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"content": "\u003cp>Before Raul Flores held “white gold” in his fingertips, he’d tried his hand at other Imperial Valley jobs. He worked as a correction officer in the state prison, he grew medjool dates on ten acres of land, and he eventually landed a job at the geothermal plants around the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he got wind that under his feet lay enough lithium to supply roughly a third of the world’s demand, and he knew that was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium equals future,” said Flores, holding a gleaming chunk of lithium chloride between his fingertips so his classmates could get a better look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crystal in his hands made concrete something that has eluded him and the other students, all part of Imperial Valley College’s inaugural class of aspiring lithium industry workers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers football jersey Flores wore harkened back to another era when people pinned their hopes and dreams on minerals in the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could this be the next gold rush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key metal in batteries that power electric cars and computers, lithium has spiked in value over the last decade as global demand for the “white gold” has skyrocketed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive, untapped repository in Imperial Valley — worth $500 billion by some estimates — could help make the United States a new — and key — player in the industry worldwide. That’s because almost all of the world’s supply is mined and refined abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile sits on the majority of the world’s untapped reserves, mines in Australia provide more than half of the world’s supply, and China produces over half of the world’s batteries. The U.S. is barely on the chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Imperial Valley, companies running geothermal power plants on the Salton Sea have known for years that the brine they’ve been pumping from reservoirs deep in the ground contains lithium, but the technology to extract it and the demand haven’t existed until recently. Today, both exist. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EnergySource Minerals has greenlit its commercial lithium project ATLiS, aiming to start production by 2026, and Controlled Thermal Resources and CalEnergy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s BHE Renewables, are racing to the starting line as well, each developing its own method for cost-effective extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lennor M. Johnson, president, Imperial Valley College\"]‘Lithium is one component. Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.’[/pullquote]With investment trickling in, momentum is building, but it’s still unclear when the promised results will materialize. Nevertheless, stakeholders in the Imperial Valley are getting ready to reap the benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efrain Silva, the Imperial Valley College’s dean of economic and workforce development, launched the certificate program to train students for jobs in the lithium industry on a bit of a wager. Will the industry kick-in by the time the first class graduates next spring? Having the key companies on speed dial and collaborating with them on the curriculum, Silva says he would not have started the program if the projection for jobs wasn’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968366\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts his hands around pumps surrounded by people/\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano works with students to calibrate a model pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Students learn the math and how to apply it to real world situations. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another more recent player has also amped up hopes: Statevolt, a battery producer, has announced plans to build out a battery factory in the valley to be operational by 2025. The company says it will be one of the largest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battery manufacturing would be a logical and beneficial industry to grow alongside lithium extraction in the valley, said Imperial County Supervisor Ryan E. Kelley. It would bring more jobs for locals to the region while also reducing the distance in the supply chain. Currently, the production line from mineral extraction to battery making often crosses several national boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t it be refined and turned into cathodes and anodes and batteries right here?” Kelley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections and international attention aside, not all community members of Imperial Valley see dollar signs and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the first time the valley has hosted an alternative energy venture that dashed hopes for transformative impacts. Solar and wind have come into the valley and neither has delivered an abundance of sustained jobs, let alone addressed the larger inequities locals experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider: Imperial County has the highest unemployment rate in California at almost 15%. The median household income is $49,000 — less than the state average by $35,000 — and more than a quarter of children live in poverty. The county also is an outlier when it comes to a number of health indicators, including high rates of diabetes, liver disease and drug-induced deaths. Doctors are also studying causes for high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms, especially for residents living closer to the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders have pointed out that industry in the valley has a history of being largely extractive, producing large profit with little feeding back to the communities bearing the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would it be different this time? The believe-it-when-we-see-it sentiment runs consistently through the towns of Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reverend John Freeman, of the African Methodist Episcopal Chapel in El Centro, says he hopes that any company that is going to be exporting resources gives back to the community, especially to local youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have any opportunities, they’re gonna run from this place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much at stake in lithium’s development\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But this time local stakeholders say all the right ingredients are in place, and that’s given them a sense of agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that we were just happy to be asked to go to the dance,” Supervisor Kelley said. “And now, we are actually being more selective about who we’re going to dance with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has meant knowing what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on current costs and estimates, Imperial County holds more than $500 billion in lithium, and demand is projected to grow fivefold by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that all new car sales in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. With the potential of supplying a substantial portion of estimated global lithium needs, Imperial Valley could be sitting in a transformative position — so much so that some now refer to it as Lithium Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom went so far as to call it the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major oil industry investors have since begun to funnel money to Imperial lithium ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies race to develop cost-effective and safe technology to turn brine into “white gold,” they do so amid questions of whether they — like many other ventures around the world — will do so at the expense of the local communities. Or will they mitigate environmental impacts and give back in jobs, potentially shaping a new narrative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\" alt=\"An opened notebook showing an illustration and writing.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez takes meticulous notes to remember all the proper names of the parts of a pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Fernandez already works in the industry, but now she is getting the theory behind the practice. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Vulcan Plant\" with a factory and steam rising in the background.' width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam rises over the CalEnergy geothermal plants run by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Oct. 5, 2023. Lithium is to be derived from the hot geothermal brine that runs through the pumps to produce energy. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Open pit mining and harvesting lithium from evaporation pools use hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid as well as an exorbitant amount of water and have been known to deplete and contaminate groundwater, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and in turn, harm local populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Imperial Valley, some community members see lithium mining as potentially exacerbating the community’s health problems, which endure while residents continue to grapple with\u003ca href=\"https://pacinst.org/salton-sea/#:~:text=The%20Sea%20faces%20a%20host,efforts%20to%20address%20that%20change.\"> environmental hazards stemming from the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to build local support, the lithium companies have held numerous public meetings where they discuss benefits they plan to give back to the community. They’re also explaining their “direct lithium extraction” methods, currently in development, and pitching them as safer to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DLE process makes use of existing geothermal plants, which pump very hot brine to the surface to generate electricity and then pump the remaining brine back into the earth. DLE adds the step of mixing the brine with chemicals to extract the lithium, reducing the waste to something called filter cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies allege DLE is much less harmful to the environment, and it is, according to some preliminary studies. But with how new the technology is, long-term impacts are yet to be known.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lithium dreams for locals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Imperial Valley communities prepare for the lithium future there, the promise of jobs remains a shifting target, and fault lines and new alliances have emerged among local stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College President Lennor M. Johnson says the lithium industry’s development could trigger transformative growth not just in the industries that use lithium in manufacturing but also in the expansion of jobs and services necessary to accommodate that growth. He sees housing, hotels, schools, entertainment centers and malls as part of that growth — all amenities that could make the Imperial Valley a place where younger people see a future for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can truly envision that Imperial County is going to look something like Temecula in the next five, ten years,” Johnson said, referring to the rural community north of San Diego that went through a similar transformation over the last several years. For Temecula, it was the promise of affordable housing that expedited growth. For Imperial County, housing would be just one part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium is one component,” Johnson said. “Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders, investors and community members have been discussing the viability of the industry in Imperial Valley for several years. Planning entities, such as the Lithium Valley Commission, were set up to facilitate conversation among the numerous interested and skeptical parties. The process has not been smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, representation has been an issue. Both the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24101288-tn247499_20221116t155706_quechan-indian-tribe-comments-on-lithium-valley-commission-draft-report-1\"> Quechan Indian Tribe\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24119095-tn247100_20221028t144827_torres-martinez-desert-cahuilla-indians-comments-follow-up-on-january-21s\"> Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians\u003c/a> raised numerous issues, including concerns over ancestral lands and being invited to the table later than others. And when community members and representatives suggested that lithium should be taxed and the funds be distributed to frontline communities, tensions flared between pro-tax and pro-industry interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approved last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/lithium-extraction-excise-tax.htm\"> the tax\u003c/a> calls for producers to pay monthly in the hundreds of dollars per metric ton of extracted lithium, depending on the size of the operation. The money is slated for Salton Sea restoration projects, community projects at or around the sea and the counties impacted by lithium extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much communities will see is anyone’s guess — the money won’t be collected until commercial production begins. In one estimate, EnergySource Minerals CEO Eric Spomer said that over the next 30 years, the company alone anticipates delivering $720 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Reyes and Isabel Solis of Los Amigos de la Comunidad are among the advocates insisting that communities impacted get their fair share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, the community has been very wary,” Reyes said. “People have come in to use our resources and made billions of dollars through the years, and our community stays generally poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investment in education locally has fueled hopes that the lithium industry will greatly benefit the community. The state gave $80 million alone to build a STEM building on San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College acted even faster, forging relationships with the lithium companies to create their certificate program. Silva aims to grow the program into IVC’s first-ever bachelor’s degree, a particularly meaningful goal in a region with limited access to higher education. He also has additional lithium programs on his roadmap as demand grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a dark blue shirt stands inside a room with a cross and plant in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez poses at her home in El Centro on Oct. 15, 2023. Though she is a single mother with four kids and a full-time job, she went back to school with hopes of earning a better salary. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IVC program convinced students like Rose Fernandez to return to school despite it adding to her already full plate as a single mom of four children, working full time at EnergySource Minerals for minimum wage. She says she’s thankful for the job that she found through a temp agency, especially for the benefits, but it’s still hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EnergySource Minerals launches its commercial lithium operation, called ATLiS, Fernandez wants to be ready for opportunities that need her advanced skills and pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to be able to say, hey, I got my certificate,” Fernandez said. “I got education, and that’s what employers look for — education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva says he’s heard lithium could create up to 2,500 jobs in Imperial Valley but thinks it may be less. Companies have their own estimates, which vary. ATLiS aims to have 71 new jobs at its lithium venture set to produce commercial lithium in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spomer, the EnergySource Minerals CEO, told inewsource that they “‘anticipate a vast majority of the direct jobs created by ESM to be filled locally,” and that they expect to hire plant operators during construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our class, Our Lithium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plant operator’s class feels like the deck of a ship crewed by an eclectic and storied bunch, full of jokes and candor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be in part due to the professor. It’s Rafael Serrano’s first time teaching, but he has worked with pumps and engines since he joined the Navy at 19. Afterward, he worked for the Imperial Irrigation District as well as energy companies in the valley — when it comes to the trade, he doesn’t lack experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing goggles and a blue shirt holds up a bottle of liquid in one hand with the other bottle held to his chest.\" width=\"924\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-800x1198.