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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. He credited improved law enforcement and state policy changes for the success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re holding more people accountable, and we’re deterring potential crimes,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These historic results show that when we invest in our communities, support law enforcement, crack down on organized crime, and expand prevention and intervention efforts, we can save lives and improve public safety,” Newsom said in a statement. “California is proving that smart, sustained investments are making a real difference for families across our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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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": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/supreme-court-of-the-united-states\">Supreme Court\u003c/a> upheld equal citizenship for all born on American soil on Tuesday, in a landmark victory for the country’s immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-awaited decision in \u003cem>Trump v. Barbara\u003c/em> delivers a huge blow to the immigration agenda of President Donald Trump, who issued an executive order challenging birthright citizenship on his first day in office. The court rejected the administration’s argument that children whose parents aren’t citizens or permanent legal residents aren’t subject to the 14th Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship, then and now,” Chief Justice John Roberts concluded, “was the right to have rights–to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was largely decided along ideological lines. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. In Alito’s dissent, he wrote: “[t]his is one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a serious mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed in the decision but under different reasoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a century, babies born in the U.S. have been granted citizenship based on the 14th Amendment, which says that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”[aside postID=news_12088125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/20260614-ChinatownActivism-JY-02.jpg']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",
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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. 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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. 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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. Taking one class per semester, she was forced to pause repeatedly when her work permit expired between terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2273951119-scaled-e1781111182660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Supreme Court building on May 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prerequisites that took most students a year took Harlaine seven. 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. Protections last six to 18 months and can be renewed or terminated, depending on conditions back home.[aside postID=news_12088417 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSGetty.jpg']In the cases decided Thursday, the court ruled that a provision of the TPS statute bars courts from reviewing whether the administration followed the law when it ended protections for Haiti and Syria. According to Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and an attorney on the Syrian case, the decision does not say the terminations were lawful, only that judges have no power to check them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe Aguirre, deputy director of U.S. litigation for the International Refugee Assistance Project, called it potentially the largest “de-documentation effort in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision takes effect in 32 days, Arulanantham said. At that point, unless a lower court intervenes, Haitians and Syrians who held work authorization through TPS will most likely lose it. As many as 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the U.S. could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling did not directly touch the roughly 170,000 Salvadorans whose protections are due for review in September. Until recently, Cristina Morales was one of them. A Bay Area educator, Morales held TPS for over two decades before becoming a permanent resident in March. She and her daughter, Crista Ramos, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">named plaintiffs\u003c/a> in a 2018 lawsuit that staved off TPS termination during Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with her own status secure, Morales said the ruling left her shaken. “There’s a lot of agony, and there’s a lot of people feeling in limbo,” she said. Many longtime holders are nearing retirement and could lose access to their benefits. “We need Congress to do something for the families. We need permanent residency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11714405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits on a park bench with her dad Edgar Ramos (left), brother Diego and mom Cristina Morales in Richmond, California, on Nov. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The TPS decision did not arrive in isolation. 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. Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration policy expert and nonresident fellow at Cornell Law School, said the TPS, asylum and green card rulings all relied on interpretations of existing immigration statutes — while birthright citizenship “is a fundamentally constitutional question,” requiring the court to overturn an over century-old precedent rooted in the 14th Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that I know, including people who would like to see birthright go away, think it’s a long shot,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What the rulings share in common, Brown said, is their target: people living in the U.S. under discretionary protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who have spent a lot of time in the United States in these kinds of discretionary statuses — whether it’s humanitarian parole, deferred action, temporary protected status — are all at risk,” Brown said. Her advice is to “find competent immigration counsel” and explore other options rather than wait on litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harlaine, the hardest part is the gap between how she is classified and the life she’s built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that they have about us, that we’re all criminals, that we’re using resources from this country. All of that is inaccurate,” she said. “This country does not give me anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlaine and her family own their