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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, 4:35 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPresident Donald Trump says a caravan of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. shows the weakness of the nation's immigration laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reacting to news that the group reached the U.S. border over the weekend, Trump tweeted Monday that the group is \"openly defying our border.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/991084424992296962\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called out Democrats for supporting \"sanctuary city\" policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and other members of his administration have been watching and criticizing the caravan of hundreds of Central Americans since they started journeying through Mexico a month ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The migrants tried to start applying for protection at the San Diego border crossing Sunday. But U.S. officials have said for two days that the facility is full and can't accommodate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, 12:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 200 people in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers waited on the Mexican border with San Diego for a second straight day on Monday to turn themselves in to U.S. border inspectors, who said the nation's busiest crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a monthlong journey across Mexico under the Trump administration's watchful eye, the asylum seekers faced an unexpected twist Sunday when U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing facility had \"reached capacity.\" The agency said in a statement on Monday that it had no estimate when the location would accept new asylum application cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-952484986-800x533.jpg\" alt='Central American migrants travelling in the \"Migrant Via Crucis\" caravan walk to their legal counselling meeting in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 28, 2018. 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The US has threatened to arrest around 100 Central American migrants if they try to sneak in from the US-Mexico border where they have gathered, prompting President Donald Trump to order troop reinforcements on the frontier. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA group of Central Americans who journeyed to the U.S. border in a caravan resolved to turn themselves in and ask for asylum Sunday in a direct challenge to the Trump administration — only to have U.S. immigration officials announce that the San Diego crossing was already at capacity and wouldn't immediately be accepting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 migrants, many traveling with children, had decided to apply for protection at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing, organizers said. The caravan got attention after President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet called it a threat to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the migrants were expected to arrive, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said San Diego's San Ysidro crossing would not immediately be able to handle more asylum seekers. It can hold about 300 people at a time, and officials had been warning that it might fill up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, we have reached capacity at the San Ysidro port of entry for CBP officers to be able to bring additional persons traveling without appropriate entry documentation into the port of entry for processing,\" Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a statement. \"Those individuals may need to wait in Mexico as CBP officers work to process those already within our facilities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the crossing could take in additional people as space and resources become available. Despite the news, about 200 migrants still started walking toward the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodulfo Figueroa, the top Mexican immigration official in Baja California state, told caravan organizers to send in an initial group of 20 migrants to see if U.S. border inspectors would entertain their request for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said he doesn't know if they would be allowed in and had not received word from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ramos, an attorney working on behalf of caravan members, expressed disbelief that U.S. authorities cannot process more asylum seekers until its backlog eases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have been well aware that a caravan is going to arrive at the border,\" she said at a news conference. \"The failure to prepare and failure to get sufficient agents and resources is not the fault of the most vulnerable among us. We can build a base in Iraq in under a week. We can't process 200 refugees. I don't believe it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The migrants had made their way north by foot, freight train and bus over the past month, many of them saying they feared for their lives in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has been tracking the caravan since it started in Mexico on March 25 near the Guatemala border. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called the caravan \"a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11665394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-952764840-e1525029143657.jpg\" alt=\"Some Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan climbed the wall to sit and wave signs under the watchful eyes of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 29, 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Central American migrants traveling in the \"Migrant Via Crucis\" caravan climbed the wall to sit and wave signs under the watchful eyes of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 29, 2018. \u003ccite>( GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan \"a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system,\" pledging to send more immigration judges to the border to resolve cases if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials have railed against what they call \"catch-and-release\" policies that allow people requesting asylum to be released from custody into the U.S. while their claims make their way through the courts in a process that can last a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Sunday, the migrants boarded five old school buses to attend a rally at a Pacific Ocean beach, with supporters gathering on both sides of the border fence and some climbing the barrier to sit or to wave signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendi Yaneri Garcia said she is confident she will be released while her asylum case wends its way through the courts because she is traveling alone with her 2-year-old son, who has been sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All I want is a place where I can work and raise my son,\" the 36-year-old said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that police in her hometown of Atlantida, Honduras, jailed her for protesting construction of a hydroelectric plant and that she received death threats after being released.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More of KQED's Coverage of the Caravan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664947/caravan-arrives-in-tijuana-as-migrants-prepare-to-request-asylum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caravan Arrives in Tijuana, as Migrants Prepare to Request Asylum\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659464/trumps-tweets-on-caravans-crossing-the-border-annotated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump's Tweets on 'Caravans' Crossing the Border, Annotated\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nefi Hernandez, 24, said a gang in his hometown of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, threatened to kill him and his family if he did not sell drugs. He intended to seek asylum with his wife and baby daughter, who was born on the journey through Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Cazares, 31, said he faced death threats in the Honduran city of Yoro because a gang member suspected of killing the mother of his children learned one of his Cazares' sons reported the crime to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One can always make up for lost time with a child, but if they kill him, you can't,\" he said outside his dome-shaped tent in a migrant shelter near the imposing U.S. border barriers separating San Diego from Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the travelers face an uncertain future if they ask for asylum. U.S. immigration lawyers warned them that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that asylum claims will be resolved \"efficiently and expeditiously\" but that the asylum-seekers should seek it in the first safe country they reach, including Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She warned that any asylum seekers making false claims to U.S. authorities could be prosecuted, as could anyone who assists or coaches immigrants on making false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials and their allies claim that asylum fraud is growing and that many who seek it are coached on how to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers are typically held up to three days at the border and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 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El Salvadorans were close behind with a 79 percent denial rate, followed by Hondurans at 78 percent and Guatemalans at 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Crone of advocacy group Show Up for Racial Justice says she's found 80 people across the U.S. who agreed to sponsor some of the caravan members if they're released while their petitions are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers are often released to family in the U.S. but some don't have any and seek sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Wiese, a San Francisco immigration attorney, said she tried to make migrants more comfortable sharing memories of the dangers they faced in their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really scary to tell these experiences to a stranger,\" Wiese said after counseling a visibly shaken Guatemalan woman at an art gallery in a building that used to house a drug smuggling tunnel into San Diego. \"The next time she tells her story will be easier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria de Los Angeles, 17, said she felt confident after speaking with an attorney that U.S. authorities would release her while her case winds its way through court because she was traveling alone with her 1-year-old son. 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But U.S. officials have said for two days that the facility is full and can't accommodate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, 12:00 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAbout 200 people in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers waited on the Mexican border with San Diego for a second straight day on Monday to turn themselves in to U.S. border inspectors, who said the nation's busiest crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a monthlong journey across Mexico under the Trump administration's watchful eye, the asylum seekers faced an unexpected twist Sunday when U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing facility had \"reached capacity.\" The agency said in a statement on Monday that it had no estimate when the location would accept new asylum application cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-952484986-800x533.jpg\" alt='Central American migrants travelling in the \"Migrant Via Crucis\" caravan walk to their legal counselling meeting in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 28, 2018. 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The US has threatened to arrest around 100 Central American migrants if they try to sneak in from the US-Mexico border where they have gathered, prompting President Donald Trump to order troop reinforcements on the frontier. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA group of Central Americans who journeyed to the U.S. border in a caravan resolved to turn themselves in and ask for asylum Sunday in a direct challenge to the Trump administration — only to have U.S. immigration officials announce that the San Diego crossing was already at capacity and wouldn't immediately be accepting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 migrants, many traveling with children, had decided to apply for protection at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing, organizers said. The caravan got attention after President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet called it a threat to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the migrants were expected to arrive, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said San Diego's San Ysidro crossing would not immediately be able to handle more asylum seekers. It can hold about 300 people at a time, and officials had been warning that it might fill up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, we have reached capacity at the San Ysidro port of entry for CBP officers to be able to bring additional persons traveling without appropriate entry documentation into the port of entry for processing,\" Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a statement. \"Those individuals may need to wait in Mexico as CBP officers work to process those already within our facilities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the crossing could take in additional people as space and resources become available. Despite the news, about 200 migrants still started walking toward the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodulfo Figueroa, the top Mexican immigration official in Baja California state, told caravan organizers to send in an initial group of 20 migrants to see if U.S. border inspectors would entertain their request for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said he doesn't know if they would be allowed in and had not received word from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ramos, an attorney working on behalf of caravan members, expressed disbelief that U.S. authorities cannot process more asylum seekers until its backlog eases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have been well aware that a caravan is going to arrive at the border,\" she said at a news conference. \"The failure to prepare and failure to get sufficient agents and resources is not the fault of the most vulnerable among us. We can build a base in Iraq in under a week. We can't process 200 refugees. I don't believe it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The migrants had made their way north by foot, freight train and bus over the past month, many of them saying they feared for their lives in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has been tracking the caravan since it started in Mexico on March 25 near the Guatemala border. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called the caravan \"a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11665394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11665394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-952764840-e1525029143657.jpg\" alt=\"Some Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan climbed the wall to sit and wave signs under the watchful eyes of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 29, 2018.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Central American migrants traveling in the \"Migrant Via Crucis\" caravan climbed the wall to sit and wave signs under the watchful eyes of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 29, 2018. \u003ccite>( GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan \"a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system,\" pledging to send more immigration judges to the border to resolve cases if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump administration officials have railed against what they call \"catch-and-release\" policies that allow people requesting asylum to be released from custody into the U.S. while their claims make their way through the courts in a process that can last a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Sunday, the migrants boarded five old school buses to attend a rally at a Pacific Ocean beach, with supporters gathering on both sides of the border fence and some climbing the barrier to sit or to wave signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendi Yaneri Garcia said she is confident she will be released while her asylum case wends its way through the courts because she is traveling alone with her 2-year-old son, who has been sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All I want is a place where I can work and raise my son,\" the 36-year-old said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that police in her hometown of Atlantida, Honduras, jailed her for protesting construction of a hydroelectric plant and that she received death threats after being released.