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Before approving the settlement, federal Judge Dana Sabraw of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego said family separation “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the special conditions granted to these families created a complex web of applications to fill out and documents to produce, the agreement also required the government to ensure access to lawyers who could guide them. The ACLU said those services are now at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11738375\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl holds a sign during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 19, 2018 in San Francisco over the Trump administration family separation policy.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36430_GettyImages-978854834-qut-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young girl holds a sign during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 19, 2018 in San Francisco over the Trump administration family separation policy. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Babies were horrifically ripped from their parents’ arms under the first Trump administration’s family separation policy,” said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, lead counsel in the family separation lawsuit. “Depriving these families of vital services needed to remedy these tragic events is just the latest cruelty inflicted upon the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government claims it is only declining to renew the existing contract, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/motion\">the ACLU’s filing\u003c/a>, and does not intend to allow legal services to lapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with less than a week before the contract expires, the ACLU said the government has yet to explain how it will do that. “Absent the contract,” the filing reads, “the legal services subcontractors have no choice but to stop services altogether.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ did not respond to requests for comment.[aside postID=news_12026959 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/CBP-family-border-1020x680.jpg']The program, formally called Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, was created in May 2024 through a contract between the DOJ and Acacia Center for Justice, a nonprofit immigrant legal defense organization based in Washington, D.C. Acacia distributed the funding to nine organizations around the country that have been providing legal services directly to families impacted by Zero Tolerance. Services include workshops on how to navigate immigration court proceedings, assistance with immigration applications and referrals to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Acacia notes that the funding level of the existing contract only covered 12% of the thousands who qualify for legal guidance under the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acacia expected the contract to be renewed at the end of this month, and subcontractors had been slating waitlisted families for support starting May 1, according to declarations filed with the ACLU motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them have parole that are ending now in May and June. So they are really desperate to receive services, and they kept calling us and we would tell them we have you on the list,” said Marien Velez-Alcaide, a managing attorney for the family reunification program at \u003ca href=\"https://alotrolado.org/\">Al Otro Lado\u003c/a>, one of the organizations that has received funding through Acacia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit operates on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, Los Angeles and Tijuana, and said it has served 140 people impacted by Zero Tolerance family separations, including 97 in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ informed Acacia of the non-renewal on April 11, less than a month before the contract was set to end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1545px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf.png 1545w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf-800x1036.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf-1020x1320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf-160x207.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DOJ-Acacia-letter.pdf-1187x1536.png 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1545px) 100vw, 1545px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a notice-of-termination letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice to Acacia Center for Justice, a nonprofit immigrant legal defense organization that has been providing legal services to members of separated families in accordance with a 2023 settlement between the Biden Administration and the ACLU.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the settlement agreement does not require the government to provide full legal representation to family members who were separated under Zero Tolerance, advocates say the support is vital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Family members who’ve been separated] don’t know what their rights are,” under the settlement, said Velez-Alcaide. “So it’s really fundamental for them to be able to receive assistance and know what they qualify for, what are the deadlines, how to fill out the applications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a declaration filed with the ACLU motion, Velez-Alcaide wrote that she has heard from clients who are “terrified of the potential consequences for themselves and their families,” including being separated again if their immigration claims fail, or losing their jobs if they’re unable to obtain or renew work permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is family separation by another name,” said Zain Lakhani, director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, at a virtual press conference convened by Acacia on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparent threat to legal services for separated families comes as the Trump administration continues to dismantle other supports for people seeking asylum in the United States, including a program providing legal representation for unaccompanied children. Many children were designated unaccompanied after they were separated from their families and have been represented by attorneys under that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/gettyimages-2210243092-scaled-e1745537471811.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Win McNamee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some legal services providers have begun laying off staff in the wake of federal funding cuts across the immigration field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risks for class members are skyrocketing, and the elimination of services means the further erosion of due process,” said Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director of legal access programs at the Acacia Center for Justice, during Thursday’s event. “These families who’ve endured so much trauma at the hand of our government have been told that the United States is not keeping our promise to help them rebuild their lives or assist them with their cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velez-Alcaide said Al Otro Lado has ramped up fundraising efforts to avoid having to leave separated families in the lurch after May 1, especially because the ACLU’s court challenge may move slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how long it’s going to take, and a lot of these families don’t have the time to wait,” she said. “In the meantime, they’re living in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom#:~:text=About%20the%20California%20Newsroom&text=The%20California%20Newsroom%3A&text=provides%20one%2Don%2Done%20mentorship,UC%20Berkeley%20Journalism%20Fellows%20program.\">\u003cem>The California Newsroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a KQED-led collaboration of public media outlets throughout the state, with NPR as its national partner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The program, formally called Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, was created in May 2024 through a contract between the DOJ and Acacia Center for Justice, a nonprofit immigrant legal defense organization based in Washington, D.C. Acacia distributed the funding to nine organizations around the country that have been providing legal services directly to families impacted by Zero Tolerance. Services include workshops on how to navigate immigration court proceedings, assistance with immigration applications and referrals to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Acacia notes that the funding level of the existing contract only covered 12% of the thousands who qualify for legal guidance under the settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acacia expected the contract to be renewed at the end of this month, and subcontractors had been slating waitlisted families for support starting May 1, according to declarations filed with the ACLU motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them have parole that are ending now in May and June. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:38 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive actions to withhold federal funds from states, cities and counties with so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">sanctuary policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge William Orrick said a preliminary injunction against the administration was appropriate because the plans were unconstitutional — just as they were in 2017 when Trump ordered officials to withhold billions from San Francisco and California because of sanctuary policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Cities and Counties have also demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm. The threat to withhold funding causes them irreparable injury in the form of budgetary uncertainty, deprivation of constitutional rights and undermining trust between the Cities and Counties and the communities they serve,” Orrick wrote in the six-page ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s initial \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02006/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion\">order\u003c/a> was issued on his first day in office and called for the Department of Homeland Security and attorneys general to ensure that sanctuary jurisdictions — those that restrict local law enforcement officials from cooperating with immigration enforcement — to lose federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders/\">another executive order \u003c/a>in February that broadened the directive to include all taxpayer funds to sanctuary jurisdictions, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388531/dl?inline\">memo\u003c/a> from Attorney General Pam Bondi directing the Department of Justice to stop sending money to cities, counties and states with those types of policies and investigate local officials that “impede” operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orrick ordered that the defendants are restrained and enjoined “from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds,” and the administration must provide written notice of his order to all federal departments and agencies by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024430\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-08-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of elected and public safety officials, labor leaders, and community members fill the steps in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, during a press conference to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In all, 16 cities and counties from around the U.S. have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">sued\u003c/a> in an action brought Feb. 7 and led by Santa Clara and San Francisco. The suit asks the court to block all of the Trump administration’s actions related to stripping funding from sanctuary jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their lawsuit, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties argue that the government’s threats are unconstitutional, and note that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031821/legal-showdown-over-sanctuary-laws-tests-federal-vs-state-power-again\">the issue has been litigated before\u003c/a>: In 2017, courts of appeals \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title\">sided\u003c/a> with the counties, as well as the city of Chicago, in two cases challenging a similar executive order issued during Trump’s first term in office. That case was also heard by Orrick, who presided over Wednesday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both this court and the Ninth Circuit found that the clear and specific directive to ensure that sanctuary jurisdictions are not eligible to receive federal grants was unconstitutional,” Deputy City Attorney Karun Tilak told the court Wednesday.