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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As of this Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> will give immigration officers more power to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Immigration officials will now consider a wider range of factors to decide if an applicant is likely to become a “public charge” — someone who is primarily dependent on the government to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-2\">states\u003c/a> that individuals who are likely to become a public charge cannot be admitted to the country, but it does not provide an exact list of factors or circumstances to determine who is a “public charge.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s why different administrations have interpreted the law differently. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260507-IMMIGRATIONCOURTVOLUNTEERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Concord Immigration Court in Concord on May 7, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a Biden-era rule that limited what officials could look at when considering an application. Without that guardrail in place, DHS can now consider whether an individual has ever received “means-tested public benefits” — a category that officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/20/2026-14539/public-charge-ground-of-inadmissibility\">have confirmed\u003c/a> includes:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Unemployment benefits (CalWords)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Food stamps (CalFresh) and other nutrition-assistance programs like WIC for women, infants and children\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Housing vouchers\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Early education programs like Head Start (if the applicant is a child)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>School lunch and summer food service programs that an applicant received thanks to food stamps or Medicaid coverage\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also considers direct cash aid programs at the local level, like guaranteed or universal basic income programs (also known as UBI). Over the past decade, cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Stockton have developed their own UBI programs for low-income families that don’t take immigration status into account.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What else could immigration officials look at?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DHS insists that the Biden-era rule prevented immigration officials from making more informed decisions. Looking at current and past public benefits, the agency said, is “relevant to determining whether an alien is likely at any time to become a public charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy is not entirely clear about what else immigration officials would consider public benefits, said Robert Yabes, who leads the immigration legal program at Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Officials now have much more discretion when making a decision,” he added. “We will have to observe how they use that now in cases,” he said. “And then based on what we learn, we will guide clients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/gettyimages-2238189274-scaled-e1789757180450.jpeg\" alt=\"A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-12085161\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal officer stands in a hallway at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York in October 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The announcement has sparked uncertainty and anxiety among immigrant families in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The rules are constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not,” said Lydia Bustamante, who leads San José’s Office of Inclusion and Belonging.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The result is that people are not accessing the services and resources that they need and deserve in order to support their families in one of the highest-cost-of-living areas in the country,” she added, stressing the importance of talking to legal experts to better understand this new rule.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are many ways to find legal aid in the Bay Area. These are some options recommended by immigrant advocates KQED spoke to:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://baylegal.org/get-help/\">Bay Area Legal Aid\u003c/a>: 800-551-5554\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County’s \u003ca href=\"https://desj.santaclaracounty.gov/oir/legal-services\">portal of free-to-low-cost immigration legal services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership: 510-241-4011\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Marin County Rapid Response Network: 415-991-4545\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County: 408-290-1144\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Stand Together Contra Costa: 925-900-5151\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>North Bay Rapid Response Network (Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties): 707-800-4544\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are generally not involved in federal immigration affairs, Santa Clara County Executive James Williams pointed out. “All of the care and services we offer to ensure the health and well-being of every family in our community,” he said, “remains fully open and accessible to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re doing all we can to make sure that people continue to access those services,” he added, “and know that their county government is standing with them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is impacted by this change?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Folks should first find out whether the new public charge rule actually affects them, said Yabes from Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This doesn’t apply to everybody,” he said. “Families should not automatically withdraw from any program that they’re in right now, especially with children, [without] finding out if the new rule actually applies to their particular immigration situation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new rule affects only people who are applying for a green card or a visa, Yabes explained. It doesn’t include naturalized U.S. citizens or current green card holders — unless they leave the country for more than six months. “It also does not apply to people who have refugee or asylum status,” he added, “or even DACA and TPS recipients.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, protects some people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is granted to immigrants from countries where the situation is too dangerous or unstable to return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Individuals who are applying for legal permanent residence (a green card) will, however, be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-3\">new guidelines\u003c/a> — even if they have an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or are being sponsored by an employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are state and local officials worried about this new public charge rule?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California and 22 other Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration to block the new public charge rule. Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Monday that these guidelines give immigration officials “practically unlimited discretion to deny someone a green card because they used a public benefit program.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a cruel policy designed to force immigrant families to forgo healthcare and food assistance programs out of fear that using them could jeopardize their immigration status,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12053793\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240815-CityAttorneyDeepfakes-10-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Aug. 15, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Santa Clara County have also sued the federal government over the new policy in a separate lawsuit. “If even a fraction of households are withdrawing from these social services, our city stands to lose millions of dollars in federal reimbursements,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties are already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082251/after-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-free-clinics-are-stepping-up\">expecting to lose\u003c/a> millions of dollars in Medicaid funding thanks to cuts from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. More funding losses could strain local services even more.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, DHS said that state leaders pushing back against the policy “are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome,” DHS added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2019, San Francisco and Santa Clara County won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news-san-francisco-and-county-of-santa-clara-conclude-public-charge-lawsuit\">legal battle\u003c/a> against the first Trump administration over a similar change to the public charge rule. “This is something that we have fought before,” Chiu said. “This is a cruel attempt by the federal administration to impose a wealth test on families that are seeking a future in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hot day in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> in August 2025, a worker stood in the sun with a rag and a squeeze bottle in front of a Mazda SUV when he turned to see a Border Patrol agent running toward him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seconds later, the agent grabbed him by his shoulder, gripping him by his Handy J Car Wash collared shirt like he was a recalcitrant child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey sir, let’s go,” the agent said in Spanish. The man, seemingly confused, replied, “Go where?” He had papers, he said, pleading with the agent. Within 10 seconds, the man – known only by his initials A.T. in court documents – was in handcuffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was whisked away in the backseat of an unmarked Dodge Charger to an ICE facility for processing, the rag and squeeze bottle left behind on top of the Mazda. Later that day he was fingerprinted and released, once ICE realized he was a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling unsealed Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that immigration agents likely violated federal statutes by arresting people such as A.T. without a warrant before assessing whether they were flight risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong finalized \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/08/los-angeles-warrantless-immigration-arrests-blocked/\">a tentative ruling issued last month\u003c/a> that immigration agents can’t just arrest someone, even if they’re in the country unlawfully, without determining if they’re likely to flee before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12098459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12098459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This Court finds ample evidence that Defendants have an ongoing policy and practice of conducting warrantless arrests in violation of the requirement to conduct a likelihood-of-escape analysis,” the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, immigration officers can arrest someone without a warrant only when they have probable cause both that the person is in the country unlawfully and that they are likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ruling is one of the most important decisions to date in the community’s effort to end the federal government’s cruel and illegal practice of abducting people and separating them from their families,” said Mayra Joachin, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said: “ICE has authority for lawful arrests where authorized under 8 USC 1357. Law enforcement officers use ‘reasonable suspicion’ to investigate immigration status and probable cause to make arrests consistent with the statute and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on these practices.”