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"content": "\u003cp>A Sunnyvale carpenter who was rushed to the emergency room during an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">immigration arrest\u003c/a> last year is suing the Trump administration, saying violent treatment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and months of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075152/a-year-after-ice-detained-south-bay-immigrant-family-trauma-lingers\">medical neglect in ICE detention\u003c/a> left him seriously disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulises Peña López, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077703/its-inhumane-after-sunnyvale-fathers-deportation-family-trauma-lingers\">deported to Mexico\u003c/a> in October after eight months in custody, said ICE officers beat him until he lost consciousness, despite the fact that he and his wife warned them that he’d been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. ICE denies the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Peña López, 32, said he’s paralyzed on the right side of his body and walks with a cane, his vision and hearing are impaired, and he can’t work to support himself or pay for the medical care he needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I want more than anything, I can’t get back: to recover my health, to be with my wife and daughter, and to be able to work again,” he said in a recent phone interview from an aunt’s home in Michoacán, where he lives now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His U.S.-born wife, Aby Peña, who has remained in California with the couple’s now-5-year-old daughter, Emily, said she doesn’t understand how ICE officers could treat another human being as her husband was treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just inhumane,” she said. “And it also affects children because they’re being separated, and it’s a damage that is irreversible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall at Aby Peña and Ulises Peña Lopez’s home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday, his lawyers say the arrest, on Feb. 21, 2025, led to “a cascade of harms,” including lasting trauma for Peña and their daughter, who witnessed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, the complaint said, ICE “bears responsibility for the safety and well-being of individuals” it detains. Yet court records indicate the arrest triggered a heart attack and stroke. And the lawsuit said ICE and private prison contractors failed to get Peña López critical follow-up care, including an urgent neurological workup and physical therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges that staff at both facilities where he was held — Golden State Annex and California City Detention Facility, both in Kern County — denied him disability accommodations, such as glasses and hearing aids, as required by law.[aside postID=news_12086891 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/BirthrightCitizenshipAP.jpg']In one example cited in the complaint, the private prison staff at Golden State Annex allegedly assigned Peña López to a top bunk: “Ulises’s weakness and numbness on the right side of his body prevented him from safely climbing to a top bunk. He asked detention staff to reassign him to a bottom bunk but was told that they could not make that change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages to compensate Peña López and his family and to punish the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, an unnamed Homeland Security spokesperson said ICE arrested Peña López “during targeted operations.” It said “he resisted multiple lawful commands made by ICE officers,” but it didn’t address the lawsuit’s allegations that he was beaten. At the time of the arrest, an ICE spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">told KQED\u003c/a> the allegation that officers beat Peña López was “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE statement said, “Any claims of subprime medical care at ICE facilities is FALSE,” and reiterated boilerplate language asserting that the agency provides comprehensive care that “for many illegal aliens … is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Murchie, an attorney with Disability Law United and a member of Peña López’s legal team, disputes that. She said his health worsened in detention because he did not get the medical care he needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>As arrests spike, advocates say detention conditions are dangerous\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peña López entered the U.S. illegally in 2013, when he was 18. He said he was unaware that ICE had an expedited removal order from that time, allowing for a fast-track deportation. He had four misdemeanor convictions, though his immigration lawyer, Priya Patel, noted that none involved physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers say what happened to Peña López in the early weeks of the second Trump administration was a sign of things to come, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566785/ice-dhs-immigration-tactics-more-violent\">violent, even fatal, immigration raids \u003c/a>rolling out in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">Minneapolis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just this tenor of impunity that ICE officers have, that’s letting them get away with acting worse more often,” Murchie said. “More people are getting swept up into their impunity and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074725 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> as many as in 2024. The number of people in ICE detention \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/ice-detention-trends\">peaked\u003c/a> in January at a record high of over 70,000, 80% more than when President Joe Biden left office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those surging numbers and the conditions in detention facilities have led to a spike in deaths. Since Trump’s second inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2026/06/25/dying-in-detention/rising-deaths-in-an-expanding-us-immigration-detention-system\">52 people have died\u003c/a> in ICE custody — a mortality rate four times that during the Biden administration and higher even than during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watchdog