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano holds the brine (left) from which lithium (right) is extracted on Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for teaching, he said his wife told him “It’s one of those things where there is no manual.” So Serrano gives ample room for the students to show up with all their character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class is learning how to safely and smoothly run a pump system. They learn on a miniature version of pump systems at the geothermal plants lining the Salton Sea. When the pump is on and it sounds like it’s off, that’s one sign the students calibrated it right — no vibrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano teaches two cohorts, a total of 59 students, including five women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez is among the five and says there are opportunities for women in the field, but “they have to think that it’s not just for men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the students, jobs in the lithium industry promise a new way of making ends meet and perhaps something that could significantly change their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pest control specialist now studying lithium extraction, Dylan Charles has been leafing through books about lithium for years. He was taken aback when he started “hearing rumblings” about the valley having potential to drive U.S. domestic lithium production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge development,” Charles said. “I don’t think a lot of people realize just how big that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace Phillips sees the industry as something that could hold families together. The retired El Centro traffic signal operator says his own children left the valley for lack of economic opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips is hopeful for the future but also holds on to his skepticism. When he saw two congressmen at a community meeting in nearby Calipatria, a community on the front line of the geothermal plants, he thought “‘it’s a little late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went down the list of problems they should solve if they really mean to help, from access to healthcare to the toxic Salton Sea. Those problems didn’t emerge recently, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he turned bright the moment he looked back toward the model pump and recalled the feeling of when he and his classmates calibrated it to a silent hum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great when you feel like you’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless shirt sits in a pew at a church.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallace Phillips looks back at his congregation after sharing some of his experience returning to school at the age of 64 at the Johnson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church on Oct. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With investment trickling in, momentum is building, but it’s still unclear when the promised results will materialize. Nevertheless, stakeholders in the Imperial Valley are getting ready to reap the benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efrain Silva, the Imperial Valley College’s dean of economic and workforce development, launched the certificate program to train students for jobs in the lithium industry on a bit of a wager. Will the industry kick-in by the time the first class graduates next spring? Having the key companies on speed dial and collaborating with them on the curriculum, Silva says he would not have started the program if the projection for jobs wasn’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968366\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts his hands around pumps surrounded by people/\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano works with students to calibrate a model pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Students learn the math and how to apply it to real world situations. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another more recent player has also amped up hopes: Statevolt, a battery producer, has announced plans to build out a battery factory in the valley to be operational by 2025. The company says it will be one of the largest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battery manufacturing would be a logical and beneficial industry to grow alongside lithium extraction in the valley, said Imperial County Supervisor Ryan E. Kelley. It would bring more jobs for locals to the region while also reducing the distance in the supply chain. Currently, the production line from mineral extraction to battery making often crosses several national boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t it be refined and turned into cathodes and anodes and batteries right here?” Kelley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections and international attention aside, not all community members of Imperial Valley see dollar signs and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the first time the valley has hosted an alternative energy venture that dashed hopes for transformative impacts. Solar and wind have come into the valley and neither has delivered an abundance of sustained jobs, let alone addressed the larger inequities locals experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider: Imperial County has the highest unemployment rate in California at almost 15%. The median household income is $49,000 — less than the state average by $35,000 — and more than a quarter of children live in poverty. The county also is an outlier when it comes to a number of health indicators, including high rates of diabetes, liver disease and drug-induced deaths. Doctors are also studying causes for high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms, especially for residents living closer to the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders have pointed out that industry in the valley has a history of being largely extractive, producing large profit with little feeding back to the communities bearing the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would it be different this time? The believe-it-when-we-see-it sentiment runs consistently through the towns of Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reverend John Freeman, of the African Methodist Episcopal Chapel in El Centro, says he hopes that any company that is going to be exporting resources gives back to the community, especially to local youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have any opportunities, they’re gonna run from this place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much at stake in lithium’s development\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But this time local stakeholders say all the right ingredients are in place, and that’s given them a sense of agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that we were just happy to be asked to go to the dance,” Supervisor Kelley said. “And now, we are actually being more selective about who we’re going to dance with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has meant knowing what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on current costs and estimates, Imperial County holds more than $500 billion in lithium, and demand is projected to grow fivefold by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that all new car sales in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. With the potential of supplying a substantial portion of estimated global lithium needs, Imperial Valley could be sitting in a transformative position — so much so that some now refer to it as Lithium Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom went so far as to call it the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major oil industry investors have since begun to funnel money to Imperial lithium ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies race to develop cost-effective and safe technology to turn brine into “white gold,” they do so amid questions of whether they — like many other ventures around the world — will do so at the expense of the local communities. Or will they mitigate environmental impacts and give back in jobs, potentially shaping a new narrative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\" alt=\"An opened notebook showing an illustration and writing.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez takes meticulous notes to remember all the proper names of the parts of a pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Fernandez already works in the industry, but now she is getting the theory behind the practice. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Vulcan Plant\" with a factory and steam rising in the background.' width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam rises over the CalEnergy geothermal plants run by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Oct. 5, 2023. Lithium is to be derived from the hot geothermal brine that runs through the pumps to produce energy. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Open pit mining and harvesting lithium from evaporation pools use hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid as well as an exorbitant amount of water and have been known to deplete and contaminate groundwater, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and in turn, harm local populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Imperial Valley, some community members see lithium mining as potentially exacerbating the community’s health problems, which endure while residents continue to grapple with\u003ca href=\"https://pacinst.org/salton-sea/#:~:text=The%20Sea%20faces%20a%20host,efforts%20to%20address%20that%20change.