[aside postID=news_12099590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260914-GilroyICEFolo-13-BL.jpg']The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. In arrest reports, agents are supposed to explain why they determined someone was a flight risk and therefore couldn’t wait to get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies keep an eye on protesters blocking the entrance to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys argued that, in 80 percent of all the arrest reports they reviewed, agents either did not make any assessment of flight risk or simply used boilerplate language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the agent’s narrative used boilerplate language that contradicted other parts of his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Frimpong cited this instance, noting the discrepancy between the official government narrative and the body cam footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one arrest, the Government’s escape narrative claims that an individual – E.G.G. – was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained based, in part, on ‘his flight from law enforcement,” Frimpong wrote. “… But a video of this arrest shows E.G.G. remained working and standing in the same place from the time that the agent entered the car wash to the time that the agent called him over….contrary to the Government’s written escape risk analysis, (he) did not flee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same body cam footage a supervisory agent tells the worker, “We’re going to give you a ride, and check if everything is OK. If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. Courts in two of those cases later found agents kept on doing it anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal immigration agents arrest a man in Bell as residents clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents after a traffic collision involving one of the agency’s vehicles during immigration raids across the Los Angeles area on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, Frimpong ordered that agents must document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s or officer’s prearrest probable cause to believe that the person was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argued the analysis should include community ties, like whether a person has a job and a home and a family, but the judge declined to require those specifics if the escape risk can be shown through other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also declined to require agents to document cases where they talk to someone but don’t arrest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government asked for a two week delay to decide whether to appeal before the order takes effect. Frimpong denied that, saying the government “cannot reasonably assert that it is harmed in any legally cognizable sense” by being ordered to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/09/la-immigration-raids-warrantless-arrests-ruling/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was whisked away in the backseat of an unmarked Dodge Charger to an ICE facility for processing, the rag and squeeze bottle left behind on top of the Mazda. Later that day he was fingerprinted and released, once ICE realized he was a lawful permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a ruling unsealed Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that immigration agents likely violated federal statutes by arresting people such as A.T. without a warrant before assessing whether they were flight risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong finalized \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2026/08/los-angeles-warrantless-immigration-arrests-blocked/\">a tentative ruling issued last month\u003c/a> that immigration agents can’t just arrest someone, even if they’re in the country unlawfully, without determining if they’re likely to flee before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12098459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12098459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/ICE-Arrests-CA-Getty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk a detainee out of the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California, on July 27, 2026. \u003ccite>(Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This Court finds ample evidence that Defendants have an ongoing policy and practice of conducting warrantless arrests in violation of the requirement to conduct a likelihood-of-escape analysis,” the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, immigration officers can arrest someone without a warrant only when they have probable cause both that the person is in the country unlawfully and that they are likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ruling is one of the most important decisions to date in the community’s effort to end the federal government’s cruel and illegal practice of abducting people and separating them from their families,” said Mayra Joachin, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said: “ICE has authority for lawful arrests where authorized under 8 USC 1357. Law enforcement officers use ‘reasonable suspicion’ to investigate immigration status and probable cause to make arrests consistent with the statute and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on these practices.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of advocacy groups filed last year against the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuxaVdv7po&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org\">aggressive raids across Los Angeles\u003c/a> led by former Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS attorneys have argued that those operations ceased in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the high-profile immigration raids have gotten quieter after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January, President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has only intensified. Arrests \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/border-immigration-customs-enforcement-data-statistics-f07f56a34bda225e5afa356781ac1740\">reached their highest level in the second Trump administration\u003c/a> in July, with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide, according to data by the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, agents arrested more than 15 percent more people than they did during the same time last year, when Bovino’s masked agents conducted aggressive street raids across Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups obtained body cam footage, depositions and text messages from agents in discovery. Using that evidence, they successfully argued that federal immigration agents’ actions likely violated protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of A.T., the Border Patrol agent’s arrest report reveals that he skipped steps that would have prevented a lawful permanent resident from being handcuffed and sent to processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, the arresting agent says he identified himself as a Border Patrol agent and that A.T. made a “couple of sudden moves” as if about to run. The body cam footage does not appear to show that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent wrote that when he asked about citizenship, A.T. replied “U.S.” However, the agent says A.T. appeared “confused and unsure of his answer, similar to individuals who I have arrested before.” The agent reported he arrested him to verify his citizenship. At no point prior to the arrest does the agent try to check A.T. ‘s identification or ask questions about his background, the body cam footage shows. That’s the kind of flight risk assessment required before a warrantless arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When body cam footage contradicts agents’ narratives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At that same Handy J Car Wash, a different Border Patrol agent detained another worker that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his arrest narrative, he wrote that the man followed his commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But later in the report, the agent justified his decision to arrest the worker without a warrant because of “the fact that he ignored agent command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report highlights a key argument that advocates made in their court filings. In arrest reports, agents are supposed to explain why they determined someone was a flight risk and therefore couldn’t wait to get a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/ICEAgentsMinnesotaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff’s deputies keep an eye on protesters blocking the entrance to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 30, 2026. \u003ccite>(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys argued that, in 80 percent of all the arrest reports they reviewed, agents either did not make any assessment of flight risk or simply used boilerplate language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argued the agent’s narrative used boilerplate language that contradicted other parts of his report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her ruling, Frimpong cited this instance, noting the discrepancy between the official government narrative and the body cam footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one arrest, the Government’s escape narrative claims that an individual – E.G.G. – was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained based, in part, on ‘his flight from law enforcement,” Frimpong wrote. “… But a video of this arrest shows E.G.G. remained working and standing in the same place from the time that the agent entered the car wash to the time that the agent called him over….contrary to the Government’s written escape risk analysis, (he) did not flee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same body cam footage a supervisory agent tells the worker, “We’re going to give you a ride, and check if everything is OK. If everything is OK, we’ll let you go.” The agents’ own words reveal how the sweeps operated: arrest first and verify later.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In agents’ own words\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the agents arrested people without a warrant even though a court had already determined they weren’t a flight risk, according to advocates’ attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In body cam footage from September, one Border Patrol agent asks another if they are still arresting people who have a notice to appear before an immigration judge. Such a notice signals someone is currently going through the immigration system, and likely has been deemed not a flight risk. They usually have been released awaiting a court date to determine whether they can stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent says, “I don’t care if you have a court date coming up, you’re a (expletive) custody redetermination.” The agent is saying that even if an immigration judge already determined a person isn’t a flight risk, agents are reversing that decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ICEGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Border Patrol produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even those already in removal proceedings, who are ordered released on bond presumably due to lack of flight risk and are complying with court dates, are not immune from Defendants’ policy,” wrote attorneys for the detained, arguing that the immigration agents aren’t just neglecting to do a flight risk assessment themselves, but willfully ignoring the determination of an actual immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol policy calls for agents to ask about flight-risk factors like identification or a home address before an arrest. But attorneys who brought the lawsuit say body camera footage shows agents often did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one video from August 2025, Border Patrol agents jumped out of a Penske truck and grabbed people in the Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:50 a.m. a Border Patrol agent arrested a man identified as Tijerino-Garmendia in court documents. The agent’s arrest narrative says Tijerino-Garmendia “stated he had no identification stating his identity or home address.” Body cam footage shows the agent “showing no questioning on this topic,” attorneys for the detained said in court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents arrested community members “with no inquiry into community ties or escape risk,” the lawsuit claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/g-s1-108778/ice-agents-warrantless-arrests-oregon\">Oregon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/12/ice-materially-violated-order-on-warrantless-arrests-colorado-judge-says/\">Colorado\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/trump-dhs-arrests-warrants-dc.html\">Washington D.C.\u003c/a> have also ordered federal agents to stop making warrantless arrests. Courts in two of those cases later found agents kept on doing it anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12093000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/CalMatters-Olmos-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal immigration agents arrest a man in Bell as residents clash with U.S. Border Patrol agents after a traffic collision involving one of the agency’s vehicles during immigration raids across the Los Angeles area on June 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles case, Frimpong ordered that agents must document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s or officer’s prearrest probable cause to believe that the person was likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argued the analysis should include community ties, like whether a person has a job and a home and a family, but the judge declined to require those specifics if the escape risk can be shown through other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also declined to require agents to document cases where they talk to someone but don’t arrest them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government asked for a two week delay to decide whether to appeal before the order takes effect. 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Construction began earlier this year but has been halted following a federal court ruling. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In June, LoPresti’s office and the state’s attorney general sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for not having consulted with the state or the county before beginning construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090807/ice-will-pause-construction-on-controversial-south-bay-detention-facility\">a new detention facility in Gilroy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county argued that the construction and placement of the facility could overwhelm the area’s septic system, among other harm to the environment and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>LoPresti said the land, having been used previously as a pesticide and seed research facility for 30 years, is a bad location to build a new facility because it could contain carcinogens, pathogens and other hazardous chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s part of the reason why this just isn’t the right place to build an office space with holding facilities where you’re going to have humans there on the daily,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both sides will negotiate further specifics on handling of the site while construction is paused, LoPresti continued. This includes discussing if the county can inspect the property to check for hazardous materials.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They should walk away from this project now, cut their losses and understand that they made bad decisions to try to put this project where it doesn’t belong,” LoPresti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement on Monday, ICE said the new facility is intended to be “a new ICE office,” not a detention center like the Golden State Annex in McFarland, California or the California City Immigration Processing Center. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Like ICE offices across the country, it will include temporary, short-term holding rooms for individuals awaiting transfer to another facility or release,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Planning and development for this project have been ongoing for several years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security added that the agency is building more facilities after hiring more personnel, thanks to increased funding from what they called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text\">the Big Beautiful Bill\u003c/a>.” ICE has hired an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents across the country, increasing its workforce by 120%, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The lawsuits challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s expansion of whom it deems a “public charge,” a term used to describe a noncitizen who relies primarily on government benefits. U.S. immigration law allows the government to deny a visa or green card based on that policy.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In public charge determinations historically, DHS has been able to consider only cash-assistance programs and long-term institutional care through Medi-Cal. Under the new “public charge” rule \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/20/2026-14539/public-charge-ground-of-inadmissibility\">issued\u003c/a> in July, however, they’ll also be able to account for income-based benefits, like Medicaid, food and housing assistance, and free and reduced-price school lunch programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration tried to similarly expand the scope of public benefits it considered in 2019, but that effort was blocked by courts across the country until the Biden administration rescinded the rule in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than 20 states and Washington, D.C, joined the suit brought by Bonta and New York state Attorney Letitia James, while New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leading a separate lawsuit brought by a coalition of cities including San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle, as well as Santa Clara, California, and King County, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta said Monday that the expanded rule could allow immigration officials to unlawfully consider whether children who are citizens in mixed-status families receive Medicaid or food benefits such as free or reduced-price school lunch when deciding if their parent is a “public charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The rule treats all of these as a reason to deny immigrants a green card, and it goes even further,” Bonta said. “The benefits that child lawfully receives can be held against their parents. The administration wants to punish immigrant families for using benefits that their children are legally entitled to, that their children rely on, are eligible for.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DHS has \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-14539/p-1537\">predicted\u003c/a> that at least 10% of people in mixed-status households will disenroll from public benefit programs as a result. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12083331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/20260511-YICKWOCOMMEMORATION-JY-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">City Attorney David Chiu speaks during a press conference at the parking lot on 3rd and Harrison streets in San Francisco on May 11, 2026, to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Yick Wo v. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>When a patient comes into Dr. Miguel San Miguel Benavides’ exam room at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> with a cough, a rash, diabetes or high blood pressure, he knows where to start. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But over the past year, people have been bringing him a problem he feels less equipped to tackle as a primary care physician: their fear over immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among other actions, the Trump administration has rolled back protections keeping immigration agents away from healthcare facilities and sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/immigrant-health/potential-implications-of-the-new-medicaid-data-sharing-agreement-between-cms-and-ice/\">give ICE access to Medicaid data\u003c/a>. Since then, San Miguel and colleagues at SF General who work with immigrant patients say they’ve watched with a sense of powerlessness as people avoid or delay treatment, and as mounting stress exacerbates their underlying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/news/ice-tactics-and-deportation-fears-limit-access-to-health-care-for-children-of-immigrants-survey/\">2025 survey\u003c/a> of healthcare workers who serve immigrants echoes that experience: Among hundreds of respondents across 30 states, 84% said patient visits were down substantially; many said their ability to provide preventive care and manage chronic conditions suffered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, poses for a portrait at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a small study from UCSF suggests that immigration policies can force some doctors to practice in a way that’s at odds with their sense of moral or professional duty, taking a toll on them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The experience has become routine for San Miguel as he finishes his residency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the type of care that I always wanted to give,” he said of working with patients who, like him, immigrated to this country. “But I think part of that has become realizing that the amount of support we can give isn’t necessarily enough.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers call that kind of ethical conflict “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war\">moral injury\u003c/a>,” a term coined by a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist working with Vietnam War veterans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Marlene Martín, a UCSF clinical medicine professor, was inspired to do the study last summer, around the time ICE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">conducting widespread raids\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. A colleague who works with immigrant patients told her no one had shown up to their appointment that day at SF General. If that was happening in San Francisco, where there was relatively little high-profile ICE activity at the time, Martín wondered what doctors elsewhere were seeing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So she and her colleagues interviewed 38 primary care doctors in 13 states about their experiences caring for immigrant patients in this climate. They recently published their findings \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2851433\">in JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The interviews confirmed that doctors across the country were seeing patients miss appointments, with some suffering more from chronic diseases as their treatment lapsed. For instance, Martín said, one interviewee described a patient whose diabetes had spiraled out of control because his son, who’d been driving him to his appointments, had been arrested by ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t fix that,” she said. “You can’t address that in a clinical visit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some doctors told the researchers they were afraid to even ask their patients how they were doing, “because it would open this whole topic that they didn’t know how to answer. They didn’t know how to make it better,” Martín said. “In medicine we’re used to being able to address things that patients are talking about and to help them get better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One doctor described to researchers the kind of dilemmas they face, given fears about encountering immigration agents in hospitals: “Would I rather have [my patient] be at home while they’re having substernal, crushing chest pain vs. what are the costs and benefits of going [to the hospital]?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some cases, the interviewees reported their clinics had stopped accepting undocumented patients altogether, for fear of losing federal funding. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Those experiences, day after day, are what can lead to moral injury.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What surprised study co-author Dr. Alicia Fernandez was how much doctors changed the way they practiced in response to immigration policy changes. “What we saw was many physicians and practices, entire practices, altering their patterns of care,” the UCSF professor and SF General primary care doctor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some transitioned to telehealth appointments. Others switched medications so patients didn’t have to go into the clinic or pharmacy as often. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Fernandez said the changes can come at a cost — both for the patients and the doctors who care for them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Alicia Fernandez, a UCSF professor and general internist at SF General, talk at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We definitely feel that our patients are getting worse, and we feel that the care that we are giving is an inferior form of care, and that’s why it’s associated with moral distress,” Fernandez said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She points to a recent experience with an undocumented patient who’d avoided being seen out of fear. “He came in already having damage from his diabetes,” she said. “That’s a terrible feeling.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This kind of distress isn’t just bad for individual doctors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Moral injury can contribute to burnout,” said Dr. Robert Pearl, a physician and Stanford professor who served as CEO of the Permanente Medical Group for nearly two decades. And data show burnout affects doctors’ quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the patient before you required all this extra work, has had this added fear, had all these challenges,” he said, referencing the study, “when the clinician sees you, he or she may not be as good and sharp as you would like them to be.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Individuals walk towards the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>When a patient comes into Dr. Miguel San Miguel Benavides’ exam room at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> with a cough, a rash, diabetes or high blood pressure, he knows where to start. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But over the past year, people have been bringing him a problem he feels less equipped to tackle as a primary care physician: their fear over immigration enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among other actions, the Trump administration has rolled back protections keeping immigration agents away from healthcare facilities and sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/immigrant-health/potential-implications-of-the-new-medicaid-data-sharing-agreement-between-cms-and-ice/\">give ICE access to Medicaid data\u003c/a>. Since then, San Miguel and colleagues at SF General who work with immigrant patients say they’ve watched with a sense of powerlessness as people avoid or delay treatment, and as mounting stress exacerbates their underlying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://phr.org/news/ice-tactics-and-deportation-fears-limit-access-to-health-care-for-children-of-immigrants-survey/\">2025 survey\u003c/a> of healthcare workers who serve immigrants echoes that experience: Among hundreds of respondents across 30 states, 84% said patient visits were down substantially; many said their ability to provide preventive care and manage chronic conditions suffered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097362\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, poses for a portrait at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, a small study from UCSF suggests that immigration policies can force some doctors to practice in a way that’s at odds with their sense of moral or professional duty, taking a toll on them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The experience has become routine for San Miguel as he finishes his residency.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is the type of care that I always wanted to give,” he said of working with patients who, like him, immigrated to this country. “But I think part of that has become realizing that the amount of support we can give isn’t necessarily enough.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Researchers call that kind of ethical conflict “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war\">moral injury\u003c/a>,” a term coined by a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist working with Vietnam War veterans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Marlene Martín, a UCSF clinical medicine professor, was inspired to do the study last summer, around the time ICE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">conducting widespread raids\u003c/a> in Los Angeles. A colleague who works with immigrant patients told her no one had shown up to their appointment that day at SF General. If that was happening in San Francisco, where there was relatively little high-profile ICE activity at the time, Martín wondered what doctors elsewhere were seeing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>So she and her colleagues interviewed 38 primary care doctors in 13 states about their experiences caring for immigrant patients in this climate. They recently published their findings \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2851433\">in JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The interviews confirmed that doctors across the country were seeing patients miss appointments, with some suffering more from chronic diseases as their treatment lapsed. For instance, Martín said, one interviewee described a patient whose diabetes had spiraled out of control because his son, who’d been driving him to his appointments, had been arrested by ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t fix that,” she said. “You can’t address that in a clinical visit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some doctors told the researchers they were afraid to even ask their patients how they were doing, “because it would open this whole topic that they didn’t know how to answer. They didn’t know how to make it better,” Martín said. “In medicine we’re used to being able to address things that patients are talking about and to help them get better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One doctor described to researchers the kind of dilemmas they face, given fears about encountering immigration agents in hospitals: “Would I rather have [my patient] be at home while they’re having substernal, crushing chest pain vs. what are the costs and benefits of going [to the hospital]?