entities, including Disability Rights California and the California Attorney General’s office, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">raised alarms\u003c/a> about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038087/california-sent-investigators-ice-facilities-found-more-detainees-health-care-gaps\">lack of adequate medical care\u003c/a> at ICE facilities in California, including the two where Peña López was held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in the Kern County desert awaiting reopening as a federal immigrant detention facility under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California City, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margot Mendelson, executive director of the San Quentin prison-based Prison Law Office, said ICE detention is “extraordinarily dangerous” for people with serious health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone can have a medical need while they’re in custody, and they’re often not addressed in a safe and adequate manner,” she said. “It is particularly dangerous for people who show up with pre-existing medical conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelson’s group filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of detainees, alleging “crisis-level” conditions at the California City facility, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">opened abruptly\u003c/a> last August. In February, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073215/judge-orders-ice-to-provide-medical-care-in-largest-immigration-jail-in-california\">ordered\u003c/a> the facility to provide adequate medical care and appointed an independent medical expert to monitor the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lack of critical care leaves lasting damage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Six months before Peña López’s arrest, doctors diagnosed a vertebral artery dissection, a tear inside a blood vessel to the brain, that likely came from lifting heavy loads at his construction job. The condition was well managed, according to the lawsuit, but it put him at risk for a stroke or heart attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he suffered the heart attack during his arrest, ICE summoned paramedics, who took him by ambulance to El Camino Health in Mountain View, where he was kept overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, he collapsed in the yard at Golden State Annex and was taken to a nearby emergency room with sharp chest pain, difficulty breathing and tingling in his chest, face and arms, according to the complaint. The hospital discharged him with instructions for a swift follow-up appointment, but he never received it, despite emphatic letters from his neurologist back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut.jpg\" alt='A large sign outside that says \"GEO Golden State.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gathered outside the Golden State Annex immigrant detention center in McFarland on May 29, 2022. The event was part of a statewide effort to call attention to conditions for immigrant detainees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joyce Xi and the Dignity Not Detention Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A week after that, Peña López was hospitalized again, with a severe headache and sudden numbness on the right side of his body. Doctors said a neurology consultation was “urgent,” but ICE didn’t arrange one until four months later, according to the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His paralysis is visible in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DU9U4NRkn2O/\">video\u003c/a> posted early this year to social media by an immigrant advocacy group in San Francisco. In contrast, earlier family videos \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DNV5Li0RHcG/\">show him\u003c/a> as an able-bodied dad with his young daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recover from his injuries, Peña López requires an operation to place a stent, according to the lawsuit, as well as ongoing medication, monitoring by specialists and intensive rehabilitation. The operation alone is estimated to cost about $30,000, money his family doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was arrested, Peña López had health insurance through his work. In Mexico, he has none, said his wife, a licensed vocational nurse.[aside postID=news_12089505 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GettyImages-2269380398.jpg']“The medication is really expensive, so he hasn’t even been able to keep up with that. But without it, he has a higher risk of getting a blood clot,” she said. “If he had been here, the insurance here would have covered it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peña López recently lost an appeal of his deportation, so his prospects of returning to the U.S. are slim. The family has tried to stay connected over video calls, with Peña López reading Emily a bedtime story and saying a nightly prayer with her. They even invented a version of hide-and-seek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d leave the phone on the bed and run off to hide,” he said. “Meanwhile, she’d be talking to me, saying I had to find her. And even though I couldn’t see her, when I told her I spotted her, she’d scream with excitement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately his internet connection in Mexico has been so poor that even phone calls are often impossible, leaving them all feeling frustrated and sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña recently decided to give up the Sunnyvale apartment she and her husband had shared. For months, her daughter has been living with her parents near Chico because Peña couldn’t find child care to match her 13-hour shifts at a dialysis clinic. And every week, she drives hours to spend days off with Emily. But the strain has become too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided it would be best for me to get a transfer through my job to a clinic closer to my parents, so that I can be with my daughter every day,” she said. “Rent’s a lot cheaper over there, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a photo of herself and her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If they win their claim against ICE, Peña said she hopes it will provide funds for the surgery her husband needs. But that’s not the main thing motivating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for justice and for awareness, so people can be aware of the truth of what happens with many of these cases,” she said. “It’s not just us. It’s a lot of immigrants who are going through the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña López said ICE has tried to portray immigrants like him as violent and dangerous to society. He said he hoped the lawsuit would shine a light on the violence and neglect he said ICE is inflicting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s the real danger to society?