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More of KQED's Coverage of the Caravan\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664947/caravan-arrives-in-tijuana-as-migrants-prepare-to-request-asylum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caravan Arrives in Tijuana, as Migrants Prepare to Request Asylum\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659464/trumps-tweets-on-caravans-crossing-the-border-annotated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump's Tweets on 'Caravans' Crossing the Border, Annotated\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nefi Hernandez, 24, said a gang in his hometown of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, threatened to kill him and his family if he did not sell drugs. He intended to seek asylum with his wife and baby daughter, who was born on the journey through Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Cazares, 31, said he faced death threats in the Honduran city of Yoro because a gang member suspected of killing the mother of his children learned one of his Cazares' sons reported the crime to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One can always make up for lost time with a child, but if they kill him, you can't,\" he said outside his dome-shaped tent in a migrant shelter near the imposing U.S. border barriers separating San Diego from Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the travelers face an uncertain future if they ask for asylum. 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El Salvadorans were close behind with a 79 percent denial rate, followed by Hondurans at 78 percent and Guatemalans at 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Crone of advocacy group Show Up for Racial Justice says she's found 80 people across the U.S. who agreed to sponsor some of the caravan members if they're released while their petitions are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum seekers are often released to family in the U.S. but some don't have any and seek sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evelyn Wiese, a San Francisco immigration attorney, said she tried to make migrants more comfortable sharing memories of the dangers they faced in their homelands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really scary to tell these experiences to a stranger,\" Wiese said after counseling a visibly shaken Guatemalan woman at an art gallery in a building that used to house a drug smuggling tunnel into San Diego. \"The next time she tells her story will be easier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria de Los Angeles, 17, said she felt confident after speaking with an attorney that U.S. authorities would release her while her case winds its way through court because she was traveling alone with her 1-year-old son. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series called \"Faces of the Vietnam War.\" KQED recently asked our audience to submit their stories about the Vietnam War. We heard from refugees, military veterans, journalists, activists and more. This story comes from Oakland resident Sonny Lê, who was born in South Vietnam during the war.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up in the Mekong Delta. You could say that's the deep, deep south. Back in the days, it would take you about six hours to travel from Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, to the Mekong Delta region along the coast bordering Cambodia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the southern hideout area of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong. We used to have a saying: “Day and night.” We literally meant who was who. So daytime belonged to the Republicans -- that would be the U.S.-backed regime, South Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nighttime was when it belonged to the National Liberation Front guerrillas. At night, they came home to see their wives, their kids. And then during the day they disappeared again. I mean, you couldn't tell who the enemies were. Basically the American soldier couldn’t, even the Vietnamese couldn't tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout my childhood the war was the backdrop, because my father was working for the government. He was a communications officer for the U.S. and for the Vietnamese military. So the war was always part of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1975, Vietnam wasn't at peace for centuries. By the time the U.S. got involved in Vietnam, it was called the Second Indochinese War. The first one was with the French. In Vietnam, at that point, we were so inured to the sounds of war that we simply said, “Yeah, but it's over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-800x459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-800x459.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1020x585.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1920x1102.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1180x677.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-960x551.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-240x138.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-375x215.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-520x298.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left is the house where Sonny Lê lived with his family in 1975. On the right, a Cao Đài Buddhist temple founded by his grandmother, photographed in 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For kids, war is a lot of fun. We helped carry these shells for fun because, within these shells, you have these gunpowder pellets. They look just like fish feed pellets and they were fantastic! You take a little bit of aluminum foil, you wrap it around, you light it up and whoosh! It's like the gunpowder pellets were out of firecrackers and fireworks. The soldiers would give them to us, the kids, to play with. That was our reward for helping the soldiers carrying those shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The worst thing about artillery is that they land where they land.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Sonny Lê, Vietnamese refugee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April 30 is considered the day that the country was reunified. That night, we heard on the radio that the national radio broadcast was cut off -- radio silence. South Vietnam had lost; the country basically was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of April 30, we heard sporadic gunfire. Back in those days, nearly every house had a bomb shelter. It was basically a big earthen pot underneath the ground and we all got in there, under the bed. We were hiding in that pot and we heard footsteps running back and forth on the road and then we heard sounds of tires screeching -- the former South Vietnamese soldiers running away, or being chased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You thought, “We're going to die,” because the biggest fear at that point was bombings or artillery. The worst thing about artillery is that they land where they land. They don't have names on those shells and so they just could land anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think my father came home until a week later. We thought he either died or [was] captured during the chaos. The very people who came to relieve my father were his drinking buddies, but they were undercover commies. On May 1, he was their captive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad's brothers-in-law -- two of them were commies, too, and we didn't know until after the war. One of them was a high-ranking member. The other was running guns for the National Liberation Front. The Vietnam War divided families and family members were fighting on both sides, sometimes against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I left I was going on 17, so I was that close to drafting age. Vietnam was fighting two wars: in the north with China, in the south with Cambodia. At the time Vietnam was broken, economically speaking, and Vietnam was in a panic. So any Vietnamese, even northerners, had to flee for their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11624407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-1020x1516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-1020x1516.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-800x1189.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-960x1427.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-375x557.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-520x773.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonny Lê's father (center) and uncles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My boat left in 1980, with some cousins, and then subsequently there was another boat planned for 1981 that would have been my uncles and possibly my family, but that boat got caught. They got busted, and so they went to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people went to jail and [got] tortured pretty good, but thankfully some of our family members were part of the communist regime so they rescued their own brothers-in-law. So that's how I ended up here without my family. That wasn't intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing is that most refugees who fled by boat had no idea where we were headed. I mean, if you look on the map, in theory you could see the other side, right? I mean, on a map it looks hella small! If we keep going we're going to hit shore, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you have no idea how vast the ocean is. It's scary vast and when you go out, so far out when there is no land, the depth of the ocean is as far as the eye can see. You’re scared, but you stop being scared because you know death was imminent. When your death [is] imminent, you’re just trying to reconcile with death. We made it by praying to everybody. If Prince was around, I would have prayed to him, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our boat had 302 people on board and it was steaming hot. And we hired a captain who claimed to have traveled the high seas and he had seen the other side -- of course, he fibbed. By the second day we snuck out of the river mouth, heading for the South China Sea. That was on the night of the 19th of May, 1980. That night was pitch black, no moon. It was low tide, but we didn't know we ran into fishing nets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fishermen would string these big nets in the river mouth to catch the fish going out. The boat kept going in a circle, because the nets kept drawing us back. So we put the engine pedal to the metal, to the point that we broke the nets. But we also cracked the hull of the boat and broke the engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We didn't think we'd make it.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Sonny Lê, Vietnamese refugee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By the morning we were already adrift at sea. The thing about [being] adrift at sea is that you begin to see debris, and that's when we saw the debris of all the boats that may have sunk. And then we saw some bodies floating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We didn't think we'd make it. It's like 100 degrees -- sun, humidity, stifling heat in the boat. The smell of sweat, urine, vomit and fecal matter together. It smells horrible and I can still smell that in my nostrils. I call it the stench of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then towards the morning of the sixth day, there was this gigantic ship -- turned out to be an oil tanker. That was the George F. Getty II. We're screaming at the top of our lungs. We would strip our clothes down all the way and we burned them in this big old pot on top of the deck of the boat. Hopefully, we [could] raise hell and people [would] see and turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624396 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw.jpeg 285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw-160x225.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw-240x337.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in a refugee camp in Singapore, May 1980. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, it stopped and made a U-turn. But that was even scarier, when that little tiny wooden boat [was] next to the ship -- it makes quite an impression. Our boat nearly sank because of the waves in the wake of that ship. About 5 a.m., the ship dropped these ladders down to our boat. That's when we knew that we were safe: when the ladders came down and the deckhands of the oil tanker came down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a Filipino crew and the ship captain was Italian. The next day we had our spaghetti with meatballs on that ship! They turned the tanker around and it dropped us off in Singapore the next morning, on the sixth day after we had left Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of us didn't make it. A lot of people, when they were adrift at sea for so long, they resorted to cannibalism. A lot of Vietnamese refugees ate each other to survive. And the most harrowing experience was the women were being raped by pirates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war not only decimated lives and livelihoods, but also it forced people to come up with different narratives for their own lives. Many of us were farmers, fishers, nobodies. So when we landed in America we had a chance to reinvent who we were. A lot of Vietnamese families have these stories that haven't been told. Whoever they were before the war and during the war -- to their kids, they're different people. The war made them want to forget what it was like. This is understandable, but it's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Bert Johnson and Bianca Taylor produced this report. \u003c/em>\u003cem>This piece was taken from an interview with Lê, which has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until 1975, Vietnam wasn't at peace for centuries. By the time the U.S. got involved in Vietnam, it was called the Second Indochinese War. The first one was with the French. In Vietnam, at that point, we were so inured to the sounds of war that we simply said, “Yeah, but it's over there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-800x459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-800x459.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1020x585.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1920x1102.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-1180x677.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-960x551.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-240x138.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-375x215.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/temple-520x298.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left is the house where Sonny Lê lived with his family in 1975. On the right, a Cao Đài Buddhist temple founded by his grandmother, photographed in 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For kids, war is a lot of fun. We helped carry these shells for fun because, within these shells, you have these gunpowder pellets. They look just like fish feed pellets and they were fantastic! You take a little bit of aluminum foil, you wrap it around, you light it up and whoosh! It's like the gunpowder pellets were out of firecrackers and fireworks. The soldiers would give them to us, the kids, to play with. That was our reward for helping the soldiers carrying those shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The worst thing about artillery is that they land where they land.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Sonny Lê, Vietnamese refugee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>April 30 is considered the day that the country was reunified. That night, we heard on the radio that the national radio broadcast was cut off -- radio silence. South Vietnam had lost; the country basically was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of April 30, we heard sporadic gunfire. Back in those days, nearly every house had a bomb shelter. It was basically a big earthen pot underneath the ground and we all got in there, under the bed. We were hiding in that pot and we heard footsteps running back and forth on the road and then we heard sounds of tires screeching -- the former South Vietnamese soldiers running away, or being chased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You thought, “We're going to die,” because the biggest fear at that point was bombings or artillery. The worst thing about artillery is that they land where they land. They don't have names on those shells and so they just could land anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think my father came home until a week later. We thought he either died or [was] captured during the chaos. The very people who came to relieve my father were his drinking buddies, but they were undercover commies. On May 1, he was their captive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad's brothers-in-law -- two of them were commies, too, and we didn't know until after the war. One of them was a high-ranking member. The other was running guns for the National Liberation Front. The Vietnam War divided families and family members were fighting on both sides, sometimes against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I left I was going on 17, so I was that close to drafting age. Vietnam was fighting two wars: in the north with China, in the south with Cambodia. At the time Vietnam was broken, economically speaking, and Vietnam was in a panic. So any Vietnamese, even northerners, had to flee for their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11624407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-1020x1516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-1020x1516.