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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“At a time when the administration has shown a complete disregard for the rule of law as well as any decision-making by our courts, we need to be prepared that this will happen more frequently,” Billoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood called the detention “an escalating indication of the constitutional crisis that we are facing in our country right now,” speaking outside the airport Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where even people on valid tourist visas, people who are here on interfaith missions and humanitarian causes, can be denied entry and [have] their voice be silenced,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crowd of about 36 protesters gathered at the airport Thursday, ringing bells and chanting, “Let them go — no deportation.” Some wore keffiyehs, a traditional Middle Eastern scarf that has become symbolic of Palestinians, and held signs like, “SF Welcomes Palestinian Speakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said that he and Weintraub, who leads the Jewish-Palestinian Reparations Alliance at Kehilla, first learned that the men had been detained from the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, after not hearing from them several hours after their flight from Doha, Qatar, was expected to land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12044080 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/PalestinianDetainees3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Weintraub speaks out at San Francisco International Airport on June 12, 2025, to protest Customs and Border Patrol agents’ detention of two Palestinian visitors, who had visas to the U.S. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reaction is [that] they’re deeply disappointed and outraged,” said Weintraub, who had been at the airport since Wednesday afternoon and was able to speak with the men once that evening. “That’s such a ridiculous decision, having no basis in reality. These are folks trying to share their village’s story and to thank us for supporting them and showing solidarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men are Palestinian passport holders, reported the San Francisco Chronicle, which have long been recognized as travel documents by U.S. officials, though not as proof of citizenship. The U.S. does not recognize the Palestinian Authority, a governing body in the part of the Palestinian territories where the men are from, as a government, nor the territories as a state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masafer Yatta, the village where the men are from, was recently depicted in “No Other Land,” the Best Documentary Oscar winner in 2025, which captured clashes between residents and Israeli settlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linder said the men were told they would be deported back to the West Bank, likely through Jordan, on Thursday. They were not given a reason for their revoked visas, he said, which sets a “terrible precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People with valid tourist visas to the United States that can be arbitrarily denied entry because of their skin color, because of their last name … their Palestinian peoplehood, that is a huge precedent that may be very dangerous for anyone that doesn’t look like the current [Make America Great Again] regime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem> Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 13: A previous version of this story named the two Palestinian men who were sent back home. Their names were removed after concerns were raised for their safety.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Christian Laporte, 19, was returning to attend classes at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, after spending the Christmas holidays in Haiti with his family, according to attorney Milli Atkinson, who is representing the brothers. She said Laporte’s younger half-brother, Vladimir Fardin, was accompanying him for a visit and had a tourist visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived at SFO Sunday afternoon from Haiti via a flight from Mexico, immigration officials refused to let the brothers enter the U.S. due to visa problems, according to a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson said the pair was held at the airport for more than 24 hours, their visas were taken away and they were not permitted to speak to her or to family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Milli Atkinson, legal director, S. F. 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He was eventually able to speak to his mother, after arriving at a facility in San Diego run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designating Fardin an unaccompanied minor was unnecessary and could lead to a long and damaging separation, said Atkinson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This system is designed to protect children from trafficking. But it was clear from the moment he entered that this was not a trafficking situation,” she said. “It’s a long bureaucratic process and it could possibly be months before he can see his family again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday morning, Laporte was put on a flight to the Dominican Republic via Mexico, although he is not Dominican, said Atkinson. She added that officials would not give her the flight number, but said his mother was able to travel from Haiti to the Dominican airport to find him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their mother is devastated,” Atkinson said. “She is heartbroken for Christian … and she is justifiably worried about Vladimir’s safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fear for a Child in Detention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Linsay Etienne, a family friend in Oakley, said Laporte had spent the fall semester attending school and living with her, and she was preparing to host Fardin as well. She said the boys have a deep bond and the forcible separation could be crushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the conditions for children in detention are not the best, they are not good,” said Etienne. “Children have died. They are left scarred. They are traumatized. 