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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As millions of Californians were ordered to stay home in March, Fernando Flores, 44, kept heading to work six days a week at San Mateo County’s only active landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores, who immigrated from El Salvador, said he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. to drive a 64-foot long trailer, transporting hundreds of gallons of contaminated liquid from trash at the Ox Mountain Sanitary Landfill to wastewater treatment plants. During other shifts, Flores picks up garbage and compost from homes in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to be part of an industry that’s essential,” Flores said. He's been an employee of the waste management company Republic Services for about 16 years. “It’s a service that’s needed every day. We don’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores and more than 100,000 essential workers who are immigrants could be at risk of deportation, as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a years-long fight to end the humanitarian protections that allows them to live and work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 131,000 beneficiaries of \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/temporary-protected-status-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporary protected status\u003c/a> (TPS) nationwide are essential workers, including nearly 28,000 in California, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2020/04/14/483197/release-130000-tps-holders-serving-essential-workers-coronavirus-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> by Nicole Prchal Svajlenka, with the progressive think tank \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/person/svajlenka-nicole/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for American Progress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the people that are keeping our country moving right now,” Svajlenka said. “They are the people that keep our grocery shelves stocked, the people that keep our streets clean, and they are doing this knowing that at any moment their future in the United States could change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824091 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores describes how he operates a truck to transport contaminated water from a landfill near Half Moon Bay to a treatment plant on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth La Berge/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants already present in the U.S. who were not able to return safely to countries ravaged by war and natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security designates which nationals are eligible for the protections. After periodic review, the agency may extend the status, generally every six to 18 months. Immigrants from El Salvador have been eligible for TPS for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2017, DHS issued a series of orders ending this protected status for most holders, claiming the humanitarian relief was no longer needed because the original conditions that led to the designations had been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It matches an overall Trump administration approach of being very strict in the application of immigration laws, and very narrow in the discretion and grant of relief and immigration,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, who has followed the program for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS holders and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. citizen children\u003c/a> in California and other states sued, arguing DHS broke practice with previous administrations, and its terminations of the program were unlawful and motivated by Trump’s hostility against Black and brown immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts have kept the program alive while they consider the dispute, but that could change with a highly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767669/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated ruling\u003c/a> by a three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, which is expected soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahilan Arulanantham, lead plaintiff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said if the appeals judges side with the administration, TPS holders might request the U.S. Supreme Court to review the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to examine the grounds of any decision before committing to further steps,” Arulanantham said. “But it is hard to imagine not seeking every possible avenue of relief available to protect the 400,000 TPS holders and the roughly 300,000 school-age American children whose lives are at stake in this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans represent the largest group of TPS beneficiaries, and often have built their lives in the U.S. over more than two decades. There are also many who are parents to U.S. citizen children, and own homes and businesses. Households with TPS members collectively pay about \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2019/02/11/466068/release-2-cap-products-highlight-whats-stake-tps-ends/#:~:text=The%20annual%20spending%20power%20of,United%20States%20have%20a%20mortgage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$3.6 billion in taxes\u003c/a> per year, said Svajlenka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, immigrants with TPS have pushed Congress for more permanent protections. Last spring, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded&KWICView=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Dream and Promise Act\u003c/a>, which would offer a path to U.S. citizenship to beneficiaries of TPS and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate has not taken it up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill has now been languishing in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legislative graveyard for one full year,” wrote Roybal-Allard and two cosponsors of the bill in an \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/501068-keeping-dreamers-tps-holders-in-our-workforce-and-communities-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> last week. “In the middle of a pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients and TPS holders are risking their lives to support our communities… we cannot allow these individuals to live with this fear and uncertainty any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a limited extension of TPS was included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act this past spring, it didn’t make it into the final legislation Trump signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prospects are not easy,\" said Yanira Arias, national campaign manager with Alianza Americas and a TPS holder from El Salvador. \"We are paying attention to the political landscape and see that it may not work in our favor... But we continue to push back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824089 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores takes a break from his job at the Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flores, the garbage truck driver, said he often feels that TPS holders are just not a priority for federal lawmakers, particularly as the country faces the pandemic and historically high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody cares about us, not Congress nor the President,” said Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the courts halted TPS terminations for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan, DHS has extended their work authorization until \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/dhs-extends-tps-documentation-six-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 4, 2021\u003c/a>. Flores said he is keenly aware of the approaching date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His partner and young daughter, who just finished elementary school, are U.S. citizens who depend on his salary, he said. That income will disappear if he has to return to El Salvador, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The