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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, November 25, 2025…\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawyers from around the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/11/14/immigration-lawyers-get-help-from-unlikely-allies-in-fight-to-free-clients\">are working together\u003c/a> and organizing, to find legal strategies to free detained immigrants. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monterey and Santa Cruz counties are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-11-21/central-coast-counties-want-to-regulate-battery-energy-storage-why-is-it-taking-so-long\">at the center of a power struggle\u003c/a> with the state over a key part of the clean energy transition—battery storage. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/house-democrats-launch-tracking-system-for-immigration\">congressional hearing in downtown Los Angeles\u003c/a> on Monday focused on what witnesses called the chilling effects of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"LongFormPage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/11/14/immigration-lawyers-get-help-from-unlikely-allies-in-fight-to-free-clients\">\u003cstrong>Immigration Lawyers Get Help From Unlikely Allies In Fight To Free Clients\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the 2024 presidential election, Stacy Tolchin expected the next four years to be an uphill battle. The Pasadena-based immigration lawyer lived through the chaos from the first Trump term. She remembers \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116917364/how-the-trump-white-house-misled-the-world-about-its-family-separation-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>family separation\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.aclu-wa.org/timeline-muslim-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Muslim travel ban\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-refugees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>attacks on refugee and asylum programs\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Yet, Tolchin and other lawyers and advocates were still surprised at the speed and sophistication of the current administration’s mass deportation campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really much worse than I even contemplated it would be at the beginning of the year,” she said. The Trump administration has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/04/16/international-students-in-san-diego-caught-up-in-mass-revocation-of-student-visas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>stripped international students of their visas\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, deported people to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>one of the most dangerous prisons\u003c/u>\u003c/a> in the world, and launched \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5534338/ice-chicago-boston-immigration-raids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>violent immigration sweeps in American cities\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the public-facing tactics, the administration has also made a series of quiet legal maneuvers that have made it much more difficult for immigrants to fight deportation cases. These efforts include: Funneling people into fast-track deportation programs, making it harder for immigrants to hire lawyers and making it almost impossible for detainees to get out on bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after being knocked on their heels in the early months of Trump’s new term, lawyers nationwide are now banding together and developing their own legal strategies. “We need warriors, we need people to help us in this fight,” Tolchin said. Chief among them are writ of habeas corpus petitions — federal lawsuits that challenge illegal and indefinite detentions. Collectively, they have filed more than 4,000 habeas petitions as last-ditch efforts to get their clients released from immigration detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a habeas petition is unfamiliar for many attorneys. To help bridge the knowledge gap, immigration lawyers are turning to informal networks for help. Some organizations, like the American Immigration Lawyers Association, have even hosted formal workshops where lawyers can network and get a crash-course in filing habeas petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2025-11-21/central-coast-counties-want-to-regulate-battery-energy-storage-why-is-it-taking-so-long\">\u003cstrong>Why Regulating Battery Energy Storage Is Taking So Long On The Central Coast\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz County took a small step last week toward developing a policy to regulate battery energy storage systems (BESS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At almost the same time, Monterey County supervisors were having a similar conversation. “We just can’t have somebody come in here while we don’t have an ordinance,” said District 2 Supervisor Glenn Church, during a Nov. 18 meeting. “We gotta develop an ordinance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heart of the issue for both counties is the idea of local control. Currently, companies can apply with the state for permits to build and run a BESS. They don’t have to go through the county. But, if counties have ordinances governing BESS facilities, a company can instead choose to go the local route. That could mean more community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the challenge—the state’s climate goals demand a lot more renewable energy storage, fast. Local government is often slow. In Santa Cruz County, they were deciding whether to start a year-long process to develop an ordinance. Even that was delayed. In Monterey County, they were weighing whether to enact a temporary moratorium on new BESS facilities. That didn’t happen either.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Congressional Hearing Examines Effects Of Immigration Enforcement In Southern California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, convened a congressional hearing in downtown Los Angeles on Monday to gather testimony about alleged violations by federal immigration agents, whom they accuse of improperly detaining immigrants and citizens alike, often without probable cause or warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing included testimony from elected officials, experts and residents who have been directly impacted by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Andrea Velez is a U.S. citizen who was detained by ICE agents while on her way to work in June. “Terrified, I used my work bag as a shield, but he slammed me into the sidewalk and accused me of interfering,” she said. “When I asked for his badge or a warrant, he refused and handcuffed me. They didn’t believe I was a U.S. citizen or bother to check my ID. I spent most of that first day shackled in a van watching others arrive, distraught and taken against their will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight also \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/house-democrats-launch-tracking-system-for-immigration\">launched a new tracking system\u003c/a> to document possible misconduct and abuse during federal immigration enforcement operations under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>(Update on Oct. 16 at 10:30 a.m.: The campaign featuring the otter shirts \u003ca href=\"https://tiltify.com/monterey-bay-aquarium/sea-otter-shirt-reprint\">is now live\u003c/a>. The aquarium’s goal is $1.3 million. )\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pleasanton resident Stephanie Haller settled in for a showing of \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/arts/tag/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift’s\u003c/a> new movie, she didn’t expect to get hit with a wave of nostalgia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie featured behind-the-scenes footage of Swift directing a music video for a song off \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM&list=RDko70cExuzZM&start_radio=1&pp=ygUWdGhlIGxpZmUgb2YgYSBzaG93Z2lybKAHAQ%3D%3D\">her new album \u003cem>The Life of a Showgirl\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, all while donning \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y7aKqgNMbpk\">a vintage otter T-shirt\u003c/a> from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a born-and-raised Bay Area kid, Haller immediately recognized the shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was taken back to the ’90s,” Haller said. “I’m pretty sure I had that shirt originally. I had to ask my mom, actually, and be like, ‘Did I have that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans online became enamored with the shirt featuring an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DPXzZ6zAJGU/\">illustration\u003c/a> of two otters floating in the water side-by-side, especially since it ties into Swift’s personal love for the animal, shared by her fiancé and Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I use the Internet for is sourdough and when Travis sends videos of otters on his Instagram,” she recently said on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eZH1orsrfJw\">Kelce’s podcast\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/whattaylorwears/status/1974241581898060082?