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Community leaders planned to remove Chavez’s likeness from school murals, statues and other public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many farmworkers, the emotional impact has been disorienting. Some described learning about the allegations through word of mouth, social media or conversations at work, struggling to reconcile admiration for Chavez as an organizer with anger and sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to harm us,” UFW member Maria Garcia Hernández said in Spanish, a Tulare County resident.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']The 52-year-old weighed whether the union would lose any influence in Sacramento or the rural communities where it operates, an open question. She worried about encountering antagonism or even aggression when volunteering as a union canvasser in Republican areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could undermine the politicians we support — for whom we go door-to-door for, so they can hold office and represent us,” said Garcia Hernández, a farmworker for more than 30 years. “Now, people won’t want to accept us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reckoning comes as the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to make it cheaper for employers to hire seasonal foreign agricultural workers through H-2A visas — a policy the Economic Policy Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-new-h-2a-wage-rule-will-radically-cut-the-wages-of-all-farmworkers-new-estimates-show-farmworkers-stand-to-lose-4-4-to-5-4-billion-annually-under-dols-updated-adverse-effec/\">estimates\u003c/a> could drive down wages for farmworkers nationwide by more than $4.4 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also signaled plans to ramp up deportations in a workforce where about half are undocumented, leaving many vulnerable to exploitation and reluctant to challenge employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a legitimate concern for a lot of folks to wonder what happens now,” said Eladio Bobadilla, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh who studies U.S. social movements. “How these particular revelations will impact people on the ground, the ordinary farm workers who are trying to find themselves in a better economic and social position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historian, who grew up with farmworker parents in Delano, the former UFW headquarters in the 1960s, said there were problems in how Chavez’s leadership was widely remembered and celebrated, even before the new accusations came to light. Chavez ran the union autocratically, purging critics and surrounding himself with loyalists, which weakened a movement that gave him too much power, Bobadilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One crack in the movement was Chavez’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants, whom he considered strikebreakers. Under his reign, the UFW harassed, beat and reported undocumented people to immigration authorities in the 1970s, Bobadilla said. His forthcoming book explores nativism debates through the eyes of Latinos. Later, the UFW and Huerta emerged as strong advocates for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be essential to decouple the farm workers’ struggle from this one man,” he said. “How the union and how activists choose to do that, I don’t know, but I think it will be essential to really untangle themselves from this one person, something that should have been done decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, federal law has excluded agricultural workers from many protections afforded to other workers, including overtime pay and collective bargaining rights. Even in California, which expanded farmworkers’ rights, field crop laborers still often face deep poverty, wage theft by employers and dangerous working conditions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897789/california-largely-failed-to-enforce-worker-smoke-protections-under-bidens-new-osha-pick\">wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4657558/#:~:text=Table%20II,13%20times%20the%20risk\">far more likely to die\u003c/a> from heat-related illness than workers in other industries, and the U.S. still lacks federal regulations requiring employers to protect workers from heat hazards.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Today, most of the nation’s 2.2 million farmworkers are not unionized. The UFW counts about 10,000 members in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, a fraction of the roughly 60,000 in its heyday during the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond organizing, the UFW helped build a broader civil rights movement that trained generations of community activists, said Oliver Rosales, a historian at Bakersfield College in Delano. At its peak in the 1960s, the Delano grape boycott drew participation from an estimated 14 to 17 million Americans, reflecting the nationwide impact of the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the heart and soul of the Mexican-American civil rights movement,” Rosales said. “The farm worker movement ultimately, despite its long-run failures to organize farm workers within the union, inspired activism all across and well beyond the fields. That, to me, is its ultimate legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW continues to fight well-resourced grower associations, sometimes successfully, said Daniel Costa, who directs immigration policy at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored the H-2A wage rule analysis. The UFW helped beat a similar pay-cut policy during the first Trump administration, he added, which helped hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are punching above their weight for sure,” Costa said. “They’ve been able to leverage the attention that they’ve gotten over the years to really make a big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Romero, the first female UFW President, said she’s still grappling with the ramifications of the exposé about Chavez by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporters, who signaled more women may come forward with additional accusations. The union is reviewing training and policies for its 55 staffers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11941675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers union, speaks to marchers in Walnut Grove, Calif., before setting out on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Aug. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But controversy or not, politicians who support farmworkers understand their plight remains dire, she said, and just as important as it was three decades ago, when Chavez died. Strong opposition to the union is part of its history, she noted, just like the allegations against Chavez now are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never depended on growers appreciating their workforce and treating them with respect and dignity and paying them fairly. That’s why we exist,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union continues to organize workers and push for labor protections, including collective bargaining rights and safeguards against extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California replacing a holiday bearing Chavez’s name with one honoring farmworkers, Romero said the focus must stay on those still laboring in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It saddens me to know what happened with our founder, but it hasn’t changed my commitment or my understanding of who I serve, and that is farmworkers,” Romero said. “I don’t serve our history or Cesar Chavez.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The 52-year-old weighed whether the union would lose any influence in Sacramento or the rural communities where it operates, an open question. She worried about encountering antagonism or even aggression when volunteering as a union canvasser in Republican areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could undermine the politicians we support — for whom we go door-to-door for, so they can hold office and represent us,” said Garcia Hernández, a farmworker for more than 30 years. “Now, people won’t want to accept us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reckoning comes as the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to make it cheaper for employers to hire seasonal foreign agricultural workers through H-2A visas — a policy the Economic Policy Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-new-h-2a-wage-rule-will-radically-cut-the-wages-of-all-farmworkers-new-estimates-show-farmworkers-stand-to-lose-4-4-to-5-4-billion-annually-under-dols-updated-adverse-effec/\">estimates\u003c/a> could drive down wages for farmworkers nationwide by more than $4.4 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also signaled plans to ramp up deportations in a workforce where about half are undocumented, leaving many vulnerable to exploitation and reluctant to challenge employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a legitimate concern for a lot of folks to wonder what happens now,” said Eladio Bobadilla, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh who studies U.S. social movements. “How these particular revelations will impact people on the ground, the ordinary farm workers who are trying to find themselves in a better economic and social position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historian, who grew up with farmworker parents in Delano, the former UFW headquarters in the 1960s, said there were problems in how Chavez’s leadership was widely remembered and celebrated, even before the new accusations came to light. Chavez ran the union autocratically, purging critics and surrounding himself with loyalists, which weakened a movement that gave him too much power, Bobadilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One crack in the movement was Chavez’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants, whom he considered strikebreakers. Under his reign, the UFW harassed, beat and reported undocumented people to immigration authorities in the 1970s, Bobadilla said. His forthcoming book explores nativism debates through the eyes of Latinos. Later, the UFW and Huerta emerged as strong advocates for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be essential to decouple the farm workers’ struggle from this one man,” he said. “How the union and how activists choose to do that, I don’t know, but I think it will be essential to really untangle themselves from this one person, something that should have been done decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, federal law has excluded agricultural workers from many protections afforded to other workers, including overtime pay and collective bargaining rights. Even in California, which expanded farmworkers’ rights, field crop laborers still often face deep poverty, wage theft by employers and dangerous working conditions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897789/california-largely-failed-to-enforce-worker-smoke-protections-under-bidens-new-osha-pick\">wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4657558/#:~:text=Table%20II,13%20times%20the%20risk\">far more likely to die\u003c/a> from heat-related illness than workers in other industries, and the U.S. still lacks federal regulations requiring employers to protect workers from heat hazards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\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>People walk out the main entrance of the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego on Feb. 20, 2026. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Sheriff’s officials failed to investigate at least seven reported sexual assaults at the privately run Otay Mesa immigration detention center in 2025, and records show the agency has ceded control of the cases to civilian administrators employed by the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a 2020 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27895328-2020-corecivic-of-tennessee-llc-otay-mesa-detention-facility/\">memorandum of understanding\u003c/a> between the sheriff’s department and CoreCivic, detention center Warden Christopher LaRose has authority to decide whether to investigate rape allegations at the facility, which currently houses just under 1,500 federal immigration detainees, most of whom are in custody awaiting hearings and have not been convicted of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters obtained the memorandum after seeking additional information about the alleged rapes and four attempted sexual assaults through a California Public Records Act request. While a sheriff’s spokesperson said the agency was not investigating those cases, he said he was unable to turn over additional records because they were part of “a law enforcement investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic in a written statement after this story first published said Otay Mesa staff conduct an administrative investigation of each sex assault allegation, though a spokesperson said the company does not conduct criminal investigations of sexual abuse allegations because it’s not a law enforcement agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a matter requires law enforcement intervention, we refer it to the appropriate authorities,” CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company manages the detention center under a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations. ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said all allegations are recorded in a database, and “refer any potentially criminal matter to law enforcement.”