS illegally in 2018,” he said. “Even though it has been a consistently hostile Supreme Court when it comes to major immigration cases, it still was — at some level — shocking to see this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision may also jeopardize the status of individuals from other TPS-designated countries, like Venezuela and Nepal. According to federal data from early last year, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844\">1.3 million people \u003c/a>from 17 different countries are TPS holders, with almost 80,000 of those in California alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2283313221-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haitian flags are displayed on a store on June 25, 2026, in the Little Haiti neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s effort to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians, who were legally in the U.S. and protected from deportation, including many who have lived legally in the country for years. \u003ccite>( Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emi MacLean, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California and co-counsel in the case, called the decision “a deeply painful blow” to these residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are more afraid, more at risk, and far more vulnerable than they have been,” she said. “What the decision means today is that the Supreme Court is rubber-stamping lawless actions by the administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the situation for TPS holders is quickly changing, read more to see what advocates and experts are telling people impacted by the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please keep in mind that this article is not legal advice, and it’s always best to consult with an immigration attorney about your specific situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"AreyouaffectedbythisTPSruling\">\u003c/a>Who is most affected by this TPS ruling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mullin v. Doe \u003c/em>specifically focused on reviewing TPS designation for people from Haiti and Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300,000 Haitians have been living in the U.S. since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-supreme-court-haiti-syria-tps-1bbbf8115f984a0d53336656924e989d\">2010\u003c/a>, after the catastrophic earthquake that year that killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/8732\">hundreds of thousands\u003c/a> of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3,5000 Syrians have also held TPS since 2012, due to the country’s deadly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22\">civil war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-180135991-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors rally in support of possible U.S. military action in Syria, on Capitol Hill, on Sept. 9, 2013 in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s administration has, in the past, announced \u003ca href=\"https://forumtogether.org/article/temporary-protected-status-fact-sheet/\">its intent\u003c/a> to remove the TPS status of several countries, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Afghanistan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cameroon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>South Sudan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Burma\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ethiopia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Somalia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yemen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Venezuela\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nepal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Honduras\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nicaragua\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham said there are some countries for which no decision has been made yet around TPS holders, like El Salvador and Ukraine. Both of their statuses, however, are \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">set to expire\u003c/a> this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When does the Supreme Court’s TPS decision take effect?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the TPS cases involving Syria and Haiti, it will likely take effect “in a little over a month,” Arulanantham said. “But there’s no fixed deadline for that. That’s usually what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is harder to answer for the timeline of other countries like Venezuela and Honduras, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will depend on when the government attempts to apply these rulings to those cases and then also when those courts respond,” he said. “I think it’s fair to say that in something like weeks or a few months, we’ll see the devastating effects of this decision on TPS communities around the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens when TPS expires?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to immigration advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://forumtogether.org/article/temporary-protected-status-fact-sheet/\">The Forum\u003c/a>, once a TPS designation ends and the person does not acquire a new immigration status, the person \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/temporary-protected-status-tps-overview/\">reverts \u003c/a>to their previous status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning, for those without a legal status, they would be considered undocumented again, and “potentially be subject to removal proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has a thorough guide on your rights when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">interacting with immigration officers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should TPS holders do right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look into other protections ASAP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts like MacLean have advised TPS holders for years that they “should seek any other form of relief because of the vulnerability” of the program, and “because TPS on its own does not provide a path to status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s any other paths to legal status for TPS holders, they should seek it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS is meant to “exist alongside other forms of protection,” like asylum status, which can potentially prevent the government from detaining or deporting you, Arulanantham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088821\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temporary Protected Status holders along with union leaders and advocates rally as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in Mullin v. Doe on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. The case will determine whether the Trump Administration may terminate the TPS designations. \u003ccite>(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, “is definitely a good time” to consult with an immigration lawyer about those other options, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That being said,” he said. “The reason why TPS is such a powerful and effective form of protection is that it often is available to people who do not have any other form of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just part of the cruelty of the decision the Supreme Court has made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Follow this developing situation around TPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impacted individuals should follow the news to see if new legal avenues for protection arise in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Organizations to follow include the \u003ca href=\"https://asaptogether.org/en/temporary-protected-status/\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationaltpsalliance.org/\">National TPS Alliance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should TPS holders not do right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoid international travel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International travel for any TPS holder is “very risky,” Arulanantham said. However, this may be familiar guidance, since even before the decision, “a TPS holder could not travel without something called TPS travel authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even domestic travel, you have to make sure that it’s an airport where people are not likely to check for anything other than a driver’s license,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do not make a panic decision, like leaving your job\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham also said people should not “preemptively quit” their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/AB_450_QA.pdf\">Immigrant Worker Protection Act from 2018\u003c/a> “prohibits employers from reverifying immigration status for employment purposes, unless federal law requires that they do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there is no rule saying “that everybody has to have their employment status reverified every month or every six months,” Arulanantham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can Congress do to protect TPS holders?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are some ways for Congress to step up for TPS holders — but it might be a difficult avenue, considering it would need to get a vote and be signed off on by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the House passed legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://pressley.house.gov/2026/04/16/breaking-house-passes-pressley-led-measure-to-extend-temporary-protected-status-for-haiti-now-heads-to-senate/\">extend TPS \u003c/a>for Haitians for the next three years, and the legislation’s author, Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Haitian nurse who has spent three decades \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">in the United States\u003c/a> couldn’t get out of bed for most of Thursday. By late afternoon, she had finally showered and eaten something and was ready to crawl back under the covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That morning, Harlaine, who asked to be identified only by her first name, learned that the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hurting for my loved ones, for so many other people. I’m mourning for them, and I’m scared for them,” said Harlaine, who has held TPS status since the 2010 Haiti earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088417/supreme-court-immigration-decision-leaves-thousands-of-californians-in-limbo\">6-3 ruling\u003c/a> means that as soon as next month, people like Harlaine could lose their work permits — the protection that has shielded them from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing we ask for is the ability to work so we can eat,” she said. “Even if deportation doesn’t come first, they’re starving us out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left Haiti at age five and came to the U.S. in 1995 when she was seven, growing up in South Florida. Harlaine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> status barred her from attending college despite being offered a nearly full-ride scholarship, so she paid out of pocket. 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She earned her associate degree in 2019 and has worked the front lines ever since: during COVID, as a traveling nurse in underserved hospitals, in cardiac care, the ICU and now the emergency room, with an oncology certificate to administer chemotherapy to cancer patients. Last year, she had a son, a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Harlaine is forced to leave, she fears she’ll lose him. “My issue is separation. I would be separated from my young son if I had to leave this country,” she said. “Leaving with him is not even an option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress established TPS as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, for immigrants already in the U.S. whose home countries are experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other “extraordinary conditions.” It provides a shield from deportation and a work permit, but not permanent legal status. 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The same day, the court issued a separate ruling allowing the administration to sharply limit who can seek asylum at the southern border. A day earlier, it gave border officers more power to detain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088676/supreme-court-ruling-brings-new-challenges-for-green-card-holders-advocates-warn\">returning green card holders\u003c/a>. And still pending is a decision on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/birthright-citizenship\">birthright citizenship\u003c/a> — the constitutional guarantee that virtually anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Arulanantham, the cases form a pattern. The administration “wanted to kill off the TPS statute,” he said, and “this victory allows them to accomplish much the same result without having to go through Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates and analysts caution against assuming the birthright case will follow suit. 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