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-800x1189.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-960x1427.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-375x557.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1-520x773.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/SCAN0037-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonny Lê's father (center) and uncles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My boat left in 1980, with some cousins, and then subsequently there was another boat planned for 1981 that would have been my uncles and possibly my family, but that boat got caught. They got busted, and so they went to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people went to jail and [got] tortured pretty good, but thankfully some of our family members were part of the communist regime so they rescued their own brothers-in-law. So that's how I ended up here without my family. That wasn't intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing is that most refugees who fled by boat had no idea where we were headed. I mean, if you look on the map, in theory you could see the other side, right? I mean, on a map it looks hella small! If we keep going we're going to hit shore, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you have no idea how vast the ocean is. It's scary vast and when you go out, so far out when there is no land, the depth of the ocean is as far as the eye can see. You’re scared, but you stop being scared because you know death was imminent. When your death [is] imminent, you’re just trying to reconcile with death. We made it by praying to everybody. If Prince was around, I would have prayed to him, too!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our boat had 302 people on board and it was steaming hot. And we hired a captain who claimed to have traveled the high seas and he had seen the other side -- of course, he fibbed. By the second day we snuck out of the river mouth, heading for the South China Sea. That was on the night of the 19th of May, 1980. That night was pitch black, no moon. It was low tide, but we didn't know we ran into fishing nets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fishermen would string these big nets in the river mouth to catch the fish going out. The boat kept going in a circle, because the nets kept drawing us back. So we put the engine pedal to the metal, to the point that we broke the nets. But we also cracked the hull of the boat and broke the engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We didn't think we'd make it.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Sonny Lê, Vietnamese refugee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By the morning we were already adrift at sea. The thing about [being] adrift at sea is that you begin to see debris, and that's when we saw the debris of all the boats that may have sunk. And then we saw some bodies floating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We didn't think we'd make it. It's like 100 degrees -- sun, humidity, stifling heat in the boat. The smell of sweat, urine, vomit and fecal matter together. It smells horrible and I can still smell that in my nostrils. I call it the stench of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then towards the morning of the sixth day, there was this gigantic ship -- turned out to be an oil tanker. That was the George F. Getty II. We're screaming at the top of our lungs. We would strip our clothes down all the way and we burned them in this big old pot on top of the deck of the boat. Hopefully, we [could] raise hell and people [would] see and turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 285px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11624396 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw.jpeg 285w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw-160x225.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/1Css9jgkQb48dd8UZSFwZuw-240x337.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in a refugee camp in Singapore, May 1980. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sonny Lê)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden, it stopped and made a U-turn. 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El Paso, Texas, across from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was second-busiest with 28.8 million admissions, followed by San Diego’s Otay Mesa crossing (17.8 million), Laredo, Texas (17.7 million), and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (15.9 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The travel ban will mostly affect airports because that’s how visitors from the six countries generally arrive. Aside from JFK, the only airports to crack the top 20 in passenger volume are Miami International (No. 11), Los Angeles International (No. 12) and San Francisco International (No. 20).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW WILL OFFICERS ENFORCE THE TRAVEL BAN?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration this week set new criteria for visa applicants from the six countries and for all refugees, requiring a “close” family or business tie to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visas that have already been approved will not be revoked, but instructions issued by the State Department say that new applicants from the six countries must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United States to be eligible. 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The new rules take effect at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday, according to the cable, which was obtained by \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task will fall largely to the State Department but Customs and Border Protection officers would get involved if someone from one of the six countries arrived without a visa or there was a reason to question the validity of their documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY DO OFFICERS FIND?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents primarily seize drugs and stop people seeking to enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — increasingly heroin and methamphetamine — are commonly smuggled into the United States by car from Mexico. People also enter the country illegally by hiding in trunks or by using someone else’s travel documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers denied admission 274,821 times at airports, land crossings and seaports during the latest fiscal year, an increase of 8 percent from the same period a year earlier. They seized 257 tons of marijuana, 26.3 tons of cocaine, 18.8 tons of methamphetamine and 2.1 tons of heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 40 percent of people in the country illegally overstay their visas, and one of the agency’s top priorities is to better track them. The absence of a system for people to check out when they leave the country makes that a daunting and expensive endeavor. Homeland Security said in May that nearly 740,000 foreigners overstayed visas during the latest fiscal year, and that was only for those who arrived by plane or ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS IT DIFFERENT THAN BORDER PATROL?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol is another division within the agency. Customs and Border Protection agents wear blue uniforms and patrol ports of entry. Border Patrol agents work areas between and wear green uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, with about 60,000 employees and an annual budget of $13.5 billion. Trump has requested a 21 percent spending increase, partly to build a wall on the border with Mexico and hire more Border Patrol agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT ABOUT THE STAFFING SHORTAGE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said this month that it has 1,400 vacancies for officers at ports of entry. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers will be key players in putting President Trump’s\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/29/trump-travel-ban-close-family-ties-job-offers-deemed-bona-fide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> revised travel ban into effect on Thursday\u003c/a>, which will primarily affect visitors from six mostly Muslim countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/26/supreme-court-will-rule-on-president-trumps-travel-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday lifting a stay on the executive order\u003c/a> imposed by two lower courts, the Trump administration outlined how it will begin to implement its modified ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/16-1436_l6hc.pdf\">The court ruled Monday\u003c/a> that the ban cannot be applied to “foreign nationals who have a credible claim of bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Customs and Border Protection officers are the officials dressed in blue who are stationed at airports and border crossings and screen people coming into the U.S. They stamp passports, inspect travel documents, confiscate drugs and other illicit items, and make sure belongings and purchases are properly declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These officers were embroiled in the ensuing \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/01/29/confusion-protests-over-president-trumps-immigration-order/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chaos \u003c/a>when an earlier version of the president’s travel ban took effect, forcing them to turn away visa holders who were later allowed in. And they will be in the mix again for the new ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at what they do:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT IS CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Its largest division — the Office of Field Operations — admits people and goods at 328 airports, land crossings and seaports. They admitted 390 million travelers during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, including 119 million at airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work done by the agency is at border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The busiest point of entry is San Diego’s San Ysidro crossing with Tijuana, Mexico, with 31.8 million admissions during the latest 12-month period, an average of 87,000 per day. El Paso, Texas, across from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was second-busiest with 28.8 million admissions, followed by San Diego’s Otay Mesa crossing (17.8 million), Laredo, Texas (17.7 million), and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (15.9 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The travel ban will mostly affect airports because that’s how visitors from the six countries generally arrive. Aside from JFK, the only airports to crack the top 20 in passenger volume are Miami International (No. 11), Los Angeles International (No. 12) and San Francisco International (No. 20).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW WILL OFFICERS ENFORCE THE TRAVEL BAN?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration this week set new criteria for visa applicants from the six countries and for all refugees, requiring a “close” family or business tie to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visas that have already been approved will not be revoked, but instructions issued by the State Department say that new applicants from the six countries must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling already in the United States to be eligible. The same requirement, with some exceptions, holds for would-be refugees from all nations that are still awaiting approval for admission to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, fiances or other extended family members are not considered to be close relationships, according to the guidelines that were issued in a cable sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates late on Wednesday. The new rules take effect at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday, according to the cable, which was obtained by \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task will fall largely to the State Department but Customs and Border Protection officers would get involved if someone from one of the six countries arrived without a visa or there was a reason to question the validity of their documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY DO OFFICERS FIND?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents primarily seize drugs and stop people seeking to enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drugs — increasingly heroin and methamphetamine — are commonly smuggled into the United States by car from Mexico. People also enter the country illegally by hiding in trunks or by using someone else’s travel documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers denied admission 274,821 times at airports, land crossings and seaports during the latest fiscal year, an increase of 8 percent from the same period a year earlier. They seized 257 tons of marijuana, 26.3 tons of cocaine, 18.8 tons of methamphetamine and 2.1 tons of heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 40 percent of people in the country illegally overstay their visas, and one of the agency’s top priorities is to better track them. The absence of a system for people to check out when they leave the country makes that a daunting and expensive endeavor. Homeland Security said in May that nearly 740,000 foreigners overstayed visas during the latest fiscal year, and that was only for those who arrived by plane or ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>IS IT DIFFERENT THAN BORDER PATROL?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Border Patrol is another division within the agency. Customs and Border Protection agents wear blue uniforms and patrol ports of entry. Border Patrol agents work areas between and wear green uniforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection is the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, with about 60,000 employees and an annual budget of $13.5 billion. Trump has requested a 21 percent spending increase, partly to build a wall on the border with Mexico and hire more Border Patrol agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT ABOUT THE STAFFING SHORTAGE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said this month that it has 1,400 vacancies for officers at ports of entry. Customs and Border Protection has struggled to fill jobs for years, largely because an unusually high number of applicants fail to pass a polygraph that has been a hiring requirement since 2012. One official recently said 75 percent failed, more than double the average among law enforcement agencies surveyed by \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House of Representatives passed a bill this month to waive the polygraph requirement for many veterans and some other applicants. Customs and Border Protection recently said it was easing some physical fitness and language requirements in hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has called for expanding the Border Patrol by 5,000 agents, but has not proposed any increase in officers at airports, land crossings and seaports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When President Trump's first immigration order temporarily went into effect on Jan. 27, and we began to see its impact at airports and hear stories about how it was touching many people's lives nationwide, we decided to try to capture some of those tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We created a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/kqed-wants-your-immigration-stories/\">form\u003c/a>, asking people to share their immigration stories, and people did — 56 of them. They mostly weren't stories about the impact of the travel ban. Rather, they were stories that reflect the rich diversity California is known for. They were stories of people whose families had immigrated a generation prior from the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, India and more. They were tales of people whose parents settled in the U.S. because of conflict in their home country, such as in Iran and El Salvador. They were stories of undocumented youth, known as Dreamers, who had signed up for former President Obama's DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program — and in one case, a young man who didn't, because he didn't want to be a \"sitting duck\" if Obama's successor didn't keep the program. And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" 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50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"50_Elizabeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Elizabeth-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We reached out to as many of the people who'd completed the form as we could (some asked not to be contacted, some did not reply and some stories were so similar that we decided not to duplicate them), and took portraits of some of those who could meet up with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fun note to share: A human geography teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco offered extra credit to his students who completed our form (and 24 of them did). We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-21-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24993_TCR-Mag-Immigration-Banner-qut-1920x628.jpg\" Title=\"Living in Limbo: California Immigrant Stories in Trump's America\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. I believe that this type of profiling is a fundamental violation of my rights as a citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380852\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Salceda, Firebaugh\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/AngelicaSalcida-qut.