coronavirus pandemic and recent protests over the use of excessive force by police have laid bare what many knew before: income and wealth inequality and all its consequences are rampant throughout the California, especially in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, as legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom hammer out a final state budget agreement, we'll learn the fate of two programs aimed at helping segments of that population: undocumented seniors and a tax credit for low-income working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, California created its own modest version of a federal program called the Earned Income Tax Credit, or EITC. California adopted the same guidelines established by the federal government in 1996, which gives eligible people who file federal income taxes a cash refund – but only if they file with a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, both governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom have supported expanding the program to more people, while maintaining the ban on undocumented filers who use Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the Cal EITC, like Sasha Feldstein with the California Immigrant Policy Center, say there is bipartisan support for the program because it rewards work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because the more that you earn, the more you can get through their credit. So that's a reason why conservatives and Republicans tend to like the EITCs,\" Feldstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Feldstein is less enamored of the federal limitations California adopted, which prevent those who use ITINs from getting the tax refund. In fact, if one or more family members file taxes with an ITIN, the entire family is ineligible for the refund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Newsom, who has supported and initiated several programs benefiting low-income Californians, did not include expansion of Cal EITC to undocumented workers in his January budget, before the pandemic-induced recession hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldstein said the governor has been asked about it, \"but he just says 'it's not a priority right now.' And that's about it. So, yeah, it's pretty baffling to me why the governor hasn't supported this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, these are people who are working, many of them on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, farmworkers, warehouse workers, domestic workers, restaurant workers. They're working, they're paying taxes. And so there's no reason why they shouldn't be eligible for this tax credit,\" Feldstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, undocumented immigrants are ineligible for a wide range of safety net programs, like Social Security and the recent $3 trillion federal stimulus. When Gov. Newsom announced a program to give them one-time cash payments during the pandemic in April, he noted how little undocumented immigrants get back for the taxes they pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They're] paying just last year over $2.5 billion of local and state and local taxes. And yet many mixed-status families are having a hard time taking care of their children,\" the governor noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet while Newsom supports the Cal-EITC generally, he is yet to embrace extending it to undocumented tax filers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes, D-San Bernardino, is sponsoring a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 1593\u003c/a>, to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These immigrants are going to continue to live here. Many have U.S.-born children. And most importantly they are working and they’re filing their taxes here,\" Reyes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes notes that the Latino Caucus in the Legislature is making AB 1593 a priority for this legislative session. In fact, the caucuses representing Latino, African American, API, LGBT and Jewish lawmakers sent a letter to the governor in support of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa Anderson with the California Budget and Policy Center said expanding the Cal EITC to all eligible families – including ITIN filers – would help up to 460,000 households in California at a cost of about $65 million, according to an Assembly fiscal analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really just a fraction of what the state spends on tax breaks overall, which overwhelmingly go to people with money,\" said Anderson. \"So ending the exclusion of immigrants from the Cal EITC is just a drop in the bucket compared to what the state spends on tax expenditures overall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding the Cal EITC now, as the state faces a $54 billion budget deficit, might be a heavy lift. And yet, the scaled-back version adopted by the Legislature in its budget framework supports a limited expansion to help only ITIN-filing families with children younger than six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll find out this week during final budget negotiations whether Gov. Newsom accepts that as well as an expansion of Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not opposed to the idea of expanding the state’s low-income health insurance program. He actually proposed more than $80 million for it in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">January budget plan\u003c/a>. But since then, the coronavirus has decimated the state’s economy. And when Newsom announced his revised budget plan in May, the Medi-Cal expansion wasn’t in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's just one of the many things that we wanted to do, that I announced, at least my support and intention, in January that unfortunately we're not in a position at this time to advance,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature doesn’t agree. Lawmakers included the expansion in \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Legislatures_Version_June_3_2020.pdf\">their budget proposal\u003c/a>, though they pushed back the implementation to 2022 and gave the governor the ability to delay it further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Linn Gish from Health Access California said the delay is disappointing, but she’s happy the Legislature is still considering the needs of undocumented seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've always needed this care. They need it now more than ever,\" she said. \"We're in the middle of a pandemic that is especially preying on our senior population. And undocumented seniors are even more at risk because they are excluded from these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shana Charles, assistant professor of public health at California State University Fullerton, said past Medi-Cal expansions have shown covering more people is a good investment for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get savings in terms of reduced health care costs,\" Charles said. \"When people have insurance, then they are much more likely to get care earlier. And that's much cheaper care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature must pass a balanced budget by next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes, D-San Bernardino, is sponsoring a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 1593\u003c/a>, to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These immigrants are going to continue to live here. Many have U.S.