[aside postID=news_12035610 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']In court — and a filing last month — lawyers for the Trump administration argued that an injunction would be premature because the federal government hasn’t actually withheld any money yet, meaning that the cities and counties can’t show they’ve been harmed by the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without knowing which programs are going to be impacted upon what conditions, under what basis. It’s difficult to evaluate the contours of how preliminary relief would be appropriate right now,” said Caroline McGuire, an attorney for the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tilak responded that the cities and counties suing cannot continue paying for programs that rely on federal reimbursements, and that even the threat of withholding funds is harming local governments by making it difficult for them to plan and budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are incurring costs every day, contingent on being able to get reimbursement. If that reimbursement were frozen or if those funds were taken away, that would harm their ability to carry out those programs, and for present purposes, creates an existential uncertainty about whether they should continue funding those programs,” Tilak said, noting that most jurisdictions must finalize their budgets for next fiscal year by the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire said that in previous cases, during Trump’s first term, the plaintiffs only won injunctions when they identified specific money that was withheld, and could specify the harm that was caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Orrick agreed with the counties, telling the government lawyers that while the administration may not have withheld money yet, the orders issued this time are more sweeping in nature, because they threaten to cut off all federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions — not just specific law enforcement grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The distinction, though, that I think will be hard for you to get around is that the executive order speaks to all federal funds. It’s not speaking to a discrete grant. And so that becomes coercive, as the plaintiffs argue, to governments that rely on federal funding for health care and other things that are at risk,” Orrick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an injunction is issued, the government argued, it should be limited to the jurisdictions that brought the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counties say sanctuary policies make communities safer by ensuring that all residents, including those who lack legal status, are willing to cooperate with local police. And, they argue that the Trump administration’s deportation efforts — and attempts to coerce local jurisdictions to assist with those efforts — are hurting their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The aggressive federal overreach by the Trump Administration is creating fear and insecurity in communities across this country,” said Tony LoPresti, Santa Clara County counsel, in a statement. “We are asking the Court to intervene to protect the well-established constitutional right of local governments to use local resources for local priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stand idly by while the Federal Administration attempts to bully counties and cities out of implementing policies that have worked for decades to advance community well-being and public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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These include two bills aimed at giving descendants of enslaved people preference for\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016282/california-bill-would-give-public-university-admission-priority-to-slaves-descendants\"> college admissions\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/california-assembly-committee-greenlights-reparations-housing-bill/\"> home-loan programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://The%20Department%20of%20Health%20Care%20Services%20would%20oversee%20the%20program,%20and\">California Legislature To Consider Farmworker Healthcare Bill\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A bill aimed at bringing healthcare services directly to farmworker communities via a double-decker express bus will be considered at the state legislature Wednesday. \u003ca href=\"https://sd13.senate.ca.gov/news/press-release/march-11-2025/senator-becker-announces-obal-winner-introduces-legislation-to\">SB 338\u003c/a> is modeled after a pilot program led by the nonprofit\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021877/california-nonprofit-empowers-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-healing-resources\"> Ayudando Latinos A Soñar, or ALAS,\u003c/a> in the Bay Area community of Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program launched during the pandemic, when access to healthcare and information was vital but often out of reach. ALAS provides mental health and telehealth services right to farmworkers’ front doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The research shows that mental health care is needed. It shows that more services for farmworkers are needed. And we’re seeing that this model works,” Executive Director of ALAS Belinda Arriaga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health Care Services would oversee the program, which would launch in the two rural counties that have most need for health care access based on their populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-04-23/more-than-a-dozen-day-laborers-detained-by-immigration-officials-outside-of-pomona-home-depot\">Immigration Officials arrest group of people in Pomona \u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights groups say more than a dozen day laborers (\u003ci>jornaleros\u003c/i> in Spanish) were arrested by immigration officials on Tuesday morning at a Home Depot in Pomona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos, a day laborer who arrived on scene as the operation unfolded, fought back tears as he shared with the media what he witnessed. He only gave the media his first name out of concern for his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re human beings who are here looking for work to make ends meet for ourselves and our families,” said Carlos through an interpreter. “There’s people here that are trying to live an honorable life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos obtained by KVCR show border patrol vehicles and agents near the parking lot of the store. Immigration advocates with Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC), the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) initially shared that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was involved in the operation. They also alleged that management at the Home Depot were aware of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for ICE said in a statement that they’re not able to respond to rumors or specifics of routine daily operations. Meanwhile, the Pomona Police Department said it doesn’t conduct immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/04/18/immigration-lawyers-worried-legal-asylum-seekers-will-self-deport-after-trump-administration-email\">Trump Administration Email Prompts Fear Of Self Deportation\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump this month eliminated protections for asylum seekers who entered the country through a mobile app called CBP One established by the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, immigration lawyers are worried that people with asylum cases who have a legal right to stay in the country might self-deport because of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58984/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">an email sent by the Department of Homeland Security \u003c/a>(DHS) telling them, “It is time for you to leave the United States”. That email, titled Notice of Termination of Parole, was sent to thousands of people who entered the country in recent years through CBP One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/01/20/biden-administrations-new-app-asylum-seekers-mixed-reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">which debuted in early 2023\u003c/a>, was an effort by the Biden administration to streamline the asylum process for people fleeing dangerous situations in their home countries. Nearly 900,000 people entered the country through that program, according to data from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates for Black Californians Use New Strategies For Reparations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of reparations for Black Californians in the Legislature are pursuing bills that help advance their priorities. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:41 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area priests are calling on the more than 1 million Catholics in the region, mourning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970248/pope-francis-new-autobiography-hope-review-conclave-random-house\">Pope Francis,\u003c/a> to carry on his legacy of mercy and compassion after his death early Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis, a progressive voice for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/catholic-church\">Roman Catholic Church\u003c/a> who spent his time in the Vatican advocating for migrants and the marginalized, died at 88 after a yearslong battle with his health. He was the first Latin American and first Jesuit priest to lead the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was unique among popes. One of a kind. He will be forever known as ‘the Pope of Mercy,’” Oakland Bishop Michael Barber said, recalling the pope’s declaration of a Holy Year of Mercy in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis called on Catholics to value compassion for the marginalized and to reach out to people who might have been forgotten or felt pushed out by the church’s teachings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber pointed to Francis’ final public address on Easter Sunday, just hours before his death, during which he called for mercy for migrants amid a wave of anti-immigration policy and sentiment, including from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants,” Francis said. “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036958\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-PopeReax-09-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar for Pope Francis at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467229313/pope-says-trump-is-not-christian\">during a visit to Mexico\u003c/a> near the U.S. border, Francis said, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.” He said at the time that the comment was not directed specifically toward President Donald Trump, who was in the midst of his first campaign, a pillar of which was building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Francis’] messages for peace, for consideration of the marginalized, those on the peripheries, immigrants, those that have no home — that will all go down in history and be remembered, and that will be carried on,” Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those messages were certainly on the minds of the few dozen Catholics like Doreen Landry who attended a midday Mass honoring the pope in Oakland on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You felt drawn in by his compassion, his sensitivity to the poor and the migrants to this country,” Landry, a social worker, said on her way into the Cathedral of Christ the Light. “In fact, he spoke to JD Vance allegedly about the unlawful deportation of migrants, which I am strongly against.”[aside postID=news_12035610 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']Christina Fernandez, who said she grew in her relationship with her faith during Francis’ papacy, connected with, “in the political climate that we’re in, [his] speaking out against the oppression of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His humanity, his love for people,” she said through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis was also an outspoken advocate for the environment. In his second papal letter, sent to bishops across the world in 2015, Francis called on Catholics to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/60616/pope-francis-climate-change-a-principal-challenge-for-humanity\">take urgent action to slow climate change\u003c/a> and criticized the consumerism and economic development that have exacerbated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Perhaps his most distinctive leadership will be his historic commitment to addressing the climate crisis,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic, said Monday in a statement reflecting on Francis’ leadership. “In his ground-breaking encyclical,\u003cem> Laudato Si\u003c/em>, Pope Francis writes with beauty and clarity, with moral force and fierce urgency to call on all of us to be good stewards of God’s Creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom also commended the pope’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984407/the-politics-and-policy-around-newsoms-vatican-climate-summit-trip\">commitment to fighting climate change\u003c/a> and his efforts to uplift the voices of the poor and vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His papacy was characterized by moral courage, a profound respect for all creation, and a deep conviction in the transformative power of love to heal and unite,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, in a statement to his diocese on Monday, urged Catholics to “take inspiration from his words and example and put that inspiration into action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1536x1116.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/PopeFrancisAP-1920x1395.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis speaks to journalists during the papal flight direct to Rio de Janeiro on July 22, 2013. \u003ccite>(Luca Zennaro/Pool Photo via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is the greatest tribute we could give to him,” Cordileone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said Francis’ 2016 proclamation of a Holy Year of Mercy “inspired an outpouring of charitable works and led to the reconciliation of thousands of Catholics with the Lord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tried to reconcile those who were estranged from God and from the church, and there was a great resolve,” Barber told KQED. “A lot of people came back to the church, a lot went to confession. There was just a whole lot of positive influence from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber recalled traveling to Rome a few years ago, where he hoped to attend Francis’ private morning Mass, as many bishops do when they are close to the Vatican. But he was told the service was full — Francis “was inviting all the janitors in the Vatican to come to the Mass,” Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Wow, that’s great, better than me [being there]. Who’s ever thought of the janitors?’” Barber said. “And he’s done the same for street sweepers and others that he saw at the periphery, that were overlooked. I think that’s one of his greatest tributes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the better part of A’s life, she never suspected anything was wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She breezed through getting her driver’s license. She applied to college and filed her taxes year after year without any hiccups. That is, until she applied for her passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, the document she always relied on — a delayed registration of birth, which is fairly common among adoptees — was no longer enough. She realized the papers that would prove she was a citizen were not just missing — they had never existed in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just sensed there was something wrong and it seemed frightening,” said A, who asked to be referred to by her last initial out of fear of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A later found out that her adoptive parents never completed her naturalization. It meant she was technically barred from accessing things that she took for granted all her life — like college financial aid. It also