home and pay taxes, she said, money that funds the very hospitals and police she counts as neighbors. “We’re actually who you would probably want to have around, because we uplift, not destroy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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As many as 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the U.S. could be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling did not directly touch the roughly 170,000 Salvadorans whose protections are due for review in September. Until recently, Cristina Morales was one of them. A Bay Area educator, Morales held TPS for over two decades before becoming a permanent resident in March. She and her daughter, Crista Ramos, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">named plaintiffs\u003c/a> in a 2018 lawsuit that staved off TPS termination during Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with her own status secure, Morales said the ruling left her shaken. “There’s a lot of agony, and there’s a lot of people feeling in limbo,” she said. Many longtime holders are nearing retirement and could lose access to their benefits. “We need Congress to do something for the families. We need permanent residency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11714405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits on a park bench with her dad Edgar Ramos (left), brother Diego and mom Cristina Morales in Richmond, California, on Nov. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The TPS decision did not arrive in isolation. 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. Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration policy expert and nonresident fellow at Cornell Law School, said the TPS, asylum and green card rulings all relied on interpretations of existing immigration statutes — while birthright citizenship “is a fundamentally constitutional question,” requiring the court to overturn an over century-old precedent rooted in the 14th Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people that I know, including people who would like to see birthright go away, think it’s a long shot,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/TPSSCOTUSGetty-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What the rulings share in common, Brown said, is their target: people living in the U.S. under discretionary protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people who have spent a lot of time in the United States in these kinds of discretionary statuses — whether it’s humanitarian parole, deferred action, temporary protected status — are all at risk,” Brown said. Her advice is to “find competent immigration counsel” and explore other options rather than wait on litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harlaine, the hardest part is the gap between how she is classified and the life she’s built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that they have about us, that we’re all criminals, that we’re using resources from this country. All of that is inaccurate,” she said. “This country does not give me anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlaine and her family own their home and pay taxes, she said, money that funds the very hospitals and police she counts as neighbors. “We’re actually who you would probably want to have around, because we uplift, not destroy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents who have relied on longstanding immigration protections may now face deportation after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration has the power to terminate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> without court oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 6-3 decision, the court cleared the way for the administration to end TPS for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lupe Aguirre, deputy director of U.S. Litigation for the International Refugee Assistance Project, described the move as potentially the largest “de-documentation effort in history.” The decision came as a shock for immigrants who, for years or even decades, have been allowed to live and work lawfully in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After you’ve been here for like 20 years, it’s not temporary anymore. It’s part of who you are,” said Cristina Morales, a Bay Area educator from El Salvador who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">protected under TPS\u003c/a> for over two decades until March, when she became a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with her own status now secure, she said the ruling left her shaken: “It made me feel so broken, because not many people have the opportunity to adjust their status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/358\">Congress\u003c/a> established the program as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, for immigrants already living in the U.S. whose home countries are experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other “extraordinary conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2273951119-scaled-e1781111182660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Supreme Court building on May 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Democratic and Republican administrations have granted these protections to people from countries in crisis — including many who live in the U.S. without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision takes effect in 32 days, said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and an attorney who presented the case on behalf of the Syrian refugees. At that point, Haitians and Syrians who held work authorization through TPS will most likely lose it — unless a district court intervenes.[aside postID=news_12084545 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20250129_UCBERKELEYRALLY_GC-44-KQED.jpg']TPS provides a shield from deportation and a work permit, but it doesn’t represent permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protections last from six to 18 months, and the government can renew them repeatedly — or terminate them — depending on country conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data shows that as of March 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/RS20844/79\">roughly 1.3 million people from 17 countries\u003c/a>, ranging from Venezuela and Honduras to Afghanistan and Nepal, have held TPS. Since then, the Trump administration has ended, or tried to end, TPS designations for 13 of those countries, which could expose 1 million people to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/court-considers-whether-trump-administration-properly-ended-temporary-protected-status-for-haiti/\">two cases\u003c/a> before the Supreme Court involved \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5794042/supeme-court-tps\">migrants from Haiti and Syria\u003c/a>. More than 300,000 Haitians have been living legally in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has repeatedly extended their TPS, in light of a cholera epidemic and a political collapse that involved the assassination of Haiti’s president and widespread gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrians were first granted TPS in 2012, during a crackdown on dissent by former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844#_Ref202881937\">Roughly 3,800\u003c/a> Syrians still hold the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. 