[aside postID=news_12075152 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg']“Substantiated allegations result in disciplinary action and, where appropriate, referral for prosecution,” Gustin said. “If an individual is found to be at substantial risk of imminent sexual abuse, immediate protective action is taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said that it has a zero tolerance policy for sex abuse and sexual harassment, and said detainees, staff or anyone present at a facility can report allegations in writing or through a hotline number. The company also said it offers anyone who makes an allegation medical, mental health and emotional support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic did not respond to questions on whether it has any similar memoranda of understanding with other agencies, or details on any previous memorandum of understanding in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven privately run \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/10/ice-detention-center-inspections/\">immigrant detention centers\u003c/a> operate in California, with CoreCivic holding contracts for two of them. It could not immediately be determined if other detention centers have similar agreements with local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re horrified but not surprised to learn that numerous sexual assaults went uninvestigated at a CoreCivic facility,” said Susan Beaty, senior attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local and state enforcement agencies have a responsibility to use their power to protect the rights of Californians in detention, and hold accountable both ICE and private prison companies that profit to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars to incarcerate immigrants in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2022 audit conducted by the outside company Creative Corrections found the facility met all federal standards for preventing sexual assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer said she plans to question San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez at a hearing Tuesday night on ICE transfers from county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not have much confidence at all in CoreCivic’s ability to investigate these very serious allegations,” she said earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/032426_Truth-Forum_AH_CM_09-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>San Diego Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer asks San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez a question during a TRUTH Act Forum at the San Diego County Administration Center on March 24, 2026. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Supervisor questions sheriff after CalMatters story\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors pressed San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez about the memorandum of understanding after this story published Tuesday night. Sheriff Kelly Martinez said her department doesn’t have enough staff to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct at every civil and criminal detention facility in San Diego, including Otay Mesa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about an MOU that explicitly delegates to CoreCivic —” San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer began to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we could not have an MOU at all,” Martinez interrupted, “and they wouldn’t report to us and we wouldn’t investigate. So we have to also work with the people in charge of the facility, the reporting mechanism would still have to come from the facility.”[aside postID=news_12077581 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267820367-scaled.jpg']Lawson-Remer called the decision to turn over criminal investigation decisions to a private company “troubling,” and asked whether Martinez could sign an MOU that required a sheriff’s office investigation of every criminal allegation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if we have the staff capacity for that, perhaps you could give me a bunch more positions and we could create an investigative unit,” Martinez said, and laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I completely understand your concern, and that it doesn’t look like it’s an appropriate way to investigate these complaints but I really don’t know how many are occurring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez went on to say she was responsible for her own detention facilities, and investigating ones that don’t belong to San Diego County is “a difficult ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County is in the midst of a separate legal battle with CoreCivic over the Otay Mesa Detention Center. In a lawsuit filed this month, the county alleges the Trump administration and Tennessee-based CoreCivic \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/san-diego-otay-mesa-lawsuit/\">illegally blocked a public health inspection\u003c/a> of the Otay Mesa Detention Center. According to the lawsuit, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initially cleared county officials to enter the facility but reversed that decision when the inspection team arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/032426_Truth-Forum_AH_CM_04-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Attendees hold up signs as San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez answers questions during a TRUTH Act Forum at the San Diego County Administration Center on March 24, 2026. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>911 calls from detention center\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overall, there were 142 calls for service to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/otay-mesa-detention-center\">Otay Mesa Detention Center\u003c/a> in 2024. Fourteen were identified as related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), a 2003 federal law designed to prevent, detect and respond to sexual abuse and harassment in correctional facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, there were 159 calls for service to the Otay Mesa facility. Twenty-one calls were related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and of those, seven were allegations of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters used a Public Records Act request to obtain a digital log generated by 911 dispatchers and emergency services for 2024 and 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters attempted to obtain additional records about the sexual assault and attempted sexual assault incidents, such as the audio recordings of the 911 calls and the full dispatch log, but the sheriff’s department refused to release them stating the records were “records of a law enforcement investigation, or any investigatory or security files compiled by a law enforcement agency are exempt from disclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records CalMatters obtained gave no indication whether the victims were detainees or employees. 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So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. 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Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:02] \u003c/em>I think what’s so interesting about this story is that you were able to talk with this family about what these last several months have been like for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it’s been a little over a year since he was arrested, and, you know, it still brings all of them to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:26] \u003c/em>It’s really sad here, especially when I look at Lisa’s stuff, like his clothes hanging in the closet, his shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:33] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Since he was deported in October, Ulises has been living in a room at his aunt’s house in Mexico. He says he lost some of his vision and hearing as a result of his encounter with ICE, and that the right side of his body is largely paralyzed. Ulises doesn’t have health insurance, and it takes him a two-hour bus ride to see a doctor. And all of this has had major ripple effects on his family here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>Aby, who was a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work now to support the family and pay the rent, and also to support her husband, who can’t support himself at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:49] \u003c/em>And now she’s almost going to turn five at the end of April and it’s going to be a year since she hasn’t seen her dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:55] \u003c/em>She worked some crazy shifts, 14 hour shifts typically, three of them back to back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:02] \u003c/em>That sounds impossible childcare-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:04] \u003c/em>Right, so what she figured out for childcare was that her parents could take care of Emily, but her parents moved outside of Chico, which is a four hour drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:15] \u003c/em>So it’s pretty far, so it’s kind of a sacrifice to have her like far away from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>On her days off, she drives four hours up to the Chico area and spends two or three nights maybe to be with her daughter and then drives back and starts the week all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:31] \u003c/em>It’s hard for me, but it’s probably even harder for her. 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And so it becomes easier for behavior, bad actors, excessive use of force to go unremarked. And sort of condoned. Right, yeah. Immigration enforcement is happening twice as often here, and it’s just happening a lot more quietly. We’re not seeing street confrontations or the same kinds of sort of nabbing people out in a public setting. But we did see an arrest of a mother and daughter at SFO just the other day. There have been hundreds of thousands of people deported from the country. And it’s happening, arguably, in a more aggressive and violent way. And this administration has sort of set some benchmarks for how many arrests a day do we want. And that’s leading to a much more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:09] \u003c/em>Well, Tyche, thank you so much for joining us on the show. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:08] \u003c/em>About 10 years ago, Aby Pena was in school studying to be a nurse in the Bay Area. One day, she walked into a restaurant with her sister, not expecting to meet the man she would marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:24] \u003c/em>This was like on a day where I didn’t have school, it was over the weekend, and he used to work at a restaurant. So then I just went through to you with my sister, like did not expect to meet him. It was like unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em>Their waiter was being flirty, but she wasn’t interested in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:42] \u003c/em>He waiter was a different guy. He’s like, oh, you’re not interested in anybody that works here, but he was talking about himself. And then I was like, oh yes, the guy that sat us down on the table. I was, like, I think he’s really cute. So then he ended up coming over to talk to me and that’s how it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>That guy was Ulises Peña Lopez. The two would later start dating, get married, have a daughter, and move into an apartment in Sunnyvale together. And they lived like any normal working family in the Bay Area until one day when Ulises was violently arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents outside of their home. In front of his wife. And three-year-old daughter. He was eventually deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:37] \u003c/em>My life, my routine with my family was very different compared to what it is now. All these problems came to me when ICE arrived home that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>During the first nine months of the Trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement arrests in the Bay Area have doubled. And with each person arrested, there’s a whole network of family members and community whose lives are upended too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:14] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Today, I talk with KQED’s senior immigration editor, Tyche Hendricks, about life after deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>So Tyche, your story focuses on a man named Ulises Pena Lopez. Tell me a little bit about him and why you wanted to tell his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>Ulises Pena-Lopez came from Michoacan, Mexico when he was 18. He was fleeing cartel violence and the police were not protecting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:29] \u003c/em>Tyche Hendricks is a senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>His uncle and his cousin, according to his lawyers, were killed by the cartel, and he was beaten and threatened with his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>I started with my job as a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:47] \u003c/em>He came to the Bay Area, settled in Sunnyvale, became a carpenter and a member of the Carpenters’ Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>He is, of course, married to a woman named Abby Pena. They have a family together. They have one child. What was life like for