left A, who is now in her 40s, vulnerable to deportation to her native South Korea — a country she has never been to, where she doesn’t speak the language or know of any family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress tried to address this issue by passing the Child Citizenship Act in 2000, which grants automatic citizenship to international adoptees. But the law only covered future adoptees and those under 18 at the time the law went into effect, or only those born after February 1983. It also did not apply to children who were brought to the U.S. on the wrong type of visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past 25 years, advocates have been pushing for Congress to remove the age cutoff and narrow the citizenship gap among adoptees. A bill was reintroduced several times, but it has yet to make it past the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates say President Trump’s second term has ushered in a new era of fear for adoptees without citizenship. Trump has consistently vowed to carry out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/1244093031/how-trumps-immigration-policy-changes-who-gets-arrested-and-detained\">largest deportation program\u003c/a> that the country has ever seen. To do so, his administration is casting a far wider net on who to deport — making adoptees like A question if they will be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely didn’t think it was possible for any adoptee to be in my state of limbo. I know now that it’s not only possible but common,” A said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How adoptees fell through the cracks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to determine how many adoptees lack citizenship in the U.S. Many are unaware of their circumstances until adulthood, when they attempt to apply for a passport, try to obtain a Real ID or, in the worst-case scenario, get convicted of a crime, which makes them a priority for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036849\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her earliest memories, A sensed a difference between her and her white parents. Yet, she also remembers feeling special, chosen and cared for. \u003ccite>(Family photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arissa Oh, a history professor at Boston College who has written extensively about the origins of international adoptions, said a host of factors contributed to the phenomenon of noncitizen adoptees. In some cases, the adoptive parents were to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either the adoptive parents did not know that naturalization was a separate process from immigration and adoption, or they couldn’t get around to it for whatever reason,” Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the adoptions were never fully legal in the first place. Last month, the government of South Korea, where A is from, admitted that its adoption agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341421/south-korea-admits-agencies-mishandled-international-adoptions\">engaged in fraud or malpractice\u003c/a> to keep up with demand, including not properly vetting prospective parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, led by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, urged the Korean government to investigate citizenship issues among adoptees sent to the U.S. and take steps to support those without citizenship, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-adoptions-responsibility-fraud-abuse-67970ea6e153e7cbb63d5b4bc29325f4\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oh, all of the systemic factors that kept adoptees from being naturalized underscore a long-standing discrepancy between federal and state roles in international adoptions. While U.S. citizenship is governed at the federal level, adoptions themselves are generally regarded as domestic matters, much like marriage, which is why they are processed through state courts, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where you see a failure, in terms of the protection of the children,” she said. “Because they could fall through the gap between federal law and state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I didn’t know who to ask for help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A was just 3 weeks old when she was brought to the West Coast from South Korea. Her adoptive parents had trouble conceiving, she was told. It never occurred to A to ask if she was indeed a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in her 20s, while working at a coffee shop, A opened a letter from the U.S. State Department asking for more proof of her citizenship. She had no idea who to turn to and couldn’t afford a lawyer.[aside postID=news_12024082 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/01/GettyImages-1314541146-1020x690.jpg']“I think I just felt really alone and scared,” A said. “I didn’t know who to ask for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she tucked the letter away and returned to the mountain of dishes she needed to wash. Although part of her was worried, A figured it was some misunderstanding and could be easily resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when she asked her parents about her citizenship, they told her: “You were adopted by a U.S. citizen. So you’re a U.S. citizen,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, in a Facebook group for adoptees, she confided to another member about her situation, who then urged her to contact attorney Gregory Luce as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An adoptee himself, Luce specializes in this area. After he and A connected in 2019, Luce spent the next two years going back and forth with various government agencies to determine if A was a citizen. The drawn-out wait was typical, he said. The truth was nothing short of gut-wrenching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Greg said officially: ‘You’re not a U.S. citizen,’ ” A said. “It was hard to hear, but a lot of it was that I was scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some deported adoptees have faced homelessness and mental health crises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Adoptees are supposed to be granted the same rights as if they were the biological children of their adoptive parents. Yet adoptees who lack citizenship live in limbo almost as if they newly arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes them ineligible for most college financial aid, federal benefits and certain government jobs. Soon, they’ll also lose the ability to fly domestically when enforcement of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140778386/real-id-enforcement-delayed-2025-immigration-privacy\">Real ID\u003c/a>, a driver’s license or ID card with stricter standards, kicks off in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joy Alessi, a Korean adoptee who’s with the Adoptee Rights Campaign, did not gain citizenship until she was 52 years old. She worries about how the years she spent working as a noncitizen will impact her future retirement benefits.[aside postID=news_12033789 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250324-WongKimArk-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“As children, we didn’t broker our own adoptions, nor did we bring ourselves across the border without the proper documentation. Nor did we fail to apply for our own citizenship,” she said. “So why are we holding children responsible for their parents’ mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, attorneys often advised Alessi to simply “lay low” rather than try to take steps to correct her immigration status. But leaving the issue unresolved puts adoptees at another kind of risk: a criminal conviction, no matter how minor, can expose them to the full weight of immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR previously reported of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107966562/waiting-in-no-mans-land\">an adoptee and father of five\u003c/a> who was convicted of marijuana possession in Texas. Because his adoption was filed improperly, he was sent to his birth country of Mexico after having served a few years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Cho, a spokesperson for Adoptees for Justice, said adoptees who are deported often receive little to no support to navigate life in an unfamiliar country, putting them at significant risk of unemployment, homelessness, and mental health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re kind of just left to struggle and survive on their own,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, an adoptee named Phillip Clay killed himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/deported-adoptee-s-death-heightens-calls-citizenship-bill-n767341\">after struggling to adjust\u003c/a> to life in South Korea.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Thousands of adoptees could have relief with this bill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The State Department said in a statement that it works to ensure intercountry adoptions are “safe, ethical, legal and transparent” but “[its] role in issues regarding adoptee citizenship is generally limited to adjudicating applications for a U.S. passport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adoptee advocates argue the solution lies in eliminating the age cutoff from the 2000 law. Legislative efforts to do just that have historically received bipartisan support. But progress has been slow because the issue had been tied to immigration, an area that has been persistently difficult to reform, according Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who has previously sponsored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s really paralyzed our ability to right a very simple and straightforward wrong,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cho said at its core, the bill is about preventing family separation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adoptees were adopted into a family as children,” she said. “It’s not fair that a biological child can commit a crime, do their time and continue on with their life. But an adopted child is treated [differently].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the federal level, states can also better support adoptees by allowing them greater access to their adoption records, according to Luce, who is also the founder of the Adoptee Rights Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These documents are often considered the most secretive of all court files given their sensitive nature. In many states, including California, Kentucky and Virginia, adult adoptees must secure \u003ca href=\"https://adopteerightslaw.com/united-states-obc/\">a court order or permission\u003c/a> from their adoptive parents in order to gain access to certain adoption papers. The fee to obtain these files can also be far higher than the cost to retrieve a non-adoptee birth certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue impacts both those who were adopted domestically and internationally. In A’s case, Luce said he requested documents essential to her immigration case in state court three times over two years. Had it been easier to get those papers, A would have obtained her green card by now, according to Luce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly frustrating if not insane and ultimately dangerous for intercountry adopted people like A when they cannot get basic documents to prove they are lawfully in the United States,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an issue of human rights and individual dignity that we’ve been fighting for more than 50 years,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tries to get a green card amid the new Trump administration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2022, A married a U.S. citizen — opening up a new viable pathway toward citizenship. It’s promising, but A won’t be able to get a green card until she has obtained adoption papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A said her husband is “more nervous now than ever before because of the current administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, A won’t be able to fly within the country because she’s not eligible for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355902/real-id-enforcement-may-7\">a Real ID\u003c/a>. It means missing work trips and her best friend’s birthday in New York, breaking a 12-year tradition. “It’s a really big loss,” A said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also comes at a time when she feels the most grateful for the life that she has built — securing her dream two-bedroom apartment nestled between parks and hiking paths, working a job she loves and having a close-knit group of friends, many of whom are fellow adoptees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so in tune with how lucky I am and somehow it feels like a way to measure how long and hard I worked and how many times I moved trying to find my place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A later found out that her adoptive parents never completed her naturalization. It meant she was technically barred from accessing things that she took for granted all her life — like college financial aid. It also left A, who is now in her 40s, vulnerable to deportation to her native South Korea — a country she has never been to, where she doesn’t speak the language or know of any family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress tried to address this issue by passing the Child Citizenship Act in 2000, which grants automatic citizenship to international adoptees. But the law only covered future adoptees and those under 18 at the time the law went into effect, or only those born after February 1983. It also did not apply to children who were brought to the U.S. on the wrong type of visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past 25 years, advocates have been pushing for Congress to remove the age cutoff and narrow the citizenship gap among adoptees. A bill was reintroduced several times, but it has yet to make it past the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates say President Trump’s second term has ushered in a new era of fear for adoptees without citizenship. Trump has consistently vowed to carry out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/1244093031/how-trumps-immigration-policy-changes-who-gets-arrested-and-detained\">largest deportation program\u003c/a> that the country has ever seen. To do so, his administration is casting a far wider net on who to deport — making adoptees like A question if they will be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely didn’t think it was possible for any adoptee to be in