-born children. And most importantly they are working and they’re filing their taxes here,\" Reyes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes notes that the Latino Caucus in the Legislature is making AB 1593 a priority for this legislative session. In fact, the caucuses representing Latino, African American, API, LGBT and Jewish lawmakers sent a letter to the governor in support of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa Anderson with the California Budget and Policy Center said expanding the Cal EITC to all eligible families – including ITIN filers – would help up to 460,000 households in California at a cost of about $65 million, according to an Assembly fiscal analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really just a fraction of what the state spends on tax breaks overall, which overwhelmingly go to people with money,\" said Anderson. \"So ending the exclusion of immigrants from the Cal EITC is just a drop in the bucket compared to what the state spends on tax expenditures overall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding the Cal EITC now, as the state faces a $54 billion budget deficit, might be a heavy lift. And yet, the scaled-back version adopted by the Legislature in its budget framework supports a limited expansion to help only ITIN-filing families with children younger than six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll find out this week during final budget negotiations whether Gov. Newsom accepts that as well as an expansion of Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not opposed to the idea of expanding the state’s low-income health insurance program. He actually proposed more than $80 million for it in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\">January budget plan\u003c/a>. But since then, the coronavirus has decimated the state’s economy. And when Newsom announced his revised budget plan in May, the Medi-Cal expansion wasn’t in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's just one of the many things that we wanted to do, that I announced, at least my support and intention, in January that unfortunately we're not in a position at this time to advance,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature doesn’t agree. Lawmakers included the expansion in \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Legislatures_Version_June_3_2020.pdf\">their budget proposal\u003c/a>, though they pushed back the implementation to 2022 and gave the governor the ability to delay it further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Linn Gish from Health Access California said the delay is disappointing, but she’s happy the Legislature is still considering the needs of undocumented seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've always needed this care. They need it now more than ever,\" she said. \"We're in the middle of a pandemic that is especially preying on our senior population. And undocumented seniors are even more at risk because they are excluded from these programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shana Charles, assistant professor of public health at California State University Fullerton, said past Medi-Cal expansions have shown covering more people is a good investment for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get savings in terms of reduced health care costs,\" Charles said. \"When people have insurance, then they are much more likely to get care earlier. And that's much cheaper care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature must pass a balanced budget by next Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When she started working at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego two years ago, Erica Brooks was the master scheduler, so she got to know all the detention officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This March, Brooks said she was working as a detention officer when she started hearing that her co-workers were getting sick with the coronavirus. But for weeks, she said, there was no official word from her bosses at the facility, which holds immigrants awaiting deportation hearings and federal defendants awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her employer, CoreCivic, one of the nation’s largest private prison companies, handed out a flyer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encouraged handwashing, she said, but the company wasn’t taking obvious steps to protect inmates and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that you can do to prevent it,” Brooks said. “But those things weren’t being done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as the end of March, when the state was under shelter-in-place orders to limit the spread of the coronavirus, meals were still served in the “chow hall” with hundreds of people from different housing units congregating together, Brooks said. Radios, keys and handcuffs all passed between officers throughout the day, and they weren’t getting sanitized, she said, and staff members were not screened for symptoms when they arrived for their shifts. In addition, there was no social distancing at the daily staff briefings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’d be sometimes 30 to 50 people in a small room, talking,” she said. “That wasn’t safe to me, sitting in that room with whomever, asymptomatic or someone sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks was anxious. By the end of March, she had stopped going to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before the number of infections at the detention center climbed to more than 250 — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#tab2\">largest outbreak\u003c/a> at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility anywhere in the country. And on May 7, ICE officials confirmed that a 57-year-old man detained at Otay Mesa had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816707/man-dies-of-covid-19-in-san-diego-ice-detention-center-lawyers-say\">died of COVID-19\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, Brooks sued her employer CoreCivic. At least two other officers from Otay Mesa have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erica Brooks, former detention officer, Otay Mesa Detention Center\"]‘My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for CoreCivic, said the company wouldn’t comment on pending litigation. But he said in a statement, “The Otay Mesa Detention Center has taken affirmative and proactive measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, and followed the most current guidance from medical and industry experts on best practices and recommendations for safe operations. Our practices have evolved and changed as the CDC guidance and recommendations have evolved over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin said that meals are now served in individual housing units, staff are now screened when arriving for work and detainees with COVID-19 are housed in “cohorts.” He also said protective masks have been provided to all staff and detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t happen until after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812701/senators-want-to-know-if-ice-detainees-were-pepper-sprayed-after-requesting-masks\">detainees protested on April 10\u003c/a>, demanding masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits filed by Brooks and her co-workers come at a time of growing scrutiny of the pandemic’s severe impacts on essential front line workers, and also on incarcerated people — both groups disproportionately comprise people of color, including Erica Brooks, who is African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lethal Outbreaks in Prisons\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Massive — and lethal — outbreaks of the coronavirus have been surging through not only the Otay Mesa facility, but a number of state and federal prisons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">3,018 state prison inmates had tested positive\u003c/a> for COVID-19, along with 408 employees of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The biggest outbreaks have been at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Avenal State Prison, the California Institution for Men and the California Institution for Women. And 12 inmates have died, all at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, as well as one CDCR staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lance Wilson, Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution inmate“]‘People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/index.jsp\">federal prisons\u003c/a> at Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County, have confirmed cases in 42 staff members, as well as 1,069 inmates — four of whom have died, as of Monday. And the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution, in Los Angeles, had a total of 17 employees and 690 inmates with COVID-19 — including nine inmates who