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A final decision by the Interior Department is expected in August, after a public comment period, and will affect the 2024 operation of Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California receives the most Colorado River of all the states, with an annual entitlement of 4.4 million acre-feet. About 2.5 million acre-feet of that goes to the Imperial Irrigation District, one of the nation’s largest agricultural areas and a major producer of alfalfa and lettuce. 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The multi-state plan would have meant a cut of more than a million acre-feet per year for California, while its own plan offered to cut back by 400,000 acre-feet per year, with Imperial Irrigation District taking on 250,000 of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials said the draft report follows “months of intensive discussions and collaborative work with the Basin states and water commissioners, the 30 Basin Tribes, water managers, farmers and irrigators, municipalities, and other stakeholders.”[aside postID=news_11945840 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64302_AP23091610632620-qut-1-1020x507.jpg']“Failure is not an option,” Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Colorado River Basin provides water for more than 40 million Americans. 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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. The sun is slightly above the horizon and the sky is clear.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/02052021_LithiumValley_SH_02H.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/02052021_LithiumValley_SH_02H-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/02052021_LithiumValley_SH_02H-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/02052021_LithiumValley_SH_02H-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of crops grow near Brawley in this photo from Feb. 5, 2021. So far, the county has administered 227,700 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. \u003ccite>(Shae Hammond/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Hospitalizations on the rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, as long as some residents continue to be unvaccinated, there is risk, Edward said. In the last two weeks, Imperial’s seven-day average of COVID hospitalizations jumped from eight to 16 between July 29 and Aug. 11. Hospital admissions in California have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/08/covid-hospitals-california/\">shot up at roughly the same rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Adolphe Edward, El Centro Regional Medical Center\"]‘I’m glad people are getting vaccinated, but we can’t stop here … we know that the people left are the hardest to reach.’[/pullquote]This shows that there is still work to be done. More than half of Imperial County residents are on Medi-Cal. And while Imperial is ahead of most other counties with 50% of its Medi-Cal members vaccinated, that means there is another half still to be vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the state announced it would be rolling out \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253323043.html\">$350 million in incentive payments\u003c/a> for health insurance plans to increase vaccination among their Medi-Cal members across the state. Funding for health plans is contingent upon them meeting specific vaccination goals, and some money could provide direct incentives to people, like grocery store gift cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad people are getting vaccinated, but we can’t stop here,” Edward said. “I think a lot of people are running out of energy … but we know that the people left are the hardest to reach.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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By comparison, the rate for the country as a whole is 3.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people like 57-year-old Graciela Panduro, who lost a job at Walmart two years ago because of poor circulation in her legs, good jobs can be hard to find. “I’m applying everywhere and they always say, ‘Leave us the application over here and we’ll call you.’ But no calls,” Panduro says. She and her adult son — also unemployed — live off the money her husband makes as a handyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panduro was standing inside the community center in the little town of Heber, where the county has set up a food bank. Outside, a line of people waiting to get in snakes around the parking lot. Many carry umbrellas to protect themselves from the brutal sun overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11758658,news_11758479 label='Further Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 250 families show up at the center each month to get free food — milk, cheese and meat — distributed by volunteers and paid staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the jobs here are agricultural: The Imperial Valley is home to thousands of acres of farms that grow cauliflower, potatoes and spinach and require a large seasonal workforce. Some of the farmworkers live here; many others cross the border from Mexico a few miles away to work every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they become too old to work in the fields, however, few jobs are available other than retail and fast food. And even those can be hard to get, says Alba Sanchez, who works for the Imperial Valley Food Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of stores closing down right now,” she says. “Sears closed down. We have a lot of other stores closing at the mall that employed these families and they’re out of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Imperial Valley does have middle-class residents, many of whom work in government and law enforcement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which patrols 71 miles of the Mexican border nearby, is a big local employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two state prisons are also located nearby and the valley was delighted to get them, says El Centro City Council member Cheryl Viegas-Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When everybody else was saying, ‘Not in my backyard,’ the whole NIMBY thing, ‘Don’t dare site those prisons here,’ we were like, ‘Please. Bring them here. Bring the jobs here,’ ” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viegas-Walker herself came to El Centro as a young woman after her husband took a job at a local law firm. At first, she was less than thrilled to live in the valley. Today, she says she has become its biggest cheerleader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She likes the small town feel of the city, the fact that she can drive to work in six minutes. Unlike most of California, El Centro is also affordable: A nice house on a palm tree-lined street in the better part of town can be had for about $200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Viegas-Walker, many local officials argue that the unemployment rate is lower than the