my state of limbo. I know now that it’s not only possible but common,” A said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How adoptees fell through the cracks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to determine how many adoptees lack citizenship in the U.S. Many are unaware of their circumstances until adulthood, when they attempt to apply for a passport, try to obtain a Real ID or, in the worst-case scenario, get convicted of a crime, which makes them a priority for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036849\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036849\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-17-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In her earliest memories, A sensed a difference between her and her white parents. Yet, she also remembers feeling special, chosen and cared for. \u003ccite>(Family photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arissa Oh, a history professor at Boston College who has written extensively about the origins of international adoptions, said a host of factors contributed to the phenomenon of noncitizen adoptees. In some cases, the adoptive parents were to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either the adoptive parents did not know that naturalization was a separate process from immigration and adoption, or they couldn’t get around to it for whatever reason,” Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the adoptions were never fully legal in the first place. Last month, the government of South Korea, where A is from, admitted that its adoption agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341421/south-korea-admits-agencies-mishandled-international-adoptions\">engaged in fraud or malpractice\u003c/a> to keep up with demand, including not properly vetting prospective parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, led by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, urged the Korean government to investigate citizenship issues among adoptees sent to the U.S. and take steps to support those without citizenship, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-adoptions-responsibility-fraud-abuse-67970ea6e153e7cbb63d5b4bc29325f4\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oh, all of the systemic factors that kept adoptees from being naturalized underscore a long-standing discrepancy between federal and state roles in international adoptions. 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The concert promoter has not officially confirmed the cancellation and did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a firm believer in freedom of expression, but that doesn’t mean that expression should be free of consequences,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DeputySecState/status/1907273733573660813\">post on X\u003c/a>. “In the Trump Administration, we take seriously our responsibility over foreigners’ access to our country. 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However, he said there also seems to be another, more concerning element at play, given the Trump administration’s broader efforts to crack down on immigration and distance itself from neighboring countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do perceive another element — a political, ideological attack on Mexican-ness, Mexican identity,” he said. “The Mexican population perceives itself as being under siege — under attack — and I think they do so correctly, especially in these times. So that’s part of that whole scenario.”[aside postID=news_11904539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Chalino-master.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although corridos and the bands that perform them have become a major industry in Mexico and are often associated with stories about drug cartels, the genre has humble origins, presenting “counternarratives” from common people struggling to survive, said Ramirez Pimienta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least at the beginning, before it was a huge industry, they were tales from the underdog in order to make sense of what is happening in their lives,” he said, noting the corridos about migrants mistreated by Texas Rangers in the early 1900s. “I like to emphasize that corridos as a musical genre do not have a set ideology. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although corridos and the bands that perform them have become a major industry in Mexico and are often associated with stories about drug cartels, the genre has humble origins, presenting “counternarratives” from common people struggling to survive, said Ramirez Pimienta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least at the beginning, before it was a huge industry, they were tales from the underdog in order to make sense of what is happening in their lives,” he said, noting the corridos about migrants mistreated by Texas Rangers in the early 1900s. “I like to emphasize that corridos as a musical genre do not have a set ideology. Intrinsically, they are not one thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Alegres del Barranco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yz_RsgiiN4\">song celebrating El Mencho\u003c/a> is not the only narcocorrido in its repertoire. Another song, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ1cdzkHeP8\">El 701\u003c/a>,” tells the story of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, who rose from humble beginnings to reach Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramirez Pimienta notes that, unlike some other bands in the same genre that explicitly perform corridos — often of the narco variety — Los Alegres del Barranco has a broader repertoire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some other performers, if they were prohibited from singing corridos, they would have no act,” he said. “These guys also write love songs and rhythmic songs. So they would be able to give a concert without necessarily having to sing corridos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Swastika graffiti in a campus bathroom, chants of “death to Jews,” Hamas Hello Kitty stickers and the physical assault of Jewish students. These are among the incidents detailed in discrimination complaints against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> universities since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, at least 17 colleges in the state are in the crosshairs of multi-pronged federal investigations into antisemitism in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">investigating\u003c/a> whether the University of California system has allowed antisemitism to create a hostile work environment for Jewish employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigations\u003c/a> into allegations that students of Jewish ancestry have been denied access to education at nearly a dozen schools in the state — including a handful of UCs, California State Universities at Sacramento and San Diego and private institutions such as the University of Southern California, Chapman University and Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, President Donald Trump’s administration has gone even further by withholding federal funds from schools, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancelation-of-grants-and-contracts-columbia-university-worth-400-million\">Columbia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59090/trump-officials-halt-1-billion-in-funding-for-cornell-790-million-for-northwestern\">Northwestern and Cornell\u003c/a>. Immigration agents have arrested international students like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8\">Rumeysa Ozturk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> for their actions in support of Palestine. The latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">news\u003c/a> is that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now monitoring the social media feeds of immigrants for evidence of antisemitism and “terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Antisemitism Investigations in California Higher Ed\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-P7BCl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P7BCl/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"794\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in civil rights law and academia warn that the extraordinary and even extralegal tactics and disregard for existing discrimination protections point to the administration’s true ambition: Not to create an inclusive campus climate for all, but to stir up fear and extract concessions from traditionally left-leaning centers of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848726\">UCSB\u003c/a> have announced new initiatives to address antisemitism, while some state \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=fb2a1b12b6b3fe52_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&dapvm=1&highlight=e0218af7ac44146a&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and faculty groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">called on\u003c/a> university leaders to stand up to the federal government in order to protect privacy and free speech rights. With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. In those investigations, “what we saw, to my shock and horror, was that lots of schools in K–12 and in higher education had not understood their legal obligations under Title VI,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCR has jurisdiction under \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/TitleVI\">Title VI\u003c/a> of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars the use of federal funds for programs that discriminate on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” But Lhamon said Title VI also requires there be a process for the university to come into compliance before federal funds can be withheld — unlike the Trump administration’s move to withhold $400 million from Columbia without a full investigation or any kind of compliance process.[aside postID=news_12034742 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250129_UCBerkeleyRally_GC-72_qed-1020x680.jpg']To that end, the UC reached a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=12292ad5a6780a_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&page=1&dapvm=1&highlight=634e6ffe678dfce1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">agreement\u003c/a> with the Department of Education in December to address discrimination against students with “Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ancestry” and close nine open Title VI cases. While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. Faculty unions had urged the administration to fight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">the subpoena of the names and contact information\u003c/a> of hundreds of UC employees who signed letters in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to members from the University Council — American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents almost 7,000 UC teaching faculty and librarians, called on university leaders to protect “worker privacy and due process of law at every turn,” and encouraged workers and students to “resist participating in investigations that are clearly motivated by politics and the intent to silence debate, dissent, and disagreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leigh Kimberg speaks during a press conference with UCSF medical professionals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President did not answer questions about the compliance agreement or the actions of the federal task force. In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.[aside postID=news_12034703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']As a result, she said she has been accused of antisemitism. After speaking about Palestine during a talk about trauma-informed care, she said she was banned from speaking in public courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberg said students have shown incredible bravery even in the face of potential discipline, arrest and immigration enforcement actions. In the past month, dozens of students and faculty at California universities, including Stanford, UCLA and UCSB, have had their visas revoked by the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz-Prober said she’s not an immigration expert, but said the Brandeis Center appreciates the Trump administration taking antisemitism seriously and “that there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley associate professor of English who was faculty co-chair of an advisory committee on Muslim and Palestinian student life, sees these investigations as a “false flag mission” in an attempt by Trump to “control what happens on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, it’s antisemitism. Tomorrow, it will be something else. This is an incursion into a project of free inquiry and free speech on college campuses,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, DOE has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">set its sights\u003c/a> on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at universities and K–12 schools. Cal-Poly Humboldt, California State University San Bernardino and UC Berkeley have received notice that the OCR is investigating “race-exclusionary” practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Immigration agents have arrested international students like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8\">Rumeysa Ozturk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> for their actions in support of Palestine. The latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">news\u003c/a> is that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now monitoring the social media feeds of immigrants for evidence of antisemitism and “terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Antisemitism Investigations in California Higher Ed\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-P7BCl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P7BCl/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"794\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in civil rights law and academia warn that the extraordinary and even extralegal tactics and disregard for existing discrimination protections point to the administration’s true ambition: Not to create an inclusive campus climate for all, but to stir up fear and extract concessions from traditionally left-leaning centers of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848726\">UCSB\u003c/a> have announced new initiatives to address antisemitism, while some state \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=fb2a1b12b6b3fe52_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&dapvm=1&highlight=e0218af7ac44146a&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and faculty groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">called on\u003c/a> university leaders to stand up to the federal government in order to protect privacy and free speech rights. With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To that end, the UC reached a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=12292ad5a6780a_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&page=1&dapvm=1&highlight=634e6ffe678dfce1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">agreement\u003c/a> with the Department of Education in December to address discrimination against students with “Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ancestry” and close nine open Title VI cases. While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. 