have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last week before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, public health expert Dr. Scott Allen \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/we-must-release-prisoners-lessen-spread-coronavirus/\">warned\u003c/a> that prisons and detention centers are “densely populated and poorly designed to prevent the inevitable rapid and widespread dissemination” of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This virus does not care who you are or what uniform you wear,” Allen, a retired professor of medicine from UC Riverside who serves as a health expert for the Department of Homeland Security, said in written testimony to the judiciary committee. “It can easily move in and out of facilities undetected in the absence of aggressive testing-based surveillance and containment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘They Are Left to Die’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the inmates sick with the virus at Terminal Island federal prison is Lance Wilson, 35, an African American man from Modesto with hypertension and asthma. Terminal Island houses more than 1,000 low-security inmates with chronic and complex medical conditions in a facility that was designed for 800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of letters Wilson wrote after the prison cut off email and telephone access in April, reportedly to prevent the spread of the virus, he told his brother Jacque Wilson that his bunk was only two feet away from his cellmate — and that the growing number of ill inmates were not being separated from healthy ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823572\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823572\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43591_IMG_4529-qut.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Wilson with his daughter at her birthday party in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Wilson family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 29, Lance wrote, “People are sick all around me. They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.” Three days later, he tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque is an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office and said Lance is serving a sentence for playing a role in a prescription drug theft ring. His brother’s story reflects the experience of many incarcerated people during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said his brother has had chills, headaches and shortness of breath but has not been seen by a doctor and hasn’t had his temperature taken since May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart just bleeds for those individuals who are locked up,” said Jacque. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it: They are left to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said he has helped his brother file a petition for compassionate release. On May 16, the ACLU filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_wilson_20200516_complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, with Lance Wilson as a lead plaintiff, that calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to release inmates and ensure safe social distancing and sanitary measures at Terminal Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit seeks to have Lance released to home confinement,” said Jacque. “The Constitution requires that prison officials provide a safe environment for those people that are in custody. Where Lance is at now is not a safe environment. It’s not a safe environment for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is one of numerous legal actions filed around California and across the country seeking to protect incarcerated people from the coronavirus. A number of lawsuits filed against ICE have led to the release of dozens of detainees, especially medically vulnerable people, at Otay Mesa and other facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has also been reducing the number of people it is holding in detention during the pandemic. The number of detainees has dropped to 25,000 nationally — less than half what it was a year ago when the Trump Administration held a record 52,000 immigrants in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though ICE has only tested 20% of the people in its custody for COVID-19, more than half of those tests have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of detainees at ICE’s Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, say the agency is not doing enough to protect them and last Thursday announced a hunger strike in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘How Am I Supposed to Protect Myself?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the number of cases at the Otay Mesa Detention Center grew this spring, detention officer Brooks said she scrambled to figure out how to protect herself, her husband and her 3-year-old son. When she came home from work, she would strip off her uniform in the garage and scrub down in the shower before saying hello to her little boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is just 30 years old, but because she’s overweight she fears she’s at a higher risk of complications from COVID-19. And, she said, she’s keenly aware that her family is African American. Statistically, African Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race\">more than twice as likely to die\u003c/a> from the coronavirus as people of other races. And Brooks didn’t want to become a statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it,” said Brooks. “I don’t want to be her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said she was never issued a mask by her employer, and she and other officers were told they shouldn’t wear them because masks would intimidate the detainees. But Brooks said detainees told her they feared guards could be bringing the virus into the facility and wanted them to wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a nurse at the facility gave her a mask, Brooks said she started wearing it on the job. Then a supervisor approached her during an overnight shift, in the wee hours of the morning on March 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically he said, I want to let you know that it’s a violation of a direct order to wear your mask,” said Brooks. “So we got into a conversation and I asked him, ‘Well, how am I supposed to protect myself?’ And when I told him that, he looked at me and he said, ‘Look at your I.D. card. It’s a number, not a name. Everybody’s disposable.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last straw for Brooks. She took a month off from work before realizing she couldn’t go back. She said it has been tough financially — she’s getting unemployment benefits, but she had to cash out her retirement account to cover the bills. Still, she has no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"otay-mesa\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, 29 of her CoreCivic coworkers have been infected, along with 11 ICE staff members at Otay Mesa. In addition, 162 ICE detainees and 71 federal inmates there have tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her lawsuit, Brooks and her attorneys write that CoreCivic failed to train detention officers “on how to handle infectious diseases, yet they are on the front lines of interacting with potentially infected persons.” They are asking the court to award punitive damages to push CoreCivic to better protect staff in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer, I gave everything that I had to the detainees, who are human. You know, we’re all human,” she said. “When you give your all to something and you continuously try to put your best foot forward … and then you get told, ‘You’re number, not a name’ … I just was devastated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks’s husband, an electrical engineer, has been going to work at job sites, but she thinks his company is taking the right safety precautions. 