\"> environmental hazards stemming from the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to build local support, the lithium companies have held numerous public meetings where they discuss benefits they plan to give back to the community. They’re also explaining their “direct lithium extraction” methods, currently in development, and pitching them as safer to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DLE process makes use of existing geothermal plants, which pump very hot brine to the surface to generate electricity and then pump the remaining brine back into the earth. DLE adds the step of mixing the brine with chemicals to extract the lithium, reducing the waste to something called filter cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies allege DLE is much less harmful to the environment, and it is, according to some preliminary studies. But with how new the technology is, long-term impacts are yet to be known.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lithium dreams for locals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Imperial Valley communities prepare for the lithium future there, the promise of jobs remains a shifting target, and fault lines and new alliances have emerged among local stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College President Lennor M. Johnson says the lithium industry’s development could trigger transformative growth not just in the industries that use lithium in manufacturing but also in the expansion of jobs and services necessary to accommodate that growth. He sees housing, hotels, schools, entertainment centers and malls as part of that growth — all amenities that could make the Imperial Valley a place where younger people see a future for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can truly envision that Imperial County is going to look something like Temecula in the next five, ten years,” Johnson said, referring to the rural community north of San Diego that went through a similar transformation over the last several years. For Temecula, it was the promise of affordable housing that expedited growth. For Imperial County, housing would be just one part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium is one component,” Johnson said. “Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders, investors and community members have been discussing the viability of the industry in Imperial Valley for several years. Planning entities, such as the Lithium Valley Commission, were set up to facilitate conversation among the numerous interested and skeptical parties. The process has not been smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, representation has been an issue. Both the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24101288-tn247499_20221116t155706_quechan-indian-tribe-comments-on-lithium-valley-commission-draft-report-1\"> Quechan Indian Tribe\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24119095-tn247100_20221028t144827_torres-martinez-desert-cahuilla-indians-comments-follow-up-on-january-21s\"> Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians\u003c/a> raised numerous issues, including concerns over ancestral lands and being invited to the table later than others. And when community members and representatives suggested that lithium should be taxed and the funds be distributed to frontline communities, tensions flared between pro-tax and pro-industry interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approved last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/lithium-extraction-excise-tax.htm\"> the tax\u003c/a> calls for producers to pay monthly in the hundreds of dollars per metric ton of extracted lithium, depending on the size of the operation. The money is slated for Salton Sea restoration projects, community projects at or around the sea and the counties impacted by lithium extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much communities will see is anyone’s guess — the money won’t be collected until commercial production begins. In one estimate, EnergySource Minerals CEO Eric Spomer said that over the next 30 years, the company alone anticipates delivering $720 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Reyes and Isabel Solis of Los Amigos de la Comunidad are among the advocates insisting that communities impacted get their fair share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, the community has been very wary,” Reyes said. “People have come in to use our resources and made billions of dollars through the years, and our community stays generally poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investment in education locally has fueled hopes that the lithium industry will greatly benefit the community. The state gave $80 million alone to build a STEM building on San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College acted even faster, forging relationships with the lithium companies to create their certificate program. Silva aims to grow the program into IVC’s first-ever bachelor’s degree, a particularly meaningful goal in a region with limited access to higher education. He also has additional lithium programs on his roadmap as demand grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a dark blue shirt stands inside a room with a cross and plant in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez poses at her home in El Centro on Oct. 15, 2023. Though she is a single mother with four kids and a full-time job, she went back to school with hopes of earning a better salary. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IVC program convinced students like Rose Fernandez to return to school despite it adding to her already full plate as a single mom of four children, working full time at EnergySource Minerals for minimum wage. She says she’s thankful for the job that she found through a temp agency, especially for the benefits, but it’s still hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EnergySource Minerals launches its commercial lithium operation, called ATLiS, Fernandez wants to be ready for opportunities that need her advanced skills and pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to be able to say, hey, I got my certificate,” Fernandez said. “I got education, and that’s what employers look for — education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva says he’s heard lithium could create up to 2,500 jobs in Imperial Valley but thinks it may be less. Companies have their own estimates, which vary. ATLiS aims to have 71 new jobs at its lithium venture set to produce commercial lithium in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spomer, the EnergySource Minerals CEO, told inewsource that they “‘anticipate a vast majority of the direct jobs created by ESM to be filled locally,” and that they expect to hire plant operators during construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our class, Our Lithium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plant operator’s class feels like the deck of a ship crewed by an eclectic and storied bunch, full of jokes and candor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be in part due to the professor. It’s Rafael Serrano’s first time teaching, but he has worked with pumps and engines since he joined the Navy at 19. Afterward, he worked for the Imperial Irrigation District as well as energy companies in the valley — when it comes to the trade, he doesn’t lack experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing goggles and a blue shirt holds up a bottle of liquid in one hand with the other bottle held to his chest.\" width=\"924\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-800x1198.