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In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the nurse told Yasmelin Velazquez she was going to be hospitalized for a couple of days, Velazquez’s anxiety spiked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t stay!” she exclaimed. “I have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975904/new-bay-area-immigration-court-opens-aims-to-tackle-deportation-backlog\">immigration court\u003c/a> tomorrow!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospitalization comes at a bad time. Missing her first court hearing the next day would almost guarantee a deportation order for the 36-year-old Venezuelan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigrant\u003c/a> and her two young sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s especially on edge since receiving \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58984/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>an email\u003c/u>\u003c/a> from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security two days earlier notifying her that her temporary status in the country was terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time for you to leave the United States,” the email read. “Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velazquez is among the growing number of migrants who received the DHS email. All of them came to the U.S. through legal pathways now terminated by President Trump, or were given temporary protection from deportation after surrendering to immigration authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12034703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now left in limbo: Should they stay and continue the legal process? Could they be detained or deported while waiting for their day in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has followed Velazquez’s immigration journey from Ciudad Juárez, México, where she waited 8 months to enter the U.S. via the CBP One app, a Biden-era legal pathway for asylum seekers. She became one of 900,000 people who used the app, which was the only way to schedule an immigration hearing in the U.S. at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as her court date approached, Velazquez told NPR she was getting nervous. Migrants have been picked up by immigration authorities at court lately, and that could happen to her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, her doctor called during Velazquez’s shift at Walmart. The doctor explained that she had some bad test results and might need to stay in the emergency room for a couple of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushing back, Velazquez was cleared to leave the hospital. She will make it to court the next day – but the doctor warns her condition could worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6720x4480+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc1%2F1f%2Fcab713b94f82a20943cb5fce3b48%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-136.jpg\" alt=\"Outside John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., Yasmelin Valazquez waits for her partner to bring the car around on April 9, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Outside John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., Yasmelin Valazquez waits for her partner to bring the car around on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F58%2F9d61d3474b61b62b16c5c37da07d%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-146.jpg\" alt=\"After being away overnight, Yasmelin Valazquez is greeted with joy as her two sons jump on her in a reunion on April 9, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>After being away overnight, Yasmelin Valazquez is greeted with joy as her two sons jump on her in a reunion on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sun had not risen when Velazquez, her partner, and her two little boys, 2-year-old Jeremías and 4-year-old Jordan, left their home in Indio, California, the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Father God, be our lawyer, be our judge,” they prayed. “Touch the heart of Judge Simmons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are anxious — so they sing while they drive their used black SUV down the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than two hours on the road, the family pulls up at the immigration court in an industrial park in a Southern California suburb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen or so other families make their way into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5418x3612+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6b%2Ffa%2F856691424698ae292a70c87b09c9%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-166.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmelin Valazquez wakes up her two sons at 3:30 in the morning to have breakfast before they leave for immigration court. April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Yasmelin Valazquez wakes up her two sons at 3:30 in the morning to have breakfast before they leave for immigration court. April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5657x3771+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F54%2Fda%2F52f06fc74f519f46c9c0f319465c%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-178.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmelin Valazquez's sons sit quietly as the family drives two hours to immigration court on April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Yasmelin Valazquez’s sons sit quietly as the family drives two hours to immigration court on April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First hearings like this one are usually low-stakes. A judge validates the migrants’ identities, and they decide whether to file for a form of relief, such as asylum. Then a second hearing is scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Trump, anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, Velazquez and the kids sit in the first row of wooden benches. They wait an hour for their turn– long enough that the two-year-old pees his pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the judge asks Velazquez whether she understands the reason she’s in court: that the government believes she doesn’t have a legal right to be in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” she replies quietly, adding that she’s planning to claim asylum later this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge tells her to come back in August, this time with an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole interaction only took a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velazquez is free to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5170x3447+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3b%2Fdf%2Ff88d55fc4af78dfd4c90f8c58046%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-181.jpg\" alt=\"With a little nervousness, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family arrive for thier immigration court hearing in Santa Ana, California on April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>With a little nervousness, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family arrive for thier immigration court hearing in Santa Ana, California on April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5123x3414+0+555/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6a%2F48%2F97974ae948d4ac902739b7dbca9c%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-190.jpg\" alt=\"After immigration court, Yasmelin Valazquez secures her paperwork inside her folder where she keeps track of her documents. April 10, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez/NPR\">\u003cfigcaption>After immigration court, Yasmelin Valazquez secures her paperwork inside her folder where she keeps track of her documents. April 10, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez/NPR \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel victorious,” she tells NPR after the hearing, her relieved laughter ringing over the parking lot while her kids snack on juice and arepas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their day isn’t over yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next is another hour-long drive to Velazquez’s regular in-person check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which she has to do every few months in addition to weekly calls and texts with the agent in charge of her parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the check-in seems scarier. There have been reports of migrants being picked up by agents as they go into the ICE office. And now, there’s that email from DHS to worry about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velazquez enters the office and meets with the agent assigned to her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight minutes later, she comes out again, beaming a huge smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, my future looks marvelous,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was not detained today, but her optimism might be premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5900x3933+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2Fec%2F48b9a0214833b8fb1bedbdf6c1a6%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-195.jpg\" alt=\"After a long day, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family share a moment of joy at a parking lot in San Bernadino, California on April 10, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now left in limbo: Should they stay and continue the legal process? Could they be detained or deported while waiting for their day in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has followed Velazquez’s immigration journey from Ciudad Juárez, México, where she waited 8 months to enter the U.S. via the CBP One app, a Biden-era legal pathway for asylum seekers. She became one of 900,000 people who used the app, which was the only way to schedule an immigration hearing in the U.S. at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as her court date approached, Velazquez told NPR she was getting nervous. Migrants have been picked up by immigration authorities at court lately, and that could happen to her, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, her doctor called during Velazquez’s shift at Walmart. The doctor explained that she had some bad test results and might need to stay in the emergency room for a couple of days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After pushing back, Velazquez was cleared to leave the hospital. She will make it to court the next day – but the doctor warns her condition could worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6720x4480+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc1%2F1f%2Fcab713b94f82a20943cb5fce3b48%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-136.jpg\" alt=\"Outside John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., Yasmelin Valazquez waits for her partner to bring the car around on April 9, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Outside John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., Yasmelin Valazquez waits for her partner to bring the car around on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F58%2F9d61d3474b61b62b16c5c37da07d%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-146.jpg\" alt=\"After being away overnight, Yasmelin Valazquez is greeted with joy as her two sons jump on her in a reunion on April 9, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>After being away overnight, Yasmelin Valazquez is greeted with joy as her two sons jump on her in a reunion on April 9, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sun had not risen when Velazquez, her partner, and her two little boys, 2-year-old Jeremías and 4-year-old Jordan, left their home in Indio, California, the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Father God, be our lawyer, be our judge,” they prayed. “Touch the heart of Judge Simmons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are anxious — so they sing while they drive their used black SUV down the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than two hours on the road, the family pulls up at the immigration court in an industrial park in a Southern California suburb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen or so other families make their way into the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5418x3612+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6b%2Ffa%2F856691424698ae292a70c87b09c9%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-166.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmelin Valazquez wakes up her two sons at 3:30 in the morning to have breakfast before they leave for immigration court. April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Yasmelin Valazquez wakes up her two sons at 3:30 in the morning to have breakfast before they leave for immigration court. April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5657x3771+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F54%2Fda%2F52f06fc74f519f46c9c0f319465c%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-178.jpg\" alt=\"Yasmelin Valazquez's sons sit quietly as the family drives two hours to immigration court on April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>Yasmelin Valazquez’s sons sit quietly as the family drives two hours to immigration court on April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First hearings like this one are usually low-stakes. A judge validates the migrants’ identities, and they decide whether to file for a form of relief, such as asylum. Then a second hearing is scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Trump, anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, Velazquez and the kids sit in the first row of wooden benches. They wait an hour for their turn– long enough that the two-year-old pees his pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the judge asks Velazquez whether she understands the reason she’s in court: that the government believes she doesn’t have a legal right to be in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” she replies quietly, adding that she’s planning to claim asylum later this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge tells her to come back in August, this time with an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole interaction only took a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velazquez is free to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5170x3447+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3b%2Fdf%2Ff88d55fc4af78dfd4c90f8c58046%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-181.jpg\" alt=\"With a little nervousness, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family arrive for thier immigration court hearing in Santa Ana, California on April 10, 2025.