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And most justices agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the administration’s statements were not “overtly racial,” and that the language of the TPS statute prohibiting judicial review “is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blistering dissent led by Justice Elena Kagan, she wrote that the Haitian and Syrian TPS beneficiaries “ask for only one thing: that they may stay in this country while they continue to litigate their claims. … [T]hey are entitled to that relief, and should not instead be consigned to devastating, and indeed life-threatening, injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. The Supreme Court is examining the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. \u003ccite>(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today’s ruling could essentially give the administration carte blanche to swiftly end TPS for every country — without any judicial review of whether it was complying with the process Congress laid out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth understanding this administration is obviously trying to extend its discretionary authority to the broadest extent,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration policy expert and nonresident fellow and scholar at Cornell Law School. “And a lot of people who have spent a lot of time in the U.S. in these kinds of discretionary statuses — whether it’s humanitarian parole, deferred action, temporary protected status — are all at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that people who are in the U.S. under discretionary status “should be thinking and talking to immigration attorneys about what options they may have under the law to try to stay and not necessarily wait on litigation to save them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court’s ruling is not the end of the road for advocates defending the rights of TPS holders to remain in the U.S. lawfully, Arulanantham said. Because the ruling sends the cases back to the lower courts rather than striking the protections outright, a judge must still issue an order before the terminations take effect — though courts could act sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders nationwide could lose their work permits, forcing their employers to choose between keeping them on illegally or letting them go. And those TPS holders now face the possibility of immigration officers arresting and deporting them at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the ruling didn’t address El Salvador, the country’s protections cover roughly 170,000 people, and are up for review in September. Some 100,000 Ukrainians have TPS until October. Many of those immigrants, Brown said, will lose their TPS status if they haven’t already, and will have to find other means to stay in the country legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, who along with her daughter was a plaintiff in a 2018 case to protect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\">TPS during the first Trump administration\u003c/a>, said many in the community feel caught in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shadow of deportation, that shadow that family can split; it’s been like a big umbrella around TPS families,” Morales said. “It feels so powerful. But we can pick it up. We have to hold on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After you’ve been here for like 20 years, it’s not temporary anymore. It’s part of who you are,” said Cristina Morales, a Bay Area educator from El Salvador who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">protected under TPS\u003c/a> for over two decades until March, when she became a permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with her own status now secure, she said the ruling left her shaken: “It made me feel so broken, because not many people have the opportunity to adjust their status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/358\">Congress\u003c/a> established the program as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, for immigrants already living in the U.S. whose home countries are experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other “extraordinary conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2273951119-scaled-e1781111182660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Supreme Court building on May 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Democratic and Republican administrations have granted these protections to people from countries in crisis — including many who live in the U.S. without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision takes effect in 32 days, said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and an attorney who presented the case on behalf of the Syrian refugees. At that point, Haitians and Syrians who held work authorization through TPS will most likely lose it — unless a district court intervenes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>TPS provides a shield from deportation and a work permit, but it doesn’t represent permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protections last from six to 18 months, and the government can renew them repeatedly — or terminate them — depending on country conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data shows that as of March 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/RS20844/79\">roughly 1.3 million people from 17 countries\u003c/a>, ranging from Venezuela and Honduras to Afghanistan and Nepal, have held TPS. Since then, the Trump administration has ended, or tried to end, TPS designations for 13 of those countries, which could expose 1 million people to deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/court-considers-whether-trump-administration-properly-ended-temporary-protected-status-for-haiti/\">two cases\u003c/a> before the Supreme Court involved \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5794042/supeme-court-tps\">migrants from Haiti and Syria\u003c/a>. More than 300,000 Haitians have been living legally in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has repeatedly extended their TPS, in light of a cholera epidemic and a political collapse that involved the assassination of Haiti’s president and widespread gang violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrians were first granted TPS in 2012, during a crackdown on dissent by former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS20844#_Ref202881937\">Roughly 3,800\u003c/a> Syrians still hold the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Brett-Kavanaugh-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump was expected to address Congress on his early achievements of his presidency and his upcoming legislative agenda. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Syrian and Haitian lawsuits are among \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/practice-alert-tps-and-parole-status-updates-chart\">several\u003c/a> filed by TPS holders challenging Trump administration terminations, on the grounds that the government had not followed proper procedures and, in the Haitian case, that it was motivated by an illegal racial animus toward immigrants from Haiti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two cases before the high court challenged the way DHS terminated the TPS designations for Syrians and Haitians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration argued that it had made those decisions properly, and it went much further, insisting that the courts had no authority to determine whether it was implementing the program as Congress intended. And most justices agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the administration’s statements were not “overtly racial,” and that the language of the TPS statute prohibiting judicial review “is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blistering dissent led by Justice Elena Kagan, she wrote that the Haitian and Syrian TPS beneficiaries “ask for only one thing: that they may stay in this country while they continue to litigate their claims. … [T]hey are entitled to that relief, and should not instead be consigned to devastating, and indeed life-threatening, injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12088878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12088878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/GettyImages-2273115711-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the National TPS Alliance rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2026. The Supreme Court is examining the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. \u003ccite>(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today’s ruling could essentially give the administration carte blanche to swiftly end TPS for every country — without any judicial review of whether it was complying with the process Congress laid out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth understanding this administration is obviously trying to extend its discretionary authority to the broadest extent,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration policy expert and nonresident fellow and scholar at Cornell Law School. “And a lot of people who have spent a lot of time in the U.S. in these kinds of discretionary statuses — whether it’s humanitarian parole, deferred action, temporary protected status — are all at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that people who are in the U.S. under discretionary status “should be thinking and talking to immigration attorneys about what options they may have under the law to try to stay and not necessarily wait on litigation to save them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court’s ruling is not the end of the road for advocates defending the rights of TPS holders to remain in the U.S. lawfully, Arulanantham said. Because the ruling sends the cases back to the lower courts rather than striking the protections outright, a judge must still issue an order before the terminations take effect — though courts could act sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders nationwide could lose their work permits, forcing their employers to choose between keeping them on illegally or letting them go. And those TPS holders now face the possibility of immigration officers arresting and deporting them at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the ruling didn’t address El Salvador, the country’s protections cover roughly 170,000 people, and are up for review in September. Some 100,000 Ukrainians have TPS until October. 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And vice versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of that is now back in play after a federal judge\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/H1B%20Order.pdf\"> blocked\u003c/a> a $100,000 visa fee this week, which the Trump administration imposed on employers in a September 2025 proclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin concluded the policy was an unauthorized, “arbitrary and capricious” tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Proclamation expresses concern about the share of foreign workers filling jobs in the science and technology fields, specifically focusing on the IT sector,” Sorokin wrote. “However, [it] fails to consider or discuss these policy concerns as they pertain to other human-services sectors, such as education and healthcare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorokin sided with 20 states in a lawsuit, led by California, which alleged that the executive branch exceeded its authority and violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs how federal agencies develop and issue regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tax was an attack on America’s ability to attract and retain the high-skilled talent that strengthens our economy and helps us meet critical workforce needs,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement, adding that California “remains open for business, open to talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074482\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2262729717-scaled-e1773182284895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In making their case, the states argued the higher visa costs, which previously ranged from \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-over-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-unlawful-new-100k-fee-h\">$960 to $7,595\u003c/a>, would lead to severe staffing shortages in public school systems, state universities, and public healthcare facilities that rely on foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration argued the visa restrictions were within the executive branch’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The H-1B program has been abused for decades, and President Trump finally took action to fix it. 