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-10-KQED-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some cases, the interviewees reported their clinics had stopped accepting undocumented patients altogether, for fear of losing federal funding. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Those experiences, day after day, are what can lead to moral injury.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What surprised study co-author Dr. Alicia Fernandez was how much doctors changed the way they practiced in response to immigration policy changes. “What we saw was many physicians and practices, entire practices, altering their patterns of care,” the UCSF professor and SF General primary care doctor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some transitioned to telehealth appointments. Others switched medications so patients didn’t have to go into the clinic or pharmacy as often. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Fernandez said the changes can come at a cost — both for the patients and the doctors who care for them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-8-KQED-1536x1091.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miguel San Miguel Benavides, a resident physician at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Alicia Fernandez, a UCSF professor and general internist at SF General, talk at the hospital on Aug. 26, 2026. (Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We definitely feel that our patients are getting worse, and we feel that the care that we are giving is an inferior form of care, and that’s why it’s associated with moral distress,” Fernandez said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She points to a recent experience with an undocumented patient who’d avoided being seen out of fear. “He came in already having damage from his diabetes,” she said. “That’s a terrible feeling.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This kind of distress isn’t just bad for individual doctors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Moral injury can contribute to burnout,” said Dr. Robert Pearl, a physician and Stanford professor who served as CEO of the Permanente Medical Group for nearly two decades. And data show burnout affects doctors’ quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If the patient before you required all this extra work, has had this added fear, had all these challenges,” he said, referencing the study, “when the clinician sees you, he or she may not be as good and sharp as you would like them to be.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12099231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20260826_UCSFStudy_GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Individuals walk towards the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Aug. 26, 2026. 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The rally coincided with a federal court hearing on a request to halt construction of a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Gilroy. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee seemed skeptical during the court hearing in San José on Tuesday. Outside of the courthouse, dozens of people protested the planned project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tell me how a change from agricultural research to immigration offices and detention is not a change in use,” Lee told U.S. Department of Justice attorney Krystal-Rose Perez at one point. “An office versus a detention center or holding center are very different things.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a tentative ruling last week, Lee said the state and county were likely to succeed in their charge that ICE and other federal agencies violated laws that require assessing environmental consequences and considering state and local viewpoints before approving a project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county claims development of the proposed 18,700-square-foot facility, which could hold up to 150 detainees, would overwhelm an existing septic system and disturb toxic fungicides and carcinogenic materials, posing a danger for workers and any future detainees. 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This should have never been proposed here, and it should certainly not proceed here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In May, the government started demolition at 7240 Holsclaw Rd. to renovate existing structures into an ICE office with a short-term holding area, according to court documents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ speculation that ICE will overload the septic system at the site by holding 150 detainees, 24 hours a day, plus 60 staff members, lacks support,” government attorneys wrote in an opposition brief. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The brief continues later: “If the Gilroy project is delayed, ICE would have to rely on existing facilities that are farther away and already support other operational needs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> residents fighting the construction of a new immigration holding facility breathed a sigh of relief after a federal judge extended a halt to the project Tuesday, while she considers a potentially longer pause. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county and California sued in June to stop the development and operation of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in an unincorporated area outside of Gilroy, which they claim is not a suitable location and is likely contaminated with hazardous waste. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Attorneys for ICE argued that the project is exempt from further environmental review because plans for the site as an office building — with a holding area for detained people — would not be “materially different” from its prior use by agricultural research companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098775\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_014-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A speaker addresses demonstrators during an “ICE Out of Gilroy” rally outside the federal courthouse in San José on Sept. 8, 2026. The rally coincided with a federal court hearing on a request to halt construction of a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Gilroy. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee seemed skeptical during the court hearing in San José on Tuesday. Outside of the courthouse, dozens of people protested the planned project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tell me how a change from agricultural research to immigration offices and detention is not a change in use,” Lee told U.S. Department of Justice attorney Krystal-Rose Perez at one point. “An office versus a detention center or holding center are very different things.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a tentative ruling last week, Lee said the state and county were likely to succeed in their charge that ICE and other federal agencies violated laws that require assessing environmental consequences and considering state and local viewpoints before approving a project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county claims development of the proposed 18,700-square-foot facility, which could hold up to 150 detainees, would overwhelm an existing septic system and disturb toxic fungicides and carcinogenic materials, posing a danger for workers and any future detainees. DOJ attorneys called that characterization overblown, arguing that only about 10 immigrants would be detained at any time there. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Even though we don’t have a final ruling yet from the court, the signs that we heard today in the hearing are incredibly encouraging,” Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said, speaking to reporters afterward. “This is the wrong place for this facility. This should have never been proposed here, and it should certainly not proceed here.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In May, the government started demolition at 7240 Holsclaw Rd. to renovate existing structures into an ICE office with a short-term holding area, according to court documents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ speculation that ICE will overload the septic system at the site by holding 150 detainees, 24 hours a day, plus 60 staff members, lacks support,” government attorneys wrote in an opposition brief. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The brief continues later: “If the Gilroy project is delayed, ICE would have to rely on existing facilities that are farther away and already support other operational needs. Delaying the Gilroy project would also place a significant burden on individuals in removal proceedings who are out of custody and have reporting requirements with ICE.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098774\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/090826_Gilroy-ICE_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A demonstrator holds an “ICE Out” sign near the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building during an “ICE Out of Gilroy” rally in San José on Sept. 8, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said that the agency has more than doubled its workforce and needs additional space. The agency maintains that its current offices about 10 miles north of Gilroy in Morgan Hill are insufficient, while the property’s lease is expiring soon.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Is it really news that when a federal agency hires more personnel that they need more space? Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, we have an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents on the ground across the country,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “That’s a 120% increase in our workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Construction on the facility had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12090807/ice-will-pause-construction-on-controversial-south-bay-detention-facility\">been paused\u003c/a> as part of a voluntary agreement between the parties. Lee said she will continue a stay on the project until at least Sept. 15. If she then issues a preliminary injunction, as requested by the county, construction would be temporarily blocked. A final resolution on the case is not expected until after a hearing in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The dispute comes as ICE races to expand its detention capacity, after Congress approved $115 billion for immigration enforcement nationwide since July 2025. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Francisco, a 52-year-old window installer, couldn’t sleep. He burst into tears during family dinners. The sight of an unfamiliar black Suburban parked near his longtime apartment in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, California, sent him rushing to lock the doors and hide. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His employer threatened to report him to federal immigration authorities this spring, Francisco said, to discourage him from collaborating with state labor officials investigating a co-worker’s complaint against the business. KQED is not using Francisco’s full name or naming their employer because he lacks legal immigration status and fears retaliation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I was afraid,” Francisco said. “I tried to not show it to my family so they wouldn’t get nervous or upset. But inside, I was afraid. It’s traumatic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening immigration consequences is nothing new in industries with a large noncitizen workforce and lower-wage jobs, such as construction, hospitality and in-home care. But as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, bad-faith employers are taking advantage of the political climate to exploit vulnerable workers, who are now more fearful of deportation, according to state officials and employment attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s hard to estimate the extent of this kind of workplace intimidation, which is generally unlawful, because relatively few people report it to labor regulators. Still, state figures point to a spike in immigration-related threats during both the first and current Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Construction workers rebuild a house that was destroyed in the Palisades Fire on June 25, 2026, in Pacific Palisades, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg and that there are many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Ruth Silver Taube, supervising attorney at the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Legal Advice Line. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco, who has worked in California for 25 years, mostly in construction, said he had never before faced an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-related threat. Francisco worried his wife and two older children, who also don’t have legal status, could be detained and separated from a younger son, a U.S. citizen by birth. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The father of three became so anxious, imagining that he was being watched or followed, that his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco eventually found a different job and is seeking legal aid to figure out next steps. A spokesperson for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates retaliation complaints, identified two open investigations against Francisco’s former employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” Francisco said, adding that more construction workers he knows are facing similar rhetoric. “Unfortunately, it is the price we pay — those of us who are undocumented here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency, which tracks reports of employers threatening workers, has received nearly 200 immigration-related complaints since 2025, almost as many as during President Joe Biden’s entire administration, according to agency figures. Similarly, an analysis of the office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSEreports.htm#RCReports\">data\u003c/a> indicates more than 460 immigration-threat allegations during Trump’s first term, a significant increase from years prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The increase comes as the Trump administration has weakened or discarded protections aimed at encouraging immigrant workers to report potential workplace violations. Trump rescinded a Biden-era program that offered temporary protection from deportation and a work permit to people who collaborated with labor investigators. And an agreement that largely kept immigration authorities out of workplaces the U.S. Department of Labor was investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096562/trump-administration-nixes-longstanding-deal-to-help-investigate-labor-abuses\">is no longer in effect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Worker advocates in Southern and Northern California said workplace immigration threats are on the rise across the state, part of an effort to silence immigrants during disputes over wages or other job conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yunuen Trujillo, who directs the workers’ rights program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, related the story of an in-home caregiver in Los Angeles County. Trujillo said a former employer sought the caregiver out at her new job and threatened to go to ICE against her — and her school-age son — unless the worker withdrew a wage complaint she had filed with state regulators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That kind of emboldened attitude, we’re seeing more and more,” said Trujillo, who assisted the L.A. caregiver in reaching a settlement. “Bad actors who are employers are using the opportunity to engage in wage theft, to retaliate, to coerce workers into doing what they want by using immigration-related threats.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Middle housing units under construction in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trujillo’s team has documented dozens of reports of veiled or explicit threats this year, though most workers decline to pursue the cases or seek redress, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Silver Taube believes just one of dozens of clients has been arrested and deported after reporting immigration threats and wage theft to state regulators during the first Trump term. The Labor Commissioner’s Office recovered unpaid wages for the man and ensured he received them in Mexico, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency also intervenes to stop retaliation from happening or continuing by promptly informing employers that they could be on the hook for up to $10,000 in penalties per violation if the allegations of immigration threats against them are corroborated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Counterintuitively, if [workers] speak up, there might be less of a likelihood that it’ll happen because the eyes of the government are on the employer,” said Silver Taube, who recommends workers document the perceived threat in writing, perhaps via text message or email to the same supervisor who made it, as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Labor Commission will prioritize the case … and call the employer to inform them about the civil and criminal penalties for threats to call ICE, which may deter the employer from acting on the threat,” she said. “But that’s part of the calculus for workers who are undocumented. Will the employer call ICE?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For every person who speaks up about the issue, many others don’t, deciding it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage theft, unsafe conditions, harassment or other workplace issues, worker advocates and labor officials said. The dynamic has been exacerbated by the federal government’s focus on aggressive immigration enforcement, said Jaime Arteaga, a labor compliance investigator with the North Coast States Carpenters Union. Immigration authorities conducted about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-50-thousand-people-august-continuing-record-rcna595510\">100,000 arrests\u003c/a> nationwide just over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Somebody might say, ‘We might get deported,’ and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward,” said Arteaga, who regularly speaks with nonunionized laborers at construction sites in San José. “It doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said, and the people are fearful. It can be a rumor.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, declined to comment on advocates’ concerns about a chilling effect on the reporting of labor abuses, or whether employers are actually identifying current or former employees for arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to protect public safety, national security and economic stability while rescuing individuals who may be victims of labor trafficking or exploitation,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “These operations target illegal employment networks that undermine American workers, destabilize labor markets, and threaten American communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employing noncitizens without work authorization also incentivizes “dangerous and illegal practices, including social security fraud,” the spokesperson said, because those immigrants often use stolen, fabricated or expired social security numbers to get jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have a right to minimum wage, overtime, a safe workplace and other protections, regardless of their immigration status. Punishing a worker for trying to exercise those rights is unlawful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">a bill\u003c/a> last week that would clarify the law to explicitly say that all immigration-related threats, including preemptive ones to dissuade employees from exercising their rights, are illegal. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yet, managers may ignore the rules. Threats can be made in the heat of the moment, and not as a well-thought-out management tool, said Paul DeCamp, who represents employers with the firm Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing or they’re complaining about working conditions, the supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation, may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp, a former administrator of the wage and hour division at the U.S. Department of Labor. “But the supervisor may not understand that or may think that the workers would be afraid to do anything about the threat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said her agency anticipated that Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants would have a chilling effect on undocumented and other noncitizen workers. The labor commissioner has expanded its education and outreach efforts, including by partnering closely with advocacy organizations and community leaders who have workers’ trust. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/\">1.5 million undocumented\u003c/a> immigrants make up less than 10% of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government. We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for Social Security numbers. And it is safe for them to proceed in cooperating with us,” Garcia-Brower said. “I don’t need a statistic to reiterate that there is a significant amount of fear in the community. 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It’s traumatic.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supervisors threatening immigration consequences is nothing new in industries with a large noncitizen workforce and lower-wage jobs, such as construction, hospitality and in-home care. But as President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up immigration arrests to levels not seen in years, bad-faith employers are taking advantage of the political climate to exploit vulnerable workers, who are now more fearful of deportation, according to state officials and employment attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s hard to estimate the extent of this kind of workplace intimidation, which is generally unlawful, because relatively few people report it to labor regulators. Still, state figures point to a spike in immigration-related threats during both the first and current Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/ConstructionWorkersLAGetty-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Construction workers rebuild a house that was destroyed in the Palisades Fire on June 25, 2026, in Pacific Palisades, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I do believe that this is the tip of the iceberg and that there are many, many more of these immigration-related threats,” said Ruth Silver Taube, supervising attorney at the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Legal Advice Line. “These threats are designed to deter workers from coming forward. And I think they’re successful.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Francisco, who has worked in California for 25 years, mostly in construction, said he had never before faced an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-related threat. Francisco worried his wife and two older children, who also don’t have legal status, could be detained and separated from a younger son, a U.S. citizen by birth. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The father of three became so anxious, imagining that he was being watched or followed, that his wife took him to see a psychiatrist. Francisco eventually found a different job and is seeking legal aid to figure out next steps. A spokesperson for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, which investigates retaliation complaints, identified two open investigations against Francisco’s former employer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” Francisco said, adding that more construction workers he knows are facing similar rhetoric. “Unfortunately, it is the price we pay — those of us who are undocumented here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency, which tracks reports of employers threatening workers, has received nearly 200 immigration-related complaints since 2025, almost as many as during President Joe Biden’s entire administration, according to agency figures. Similarly, an analysis of the office’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSEreports.htm#RCReports\">data\u003c/a> indicates more than 460 immigration-threat allegations during Trump’s first term, a significant increase from years prior. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The increase comes as the Trump administration has weakened or discarded protections aimed at encouraging immigrant workers to report potential workplace violations. Trump rescinded a Biden-era program that offered temporary protection from deportation and a work permit to people who collaborated with labor investigators. And an agreement that largely kept immigration authorities out of workplaces the U.S. Department of Labor was investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096562/trump-administration-nixes-longstanding-deal-to-help-investigate-labor-abuses\">is no longer in effect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Worker advocates in Southern and Northern California said workplace immigration threats are on the rise across the state, part of an effort to silence immigrants during disputes over wages or other job conditions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yunuen Trujillo, who directs the workers’ rights program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, related the story of an in-home caregiver in Los Angeles County. Trujillo said a former employer sought the caregiver out at her new job and threatened to go to ICE against her — and her school-age son — unless the worker withdrew a wage complaint she had filed with state regulators. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That kind of emboldened attitude, we’re seeing more and more,” said Trujillo, who assisted the L.A. caregiver in reaching a settlement. “Bad actors who are employers are using the opportunity to engage in wage theft, to retaliate, to coerce workers into doing what they want by using immigration-related threats.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/251007-sacramentomiddlehousing_00240_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Middle housing units under construction in Sacramento, California, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trujillo’s team has documented dozens of reports of veiled or explicit threats this year, though most workers decline to pursue the cases or seek redress, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Silver Taube believes just one of dozens of clients has been arrested and deported after reporting immigration threats and wage theft to state regulators during the first Trump term. The Labor Commissioner’s Office recovered unpaid wages for the man and ensured he received them in Mexico, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state agency also intervenes to stop retaliation from happening or continuing by promptly informing employers that they could be on the hook for up to $10,000 in penalties per violation if the allegations of immigration threats against them are corroborated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Counterintuitively, if [workers] speak up, there might be less of a likelihood that it’ll happen because the eyes of the government are on the employer,” said Silver Taube, who recommends workers document the perceived threat in writing, perhaps via text message or email to the same supervisor who made it, as evidence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Labor Commission will prioritize the case … and call the employer to inform them about the civil and criminal penalties for threats to call ICE, which may deter the employer from acting on the threat,” she said. “But that’s part of the calculus for workers who are undocumented. Will the employer call ICE?