\">\u003cfigcaption>With a little nervousness, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family arrive for thier immigration court hearing in Santa Ana, California on April 10, 2025. \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5123x3414+0+555/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6a%2F48%2F97974ae948d4ac902739b7dbca9c%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-190.jpg\" alt=\"After immigration court, Yasmelin Valazquez secures her paperwork inside her folder where she keeps track of her documents. April 10, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez/NPR\">\u003cfigcaption>After immigration court, Yasmelin Valazquez secures her paperwork inside her folder where she keeps track of her documents. April 10, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez/NPR \u003ccite> (Zaydee Sanchez for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel victorious,” she tells NPR after the hearing, her relieved laughter ringing over the parking lot while her kids snack on juice and arepas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their day isn’t over yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next is another hour-long drive to Velazquez’s regular in-person check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which she has to do every few months in addition to weekly calls and texts with the agent in charge of her parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the check-in seems scarier. There have been reports of migrants being picked up by agents as they go into the ICE office. And now, there’s that email from DHS to worry about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velazquez enters the office and meets with the agent assigned to her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight minutes later, she comes out again, beaming a huge smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, my future looks marvelous,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was not detained today, but her optimism might be premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5900x3933+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0b%2Fec%2F48b9a0214833b8fb1bedbdf6c1a6%2Fyasmelin-valazquez-195.jpg\" alt=\"After a long day, Yasmelin Valazquez and her family share a moment of joy at a parking lot in San Bernadino, California on April 10, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalil’s legal case is proceeding on multiple tracks. While an immigration judge considers the evidence against him, Khalid’s lawyers are also challenging his March 8 detention in federal court in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After ICE agents arrested Khalil on March 8 and shipped him to Louisiana, Rubio said he had revoked Khalil’s green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubio relied on a rarely used statute from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 that authorizes the secretary of state to personally order the deportation of people whose presence in the U.S. the secretary believes “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1990, after the Cold War ended, lawmakers modified the law to protect “beliefs, statements, or associations” that are “lawful within the United States,” and raised the standard for deportation to cases in which the foreigner’s presence in the U.S. would “compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalil’s lawyers say that Rubio’s letter alone does not meet that high standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His determination, quote unquote, has absolutely nothing to do with foreign policy,” Van Der Hout said during a Zoom meeting with reporters on Thursday. “What does he talk about? He talks about First Amendment activity in the United States, and the effect on people in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after Khalil was arrested and detained, Homeland Security officials charged him with several additional civil violations. They allege he withheld information on his 2024 green card application, including his work history with a United Nations relief agency and his involvement with a pro-Palestinian activist group at Columbia University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalil’s lawyers deny those charges. The government filed additional documents on Wednesday in support of those charges, Van Der Hout said, “but it is zero to do with the foreign policy charge. And there is zero support for the government’s allegations about any misrepresentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free speech advocates argue the administration is violating the U.S. Constitution by targeting immigrants for their activism and their political beliefs. Khalil and several other students and scholars who have been detained have challenged their arrests on constitutional grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 3 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates and attorneys are scrambling to provide guidance for international students at universities across California after the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">revoked at least 96 student visas\u003c/a> last week, following several high-profile detentions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/what-we-know-college-activists-immigration-hnk/index.html\">college students and staff\u003c/a> by immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International students are being advised to get familiar with their legal rights, consider canceling any travel outside of the United States and pause their social media activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034703/what-should-international-students-on-visas-and-green-cards-know-right-now\">The federal government’s revocation of visas for students\u003c/a> at schools including Stanford, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Irvine caught universities and students off guard. Some students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">responded by suing the federal government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions create an uncertain and challenging environment for our campus community,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Richard Lyons said \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/07/a-message-about-recent-federal-visa-program-updates/\">in a statement on Monday\u003c/a>. “Your university supports, without reservation, the right and ability of immigrant and international students, staff, and faculty to participate fully in the campus experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said last month that since January, officials had revoked \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/rubio-immigration-students-ozturk-chung-khalil.html\">around 300 visas\u003c/a>, including those of students, because of their foreign policy views or criminal history. The administration has taken major steps \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html\">targeting international students who had engaged in pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> and advocacy during the wave of demonstrations that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">swept college campuses since October 2023\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several international students \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/what-we-know-college-activists-immigration-hnk/index.html\">have been detained\u003c/a> recently, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031867/israels-renewed-assault-gaza-draws-hundreds-streets-san-francisco\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a>’s detention being one of the most high-profile cases. Khalil, a green card holder and pro-Palestinian organizer at Columbia University, was arrested by federal authorities and moved to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the federal government claimed that the international students were taking part in “activities that are counter to our national interest, to our foreign policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-protesters-visas-green-cards-trump-ice-detentions-free-speech/\">said at a news conference in Guyana\u003c/a>, CBS reported. “And if we’ve given you a visa, and then you decide to do that, we’re going to take it away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A chilling effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As legal teams have moved \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/a-letter-from-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil\">to support students\u003c/a>, pro-Palestinian advocacy groups say that the administration was “chilling speech” and curbing protest against the United States’ support of Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/zionism/\">by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024332 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2192874110-1020x680.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s becoming a very insecure and strange time for this republic,” said Ramsey Judah, a lawyer with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles, who said that the chilling effect on speech was not confined to students or green card and visa holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing it across the board because people now are scared to speak up, not just on Palestine,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/jcrc-statement-on-detentions-of-campus-protesters/\">a statement\u003c/a>, the Jewish Community Relations Council in the Bay Area said that despite disagreeing with the rhetoric of the campus protests, the group believes that it’s “incumbent upon law enforcement agencies to provide these protesters with transparency around their alleged violations and proper notice before commencing deportation proceedings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re an international student on a green card or a visa, what should you know about this moment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to Judah and other experts with advocacy groups about the guidance they provide to students, staff and faculty — particularly to students who have been active during pro-Palestinian protests over the past year and a half. Please bear in mind that this is not legal advice and advocates emphasize that students should consult with an immigration attorney about their individual situation. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">(Jump straight to: Where can international students find legal advice?)\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Should international students be traveling right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many schools are advising students, faculty and staff on \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/03/19/international-students-travel-trump/82527462007/\">visas or green cards\u003c/a> to reconsider international travel amid the looming uncertainty of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/31/trump-travel-ban-visa-restrictions-delayed/82744274007/\">anticipated travel ban\u003c/a> that could target visitors from countries like Venezuela, Haiti and Pakistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s International Office \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/home\">issued an advisory\u003c/a> stating that it “does not currently recommend” that international students “engage [in] international travel for personal or professional reasons” and that “current U.S. immigration policy is unpredictable and subject to rapid change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging that “there have been no specific updates with respect to travel,” \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/immigration/immigration-policy-changes-faq\">UC Berkeley told international students\u003c/a> that it was “possible that international travel could include additional risks including delays in visa appointments and processing times, increased likelihood of visa denials, and heightened screening upon reentry to the U.S.”[aside postID=news_12026817 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2197914000-1020x680.jpg']“We actually are telling everybody not to travel, especially if you are a student, because they’ve been denying people’s entry,” Judah said. He specifically referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney\">the case of a Canadian woman\u003c/a> who was detained for two weeks after attempting to process a U.S. work visa at the San Diego border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while American citizens cannot be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry\">denied reentry\u003c/a> into the U.S., Judah said that even they may need to reconsider visiting a country that appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html\">the draft travel ban list\u003c/a> since it could “open you up to interrogations when you get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judah said CAIR has been preparing visa and green card holders on what they can potentially expect when they reenter the country, including having their laptops and cellphones unlocked and searched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the border or an airport, an officer needs “some sort of reasonable suspicion to look through your phone,” said Judah, but “reasonable suspicion is completely subjective. It really comes down to who the officer is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley is \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/immigration/immigration-policy-changes-faq\">asking international students\u003c/a> to consider “leaving personal laptops and phones behind” if they do travel outside of the country, and if traveling with them, to “set all apps and social media accounts to private.