the two of them and their family before his deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>They felt like they were, you know, making a good life together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>He liked cooking a lot of like typical Mexican dishes like he really liked beef and like stew and like he loves rice a lot\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:27] \u003c/em>I met Abby at the house. She’s a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:32] \u003c/em>So when they told me it was a girl, like at the appointment, I, he didn’t want me, he wanted me to like wait until he got home to tell him in person. But I was just too excited to tell them that it was a girl because I knew he wanted a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:45] \u003c/em>She had had a challenging pregnancy with some health complications and had actually ended up staying home with their daughter, Emily, for those early years of Emily’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:58] \u003c/em>And then our daughter would watch him like eating spicy stuff. So then she would ask him. And then she started getting used to it too. Now she likes like spicy food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:05] \u003c/em>And so she was loving being a full-time stay-at-home mom, and he was supporting the family. Yeah, had a little apartment in Sunnyvale on the edge of San Jose in that area. Yeah, I think they were happy with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:20] \u003c/em>She was really a daddy’s girl, and he would always spoil her. I would say no, we would go to the store, she wants a toy. I was like, you have so many at home already, and then she would go him and he’s like, oh yeah, so then she will take her toy. She always knew that she could ask him for everything that I said no about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>He had some health challenges that had emerged in the few months prior to this arrest. Doctors found a tear inside of an artery in his neck. So he had been a little more cautious about his work schedule and had been closely monitored by doctors. That very day after he was taken by ICE was a day that he was scheduled to go in for an MRI or some kind of a scan. To monitor, check-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:12] \u003c/em>Right, but it sounds like aside from his sort of health problems that he was monitoring, they sound like a pretty average working family in the Bay Area. And then one morning, February 21st, 2025, everything really changed for them. Can you tell me about what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>They were planning to go out and run some errands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>He went downstairs to warm our vehicle, which you can literally see from here in our window. It’s the red vehicle that’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>It was, I don’t know, seven in the morning. Abby was upstairs getting Emily ready and getting herself ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:52] \u003c/em>All of a sudden he called me and he’s like, ‘ICE is here, immigration’s here, they have me surrounded, I’m inside the vehicle.’ And I did not believe him at first. I was on the phone in the bathroom. I was like, cause we had just woken up. I did expect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>They had blocked the driveway and surrounded him in the carport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>They were all covered up, they didn’t have a specific insignia that said ICE or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>The agents were telling him to get out of the car. They, according to him, were masked. Trust getting out of the car. So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. He said they were kicking and beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>Me sacaron de la cabaneta, me tiraron al suelo, golpeándome, diciéndome palabras racistas. Me decían en inglés, ‘Fucking Mexican.’\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:37] \u003c/em>Looking at ICE’s report of the incident, they say that they saw him fumbling around and they imagined that he might be looking for a weapon and so they justified their forceful actions on the theory that he could be armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>And I remember telling them, like I said, that he has an appointment. He has to take his medications daily. And I just remember running back inside, grabbing a bag and putting all his medications in there. And I told them if they could at least take his medication with him, because he needs them. And just one of them took them away from me, but I don’t know what happened to those medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:20] \u003c/em>Then they sort of hoisted him up and held him against the car and handcuffed him and threw him in their own vehicle and drove off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:28] \u003c/em>Oh my gosh, and their daughter was watching all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:31] \u003c/em>Emily was screaming and crying and, you know, inconsolable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:36] \u003c/em>Where does ICE end up taking him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:38] \u003c/em>They ended up taking him, according to his lawyer and according to some records, including ICE’s own records, to an alley behind some shops, including a hardware store that was a few minutes’ drive from the house. And he says they pulled him out of the vehicle there and beat him some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:01] \u003c/em>And I had my hands exposed to the back and they started hitting me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:09] \u003c/em>Legal documents that they filed with a federal court. They have doctors testifying that he had probably both a heart attack and a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:20] \u003c/em>Oh my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:22] \u003c/em>No se me perdió el conocimiento. Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:02] \u003c/em>I think what’s so interesting about this story is that you were able to talk with this family about what these last several months have been like for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it’s been a little over a year since he was arrested, and, you know, it still brings all of them to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:26] \u003c/em>It’s really sad here, especially when I look at Lisa’s stuff, like his clothes hanging in the closet, his shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:33] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Since he was deported in October, Ulises has been living in a room at his aunt’s house in Mexico. He says he lost some of his vision and hearing as a result of his encounter with ICE, and that the right side of his body is largely paralyzed. Ulises doesn’t have health insurance, and it takes him a two-hour bus ride to see a doctor. And all of this has had major ripple effects on his family here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>Aby, who was a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work now to support the family and pay the rent, and also to support her husband, who can’t support himself at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:49] \u003c/em>And now she’s almost going to turn five at the end of April and it’s going to be a year since she hasn’t seen her dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:55] \u003c/em>She worked some crazy shifts, 14 hour shifts typically, three of them back to back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:02] \u003c/em>That sounds impossible childcare-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:04] \u003c/em>Right, so what she figured out for childcare was that her parents could take care of Emily, but her parents moved outside of Chico, which is a four hour drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:15] \u003c/em>So it’s pretty far, so it’s kind of a sacrifice to have her like far away from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>On her days off, she drives four hours up to the Chico area and spends two or three nights maybe to be with her daughter and then drives back and starts the week all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:31] \u003c/em>It’s hard for me, but it’s probably even harder for her. She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now. It’s really, really hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:39] \u003c/em>And when you’re four years old, you don’t know what’s Monday or Tuesday or two days a week, or when is mom going to show up again. And when something as traumatic as happened to her father has happened in her life, psychiatrists and psychologists will say it really, developmentally, is a huge rupture in a child’s sense of stability and security that is the foundation for them to grow in a healthy way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:08] \u003c/em>Oh my God, and she’s so young when she witnessed that too. It seems like it’s just left them with a series of difficult choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, and not a lot of options. Yeah. And Emily, by all accounts, was a lovely, peaceful, pretty easy child who slept through the night as a three-year-old. And since her dad was arrested, she wakes up screaming pretty much every night, is what they say. And this is a year on now, more than a year since this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:48] \u003c/em>She was fine before that and this all started with that. So like even when I have her here and when she goes to school and I’m working, it will be tough because she still doesn’t sleep through the night. Like it’s hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:04] \u003c/em>What is next for this family, Tyche? I mean, do they plan to fight Ulises’ deportation? I mean what do they planned to do here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:15] \u003c/em>I think the options are somewhat limited, but they have been fortunate that this call to the Rapid Response Network plugged them in with some legal support that has been like incredibly stalwart. And there are actually two different, you know, nonprofit legal offices involved. One of them is helping Ulysses with his immigration case, and one filed a complaint uh, under a federal law. Against ICE for the harm that they caused him. There is a level of an appeal to the appellate level of the immigration courts, but that would be his last chance to try to return to the U.S. And get some protection to be to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I guess I wanted to ask you this final question too, Tyche, which is what does this story say about how ICE is operating now versus in years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:23] \u003c/em>Donald Trump came into his second term very much on an explicit platform that he was going to wage a campaign of mass deportations. So we are seeing a lot more. And Ulises was, you know, this was in the very first weeks after Trump’s inauguration. One thing that we have also seen is that some of the accountability sort of watchdog agencies within DHS, Homeland Security, ICE, have really been dismantled. And that means that there’s less accountability. And so it becomes easier for behavior, bad actors, excessive use of force to go unremarked. And sort of condoned. Right, yeah. Immigration enforcement is happening twice as often here, and it’s just happening a lot more quietly. We’re not seeing street confrontations or the same kinds of sort of nabbing people out in a public setting. But we did see an arrest of a mother and daughter at SFO just the other day. There have been hundreds of thousands of people deported from the country. And it’s happening, arguably, in a more aggressive and violent way. And this administration has sort of set some benchmarks for how many arrests a day do we want. And that’s leading to a much more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:09] \u003c/em>Well, Tyche, thank you so much for joining us on the show. 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Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, private individuals can sue the U.S. government for damages inflicted by agents acting on the government’s behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement responding to the claims, a DHS spokesperson said, “Likening ICE to the Gestapo is gross.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071712 size-full\" 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>DHS officers have been subject to “grave threats and dangerous situations,” the spokesperson said, and added that while the First Amendment protects free speech and peaceful assembly, it does not protect rioting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remind the public that rioting is dangerous, obstructing law enforcement is a federal crime and assaulting law enforcement is a felony,” the statement said. did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the claim against DHS byof Georgia Wynn Savageford, she was blowing a whistle and engaged in peaceful protest on the morning of Jan. 24 when an officer pushed her to the pavement, dragged her face-down across the street and knelt on her back to handcuff her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the back of an ICE vehicle, she watched a federal officer shoot and kill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071074/heres-what-california-leaders-said-about-latest-minneapolis-killing\">fellow protester Alex Pretti\u003c/a>, the claim said, then she was taken to a warehouse next to the federal building, where she said she was held all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For approximately five hours, agents repeatedly moved Ms. Savageford between cells to ask ‘who was paying’ Ms. Savageford. Over the course of the detention, agents frequently searched beneath Ms. Savageford’s clothing and forced Ms. Savageford to undress,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim of Matt Allen said he came out to a protest later that day, after Pretti was shot. When federal agents began using tear gas and flash-bang grenades, Allen began to walk away, but he was hit in the back with projectiles. 