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the viral shirt has a special connection in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also heard from a couple of friends that here, in some of the local movie theaters, people actually cheered when they saw that it was an aquarium shirt,” said Liz MacDonald, the director of content strategy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacDonald said after the movie premiered on Oct. 3, the aquarium started receiving a plethora of fan messages alerting them about Swift’s shirt and saw “a wave of $13 donations.” 13 is Swift’s favorite number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There definitely were some folks who were like, ‘Huh, what’s up with this?’” MacDonald said of the $13 donations. “But we do have enough Swifties on the team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid all of the love, MacDonald knew that Monterey Bay Aquarium had to find the shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A scramble for otters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The movie — which earned \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-movie-33-million-box-office/\">$34 million\u003c/a> at the domestic box office — sparked a search for the artwork almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest hurdle, MacDonald said, was that the shirt was made in 1993 and the aquarium didn’t have the digital files to “pull up right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became sort of a huge team effort between both us at the aquarium and the Swifties online [who] were also doing a lot of their own sleuthing and pinging us about what they were finding,” she said. “Some of our long-term staff members were reaching out to former employees, former vendors. It really was anyone at the aquarium who had a lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050890 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Southern Sea otter on a beach\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surrogate-reared otter, No. 696, is released back to the wild as part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Research and Conservation study. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monterey Bay Aquarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>MacDonald said the aquarium’s art director started going through physical file boxes to find leads on the artwork. Eventually, he found the original invoices between the aquarium and the company that produced the shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is now called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/libertygraphicstees/\">Liberty Graphics\u003c/a>, based in Maine. Monterey Bay Aquarium successfully got in contact with them two days later, on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by this search, Monterey Bay Aquarium and Liberty Graphics will be issuing a reprint of the otter T-shirts. MacDonald emphasized \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-an-easter-egg-hunt?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic_post&utm_campaign=otter_shirt&utm_term=&utm_content=_316\">the eco-friendly nature\u003c/a> of the shirts, which will use “water-based ink” and “100% cotton materials” that won’t “shed microplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A persons wrists wear eight different bracelets with letters and bright beads on them. The person also holds a carribeaner with dozens more bracelets.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan shows off her carabiner of friendship bracelets to trade while waiting in line for merch before seeing “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” at AMC Kabuki in Japantown, San Francisco, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The way that these shirts are produced is also intended to be really long-lasting,” she said. “A lot of times when we talk about fast fashion, there are things that are produced very quickly that go in and out of style very quickly. And they kind of start to fall apart and can’t even be worn after a couple times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an opportunity, she said, for people to “think about how clothing is made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shirts will be part of a campaign to support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/sea-otter-program-timeline\">Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Program\u003c/a>. Fans would have to donate $65.13 or more to the campaign to get the option to receive the shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An important species\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s sea otters were nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1229808022/california-sea-otters-nearly-went-extinct-now-theyre-rescuing-their-coastal-habi\">hunted\u003c/a> to the brink of extinction in the 1800s due to a booming fur trade. In fact, they were considered to be extinct entirely until 1938, when around \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-otter\">50 sea otters \u003c/a>were found off the coast of Big Sur.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoration efforts have allowed sea otters to make something of a comeback, with many of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052889/healthy-otters-lead-to-a-happy-ecosystem-in-monterey-countys-elkhorn-slough\">California’s sea otters gathering at Elkhorn Slough\u003c/a>, a body of water between Santa Cruz and Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea otters are still considered an \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://iucn.org/sites/default/files/import/downloads/sea_otter_factsheet_29_07_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://iucn.org/sites/default/files/import/downloads/sea_otter_factsheet_29_07_2011.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">endangered\u003c/a> species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with around \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-otter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-otter\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">3,000 southern sea otters in California\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12052889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/9_Opt2-2000x1388.jpeg']“They’re a really important species,” MacDonald said. “They really help make kelp forests a healthier, more resilient forest. And that provides habitat to hundreds of other species of fish and invertebrates. It also really helps the coastline because when you have a healthy kelp forest off the coast, that’s protecting the coastline from storm surges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea otters are protected by federal law, which was established in the early ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those rules may be subject to change, as the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059633/proposed-change-to-endangered-species-act-threatens-californias-sea-otter-haven\">proposes a change\u003c/a> to the Endangered Species Act that would make it so that destroying an animal’s natural habitat would not be considered committing “harm” to the species. This would allow for things like mining, drilling and tree cutting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support for the aquarium work sparked by the otter shirt was “probably the best part of this whole thing,” MacDonald said, especially since the aquarium had been taking care of baby sea otters before it even fully opened its doors in 1984. “The attention it’s bringing to sea otters and the aquarium’s work, restoring and recovering the southern sea otter as a species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Eventually, he found the original invoices between the aquarium and the company that produced the shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is now called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/libertygraphicstees/\">Liberty Graphics\u003c/a>, based in Maine. Monterey Bay Aquarium successfully got in contact with them two days later, on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by this search, Monterey Bay Aquarium and Liberty Graphics will be issuing a reprint of the otter T-shirts. MacDonald emphasized \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-an-easter-egg-hunt?