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Virginia Elena moved to Santa Cruz as a kid and says weed’s an essential part of its identity. “It’s a huge part of the culture,” Elena said. “It’s always been a huge part of the music scene, the festival scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weed’s been popular here since as far back as she can remember, but since its legalization, the culture has grown more and more commercial. She said vapes and gummies started replacing joints, and that high taxes have made survival hard for small legacy operators. “I’ve seen dispensary after dispensaries go down or get sold,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnny Hamala owns the Green Spot Dispensary on Santa Cruz’s West Side. He said California regulations have been challenging. “We have just now been bumbling through to get to a good system,” he said. High taxes and strict regulations have caused many small growers he works with to go out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state responded to industry concerns late last year by reducing its excise tax on cannabis from 19% to 15%. While Hamala celebrates the reduction, he also said regulations have fallen short in other ways, like failing to limit the amount of weed in the legal industry. “There was way too much. Way too much cannabis,” Hamala said. “You couldn’t sell it. You were lucky if you could get what it cost you to grow it to get the money out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of a growing cap led to an oversupply of weed in the market, causing prices to drop rapidly. That’s according to Whitney Economics, an industry group that collects economic data for businesses and regulators. As a result, small operators who’d been around the longest couldn’t compete in the oversaturated market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health groups say that same oversupply is also concerning for its effects on the consumer side. “What we have now is a bunch of people who produce too much weed and they’re looking for warm bodies to consume it,” said Lynn Silver, program director at the Public Health Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization released targeted guidelines earlier this year that scored cities based on how they protect public health and prevent kids from smoking weed. Santa Cruz scored just 42 out of 100. The scorecard recommends doing things like prohibiting weed infused drinks and increasing buffer zones between schools and dispensaries — an issue that came up in 2024 when a dispensary was approved blocks away from Santa Cruz High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California continues to fine tune its regulation of the legal weed industry, towns like Santa Cruz are finding their own balance, figuring out what a new age of cannabis culture means for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/2026/05/26/california-immigrants-medicaid-healthcare-uninsured/\">When new CA laws kicked in, thousands of immigrants dropped or lost Medicaid coverage\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New data show California’s cuts to its Medicaid program are taking a steep toll on the state’s once-signature “Health Care for All” movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 86,000 immigrants without legal status left or were denied Medi-Cal in January and February, exiting the program at a rate six times higher than other enrollees, according to a Public Health Watch analysis of the most recent \u003ca href=\"http://google.com/url?q=https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/medi-cal-adult-expansion&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1779397616056213&usg=AOvVaw0sfV6K1OsWhauyDNXVzKK9\">data\u003c/a> available. The sharp decline is the largest two-month enrollment drop for this population since California first opened Medi-Cal to all low-income residents regardless of immigration status in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative, championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, had been steadily growing until May 2025, when participation peaked at 1.48 million enrollees. Enrollment has fallen gradually since, driven in large part by passage of the sweeping federal budget bill, H.R. 1, and other state actions that will deter or discourage more immigrants from getting Medicaid coverage. “We’ve got a real chilling effect,” said Laura Sheckler, deputy director of policy and regulatory affairs at the California Primary Care Association, which represents nonprofit health clinics statewide. “A lot of actions have happened at the federal level … and then on top of that, state policies [have indicated] just a clear withdrawal from that promise of care and coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, when enrollment began to dip, it was revealed the Trump administration was sharing Medicaid data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/\">LAist.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rich trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/aapi\">Asian American and Pacific Islander\u003c/a> history lives in academic journals and university library stacks that many students don’t know how to tap into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new multimedia textbook developed out of UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundationsandfutures.org/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cem>Foundations and Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the online platform combines written chapters, archival documents and artwork with videos and podcast clips, geared at students in high school and up, along with their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the largest collection of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories in one location — free and open access for anyone with an Internet connection,” said Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA center and one of the project’s co-editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The textbook officially launched this month — Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month — after some six years of development with contributions from more than 100 authors and curriculum developers from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed with the TikTok generation in mind, the platform is optimized for phones and tablets for easy scrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of young people, of course, are really into TikTok videos and Instagram posts,” Umemoto said. “So we thought, ‘Let’s leverage that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Responding to invisibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The project was seeded in 2020 when Umemoto and co-editor and fellow UCLA professor Kelly Fong began drafting proposals chapter by chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was moving toward implementing an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-san-francisco-california-graduation-bills-f80ea6c0efc1a37c88b83c9fef63109c\">ethnic studies graduation requirement\u003c/a>. 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Thanks in part to Mink’s advocacy, Congress finally voted to return the sacred land back to Hawaiʻi and end military testing there in 1993 after decades of sustained resistance. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaiʻi Public Radio/Foundations and Futures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and a surge in anti-Asian hate incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people who have no idea who we are, where we come from, how we got here,” Umemoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The textbook grew into a $12 million project, supported through a mix of state funding, grants and private donations.