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They are giving us a death sentence. The likelihood of becoming infected is enormous.” Three days later, he tested positive for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque is an attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender’s office and said Lance is serving a sentence for playing a role in a prescription drug theft ring. His brother’s story reflects the experience of many incarcerated people during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said his brother has had chills, headaches and shortness of breath but has not been seen by a doctor and hasn’t had his temperature taken since May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart just bleeds for those individuals who are locked up,” said Jacque. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it: They are left to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacque said he has helped his brother file a petition for compassionate release. On May 16, the ACLU filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_wilson_20200516_complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, with Lance Wilson as a lead plaintiff, that calls on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to release inmates and ensure safe social distancing and sanitary measures at Terminal Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit seeks to have Lance released to home confinement,” said Jacque. “The Constitution requires that prison officials provide a safe environment for those people that are in custody. Where Lance is at now is not a safe environment. It’s not a safe environment for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is one of numerous legal actions filed around California and across the country seeking to protect incarcerated people from the coronavirus. A number of lawsuits filed against ICE have led to the release of dozens of detainees, especially medically vulnerable people, at Otay Mesa and other facilities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE has also been reducing the number of people it is holding in detention during the pandemic. The number of detainees has dropped to 25,000 nationally — less than half what it was a year ago when the Trump Administration held a record 52,000 immigrants in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though ICE has only tested 20% of the people in its custody for COVID-19, more than half of those tests have come back positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of detainees at ICE’s Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, say the agency is not doing enough to protect them and last Thursday announced a hunger strike in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘How Am I Supposed to Protect Myself?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As the number of cases at the Otay Mesa Detention Center grew this spring, detention officer Brooks said she scrambled to figure out how to protect herself, her husband and her 3-year-old son. When she came home from work, she would strip off her uniform in the garage and scrub down in the shower before saying hello to her little boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is just 30 years old, but because she’s overweight she fears she’s at a higher risk of complications from COVID-19. And, she said, she’s keenly aware that her family is African American. Statistically, African Americans are \u003ca href=\"https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race\">more than twice as likely to die\u003c/a> from the coronavirus as people of other races. And Brooks didn’t want to become a statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My coworker, she worked in receiving, she got sick with COVID. She went home. Her husband got sick with COVID. They both went to the ICU. And her husband did not make it,” said Brooks. “I don’t want to be her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said she was never issued a mask by her employer, and she and other officers were told they shouldn’t wear them because masks would intimidate the detainees. But Brooks said detainees told her they feared guards could be bringing the virus into the facility and wanted them to wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a nurse at the facility gave her a mask, Brooks said she started wearing it on the job. Then a supervisor approached her during an overnight shift, in the wee hours of the morning on March 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically he said, I want to let you know that it’s a violation of a direct order to wear your mask,” said Brooks. “So we got into a conversation and I asked him, ‘Well, how am I supposed to protect myself?’ And when I told him that, he looked at me and he said, ‘Look at your I.D. card. It’s a number, not a name. Everybody’s disposable.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the last straw for Brooks. She took a month off from work before realizing she couldn’t go back. She said it has been tough financially — she’s getting unemployment benefits, but she had to cash out her retirement account to cover the bills. Still, she has no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oscar Hernandez grew up undocumented in a trailer park in San Diego. He was the first in his family to attend college, and he worked long shifts selling tacos to pay for tuition. But his goal of becoming a doctor motivated him to push through many challenging years. Last Saturday, he graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my dream ever since I can remember,” Hernandez, 31, said. “Finally getting on that little podium to graduate as a doctor, that was a really great moment for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of social distancing rules, it was a drive-through celebration at the school’s parking lot. A giant screen broadcast images of the 92 graduates as they took turns stepping out of their cars and onto a stage to be hooded. Loved ones, who were told to remain in their vehicles with the windows rolled up, honked from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of cool, like a drive-in movie theater,” said Hernandez, grateful for the non-virtual ceremony. “It was actually in person as much as it could be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Hernandez is flanked by his father Juan, mother Ana, and brother Daniel on graduation day on May 30, 2020 in Irvine, Calif. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oscar Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, Hernandez moved from California to Ohio to train as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the country. He plans to return to the Golden State to work in low-income communities, like the one where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those plans could come to a halt with a highly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11785839/u-s-supreme-court-takes-on-daca-and-the-fate-of-nearly-200000-california-dreamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated decision\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court this month on the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA. The Obama-era program protects Hernandez and nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/DACA_Population_Receipts_since_Injunction_Dec_31_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000\u003c/a> other undocumented Californians from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Supreme Court Ruling Expected Soon\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration maintains the protections, granted to young adults brought to the U.S. as children, were unlawfully established and must be terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-attorney general Jeff Sessions rescinded the program, which allows nearly 650,000 people nationwide to legally work. The state of California, the University of California, DACA recipients and others sued, and the legal battle made its way to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a majority of the nine justices side with President Donald Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2020/04/06/482708/demographic-profile-daca-recipients-frontlines-coronavirus-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 30,000\u003c/a> DACA recipients who are frontline health workers nationwide may be at risk of deportation, at a time when they are critically needed during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790690/brain-waste-highly-skilled-immigrants-struggle-to-fill-workforce-gaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortage of doctors\u003c/a>, especially in Latino and other low-income communities that are now disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez fears that if he loses his DACA work authorization, he won’t be able to complete his 5-year residency and practice medicine in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he celebrates his graduation and gets ready to start his general surgery residency, he’s waiting anxiously for the Supreme Court decision that could determine his fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a weight has been put back on my shoulders,” said Hernandez, the first DACA recipient to graduate from UC Irvine School of Medicine. “Every time I accomplish something, this voice in the back of my head says ‘Oh, after all this, it could all get frozen again.