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano holds the brine (left) from which lithium (right) is extracted on Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for teaching, he said his wife told him “It’s one of those things where there is no manual.” So Serrano gives ample room for the students to show up with all their character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class is learning how to safely and smoothly run a pump system. They learn on a miniature version of pump systems at the geothermal plants lining the Salton Sea. When the pump is on and it sounds like it’s off, that’s one sign the students calibrated it right — no vibrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano teaches two cohorts, a total of 59 students, including five women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez is among the five and says there are opportunities for women in the field, but “they have to think that it’s not just for men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the students, jobs in the lithium industry promise a new way of making ends meet and perhaps something that could significantly change their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pest control specialist now studying lithium extraction, Dylan Charles has been leafing through books about lithium for years. He was taken aback when he started “hearing rumblings” about the valley having potential to drive U.S. domestic lithium production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge development,” Charles said. “I don’t think a lot of people realize just how big that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace Phillips sees the industry as something that could hold families together. The retired El Centro traffic signal operator says his own children left the valley for lack of economic opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips is hopeful for the future but also holds on to his skepticism. When he saw two congressmen at a community meeting in nearby Calipatria, a community on the front line of the geothermal plants, he thought “‘it’s a little late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went down the list of problems they should solve if they really mean to help, from access to healthcare to the toxic Salton Sea. Those problems didn’t emerge recently, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he turned bright the moment he looked back toward the model pump and recalled the feeling of when he and his classmates calibrated it to a silent hum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers direct the unloading of migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once inside, coordinators say, migrants are given face masks to guard against the spread of infectious diseases, along with water and food. Medical providers test them for the coronavirus, offer them vaccines, and isolate those who test positive for the virus. Asylum-seekers are treated for injuries they may have suffered during their journey and checked for chronic health issues, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pedro Rios, director, American Friends Service Committee's US-Mexico Border Program\"]'Now's the time for the state of California to double down on supporting those individuals that are seeking relief from immigration detention.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, as the liberal-leaning state confronts a projected $22.5 billion deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state can no longer afford to contribute to the centers, which also receive federal and local grants. The Democratic governor in January proposed phasing out state aid for some medical services in the next few months, and eventually scaling back the migrant assistance program unless Pres. Joe Biden and Congress step in with help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California began contributing money for medical services through its migrant assistance program during the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic two years ago. The state helps support three health resource centers — two in San Diego County and one in Imperial County — that conduct COVID testing and vaccinations and other health screenings, serving more than 300,000 migrants since April 2021. The migrant program also provides food, lodging and travel assistance to unite migrants with sponsors, family or friends in the U.S. while they await their immigration hearings, and the state has been covering the humanitarian effort with an appropriation of more than $1 billion since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the White House declined to comment and no federal legislation has advanced, Newsom said he was optimistic that federal funding will come through, citing “some remarkably good conversations” with the Biden administration. The president recently announced that the United States would turn back Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally — a move intended to slow migration. The U.S. Supreme Court is also now considering whether to end a Trump-era policy known as Title 42 that the U.S. has used to expel asylum-seekers, ostensibly to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, one potential pot of federal money has been identified. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a statement to Kaiser Health News noting that local governments and nongovernmental providers will soon be able to tap into an additional $800 million in federal funds through a shelter and services grant program. FEMA did not answer KHN’s questions about how much the agency spends serving migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re continuing our operations and again calling on all levels of government to make sure that there is an investment,” said Kate Clark, senior director of immigration services for Jewish Family Service of San Diego, one of two main migrant shelter operators. The other is run by Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While health workers and immigration advocates want the state to continue funding, Newsom appears to have bipartisan support within the state for scaling it back. He promised more details in his revised budget in May, before legislative budget negotiations begin in earnest. And, he noted, conditions have changed such that testing and vaccination services are less urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a Democrat, agreed that the burden should be on the federal government, though local officials are contemplating additional assistance. And state Senate Republican leader Brian Jones of San Diego, who represents part of the affected region, said that California is set to end its pandemic state of emergency on Feb. 28, months before the budget takes effect in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic conditions no longer warrant this large investment from the state, especially since immigration is supposed to be a federal issue,” Jones said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California began its migrant assistance support soon after Newsom took office in 2019 and after the Trump administration ended the “safe release” program that helped transport immigrants seeking asylum to be with their family members in the United States. It was part of California’s broad pushback against Trump’s immigration policies; state lawmakers also made it a \"sanctuary state,\" an attempt to make it safe from immigration crackdowns.[aside postID=\"news_11938916,news_11941075\" label=\"Related Posts\"]California, along with local governments and nonprofit organizations, stepped in to fill the void and take pressure off border areas by quickly moving migrants elsewhere in the United States. The state’s involvement ramped up in 2021 as the pandemic surged and the Biden administration tried to unwind the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy. While some cities in other parts of the country provided aid, state officials said no other state was providing California’s level of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a coordinated effort, migrants are dropped off at the centers by federal immigration officers, then screened and cared for by state-contracted organizations that provide medical aid, travel assistance, food and temporary housing while they await their immigration hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego and Jewish Family Service of San Diego coordinate medical support with UC San Diego. The federal government covers most of the university’s costs while the state pays for nurses and other medical contractors to supplement health care, according to Catholic Charities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It often takes one to three days before migrants can be put on buses or commercial flights, and in the meantime, they are housed in hotels and provided with food, clothing and other necessities as part of the state’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of them come hungry, starving,” said Vino Pajanor, chief executive of Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego, who described the screening and testing process at the centers. “Most of them don’t have shoes. They get shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said about 46,000 people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus through the program. They said the figure is significantly lower than the number of migrants who have come through the centers because some were vaccinated before reaching the U.S. and younger migrants were initially ineligible, while others refused the shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Health and Human Services Agency, the state plans to phase out some medical support, but the sheltering operations are expected to continue “for the near term” with their future determined by the availability of federal funding. Of the more than $1 billion spent by the state, $828 million has been allocated through the Department of Public Health, according to the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said that while the state has not adopted specific plans to cut the sites’ capacity, it will put a priority on helping families with young children and “medically fragile individuals” if the shelters are overwhelmed by arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some immigration advocates said the state was making the wrong choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now’s the time for the state of California to double down on supporting those individuals that are seeking relief from immigration detention,” said Pedro Rios, who directs the U.S.