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He said the legal team, which also involves lawyers in Minnesota, is in the process of vetting 80 more cases, and added that additional people came forward with potential claims after the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said one obstacle to filing a lawsuit is identifying the agents involved, most of whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072927/after-us-judge-blocks-californias-ice-mask-ban-scott-wiener-says-he-will-make-it-enforceable\">were masked\u003c/a> and did not wear visible identification of their names or badge numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said Trump administration leadership, including then-Homeland Security Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075499/trump-fires-kristi-noem-as-dhs-chief-names-sen-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her\">Kristi Noem\u003c/a> and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, also bear responsibility because of statements they made that officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070101/california-prosecutors-push-back-on-ice-immunity-claims\">had legal immunity\u003c/a> for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/gettyimages-2247182200-scaled-e1772739892149.jpeg\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 17, 2025.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1344\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That gave direction, it seems to me, to the officers to believe that there were no restraints,” he said. “This goes to the very top of the agency, because they’re the ones that created this environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris said he was struck by what good people the Minneapolis protesters are and feels honored to represent them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are just ordinary citizens who are speaking up in a sense of outrage over what was happening to the people in their community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Allen added that she and her husband were filing the claims to hold the Trump administration accountable for breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow this to continue,” she said. “We’re Minnesotan through and through, which means we protect each other. If you show up here to terrorize and brutalize our neighbors and our streets, we’re going to show you just how Minnesota nice we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers voted Thursday to rename \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to quickly sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">sexually abused girls and women\u003c/a> during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland. Among those who accused him was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dolores-huerta\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-led the movement that eventually became the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s effort to rename the holiday is part of a wave of other moves to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\"> alter memorials honoring the man\u003c/a> who, in the 1960s and 1970s, helped secure better wages and working conditions for farmworkers and had been admired by many Democratic leaders. The swift and sweeping effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077159/east-san-jose-leaders-call-for-supporting-survivors-after-cesar-chavez-allegations\">erase Chavez’s name from public\u003c/a> life was previously unthinkable, as his status had only grown more iconic since his death in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. Suzette Valladares said Thursday that her family built a life in California by working the fields and that the movement brought together workers from different backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about one person. This is not about one narrative,” she said. “It’s about honoring generations of sacrifice, of resilience and hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street sign on Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limon said honoring farmworkers is especially important in the face of a series of federal raids across the state last year. A worker in her district \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/jaime-alanis-immigrant-farmworker-death-raid-c3c6f60a087f5f9f1d2b053fcef35b57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died after being chased\u003c/a> by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last summer, Limon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His death is a reminder of how much farmworkers risk every day to put food on our table,” she said before the vote. “Our farmworkers remind us that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to designate Chavez’s birthday, March 31, as a holiday to honor the civil rights leader nearly 30 years ago. The Legislature then, in 2000, passed a bill to make it an official paid day off for state employees and require that students learn about his legacy and his role in the labor movement in California. The legislation passed Thursday didn’t address the curriculum requirement. 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Video of the arrest shows plainclothes agents struggling with a crying woman in Terminal 3, her distressed child nearby, as onlookers yell at agents to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TSA officials informed ICE that the family had planned to fly within the U.S. when they showed up on a flight manifest for a Sunday flight from San Francisco to Miami, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>. Lopez-Jimenez, who was born in Guatemala, and her daughter were going to visit another daughter in Miami, Garamendi said. He confirmed Lopez-Jimenez and her daughter are Contra Costa County residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was just a part of our community, living a lawful life, with the exception of this immigration issue,” the lawmaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Tuesday, the pair were on a flight bound for Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?searchResultPosition=1\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporting\u003c/a> has documented that TSA has shared names and birth dates of travelers as part of President Donald Trump’s far-reaching deportation effort. 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It’s not to test whether or not somebody is lawfully in the United States,” he told KQED on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Bay Area officials confirmed that the arrest was not part of the Trump administration’s wider push to use ICE to staff security lines, while TSA workers go unpaid during a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hing said it’s not unusual for ICE to take a while to follow up with people with active removal orders, which a judge may automatically order if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077372/san-francisco-immigration-courts-order-800-removals-in-absentia-in-1-week\">a person misses an immigration court hearing\u003c/a>. While in the past, ICE prioritized those with U.S. criminal records, the administration is likely looking closely at deportation lists in order to fulfill “Stephen Miller’s goal of deporting 3,000 people a day,” the attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hing, who volunteers with rapid response networks, also described the impact the removal process can have on young children who witness their family member’s arrest or sometimes are arrested themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be a different way of doing this, but every day parents are being arrested with their children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the TSA news came to light, local advocates filed complaints against the San Francisco Police Department on Wednesday, alleging that officers violated local and state sanctuary city laws during the detention and deportation, after cell phone footage showed a phalanx of SFPD officers lining up between the agents and the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Chief San Francisco Public Defender Angela Chan, who worked on writing the SFPD sanctuary policy in 2020, said she was filing a complaint with the Department of Police Accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reviewed all the videos. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bill Ong Hing, a longtime immigration attorney, professor of law at the University of San Francisco and former police commissioner, said immigration enforcement is not “within the TSA’s jurisdiction or responsibilities,” and called the Trump administration’s use of TSA to go after people targeted for removal “disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[TSA’s] responsibility is to make sure that people have their travel documents and they have a valid ID. It’s not to test whether or not somebody is lawfully in the United States,” he told KQED on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Bay Area officials confirmed that the arrest was not part of the Trump administration’s wider push to use ICE to staff security lines, while TSA workers go unpaid during a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hing said it’s not unusual for ICE to take a while to follow up with people with active removal orders, which a judge may automatically order if \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077372/san-francisco-immigration-courts-order-800-removals-in-absentia-in-1-week\">a person misses an immigration court hearing\u003c/a>. While in the past, ICE prioritized those with U.S. criminal records, the administration is likely looking closely at deportation lists in order to fulfill “Stephen Miller’s goal of deporting 3,000 people a day,” the attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hing, who volunteers with rapid response networks, also described the impact the removal process can have on young children who witness their family member’s arrest or sometimes are arrested themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be a different way of doing this, but every day parents are being arrested with their children,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the TSA news came to light, local advocates filed complaints against the San Francisco Police Department on Wednesday, alleging that officers violated local and state sanctuary city laws during the detention and deportation, after cell phone footage showed a phalanx of SFPD officers lining up between the agents and the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Chief San Francisco Public Defender Angela Chan, who worked on writing the SFPD sanctuary policy in 2020, said she was filing a complaint with the Department of Police Accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reviewed all the videos. I re-reviewed the laws that I helped to write. I believe what they did was they assisted with immigration enforcement by assisting with an arrest, a detention, and transportation for ICE,” Chan told reporters outside SFPD headquarters on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFPD does not assist in civil federal immigration enforcement and cannot impede federal law enforcement actions as outlined in our city charter, state law and our department policy,” SFPD spokesperson Paulina Henderson said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. Henderson said officers responded to a 911 call at the airport Sunday evening, and then determined the event involved federal immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters that city sanctuary policies “are not going anywhere as long as I am mayor. We are going to continue those policies. SFPD and any local law enforcement will not assist federal immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unimpressed with Lurie’s response, Chan called on city officials to address questions about SFPD’s role in the arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t need a law degree to understand the SFPD violated state and local sanctuary laws that night,” she said. “They were there to protect ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">Tyche Hendricks\u003c/a> and Paula Sibulo contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Abundant \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/explainer-immigrants-and-us-economy\">research \u003c/a>has shown that immigrants are a powerful engine for growth and innovation, expanding the workforce and increasing consumer spending, and often paying significantly into public services while frequently being \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-facts/yes-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes-and-receive-few-tax-benefits\">excluded \u003c/a>from benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, proponents of greater restrictions \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/border-immigration/\">argue \u003c/a>that unauthorized immigration is a net strain on public resources and depresses wages for American workers, though there is substantial \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2017/does-immigration-reduce-wages\">disagreement \u003c/a>even among conservatives about whether that is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-third of California’s residents are immigrants, including an estimated 2.28 million undocumented individuals — or around 8% of the workforce. In the Bay Area, 1 in 5 immigrants is undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12077372 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers behind this week’s report measured deportation’s economic effects by industry, GDP, tax revenue and household impacts on mixed-status families, which includes more than 3 million Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found that more than half of the Bay Area’s undocumented population has lived there for over a decade, and one-third have lived in the region for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not a marginal population,” Raisz said. “These are folks that are very deeply embedded in the workforce of the Bay Area and the broader economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanctuary policies and other local constraints could blunt the effects of large-scale enforcement in the Bay Area, the report noted. Still, it said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045243/ice-raids-deportations-could-cripple-californias-economy'\">employers and business owners\u003c/a> across the region have already reported lower foot traffic, higher absenteeism and delays in hiring as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072256/immigration-fears-stilt-vendors-trying-to-make-money-during-super-bowl\">communities with greater immigrant populations\u003c/a> navigate mounting challenges since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The disruption that’s already happening, even without large-scale raids or deportation, also has its own slew of economic impacts,” Raisz said. “And we’re seeing that small-scale enforcement action — the fear and uncertainty that starts to ripple through communities — that alone can have millions of dollars of economic impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, which commissioned the report, said that much of the conversation surrounding the escalating federal immigration activities in cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago has framed it as a “moral issue and a legal issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what the report highlights, Blackwell said, is that immigration and deportation are also questions of economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economic issues require strategy, and silence is not a strategy,” Blackwell said. “We all need to be speaking up on behalf of these communities and talking about the contributions they make from an economic and cultural point of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-ADOPTACORNER_00805_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day laborers wait for work on International Boulevard at a U-Haul in Oakland on Sept. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report showed that undocumented workers earn an estimated $21.5 billion annually in the Bay Area, which generates billions in public revenue each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the removal of a single undocumented primary income earner from a mixed-status household would ripple through the economy and result in average household income losses of 69%. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 28, immigrant rights advocates released guidance that said people without U.S. citizenship should try to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092697/bay-area-immigrant-advocates-warn-noncitizens-to-avoid-air-travel-after-ice-arrests\">\u003cem>avoid air travel\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, including domestic flights, after a series of airport detainments in the Bay Area. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/arocupdates/\">\u003cem>Arab Resource and Organizing Center post\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> reads, “If you do not have permanent status in the United States, or have been recently charged with a crime, we advise that you do not travel until you are able to consult with an attorney.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5744648/as-partial-shutdown-drags-on-morning-edition-checks-out-tsa-lines-at-3-airports\">Feb. 14\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/air-travel\">Transportation Security Administration\u003c/a> staff have worked without pay due to the ongoing partial government shutdown — and with many calling out of work, passengers across the United States have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/21/nx-s1-5755796/airport-security-tsa-lines-travel-tips\">hourslong security screening lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, President Donald Trump announced that as of Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be deployed to airports to support TSA operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said that ICE officers would be on duty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">assist with airport security staffing\u003c/a>. But the presence of ICE officers has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeBTNUdzvN8\">sparked fear and\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/03/23/ice-officers-at-airports-could-sow-fear-latino-group-warns/89294194007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116320p119050l004550c119050e1123xxv116320d--45--b--45--&gca-ft=168&gca-ds=sophi\">uncertainty \u003c/a>among travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport, the Bay Area’s biggest airport, has been spared long wait lines by the fact that its security screening is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">contracted by a private company\u003c/a> rather than TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sunday night, in an incident\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\"> captured on video\u003c/a>, plainclothes immigration officers were seen at SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">forcefully handling a woman in front of her young child\u003c/a>. SFO was not on the list of 14 airports \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtained by CNN\u003c/a> where ICE would be appearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SFO\">Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Questions\">Do I have to answer ICE’s questions in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Film\">Is it legal to film ICE in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what should you know about ICE in U.S. airports right now? Keep reading for what we know about immigration officers, air travel and your rights around ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that the following information doesn’t constitute legal advice, and you should direct any specific questions about your individual situation to a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which U.S. airports have ICE been deployed to?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?smid=url-share\">reporting by\u003cem> The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 14 airports around the country will host ICE agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">CNN reported\u003c/a> that these locations include Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports in New York and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No California airports appear on CNN’s current list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a TSA spokesperson confirmed to KQED that ICE would be deployed to “airports being adversely impacted” by TSA callouts and resignations — and that none of these were in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SFO\">\u003c/a>Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In footage from around 10 p.m. Sunday that was posted to social media, men wearing dark clothing were filmed at SFO pulling a crying woman from an airport terminal bench and then pushing her into a wheelchair — as a girl of around 10 is heard crying nearby. San Francisco police officers were seen standing by as the arrest occurred.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men are not wearing visible badges or agency markings, but the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">said\u003c/a> on the social media platform X Monday that they were, in fact, ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a DHS spokesperson, the woman and her daughter were arrested at the airport and were being “escorted to the international terminal for processing” when the woman tried to flee. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Read more about Sunday night’s incident at SFO.\u003c/a> As reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> on Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">ICE had originally been alerted\u003c/a> to the pair’s presence at SFO by TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">a statement released by SFO\u003c/a>, the airport was “not involved in or notified in advance of this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on an outbound flight when this incident occurred,” the statement reads. “We believe this is an isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement action at SFO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie echoed the airport’s statement on Monday in a social media post\u003c/a>. Lurie said in his statement that local law enforcement “does not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement,” although \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">some immigration attorneys have nonetheless questioned SFPD’s presence\u003c/a> during the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday afternoon, local immigration advocates said they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">still assessing the situation\u003c/a> and working to “confirm all the facts related to this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After killing people in our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has lost all credibility and trust with the public,” Bay Area Rep. Kevin Mullin and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement. “We demand immediate answers as to the mother’s and her child’s condition and the grounds for their detainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can ICE arrest people at the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, there have been documented instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">ICE arresting people at airports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies and senior advisor at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that there is “nothing that categorically prohibits ICE from going into an airport as an immigration enforcement agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Blazer said, ICE agents have used commercial flights in the past to transport individuals on deportation flights — or to transfer arrested people to immigration detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, as first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December 2025, TSA has shared information about air travelers who are believed to be under deportation orders with ICE, enabling immigration agents to make arrests at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that this week’s deployment of ICE to airports — the “mere presence for this purpose, in an untargeted fashion, in large numbers” — was “unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">CNN on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, Trump said that agents will continue arresting undocumented people, but said of ICE agents in airports: “That’s not why they’re there; they’re really there to help.” (Most TSA officers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">not commissioned law enforcement officers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s so challenging here is that the Trump administration hasn’t really made clear what authorities they are vesting with ICE as part of this mission,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">risks of air travel,\u003c/a> the National Immigration Law Center said that for people who are undocumented, have temporary immigration status or who are under a deportation order, there is “a significant risk of arrest at a U.S. airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, NILC also said that “all non-citizens face some risk” while traveling through U.S. airports, including those with green cards, if they have certain criminal convictions or who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates encourage \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">passengers who aren’t U.S. citizens to talk to a lawyer\u003c/a> about their specific situation before traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Customs and Border Protection already regularly works in airports. What’s the difference between their powers and ICE’s?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP are both immigration enforcement agencies within DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations, CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” — at land borders, seaports and airports.