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Journey to Becoming a Doctor\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was 18 months old when his parents brought him to San Diego from the Mexico City area. His mom cleaned houses and his dad served food at banquets. The couple eventually opened a party rental business that allowed the family to move out of the trailer park in the city’s southeast and buy a house in the Skyline Hills area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the family lost their business and home during the Great Recession, and they had to move once again. Hernandez said he ended up living in his friend’s living room for “a long time.” His parents, who had helped him pay for college, could no longer do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an undocumented person, Hernandez wasn’t eligible for federal financial aid and most scholarships, which require a social security number. In 2010, he dropped out of UC San Diego to work at a taqueria and laundromat. That helped him pay about $9,000 in college tuition he owed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez faced other obstacles as well. Some medical schools \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b453764f93fd480d1fcc9f9/t/5bac29c5e79c70397ee8aa26/1538013119971/PHD-MedSchoolFAQ-ver.2.pdf\">do not accept\u003c/a> undocumented students, he said, while residency training programs — necessary to get licensed as a doctor — require work authorization, which he didn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point, I was chasing a dream without a way to actually achieve it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, when then-President Barack Obama announced the DACA program, it opened up new doors for Hernandez and thousands others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After signing up for the program, Hernandez was able to qualify for financial aid, volunteer at a hospital and graduate from college. He could apply to medical schools, and for the first time in his life — he could legally work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11823206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Michael J. 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And I think with all those things that I learned throughout my life, it led me to be accepted at the Cleveland Clinic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he stood in his empty apartment, getting ready to board his flight to Cleveland, Hernandez said he has to remain optimistic that the court will allow DACA recipients to pursue their dreams in the country they call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When then-President Obama unveiled DACA in 2012, he said the new policy was a “temporary fix” while Congress debated more permanent legalization for so-called Dreamers, but this never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez hopes DACA remains a “stepping stone” to wider immigration reform that allows more than 10 million undocumented people in the U.S. to come out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There definitely needs to be a push for something more permanent not only for DACA recipients, but also for other undocumented citizens that want to live without ties and boundaries,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oscar Hernandez grew up undocumented in a trailer park in San Diego. He was the first in his family to attend college, and he worked long shifts selling tacos to pay for tuition. But his goal of becoming a doctor motivated him to push through many challenging years. Last Saturday, he graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my dream ever since I can remember,” Hernandez, 31, said. “Finally getting on that little podium to graduate as a doctor, that was a really great moment for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of social distancing rules, it was a drive-through celebration at the school’s parking lot. A giant screen broadcast images of the 92 graduates as they took turns stepping out of their cars and onto a stage to be hooded. Loved ones, who were told to remain in their vehicles with the windows rolled up, honked from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of cool, like a drive-in movie theater,” said Hernandez, grateful for the non-virtual ceremony. “It was actually in person as much as it could be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11823205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43566_IMG_0801-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Hernandez is flanked by his father Juan, mother Ana, and brother Daniel on graduation day on May 30, 2020 in Irvine, Calif. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oscar Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, Hernandez moved from California to Ohio to train as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top hospitals in the country. He plans to return to the Golden State to work in low-income communities, like the one where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those plans could come to a halt with a highly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11785839/u-s-supreme-court-takes-on-daca-and-the-fate-of-nearly-200000-california-dreamers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated decision\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court this month on the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA. The Obama-era program protects Hernandez and nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/DACA_Population_Receipts_since_Injunction_Dec_31_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000\u003c/a> other undocumented Californians from deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Supreme Court Ruling Expected Soon\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration maintains the protections, granted to young adults brought to the U.S. as children, were unlawfully established and must be terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-attorney general Jeff Sessions rescinded the program, which allows nearly 650,000 people nationwide to legally work. The state of California, the University of California, DACA recipients and others sued, and the legal battle made its way to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a majority of the nine justices side with President Donald Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2020/04/06/482708/demographic-profile-daca-recipients-frontlines-coronavirus-response/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly 30,000\u003c/a> DACA recipients who are frontline health workers nationwide may be at risk of deportation, at a time when they are critically needed during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790690/brain-waste-highly-skilled-immigrants-struggle-to-fill-workforce-gaps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortage of doctors\u003c/a>, especially in Latino and other low-income communities that are now disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez fears that if he loses his DACA work authorization, he won’t be able to complete his 5-year residency and practice medicine in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he celebrates his graduation and gets ready to start his general surgery residency, he’s waiting anxiously for the Supreme Court decision that could determine his fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a weight has been put back on my shoulders,” said Hernandez, the first DACA recipient to graduate from UC Irvine School of Medicine. “Every time I accomplish something, this voice in the back of my head says ‘Oh, after all this, it could all get frozen again.