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"content": "\u003cp>“Welcome to America!” That’s how Mohammad, a special immigrant visa (SIV) holder, remembers being greeted upon his arrival in the Bay Area from Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He fondly recalls the volunteers and others from \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Family & Community Services, East Bay\u003c/a> who first greeted him when he arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will always remember that,” he says. “My kids remember and ask, ‘Where is that lady?’ ” It was one of the volunteers from JFCS who first welcomed him and his family to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the Taliban \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028117811/taliban-takeover-kabul-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">takeover of Kabul in mid-August\u003c/a>, JFCS has resettled 77 Afghans in the East Bay – about as many people as it typically resettles in six months. JFCS said in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/\">update\u003c/a> that it expects September to be about the same. The organization has received an outpouring of community support for Afghan refugees in the form of volunteers, with 2,800 people in the Bay Area signing up to support resettlement efforts, from greeting families at the airport to connecting families to needed services – everything that goes into creating a new life in a new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mohammad, SIV holder now living in Concord\"]‘We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights.’[/pullquote]Mohammad, whose name KQED has changed due to fears of violence against his family still in Afghanistan, is now based in Concord with his wife, a former teacher, and their three kids. Prior to coming to the U.S., he worked as a technical advisor for an international organization doing development work in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked a lot to build our country,” he told KQED. “We struggled to develop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last year, Mohammad said the security situation was very bad. His organization was attacked and he was stopped several times and asked who he worked for. While he says he might have been able to continue working, Mohammad wanted to provide a better life for his kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to immigrate here. We are now happy that at least my kids will have a bright future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Others are arriving in the early stages of the visa application or via the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit-parole-for-individuals-outside-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a>, which means they may need legal assistance in addition to support for basic needs since humanitarian parolees are \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/uscri-snapshot-humanitarian-parole-for-afghan-evacuees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ineligible for food assistance services like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885170 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51188_GettyImages-1336534302-qut-1020x681.jpg\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11885908 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Demonstrators-Marching-East-on-Thorton-Ave-copy-1020x574.jpg']Christopher Cambises, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/office-of-the-city-manager/racial-equity/immigrant-affairs/afghanistan-refugee-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immigrant affairs manager at the Office of Racial Equity\u003c/a> for the city of San Jose, helps ensure refugees and immigrants are welcomed and able to connect to services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now a major need is housing, and everyone recognizes that housing is a challenge in Silicon Valley, in California as a whole,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond housing, there’s a need for everything else that comes with starting a new life in a new country — getting kids into schools, getting connected to mental health resources, and basic furniture and household goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cambises, himself an immigrant from the United Kingdom, said there’s a shared sense of belonging amid displacement. “This is a city that has an extremely long history of welcoming refugees from around the world and fostering that sense of community belonging for new arrivals,” he said. “We’re tied together by a shared sense of displacement, relocation and resettlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From California to Afghanistan, and back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“When I think about refugee resettlement, I think about housing,” said Shawn VanDiver, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanproject.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Truman National Security Project\u003c/a> San Diego chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a major housing crisis here,” VanDiver said. “But also California is a welcoming place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver, a 12-year Navy veteran, said he wants to make sure Afghans, specifically those who served the U.S., are welcomed. One of the people he worked with on civic engagement projects is a former Afghan interpreter named Lucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucky, a nickname given to him because he survived two improvised explosive device blasts (he prefers this name, for fear of what the Taliban might do to his family still in Afghanistan), received his SIV in 2016 after working as an interpreter for the U.S. for nearly 10 years. He now has a green card. Lucky had been living in San Diego for the past several years, but went back to Afghanistan in May to see his aging mother and to help her with care. While visiting his mother in the hospital, his brother told him the Taliban were attempting to take their village. Around Aug. 13, he went to help. Without enough people or ammunition to support the village, he said they had to surrender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stuck there,” Lucky said. He ended up pretending to be a truck driver to make his way back to Kabul, and then spent 12 hours at the airport, waiting for a flight with his wife and their 4-year-old and 7-month-old children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, with the assistance of \u003ca href=\"https://afghanevac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Evac\u003c/a>, a San Diego-based initiative started by veterans, Lucky arrived back in the U.S. at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids, they just can’t sleep,” he said. “They have nightmares. … My daughter, she’s not letting me go. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been working as a paralegal for a Fremont-based law firm assisting with immigrant asylum cases. He wanted to volunteer his services for other organizations that might need his help, but since his commute is 1.5 hours each way, he doesn’t have time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammad said he never would’ve imagined what has happened in Afghanistan. “A lot of people are left behind, and they need to have humanitarian aid,” he said – even “before the Taliban took over, the country was in a humanitarian crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should not forget Afghanistan and those who work shoulder to shoulder for democracy, for human rights,” Mohammad added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan refugees who arrived in California and the Bay Area prior to 2021, the adjustment was difficult, but not extremely unmanageable. For those arriving now – some with only the clothes they were wearing when they left – the trauma of waiting at the Kabul airport for hours amid a crumbling country and seeing violence take place in front of their children’s eyes makes the transition more challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men wearing masks talk in Afghan market in Fremont\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I sit here sometimes, and I look at my daughter and I’m like, man, how lucky are we to be here? And then I look at all those people, all the kids bleeding, crying … Like as a parent, you have no choice but to feel their pain, you know?’ said Kais (left) in Fremont, on Aug. 27, 2021, a day after a bomb blast killed over 100 people in Kabul. Kais runs Maiwand Market, a staple for many in the Afghan community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refugee & Immigrant Transitions\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based nonprofit, is “preparing for the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Afghans as part of an emergency evacuation effort,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/publications-and-media/2021/8/19/stand-with-the-people-of-afghanistan#statement-from-rit-board-chair-malikyar-sills-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement from RIT Board Chair Malaak Malikyar Sills\u003c/a>, who fled Afghanistan at age 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While RIT normally focuses on what they call “post-resettlement” — everything after the first few months – they’re expecting to ramp up efforts to be able to welcome additional newcomers and support other Bay Area resettlement organizations. RIT will offer resettlement support in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and JFCS. They’ll work to help families access necessary health services and public benefits, providing assistance with registering for school as well as post-resettlement support in the form of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reftrans.org/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education\u003c/a> and family engagement through field trips and support groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuees qualified for a visa under the \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> category — established in 2008 initially for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, but expanded in 2014 to include those employed on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/09/03/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-operation-allies-welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Sept. 3 address\u003c/a>, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said Afghan evacuees include “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders, individuals who have assisted the United States in Afghanistan, and all other vulnerable Afghans, such as journalists and vulnerable women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayorkas said in the past few weeks that roughly 120,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul. “We have a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sense of home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For some Afghan families who may be used to a multigenerational family structure in which parents, kids and grandparents often live together, community is at the heart of a sense of home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the center of home is food. And for newly arrived Afghans, some East Bay cities offer both a sense of extended support within the already established Afghan community as well as access to Afghan food staples – like the homemade bread and halal meat from Fremont’s Maiwand Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esmatullah Asadullah and his family, including his parents and three sisters, came to the Bay Area last year after first being placed in Louisville, Kentucky, with the help of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/topic/refugees-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>. “There were only 50 [Afghan] families,” he said. Asadullah, 20, said the IRC helped their family for around three to four months. They decided to move to San Jose to be among a larger Afghan community in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of my mom’s friends lives here, and she really liked it,” Asadullah said. He’s now working for Tesla and going to school in San Jose. Watching what’s happening in Afghanistan from afar, he said, is difficult: “Like as an Afghan … it’s hard — it’s like all [of] Afghanistan is like my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others who are arriving more recently, the challenges are more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing costs ‘a constant challenge and shock’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>JFCS says housing is the biggest challenge in their resettlement efforts, since many property managers are reluctant to rent to new arrivals without a standard rental history or credit score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is a constant challenge and shock for incoming refugees,” said Holly Taines White, director of development and community engagement at