Labor Department claims and is skewed by the large number of seasonal workers in the area, many of them coming from the much larger city of Mexicali, Mexico, next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also say their efforts to lure new businesses have been hurt by California’s comparatively high minimum wage, which they say has driven some jobs into Arizona and even Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no one disputes that there aren’t enough good jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one thing to have a job. It’s another thing to have a job that pays a [good] wage and has some upward mobility, and certainly that’s where [the Imperial Valley] economy continues to fall short,” says Mike Bracken, chief economist at Development Management Group, which advises local businesses and communities on development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viegas-Walker acknowledges that people with college degrees tend to leave El Centro for greener pastures. She knows that firsthand: Her own two grown sons now live in Oregon and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a brain drain. I mean, my two sons will not return to the valley. They won’t come back,” Viegas-Walker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those who remain have few options for work. In the United States, the poverty rate was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.html\">12.3%\u003c/a> in 2017. 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And from there we’ve just been feeding the homeless every night,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she heads Spread the Love, a drop-in center where homeless people can spend their afternoons sleeping on cots or just sitting in the air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those stopping by is Henry Lee Poston, who says he has spent much of his life in prison or on the streets. Raised in Oklahoma, he’s never gotten used to the heat in the valley. It makes being homeless that much harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing is it’s too dang hot here,” says Poston. “I have blackouts because of the heat. 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"content": "\u003cp>For a series we’re calling “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter to My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to write a short letter to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003cbr>\nWhat happened to it?\u003cbr>\nIs that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a letter from Sarah Monroy to her father, Enrique Monroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Papá,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You landed in California in 1967, during the month of July. Mendocino was your first home here, unlike any town you had known in Guatemala. Just two years later, also in July, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. It felt like a momentous echo of your own journey to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">One small step for a Guatemalan boy, one giant leap for human survival. But Neil Armstrong had a home that he went back to, whereas for you, orphaned as a child, there was no home or family waiting for you in Escuintla, Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You clipped the front page of the Time magazine cover with Neil standing next to the words “Man on the Moon.” It stayed pinned on the wall by your desk in our home in Imperial Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-800x575.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-960x690.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33396_Dad-redwood-forest-qut.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Monroy in the redwood forest, Avenue of the Giants, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Your desert dreams swelled, even in drought years. They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. I couldn’t believe there was a city this cold in summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-960x691.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-375x270.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut-520x374.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33398_family-chandelier-tree-qut.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Monroy’s older siblings and parents at the Redwood Chandelier Tree, circa 1970. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">We’d driven 500 miles and left the desert of Imperial Valley for a short vacation to escape the 120-degree heat. We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. Your dream was taller than the redwoods, and not sated by simply having a family, an old van and a job as a printer at the Mendocino Beacon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11701101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-240x162.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-375x253.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut-520x351.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33397_Dad-working-pre-1970-Mendocino-qut.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah’s father, Enrique Monroy, working on an old printing press, at the Mendocino Beacon, circa 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sarah Monroy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">I now live in San Francisco — its skyline often ebbing and flowing from view beneath the white cloak of fog. Here, I realize my own version of the American dream by translating the dreams of immigrants into ways I can advocate for them as an attorney. I also realize it by watching my son grow up speaking and reading both English and Spanish, loving the written word as deeply as you and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Sarah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They overflowed with a hope for cultural survival and language acquisition because, like Neil Armstrong, you had to survive on a foreign moon that neither saw you nor understood your accent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You died when I was very young, but I still hear your American dream in the lingering bellow of the foghorn when I stand beneath the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">The first time I heard that foghorn was on one of our road trips. You pulled over at the last exit for the bridge, our old gray van blending into a mist so thick we could barely see a few yards ahead. 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We crossed miles of desert, through layers of marine smells at the Salton Sea. We joined the long trails of cars filling the L.A. freeways like ants pouring into an anthill, until finally we reached the cliff sides of Northern California. Their wind-carved cypresses and old redwood trees made me think of fairy-tale forests and dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Only now that I’m a mother do I see how these road trips were not just family vacations to you. They were expressions of hunger to find your American dream. 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