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"content": "\u003cp>There are often hundreds of drivers gathered in the taxi lot at San Francisco International Airport, in the back of the lower level of the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I arrived around 10 a.m. on a recent day, one driver was vacuuming his cab. Nearby, a pair of drivers were playing cards on the hood of a taxi. Others huddled around a bench, smoking cigarettes and chatting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of these drivers, there’s a lot of waiting these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799433\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41028_006_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9923-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Taxis wait to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. With about 500 taxi drivers coming to SFO daily, each driver may get only as few as three rides a day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41028_006_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9923-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41028_006_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9923-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41028_006_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9923-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41028_006_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9923-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxis wait to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. With about 500 taxi drivers coming to SFO daily, each driver may get only as few as three rides a day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Namdev Sharma has been here for three hours, and he’s still waiting for the first fare of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no time for my children,” Sharma said. “It’s not a life to sit here and wait and wait, and then to get ready for the next day to do the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharma is one of more than 700 drivers in San Francisco who took out large loans to buy medallions, the licenses to operate a cab. But now that Lyft and Uber have decimated the taxi industry, drivers aren’t making nearly enough to cover their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharma has paid $80,000 toward his medallion, nearly a third of the total cost. If he were to default now on the loan, he would lose all of the money he paid in, which would be a devastating blow for him and his family. It’s his entire life savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi drivers Ali Asghar (L) and Namdev Sharma (R) talk while they wait for a fare at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers Ali Asghar (L) and Namdev Sharma (R) talk while they wait for a fare at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, San Francisco made tens of millions of dollars selling taxi medallions to drivers for $250,000 a piece. But now the medallion market is frozen — no one has bought one in almost four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because there are no buyers for medallions, those who have one are stuck with it, and they are shackled to the loan payments. So even though there are often so few fares that drivers struggle to make even minimum wage, their only option is to keep driving and driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A taxi meter at the San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A taxi meter at the San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Berth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone at the SFO taxi lot had a story of loss and suffering. Some, like Sharma, lost their homes and are renting now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sameh Alshriedeh lost his home, he didn’t have enough money for rent and said he was forced to take his family to a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past three years, Ali Alikhani said he’s been using his Social Security money to pay off the medallion loan every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain can also be physical. Abdelellah Alhimsi said he ground his teeth so hard that he broke the night guard he wore to protect them. He couldn’t afford the $500 to replace it, and after breaking the guard, broke five of his teeth, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another driver, Ali Asghar, said he’s been suffering anxiety attacks at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I get up early, like nighttime when I’m sleeping, and I am freaked out and all sweaty,” Asghar said. “Then I put my kids in front of me. I say we’re living in America, my kids are suffering. How will be their future?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several drivers have died from illnesses commonly related to stress. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694401/san-francisco-made-millions-selling-taxi-medallions-now-drivers-are-paying-the-price\">KQED reported on the story of Edward Agababian\u003c/a> who died in his cab at age 59 from a torn aorta. Three weeks ago, Muhamed Tokmic-Muha passed away at his home — he was only 51 years old. Fellow drivers are now \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/final-expenses-for-muhamed-tokmic-muha?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet\">trying to help the family raise money for the funeral\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Alikhani said he found another driver dead in a cab. He had apparently been waiting for a fare and had had a heart attack. Alikhani said he can still see his colleague’s face, laying dead in the taxi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799434\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41035_014_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9958-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi driver Ejaz Ahmed shows his medallion.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41035_014_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9958-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41035_014_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9958-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41035_014_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9958-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41035_014_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9958-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Ejaz Ahmed shows his medallion. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has made tweaks to the medallion program, but it is not offering to buy them back. New York City, on the other hand, is working on a debt relief program for their drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alikhani said he hopes San Francisco will do something similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I am asking is that the city of San Francisco pay me off and buy me out, that’s it,” Alikhani said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groundwork for the medallion crisis was laid in 2010, when a budget deficit followed on the heels of a financial recession. Then-Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the city to start selling taxi medallions. Before then, medallions were awarded on a seniority system, and drivers would wait years to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ejaz Ahmed waits in the short term parking garage at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. Taxi drivers can often wait up to an hour or more waiting to pick up a fare.