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg'] ACLU’s Blazer said that while CBP has a lot of “power when they’re screening people coming in on an international flight,” that doesn’t apply to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">domestic flights\u003c/a>. For example, CBP — and ICE — should not be able to check your electronic devices without a warrant for a domestic flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that ICE cannot search a passenger’s personal belongings without a warrant — and can only do this if they are working on behalf of an agency that \u003cem>can\u003c/em>, like CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re acting as a TSA agent, they have to follow TSA rules. If they’re acting as a CBP agent and doing Border Patrol work, then they have the authority that Border Patrol has,” Hallett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they are just merely standing in the airport as ICE officers, then they have the same legal authority that any ICE officer standing in a public location has,” she said. (Regardless, she said that ICE can \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">approach passengers anywhere\u003c/a> in the airport, including after security.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if ICE approaches me in the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At border checkpoints — including airports — officers can ask questions, carry out personal searches and detain people with wide latitude, Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law & Policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that in order for ICE to arrest someone for an immigration violation \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a warrant, they would \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">need to establish probable cause\u003c/a> that the person is in the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws — and that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for the arrest. There has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recent litigation across the country\u003c/a> challenging some of ICE’s warrantless arrests, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE officers \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have no additional authority in an airport,” Blazer said. But in reality, he said, the constitutional protections and rights people have can be “a lot trickier to make the choice to exercise them” in an airport setting for most people — who are dealing not only with the added pressures of catching expensive flights but also the impatience of other passengers in the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people — whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens or immigrants\u003c/a> — have the right to ask an immigration officer, “Am I free to go?” If they don’t have a specific, individualized, reasonable suspicion that you’ve committed a crime, they can’t question you further and you can go, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let’s think about how that works in the airport context,” he said. “‘Am I free to go?’ and leaving means that I’m probably leaving the airport to get myself out of a situation, and I may miss my flight at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Questions\">\u003c/a>Do I have to answer ICE’s questions at the airport?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an ICE agent asks you questions in the airport, you “have the same right to remain silent as you do on the street,” Blazer said. “Nothing changes just because you’re in an airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is another example of how the pressures of the airport setting can affect your situation, Blazer said. If you choose to exercise your right to remain silent, the officer may pull you out of the security line and try to ask more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the same rights, but in that environment, there are additional costs associated with exercising those rights,” Blazer said. “Many people in that situation, out of their own self-interest … ‘go along to get along’ as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if ICE asks me for ID?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">reporting from USA Today\u003c/a>, travelers do need to provide identification and comply with TSA screening to board a flight. But generally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens and immigrants \u003c/a>have the right to remain silent when talking to law enforcement, including ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus said that if you believe you are being taken into ICE custody, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">you should practice your right to remain silent and should not answer any questions\u003c/a>. You should also not sign any documents without a lawyer reviewing them, the organization said.[aside postID=news_12038914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ICE-three-agents.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">federal law \u003c/a>said people with lawful permanent residency or other visas that grant them lawful status must carry proof of their status with them — like their green card. “And it may be in their interest, in terms of avoiding further improper questioning or improper unlawful arrests, to answer those questions and to show that proof of status,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though you have a right \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to, I want to make clear that people are going to need to make an individualized decision as to whether it’s in their interest to exercise that right,” he said. “Especially if they are an adult green cardholder or somebody else who is subject to a federal law requiring them to carry proof of their status at all times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Film\">\u003c/a>Is it legal to film ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">a constitutional right\u003c/a> — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties,” the ACLU’s guidance reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there’s no Supreme Court ruling on an unambiguous First Amendment right to film law enforcement officers, “all of the seven U.S. Federal Circuit Courts that have considered the issue have pretty much said there is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\"> a First Amendment right to record the police \u003c/a>and observe the police,” criminal justice reporter C.J. Ciaramella at Reason told KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, former Border Patrol commander at large (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after U.S. Border Patrol agents produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum, where Gov. Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But airports \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be a potentially harder environment to film, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as though the First Amendment doesn’t exist at airports, but airports are not traditional public domain in a way that parks [are],” Blazer said. For example, some TSA security lines have a sign nearby that says “no photos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They rarely enforce that, but it just shows you that it’s already a more regulated environment in which they can impose certain restrictions,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> lawful to film law enforcement in “any open, visible place when they’re performing their duties,” Blazer said, echoing the guidance laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">this thorough guide by the ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time, it can be permissible for airport operators to impose certain reasonable rules, and those rules might include restricting photographing in particular areas of the airport,” Blazer said.[aside postID=news_12026817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2197914000-1020x680.jpg'] Practically, it could be hard to argue against an airport official who is telling you not to take photos in an area, Blazer said. And there may be a legal fight after the fact, “if a person doesn’t comply with that order and is arrested or is taken out of the line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, I think, the practical reality is that” in an airport “environment, it gets harder to exercise that right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Bystander videos also provide important counternarratives\u003c/a> to official law enforcement accounts. After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minnesota earlier this year, Trump administration officials immediately claimed Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” intending to “massacre” officers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">claims contradicted\u003c/a> by the multiple eyewitness videos taken of the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Trump administration have, however, \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">characterized filming ICE as “violence” and “doxing,”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">Americans have faced detention\u003c/a> by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">after filming agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all in all, while recording ICE might be your constitutional right, it also brings increasing risks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read more about the logistics — and risks — of recording law enforcement officers like ICE agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What do immigrant advocates say about traveling during this time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> warns that noncitizens who do not currently have legal status “should carefully consider the risks of air travel, including domestic flights within the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recent reporting suggests increased risks, including that TSA may be sharing traveler information with ICE, which could expose individuals to enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">their social media post\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Police Department officers look on as travelers stand in long lines at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership said people should \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">“talk to an attorney before flying to understand your risk.”\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">guidance\u003c/a> suggested people plan extra time before traveling and keep key documents — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">proof of lawful status, pending applications or certified copies of criminal cases if the case was closed\u003c/a> — on hand. The organization emphasized that people should not “sign anything” they’re given by immigration agents that they “don’t understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU Northern California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">a page that breaks down your rights at the airport \u003c/a>and whether or not border officers can ask about your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to ACLU NorCal, U.S. citizens only have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">“answer questions establishing your identity and citizenship\u003c/a> (in addition to customs-related questions).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the organization cautions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">“refusing to answer routine questions \u003c/a>about the nature and purpose of your travel could result in delay and/or further inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen visa holders and visitors who refuse to answer questions could face a delay or be denied entry. Lawful permanent residents, like green card holders, only have to answer questions about their identity and permanent residency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">according to ACLU NorCal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusal to answer other questions will likely cause delay, but officials may not deny you entry into the U.S. for failure to answer other questions,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">ACLU NorCal\u003c/a> advised legal permanent residents — noting that green card status “may be revoked only by an immigration judge,” and warning, “Do not give up your green card voluntarily!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">a helpful chart\u003c/a> on what people of differing statuses can expect in airports when it comes to their baggage, device searches and length of potential detainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if I think I see ICE in an airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead of posting possible ICE sightings to social media, immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">highly encourage\u003c/a> people to call them first instead. With these hotlines, advocates can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">fact-check these sightings\u003c/a>, with the goal of preventing the spread of misinformation online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find the complete and updated list of rapid response numbers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also follow these organizations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/acilep_rapidresponse/\">their social media accounts\u003c/a> to see if these are confirmed sightings or just rumors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration agents detained someone I know. How do I find them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Typically, a person of any status can be \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">detained up to 72 hours at a port of entry\u003c/a>, according to the Asian Law Caucus. They can also be transferred to criminal or ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\"> a guide that walks you through\u003c/a> how to potentially locate someone through different detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The primary way to find someone is through \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a>. You can also call ICE at \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">866-347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\">Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it may take a few days for a person to appear in the ICE database. If the name you’re searching for isn’t showing up in the ICE system — or if you’re concerned about their safety and possible deportation — you can seek out assistance from advocacy organizations such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/hotline\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">Read more on how to find free or low-cost legal aid in the Bay Area.