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For every person who speaks up about the issue, many others don’t, deciding it’s not worth the risk to complain about wage theft, unsafe conditions, harassment or other workplace issues, worker advocates and labor officials said. The dynamic has been exacerbated by the federal government’s focus on aggressive immigration enforcement, said Jaime Arteaga, a labor compliance investigator with the North Coast States Carpenters Union. Immigration authorities conducted about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-50-thousand-people-august-continuing-record-rcna595510\">100,000 arrests\u003c/a> nationwide just over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Somebody might say, ‘We might get deported,’ and that shuts everything down. The workers are not going to come forward,” said Arteaga, who regularly speaks with nonunionized laborers at construction sites in San José. “It doesn’t have to be real, it can just be said, and the people are fearful. It can be a rumor.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, declined to comment on advocates’ concerns about a chilling effect on the reporting of labor abuses, or whether employers are actually identifying current or former employees for arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to protect public safety, national security and economic stability while rescuing individuals who may be victims of labor trafficking or exploitation,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “These operations target illegal employment networks that undermine American workers, destabilize labor markets, and threaten American communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Employing noncitizens without work authorization also incentivizes “dangerous and illegal practices, including social security fraud,” the spokesperson said, because those immigrants often use stolen, fabricated or expired social security numbers to get jobs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under federal and state laws, employees have a right to minimum wage, overtime, a safe workplace and other protections, regardless of their immigration status. Punishing a worker for trying to exercise those rights is unlawful. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers approved \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2495\">a bill\u003c/a> last week that would clarify the law to explicitly say that all immigration-related threats, including preemptive ones to dissuade employees from exercising their rights, are illegal. Gov. Gavin Newsom has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto the measure. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yet, managers may ignore the rules. Threats can be made in the heat of the moment, and not as a well-thought-out management tool, said Paul DeCamp, who represents employers with the firm Epstein, Becker & Green in Washington, D.C. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If a supervisor gets annoyed, perhaps because the workers are talking about unionizing or they’re complaining about working conditions, the supervisor, in an attempt to try to take control of the situation, may make a threat like this, which of course is illegal,” said DeCamp, a former administrator of the wage and hour division at the U.S. Department of Labor. “But the supervisor may not understand that or may think that the workers would be afraid to do anything about the threat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said her agency anticipated that Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants would have a chilling effect on undocumented and other noncitizen workers. The labor commissioner has expanded its education and outreach efforts, including by partnering closely with advocacy organizations and community leaders who have workers’ trust. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/\">1.5 million undocumented\u003c/a> immigrants make up less than 10% of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We do not collaborate with the federal government. We do not ask about immigration status. We don’t ask for Social Security numbers. And it is safe for them to proceed in cooperating with us,” Garcia-Brower said. “I don’t need a statistic to reiterate that there is a significant amount of fear in the community. What I want to make sure that I am continuously communicating: worker protections.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12001145\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/FastFoodWorkersGetty1-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers fill food orders at a Chipotle restaurant on April 1, 2024, in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Edith, a fast food worker in the San José area, said she decided to come forward with a complaint because she is desperate for relief. Her manager has discriminated against her and other older employees, unfairly cutting their work hours, she said. Edith said that when she asked the manager about it last summer, they replied that anyone complaining about their schedule would be reported to ICE. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Edith stopped asking questions, even after her work hours were slashed again. KQED is not using Edith’s full name or naming her employer because she fears losing her job.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know that was illegal — what she told us. I was afraid of going to work. But I have to work because I need to,” the 56-year-old said in Spanish. “It has been, and still is, a huge deal. It is something very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She had never been threatened with deportation in the 35 years she’s worked in the state cleaning homes and in restaurants, she said. Eventually, Edith and co-workers sought advice from the California Fast Food Workers Union. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By then, the manager had also told employees that they should “hide in the garbage” or “jump out of the window” if ICE agents came to the workplace, according to two age-discrimination complaints against the business with the California Civil Rights Department that were reviewed by KQED. The department also \u003ca href=\"https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/10/Immigration-Rights-Fact-Sheet_ENG.pdf\">investigates immigration threats\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You have to do something,” said Edith, referring to her complaint, which she hopes will lead the restaurant owners to ensure employees are treated fairly. “We do have rights, and we shouldn’t be treated this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is at risk of losing nearly $12 billion in federal funding for public assistance programs after the Trump administration threatened to cut off grants to states unless they report every known unauthorized immigrant to immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The threat came in the form of a new legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-clarifies-duty-states-report-known-illegal-aliens-under-welfare-reform\">opinion\u003c/a> this month reinterpreting a 1990s welfare-reform law to mean that all agencies in states receiving welfare funding — which is every state in the nation — must report all “individuals known to be not lawfully present” to the federal government or risk losing grants that aid low-income people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s a dramatic reversal from the Clinton-era interpretation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which said that only state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office was defiant in its opposition to the threat.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NewsomLuriePresser-32-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a statement. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In fact, people who are not lawfully present in the U.S. are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/ofa/policy-guidance/acf-ofa-im-25-01\">not eligible\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm\">either program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If California were to comply with the new federal requirements, however, it would spotlight for federal immigration enforcement many of the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cmsny.org\">estimated 2.6 million people\u003c/a> in the state without legal status, including those who have lived in the U.S. for years and have U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has information on a lot of residents without legal immigration status because, over the past two decades, lawmakers have made them eligible for public resources, including driver’s licenses, emergency health care and in-state tuition, UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The risk is bigger in California because California has been willing, in exercising its legislative judgment, to provide more services and benefits to undocumented immigrants than many other states,” Johnson said. “It’s done so legally, and it’s done so without the knowledge that it might be required to share information with the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla, during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\">More than a million\u003c/a> unauthorized immigrants have California driver’s licenses, thanks to a 2013 law known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/assembly-bill-ab-60-driver-licenses/\">AB 60\u003c/a> that allows residents to obtain a license regardless of their immigration status. And more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/\">100,000 students\u003c/a> without status are enrolled in California public universities, where they qualify for in-state tuition and some state financial aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/california-nonresident-tuition-exemption\">under AB 540\u003c/a>, passed by the Legislature in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, who helped spearhead AB 60 when he was a state lawmaker, called the administration’s move an effort to vilify immigrants by holding hostage aid to seniors, people with disabilities and struggling families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Instead of doing anything to make life more affordable, this administration is choosing to distract from their disastrous policies by sowing chaos and fear,” Padilla told KQED in a statement. “Kids and working families will pay an even greater price because of their cruelty, and I won’t stop fighting for the justice they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Johnson called the Department of Justice’s new opinion unusual from a legal standpoint, and he said he expects it to be challenged in court by states such as California on the grounds that it is arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t consider the interests of those who’ve relied on the Clinton-era understanding of the law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very rare to reinterpret an interpretation that was put into place a quarter-century ago and has never been questioned or undermined by legislation or a court decision in any way,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Johnson cautioned that the opinion was carefully written and could be challenging to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the office is reviewing it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is continuing to try to coerce states into its hateful agenda, this time by attempting to rewrite decades-old law,” spokesperson Nina Sheridan said. “We’re evaluating the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion.”\u003c/p>\n",
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(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is nothing new — Trump has always tried to play cruel games with states that protect working families,” Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo said. “The courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on blue states — should the Trump administration move forward, we expect the same here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TANF — known in California as CalWORKS — is short-term cash assistance for people in poverty, including \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057\">nearly 900,000 Californians\u003c/a> as of 2024. SSI provides cash benefits to elderly, blind or disabled people with low incomes, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_sc/2025/ca.pdf\">1.1 million Californians\u003c/a> as of 2025. That’s roughly 2 million Californians benefitted from the two programs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California receives a $3.7 billion annual block grant for TANF and roughly $8 billion a year in SSI funding, according to Ryan Woolsey, a policy analyst at the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said it believes Congress intended for every state agency to report unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And officials suggested that those immigrants were benefiting from the welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said in a statement. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In fact, people who are not lawfully present in the U.S. are \u003ca href=\"https://acf.gov/ofa/policy-guidance/acf-ofa-im-25-01\">not eligible\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm\">either program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If California were to comply with the new federal requirements, however, it would spotlight for federal immigration enforcement many of the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cmsny.org\">estimated 2.6 million people\u003c/a> in the state without legal status, including those who have lived in the U.S. for years and have U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California has information on a lot of residents without legal immigration status because, over the past two decades, lawmakers have made them eligible for public resources, including driver’s licenses, emergency health care and in-state tuition, UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The risk is bigger in California because California has been willing, in exercising its legislative judgment, to provide more services and benefits to undocumented immigrants than many other states,” Johnson said. “It’s done so legally, and it’s done so without the knowledge that it might be required to share information with the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12070624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020827442794-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Adam Schiff, right, walks with Sen. Alex Padilla, during a visit to an immigration detention center on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/\">More than a million\u003c/a> unauthorized immigrants have California driver’s licenses, thanks to a 2013 law known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/assembly-bill-ab-60-driver-licenses/\">AB 60\u003c/a> that allows residents to obtain a license regardless of their immigration status. And more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.higheredimmigrationportal.org/state/california/\">100,000 students\u003c/a> without status are enrolled in California public universities, where they qualify for in-state tuition and some state financial aid \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/california-nonresident-tuition-exemption\">under AB 540\u003c/a>, passed by the Legislature in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, who helped spearhead AB 60 when he was a state lawmaker, called the administration’s move an effort to vilify immigrants by holding hostage aid to seniors, people with disabilities and struggling families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Instead of doing anything to make life more affordable, this administration is choosing to distract from their disastrous policies by sowing chaos and fear,” Padilla told KQED in a statement. “Kids and working families will pay an even greater price because of their cruelty, and I won’t stop fighting for the justice they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Johnson called the Department of Justice’s new opinion unusual from a legal standpoint, and he said he expects it to be challenged in court by states such as California on the grounds that it is arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t consider the interests of those who’ve relied on the Clinton-era understanding of the law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s very rare to reinterpret an interpretation that was put into place a quarter-century ago and has never been questioned or undermined by legislation or a court decision in any way,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Johnson cautioned that the opinion was carefully written and could be challenging to overturn.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the office is reviewing it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration is continuing to try to coerce states into its hateful agenda, this time by attempting to rewrite decades-old law,” spokesperson Nina Sheridan said. “We’re evaluating the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>California’s Legislature this week sent a slew of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that aim to increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention in the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislation comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">record number of Californians\u003c/a>, and six people have died at ICE facilities in the state — among at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">56 nationwide\u003c/a> — since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills, all authored by Democrats, include measures to increase transparency into the conditions inside immigration jails, expand the state’s power to enforce detention standards and restrict construction of new detention facilities. One bill would impose a tax on for-profit detention companies. Another would cap the profits companies can make from marking up items sold in commissaries.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four of the bills have the backing of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said the measures are a response to the Trump administration’s push for mass detention and deportation of immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-2290506003-1-scaled-e1787755545663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096824\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters at a press conference after opening arguments took place in the Meta trial over a lawsuit brought by U.S. states about social media addiction, at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18, 2026. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These all help address the cruel and inhumane approach, and sometimes the unlawful conduct in terms of treatment, that’s been directed toward immigrants in California,” Bonta said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new legislation builds on a series of laws California lawmakers passed during the first Trump administration, said Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates, which helped craft several of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has really led the nation now for more than a decade with respect to providing meaningful avenues to try to push back on the expansion of immigration detention and also to try to find ways to support immigrant communities that are targeted by ICE enforcement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In July, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">arrested nearly 50,000 immigrants\u003c/a> across the country, including close to 4,300 in California, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley. Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. María Elena Durazo, would extend the existing power of the state Department of Justice to inspect immigration detention facilities in California beyond 2027, when the inspection program established by an earlier law, AB 103, was due to sunset. The bill is co-sponsored by Attorney General Bonta.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB942\">\u003cstrong>SB 942\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights\u003c/strong>, from Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would establish a bill of rights for people held for civil immigration proceedings in any state, local or private detention facility in California. For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Caballero would build on a legal fellowship program that trains new attorneys in immigration law and places them in nonprofits located in rural areas of the state that lack sufficient immigration legal services. Attorney General Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener has authored a bill, dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB747\">No Kings Act\u003c/a>, that would allow people to sue local, state and federal officers, including immigration agents, in state court if they believe their rights have been violated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky said he believes the bill would stand up in court: “I think that is clearly constitutional because it’s not targeting just the federal government.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2760\">bill\u003c/a> from San Diego Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins would bar law enforcement officers from using any wearable device that can deliver electric shocks, and it would block the use of state funds to purchase them. That comes in response to recent news that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097332/california-democrats-race-to-ban-electric-shock-gloves-before-ice-buys-them\">ICE was planning to buy thousands\u003c/a> of Taser-like gloves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor has until the end of September to sign or veto the bills on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta said he had not spoken directly with the governor about the bills he has sponsored, but was optimistic that Newsom would sign them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the bills become law, Chemerinsky said he expects swift legal challenges by the Trump administration and the private prison companies. The Berkeley dean called state legislation an important tool at a time when, as he sees it, the Trump administration is violating constitutional laws to a degree that’s never been seen in U.S. history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“One of the genius aspects of the American system of government, of federalism, is that, if one level of government fails, another can step in,” he said. “What California is trying to do is to step in so as to protect the rights of people in the state where the federal government is infringing them.”\u003c/p>\n",
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Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. María Elena Durazo, would extend the existing power of the state Department of Justice to inspect immigration detention facilities in California beyond 2027, when the inspection program established by an earlier law, AB 103, was due to sunset. The bill is co-sponsored by Attorney General Bonta.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB942\">\u003cstrong>SB 942\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights\u003c/strong>, from Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would establish a bill of rights for people held for civil immigration proceedings in any state, local or private detention facility in California. For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Caballero would build on a legal fellowship program that trains new attorneys in immigration law and places them in nonprofits located in rural areas of the state that lack sufficient immigration legal services. Attorney General Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener has authored a bill, dubbed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB747\">No Kings Act\u003c/a>, that would allow people to sue local, state and federal officers, including immigration agents, in state court if they believe their rights have been violated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chemerinsky said he believes the bill would stand up in court: “I think that is clearly constitutional because it’s not targeting just the federal government.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2760\">bill\u003c/a> from San Diego Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins would bar law enforcement officers from using any wearable device that can deliver electric shocks, and it would block the use of state funds to purchase them. That comes in response to recent news that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097332/california-democrats-race-to-ban-electric-shock-gloves-before-ice-buys-them\">ICE was planning to buy thousands\u003c/a> of Taser-like gloves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor has until the end of September to sign or veto the bills on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta said he had not spoken directly with the governor about the bills he has sponsored, but was optimistic that Newsom would sign them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the bills become law, Chemerinsky said he expects swift legal challenges by the Trump administration and the private prison companies. The Berkeley dean called state legislation an important tool at a time when, as he sees it, the Trump administration is violating constitutional laws to a degree that’s never been seen in U.S. history. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“One of the genius aspects of the American system of government, of federalism, is that, if one level of government fails, another can step in,” he said. “What California is trying to do is to step in so as to protect the rights of people in the state where the federal government is infringing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It requires mandatory detention for immigrants who are accused of certain crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Under the law I’m signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer or any crime that results in death,” Trump said before signing the act into law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thirteen Democratic Senators and 46 Democrats in the House voted for the act, \u003ca href=\"https://levin.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mike-levins-statement-on-recent-votes-on-the-laken-riley-act-and-agent-raul-gonzalez-officer-safety-act\">including San Diego Congressman Mike Levin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin justified his vote by citing an increase in retail thefts in his North County district. 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A county judge dismissed his case in criminal court, but that didn’t matter in immigration court, where a judge used the Laken Riley Act as justification to keep him locked up.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“But it became a major issue that this person was delayed and stuck in jail for a month and a half,” said Barrios. “This person owns his own business, now he’s at risk of losing everything because he had to shut down the business for a month and a half. Bills had to be paid. They’re backed up on their mortgage payments and everything else. It creates a major impact.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, there are currently more than 65,000 people in immigration detention. More than 70% of them do not have criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There is no publicly available data that would tell us how many people have been subject to mandatory detention under Laken Riley. But individual cases show the law’s impact.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In San Diego, Noah Montague represented a man who was never even arrested for a crime. While not a lawyer, Montague is accredited to represent people in immigration court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My client has never been arrested for any kind of crime relating to assault on a police officer. However what happened, when he was picked up by ICE, the narrative that ICE wrote said that he basically resisted arrest and that resulted in assault of a police officer,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No arrest, no charge, no conviction. Just the words of a federal officer. Yet, the judge invoked Laken Riley.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“There’s been no arrest for this crime, there’s been no conviction, my client has maintained that he didn’t try to do this. And the only context that this came up is a report by an ICE officer that’s actually unsigned.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Montague describes the Laken Riley Act as just one piece of Trump’s mass deportation machine. Others include courthouse arrests, travel bans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/08/18/liberia-agrees-to-take-1-200-third-country-deportees-from-the-u-s\"> third-country deportations\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">aggressive immigration enforcement raids\u003c/a>. All with the ultimate goal of making life so difficult for immigrants that they will self deport.