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ejaz Ahmed waits in the short-term parking garage at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. Taxi drivers can often wait up to an hour or more waiting to pick up a fare. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco turned to a local credit union to finance the medallion sales. The city encouraged the San Francisco Federal Credit Union to issue subprime loans to drivers, many of whom had bad or no credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Cohen, a lawyer for the credit union, said it only agreed at the time because the city promised to maintain a viable market for medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"taxis\"]“By basically allowing the medallion market to die on the vine along with most of the cab market as well, they breached that obligation,” Cohen said. “It’s our position that there were lots of things the city could have and may have done too late or chosen not to do at all that led to the demise of the taxi market as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen says the city could have decided to regulate Lyft and Uber locally instead of abdicating responsibility to the state. For example, he said, San Francisco could have made the ride-hailing platforms to play by the same rules as existing cabs and acquire medallions to operate their businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ed Lee was mayor, he embraced Lyft and Uber, and even held an official “Lyft Day” at City Hall to celebrate the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed’s office did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The credit union is now suing the city for failing to maintain a market for medallions, as it believes the medallion laws and lending agreement with the city guarantee. But even if the credit union wins, it’s not clear that the drivers will get back the money they’ve poured into their medallions. That would mean $200,000 lost for driver Ejaz Ahmed — his entire life savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41046_031_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0089-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi drivers play cards while they wait to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41046_031_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0089-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41046_031_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0089-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41046_031_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0089-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41046_031_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0089-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers play cards while they wait to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmed hopes that people in San Francisco will put pressure on the supervisors and mayor to refund the medallion money, citing the city’s progressive politics and culture that enticed him to move here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not have any hope on the board of supervisors,” Ahmed said. “I do have a belief in the people of San Francisco, that they will step in and they will force [the city] to refund the taxi drivers’ money back.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharma is one of more than 700 drivers in San Francisco who took out large loans to buy medallions, the licenses to operate a cab. But now that Lyft and Uber have decimated the taxi industry, drivers aren’t making nearly enough to cover their loan payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharma has paid $80,000 toward his medallion, nearly a third of the total cost. If he were to default now on the loan, he would lose all of the money he paid in, which would be a devastating blow for him and his family. It’s his entire life savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799435\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi drivers Ali Asghar (L) and Namdev Sharma (R) talk while they wait for a fare at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41039_018_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_0005-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers Ali Asghar (L) and Namdev Sharma (R) talk while they wait for a fare at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, San Francisco made tens of millions of dollars selling taxi medallions to drivers for $250,000 a piece. But now the medallion market is frozen — no one has bought one in almost four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because there are no buyers for medallions, those who have one are stuck with it, and they are shackled to the loan payments. So even though there are often so few fares that drivers struggle to make even minimum wage, their only option is to keep driving and driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11799432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A taxi meter at the San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41027_005_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9919-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A taxi meter at the San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. \u003ccite>(Berth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly everyone at the SFO taxi lot had a story of loss and suffering. Some, like Sharma, lost their homes and are renting now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sameh Alshriedeh lost his home, he didn’t have enough money for rent and said he was forced to take his family to a homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past three years, Ali Alikhani said he’s been using his Social Security money to pay off the medallion loan every month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain can also be physical. Abdelellah Alhimsi said he ground his teeth so hard that he broke the night guard he wore to protect them. He couldn’t afford the $500 to replace it, and after breaking the guard, broke five of his teeth, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another driver, Ali Asghar, said he’s been suffering anxiety attacks at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I get up early, like nighttime when I’m sleeping, and I am freaked out and all sweaty,” Asghar said. “Then I put my kids in front of me. I say we’re living in America, my kids are suffering. 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Taxi drivers can often wait up to an hour or more waiting to pick up a fare.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS41037_016_KQED_TaxiDriversSFO_01302020_9974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ejaz Ahmed waits in the short-term parking garage at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 30, 2020. 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