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic_post&utm_campaign=otter_shirt&utm_term=&utm_content=_316\">the eco-friendly nature\u003c/a> of the shirts, which will use “water-based ink” and “100% cotton materials” that won’t “shed microplastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A persons wrists wear eight different bracelets with letters and bright beads on them. The person also holds a carribeaner with dozens more bracelets.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/20231013-Swifties-008-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan shows off her carabiner of friendship bracelets to trade while waiting in line for merch before seeing “Taylor Swift The Eras Tour” at AMC Kabuki in Japantown, San Francisco, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The way that these shirts are produced is also intended to be really long-lasting,” she said. “A lot of times when we talk about fast fashion, there are things that are produced very quickly that go in and out of style very quickly. 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"content": "\u003cp>With shaking hands, Rolla Alaydi flipped through the stack of papers she received in the mail in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of her nieces — Haya, 6; Alma, 6; and Ola, 4 — topped each letter. What followed were nearly identical denials of humanitarian parole from the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government\">government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carefully reviewed your application in accordance with the law, regulation, and USCIS policy and determined that parole is not warranted for the following reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">USCIS website\u003c/a>, “petitioners should expect processing delays. It will take time for us to work through the unprecedented number of parole requests we have received since Fall 2021 and return to normal processing times.” In the fall of 2021, the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040425/bay-area-afghans-allies-decry-trumps-end-of-tps-theyre-terrified\">withdrew from Afghanistan\u003c/a> and the Taliban took over its capital, Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS data shows that 80% of I-131 applications in California’s service center take \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">12 months to process\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12028230 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Panetta1-1020x765.jpeg']That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11997602 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-39_qed-1020x680.jpg']Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With shaking hands, Rolla Alaydi flipped through the stack of papers she received in the mail in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of her nieces — Haya, 6; Alma, 6; and Ola, 4 — topped each letter. What followed were nearly identical denials of humanitarian parole from the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government\">government\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We carefully reviewed your application in accordance with the law, regulation, and USCIS policy and determined that parole is not warranted for the following reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there are urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit reasons that would justify a favorable exercise of discretion to parole the beneficiary into the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the reason or reasons indicated above, your request for parole is denied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than a year of praying, waiting and watching her family starve through a phone screen. The sliver of hope Alaydi held — a chance of bringing her relatives to safety as war devastates Gaza — was erased by boilerplate rejection letters from U.S. immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-06-BL-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. She is seeking a pathway for her relatives to join her in the United States amid ongoing conflict in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failed to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence” was the response to applications that cost thousands of dollars in processing fees and included photos and medical records meant to document the Alaydi family’s life under what outlets such as \u003cem>New York Magazine \u003c/em>have described as “\u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-crimes-genocide.html\">Israel’s undeniable war crimes\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Alyadi, a Pacific Grove resident, said she is just waiting for her family’s death sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has become just names [on] paper,” she said. “They are denying their right to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The heart of a humanitarian crisis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi, an American citizen who was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza and has lived in Northern California for nearly seven years, has been spent the past two years fighting for the survival of her 21 family members amid a siege that the United Nations, in late 2024, described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current 21-month-long military assault began after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel by Hamas-led militants, who killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/nx-s1-5441735/as-israel-recovers-the-bodies-of-three-more-hostages-how-many-are-still-in-gaza\">roughly 1,200 people and took about 251 hostages\u003c/a>, according to Israeli authorities. More than 100 hostages have since been released or rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks at a photo of her family in Gaza sent to her through WhatsApp at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Israel Defense Forces have subsequently killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/g-s1-76915/u-s-sanctions-united-nations-investigator-abuses-gaza\">57,000 Palestinians\u003c/a>, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. A vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999445/south-bay-doctor-returns-to-gaza\">hospital system has collapsed\u003c/a>, offering little care for the wounded and sick, intensifying a humanitarian crisis. Food is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100730/a-dangerous-quest-for-food-in-gaza\">scarce\u003c/a>, and according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheOoKFNpL8\">eyewitnesses\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000\">Israeli newspaper \u003cem>Haaretz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>soldiers have fired on Palestinians gathering at aid distribution sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the world, members of the Palestinian diaspora have scrambled to help their loved ones in Gaza. For Palestinian Americans like Alaydi, humanitarian parole was a major route to temporarily bring family members out of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The way out\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian parole, registered through Form I-131, allows someone outside the U.S. to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">seek entry on urgent humanitarian grounds\u003c/a>, such as a medical emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing a humanitarian parole application costs around \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feecalculator?topic_id=99067\">$630\u003c/a>. But it is not an immigration visa, said Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari. People on humanitarian parole may stay in the United States for varying periods, but the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is typically granted for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">no more than one year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046869 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi looks over humanitarian parole paperwork for her family at a cafe in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It “allows you to escape a humanitarian emergency … and safely come to be in the U.S. for a brief period of time,” she said. “It exists to address the type of emergencies that we’re seeing in Gaza right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in 1975, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2024/03/GT-GILJ230015.pdf\">around 130,000 people\u003c/a> were given humanitarian parole after the United States withdrew from Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Processing times are lengthy. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act,immigration%20status%2C%20whichever%20occurs%20first.\">USCIS website\u003c/a>, “petitioners should expect processing delays. It will take time for us to work through the unprecedented number of parole requests we have received since Fall 2021 and return to normal processing times.” In the fall of 2021, the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040425/bay-area-afghans-allies-decry-trumps-end-of-tps-theyre-terrified\">withdrew from Afghanistan\u003c/a> and the Taliban took over its capital, Kabul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS data shows that 80% of I-131 applications in California’s service center take \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">12 months to process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s time that many Gazans don’t have. “These are emergency applications. You’re taking well over a year to even get us a decision on them,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">humanitarian parole applications has been the primary tactic\u003c/a> for lawyers supporting Palestinians in America — citizens and green card or visa holders — trying to assist families in Gaza, said Ban Al-Wardi. She is one of the lead attorneys on Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians, which is supported by the Bay Area’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians is a coalition of over 400 legal volunteers that have filed around 2,000 cases over nearly two years. Volunteer attorneys have reported three approvals and about 17 denials, but the organization hopes to learn more about how USCIS has been processing the applications through a Freedom of Information Act request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have only seen a very, very small amount of cases result in decisions,” she said. “And the majority of the decisions that we’re receiving are denials, but on a very blanket level basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi’s clients got the same kind of letters Alaydi received: “This kind of language is really kind of indicative of how hollow the review of these cases has been … did not include USCIS even asking for additional evidence, or even citing specific reasons for the denial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari, who is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://acrlmich.org/gaza-family-project/\">Gaza Family Project\u003c/a> run by the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, said she has seen almost 10 clients receive denials and anticipates “we will see blanket denials for all of these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HUMANITARIANPAROLEDEEPDIVE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi wears a bracelet that says, “Free Alaydi” in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s just no due process, no consideration of the dozens and dozens of pages that we have submitted to show why humanitarian parole in this institution was warranted,” Kari said. “I very rarely nowadays get to give good news to any of my clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an insult. It’s going to be a deadly consequence for Rolla’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The denials have left people like Alaydi devastated. She recalled talking with her niece, 6-year-old Alma, weeks earlier, promising her she would soon be safe — that she would be in school, have new friends and eat three meals a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said, ‘Oh, I already started learning some English — I love you and good morning in English,’” Alaydi said. “I’m just now afraid even to hear her voice. Before, I was comforting her that she will be in a good place. I don’t know what to tell them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2087px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2087\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole.jpg 2087w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2000x827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-1536x635.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HumanitarianParole-2048x847.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2087px) 100vw, 2087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi’s 6-year-old niece, Alma, in May 2025. Alma has been in the midst of the siege on Gaza. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Kari and Al-Wardi say the system has been historically difficult for Palestinians and Palestinian Americans to navigate — often due to a lack of “political will,” Al-Wardi said. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced numerous barriers to leaving the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers working with clients at the start of the Gaza siege said assisting them was difficult, as it required coordination with multiple governments, including Israel and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some politicians have called for \u003ca href=\"https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-colleagues-call-for-swift-action-to-assist-family-members-of-american-citizens-trapped-in-gaza\">the expansion of humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for Gazan relatives of U.S. citizens. However, when the siege of Gaza began during the Biden administration, many lawyers pointed out that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">program was created for Ukrainians\u003c/a> amid Russia’s invasion, but no comparable support was offered for Palestinians. Under the Trump administration, Ukrainian refugees now face an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030273/if-trump-revokes-ukrainian-refugees-legal-status-many-in-california-fear-deportation\">uncertain future in America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a paperwork issue,” Al-Wardi said. “It’s not because we’re missing evidence, or we’re missing paperwork, or not all of the T’s were crossed and the I’s were dotted. It’s a very systemic, multi-president, multi-administration form of exclusion that we’ve seen historically against Palestinians and just immigrants from communities that are not white or European.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20231017-Gaza-Vigil-030-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An altar covered by a kufiyah, a Palestinian scarf, is seen at a candlelight vigil to honor lives lost in Gaza in the past week at Dolores Park in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. Hundreds of members of the Palestinian community and pro-Palestine supporters gathered quickly to mourn after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in an air strike, killing hundreds more Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another route was stopped in its tracks: the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Around the end of 2023, Kari said she and her colleagues found that some of their clients were getting referred to the refugee program, which gave “us a lot of hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [President Donald] Trump won, we were hearing from the U.S. refugee offices in Egypt, ‘Hey, let’s get your clients’ interviews done before December.’ We were quickly prepping everybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration moved quickly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/\">suspend USRAP\u003c/a>, which has existed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/trump-administration-suspends-refugee-resettlement\">the 1980 Refugee Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The program’s dead, everything has stopped,” Kari said. “The immigration system has been completely dismantled from the pipeline that begins overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the way ICE is operating in our cities … this administration’s taken a hammer and destroyed refugee admissions processing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Telling someone who received a denial that they’ve reached the end of the road — and shouldn’t spend hundreds more dollars to appeal — has been “just heartbreaking,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of these families are starting to look at other countries and other ways to get their families to safety,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al-Wardi said that she has told some families, “If we’re not gonna get an approval, we’re filing all of these and documenting these abuses and violations for accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-HumanitarianParoleDeepDive-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands on the beach in Pacific Grove on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s “a huge project that’s going to just document and hold institutions accountable for their failures,” she said. “That’s valuable … I know that our clients [are] willing to be a part of that, but at the same time, devastated, because it doesn’t protect anybody that they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During these times, communities have stepped up for their Palestinian neighbors and put pressure on their representatives. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/urge-jimmy-panetta-to-save-palestinian-constituents-families\">petition with over 1,000 signatures\u003c/a> urges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028230/this-santa-cruz-congressman-received-more-than-250000-from-a-powerful-pro-israel-lobby\">Rep. Jimmy Panetta, \u003c/a>D-Santa Cruz, “to act with utmost swiftness and leverage his influence to advocate for a humanitarian evacuation from Gaza of the family of one of his constituents.” Al-Wardi explained that “congressional advocacy actually can really, really help” speed up case reviews or improve tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2023, pro-Palestinian activism has swept \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">the Bay Area and Northern California\u003c/a>. From college campuses to bridges to highways, residents and advocates have expressed their outrage at the United States’ financial and military support of Israel. Much of the heat has targeted congressional representatives who voted to fund Israel and accepted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">donations from pro-Israel lobbyists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christine Hong of Santa Cruz organized the petition in support of Alaydi, a resident of Panetta’s district. Hong said she and fellow activist Sean Molloy will be accompanying Alaydi in a meeting with Panetta’s staff later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s such a desperation about everything that Rolla is going through,” Hong said. “She’s constantly having to appeal to figures, entities and the government of a perpetrator country,” that allies itself with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to petition the government to prove that they’re human and deserving of life,” Molloy added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Panetta said he remains committed to advocating for constituents on federal issues and will continue pressing agencies for answers. “My heart continues to go out to Dr. Alyadi, and it is my hope that she appeals the Administration’s decision so that we can continue to fight on her behalf,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta called humanitarian parole requests “some of the most complicated and restrictive immigration petitions under current U.S. policy,” especially in conflict zones like Gaza. He noted that USCIS is administratively backlogged and under-resourced — challenges worsened by the pandemic, the 2021 influx of Afghan allies seeking refuge, recent executive orders and USCIS workforce reductions. In May, Panetta joined more than 100 lawmakers to secure $700 million in funding to help USCIS address its case backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In emails shared with KQED, Alaydi has been in contact with a caseworker from Panetta’s office. In a message sent on June 16, the caseworker wrote, “Per your request, below you will find USCIS’s response to our inquiry dated June 13, 2025. As we discussed, I encourage you to seek legal counsel to review the recent denial of I-131’s … filed in March 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she wants the chance to meet face-to-face with elected officials like Panetta and California’s senators to talk about her family. After a denial, an applicant has 33 days to consider an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not ready to give up,” she said. “I’m gonna try all the possible solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m overwhelmed. I am drained physically, emotionally, in all levels, and even financially. But I’m not ready to give up. I’m not gonna just sit and just watch them get bombed and starve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea esta historia en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2025/02/con-temor-de-ir-a-la-escuela-el-miedo-se-apodera-de-las-familias-inmigrantes-en-la-zona-central-de-california/\">Español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E., a mother of three in Salinas, is extra careful when she takes her kids to school. She switches up her routes, leaves at different times, and is always on the lookout for immigration agents, especially during pick-ups and drop-offs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s threat of mass deportations is never far from her mind, but it’s not her own welfare she’s concerned about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not worried about going back to Mexico. I’m afraid of being separated from my kids,” said E., who asked not to be identified because she and her husband’s immigration status puts them at risk of being deported. “My worst fear is that my 6-year-old will end up in a camp. … I don’t know what I would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there have been few, if any, reports of immigration arrests at or near schools recently, E. and countless other parents are gripped with fear that if they go to the store, work or school, they’ll never see their families again. The fear stems from Trump’s heated anti-immigrant rhetoric, as well as his recent removal of schools, hospitals, courts and other “sensitive locations” as safe zones for undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salinas, known as “the salad bowl of the world” for its rich agricultural fields, fear is everywhere. Although there have been no raids since the inauguration, rumors about ICE sweeps abound. At schools, there’s a heightened sense of awareness. Office staff know to ask immigration agents for judicial warrants and to immediately alert the superintendent. Volunteers walk students home from school, so parents don’t have to risk going outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an immigrant city, and just the threat is enough to scare people,” said Mary Duan, spokesperson for Salinas City Elementary School District. “The specter of deportation is driving people underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas has one of the highest concentrations of immigrants in California. In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sandiegocitycalifornia,tularecitycalifornia,fresnocitycalifornia,mercedcitycalifornia,salinascitycalifornia/PST045223\">more than a third of the population\u003c/a> was born in another country, according to the U.S. Census, and more than 80% are Latino. Immigrants have been a part of Salinas for generations, and nearly everyone is related to someone who was foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s attendance has dropped steadily the past few