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“They’re kind of piecemeal pulling this policy, this policy, they just make it so unbearable that people decide they don’t want to “play the game” or go through the process,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin’s office declined multiple interview requests by KPBS. In a statement, Levin acknowledges that an arrest is not a finding of guilt and should not be allowed to become a shortcut around due process. But the text of the law he voted for specifically requires DHS to detain immigrants after an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since voting for that law, Levin has become an outspoken critic of Trump’s deportation agenda. He’s voted to withhold funding for ICE, demanded more transparency from detention centers, and advocated for families of deported constituents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">Will Newsom Let Immigrant College Students Without Legal Status Work at Their Campuses?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab713\">AB 713\u003c/a>, is from Lakewood Democrat José Luis Solache, and it sailed through the\u003cbr>Legislature to Newsom’s desk despite GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It says California’s public college campuses cannot disqualify students without legal\u003cbr>status from campus employment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC, CSU, and community college systems enroll an estimated 60,000\u003cbr>students without legal status. While these students can get state-backed financial aid,\u003cbr>they’re ineligible for most federal grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Leading the charge for this right to work on campuses are students without legal status, immigration rights groups and legal scholars. Access to safe working conditions for students without legal status is a high priority because they’re ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders. California awards eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of immigration status, so many students without legal status can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed a similar bill in 2024, echoing a chief worry put forward by the University of California: Any effort to employ students without proper status would incur the wrath of the Trump administration, which could attempt to pull some or all of the $17 billion in annual federal support the system gets.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The state’s Department of Finance is recommending a no vote on Solache’s bill. The fear of federal litigation and budget cuts are the \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/15647\">main reasons why\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its own review of employing students without legal status in 2024 for those reasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a hearing earlier this year, Solache said, “While California has a long standing commitment to expanding access, affordability and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This bill and previous pushback has been rooted in an untested legal theory. That\u003cbr>theory says a 1980s federal law that banned employing immigrants without legal\u003cbr>status did not directly mention state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/detention-facility-transparency-act-heads-to-the-governors-desk/\">Detention Facility Transparency Act Heads to the Governor’s Desk\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb423\">bill that could give the public more access\u003c/a> to information about emergencies inside private immigrant detention centers is on its way to becoming a law. It just needs Governor Newsom’s signature. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>SB 423 would require local agencies to share audio of 9-1-1 calls and written reports from inside detention centers. It was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-08-19/ie-latino-voices-paloma-esquivel-on-why-its-hard-to-get-information-from-ice-detention-centers\">prompted by questions \u003c/a>about medical care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092950/a-judge-sent-a-doctor-to-evaluate-californias-largest-ice-detention-center-what-he-found\">allegations of sexual abuse and violence\u003c/a> against immigrants being detained.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sd33.senate.ca.gov/news/data-911-calls-ice-detention-centers-must-be-released-under-bill-going-gov-newsom\">State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, September 2, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>During his second term, president Donald Trump has done very little that can be considered even remotely bi-partisan. But one thing stands out … \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5/text\">The Laken Riley Act\u003c/a>. We explore t\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/08/31/immigrants-are-losing-due-process-rights-because-of-laken-riley-act-lawyers-say\">he impacts of this immigration legislation\u003c/a> more than a year after trump signed it into law.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A bill that could give the public \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/detention-facility-transparency-act-heads-to-the-governors-desk/\">more access to information about emergencies inside private immigrant detention centers\u003c/a> is on its way to becoming a law. It just needs Governor Newsom’s signature.\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Students without legal status aren’t allowed to work for California’s public colleges or universities. That’s despite years of efforts by state lawmakers and advocates. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">A bill that could change that\u003c/a> is now on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/08/31/immigrants-are-losing-due-process-rights-because-of-laken-riley-act-lawyers-say\">“I Thought It Was Absurd When I Heard This Was On The Table.” \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The first bill that Trump signed into law this term was a bi-partisan law targeting immigrants without legal status. \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5/text\">The law was named\u003c/a> after a college student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant. It requires mandatory detention for immigrants who are accused of certain crimes. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Under the law I’m signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer or any crime that results in death,” Trump said before signing the act into law. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Thirteen Democratic Senators and 46 Democrats in the House voted for the act, \u003ca href=\"https://levin.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mike-levins-statement-on-recent-votes-on-the-laken-riley-act-and-agent-raul-gonzalez-officer-safety-act\">including San Diego Congressman Mike Levin.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin justified his vote by citing an increase in retail thefts in his North County district. However, civil rights organizations said the new law would deny people due process protections because Laken Riley imposes mandatory detention of people after an arrest, even if they aren’t charged or convicted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After his vote in 2025, Levin said he did not believe the law took away due process protections or targeted innocent immigrants. But immigration lawyers say that’s what happened.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carlos Barrios is an immigration lawyer based in Los Angeles\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“And in that respect, Laken Riley has been a problem because a basic arrest is enough. Even if the person wasn’t convicted. I thought it was absurd when I heard this was on the table and then I thought it was incredibly absurd when people voted for it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barrios represented a man who was arrested for receiving stolen property. A county judge dismissed his case in criminal court, but that didn’t matter in immigration court, where a judge used the Laken Riley Act as justification to keep him locked up.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“But it became a major issue that this person was delayed and stuck in jail for a month and a half,” said Barrios. “This person owns his own business, now he’s at risk of losing everything because he had to shut down the business for a month and a half. Bills had to be paid. They’re backed up on their mortgage payments and everything else. It creates a major impact.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\">According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u003c/a>, there are currently more than 65,000 people in immigration detention. More than 70% of them do not have criminal convictions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There is no publicly available data that would tell us how many people have been subject to mandatory detention under Laken Riley. But individual cases show the law’s impact.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In San Diego, Noah Montague represented a man who was never even arrested for a crime. While not a lawyer, Montague is accredited to represent people in immigration court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“My client has never been arrested for any kind of crime relating to assault on a police officer. However what happened, when he was picked up by ICE, the narrative that ICE wrote said that he basically resisted arrest and that resulted in assault of a police officer,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No arrest, no charge, no conviction. Just the words of a federal officer. Yet, the judge invoked Laken Riley.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“There’s been no arrest for this crime, there’s been no conviction, my client has maintained that he didn’t try to do this. And the only context that this came up is a report by an ICE officer that’s actually unsigned.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Montague describes the Laken Riley Act as just one piece of Trump’s mass deportation machine. Others include courthouse arrests, travel bans,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/international/2026/08/18/liberia-agrees-to-take-1-200-third-country-deportees-from-the-u-s\"> third-country deportations\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">aggressive immigration enforcement raids\u003c/a>. All with the ultimate goal of making life so difficult for immigrants that they will self deport.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“They’re kind of piecemeal pulling this policy, this policy, they just make it so unbearable that people decide they don’t want to “play the game” or go through the process,” said Montague. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Levin’s office declined multiple interview requests by KPBS. In a statement, Levin acknowledges that an arrest is not a finding of guilt and should not be allowed to become a shortcut around due process. But the text of the law he voted for specifically requires DHS to detain immigrants after an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since voting for that law, Levin has become an outspoken critic of Trump’s deportation agenda. He’s voted to withhold funding for ICE, demanded more transparency from detention centers, and advocated for families of deported constituents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/students-without-legal-status-california/\">Will Newsom Let Immigrant College Students Without Legal Status Work at Their Campuses?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab713\">AB 713\u003c/a>, is from Lakewood Democrat José Luis Solache, and it sailed through the\u003cbr>Legislature to Newsom’s desk despite GOP opposition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It says California’s public college campuses cannot disqualify students without legal\u003cbr>status from campus employment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC, CSU, and community college systems enroll an estimated 60,000\u003cbr>students without legal status. While these students can get state-backed financial aid,\u003cbr>they’re ineligible for most federal grants and loans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Leading the charge for this right to work on campuses are students without legal status, immigration rights groups and legal scholars. Access to safe working conditions for students without legal status is a high priority because they’re ineligible for federal Pell grants — up to $7,400 annually — and federal student loans that come with more borrower protections than ones offered by private lenders. California awards eligible in-state students tuition waivers regardless of immigration status, so many students without legal status can at least attend a public institution tuition-free.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed a similar bill in 2024, echoing a chief worry put forward by the University of California: Any effort to employ students without proper status would incur the wrath of the Trump administration, which could attempt to pull some or all of the $17 billion in annual federal support the system gets.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The state’s Department of Finance is recommending a no vote on Solache’s bill. The fear of federal litigation and budget cuts are the \u003ca href=\"https://leganalysis.dof.ca.gov/getPdf/15647\">main reasons why\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The UC itself \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">abandoned\u003c/a> its own review of employing students without legal status in 2024 for those reasons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At a hearing earlier this year, Solache said, “While California has a long standing commitment to expanding access, affordability and student success in higher education, our undocumented students continue to face significant financial and structural barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This bill and previous pushback has been rooted in an untested legal theory. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">arrested more people\u003c/a> in Northern California in July than at any point since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. 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(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. 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