-Mexico border program at the American Friends Service Committee, which advocates on behalf of immigrants. “I think it sends an erroneous message that the issues are no longer of concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">California Healthline is a service of the California Health Care Foundation produced by Kaiser Health News.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/08/el-condado-de-imperial-tiene-una-de-las-mejores-tasas-de-vacunacion-de-california-esta-es-la-razon/\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated on Aug. 19, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County, tucked into the southeast corner of California, learned early on what it meant to be a COVID-19 hot spot. The virus bulldozed through the agricultural county last spring, then again in the winter. About one in six residents has been infected, and 746 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Imperial County has one statistic that is giving local health officials hope: 86% of its eligible population has been vaccinated with at least one dose. It’s one of the best vaccination rates in California, eclipsed only by Marin and Santa Clara counties and tied with San Francisco. Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/\">the rate is almost 65%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Vaccination-Prep-1020x680.jpg\"]In addition, Imperial was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2021/07/medi-cal-covid-vaccinations/\">one of only 11 counties\u003c/a> in mid-July where more than half of its residents on Medi-Cal, the state health insurance program for lower-income people, were vaccinated. That’s a sign that it is faring better than most counties in protecting its marginalized residents from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Imperial is defying the odds: Despite its remoteness and high poverty rate, which is often associated with worse health outcomes, most of its 186,000 residents appear steadfast in keeping the virus at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, there is a correlation with income and vaccination rates, but I think what Imperial County data tells us is that it can be overcome. It just takes effort,” said Fabian Rivera-Chávez, assistant professor of pediatrics and biological sciences at the University of California, San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons for Imperial’s high percentage of vaccinated residents are not well understood. But local experts and health officials say one key factor is its strong network of nonprofits, clinics, hospitals and agricultural employers that have reached out to people personally to provide vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located far from California’s more populous areas, Imperial’s residents over the years have come to rely on their local network to overcome health challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/rSG08Cv774mE3AJ1rWTB?src=embed\" title=\"Imperial figures\" width=\"800\" height=\"842\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our world, we do learn from others. I think small communities, we are used to working closely together and that has translated in our efforts and our response,” said Rosyo Ramirez, deputy director at the Imperial County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has administered 227,700 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. “There is no way we would have been able to do that on our own,” Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial has the largest proportion of vaccinated residents in the entire southern half of the state. About 73% of Los Angeles County residents and 50% of Kern County residents, for instance, have received at least one shot, compared to Imperial’s 86%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County has a lot working against it when it comes to controlling a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rosyo Ramirez, Deputy Director, Public Health Department of Imperial County\"]‘I think small communities, we are used to working closely together and that has translated in our efforts and our response.’[/pullquote]More than one in five residents lives in poverty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/california/percent-of-people-of-all-ages-in-poverty#map\">one of the highest rates in the state\u003c/a>. About \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/imperialcountycalifornia\">85% of its population is Latino\u003c/a>, a group that statewide continues to fall behind on vaccines; 44% of Latinos in California have yet to receive a first dose, \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/\">according to state data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also sparsely populated — 43 people live per square mile, compared to its next door neighbor, San Diego County, which has 793 people per square mile, and to Los Angeles, with 2,744.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means not having access to a car in Imperial can pose significant challenges and limitations for people seeking vaccinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a border county, Imperial also has a large binational population, meaning people may work on one side of the border and live on the other. That comes with its own unique logistical challenges in controlling and tracing the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Imperial Valley was desert, inhabited by humans, until it was transformed at the turn of the 20th century when a canal diverted Colorado River water to irrigate crops. Since then, it has become a \u003ca href=\"https://agcom.imperialcounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019-Crop-Report.pdf\">top producer of vegetables and livestock\u003c/a>, valued at more than $2 billion a year, led by cattle, alfalfa, lettuce and broccoli. Its biggest city is El Centro, home to 44,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_20.jpg\" alt=\"An old truck is parked in an empty and sandy parking lot. Behind it are empty warehouses and telephone poles. This takes place in a rural setting.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_20.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_20-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_20-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Centro, with a population of 44,000, is Imperial County’s largest city. Since the turn of the 20th century, the Imperial Valley has been a top producer of vegetables and livestock, valued at more than $2 billion a year. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A personalized approach to vaccinations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Reaching out to people in remote towns that are many miles apart is difficult, but seems to be paying off in Imperial County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Diaz, CEO of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ivlgbtcenter.com/\">Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center\u003c/a>, said her organization has focused on some of the most rural communities, like Ocotillo, Bombay Beach, Niland and Seely, where populations range from 200 to 1,000 people. When the weather allows, her team sets up canopies in these towns to provide vaccine education and information on how to sign up, and to survey people on whether they have bedridden family members who need transportation, Diaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shelby Trimm, Executive Director, Imperial Valley Vegetable Growers Association\"]‘You had these buses full of workers from the fields show up to vaccination clinics … The goal was really to make it as easy as possible.’