months. In August, about 95% of the district’s 8,200 students showed up for class every day, but by mid-January the number had dropped to just over 91%, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Historic farming community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his classic, \u003cem>East of Eden\u003c/em>, Salinas has long been a working-class farming community. It sits at the northern end of the Salinas Valley, flanked by mountains to the east and west, with ocean breezes wafting in from Monterey Bay ensuring mild temperatures almost year-round — perfect conditions for growing lettuce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person drives a tractor through a field of crops on farmland near Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vegetable fields — tidy, bright green rows of lettuce, broccoli, spinach and other crops — stretch miles across the valley, from the outskirts of town to the foothills of the nearby Gabilan and Sierra de Salinas ranges. Packing plants and nurseries dot the edges of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have always played a central role in Salinas. But in the past few months, that role has expanded, as schools have reassured parents, provided information and comforted anxious children. The district has trained office staff to ask for judicial — not administrative — warrants from immigration agents if they come on campus. It’s considering expanding its virtual academies, like those that operated during COVID, for children whose parents feel safer keeping them home. And it’s been taking extra steps to make students feel welcome and safe on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our schools to be places of joy, connection and belonging,” said Superintendent Rebecca Andrade. “The unknown is what causes anxiety. So we try to stay focused on our role, which is educating and supporting students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From the onion fields to the classroom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It helps that many teachers, counselors and other school staff grew up in the area and themselves come from undocumented families. They know what it’s like to pick lettuce on chilly August mornings, hear the cries of “la migra” when immigration agents are nearby, and live with the constant knowledge that friends or family members could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Ramos, a second grade teacher at Sherwood Elementary, came from Jalisco, Mexico to Hollister, about 30 miles northwest of Salinas, when he was 4 years old with his family. By the time he was 8, he was picking onions and garlic with his family, working 10-hour days throughout the summers. He remembers when, in the 1980s, his babysitter was arrested at the labor camp where his family lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a knock at the door, and they just took her. There was no warning,” Ramos recalled. “I was 6 years old. I never saw her again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His own parents were never arrested, but he knows all too well the fear children experience when they think they might not see their parents again. In his classroom, the topic comes up daily, despite his efforts to keep his students focused on schoolwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Oscar Ramos in his classroom at Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I read them stories, they’d make random comments about their pets or their friends or what they’re doing this weekend,” Ramos said. “Now, they talk about ICE. ‘My parents said we can’t go to Walmart because that’s where they’ll pick you up.’ ‘I got sick but we couldn’t go to the hospital because immigration might be there.’ There’s just so much fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although immigration raids have always been part of life in Salinas, “this time feels different,” Ramos said. “The mood seems more hateful, unpredictable. How far will (Trump) go? How far will he push the limits? Will he send us back? Put us in giant prisons? Separate families? It seems like he doesn’t care. We see it and we feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unpredictability has left even those with legal status on edge. Stories abound about citizens being caught in immigration sweeps and detained or sent to Mexico. People worry about losing their visas, or about loved ones getting wrongfully arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I could lose everything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cecilia, 28, came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 2, with her mother and sister. She has legal status through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and works in a family resource center for immigrants. When she can afford to, she takes classes at Hartnell Community College in hopes of earning a degree in accounting or business. With a knack for math, she hopes to someday work in a payroll office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone in her family has visas, but she now worries that those could be taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never used to carry my DACA papers, but since the election I always do,” said Cecilia, who asked that her full name not be used because she fears her DACA status may be revoked. “If I lose my visa, I would lose my job, I could lose everything. I know other people have it way worse, but it’s still scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Copy-of-KQED-side-by-side-downpage-image-1-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Campus counselor Ismael Del Real points at posters showing a range of emotions. Right: The Calming Room in the counselor’s office at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ismael Del Real, a counselor at Los Padres Elementary School, is busy these days. There’s a steady stream of students who visit the “calming corner” in his office, seeking a moment’s escape from their anxiety. He tells them to take deep breaths, count to 10, draw, squeeze a stress ball, talk about their fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mostly, he just listens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about having the perfect words, because there’s nothing perfect about any of this,” said Del Real, who grew up in Salinas and whose parents are immigrants from Mexico. “I just try to be there for them. I tell them, ‘You’re right, this is scary, and it makes sense to feel anxious.’”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Every day, teachers ask each of the school’s 680 students to pick an emoji to describe their mood. Until recently, nearly all the children picked “happy.” Now, an increasing number pick “sad” or “angry.” Del Real visits with these students personally and tries to offer comfort and coping strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s parents who show up at his office, located in a tidy portable next to the school garden. The walls are adorned with inspirational slogans in Spanish, such as “\u003cem>No hay mal que bien no venga\u003c/em>,” or “Every cloud has a silver lining,” and the furniture is a cheerful bright blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He advises them to keep a supply of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">red cards\u003c/a> that outline their rights to immigration officials, go to community events to get reliable information about what’s happening and what resources are available, and have a plan. Decide who will pick up the children if the parent is arrested, and give the school that person’s phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the fear of deportation has brought families together, and motivated them to speak out — even anonymously. During a recent protest, more than 200 parents at Los Padres kept their children home from school as a show of solidarity. And they are quick to help each other and support those who need assistance, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine what these parents are going through. These are humble people who work hard, and they just want what’s best for their kids,” Del Real said. “I just want them to have a sense of peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Help for families\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Los Padres, well over half of the students are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Vice Principal Christina