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Journey to Becoming a Doctor\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was 18 months old when his parents brought him to San Diego from the Mexico City area. His mom cleaned houses and his dad served food at banquets. The couple eventually opened a party rental business that allowed the family to move out of the trailer park in the city’s southeast and buy a house in the Skyline Hills area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the family lost their business and home during the Great Recession, and they had to move once again. Hernandez said he ended up living in his friend’s living room for “a long time.” His parents, who had helped him pay for college, could no longer do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an undocumented person, Hernandez wasn’t eligible for federal financial aid and most scholarships, which require a social security number. In 2010, he dropped out of UC San Diego to work at a taqueria and laundromat. That helped him pay about $9,000 in college tuition he owed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez faced other obstacles as well. Some medical schools \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b453764f93fd480d1fcc9f9/t/5bac29c5e79c70397ee8aa26/1538013119971/PHD-MedSchoolFAQ-ver.2.pdf\">do not accept\u003c/a> undocumented students, he said, while residency training programs — necessary to get licensed as a doctor — require work authorization, which he didn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point, I was chasing a dream without a way to actually achieve it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, when then-President Barack Obama announced the DACA program, it opened up new doors for Hernandez and thousands others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After signing up for the program, Hernandez was able to qualify for financial aid, volunteer at a hospital and graduate from college. He could apply to medical schools, and for the first time in his life — he could legally work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11823206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11823206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43564_AP_20152163587801-UCI-SOM-Dean-Stamos-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Michael J. Stamos from the University of California, Irvine’s School of Medicine, presides over the 2020 Commencement ceremony, held Saturday May 30, 2020, in Irvine, Calif. \u003ccite>(Jordan Strauss/AP Images for University of California, Irvine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“DACA really was the biggest relief in my life,” he said. “I was finally liberated to actually do the things that I wanted to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s carried his past experience of 11-hour shifts in low-wage jobs, and translated it into his medical studies. Compared to working all day on his feet at a taco shop, medical school was “not as hard,” he said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At the same time Eric Chan started training to become a contact tracer, he also started tuning in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.skylinktv.us/skylinktv-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese-language news\u003c/a> on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted to brush up on his Cantonese, especially the medical terms for the pandemic, so it would be easier to talk to people who weren’t comfortable with English, especially those who might assume his call is a scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often, just speaking that language directly, instead of having the interpreter on the line, it helps a lot with the communication and the trust,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, Chan works as a financial analyst in the San Francisco Assessor’s Office. Now, he is one of 73 city employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821528/in-search-of-20000-covid-19-contact-tracers-california-taps-local-librarians-tax-assessors-city-legal-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including librarians and paralegals\u003c/a>, who have been trained as contact tracers to notify people when they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus and ask them to stay home for two weeks to prevent further spread. The city has focused on recruiting people who speak multiple languages in an effort to reach communities of color that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1964099/first-my-sister-then-her-husband-then-my-niece-latinos-hit-hard-by-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hardest hit\u003c/a> by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/w6za-6st8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nearly half the people\u003c/a> who have died from COVID-19 in San Francisco are Asian American. Statewide, Latinos account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Race-Ethnicity.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">54% of coronavirus infections\u003c/a> even though they make up 39% of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID is a disease that has disproportionately affected certain racial and economic constituencies within our society, and we wanted contact tracers that represent those groups,” said Mike Reid, an infectious disease physician at UCSF who is leading a program to train \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821528/in-search-of-20000-covid-19-contact-tracers-california-taps-local-librarians-tax-assessors-city-legal-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20,000 new contact tracers\u003c/a> across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on, Chan noticed the potential for some things to get lost in translation. The main work of contact tracers is to inform people when they need to quarantine or isolate themselves to stop the chain of transmission of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Cantonese, the words for quarantine and isolation, are the same word: “Gaak-lei,” which roughly means “separating from others,” Chan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quarantine is for people who’ve been in close contact with someone who’s sick and are asked to stay home in case they develop symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isolation is for those who know they’re sick and have to isolate themselves in a separate room within their home to protect their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan describes himself as very detail oriented – he normally spends his days in the tax assessor’s office carefully reviewing spreadsheets – and he wanted to get this right. So he called his colleague, Vivian Po, who also speaks Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided every time they translated each word, they would give the definition, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very used to explaining tax code to taxpayers, so our tendency is to go specific,” she said, “to make sure not just to say the terms, but also explain what they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important to find contact tracers who have not only language skills, but who understand cultural customs, says Jon Jacobo with the Latino Task Force for COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the common polite response among Latinos when you ask, “How are you, do you need anything?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first answer is always, ‘Oh, no, no, I’m good. I don’t need anything,’ ” Jacobo says. “But if you pry a little more, you get the real answer, which is, ‘You know, actually, maybe.