[/pullquote]For four months this year, a medical team from El Centro Regional Medical Center, one of two area hospitals, set up shop at the Imperial Valley Mall every Friday. They’d administer anywhere from 600 to 1,000 doses a day — on their busiest day they had almost 2,000 people, said CEO Adolphe Edward of the medical center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When vaccines became more available to farmworkers in the spring, Shelby Trimm, executive director of the Imperial Valley Vegetable Growers Association, spent days on the phone coordinating with farm labor contractors so they’d send field workers to vaccination clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmworkers have to report to different worksites, so going through the contractors was a good way to capture more people, Trimm said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had these buses full of workers from the fields show up to vaccination clinics,” Trimm said. “The goal was really to make it as easy as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimm said that local providers also set up clinics at the border to offer doses to farmworkers and others who come into Imperial for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 862px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_34.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a desert in Imperial Valley. A few bushes are surrounded by vast stretches of dry land.\" width=\"862\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_34.jpg 862w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_34-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/04292021_ElCentroCourts_SH_34-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plot of desert land in Imperial Valley. The county is sparsely populated, as 43 people live per square mile, a fraction of its next-door neighbor, San Diego County, which has 793 people per square mile. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county offers vaccinations to people who work in Imperial County and live in Mexico. But its vaccination data only reflects doses given to people with U.S. addresses and ZIP codes, county public health officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re working here, they’re affecting our community,” Ramirez said. “From the beginning we understood that it was important to get them vaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='vaccines']While there is no county data to show vaccination uptake by sector, Trimm said that anecdotally there wasn’t much vaccine resistance or hesitance among farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point you’ve had COVID or have a loved one who did,” Trimm said. “So many people saw family members dying or sick. It can’t get any worse than that. So if there was a way to save themselves, people did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical center’s Edward agrees that many of the county’s residents may have felt compelled to get vaccinated because the virus hit close to home. “People got serious about it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County may have more natural immunity because of its high infection rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A county that was hit hard like Imperial is also likely to have a higher rate of natural immunity,” Rivera-Chávez at UCSD said. And when people who have natural immunity get vaccinated, they gain what’s known as “hybrid immunity,” which can provide even stronger protection, he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11885641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/02052021_LithiumValley_SH_02H.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of an crop field during the morning. 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Cantil-Sakauye — issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/coronavirus-covid-19-california-eviction-bans-and-tenant-protections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency rule\u003c/a> on April 6 barring local courts from going forward with most eviction cases, with the exception of cases involving threats to public health and safety. The council then extended the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People being evicted from their homes is a public health and safety problem,” said Adriane Bracciale, directing attorney for the legal aid organization’s office in El Centro, the county seat. “That’s why this emergency rule was instituted so that people aren’t being kicked out of their homes during a contagious, deadly pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bracciale said she discovered the issue when three separate renter households approached her legal aid clinic in the past few weeks with eviction “summonses” — orders for a renter to either challenge an eviction lawsuit in court or lose an eviction case by default. The first client who approached her office was being evicted for not paying rent after the pandemic hit, and claimed they couldn’t afford rent because of COVID-related financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the three eviction cases were ultimately rescinded once court officers were informed of the mistake, it is unclear how many other evictions may have proceeded in Imperial County in violation of the state Judicial Council rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic emergency rules, landlords could file eviction lawsuits against renters in local civil courts. The civil courts would in turn send a summons to the renter notifying them of the lawsuit. The summons required a response within five days. If the renter did not respond in those five days, the court would enter a default judgment in favor of the landlord and the renter would be ordered to leave. If a renter lost an eviction case, the courts would issue an order a landlord could take to the local sheriff’s department to physically enforce the eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 6 order should have stopped that process entirely, at least for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many renters do not seek legal counsel when faced with eviction lawsuits. Other renters confronting legal eviction documents may simply decide to vacate, unaware of new protections afforded during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if residents are aware that evictions should not be happening during the state of emergency as it’s explained under the emergency rule,” said Bracciale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County Superior Court Presiding Judge L. Brooks Anderholt did not return multiple requests for comment. Other court employees declined to answer questions on how many default judgments against renters the court may have mistakenly allowed, or how the evictions could have proceeded in light of the Judicial Council rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arimai Heredia, who oversees eviction lockouts for the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department, says deputies carried out two evictions in the past two weeks but could not say whether those evictions were processed by the court in violation of state rules. Eviction lockouts in cases already resolved by the courts by April 6 — prior to the judicial order — are still allowed, as are evictions in cases involving threats to public health and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"—Adriane Bracciale, California Rural Legal Assistance\"]'I don’t know if residents are aware that evictions should not be happening during the state of emergency as it’s explained under the emergency rule.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the health risks of removing renters during the pandemic, some sheriff’s departments in other parts of the state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/04/california-coronavirus-evictions-moratorium-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have stopped “enforcing writs”\u003c/a> — legalese for performing evictions — even in cases not barred by the Judicial Council emergency rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not up to us to question,” said Heredia. “We don’t have any documents to go by and determine, that would be the court. If the court issues the writs, then we’ll enforce it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heredia said to her knowledge the two lockouts performed in the past two weeks were the only evictions carried out by the Imperial County Sheriff’s Departments since April. However, renters who receive eviction notices do not necessarily end up on a sheriff department’s lockout docket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter addressed to Judge Anderholdt, Bracciale details that court officers told her in early July that no information about the Judicial Council’s eviction moratorium had been relayed to Imperial County Superior Court clerks who manage eviction proceedings, and that court employees had not received instructions to stop issuing court summonses in eviction cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter details that court officers, once notified of the emergency ban on eviction proceedings by Bracciale, told her they would work on a plan to adopt the rules going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bracciale also filed the letter with the state Judicial Council, but has not yet received an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to questions from CalMatters, Judicial Council spokesperson Cathal Conneely wrote via email, “As the recipient of this letter, the Imperial County Superior