JFCS. “Finding an affordable, safe, appropriate place to live — especially one that is somewhat nearby family and friends – is one of the things JFCS assists with the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shared one example of how challenging the search can be for someone who has recently arrived: A family found a relatively affordable apartment for $2,500 per month in Walnut Creek — but the property manager required they show income of five times the monthly rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not something that a newly arrived family can do,” White said. “In cases like this, we provide a lot of advocacy, trying to help property managers understand the situations that our clients are in.” They’re also matching families with community members who are willing to serve as co-signers on the lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But security still feels elusive: His case in immigration court has dragged on for six years, and it involves grueling cross-examinations that he says rekindle the terror he experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t want to remember the kidnapping or anything else because it’s really ugly,” said Herrera, now 50 and a construction worker in San José. “But I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I have to keep opening up the trunk and pulling out those memories.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a ruthless mob attacked his home one night, bashing in doors and windows, and kidnapped him for days over his involvement with a rival political campaign. When authorities told him they couldn’t protect him or his wife and three kids, he said he knew he had to get them to safety. Herrera spoke to KQED on the condition that he only be identified by one of his last names, because of fear that divulging his identity could hurt his asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1106366/download\">growing number of asylum seekers\u003c/a> at the U.S.-Mexico border, and U.S. immigration courts mired in an \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/\">epic backlog\u003c/a> of nearly 1.4 million cases, the Biden administration has proposed a fundamental change in the way asylum cases are decided. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2021/08/18/dhs-and-doj-publish-notice-proposed-rulemaking-make-asylum-process-more-efficient\">plan\u003c/a>, announced last week, aims to speed up the process and reduce pressure on the courts. It could also make the experience more humane for migrants fleeing persecution, like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The trauma is hard to shake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three hours into his last hearing, Herrera broke down sobbing on the witness stand, recalled his pro bono lawyer, Abby Sullivan Engen, a supervising immigration attorney with Oakland-based Centro Legal de la Raza. She said she asked the judge for a break but was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The judge] instead helped him to focus on his breathing and asked that he keep recounting his traumatic story,” said Sullivan Engen, who found the experience disturbing. “The prosecutor’s sight remained fixed on her computer and desk, never once looking at this man crying profusely on the witness stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just recounting the hostile questioning he experienced in immigration court, and his inability to satisfy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor with every detail of the violence he suffered, was agitating for Herrera. In the middle of an interview with KQED over Zoom, he stopped suddenly, wiped his face and walked away, eventually returning with a bottle of cold water to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11886302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11886302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51133_016_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herrera and Gonzalez watch their son jump on the trampoline at their home on August 23, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herrera’s wife — whom KQED agreed to refer to only by her last name, Gonzalez, so as not to jeopardize the case — remained on the living room couch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s still really traumatized,” she said. “We’ve been through a lot, and each time we have to present it in court, it’s like living through it all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said what’s hardest to see is the anxiety her children suffer each time their parents prepare to go to court. She said they’re still haunted by memories of watching the angry mob kidnap their father and threaten to burn them alive in their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children ask, ‘Mami, what’s going to happen if we have to go back there? Are we going to have to go live there again?'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Different systems for different asylum seekers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Herrera was one of almost 64,000 people who applied for asylum in 2015 after reaching the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2020, the number was close to 200,000. And all of those cases must go through the immigration court system, where overstretched judges are often rushed and hearings are routinely delayed for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not every asylum seeker goes through immigration court — only people who seek refuge at the time they are entering the country. The process is different for those who request protection after they’re already in the U.S. — on a student visa or as a tourist, for example. Those applicants are interviewed in an office setting by an asylum officer employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">proposed rule\u003c/a> by the Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration courts, and the Department of Homeland Security, where U.S.C.I.S. is located, was published Aug. 20 in the Federal Register. It would send everyone who claims asylum at the border to the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office as well. One primary objective: Officials say adjudications would move faster than in immigration court, allowing cases to be decided in months, rather than years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\"]‘We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals who are eligible will receive relief more swiftly, while those who are not eligible will be