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033720/what-green-card-and-visa-holders-should-know-before-traveling-abroad\">an article diving deeper\u003c/a> on what visa and green card holders should know before traveling abroad. According to NPR, some immigration attorneys have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033720/what-green-card-and-visa-holders-should-know-before-traveling-abroad\">warning some green card holders to avoid leaving the country if they have a criminal record\u003c/a>, no matter how minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based attorney Ghassan Shamieh said that as of Wednesday, he was not aware of any reports of domestic flights being impacted by this new climate, but warned that “things can change at a moment’s notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamieh, who has been consulting with students affected by the recent visa revocations, said students should be “monitoring trustworthy news sources,” and that “staying in touch with a trusted immigration attorney is going to be key for any student regardless of where they want to travel, how they want to travel or what they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035376\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"969\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed-800x388.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed-1020x494.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed-160x78.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed-1536x744.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/2845795_qed-1920x930.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent stands watch as a crowd of overseas visitors to the U.S. wait in line to pass through Customs on Jan. 5, 2004, at JFK airport in New York City. \u003ccite>(Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do California colleges work with immigration authorities? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has made broad moves to pressure universities to follow \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/harvard-investigation-antisemitism-trump-2ee1a2a9df6d09d155dac7a4e39b186c\">federal demands\u003c/a>, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/cornell-northwestern-federal-funding-freeze/index.html\">changes to diversity, equity and inclusion programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice stated its intent to investigate the University of California over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">antisemitism allegations\u003c/a>. The UC said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">in an early March statement\u003c/a> that it “is unwavering in its commitment to combating antisemitism and protecting everyone’s civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/02/california-deportations-hit-people-with-deep-roots/\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can still operate in California\u003c/a>, state law \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/know-your-rights/california-values-act-sb-54\">bars the use of state or local resources\u003c/a> to assist in federal immigration enforcement — except when the person being sought has been “\u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/sb54_advisory-gr-20180208.pdf\">convicted of a serious or violent state prison felony\u003c/a>.”[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']This law also means that public schools, including public colleges and universities, cannot assist immigration officers and provide information about a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California universities have been encouraged by state Attorney General Rob Bonta to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">develop policies\u003c/a> that make campus areas private from search without a warrant, although this does not bar ICE from entering campus. Most schools are also \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">required to let students know\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026817/ice-schools-and-children-what-families-should-know\">immigration authorities are on campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">December\u003c/a>, Bonta rolled out \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">guidance for schools and colleges to adopt\u003c/a> “in responding to immigration issues” and encouraged California residents \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company\">to report any suspicions\u003c/a> that a school or its staff are assisting ICE to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-arrested-ice-massachusetts/\">international students are still fearful\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-asks-supreme-court-let-192827441.html\">immigration agents are ignoring due process. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/what-evidence-does-the-us-government-need-to-deport-green-card-holders\">green card can be revoked after certain serious criminal convictions\u003c/a>, international student and permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil was first detained \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/1239428600/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-law-arrest-international-students\">without a criminal charge\u003c/a>. The Trump administration said its decision to revoke Khalil’s green card was based on a provision of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/policy-brief-explaining-the-foreign-policy-ground-of-removability\">the Immigration and Nationality Act\u003c/a> related to foreign policy — a justification the American Immigration Lawyers Association called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/policy-brief-explaining-the-foreign-policy-ground-of-removability\">obscure and constitutionally suspect\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[To] see it happen based on free speech with no charges, no crime, no anything — that’s kind of a shock to everybody who works in immigration and even people inside of the government, because this is something that’s really unheard of,” Judah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What documentation is important for international students right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorney Shamieh said international students should immediately get in touch with their college campus’ international students office and make sure that team is checking their immigration status in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/sevis\">Student and Exchange Visitor Information System\u003c/a> (SEVIS) records regularly. Shamieh said some records have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">terminated without warning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamieh also advised that international students should check with an attorney before making any updates to immigration documents, like a visa renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really risky to travel right now. So if there are opportunities to renew documents while staying here in the United States, I definitely recommend doing that,” Shamieh said. “Always with the caveat of consulting with an immigration attorney, because they’ll best be able to analyze your specific situation and guide you accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elif Koc, a student disciplinary legal fellow with CAIR-LA, said now would be a good time for students to “get your documents in order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc said students can make copies of passports or visas and make sure trusted people in their life have them on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if, God forbid, something like [detention] does happen, I think it’s helpful for your attorneys and whoever is assisting to have all of that information organized and ready to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc recommended that some students also consider asking for \u003ca href=\"https://manifestlaw.com/blog/immigration-letter-of-support-for-a-family-member/\">an immigration letter of support\u003c/a> from a professor they are close to or from an organization they are a part of. In case of a situation like \u003ca href=\"https://michiganimmigrant.org/sites/default/files/Writing%20letters%20for%20immigration%20purposes.pdf\">a possible deportation\u003c/a>, the letter — often addressed to an immigration judge — can detail the student’s role in the country, what they are studying and provide more perspective about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to accessing support, students, staff and faculty should connect with legal organizations as a way of “arming yourself with knowledge and preparing yourself,” Koc said. “There are lots of people who are extremely concerned with protecting free speech rights and your rights as a student.” \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to where international students can find legal support.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamieh also advised that students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">the numbers of Rapid Response Networks\u003c/a> and trusted attorneys readily available for themselves and their friends and family in case they need help navigating encounters with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should international students know about using social media right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">the Department of Homeland Security announced\u003c/a> that it would immediately begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitic activity” as “grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.” In early March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas\">Axios reported\u003c/a> that the State Department would launch an AI program to review the social media of student visa holders and cancel visas of those who the federal government deems as “pro-Hamas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Consitution’s protection of free speech under \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/\">the First Amendment\u003c/a>, Koc said students who have taken part in any pro-Palestinian protests should consider limiting their posts on social media and setting their accounts to private if it is currently public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc suggests that students consider what in their social media history “would make you an appealing target for the current administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just being really cautious about what you’re saying and how it could be construed or how it could be manipulated is a really good practice,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley also \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/immigration/immigration-policy-changes-faq\">advises international students\u003c/a> to remove any content from their social media “related to political protests or statements that could be considered as somehow promoting unlawful, antisemitic, or terrorist support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about students who continue to protest right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For future protests, Koc said it was vital for students to be aware of their campus’ code of conduct and student disciplinary process — and how these might change under the new administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have been the subject of the federal government’s attention, especially after Columbia responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/columbia-response-trump-demands.html\">$400 million of federal funding\u003c/a> by agreeing to overhaul policies, including banning \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands\">face masks on campus\u003c/a>. The White House is also attempting to access the information of \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/press-release/cair-sfba-condemns-trump-administrations-demand-for-uc-berkeley-faculty-info-as-attack-on-academic-freedom-free-speech/\">UC Berkeley faculty who signed open letters\u003c/a> related to Gaza in 2023 and 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A march through the UC Berkeley campus in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Koc recommended that students, staff and faculty familiarize themselves with their school’s “\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place and manner” restrictions,\u003c/a> which govern protesting. The restrictions are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/transparency-accountability/Pages/tpm-faqs.aspx\">content-neutral\u003c/a>,” meaning that the policies apply across all protests or demonstrations, regardless of the speaker’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to campus protests, individual public campuses, they can restrict where and when and how you speak,” Koc explained. “When it comes to amplified noise, maybe they’ll say you can’t stand outside a classroom and protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has guides on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">how to safely document interactions with police\u003c/a> and what to know when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">attending a rally in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc said she sees aspects of the federal government’s tactics against international students as an attempt to quell protesting and that U.S. citizens should not feel they should stop protesting. Nonetheless, international students on visas and green cards should consider “being really careful at this point” with their “level of participation” in protests right now, she advised. Visa holders, for example, could be forced to leave the United States if they are temporarily suspended from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, international students who wish to keep engaging in civil disobedience should “perhaps consider taking more of a removed role, even if no one is doing anything wrong,” Koc said. “Even as they’re following all their campuses’ rules and protesting in a completely legitimate way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Where can you find support from immigration experts and advocates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shamieh said international students who are engaged with political activism or have a criminal history — even a minor one — should preemptively reach out to an attorney “to devise a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can check with your university’s international students’ office on what support or guidance they are providing. If you are part of a union, your lawyer may also be able to provide assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other resources for immigration advice and advocacy include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/home\">American Civil Liberties Union, Northern