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murchie, the attorney, said the case is an attempt “to hold accountable an agency that thinks it’s above the law.” And, she said, “it’s about standing by someone while they’re going through one of the worst things that’s happened in their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In one example cited in the complaint, the private prison staff at Golden State Annex allegedly assigned Peña López to a top bunk: “Ulises’s weakness and numbness on the right side of his body prevented him from safely climbing to a top bunk. He asked detention staff to reassign him to a bottom bunk but was told that they could not make that change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages to compensate Peña López and his family and to punish the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, an unnamed Homeland Security spokesperson said ICE arrested Peña López “during targeted operations.” It said “he resisted multiple lawful commands made by ICE officers,” but it didn’t address the lawsuit’s allegations that he was beaten. At the time of the arrest, an ICE spokesman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">told KQED\u003c/a> the allegation that officers beat Peña López was “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE statement said, “Any claims of subprime medical care at ICE facilities is FALSE,” and reiterated boilerplate language asserting that the agency provides comprehensive care that “for many illegal aliens … is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Murchie, an attorney with Disability Law United and a member of Peña López’s legal team, disputes that. She said his health worsened in detention because he did not get the medical care he needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>As arrests spike, advocates say detention conditions are dangerous\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peña López entered the U.S. illegally in 2013, when he was 18. He said he was unaware that ICE had an expedited removal order from that time, allowing for a fast-track deportation. He had four misdemeanor convictions, though his immigration lawyer, Priya Patel, noted that none involved physical violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers say what happened to Peña López in the early weeks of the second Trump administration was a sign of things to come, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566785/ice-dhs-immigration-tactics-more-violent\">violent, even fatal, immigration raids \u003c/a>rolling out in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">Minneapolis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just this tenor of impunity that ICE officers have, that’s letting them get away with acting worse more often,” Murchie said. “More people are getting swept up into their impunity and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12074725 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> as many as in 2024. The number of people in ICE detention \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/ice-detention-trends\">peaked\u003c/a> in January at a record high of over 70,000, 80% more than when President Joe Biden left office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those surging numbers and the conditions in detention facilities have led to a spike in deaths. Since Trump’s second inauguration, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/report/2026/06/25/dying-in-detention/rising-deaths-in-an-expanding-us-immigration-detention-system\">52 people have died\u003c/a> in ICE custody — a mortality rate four times that during the Biden administration and higher even than during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watchdog entities, including Disability Rights California and the California Attorney General’s office, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062774/conditions-at-massive-new-california-immigration-facility-are-alarming-report-finds\">raised alarms\u003c/a> about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038087/california-sent-investigators-ice-facilities-found-more-detainees-health-care-gaps\">lack of adequate medical care\u003c/a> at ICE facilities in California, including the two where Peña López was held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center stands in the Kern County desert awaiting reopening as a federal immigrant detention facility under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California City, California, on July 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margot Mendelson, executive director of the San Quentin prison-based Prison Law Office, said ICE detention is “extraordinarily dangerous” for people with serious health concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone can have a medical need while they’re in custody, and they’re often not addressed in a safe and adequate manner,” she said. “It is particularly dangerous for people who show up with pre-existing medical conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelson’s group filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of detainees, alleging “crisis-level” conditions at the California City facility, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">opened abruptly\u003c/a> last August. In February, a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073215/judge-orders-ice-to-provide-medical-care-in-largest-immigration-jail-in-california\">ordered\u003c/a> the facility to provide adequate medical care and appointed an independent medical expert to monitor the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lack of critical care leaves lasting damage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Six months before Peña López’s arrest, doctors