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelica Salceda with her niece, Sophia Marie Salceda, in Chowchilla. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angelica Salceda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Angelica\">\u003c/a>Angelica Salceda, child of immigrants, Firebaugh (Fresno County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mom came on a travel visa in the 1980s and extended her stay. She later become a LPR (lawful permanent resident). But many other family members came here undocumented and continue to lack status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For undocumented and LPR family members, I fear that any encounter with law enforcement may result in grave immigration consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interviews were edited for clarity and length.\u003c/em> \u003cem>Sasha Khokha, Ryan Levi, Vanessa Rancano and Julie Small contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This story has been corrected to reflect the number of green cards is 140,000, not 150,000 as previously reported.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Want to share your immigration story? Complete our form:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ImmigrationForm]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When President Trump's first immigration order temporarily went into effect on Jan. 27, and we began to see its impact at airports and hear stories about how it was touching many people's lives nationwide, we decided to try to capture some of those tales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We created a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/kqed-wants-your-immigration-stories/\">form\u003c/a>, asking people to share their immigration stories, and people did — 56 of them. They mostly weren't stories about the impact of the travel ban. Rather, they were stories that reflect the rich diversity California is known for. They were stories of people whose families had immigrated a generation prior from the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, India and more. They were tales of people whose parents settled in the U.S. because of conflict in their home country, such as in Iran and El Salvador. They were stories of undocumented youth, known as Dreamers, who had signed up for former President Obama's DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program — and in one case, a young man who didn't, because he didn't want to be a \"sitting duck\" if Obama's successor didn't keep the program. And there were people who came on work visas, such as the H-1B often used in Silicon Valley, and for love, such as a gay British man who married his American boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">#CaliforniaImmigrant stories, one by one (click to read)\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Undocumented\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png\" alt=\"50_Undocumented\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Undocumented-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Gokul\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png\" alt=\"50_Gokul\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Gokul-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Yibi\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420595\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png\" alt=\"50_Yibi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Yibi-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saber\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png\" alt=\"50_Saber\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saber-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roya\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png\" alt=\"50_Roya\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roya-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Daniel\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png\" alt=\"50_Daniel\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Daniel-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Anonymous\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420576\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png\" alt=\"50_Anonymous\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Anonymous-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Nicole\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png\" alt=\"50_Nicole\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Nicole-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enrique\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420579\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png\" alt=\"50_Enrique\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enrique-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Janet\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png\" alt=\"50_Janet\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Janet-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Olivia\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420587\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png\" alt=\"50_Olivia\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Olivia-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Erika\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png\" alt=\"50_Erika\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Erika-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Judy\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png\" alt=\"50_Judy\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Judy-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sara\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png\" alt=\"50_Sara\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sara-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Saradha\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png\" alt=\"50_Saradha\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Saradha-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Sergio\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420593\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png\" alt=\"50_Sergio\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Sergio-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Max\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png\" alt=\"50_Max\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Max-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Roberto\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420588\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png\" alt=\"50_Roberto\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Roberto-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Enriqued\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11420580\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png\" alt=\"50_Enriqued\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/50_Enriqued-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"#Elizabeth\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full 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We did this project in collaboration with \u003cem>The California Report Magazine,\u003c/em> which reported on the stories of four California immigrants (one who completed our form) whose lives are in limbo. You can read their stories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope you enjoy these stories because — though they may differ from your family's experience — they are all part of the California story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380922 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg\" alt=\"An undocumented immigrant from LA County says the Trump administration's actions justifies his fear of "not obtaining my DACA status all these years, I do not want to be a sitting duck."\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/menow-qut2-375x233.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undocumented immigrant from L.A. County says the Trump administration's actions justify his fear of \"not obtaining my DACA status all these years. I do not want to be a sitting duck.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003ca id=\"Undocumented\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy father came here without a visa or work permit, undocumented, and left all family back in Mexico. My mother, my two siblings and I were left back in Mexico City. He sent money for us and worked hard to save up enough to get all of us visas to enter the USA the safest way possible, with a B-1/B-2 or legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I came to the Bay Area when I was 10 years old and started the fifth grade without knowing the language. I hold a bachelor of science which I paid for out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My field grants me access to sensitive data of a business or enterprise and I've always been afraid of leaving my workplace in fear of having to be e-verified if I’m rehired elsewhere that may be a government subcontractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for me, I was stupid to gamble with moving forward and working at a Google-like perks and pay tech job — I was hired and let go after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The Trump administration justifies my fear for not obtaining my DACA status all these years; I do not want to be a sitting duck.'\u003ccite>Anonymous, undocumented, Los Angeles County\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The laws now enforcing extreme vetting are very much in full effect. If this continues and tougher laws are enforced, such as verifying I-9 employment eligibility verification with e-verify through USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), not only members of my family and myself but a whole lot of illegals who are hired by a lot of businesses will be out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is sad because most are low-level/low-wage jobs or small businesses that rarely follow such procedures and only do the minimum, which is to file away a copy of an ID and social security card in case of an audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having stayed under the radar for so long while doing my due diligence will no longer work out for me and plenty of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the system has taken advantage to our detriment and used us for cheap labor. Now, they intend to further degrade us and keep us living in fear or simply toss us out for being \"Bad Hombres.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Gokul3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gokul Gunasekaran was photographed on the campus of Stanford University, his alma mater, on March 6, 2017. He entered the U.S. on a student visa and was able to stay by securing a work visa. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Gokul\">\u003c/a>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came to Stanford to pursue my graduate studies in electrical engineering. I graduated in 2011 and since then I've been working as a software engineer. I started my career at a bigger company. I worked there for three years. Since then, I've been working at a smaller startup in Palo Alto for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, as one could imagine, getting admitted to Stanford, with all the tuition taken care of, was a dream come true. I experienced no issues getting my student visa as well. It was great. Up till then, my immigration story was very smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after I graduated from Stanford did I realize the problems associated with working on a work visa in the United States. The system is definitely not encouraging folks to be independent, free, and to move from companies. It's not very straightforward at all. The laws are very complex. For the first few years, it was OK because I was just starting to work for the first time in my life. Immigration was not my primary concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once I wanted to switch jobs, that's when I realized how painful it was going to be to even just move from one company to another, let alone starting my own business — which is almost impossible to do. It's been downhill since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country like Canada or Australia, where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is primarily with the green card process. They give out 140,000 green cards* per year; no more than 7 percent can go to one specific country. For people who are born in India, we are looking at a wait time of more than 50 years. I'll probably be 70 or maybe even dead by the time I'm actually eligible to get my green card. That is the biggest issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing is also the mobility on the H-1B visa. For example, let's say I want to switch to another company. The company sponsors me, but then I have to go back and start the process all over again (that's generally what happens and in any case, it doesn't change the fact that I'll have to wait so many years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last problem is, for example, let's say I have been here 10 or 15 years, and my company is not doing well. If they lay me off, I have to leave the country within 10 days. I'm basically being penalized because I was born in India. That is the root cause of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've come to a point where I've spent close to eight years in this country and I'm starting to doubt whether I should still pursue this arduous journey here or should I give up and go back to my home country or another country ... where they are welcoming to a lot more highly skilled immigrants.'\u003ccite>Gokul Gunasekaran, H-1B visa holder, Sunnyvale\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As far as the executive orders are concerned, I'm kind of scared right now to go back to visit my parents because I'm worried … whether the consulate will actually give me a stamp to come back to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the uncertainties toward travel, whether we will get our visa stamping, whether our work visas will be renewed -- these are all adding quite a bit of anxiety to the high-skilled immigrant community. That's it in a nutshell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I go back home or when I talk to my parents, they ask me if I’m close to getting my green card or do I have any permanency and I tell them, “No. It's not happening.” They ask me, “What's the point of all this? Just come back home and stay with us and stay close with family.” That is a decision that's been moving up on my things to do and I'm seriously considering that, unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system here is totally broken. I think my American Dream has been pretty much shattered to pieces and I feel like I could have done a lot more with my career back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear more from Gunasekaran and others about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/04/18/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-h1-b-visas/\">the debate over H-1B visas\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Yibi's husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on February 9. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Yibi_ICE_4-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heras' husband, Maguiber, was detained by ICE on Feb. 9. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Yibi\">\u003c/a>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have been in Oakland for four years and I've been in the United States for 10 years. I met my husband, Maguiber,* at work and that's where everything started. We have three children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her husband at their Oakland home shortly after 5 a.m. in February.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was washing dishes and I saw some people outside and I didn't know who they were. I thought maybe they were robbers. And so I went to go get my husband. And then they were already knocking on the window.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said they were \"police\" investigating a case of hit-and-run. They asked Maguiber, \"Can you show us your registration papers that you have for your car?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S.'