expeditiously removed,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a statement. “We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would help restore credibility to an immigration system that’s “pretty badly broken,” says Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., who has advocated for such a reform for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Biden administration’s new rule represents a fundamental retooling of the asylum system that preserves asylum as a bedrock element of the U.S. immigration system while also recognizing that a secure border and deterring unlawful crossings are legitimate and necessary attributes of an effective, credible immigration system,” Meissner wrote in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/biden-asylum-processing-proposed-rule\">commentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All asylum seekers must prove they meet the legal definition of a refugee: that they have suffered persecution, or fear that they will suffer persecution, in their home country due to their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having your case heard by a U.S.C.I.S. asylum officer doesn’t mean you’re more likely to be granted asylum, though. The annual approval rate from 2012 to 2020 in immigration court ranged from 26% to 53%. At U.S.C.I.S., it ranged from 27% to 48%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But asylum officers have more specialized training on asylum law and country conditions around the world, according to Meissner. And supervision in the U.S.C.I.S. asylum division leads to greater consistency in asylum decisions compared to immigration courts, where the \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2020/denialrates.html\">approval rates\u003c/a> of individual judges can vary from 0.9% of all cases to 96.7%, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"asylum-seeker\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule would only affect future cases, not those currently in immigration court. But Sullivan Engen says if Herrera could have made his case to an asylum officer, rather than before a judge and a prosecutor, it would have been much less harrowing for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t say that it’s completely non-adversarial because sometimes the officers do ask questions in a manner that’s a little bit more like a prosecutor. But as a general rule, the asylum officer’s task is to elicit the story,” she said. “The applicant doesn’t feel like they’re being grilled in the same way. A lot of the officers have training in trauma-informed approaches to interviewing … It’s just night and day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diego Aranda-Teixeira is a supervising attorney with Al Otro Lado, a cross-border legal services agency with offices in San Diego, Los Angeles and Tijuana. He says another important aspect of the Biden plan is that it would also allow the government to release some asylum seekers who’d otherwise be locked up while their cases proceed. The rule doesn’t require releasing detainees, but it gives officials leeway to decide that “detention is unavailable or impracticable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are actively harmed by detention,” said Aranda-Teixeira. “It’s bad for their mental health and really bad for their immigration case, because if you’re new to the country and you’re detained, who are you going to call? There are no public defenders for immigration … When people get released, that really improves the chances they will get some kind of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions of due process\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not all immigrant advocates are convinced the new system would be an improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulce Garcia, a San Diego immigration attorney and executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels, has seen the work of U.S.C.I.S. asylum officers up close when they perform another of their functions: conducting initial screenings, called “credible fear interviews,” of people who ask for asylum at the border. She said she often finds problems with those screenings, and that makes her skeptical about expanding the role of asylum officers further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen on the ground, those of us that work at the border, when you give so much power to someone in an arbitrary system, things usually go wrong and they don’t favor migrants,” she said. “If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dulce Garcia, Director of Border Angels\"]‘If we’re going to rework the system, I think there are better ways to do so.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said she would rather see a broader overhaul to make the immigration courts independent of the Department of Justice and to build in greater due process protections. That’s a plan that has been endorsed by the American Bar Association and others, but would require Congress to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Human Rights First, a U.S.-based international human rights nonprofit, has also raised concerns. The group said it welcomed the proposal to allow asylum seekers to present their claims in the “less traumatizing, non-adversarial setting” of the U.S.C.I.S. asylum office. However, it criticized the government’s plan to continue to subject unauthorized migrants at the border to a fast-track deportation process known as “expedited removal,” unless they pass their initial asylum screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposed rule could be used and abused to rush asylum seekers through adjudications without sufficient time to secure legal representation, gather evidence or prepare their cases, leading U.S. agencies to return to persecution people who actually do qualify for asylum,” said Eleanor Acer, the group’s senior director for refugee protection, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/human-rights-first-expresses-concern-some-proposed-asylum-changes\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Immigration Stories\" tag=\"immigration\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision that allows people to request an administrative review — but not a full appeal in immigration court — if their claim is denied by U.S.C.I.S. also raised a red flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal’s restriction on access to immigration court hearings … could limit their ability to present crucial