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is important, he adds, because people may need help getting groceries or medications in order to stay home, or they may need to stay in one of the city-funded hotel rooms if they live in close quarters and can’t adequately isolate themselves from family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more we can have people that know these sensitivities and can connect with people, the more we’re going to get accurate information and accurate data, which helps all of us, because then we can truly begin to track down and mitigate the spread of COVID,” Jacobo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Jon Jacobo, Latino Task Force for COVID-19\"]‘The more we can have people that know these sensitivities and can connect with people, the more we’re going to get accurate information and accurate data, which helps all of us, because then we can truly begin to track down and mitigate the spread of COVID.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is running public service announcements in English and Spanish that emphasize help is available for people who test positive and anyone they’ve been in close contact with. This is a first step toward getting people to answer the phone when contact tracers call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the calls Jazmin Flores makes are to people who only speak Spanish. Flores is usually an administrative assistant at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, but she began training and working as a contact tracer after shelter-in-place orders took effect and she was furloughed. She has a lot of experience working at the front desk, with people barging into City Hall who are upset, desperate for help or just lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just never know who’s going to walk in the door, and it’s your job to get information and pacify them, whether they’re supposed to be there or not,” Flores says in her slow, soothing voice. “I’m really happy to have those tools to help me in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people she’s called have been worried about revealing their immigration status and get nervous when she asks things like, “Who’s living with you? Where do you live?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people might not want to share all of that information,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jazmin Flores, contract tracer\"]‘You just let them know that this is all confidential, and it’s just to help you and to help others and to help try to resolve this situation and stop it from getting worse.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she never forces anyone to share what they don’t want to share, she reassures them nothing they tell her will go beyond the local public health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just let them know that this is all confidential and it’s just to help you and to help others and to help try to resolve this situation and stop it from getting worse,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, most people she’s called have been very receptive. So far, San Francisco contact tracers have reached 91% of people they try to call, and program leader Reid says the overwhelming sentiment is positive. In Long Beach, disease control officials estimate \u003ca href=\"https://khn.org/news/hiring-a-diverse-army-to-track-covid-19-amid-reopening/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fewer than 1%\u003c/a> of those contacted refused to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m actually quite surprised at how open they can be and how they actually kind of feel like chatting,” Flores says. “I feel like we’re just chatting about them and how they’re doing and their family.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At the same time Eric Chan started training to become a contact tracer, he also started tuning in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.skylinktv.us/skylinktv-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese-language news\u003c/a> on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted to brush up on his Cantonese, especially the medical terms for the pandemic, so it would be easier to talk to people who weren’t comfortable with English, especially those who might assume his call is a scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Quite often, just speaking that language directly, instead of having the interpreter on the line, it helps a lot with the communication and the trust,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, Chan works as a financial analyst in the San Francisco Assessor’s Office. Now, he is one of 73 city employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821528/in-search-of-20000-covid-19-contact-tracers-california-taps-local-librarians-tax-assessors-city-legal-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including librarians and paralegals\u003c/a>, who have been trained as contact tracers to notify people when they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus and ask them to stay home for two weeks to prevent further spread. The city has focused on recruiting people who speak multiple languages in an effort to reach communities of color that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1964099/first-my-sister-then-her-husband-then-my-niece-latinos-hit-hard-by-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hardest hit\u003c/a> by the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/w6za-6st8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nearly half the people\u003c/a> who have died from COVID-19 in San Francisco are Asian American. Statewide, Latinos account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Race-Ethnicity.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">54% of coronavirus infections\u003c/a> even though they make up 39% of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is the first known coronavirus death among the roughly 30,000 people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials would not confirm the death, saying the agency’s policy is to announce detainee deaths within 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, identified as Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2020-05-06/first-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-after-being-hospitalized-from-otay-mesa-detention-center\">by The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c/a>, was originally from El Salvador and had been held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center for about four months. He had spent his last days in a hospital, where he died, according to Dulce Garcia, executive director of the advocacy group Border Angels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE set up a death trap and it was just a matter of time,” said Garcia, an attorney who represents immigrants detained at Otay Mesa. “We’ve known for weeks that they don’t have enough testing for everyone in there, and when you do test positive they put you into these cohorts with 100 other people. They should be releasing everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another San Diego immigration lawyer said a distraught client of his at Otay Mesa called him to say that guards had come to her pod Wednesday morning and told detainees that a man housed in another pod had died of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can feel in her voice how scared she is,” attorney Ian Seruelo said of his client, a Mexican asylum-seeker who is trying to get released from custody. “There is this atmosphere inside where everyone is scared of what’s going to happen. 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This tragic news is even more evidence that failing to act will result in cruel and needless death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is one of numerous suits filed in federal courts around the country in recent weeks, urgently requesting ICE to protect detained immigrants by releasing them from custody and implementing stronger social distancing and hygiene measures for those who remain locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with ICE and CoreCivic did not respond to repeated requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Seruelo said his client should also be released, based on her heightened risk for complications of COVID-19. He said she had been treated for diabetes for years in Mexico but lacked documentation of her condition. 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