diagnosed a vertebral artery dissection, a tear inside a blood vessel to the brain, that likely came from lifting heavy loads at his construction job. The condition was well managed, according to the lawsuit, but it put him at risk for a stroke or heart attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he suffered the heart attack during his arrest, ICE summoned paramedics, who took him by ambulance to El Camino Health in Mountain View, where he was kept overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, he collapsed in the yard at Golden State Annex and was taken to a nearby emergency room with sharp chest pain, difficulty breathing and tingling in his chest, face and arms, according to the complaint. The hospital discharged him with instructions for a swift follow-up appointment, but he never received it, despite emphatic letters from his neurologist back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11925813\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut.jpg\" alt='A large sign outside that says \"GEO Golden State.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS56703_20220529-16-44-13-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters gathered outside the Golden State Annex immigrant detention center in McFarland on May 29, 2022. The event was part of a statewide effort to call attention to conditions for immigrant detainees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joyce Xi and the Dignity Not Detention Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A week after that, Peña López was hospitalized again, with a severe headache and sudden numbness on the right side of his body. Doctors said a neurology consultation was “urgent,” but ICE didn’t arrange one until four months later, according to the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His paralysis is visible in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DU9U4NRkn2O/\">video\u003c/a> posted early this year to social media by an immigrant advocacy group in San Francisco. In contrast, earlier family videos \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DNV5Li0RHcG/\">show him\u003c/a> as an able-bodied dad with his young daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recover from his injuries, Peña López requires an operation to place a stent, according to the lawsuit, as well as ongoing medication, monitoring by specialists and intensive rehabilitation. The operation alone is estimated to cost about $30,000, money his family doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was arrested, Peña López had health insurance through his work. In Mexico, he has none, said his wife, a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The medication is really expensive, so he hasn’t even been able to keep up with that. But without it, he has a higher risk of getting a blood clot,” she said. “If he had been here, the insurance here would have covered it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Peña López recently lost an appeal of his deportation, so his prospects of returning to the U.S. are slim. The family has tried to stay connected over video calls, with Peña López reading Emily a bedtime story and saying a nightly prayer with her. They even invented a version of hide-and-seek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d leave the phone on the bed and run off to hide,” he said. “Meanwhile, she’d be talking to me, saying I had to find her. And even though I couldn’t see her, when I told her I spotted her, she’d scream with excitement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately his internet connection in Mexico has been so poor that even phone calls are often impossible, leaving them all feeling frustrated and sad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña recently decided to give up the Sunnyvale apartment she and her husband had shared. For months, her daughter has been living with her parents near Chico because Peña couldn’t find child care to match her 13-hour shifts at a dialysis clinic. And every week, she drives hours to spend days off with Emily. But the strain has become too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided it would be best for me to get a transfer through my job to a clinic closer to my parents, so that I can be with my daughter every day,” she said. “Rent’s a lot cheaper over there, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a photo of herself and her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If they win their claim against ICE, Peña said she hopes it will provide funds for the surgery her husband needs. But that’s not the main thing motivating them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for justice and for awareness, so people can be aware of the truth of what happens with many of these cases,” she said. “It’s not just us. It’s a lot of immigrants who are going through the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña López said ICE has tried to portray immigrants like him as violent and dangerous to society. He said he hoped the lawsuit would shine a light on the violence and neglect he said ICE is inflicting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s the real danger to society?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murchie, the attorney, said the case is an attempt “to hold accountable an agency that thinks it’s above the law.” And, she said, “it’s about standing by someone while they’re going through one of the worst things that’s happened in their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, Ulises Peña Lopez, a husband and father, was arrested by ICE outside his home in Sunnyvale. During the encounter, he says he was severely beaten and suffered a heart attack and stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, Ulises was deported to Mexico. Here in the Bay Area, his wife Aby and 4-year old daughter Emily are still reeling from the impacts of his deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075152/a-year-after-ice-detained-south-bay-immigrant-family-trauma-lingers\">A Year After ICE Detained South Bay Immigrant, Family Trauma Lingers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4840678572&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:08] \u003c/em>About 10 years ago, Aby Pena was in school studying to be a nurse in the Bay Area. One day, she walked into a restaurant with her sister, not expecting to meet the