evidence,” Acer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism also came from groups that favor further restrictions on immigration. The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., \u003ca href=\"https://cis.org/Arthur/DHSDOJ-Propose-Changes-Asylum-Process-Border\">argued\u003c/a> that the proposed rule would give asylum seekers too much of a right to appeal and found fault with the rule for expanding discretion to release asylum seekers from detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public have until Oct. 19 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/20/2021-17779/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat\">submit comments\u003c/a> on the proposed rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New funding for asylum officers needed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the new plan goes into effect, the job of the nation’s nearly 800 asylum officers would expand by perhaps 150,000 claims per year, according to U.S.C.I.S. The agency currently has 350,000 pending cases, and the only way to actually speed up asylum adjudications under the new system would be to hire more staff. U.S.C.I.S. has announced plans to add 1,000 more asylum officers and 1,000 support staff to meet the workload. But that will depend on new funding, something Biden has requested of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Herrera, asylum seeker\"]‘I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S.C.I.S. asylum offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and nine other major cities. Asylum officers also travel to perform interviews at additional U.S.C.I.S. field offices around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Biden proposal makes its way through the federal rulemaking process, those currently seeking asylum through the overtaxed immigration courts must continue to wait. For Herrera, the six long years have been hard to bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s difficult,” he said. “For me personally, I wish that whatever’s going to happen, would just happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mauricio Hernández met Arnold Schwarzenegger, the then-governor of California had just vetoed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-23-me-bill23-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2004 bill\u003c/a> that would have allowed undocumented immigrants like him to get driver’s licenses. At the time, Hernández worked for a well-known body shop in Los Angeles called West Coast Customs, where Hollywood celebrities like Sylvester Stallone, Snoop Dogg and Paris Hilton often brought their cars to for repairs and customizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Schwarzenegger came to pick up his car, I drove it and handed him the keys,” Hernández said, chuckling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Mexico City, Hernández dreamed of being on television and becoming famous. He used to watch a kids’ show called “Chiquilladas” and aspired to be invited to be a part of the cast. When he was 8 years old, he learned that the show was offering acting lessons for kids. But his family didn’t have extra money to pay for them, so his dream was pushed to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/H2yUzmGAOxo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school Hernández started working at an auto repair shop to earn extra money. He liked working on cars — almost as much as he liked the idea of being on TV. He decided that he wanted to work on cars professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, as a teenager, he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with his brother. He then got a job working as a janitor at a body shop in Westchester, near the Los Angeles International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I seen a lowrider, I really went crazy,” Hernández said. “They used to make them dance and get up and spin around. And I was like, ‘How’d they do that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884872\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11884872 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50618_Photo_2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández grew up in a Mexico City neighborhood lined with mechanic shops and auto parts stores. (Photo courtesy Levi Bridges)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon Hernández started picking up odd jobs fixing up cars. He had a cousin who was doing some gigs for \u003ca href=\"https://westcoastcustoms.com/\">West Coast Customs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Hernández and his cousin spent a long weekend doing the exterior work on a rickety old van for West Coast Customs. As they worked, a camera crew came out to film them. Hernández figured they were shooting a documentary, but he didn’t ask any questions.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to do the job. Our thing was the money. Never mind the cameras,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, Hernández found out that they were filming the pilot episode of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/series/pimp-my-ride/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pimp My Ride\u003c/a>” — the MTV reality show hosted by the rapper Xzibit. Each episode featured West Coast Customs tricking out an old clunker and adding wild features like an Xbox or a jacuzzi. Hernández went on to work on many of the cars that appeared on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EYtGosGqsZs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ended up doing ‘Pimp My Ride’ for six years,” he said. “Those six years were the happiest years of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The body shop soon launched its own reality show called “Street Customs.” Hernández became one of the show’s main characters — living his childhood fantasy on national TV in the United States. But he was also in California as an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his boss offered to sponsor Hernández with a U.S. visa if he returned to Mexico to open a West Coast Customs franchise, he jumped on the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2009, Hernández said goodbye to his partner and three kids and flew to Mexico City.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The world of “Tunéame la nave”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Hernández left Los Angeles, it was the first time in nearly 20 years that he had been back to Mexico City — the place where he grew up dreaming about being on television. And what’s extraordinary is that this dream of appearing on TV came true again, just not on the California side of the U.S.