\u003ccite>Yibi Heras, wife of Guatemalan immigrant detained by ICE, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So my husband went out. He opened the car up. He got the papers out and then a man came up behind him and I saw that he showed my husband a paper. And that's when he (my husband) said, \"Yibi, it's immigration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They started asking him questions. \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" He said, \"Yes, I have three\" kids. And when I saw that he was going to keep responding to the questions I told him, \"Keep your mouth shut! You don't need to answer anything. It's going to be worse for you if you keep answering them.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that's when the person that had been asking him questions turned to me asking, \"Do you have children? Are you married?\" And I asked him, \"Do you have a warrant?\" And then he said, \"No, it's OK. We only came for him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They basically lied to him to get him to come outside. And that seems unfair, that seems wrong. So that's why I want to speak out. I would like to warn people who maybe they don’t have to respond to questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(*Maguiber’s attorney asked that we use only his first name while his case is pending. She believes a recent arrest for reckless driving put him on ICE’s radar\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maguiber first came to the U.S. a decade ago. He was soon deported to Guatemala but returned after a notorious gang there attacked him and threatened his life.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like all of us, he's made mistakes, but he's not dangerous. You can't say someone’s dangerous based on immigration status or nationality. There are a lot of dangerous people who are born here in the U.S. It depends on the way that you're brought up — not where you're from.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When this happened, I was afraid to come back home. But I can't live with fear. I have three children. The oldest has a disability. I stopped working because he had an operation and it didn't make sense to pay somebody to take care of him. But now I have to look for other funds to keep surviving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(An immigration judge will hold a hearing in June on whether to allow Maguiber to stay in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">Read more\u003c/a> about the family's story)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re optimistic that everything turns out well, but we know that the judge has the last word.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full The California Report immigration special:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418783\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Moe-qut-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saber Askar stands outside his apartment in East Porterville. A U.S. citizen, he is struggling to bring his family to the U.S. from Yemen. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saber\">\u003c/a>Saber \"Moe\" Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville (Tulare County)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad was a U.S. citizen, and when I was 15 he told me to come here (from Yemen). I came to Michigan. It was a hard time. I only had summer clothes; I was freezing. I worked in factories, and I applied for my citizenship. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a couple of things that are the best times in my life — one of them was becoming an American citizen. It’s the best thing I have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About eight years ago, my cousin said, “Please, can you help me with my store?” So I moved to California, and I love it here. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, there’s nothing to make me happy because my family is not with me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Moe would go back to visit Yemen for extended stays over the years. During one such stay, he married. He’d return home for long trips.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I try to explain to them, 'Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.' They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore.'\u003ccite>Saber Askar, naturalized U.S. citizen, East Porterville\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve always wanted them to come here, but I was waiting for the right time. I wanted to find a good job and get a house. Then the war started. I want them out; I want to save them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s been two years now, and nobody stops killing. There is no gas, no electricity; they don’t have enough food to eat. My middle daughter, I think she’s about to lose her mind. She’s very skinny. She cannot eat. She’s scared because she hears the bombing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I try to explain to them, “Just give me a little time and then you guys are going to be here, then you guys are going to be OK.” They make me bleed inside when I talk to them. I don’t know what to do. Every time I call I’m afraid they won’t answer anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to die in this country because I love this country, but what’s happening with the new president here, it shocked me bad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was thinking my kids were going to come here and have a safe life, a normal life, and go to school and have a future. But they’re not welcome here. There’s no place for my kids — not in Yemen, not here. So where can we go? I really feel insulted. Even if you’re an American citizen, you’re nothing. Nothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Askar’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/21/for-a-longtime-citizen-the-trump-age-brings-uncertainty/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379342\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return because of the Iranian Revolution.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RoyaSoleimani-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roya Soleimani was photographed in her home in San Francisco on March 1, 2017. Her parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1970s to earn their doctorate degrees at the University of the Pacific and weren't able to return home because of the Iranian Revolution. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roya\">\u003c/a>Roya Soleimani, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents' immigration story is part of the vibrant mosaic and fabric of the United States. They came from Iran on student visas to attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton for their doctoral education in sociology and psychology. They finished in 1979, and with the revolution chaotically unfolding in Iran, they weren't able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have called Stockton home since 1973, and have now spent more of their lives here. With their Ph.D.s in hand, and no option to return to Iran, they made the most of their situation. They could not find work in their respective fields because of the hostage crisis in Iran and the perception people have about them for being Iranian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad turned his talent of sewing into a business and has owned a tailor shop since 1982. My mom turned her education and passion for children into her life's work, and transformed a humble home daycare into a preschool, kindergarten and child-care center, with nearly 50 kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have been proud citizens since the '90s and have voted in every election since they could vote. They are active in their community, members of Rotary, and raised my sister and I with pride for our hyphenated Iranian-American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born and raised in Stockton, and have held both sides of my cultural identity with so much pride. I speak Persian fluently, and happily balanced the rich culture, food, music and traditions of my parents’ homeland with my civic service, activism and patriotic nature of my American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11418551 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at risk youth in green collar jobs.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/DanielMaher_Credit_BertJohnson-4-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maher was photographed at the Ecology Center in Berkeley on April 20, 2017. He supervises the center's fleet of trucks and trains at-risk youth in green-collar jobs. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Daniel\">\u003c/a>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I was 3 years old, my family emigrated from Macau (a former Portuguese colony that’s now a Chinese autonomous region) to the United States. We were in Union City for a brief period. My grandparents operated a flower-growing business there, and we would stay with them, help with the family business, and \u003c/span>then,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the family business kind of picked up and left and moved to San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I usually associated with certain individuals that really were misfits, I don't know why. Probably because I kept moving a lot in a short period of time. It was hard to make friends right away. Misfits are there for one reason or another. Maybe they were looked at as nerds as well. A lot of my friends were in gifted education, so we would bounce ideas all the time, good or bad, I’m not going to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?'\u003ccite>Daniel Maher, former green-card holder, Hayward\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’d just about turned 21 and I still had the same friends but they were off doing something else. I knew what they were doing. They had planned to rob drug dealers, and they had somebody else who was supposed to go with them. That person was unable to make it, so rather than scrap their plans they asked me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Daniel was arrested and served five years for felony armed robbery and attempted kidnapping; his green card was revoked and his future in the U.S. is uncertain because \u003c/em>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Trump has vowed to deport violent\u003c/em> felons.)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I understand the underlying reasoning behind deporting violent felons, and I'm really not opposed to it. I've had a very short period of my life where I was actually that person who was convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then I've been a completely different person. So does one moment in time justify changing a person's life for the long term or can we change it for the better? Can we give that person a second chance because he's shown that he's changed? I'm all for that second chance, but I would certainly understand if they wouldn't allow it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chance of being deported is on my mind all the time. I have all these plans, a lot of things that I want to get done. Is it going to be interrupted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about Maher’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/20/should-a-mistake-made-long-ago-doom-this-immigrants-future\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Ssm_Wedding-bands-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A British man married his Mexican-American partner after a drawn-out process in which he briefly became undocumented. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of anonymous)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Anonymous\">\u003c/a>Anonymous, permanent resident, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI entered on a tourist visa and have since married my Mexican-American partner and gained permanent residency after a very stressful, drawn-out, expensive application starting in NYC and now ending in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I became undocumented as I \"overstayed\" my 90-day tourist visa while awaiting paperwork (from the UK) that I was told I'd need by the Office of the City Clerk in NYC, delaying our wedding. The irony being that the paperwork wasn't needed after all. But because we followed the rules we were told by a government official, I then became classed as undocumented (\"illegal\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy same-sex marriage could be reneged by the new administration and/or I could get deported due to being undocumented briefly before marrying, and my husband would then face the same sorts of issues trying to immigrate to the UK with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/NFernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Fernandez was photographed at home in San Mateo on Feb. 28, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in the 1980s. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Nicole\">\u003c/a>Nicole Fernandez, child of immigrants, San Mateo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated from Karachi, Pakistan, with visas the year before I was born in 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really feel like being the child of immigrants shaped who I became. My parents and grandparents are literally the American Dream. They came over with nothing, minimal support from family. Until I was 30, I lived in a multigenerational home with my parents and grandparents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents worked really hard. My dad's a welder. He works with his hands. My mom's in the medical industry. Medical care. She works for Sutter. I'm just so proud of what they've been able to achieve considering their very humble roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandparents are in their 80s. They live in Palo Alto and you won't meet anyone who loves this country more than my parents and grandparents. They haven't had it easy. They taught us a lot about hard work and giving back to our nation.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Immigration still affects my family. I have many family members, cousins, second cousins who immigrated illegally. They now are all citizens and they are raising their children in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where we are nationally, I fear that more people are going to be going underground and as a society, we're not going to be benefiting from the beautiful diversity that immigration brings because so many people are going to be afraid to leave their homes or will self-deport back to their country of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Yarce was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EYarce3-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Yarce Martinez was photographed on March 1, 2017, at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he is a student and activist. His parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 3 years old. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enrique\">\u003c/a>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe came through border checks (from Mexico). I was in the trunk, for part of the journey, and then the back, covered with a blanket. My parents say it's a miracle that the patroller didn't see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am DACA, so, slightly less illegal, I've heard. I saw a really good play in Santa Rosa, and they were talking about that, and they put it really well, because DACA isn't really a path to citizenship, like a lot of people think. It's like $500 every two years for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're at risk for being deported. I've lived here 19 years of my life in this country. I'm an American. If I were to be deported, it'd be such a culture shock. I love Mexico. From what I hear, obviously the government has a lot of issues, but the country's beautiful, but still, I wouldn't feel the same. This is my home, it always has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always internalized this part of my identity for a very long time, because it's scary to think about. It's scary because it's very real. I remember one time my dad was trying to tell us, my mom and I, to say we're Chilean or something, because Mexico's having a lot of attention, with all the immigration and stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'... with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.'\u003ccite>Enrique Yarce Martinez, DACA recipient, Santa Rosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>My mom was like, \"No, I'm proud of being a Mexican. I'm not going to hide from that.