Court, an independent constitutional entity, is best positioned to respond to any allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial County, where one in four residents live below the poverty line, has been ravaged by the novel coronavirus. In late June, Newsom urged local elected officials to reinstate stay-at-home orders because of the severity of the outbreak. Only two intensive care unit beds are available in the county as of Tuesday, according to a Los Angeles Times tracker, and patients are being airlifted to hospitals in nearby San Diego and elsewhere in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration did not respond to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent public remarks, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye said the Judicial Council will vote on allowing courts to resume eviction proceedings as early as August 14. State lawmakers are scrambling to pass eviction protection and landlord relief measures before that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Nigel Duara contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late March, Imperial County had just nine confirmed cases of COVID-19, and the head of the largest hospital there thought his community had dodged a bullet. But Dr. Adolphe Edward soon realized his assessment was premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, we had 65 patients with COVID,” Edward recounted during a recent interview, “which was over 70 percent of my hospital admissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the rural county on the U.S.-Mexico border with 180,000 residents has the highest coronavirus infection rate per capita of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 16, the county’s public health department \u003ca href=\"http://www.icphd.org/health-information-and-resources/healthy-facts/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> that 4,389 people had tested positive, and 52 people had died with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cross-Border Lives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in cases is partly due to the county’s location right on the international boundary, health officials say. Edward’s hospital, the 150-bed El Centro Regional Medical Center, is just a half-hour drive north of Mexicali, a city with over a million residents in Baja California that has become the epicenter of the pandemic in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward said he expected that when COVID-19 hit Mexicali hard, the sickness would hit his hospital too. And in fact, many of the patients seeking treatment at the medical center were U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents who live in Mexicali, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dr. Adolphe Edward, El Centro Regional Medical Center\"]‘Disease does not know borders, does not know boundaries. We’re really the community of Imperial County and Mexicali, and what happens over there comes to us, and what happens over here affects them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disease does not know borders, does not know boundaries,” Edward said. “We’re really the community of Imperial County and Mexicali and what happens over there comes to us, and what happens over here affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward added that 60 of his employees live in Mexicali and commute across the border to work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if people are aware of just how common that is for us,” said Andrea Bowers, a spokeswoman for the Imperial County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people live on one side of the border and work or go to school on the other side, a practice that’s common in most border communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the U.S. and Mexico extended until July 21, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/06/16/fact-sheet-dhs-measures-border-limit-further-spread-coronavirus\">agreement\u003c/a> to restrict “non-essential” travel between the countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always afraid that people are imagining this rush on the border,” Bowers said. “It’s just folks living their everyday life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824836\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11824836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An emergency treatment area erected for COVID-19 patients at El Centro Regional Medical Center, Imperial County’s largest hospital. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of El Centro Regional Medical Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deaths Exceed Morgue Capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Imperial County is part of a binational region, the agricultural county has only two mortuaries. Only one, Frye Chapel & Mortuary, is taking the bodies of people who die with COVID-19. In addition, the county coroner’s office lacks a facility of its own and uses space at Frye for the county morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managing owner, Sheila Kruger, says the mortuary is holding more than double the number of decedents it had last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m it,” Kruger said. “We are bursting at the seams, literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the mortuary handling all of the coronavirus funerals in the county, Kruger worries that the disease could keep spreading among the grieving families, who were often caring for their loved ones who died of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These families that have been with the people that have COVID… they actually should be quarantined,” Kruger said. “[But] they come out here and try to make funeral arrangements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kruger says she will now only make plans for services by phone or email. And she says funerals are restricted to ten people at a time inside the chapel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people have been doing is they’ll come in for a few minutes, and then they’ll leave, and another set will come in,” Kruger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability for larger numbers of people to take turns paying their last respects means a lot to the families, she said, but it can increase the risk of infection because the funeral-goers typically will congregate in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve asked them to stay in their cars until it’s time for them to come in, but they don’t follow that,” said Kruger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large family gatherings are also a problem in other settings, according to Edward, the hospital director, who said the coronavirus cases spiked about a week after two recent holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of parties around Mother’s Day. There’s a lot of get-togethers on Memorial Day,” Edward said. “[And] I still see people out in the community that are not wearing their masks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials have warned residents against congregating, and they are issuing guidelines in English and Spanish urging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baja officials are also urging residents to wipe their hands, disinfect and always wear masks in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Baja California government\u003ca href=\"http://www.bajacalifornia.gob.mx/coronavirus?id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> website\u003c/a> reported 3,826 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexicali, as of Tuesday. That’s fewer than the number of cases in Imperial County. However, Mexicali had 664 reported deaths from COVID-19, and health services there have been strained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imperial County Wants More Control Over Safe Reopening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial is one of six counties in California that had not yet received state approval for advanced stage 2 reopening. It’s one of 11 counties on a state monitoring\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CountyMonitoringDataStep2.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> list\u003c/a> for “targeted engagement” from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Luis Plancarte, Chairman Imperial County Board of Supervisors\"]‘Employees are starting to say we want to work. Bills are stacking up.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imperial County is experiencing elevated disease transmission,” according to the department’s website. “Drivers of this include U.S. citizens coming across the Mexican border seeking healthcare and continued need for staffing solutions at hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high caseload, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors wrote to Gov. 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