-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Hernández worried that perhaps he’d made the wrong choice, and that this whole business venture in Mexico might fail. He promised his kids that he’d be back in California before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he’d returned to Mexico, the investors who brought the West Coast Customs brand there came up with the idea to launch a version of “Pimp My Ride” in Spanish. Hernández became the show’s host, and they called the show “Tunéame la nave,” a direct translation of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/E3FFB9Pcmis\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández designed most of “Tunéame la nave” himself. The premise of the show was that people would send in pictures of their cars each week. Hernández would choose which one would get tuned up. He wanted the show to be funny — less formal than “Pimp My Ride” — and something that Mexicans could identify with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to put the salsa in it,” Hernández recalled. “Mexicans, we always want to put chile in it, we want to put lemon in it, we want to put salt in it. So I wanted to put the spices in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mauricio Hernández\"]‘I had a promise to my kids in the States … that I was going to come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.’[/pullquote]Soon “Tunéame la nave” was broadcast to every state in Mexico. For years, Hernández had done the grunt work on cars that appeared on “Pimp My Ride” — but he was always behind the scenes. Now he became famous in his own country, the Xzibit of Mexico’s version of “Pimp My Ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández said that his success in Mexico created a rift between him and Ryan Friedlinghaus, the owner of West Coast Customs in Los Angeles. Hernández arrived in Mexico believing that his former boss would sponsor him with a U.S. visa, which would allow him to return to his children in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hernández said that Friedlinghaus cut off communication with him in Mexico — he never helped Hernández get a visa. After multiple attempts to interview Friedlinghaus for this story, Friedlinghaus’s publicist sent an email saying they wish Hernández “our very best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11885688 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50727_Photo_4-qut.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Hernández still regularly holds events around Mexico for fans of his show “Tunéame la nave,” which was based on MTV’s hit show “Pimp My Ride.” (Photo courtesy Mauricio Hernández) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mauricio Hernández)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But despite the fame he acquired from “Tunéame la nave,” Hernández didn’t want to stay in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a promise to my kids in the States,” Hernández said, “that I was gonna come back on Christmas Eve so I could be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The crossing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Hernández traveled to Tecate, a Mexican town on the border with California, and hired a coyote to take him to the United States. One night he set off with a group of about a dozen other migrants from Central America and Mexico around midnight and they began walking through the mountains into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to cross at that moment,” Hernández said. “They had like so much security around the border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández was a smoker and out of shape, so he had trouble keeping up with the group. Eventually, they all stopped in a cave up in the mountains. Mauricio collapsed on the ground and fell asleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t remember sleeping for a long time. But I do remember when I woke up. There was nobody at the cave,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández started walking through the darkness trying to find his way back to civilization. Soon, it started to rain. Hernández walked through the freezing cold, tripping and falling in these deep depressions in the earth that bruised his arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was preparing myself to die,” Hernández said. “I remember I told God, ‘I don’t want to die like this, please.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández had an old flip phone in his pocket that still had some battery left. He managed to call a Mexican emergency hotline. When the sun rose the next morning, an operator on the other end of the line was able to give Hernández directions back to Tecate based on landmarks he saw. A group of paramedics met Hernández at the edge of the city. Later, they told him that he nearly died from hypothermia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández never tried crossing the U.S. border again. Although his show, “Tunéame la nave” was eventually canceled, Hernández has formed a fulfilling life for himself in Mexico, where he runs his own body shop and regularly attends events where fans of the show come to get his autograph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11885687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50726_Photo_6-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today Mauricio Hernández runs his own body shop in Mexico City that does personal customization on cars. 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"content": "\u003cp>Many skilled foreign workers — especially from India — wait years, or even decades, for a green card, which would allow them to stay and work in the United States permanently. Federal legislation\u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/lofgren-curtis-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-eliminate-arbitrary-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> co-sponsored\u003c/a> by Democratic Silicon Valley Rep. Zoe Lofgren would phase out some of the rules that have created that backlog. But the bill’s survival is far from certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you spend much time in the tech world, you invariably hear about the epic queue for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employment-based green cards\u003c/a>, especially from Indian nationals. Shibin Nambiar of Fremont did when he first moved to the U.S. in 2013 on a temporary H-1B work visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t realize it today, but down the line, when you’ll have your kid and your wife, and you’re settled and you have a house — that time you’ll realize — you just will never get your green card,” said Nambiar, a data architect at Rubrik, a cloud data management company based in Palo Alto. “It’s going to be a life of uncertainty forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nambiar applied for a green card in 2015, after he got married, had a kid and bought a house. But he faces a wait so long, he jokes he may have to wait for his 4-year-old son, born here in the U.S., to turn 21 and sponsor him for residency based on their family relationship. “He can file for us ultimately, and that’s the way we might get a green card!