\" Yeah, I didn't really know yet, but I felt that way. Later, as I got older, I think about that a lot, and that was really important to me — how my mom stood up like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm proud of who I am, and my identity is complicated, but it's still who I am, and it's made me into the person I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's very uncertain. I know it's taken me awhile to finally feel like I can go to school and continue my education. I want to be a social worker, my major is sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was always interested in activism, community organizing. I do that stuff, I love it — it's my life. I want to continue to do that, I want to continue to help people, so it just feels ... I feel really paralyzed a lot of the times, because I don't know if all my work will just go down the drain, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same with my parents, we were homeless when we first moved here, and that was rough, but they still managed to get out of that, I don't even know how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's incredible, with a child and everything, they were doing crime scene cleanups, and cleaning offices, and just anything they could do to get money. You can get two tacos for $1 at Jack in the Box, and we would just eat that, a lot. I still like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm worried about my parents. I've talked to my mom about it, what it's like for her to not really have an identity in this country. She doesn't have any sort of identification. She's always felt, kind of, trapped. They live in Lake County, and there's not a lot of people of color at all, especially where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're just here, trying to live our lives. We're human like everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember this one time, I was watching a video about some lawyers on United Way and this woman at the end was like, \"I know things are hard right now. I know that it seems really bleak, but, we can do this. We can win. We can improve our lives. …\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I cried so much, I didn't even know ... I needed to hear that, but I really did because that stuff was really getting to me. Just the internalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've gotten messages because I comment on things, and I'm like, \"You're wrong, you know, I'm not a demon.\" Then people will message me, and threaten to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or whatever, and I'm just like, \"OK.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of hate, and that's really scary to me — that people would hate me just because I was brought here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in WW2, earning him U.S. citizenship. He was able to petition for his children, including del Mundo's mom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Janet-del-Mundo-1987-SF-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet del Mundo, far right, with her mom and sister in 1987. Del Mundo's grandfather fought for the U.S. in World War II, earning him U.S. citizenship. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Janet del Mundo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Janet\">\u003c/a>Janet del Mundo, naturalized U.S. citizen, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy grandfather was in the Philippine Navy during WWII and fought on the side of the Americans. Because of this, he was granted U.S. citizenship and was able to petition for his children, including my mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nHow do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am fortunate enough to have naturalized legally through a family petition. However, I have many friends and family members who don't have the same opportunities. It's unfair and it dishonors the history of this country, which was, in fact, built by immigrants. Trump's policies will divide families and make us weaker as a nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>For me, growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. means courage, hard work and sacrifice. My mom left behind her home and built up a life from scratch, at one point working two jobs, all to give her children a better life. It's kind of a cliche to say \"the American Dream,\" but that's really what this country is built on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-800x938.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-160x188.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1020x1196.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-1180x1383.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-960x1126.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-240x281.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-375x440.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Olivia_Wedding-2-qut-520x610.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia and her husband walk together after their civil ceremony at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, December 2016. They wanted to get married and start Olivia's application for legal status before President Trump took office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Olivia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia*, DACA recipient, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm originally from Mexico. The whole entire family came here in 1999 and we settled down in San Jose. I started fifth grade I believe when we just arrived. And we have been in San Jose ever since. We call it our home. I live in San Francisco now; we've always been in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was finally going to have the wedding that I had always envisioned (in fall 2017), but then Nov. 8 (Trump’s election) happened and I panicked because I didn't know what was going to be my fate and that of my brother in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My birthday is Nov. 17, so that was probably the worst birthday I've ever had. I was pretty depressed. My boyfriend tried cheering me up, but I was just bummed. I didn't know what was going to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just one thing after the other. It's just unbelievable. There's so much uncertainty and it makes you feel so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to sit back and wait and watch and see what happens. It's not a nice way to live, to have to turn on the TV or have to open up social media or have to follow a newspaper and read that these things are happening. There is no more -- there isn't protection for people with DACA. There just isn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never pressured him to marry because I didn't need it. You know I was OK. I don't need to travel outside of the States. I have my immediate family here so I don't have anything kind of holding me back in Mexico. This is my life. I was OK with staying here being like in a cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Olivia isn’t her real name; she asked to remain anonymous out of fear of deportation. Learn more about Olivia’s story on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/12/dreamer-sees-path-to-escape-immigration-limbo/\">The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents immigrated from South Korea in 1991.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ErikaLee-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Lee was photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco, where she is a student, on March 6, 2017. Her parents and grandparents emigrated from South Korea in 1991. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Erika\">\u003c/a>Erika Lee, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn my dad’s side, my grandpa, his wife and three kids decided to emigrate out of South Korea in 1991 so that they could have a better future. My dad came with his older and younger sisters, and a few months later, my grandparents came and they bought a house. We still live in the same house today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom’s side is from North Korea. My great-grandparents were civilians affected by the Korean War in 1950. They had to keep moving south, which was safer for the family. So they went to a city in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have enough money so they decided to move to the United States in 1982, as one big family, for a better life and to get a better education. They migrated to Bay Farm Island (in Alameda), where all the kids went to school and graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as time went by, my grandpa wanted to move to a place near his job so the whole family moved to San Leandro, where my mom and dad met and married. They lived there for about three years with me, and then my family moved to my dad’s parents’ house in S.F. (that's because of a Korean tradition in which the eldest son and his family live with their parents).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is how my family migrated to America. My family was part of the migration stream: Lots of people were moving to the United States because of the opportunities to have better lives and wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. decades ago. She got citizenship last year. Here she is with her daughter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/JudyC-e1490753809449.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Christopher emigrated from Canada to the U.S. She got citizenship last year. She is pictured here with her daughter, Loha. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judy Christopher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Judy\">\u003c/a>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI came on a tourist visa from Canada. Clearly moving. Two suitcases filled with personal belongings, important papers, photo albums, and with my cat and dog, on a one-way flight from Toronto to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a \"looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working\" warning. White privilege!\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Overstayed my visa. Applied for permanent resident status after marrying an American. Was waved through at customs after secondary screening with a 'looks like you are moving — don't let us catch you working' warning. White privilege!'\u003ccite>Judy Christopher, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I worked for cash cleaning houses. I used the medical system to have my son without cost to me. And everyone kept saying, \"Oh, it's different with you.\" The only difference was my skin color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI got my citizenship a month before the election so I could vote against Trump. While I'm not worried about anyone in my family being deported (my three kids were born here), I am worried about other families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's \"victory\" will impact my family in that we will become more resolved resisters and more active in civil society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11380713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SMostavi-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Mostafavi, an Iranian-American immigration lawyer, on a visit to Morocco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Mostafavi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Sara\">\u003c/a>Sara Mostafavi, dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Danville\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI am an Iranian-American dual national by virtue of having been born here and having parents that are Iranian citizens. I am also an immigration attorney who represents many clients from Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order has the effect of freezing travel between Iran and the U.S. for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen \u003cem>(Editor’s note: The ban is currently being challenged in court and has been stayed)\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My clients are scared, worried, anxious, and are separated from loved ones. They have PTSD from the post-9/11 immigration horror stories and they are reliving those moments again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been playing part-attorney, part-therapist and part-fortune teller (without the benefit of a functioning crystal ball) when speaking to family, friends, community members and clients about the reverberations of this (Trump’s) executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11380779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png\" alt=\"Sarah Rao with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego. Today, Rao, an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-800x361.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-160x72.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1020x461.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-1180x533.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-960x434.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-240x108.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-375x169.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych-520x235.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/SRao_diptych.png 1590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Rao an 18-year-old high school senior, reflects on her dual identities. Right, with her parents at SeaWorld San Diego as a kid. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Rao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Saradha\">\u003c/a>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents (from India) married in their 20s and moved here once my father was awarded an H-1B visa. I was born a year later. My father continued his work for the next 10 years working by contract with companies that would endorse the extensions for his stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2012, my mother became a U.S. citizen and my father, later the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My family is currently low income and dependent on welfare. I am also a student who is about to enter college, so we are extremely vulnerable to any of his actions, financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does growing up in an immigrant family in the U.S. mean to you?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nGrowing up in an immigrant family is definitely complicated. It's comparable to a balancing act. You have such direct roots to your parents' culture but also feel so much pressure to assimilate. To me it's been a lot about self-discovery. As a young child I equally expressed both halves of me, Indian and American, without shame or discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.'\u003ccite>Saradha (Sarah) Rao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As I grew older and I became more self-conscious and experienced bits of racism and xenophobia, I started to try to suppress my heritage. If I showed any interest, it was only at home around my parents. Outside of the house, I'd be utterly embarrassed at any association with India unless it was from another's praise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am a senior in high school and am just about to graduate. In high school, I was lucky to have found an environment that is accepting, and peers who have embraced me, and diversity in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, I've truly come to love and appreciate the complex relationship between my identity and my heritage. I constantly research online and ask my parents questions. In this time, I have also developed a nationalistic pride equal to that I feel for America, although I recognize that both have a long way to go before either are perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So growing up in an immigrant family means self-discovery and place-finding for me. No, being an immigrant or a first-generation citizen should not be defining. But it does mean something in who you are and what you bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a struggle to balance the societal pressures and views of your family's origin and your cultural ties, but sooner or later you figure out that you don't have to compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11419141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11419141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-960x570.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SHerrera_mosaic-qut-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergio Herrera's parents came from El Salvador and Mexico. Herrera, a high school student in San Francisco, is pictured center in each photo with his mom, Maria, dad, Sergio, and brother, Joshua. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sergio Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sergio Herrera, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy family's migration starts from two Latin American countries, Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad was born in Mexico and migrated to America at 18 to find a way to support his poor family back in Mexico, who were living in a hut. He knew he wouldn't be able to support them in Mexico where jobs are really low-paying, so he decided to take a risk that millions of people have taken: jump the border in order to have a better life and higher-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, he had to face major obstacles since he entered the country illegally. He had to survive a two-week trip from his hometown to the border fence. He would then have to take another 24 hours to get through the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His goal was San Francisco since he had friends there, and after a long trip he made it. Eventually, he was able to get his green card and his citizenship, and save enough money for his family back home to build a house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother was born in El Salvador and immigrated legally by plane at age 25. Her parents were able to apply for a green card before she traveled to the United States and her green card was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main reason for her migration was the fact that there was a civil war going on in El Salvador. She knew no one and basically had to start from scratch. Luckily, after about two years, her sister arrived in San Francisco and they were able to help each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in an immigrant family makes me feel fortunate that I had the opportunities to experience different cultures. It also meant that my family was different in a sense that we ate different meals than most of my friends: While they were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, me and my brother were eating tortillas with beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made me want to work harder knowing that my parents went through a hard time coming to the United States for them and their kids to have a better future. They did their part, so now it’s my turn to do my part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11379344\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11379344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team; his parents immigrated from South Korea.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/MTiao-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximilian Tiao, photographed at Lowell High School in San Francisco on March 6, 2017. He is a member of Lowell's track and field team. His parents emigrated from South Korea. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Max\">\u003c/a>Maximilian Tiao, child of immigrants, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy parents immigrated by plane from South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both my grandparents (who are originally from China) and my parents didn't receive such a high education. They didn't have such a high income so, when my parents came to the United States, they really emphasized the fact. They're like: \"Oh, our next generation has to take care of themselves and be able to establish an education — for even their next generation as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They came to San Francisco particularly because they knew that, besides being close to South Korea, this place has innovation. This new place gave them an awesome opportunity to be able to do jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that Trump's new executive actions will probably not affect my family since they’re all naturalized as U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anything can happen, especially with one of Trump's executive orders halting funding of sanctuary cities like San Francisco \u003cem>(Editor’s note: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have filed lawsuits challenging any possible reductions in funding)\u003c/em>. I don't believe that this will affect my family specifically, but it can affect those around — especially my friends at Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380842\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380842 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut.jpg 384w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RobertoBurgos-qut-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Burgos' family emigrated from Panama. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roberto Burgos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Roberto\">\u003c/a>Roberto Burgos, naturalized U.S. citizen, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy mother was one of many Panamanians working for USAID in Panama. During the height of Manual Noriega's dictatorship, the U.S. granted visas to some Panamanian employees, my mother being one. She already had a sister living in San Francisco, so, after much preparations, and as the country's safety deteriorated, we flew in on December 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI don't know, and that is a problem. I feel that me and my family are pretty much established in the U.S., and that, as of today, the actions Trump has taken will not affect us directly, I feel uncertain about actions he may take in the future that could. I have a nagging feeling that it is very possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380848\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380848 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg\" alt=\"Enrique Diaz, Gilroy.\" width=\"160\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-160x290.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-240x436.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-375x681.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut-520x944.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/EnriqueDiaz-qut.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Diaz, Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Enrique Diaz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Enriqued\">\u003c/a>Enrique Diaz, naturalized U.S. citizen, Gilroy\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Illegally initially -> green card -> citizenship -> 4 siblings with 4 year university degrees!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Fear/anxiety/uncertainty among those undocumented and not appreciated for those that are now documented. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11380917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11380917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette.\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/ElizabethParrott-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Parrott, Lafayette. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Elizabeth Parrott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"Elizabeth\">\u003c/a>Elizabeth Parrott, child of immigrants, Lafayette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How did your family enter the U.S.?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>My mother was an au pair for a family in Southern California, and my dad just came over on a work visa.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How do you think Trump's new executive actions/orders could impact your family?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>While my parents have become citizens, and my sisters and I were all born here, I believe the executive actions will lead to profiling (similar to what occurred in Arizona), of all Latinos and people who simply look Mexican. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump's executive orders so far have targeted immigrants staying in the U.S. illegally, refugees, and visa holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a good assumption,\" Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18, that green card holders — or legal permanent residents — will not be affected by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/16/515607869/trump-says-he-will-issue-new-executive-action-related-to-travel-ban\">revised travel ban Trump is expected to announce this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alondra Juarez, a green card holder in Los Angeles, says she is not taking any chances. On a recent morning, she was one of dozens lined up outside the office of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.chirla.org/\">CHIRLA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come before, but she turned back after she saw long lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to say this is my sixth attempt,\" said Juarez, a 29-year-old social worker who has lived in L.A. for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She heard that CHIRLA was offering free help with citizenship applications during Trump's first 100 days in office. Juarez says she was troubled by Trump's executive order that temporarily banned travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Muslim ban was an eye-opener because if you do ask a lot of Latinos with resident cards, they'll tell you, 'OK, first it was Muslims, and next, who's on the list? The Latinos, Hispanic population,' \" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles is offering free assistance with citizenship applications through the first 100 days of the Trump administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles is offering free assistance with citizenship applications through the first 100 days of the Trump administration. \u003ccite>(Parker Yesko/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green card holders can apply for citizenship after staying in the U.S. for at least five years. But historically, nearly 40 percent of those eligible for citizenship — or about 10 million people — choose to keep their green cards, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/14/ii-recent-trends-in-naturalization-2000-2011/\" target=\"_blank\">latest estimate by the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the courts have put the travel ban on hold, the uncertainty of Trump's immigration policies is keeping immigrants on edge. Many green card holders are now flocking to apply for citizenship, including Vera Mayorga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on the sidewalk outside CHIRLA's office, she said her mother, Dina, is concerned about more changes in immigration policy and feels that getting citizenship is the best insurance against being deported back to Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She doesn't want to go back,\" Vera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is scary because here is my life,\" Dina added. \"My daughter's going to school here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CHIRLA staffers opened their office doors, the Mayorgas and other green card holders streamed inside to start filling out intake forms. There were so many people crammed into the room that more chairs had to be brought in. Smiles broke across nervous faces as a staffer welcomed them in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We used to see two to three people a week seeking citizenship services. Now we are seeing between 30 and 50 people a day,\" says Jorge-Mario Cabrera, CHIRLA's director of communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his organization hopes this recent rush for citizenship will eventually result in more new voters at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to vote and a U.S. passport are some of the top incentives for applying for citizenship. But there are also plenty of barriers that discourage some green card holders, including misinformation about the application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we want is to provide folks with the right information so that they don't end up at \u003cem>notarios\u003c/em> and fraudulent attorneys that will take their money, wreck their lives and run away from it all,\" Cabrera says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allan Wernick, an immigration attorney who runs the City University of New York's Citizenship Now! program, has also seen a significant increase in green card holders seeking citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, he says, some people have been intimidated by having to pass an English test and an exam about U.S history and government. Another challenge has been the fees, which can total as much as $725 to file the application for naturalization and to pay for the required fingerprinting and other biometric collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not everyone understands that if you're indigent or low income, you can get a waiver of that filing fee,\" Wernick explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidential election cycles generally boost the number of citizenship applications. Last year was no exception. Through September, application numbers were up more than 24 percent over the previous fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amir, a green card holder from Iran who lives in California's Orange County, submitted his application for naturalization a few weeks before Trump's inauguration\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked NPR not to use his last name because he is worried that speaking out might affect his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he was shocked that green card holders from Iran and the six other mainly Muslim countries affected by the travel ban were initially not allowed to return to the U.S. after Trump signed his executive order on Jan. 27. The White House counsel eventually issued a statement saying that green card holders are exempt from the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the confusion brought up a lot of questions for Amir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What if I happened to be outside of the country and wanted to come back?\" he says. \"This is home. I mean, I own a house here. I have no other place to go. I'm here as an asylee and as a gay man. There's not a lot of welcoming in Iran for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says Trump's Jan. 27 executive order will not affect how it reviews citizenship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Amir hopes he will soon be able to take his oath of allegiance and become a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of applications, the wait may be longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Trump's executive orders so far have targeted immigrants staying in the U.S. illegally, refugees, and visa holders from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a good assumption,\" Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18, that green card holders — or legal permanent residents — will not be affected by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/16/515607869/trump-says-he-will-issue-new-executive-action-related-to-travel-ban\">revised travel ban Trump is expected to announce this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alondra Juarez, a green card holder in Los Angeles, says she is not taking any chances. On a recent morning, she was one of dozens lined up outside the office of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.chirla.org/\">CHIRLA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had come before, but she turned back after she saw long lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to say this is my sixth attempt,\" said Juarez, a 29-year-old social worker who has lived in L.A. for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She heard that CHIRLA was offering free help with citizenship applications during Trump's first 100 days in office. Juarez says she was troubled by Trump's executive order that temporarily banned travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Muslim ban was an eye-opener because if you do ask a lot of Latinos with resident cards, they'll tell you, 'OK, first it was Muslims, and next, who's on the list? The Latinos, Hispanic population,' \" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles is offering free assistance with citizenship applications through the first 100 days of the Trump administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/chirla2_custom-17b41607ec3b9c305066529a42737de19c6d26fd-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles is offering free assistance with citizenship applications through the first 100 days of the Trump administration. \u003ccite>(Parker Yesko/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green card holders can apply for citizenship after staying in the U.S. for at least five years. But historically, nearly 40 percent of those eligible for citizenship — or about 10 million people — choose to keep their green cards, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/14/ii-recent-trends-in-naturalization-2000-2011/\" target=\"_blank\">latest estimate by the Pew Research Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the courts have put the travel ban on hold, the uncertainty of Trump's immigration policies is keeping immigrants on edge. Many green card holders are now flocking to apply for citizenship, including Vera Mayorga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on the sidewalk outside CHIRLA's office, she said her mother, Dina, is concerned about more changes in immigration policy and feels that getting citizenship is the best insurance against being deported back to Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She doesn't want to go back,\" Vera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is scary because here is my life,\" Dina added. \"My daughter's going to school here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After CHIRLA staffers opened their office doors, the Mayorgas and other green card holders streamed inside to start filling out intake forms. There were so many people crammed into the room that more chairs had to be brought in. Smiles broke across nervous faces as a staffer welcomed them in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We used to see two to three people a week seeking citizenship services. Now we are seeing between 30 and 50 people a day,\" says Jorge-Mario Cabrera, CHIRLA's director of communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says his organization hopes this recent rush for citizenship will eventually result in more new voters at the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to vote and a U.S. passport are some of the top incentives for applying for citizenship. But there are also plenty of barriers that discourage some green card holders, including misinformation about the application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we want is to provide folks with the right information so that they don't end up at \u003cem>notarios\u003c/em> and fraudulent attorneys that will take their money, wreck their lives and run away from it all,\" Cabrera says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allan Wernick, an immigration attorney who runs the City University of New York's Citizenship Now! program, has also seen a significant increase in green card holders seeking citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, he says, some people have been intimidated by having to pass an English test and an exam about U.S history and government. Another challenge has been the fees, which can total as much as $725 to file the application for naturalization and to pay for the required fingerprinting and other biometric collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not everyone understands that if you're indigent or low income, you can get a waiver of that filing fee,\" Wernick explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidential election cycles generally boost the number of citizenship applications. Last year was no exception. Through September, application numbers were up more than 24 percent over the previous fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amir, a green card holder from Iran who lives in California's Orange County, submitted his application for naturalization a few weeks before Trump's inauguration\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked NPR not to use his last name because he is worried that speaking out might affect his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he was shocked that green card holders from Iran and the six other mainly Muslim countries affected by the travel ban were initially not allowed to return to the U.S. after Trump signed his executive order on Jan. 27. The White House counsel eventually issued a statement saying that green card holders are exempt from the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the confusion brought up a lot of questions for Amir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What if I happened to be outside of the country and wanted to come back?