[aside postID=news_12083091 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-08-KQED.jpg']A major boost came in 2022, when the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus \u003ca href=\"https://aapilegcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/products/california-aapi-legislative-caucus-committed-teaching-aapi-history\">helped secure a $10 million state allocation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the textbook does focus on AAPI history in California, like the Filipino farmworker movement and Vietnamese refugee communities in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other modules cover Chinese immigrant garment workers in New York and Asian American communities in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting into schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Umemoto said the textbook is for anyone to use as needed, but a major goal is helping educators incorporate AAPI perspectives into existing courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so woefully invisible and underrepresented in educational curricula,” she said, noting that there are few teachers to instruct from lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr/public-school-teachers?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">2% of public school teachers \u003c/a>in the U.S. are AAPI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is to offer everything from two-day in-person teacher workshops to national webinars in partnership with teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Christman of San Francisco Heritage holds a print of landmark Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called \u003ca href=\"https://www.foundationsandfutures.org/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cem>Foundations and Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the online platform combines written chapters, archival documents and artwork with videos and podcast clips, geared at students in high school and up, along with their teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the largest collection of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories in one location — free and open access for anyone with an Internet connection,” said Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA center and one of the project’s co-editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The textbook officially launched this month — Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month — after some six years of development with contributions from more than 100 authors and curriculum developers from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed with the TikTok generation in mind, the platform is optimized for phones and tablets for easy scrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of young people, of course, are really into TikTok videos and Instagram posts,” Umemoto said. “So we thought, ‘Let’s leverage that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Responding to invisibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The project was seeded in 2020 when Umemoto and co-editor and fellow UCLA professor Kelly Fong began drafting proposals chapter by chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was moving toward implementing an \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-san-francisco-california-graduation-bills-f80ea6c0efc1a37c88b83c9fef63109c\">ethnic studies graduation requirement\u003c/a>. The professors worried AAPI histories could still be sidelined without dedicated resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1974px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/36.03.IMG_.017_MNK.PlanningExplorationOfKahoolawe.1979.FrancoSalmoiraghi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1974\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/36.03.IMG_.017_MNK.PlanningExplorationOfKahoolawe.1979.FrancoSalmoiraghi.jpg 1974w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/36.03.IMG_.017_MNK.PlanningExplorationOfKahoolawe.1979.FrancoSalmoiraghi-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/36.03.IMG_.017_MNK.PlanningExplorationOfKahoolawe.1979.FrancoSalmoiraghi-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1974px) 100vw, 1974px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grassroots activists prepare to survey Kahoʻolawe in 1976. Thanks in part to Mink’s advocacy, Congress finally voted to return the sacred land back to Hawaiʻi and end military testing there in 1993 after decades of sustained resistance. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaiʻi Public Radio/Foundations and Futures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and a surge in anti-Asian hate incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people who have no idea who we are, where we come from, how we got here,” Umemoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The textbook grew into a $12 million project, supported through a mix of state funding, grants and private donations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A major boost came in 2022, when the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus \u003ca href=\"https://aapilegcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/products/california-aapi-legislative-caucus-committed-teaching-aapi-history\">helped secure a $10 million state allocation.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the textbook does focus on AAPI history in California, like the Filipino farmworker movement and Vietnamese refugee communities in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other modules cover Chinese immigrant garment workers in New York and Asian American communities in the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting into schools\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Umemoto said the textbook is for anyone to use as needed, but a major goal is helping educators incorporate AAPI perspectives into existing courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re so woefully invisible and underrepresented in educational curricula,” she said, noting that there are few teachers to instruct from lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr/public-school-teachers?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">2% of public school teachers \u003c/a>in the U.S. are AAPI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is to offer everything from two-day in-person teacher workshops to national webinars in partnership with teachers unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Christman of San Francisco Heritage holds a print of landmark Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. Hopkins during a press conference at the parking lot on 3rd and Harrison streets to commemorate the case’s 140th anniversary in San Francisco on Monday, May 11, 2026. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with the project’s launch, organizers say their work continues with raising funds for teacher training, as well as outreach and operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is seeking another $5 million for the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a professor not trained in doing startups or ed tech projects, and so I didn’t realize how much it would take just to keep the lights on,” Umemoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the while, the team is building the textbook to 50 chapters. It’s currently at 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learning amid polarization\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The project arrives amid charged political debates over how race and identity are taught in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umemoto acknowledged that some critics view ethnic studies as divisive, but she said the goal of the textbook is the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to learn about each other’s history so that we can build an inclusive society,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Umemoto, the work is deeply personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2188531316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2188531316.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2188531316-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GettyImages-2188531316-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 as U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Muriel Humphrey, Senator Edward Kennedy Senator Robert Kennedy, and others look on, Liberty Island, New York City, New York. \u003ccite>(Yoichi Okamoto/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she grew up knowing her parents and grandparents had been forced into camps during World War II, but did not fully understand the broader history behind the incarceration of Japanese Americans until later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up thinking everybody was in camp,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, she hopes the textbook helps students better understand both themselves and one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all my years of teaching, there has not been a student who has left the classroom unchanged,” Umemoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we want to deal with the problems of polarization, we need to start in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A bell chimes every time a new customer enters Martha Valencia’s tax shop in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County.\u003c/a> The space is filled with knickknacks, gifts from customers and photos of family. During tax season, it’s usually filled with customers too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year has been slower than normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bell used to be ringing off the hook, says Valencia, with lines out the door. She and her son would fit walk-ins between appointments, trying to keep wait times under an hour. But today, “it’s empty,” Valencia says. “They have to wait nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia, who has been doing immigration and tax services for over 20 years, says around 80% of her clients file with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, the tax number used by people — like undocumented immigrants — who don’t qualify for a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, business isn’t just slow; it’s the worst she’s ever seen. Valencia says she’s seeing a 60% drop in clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not even in the pandemic I had a drop like this,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia believes the drop is linked to larger governmental changes and fear in the current political climate. This year, H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, \u003ca href=\"https://lulac.org/impact_of_hr_1_one_big_beautiful_bill_act_on_immigrants_and_children_of_immigrants_who_are_us_citizens/\">tightened restrictions\u003c/a> on ITIN filers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest changes for undocumented taxpayers as a result of H.R. 1’s passage includes restrictions on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax-credit\">Additional Child Tax Credit\u003c/a>, which previously allowed many mixed‑status families to receive thousands of dollars back. That means ITIN filers can expect much smaller refunds, Valencia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074131 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/OneBigBeautifulBillGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1251\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/OneBigBeautifulBillGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/OneBigBeautifulBillGetty-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/OneBigBeautifulBillGetty-1536x961.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is seen during an enrollment ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on July 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The House passed the sweeping tax and spending bill after winning over fiscal hawks and moderate Republicans. The bill makes permanent President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, increases spending on defense and immigration enforcement and temporarily cuts taxes on tips, while at the same time, cutting funding for Medicaid, food assistance for the poor, clean energy and raises the nation’s debt limit by $5 trillion. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of Valencia’s clients are long-term customers. The tax business is built on trust, she says. This year, before accepting any work, Valencia feels an ethical obligation to tell clients the bad news that their refunds will be smaller, and maybe nonexistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mixed-status household could, in a normal year, expect to receive around $2,000 in the Additional Child Tax Credit. But this year, they’re lucky to get $500, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says the reaction to this information has been immediate. Prospective customers tell her: “You know what? I’m not going to file because I’m not getting any refund. So what’s the point of doing taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an undocumented immigrant, having proof of taxes is important. It builds a paper trail, so if the day comes to receive legal status, it shows work history, engagement with the system and U.S. presence.