California\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/immigrants-rights-clinic/community-resources/\">Stanford’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/\">National Immigration Law Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/search?state=CA\">National Immigration Legal Services Directory\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/\">Center for Constitutional Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://palestinelegal.org/\">Palestine Legal\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mlfa.org/apply-for-help/\">Muslim Legal Fund of America\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/pro-bono-program/slps/current-slps-projects/palestine-advocacy-legal-assistance-project/\">Palestine Advocacy Legal Assistance Project\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/page/immigration/\">Arab Resources and Organizing Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thefire.org/defending-your-rights/legal-support/fire-legal-network\">Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also use the asylumadvocacy.org’s \u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/private-attorneys/\">database to look up a private immigration attorney\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We actually are telling everybody not to travel, especially if you are a student, because they’ve been denying people’s entry,” Judah said. He specifically referenced \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney\">the case of a Canadian woman\u003c/a> who was detained for two weeks after attempting to process a U.S. work visa at the San Diego border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while American citizens cannot be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-us-airports-and-ports-entry\">denied reentry\u003c/a> into the U.S., Judah said that even they may need to reconsider visiting a country that appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html\">the draft travel ban list\u003c/a> since it could “open you up to interrogations when you get back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judah said CAIR has been preparing visa and green card holders on what they can potentially expect when they reenter the country, including having their laptops and cellphones unlocked and searched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the border or an airport, an officer needs “some sort of reasonable suspicion to look through your phone,” said Judah, but “reasonable suspicion is completely subjective. It really comes down to who the officer is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley is \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/immigration/immigration-policy-changes-faq\">asking international students\u003c/a> to consider “leaving personal laptops and phones behind” if they do travel outside of the country, and if traveling with them, to “set all apps and social media accounts to private.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033720/what-green-card-and-visa-holders-should-know-before-traveling-abroad\">an article diving deeper\u003c/a> on what visa and green card holders should know before traveling abroad. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This law also means that public schools, including public colleges and universities, cannot assist immigration officers and provide information about a student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California universities have been encouraged by state Attorney General Rob Bonta to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">develop policies\u003c/a> that make campus areas private from search without a warrant, although this does not bar ICE from entering campus. Most schools are also \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">required to let students know\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026817/ice-schools-and-children-what-families-should-know\">immigration authorities are on campus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/response-increased-threats-california-immigrant-communities-attorney-general\">December\u003c/a>, Bonta rolled out \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">guidance for schools and colleges to adopt\u003c/a> “in responding to immigration issues” and encouraged California residents \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company\">to report any suspicions\u003c/a> that a school or its staff are assisting ICE to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-arrested-ice-massachusetts/\">international students are still fearful\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-asks-supreme-court-let-192827441.html\">immigration agents are ignoring due process. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/what-evidence-does-the-us-government-need-to-deport-green-card-holders\">green card can be revoked after certain serious criminal convictions\u003c/a>, international student and permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil was first detained \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/1239428600/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-law-arrest-international-students\">without a criminal charge\u003c/a>. The Trump administration said its decision to revoke Khalil’s green card was based on a provision of \u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/policy-brief-explaining-the-foreign-policy-ground-of-removability\">the Immigration and Nationality Act\u003c/a> related to foreign policy — a justification the American Immigration Lawyers Association called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aila.org/library/policy-brief-explaining-the-foreign-policy-ground-of-removability\">obscure and constitutionally suspect\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[To] see it happen based on free speech with no charges, no crime, no anything — that’s kind of a shock to everybody who works in immigration and even people inside of the government, because this is something that’s really unheard of,” Judah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What documentation is important for international students right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attorney Shamieh said international students should immediately get in touch with their college campus’ international students office and make sure that team is checking their immigration status in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/sevis\">Student and Exchange Visitor Information System\u003c/a> (SEVIS) records regularly. Shamieh said some records have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034742/california-students-visa-cancellations-sue-trump-administration\">terminated without warning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamieh also advised that international students should check with an attorney before making any updates to immigration documents, like a visa renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really risky to travel right now. So if there are opportunities to renew documents while staying here in the United States, I definitely recommend doing that,” Shamieh said. “Always with the caveat of consulting with an immigration attorney, because they’ll best be able to analyze your specific situation and guide you accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elif Koc, a student disciplinary legal fellow with CAIR-LA, said now would be a good time for students to “get your documents in order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc said students can make copies of passports or visas and make sure trusted people in their life have them on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if, God forbid, something like [detention] does happen, I think it’s helpful for your attorneys and whoever is assisting to have all of that information organized and ready to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc recommended that some students also consider asking for \u003ca href=\"https://manifestlaw.com/blog/immigration-letter-of-support-for-a-family-member/\">an immigration letter of support\u003c/a> from a professor they are close to or from an organization they are a part of. In case of a situation like \u003ca href=\"https://michiganimmigrant.org/sites/default/files/Writing%20letters%20for%20immigration%20purposes.pdf\">a possible deportation\u003c/a>, the letter — often addressed to an immigration judge — can detail the student’s role in the country, what they are studying and provide more perspective about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to accessing support, students, staff and faculty should connect with legal organizations as a way of “arming yourself with knowledge and preparing yourself,” Koc said. “There are lots of people who are extremely concerned with protecting free speech rights and your rights as a student.” \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to where international students can find legal support.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamieh also advised that students have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">the numbers of Rapid Response Networks\u003c/a> and trusted attorneys readily available for themselves and their friends and family in case they need help navigating encounters with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should international students know about using social media right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">the Department of Homeland Security announced\u003c/a> that it would immediately begin screening immigrants’ social media for “antisemitic activity” as “grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.” In early March, \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas\">Axios reported\u003c/a> that the State Department would launch an AI program to review the social media of student visa holders and cancel visas of those who the federal government deems as “pro-Hamas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Consitution’s protection of free speech under \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/\">the First Amendment\u003c/a>, Koc said students who have taken part in any pro-Palestinian protests should consider limiting their posts on social media and setting their accounts to private if it is currently public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc suggests that students consider what in their social media history “would make you an appealing target for the current administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just being really cautious about what you’re saying and how it could be construed or how it could be manipulated is a really good practice,” she advised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley also \u003ca href=\"https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/immigration/immigration-policy-changes-faq\">advises international students\u003c/a> to remove any content from their social media “related to political protests or statements that could be considered as somehow promoting unlawful, antisemitic, or terrorist support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about students who continue to protest right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For future protests, Koc said it was vital for students to be aware of their campus’ code of conduct and student disciplinary process — and how these might change under the new administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have been the subject of the federal government’s attention, especially after Columbia responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/columbia-response-trump-demands.html\">$400 million of federal funding\u003c/a> by agreeing to overhaul policies, including banning \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands\">face masks on campus\u003c/a>. The White House is also attempting to access the information of \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/press-release/cair-sfba-condemns-trump-administrations-demand-for-uc-berkeley-faculty-info-as-attack-on-academic-freedom-free-speech/\">UC Berkeley faculty who signed open letters\u003c/a> related to Gaza in 2023 and 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A march through the UC Berkeley campus in association with the national Stand Up for Science day of action in Berkeley on March 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Koc recommended that students, staff and faculty familiarize themselves with their school’s “\u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place and manner” restrictions,\u003c/a> which govern protesting. The restrictions are “\u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/transparency-accountability/Pages/tpm-faqs.aspx\">content-neutral\u003c/a>,” meaning that the policies apply across all protests or demonstrations, regardless of the speaker’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to campus protests, individual public campuses, they can restrict where and when and how you speak,” Koc explained. “When it comes to amplified noise, maybe they’ll say you can’t stand outside a classroom and protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has guides on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">how to safely document interactions with police\u003c/a> and what to know when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">attending a rally in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koc said she sees aspects of the federal government’s tactics against international students as an attempt to quell protesting and that U.S. citizens should not feel they should stop protesting. Nonetheless, international students on visas and green cards should consider “being really careful at this point” with their “level of participation” in protests right now, she advised. Visa holders, for example, could be forced to leave the United States if they are temporarily suspended from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, international students who wish to keep engaging in civil disobedience should “perhaps consider taking more of a removed role, even if no one is doing anything wrong,” Koc said. “Even as they’re following all their campuses’ rules and protesting in a completely legitimate way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Where can you find support from immigration experts and advocates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shamieh said international students who are engaged with political activism or have a criminal history — even a minor one — should preemptively reach out to an attorney “to devise a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can check with your university’s international students’ office on what support or guidance they are providing. 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