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s Katie DeBenedetti, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Tyche Hendricks and Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend, President Donald Trump announced that as of Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be deployed to airports to support TSA operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said that ICE officers would be on duty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">assist with airport security staffing\u003c/a>. But the presence of ICE officers has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeBTNUdzvN8\">sparked fear and\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2026/03/23/ice-officers-at-airports-could-sow-fear-latino-group-warns/89294194007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116320p119050l004550c119050e1123xxv116320d--45--b--45--&gca-ft=168&gca-ds=sophi\">uncertainty \u003c/a>among travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco International Airport, the Bay Area’s biggest airport, has been spared long wait lines by the fact that its security screening is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWHseVzDnnc/\">contracted by a private company\u003c/a> rather than TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Sunday night, in an incident\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1a3lq/ice_already_causing_havoc_at_sfo/\"> captured on video\u003c/a>, plainclothes immigration officers were seen at SFO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">forcefully handling a woman in front of her young child\u003c/a>. SFO was not on the list of 14 airports \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tsa-wait-times-ice-airports-03-23-26?post-id=cmn37qf65000q3b6rfo32wpep\">obtained by CNN\u003c/a> where ICE would be appearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SFO\">Why was ICE at SFO on Sunday?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Questions\">Do I have to answer ICE’s questions in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Film\">Is it legal to film ICE in an airport?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-91-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So what should you know about ICE in U.S. airports right now? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men are not wearing visible badges or agency markings, but the Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2036158826341077203?s=46&t=PMxn5DJx4Cr-fWgaQBUvVA\">said\u003c/a> on the social media platform X Monday that they were, in fact, ICE officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a DHS spokesperson, the woman and her daughter were arrested at the airport and were being “escorted to the international terminal for processing” when the woman tried to flee. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077292/is-ice-at-sfo-heres-what-we-know-about-videos-of-woman-being-forcefully-detained\">Read more about Sunday night’s incident at SFO.\u003c/a> As reported by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> on Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/tsa-data-ice-deportation-san-francisco-airport.html\">ICE had originally been alerted\u003c/a> to the pair’s presence at SFO by TSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/flysfo/p/DWPA-h5D_QG/\">a statement released by SFO\u003c/a>, the airport was “not involved in or notified in advance of this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on an outbound flight when this incident occurred,” the statement reads. “We believe this is an isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement action at SFO.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPGTBvmGX9/\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie echoed the airport’s statement on Monday in a social media post\u003c/a>. Lurie said in his statement that local law enforcement “does not participate in federal civil immigration enforcement,” although \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/attorneys-say-sfpd-may-have-violated-the-law-during-ice-arrest-at-sfo/\">some immigration attorneys have nonetheless questioned SFPD’s presence\u003c/a> during the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday afternoon, local immigration advocates said they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/\">still assessing the situation\u003c/a> and working to “confirm all the facts related to this incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After killing people in our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has lost all credibility and trust with the public,” Bay Area Rep. Kevin Mullin and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement. “We demand immediate answers as to the mother’s and her child’s condition and the grounds for their detainment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Can ICE arrest people at the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, there have been documented instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">ICE arresting people at airports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Blazer, director of border strategies and senior advisor at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that there is “nothing that categorically prohibits ICE from going into an airport as an immigration enforcement agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Blazer said, ICE agents have used commercial flights in the past to transport individuals on deportation flights — or to transfer arrested people to immigration detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEating-86-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait for their flight at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Additionally, as first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.1lIj.Qa1WfLVCwcJB&smid=url-share\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December 2025, TSA has shared information about air travelers who are believed to be under deportation orders with ICE, enabling immigration agents to make arrests at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that this week’s deployment of ICE to airports — the “mere presence for this purpose, in an untargeted fashion, in large numbers” — was “unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26?post-id=cmn48kb0y00823b6p6u9q5bxl\">CNN on Tuesday morning\u003c/a>, Trump said that agents will continue arresting undocumented people, but said of ICE agents in airports: “That’s not why they’re there; they’re really there to help.” (Most TSA officers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us#what-types-of-law-enforcement-officers-and-other-government-officials-could-i-encounter-during-the-security-screening-process-at-the-airport\">not commissioned law enforcement officers\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s so challenging here is that the Trump administration hasn’t really made clear what authorities they are vesting with ICE as part of this mission,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its roundup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">risks of air travel,\u003c/a> the National Immigration Law Center said that for people who are undocumented, have temporary immigration status or who are under a deportation order, there is “a significant risk of arrest at a U.S. airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, NILC also said that “all non-citizens face some risk” while traveling through U.S. airports, including those with green cards, if they have certain criminal convictions or who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates encourage \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">passengers who aren’t U.S. citizens to talk to a lawyer\u003c/a> about their specific situation before traveling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Customs and Border Protection already regularly works in airports. What’s the difference between their powers and ICE’s?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE and CBP are both immigration enforcement agencies within DHS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10362\">ICE conducts enforcement within the U.S.\u003c/a> and manages detention and deportation operations, CBP conducts inspections at all U.S. “ports of entry” — at land borders, seaports and airports.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> ACLU’s Blazer said that while CBP has a lot of “power when they’re screening people coming in on an international flight,” that doesn’t apply to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks#:~:text=CBP%20is%20bound%20by%20those,actions%20that%20participation%20is%20voluntary.\">domestic flights\u003c/a>. For example, CBP — and ICE — should not be able to check your electronic devices without a warrant for a domestic flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ice-agents-tsa-airports/\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that ICE cannot search a passenger’s personal belongings without a warrant — and can only do this if they are working on behalf of an agency that \u003cem>can\u003c/em>, like CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re acting as a TSA agent, they have to follow TSA rules. If they’re acting as a CBP agent and doing Border Patrol work, then they have the authority that Border Patrol has,” Hallett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they are just merely standing in the airport as ICE officers, then they have the same legal authority that any ICE officer standing in a public location has,” she said. (Regardless, she said that ICE can \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/YWJ1z#selection-853.62-853.119\">approach passengers anywhere\u003c/a> in the airport, including after security.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if ICE approaches me in the airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At border checkpoints — including airports — officers can ask questions, carry out personal searches and detain people with wide latitude, Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law & Policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-explained\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blazer said that in order for ICE to arrest someone for an immigration violation \u003cem>without\u003c/em> a warrant, they would \u003ca href=\"https://immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/files/content-type/page/documents/2025-01/Castanon-Nava_training_slides_2025-01-16-english.pdf\">need to establish probable cause\u003c/a> that the person is in the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws — and that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for the arrest. There has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina\">recent litigation across the country\u003c/a> challenging some of ICE’s warrantless arrests, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251210-SFOEating-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers walk past a flight board in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport on Dec. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ICE officers \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>have no additional authority in an airport,” Blazer said. But in reality, he said, the constitutional protections and rights people have can be “a lot trickier to make the choice to exercise them” in an airport setting for most people — who are dealing not only with the added pressures of catching expensive flights but also the impatience of other passengers in the security line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, people — whether \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens or immigrants\u003c/a> — have the right to ask an immigration officer, “Am I free to go?” If they don’t have a specific, individualized, reasonable suspicion that you’ve committed a crime, they can’t question you further and you can go, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let’s think about how that works in the airport context,” he said. “‘Am I free to go?’ and leaving means that I’m probably leaving the airport to get myself out of a situation, and I may miss my flight at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Questions\">\u003c/a>Do I have to answer ICE’s questions at the airport?