Perez, who grew up in Salinas, knows exactly the hardships those families face. Her parents were immigrants from Michoacan, Mexico, and her father, who didn’t have legal status in the U.S., was deported several times when Perez was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all schools in the district, Los Padres offers a slew of resources for immigrant families. The district operates four centers for families to get food, clothing and other supplies, counseling, referrals for legal advice and other needs. Nearly 4,000 families visit the centers annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez adds a personal touch, reaching out directly to parents who are worried about being separated from their children. Her message is that the school will do everything in its power to protect students and ensure they feel safe and comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can imagine what these families are going through. It’s ugly to live in that fear. You’re afraid to go to work, afraid to go to school, you wonder how you’ll support your family,” she said. “That was my family, years ago. You think things are going to get better, but here we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E., the Salinas mother of three, said she tries to protect her children from the news, but they overhear snippets and know that their parents are at risk. Her husband supports the family by working at a nursery, and she worries about their livelihood if he gets detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m doing the best I can,” she said. “But right now it feels hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Salinas, known as “the salad bowl of the world” for its rich agricultural fields, fear is everywhere. Although there have been no raids since the inauguration, rumors about ICE sweeps abound. At schools, there’s a heightened sense of awareness. Office staff know to ask immigration agents for judicial warrants and to immediately alert the superintendent. Volunteers walk students home from school, so parents don’t have to risk going outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an immigrant city, and just the threat is enough to scare people,” said Mary Duan, spokesperson for Salinas City Elementary School District. “The specter of deportation is driving people underground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas has one of the highest concentrations of immigrants in California. In 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sandiegocitycalifornia,tularecitycalifornia,fresnocitycalifornia,mercedcitycalifornia,salinascitycalifornia/PST045223\">more than a third of the population\u003c/a> was born in another country, according to the U.S. Census, and more than 80% are Latino. Immigrants have been a part of Salinas for generations, and nearly everyone is related to someone who was foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s attendance has dropped steadily the past few months. In August, about 95% of the district’s 8,200 students showed up for class every day, but by mid-January the number had dropped to just over 91%, according to district data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Historic farming community\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his classic, \u003cem>East of Eden\u003c/em>, Salinas has long been a working-class farming community. It sits at the northern end of the Salinas Valley, flanked by mountains to the east and west, with ocean breezes wafting in from Monterey Bay ensuring mild temperatures almost year-round — perfect conditions for growing lettuce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_34-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person drives a tractor through a field of crops on farmland near Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vegetable fields — tidy, bright green rows of lettuce, broccoli, spinach and other crops — stretch miles across the valley, from the outskirts of town to the foothills of the nearby Gabilan and Sierra de Salinas ranges. Packing plants and nurseries dot the edges of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools have always played a central role in Salinas. But in the past few months, that role has expanded, as schools have reassured parents, provided information and comforted anxious children. The district has trained office staff to ask for judicial — not administrative — warrants from immigration agents if they come on campus. It’s considering expanding its virtual academies, like those that operated during COVID, for children whose parents feel safer keeping them home. And it’s been taking extra steps to make students feel welcome and safe on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our schools to be places of joy, connection and belonging,” said Superintendent Rebecca Andrade. “The unknown is what causes anxiety. So we try to stay focused on our role, which is educating and supporting students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From the onion fields to the classroom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It helps that many teachers, counselors and other school staff grew up in the area and themselves come from undocumented families. They know what it’s like to pick lettuce on chilly August mornings, hear the cries of “la migra” when immigration agents are nearby, and live with the constant knowledge that friends or family members could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Ramos, a second grade teacher at Sherwood Elementary, came from Jalisco, Mexico to Hollister, about 30 miles northwest of Salinas, when he was 4 years old with his family. By the time he was 8, he was picking onions and garlic with his family, working 10-hour days throughout the summers. He remembers when, in the 1980s, his babysitter was arrested at the labor camp where his family lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a knock at the door, and they just took her. There was no warning,” Ramos recalled. “I was 6 years old. I never saw her again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His own parents were never arrested, but he knows all too well the fear children experience when they think they might not see their parents again. In his classroom, the topic comes up daily, despite his efforts to keep his students focused on schoolwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_21-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Oscar Ramos in his classroom at Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I read them stories, they’d make random comments about their pets or their friends or what they’re doing this weekend,” Ramos said. “Now, they talk about ICE. ‘My parents said we can’t go to Walmart because that’s where they’ll pick you up.’ ‘I got sick but we couldn’t go to the hospital because immigration might be there.’ There’s just so much fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although immigration raids have always been part of life in Salinas, “this time feels different,” Ramos said. “The mood seems more hateful, unpredictable. How far will (Trump) go? How far will he push the limits? Will he send us back? Put us in giant prisons? Separate families? It seems like he doesn’t care. We see it and we feel it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That unpredictability has left even those with legal status on edge. Stories abound about citizens being caught in immigration sweeps and detained or sent to Mexico. People worry about losing their visas, or about loved ones getting wrongfully arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I could lose everything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cecilia, 28, came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 2, with her mother and sister. She has legal status through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and works in a family resource center for immigrants. When she can afford to, she takes classes at Hartnell Community College in hopes of earning a degree in accounting or business. With a knack for math, she hopes to someday work in a payroll office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone in her family has visas, but she now worries that those could be taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never used to carry my DACA papers, but since the election I always do,” said Cecilia, who asked that her full name not be used because she fears her DACA status may be revoked. “If I lose my visa, I would lose my job, I could lose everything. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Every day, teachers ask each of the school’s 680 students to pick an emoji to describe their mood. Until recently, nearly all the children picked “happy.” Now, an increasing number pick “sad” or “angry.” Del Real visits with these students personally and tries to offer comfort and coping strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it’s parents who show up at his office, located in a tidy portable next to the school garden. The walls are adorned with inspirational slogans in Spanish, such as “\u003cem>No hay mal que bien no venga\u003c/em>,” or “Every cloud has a silver lining,” and the furniture is a cheerful bright blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He advises them to keep a supply of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">red cards\u003c/a> that outline their rights to immigration officials, go to community events to get reliable information about what’s happening and what resources are available, and have a plan. Decide who will pick up the children if the parent is arrested, and give the school that person’s phone number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the fear of deportation has brought families together, and motivated them to speak out — even anonymously. During a recent protest, more than 200 parents at Los Padres kept their children home from school as a show of solidarity. And they are quick to help each other and support those who need assistance, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/021125-ICE-Schools-Salinas-LV_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine what these parents are going through. These are humble people who work hard, and they just want what’s best for their kids,” Del Real said. “I just want them to have a sense of peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Help for families\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Los Padres, well over half of the students are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Vice Principal Christina Perez, who grew up in Salinas, knows exactly the hardships those families face. Her parents were immigrants from Michoacan, Mexico, and her father, who didn’t have legal status in the U.S., was deported several times when Perez was a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like all schools in the district, Los Padres offers a slew of resources for immigrant families. The district operates four centers for families to get food, clothing and other supplies, counseling, referrals for legal advice and other needs. Nearly 4,000 families visit the centers annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez adds a personal touch, reaching out directly to parents who are worried about being separated from their children. Her message is that the school will do everything in its power to protect students and ensure they feel safe and comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can imagine what these families are going through. It’s ugly to live in that fear. You’re afraid to go to work, afraid to go to school, you wonder how you’ll support your family,” she said. “That was my family, years ago. You think things are going to get better, but here we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E., the Salinas mother of three, said she tries to protect her children from the news, but they overhear snippets and know that their parents are at risk. Her husband supports the family by working at a nursery, and she worries about their livelihood if he gets detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m doing the best I can,” she said. “But right now it feels hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:56 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fire that flared up Tuesday night at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022725/massive-fire-monterey-county-battery-plant-spews-toxic-smoke-forces-evacuations\">Monterey County energy storage facility\u003c/a> that burned in January is under control, county officials said Wednesday afternoon. Still, the reignition renewed fears about the environmental and health effects of both blazes, and other flare-ups that could still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North County Fire Chief Joel Mendoza said that fire crews and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office responded Tuesday evening to reports of light smoke coming from a building at the Vistra Energy Storage Facility that burned in last month’s massive fire in Moss Landing. By later that night, it had intensified and turned into flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started under a pile of rubble in a section of the facility that had previously burned. There haven’t been any sustained periods of poor air quality or indications of danger to the public, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinator Eric Sandusky said, but officials advised residents to close windows and doors Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said the fire burned at “different intensities” throughout the night and burned out around 8 a.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 70% of the Vistra site, including some of the 100,000 lithium-ion batteries it uses to store energy, burned in the original fire, which scientists said could have dangerous health and environmental impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. 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Many of these new batteries that are being built are actually built in containers,” Dustin Mulvaney, a professor of environmental studies at San José State University, told KQED. “Those containers are separated … You could control the spread of the fire to some extent by just keeping those adjacent containers cool. Inside of a building. There’s no way to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/ElkhornSlough-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the fire, local officials disclosed that the building’s fire suppression system failed to activate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, the Moss Landing BESS suffered two previous fires, one in 2021 and one in 2022. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the fire, local officials disclosed that the building’s fire suppression system failed to activate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, the Moss Landing BESS suffered two previous fires, one in 2021 and one in 2022. Defendant VISTRA’s own investigation of those fires highlighted the deficiencies of the fire suppression system at the Moss Landing BESS, yet no changes were made,” the complaint states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vistra Corp declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also claims that PG&E shares responsibility, as it draws power from the facility and has a say in the equipment used there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Moss Landing power plant is located adjacent to — but walled off and separate from — PG&E’s Moss Landing electric substation,” PG&E said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking compensation for the harm caused by the fire, including forced evacuations and property damage covered in soot and ash, which may contain toxic compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A field survey by San José State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories detected unusually high levels of nickel, manganese and cobalt in soils within 2 miles of the lithium battery storage site, linking the contamination to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook group focused on potential health effects from the fire quickly grew to thousands of members, as locals reported a foul odor, a metallic taste and symptoms such as headaches, sore throats and nausea they suspected were related to the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people in the community are now being tested for heavy metals in their system. They’re questioning whether they can put their children back in the schools, use the local facilities like playgrounds for kids,” Johnson, the lawyer, said. “What they’ve suffered immediately is very significant. What they could suffer over the long run is something we’re going to have to figure out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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