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren\"]‘If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today. It doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way.’[/pullquote]According to 2020 data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 1 million people are waiting for an employment-based green card. And more people join the queue each year. But immigration law caps the total number of new cards at just 140,000 per year, and spouses and children of green card applicants count toward the annual cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, the system that we have now has basically not been changed in many decades, and I think it’s operating in a way that people likely didn’t envision,” said Lofgren, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/lofgren.house.gov/files/EAGLE%20Act%20Final%20Bill%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment\u003c/a>, or EAGLE, Act of 2021. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and chairs the House Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottleneck is compounded for immigrants from high-demand countries, because U.S. law stipulates that no more than 7% of green cards can go to workers from any single country in a given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today, and it doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those waiting for employment-based green cards are from two countries: India and China. Albania and Zimbabwe are allocated the same number as India and China, even though Albania and Zimbabwe don’t have nearly as many applicants keen to work in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth remembering the only people who actually benefit from this bill are people who’ve gone through all the hoops to become legal permanent residents of the United States,” said Lofgren. “And, in a way that’s really un-American, instead of looking at their merits, we’re looking at their place of birth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, H.R. 3648, phases out the 7% per-country limit on employment-based immigrant visas. It would also raise the 7% per-country limit on family-sponsored immigrant visas to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing the bottlenecks and allowing more skilled foreign workers to make a permanent home in the U.S. will benefit the broader economy, said Sean Randolph, senior director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at where a lot of the hiring is from in tech companies, the big story is India,” Randolph said. “There is a pretty broad consensus, on a bipartisan level, that we need to support more skilled immigration into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10859344,news_11707255,news_11701936\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]But even though the EAGLE Act is widely supported by business interests, its future is not assured. A similar bill failed to make it to President Trump’s desk in 2019. And due to the way partisanship has frozen Washington, D.C., it’s become difficult for Republican lawmakers to publicly support a hot-button issue like immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the EAGLE Act may not move forward as a stand-alone bill, according to a Democratic staffer who asked not to be identified, there’s a plan to fold in elements of the bill when the Senate sends its budget to the House for reconciliation, sometime in September. Lofgren was one of roughly a dozen lawmakers lobbying President Biden over the summer for various immigration reforms. It’s too soon to say which parts of the bill might survive these negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EAGLE Act also includes reforms to the contentious H-1B visa program, which allows foreign citizens in specialty occupations, like computer engineering, to work in the U.S. temporarily. Silicon Valley employers have long taken advantage of people on these visas — and often hire them instead of American citizens who expect better pay and working conditions. The changes the EAGLE Act would make are not enough to mollify critics like protectionist John Miano, a computer programmer turned lawyer who’s sued multiple administrations over immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, he dislikes the fact that a 1990 law allowed employers of H-1B and L-1 visa holders to apply for green cards for those workers. That extended the U.S. stay of those employees while the applications are processed, and it gave hundreds of thousands of foreign workers like Nambiar hope of a permanent life here. But it also swamped the waiting line for employment-based green cards. The EAGLE Act, Miano argues, would not change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fundamental problem is that we have a guest worker system, and we have a permanent immigration system. 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The fact that asylum grant rates vary wildly between judges suggests that rulings can be influenced by political leanings more than an impartial application of the law, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could have very good rules and laws, but if you don’t have fair, unbiased, competent, professional individuals applying the rules in the law, you don’t solve the problems,” she said. “How can you have a fair game when the referee is unfair?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overhauling the entire immigration court system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say the need for change goes beyond better staffing and training, and beyond measures to reduce the case backlog. 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