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If an ICE agent asks you questions in the airport, you “have the same right to remain silent as you do on the street,” Blazer said. “Nothing changes just because you’re in an airport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is another example of how the pressures of the airport setting can affect your situation, Blazer said. If you choose to exercise your right to remain silent, the officer may pull you out of the security line and try to ask more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the same rights, but in that environment, there are additional costs associated with exercising those rights,” Blazer said. “Many people in that situation, out of their own self-interest … ‘go along to get along’ as much as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What if ICE asks me for ID?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/03/23/ice-agents-airports-tsa-my-rights/89278550007/\">reporting from USA Today\u003c/a>, travelers do need to provide identification and comply with TSA screening to board a flight. But generally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights-faq#item-5131\">citizens and immigrants \u003c/a>have the right to remain silent when talking to law enforcement, including ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus said that if you believe you are being taken into ICE custody, \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">you should practice your right to remain silent and should not answer any questions\u003c/a>. You should also not sign any documents without a lawyer reviewing them, the organization said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blazer said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065885/ice-immigration-us-citizens-detained-carry-passports-documentation-green-card\">federal law \u003c/a>said people with lawful permanent residency or other visas that grant them lawful status must carry proof of their status with them — like their green card. “And it may be in their interest, in terms of avoiding further improper questioning or improper unlawful arrests, to answer those questions and to show that proof of status,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So even though you have a right \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to, I want to make clear that people are going to need to make an individualized decision as to whether it’s in their interest to exercise that right,” he said. “Especially if they are an adult green cardholder or somebody else who is subject to a federal law requiring them to carry proof of their status at all times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Film\">\u003c/a>Is it legal to film ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Taking photographs and video of things that are plainly visible in public spaces is \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">a constitutional right\u003c/a> — and that includes police and other government officials carrying out their duties,” the ACLU’s guidance reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there’s no Supreme Court ruling on an unambiguous First Amendment right to film law enforcement officers, “all of the seven U.S. Federal Circuit Courts that have considered the issue have pretty much said there is\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\"> a First Amendment right to record the police \u003c/a>and observe the police,” criminal justice reporter C.J. Ciaramella at Reason told KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068316\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/BorderPatrolAgentsGetty-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Bovino, former Border Patrol commander at large (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after U.S. Border Patrol agents produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum, where Gov. Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But airports \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be a potentially harder environment to film, Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as though the First Amendment doesn’t exist at airports, but airports are not traditional public domain in a way that parks [are],” Blazer said. For example, some TSA security lines have a sign nearby that says “no photos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They rarely enforce that, but it just shows you that it’s already a more regulated environment in which they can impose certain restrictions,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> lawful to film law enforcement in “any open, visible place when they’re performing their duties,” Blazer said, echoing the guidance laid out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/photographers-rights/filming-and-photographing-police\">this thorough guide by the ACLU\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time, it can be permissible for airport operators to impose certain reasonable rules, and those rules might include restricting photographing in particular areas of the airport,” Blazer said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Practically, it could be hard to argue against an airport official who is telling you not to take photos in an area, Blazer said. And there may be a legal fight after the fact, “if a person doesn’t comply with that order and is arrested or is taken out of the line,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, I think, the practical reality is that” in an airport “environment, it gets harder to exercise that right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Bystander videos also provide important counternarratives\u003c/a> to official law enforcement accounts. After the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minnesota earlier this year, Trump administration officials immediately claimed Pretti was a “domestic terrorist” intending to “massacre” officers — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/25/nx-s1-5687875/minneapolis-shooting-minnesota-ice-alex-pretti-dhs-investigation\">claims contradicted\u003c/a> by the multiple eyewitness videos taken of the killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Trump administration have, however, \u003ca href=\"https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/secretary-kristi-noem-addresses-surge-in-attacks-on-ice-agents-in-tampa-dhs-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-agents-florida-department-of-homeland-security-july-13-2025\">characterized filming ICE as “violence” and “doxing,”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice\">Americans have faced detention\u003c/a> by ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detains-woodbury-man-filming-agents\">after filming agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So all in all, while recording ICE might be your constitutional right, it also brings increasing risks. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">Read more about the logistics — and risks — of recording law enforcement officers like ICE agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What do immigrant advocates say about traveling during this time? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">Mission Action\u003c/a> warns that noncitizens who do not currently have legal status “should carefully consider the risks of air travel, including domestic flights within the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recent reporting suggests increased risks, including that TSA may be sharing traveler information with ICE, which could expose individuals to enforcement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfrrn_/p/DWPQRS4lMjl/?img_index=2\">their social media post\u003c/a> reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2267556279-scaled-e1774466569963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Police Department officers look on as travelers stand in long lines at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003ccite>(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership said people should \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">“talk to an attorney before flying to understand your risk.”\u003c/a> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DWMjSDSgeoZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">guidance\u003c/a> suggested people plan extra time before traveling and keep key documents — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/community-alert-immigration-arrests-at-airports/\">proof of lawful status, pending applications or certified copies of criminal cases if the case was closed\u003c/a> — on hand. The organization emphasized that people should not “sign anything” they’re given by immigration agents that they “don’t understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU Northern California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">a page that breaks down your rights at the airport \u003c/a>and whether or not border officers can ask about your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to ACLU NorCal, U.S. citizens only have to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">“answer questions establishing your identity and citizenship\u003c/a> (in addition to customs-related questions).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the organization cautions that \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us\">“refusing to answer routine questions \u003c/a>about the nature and purpose of your travel could result in delay and/or further inspection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noncitizen visa holders and visitors who refuse to answer questions could face a delay or be denied entry. Lawful permanent residents, like green card holders, only have to answer questions about their identity and permanent residency, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">according to ACLU NorCal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Refusal to answer other questions will likely cause delay, but officials may not deny you entry into the U.S. for failure to answer other questions,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry/\">ACLU NorCal\u003c/a> advised legal permanent residents — noting that green card status “may be revoked only by an immigration judge,” and warning, “Do not give up your green card voluntarily!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Law Caucus also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/guides-reports/know-your-rights-at-airports\">a helpful chart\u003c/a> on what people of differing statuses can expect in airports when it comes to their baggage, device searches and length of potential detainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I do if I think I see ICE in an airport?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead of posting possible ICE sightings to social media, immigration advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice\">highly encourage\u003c/a> people to call them first instead. With these hotlines, advocates can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">fact-check these sightings\u003c/a>, with the goal of preventing the spread of misinformation online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find the complete and updated list of rapid response numbers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn\">the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also follow these organizations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/acilep_rapidresponse/\">their social media accounts\u003c/a> to see if these are confirmed sightings or just rumors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Immigration agents detained someone I know. 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Chaos in San Francisco’s immigration court system has led to the sudden rescheduling of court appointments — some of which were moved up by two years — and mass hearings of dozens of immigrants at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who missed their court-ordered hearings last week have \u003ca href=\"https://www.justia.com/immigration/deportation-removal/orders-of-removal-in-absentia/\">lost\u003c/a> their pathway to asylum and can now be taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a challenging position that people are in now, especially those who have a really strong asylum claim and just didn’t understand what time their hearing was or where their hearing was and missed it,” Atkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, heavy restrictions on asylum have coincided with the hollowing out of San Francisco’s main immigration court at 100 Montgomery St., the largest in Northern California, and where the majority of Bay Area cases are heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077400 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20251031_Rally-for-Sami-Hamdi_GH-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20251031_Rally-for-Sami-Hamdi_GH-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20251031_Rally-for-Sami-Hamdi_GH-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20251031_Rally-for-Sami-Hamdi_GH-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather outside 100 Montgomery St. during a rally calling for the release of journalist Sami Hamdi on Oct. 31, 2025, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068969/sf-immigration-courts-looming-closure-raises-concerns-about-path-to-asylum\">slated for closure\u003c/a> by the end of the year, has seen its bench whittled down from 21 judges at the beginning of 2025 to two, after 12 were fired and others retired, asked for a transfer or were reappointed, according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/s-f-immigration-courts-gutted-21-judges-down-to-2-after-planned-departures/\">\u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has also been utilizing a judge remotely from San Diego, Atkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court currently has a backlog of 120,000 cases. 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