\" he says. \"This is home. I mean, I own a house here. I have no other place to go. I'm here as an asylee and as a gay man. There's not a lot of welcoming in Iran for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says Trump's Jan. 27 executive order will not affect how it reviews citizenship applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Amir hopes he will soon be able to take his oath of allegiance and become a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of applications, the wait may be longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new nuclear deal with Iran has some Californians salivating, quite literally. That's because the deal will lift longtime bans on the imports of food and carpets after Iran meets certain obligations to change its nuclear program, possibly as soon as next summer. With more than 200,000 people of Persian descent in California, that has piqued the interest of some Iranian entrepreneurs here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Idin Deeb, who immigrated to the Los Angeles area from Tehran with his parents at the age of 5. As such, the Persian food distributor knows something about the little longings of his homesick patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's candies and gums and prepared foods of certain brands that no one else can get quite right, \" says Deeb, \"I've had people wax poetic for 25 minutes about a gumball before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb, 27, started his company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalamala.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kalamala, \u003c/a>as a hobby when he was just 15 with the help of his dad, who imports olive oils from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238664199\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always raised with that kind of Iranian-American entrepreneurial mindset, even from a young age. There was no allowance or anything like that. You wanna buy this, how are you gonna make the money to do it?\" remembers Deeb. \"And I knew that there were Persians all throughout the U.S. who were looking for certain ingredients and items. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb fields regular calls from people in the Iranian diaspora desperate, after more than three decades of trade bans, for what he calls \"nostalgic foods,\" which are laden with memories of childhood and homeland. Walking through his Van Nuys warehouse, Deeb demonstrates how two sugar loaves are rubbed together over a couple during their wedding ceremony to bless them with sweetness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You see, there's a sprinkling of sugar,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb found a local Southern California woman who makes these sugar loaves, an example of how he's had to get creative -- because of sanctions, none of his products are actually from Iran. Teas are often from India, and other products come from places as far as China. He says he's hoping that thawing relations will soon allow him to import authentic Persian foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10802966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_3833-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that once the embargo has dropped and relations have normalized a little bit,\" says Deeb, \"that this room will be filled with stuff that's all foreign labeling and been produced in \u003cspan class=\"il\">Iran.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of Persian Cheetos doesn't quicken your pulse, perhaps Persian caviar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.najmiehskitchen.com/pdf/FoodofLife_2012_FishFreshHerbs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pistachios, saffron or the sweet-sour barberry\u003c/a>? That could be just the start, says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the embargo, he says, there's been an explosion when it comes to literacy around foreign cuisine. A foodie at heart, he's most eager to see the flavors he loves make their mark here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really, really excited to see great Western chefs get their hands on traditional Iranian ingredients that have been used for thousands of years,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ImmShift375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Stories from Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While Deeb could have his way relatively soon, sanctions expert Sam Cutler of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari and Associates \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., says the trade opening is still very narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's very little actually changing if you're inside the United States,\" says Cutler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler warns that most transactions between the U.S. and Iran -- whether business or personal -- will still be banned. That means people can still get in trouble for shipping products with possible military uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've seen over the past couple of years a number of prosecutions of individuals for shipping items to Iran that may not be thought to be sensitive,\" says Cutler, \"like MRI coils or air-conditioning equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler says the U.S. will lift sanctions only around foreign subsidiaries, commercial airplane parts, food and carpets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siamak Shamouilzadeh has been in that business for three decades. He shows off one of his favorite pieces in his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos, a Kashan from the 1880s. While he says traditional rugs like these have fallen out of favor with Americans, he’s confident of their enduring value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as rugs go, Persian rugs are amongst the very best in the world,\" says Shamouilzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With craft culture all the rage these days, Shamouilzadeh is optimistic about a comeback for handmade Persian rugs. He still has connections to rug makers in Iran, and hopes that once the trade ban is lifted, he can travel back and forth to commission rugs for American clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They could] focus on the type of pattern and designs and colors that would be more usable in this country and, in that manner, expand production,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shamouilzadeh is looking forward to his own business opportunities, he says he's even more hopeful that increased trade will help make lives easier for people back in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people share that sentiment, says attorney Nazy Fahimi of the Persian community organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pars Equality Center\u003c/a>. But she advises people to consult a lawyer before doing any business in Iran. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb fields regular calls from people in the Iranian diaspora desperate, after more than three decades of trade bans, for what he calls \"nostalgic foods,\" which are laden with memories of childhood and homeland. Walking through his Van Nuys warehouse, Deeb demonstrates how two sugar loaves are rubbed together over a couple during their wedding ceremony to bless them with sweetness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You see, there's a sprinkling of sugar,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb found a local Southern California woman who makes these sugar loaves, an example of how he's had to get creative -- because of sanctions, none of his products are actually from Iran. Teas are often from India, and other products come from places as far as China. He says he's hoping that thawing relations will soon allow him to import authentic Persian foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10802966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_3833-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that once the embargo has dropped and relations have normalized a little bit,\" says Deeb, \"that this room will be filled with stuff that's all foreign labeling and been produced in \u003cspan class=\"il\">Iran.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of Persian Cheetos doesn't quicken your pulse, perhaps Persian caviar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.najmiehskitchen.com/pdf/FoodofLife_2012_FishFreshHerbs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pistachios, saffron or the sweet-sour barberry\u003c/a>? That could be just the start, says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the embargo, he says, there's been an explosion when it comes to literacy around foreign cuisine. A foodie at heart, he's most eager to see the flavors he loves make their mark here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really, really excited to see great Western chefs get their hands on traditional Iranian ingredients that have been used for thousands of years,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ImmShift375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Stories from Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While Deeb could have his way relatively soon, sanctions expert Sam Cutler of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari and Associates \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., says the trade opening is still very narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's very little actually changing if you're inside the United States,\" says Cutler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler warns that most transactions between the U.S. and Iran -- whether business or personal -- will still be banned. That means people can still get in trouble for shipping products with possible military uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've seen over the past couple of years a number of prosecutions of individuals for shipping items to Iran that may not be thought to be sensitive,\" says Cutler, \"like MRI coils or air-conditioning equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler says the U.S. will lift sanctions only around foreign subsidiaries, commercial airplane parts, food and carpets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siamak Shamouilzadeh has been in that business for three decades. He shows off one of his favorite pieces in his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos, a Kashan from the 1880s. While he says traditional rugs like these have fallen out of favor with Americans, he’s confident of their enduring value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as rugs go, Persian rugs are amongst the very best in the world,\" says Shamouilzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With craft culture all the rage these days, Shamouilzadeh is optimistic about a comeback for handmade Persian rugs. He still has connections to rug makers in Iran, and hopes that once the trade ban is lifted, he can travel back and forth to commission rugs for American clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They could] focus on the type of pattern and designs and colors that would be more usable in this country and, in that manner, expand production,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shamouilzadeh is looking forward to his own business opportunities, he says he's even more hopeful that increased trade will help make lives easier for people back in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people share that sentiment, says attorney Nazy Fahimi of the Persian community organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pars Equality Center\u003c/a>. But she advises people to consult a lawyer before doing any business in Iran. 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That includes $100,000 in seed money from 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We try to help them figure out their business model, work on product design and eventually try to help them raise capital,\" McClure says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438035\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave McClure, founding partner of the tech incubator 500 Startups talks with staff members after a new batch of entrepreneurs arrive in his San Francisco office. 500 Startups has offices in Mountain View, San Francisco and Mexico City.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14307_IMG_1491-qut.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave McClure, founding partner of the tech incubator 500 Startups, talks with staff members after a new batch of entrepreneurs arrives in his San Francisco office. 500 Startups has offices in Mountain View, San Francisco and Mexico City. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McClure brings in new foreign-tech talent to the Bay Area every four months. 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So far, he's banked $300,000, and he's working to perfect his pitch because he plans to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actually going to focus on the U.S. market, ignore the Norwegian market and go directly to the Bay area,\" Almnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10438074\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10438074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Techpear CEO Sebastian Almnes of Norway works on his pitch to investors with a 500 Startups mentor\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14325_IMG_1509-qut1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Techpear CEO Sebastian Almnes of Norway works on his pitch to investors with a mentor, Marvin Liao, a 500 Startups partner. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's what San Jose startup investors like Rick Rasmussen want to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As an investor, I like to touch and feel and work with the companies that I invest in,\" Rasmussen says. \"At a minimum, they have to have some kind of presence here, whether it's a sales office or actually move headquarters to the Silicon Valley.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ElSammaa plans to open an office in Silicon Valley in two years and will tailor his digital memory product to fit this market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First of all, we have a lot of Middle Eastern people living in the U.S. market who would use the same service,\" ElSammaa says. \"And then you have other people who don't have the same culture or habits, yet they still have the same needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many new immigrant entrepreneurs, ElSammaa says the key to his success will be to operate simultaneously in America and his home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Curious about the boom/bust cycle that is reshaping the Bay Area? 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