[aside postID=news_12079829 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/ImmigrantTaxes-GilsTaxServices.jpg']But Valencia says customers are coming in worn-down, without a vision for future immigration relief. They tell her their faith in the system is dropping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Southern California city of Pomona, tax preparer Hayde Vigil says her business is also seeing about half its usual filings this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the steep drop looks different in Southern California, she explains. Most of her clients are documented, Vigil says in Spanish, but status doesn’t seem to be the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re afraid to leave their homes because there are so many raids, and they’re scared they’ll be detained and deported,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration enforcement agents have been active in that region, and her customers are afraid they’ll be picked up because they’re Latino, even if they are here legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t going out at all before, and now they only go out for the bare minimum,” says Vigil, which doesn’t seem to include leaving the house to file taxes this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There’s nothing for you’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Claudia, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, sits wringing her hands in her lap. As names are called out in the Northern California day labor hall where she sits in, she waits for the sound of her own, hoping to pick up some work for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia, who did not want her full name to be used because her immigration status puts her at risk of deportation, has been living in California for over 20 years. In these decades, her work has ebbed and flowed, sometimes working multiple jobs at once. These days, Claudia is lucky to have her name called a few times a week. Regardless of workflow, she files her taxes every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it’s not just around tax season that she pays, Claudia explains in Spanish. “You pay taxes on what you earn, on what you buy, on everything you consume in this country,” Claudia says. “But you can’t get anything back from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1993px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1993\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed.jpg 1993w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/taxes041511_qed-1920x1284.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1993px) 100vw, 1993px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Current federal tax forms are distributed at the offices of the Internal Revenue Service on Nov. 1, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois. \u003ccite>(Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Claudia keeps filing year after year in the hope that one day she’ll have a pathway to documentation that would let her visit her family in Mexico, find work more easily and live with no fear about status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hold onto the hope that, in the future, you’ll be able to do things the right way,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after over 20 years of filing, her hope toward legalization only seems to be dwindling. “In the end, there’s nothing there for you, is there?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia still sees no pathway to legal status and receives no Social Security benefits, no MediCal — and this year, for the first time, she was told she’ll receive no credits back for her son, who is a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her voice grows soft. “So, what’s the point in paying?” she asks. “There’s no hope for someone like me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia says she went back and forth in her head, deciding if this would be the year she broke her commitment to a stable future here. In the end, she filed, but her doubt continues to grow, both in the system and her future in the United States.[aside postID=news_12079441 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/260226-GovRaceForum-49-BL_qed.jpg']Yet for others, the doubt has already reached a tipping point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Northern California day labor facility, Velasco waits to hear his own name called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should I pay taxes?” he asks in Spanish. “When you realize you’re paying in but not receiving anything in return, there’s no point anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velasco, who also asked for his full name not to be shared out of fear of deportation, has lived in Northern California for 24 years. For the majority of that time, he worked at a lumber company and filed his taxes consistently. Filing always felt like a no‑brainer, he says — part of his civic responsibility, even without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He always considered himself a rule follower. “After all, that’s how the country keeps running,” he says. “But lately, I’ve changed my tune.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many undocumented immigrants across the state, Velasco fears being seen in public, afraid he’ll be picked up and deported. He says he feels at odds with the federal government and has begun questioning why he should contribute to a system he believes wants him gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t exactly give you the desire to comply,” he says. “Yet when it comes to collecting taxes, [the government] certainly want to do that, don’t they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velasco no longer files. Now, he picks up odd jobs doing house maintenance and gets paid in cash, under the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Undocumented taxpayers are ‘extremely important’ to economy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s a common belief that immigrants don’t pay taxes, says Abby Raisz, vice president of research at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. But it’s not true. “Undocumented immigrants maintain very high effective tax rates,” Raisz says — \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-2017/\">averaging 7.1% in state and local taxes\u003c/a>, higher than the rate paid by the top 1% of earners nationally, according to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareaeconomy.org/\">Raisz’s team estimates\u003c/a> undocumented Californians contribute about \u003ca href=\"https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/publications/economic-impact-mass-deportation-california\">9% of the state’s GDP\u003c/a>, or roughly $278 billion, a figure on the order of the entire GDP of Nevada or Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/do-immigrants-pay-taxes\">pay more\u003c/a> than $10.6 billion in state and local taxes and $13 billion in federal taxes, despite being excluded from most federal benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11863601 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman doing taxes with calculator\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47577_iStock-915488206-qut-1536x810.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption 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