man she would marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:24] \u003c/em>This was like on a day where I didn’t have school, it was over the weekend, and he used to work at a restaurant. So then I just went through to you with my sister, like did not expect to meet him. It was like unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em>Their waiter was being flirty, but she wasn’t interested in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:42] \u003c/em>He waiter was a different guy. He’s like, oh, you’re not interested in anybody that works here, but he was talking about himself. And then I was like, oh yes, the guy that sat us down on the table. I was, like, I think he’s really cute. So then he ended up coming over to talk to me and that’s how it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>That guy was Ulises Peña Lopez. The two would later start dating, get married, have a daughter, and move into an apartment in Sunnyvale together. And they lived like any normal working family in the Bay Area until one day when Ulises was violently arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents outside of their home. In front of his wife. And three-year-old daughter. He was eventually deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:37] \u003c/em>My life, my routine with my family was very different compared to what it is now. All these problems came to me when ICE arrived home that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>During the first nine months of the Trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement arrests in the Bay Area have doubled. And with each person arrested, there’s a whole network of family members and community whose lives are upended too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:14] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Today, I talk with KQED’s senior immigration editor, Tyche Hendricks, about life after deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>So Tyche, your story focuses on a man named Ulises Pena Lopez. Tell me a little bit about him and why you wanted to tell his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>Ulises Pena-Lopez came from Michoacan, Mexico when he was 18. He was fleeing cartel violence and the police were not protecting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:29] \u003c/em>Tyche Hendricks is a senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>His uncle and his cousin, according to his lawyers, were killed by the cartel, and he was beaten and threatened with his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>I started with my job as a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:47] \u003c/em>He came to the Bay Area, settled in Sunnyvale, became a carpenter and a member of the Carpenters’ Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>He is, of course, married to a woman named Abby Pena. They have a family together. They have one child. What was life like for the two of them and their family before his deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>They felt like they were, you know, making a good life together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>He liked cooking a lot of like typical Mexican dishes like he really liked beef and like stew and like he loves rice a lot\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:27] \u003c/em>I met Abby at the house. She’s a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:32] \u003c/em>So when they told me it was a girl, like at the appointment, I, he didn’t want me, he wanted me to like wait until he got home to tell him in person. But I was just too excited to tell them that it was a girl because I knew he wanted a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:45] \u003c/em>She had had a challenging pregnancy with some health complications and had actually ended up staying home with their daughter, Emily, for those early years of Emily’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:58] \u003c/em>And then our daughter would watch him like eating spicy stuff. So then she would ask him. And then she started getting used to it too. Now she likes like spicy food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:05] \u003c/em>And so she was loving being a full-time stay-at-home mom, and he was supporting the family. Yeah, had a little apartment in Sunnyvale on the edge of San Jose in that area. 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So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. 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Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:02] \u003c/em>I think what’s so interesting about this story is that you were able to talk with this family about what these last several months have been like for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it’s been a little over a year since he was arrested, and, you know, it still brings all of them to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:26] \u003c/em>It’s really sad here, especially when I look at Lisa’s stuff, like his clothes hanging in the closet, his shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:33] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? 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And all of this has had major ripple effects on his family here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>Aby, who was a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work now to support the family and pay the rent, and also to support her husband, who can’t support himself at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:49] \u003c/em>And now she’s almost going to turn five at the end of April and it’s going to be a year since she hasn’t seen her dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:55] \u003c/em>She worked some crazy shifts, 14 hour shifts typically, three of them back to back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:02] \u003c/em>That sounds impossible childcare-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:04] \u003c/em>Right, so what she figured out for childcare was that her parents could take care of Emily, but her parents moved outside of Chico, which is a four hour drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:15] \u003c/em>So it’s pretty far, so it’s kind of a sacrifice to have her like far away from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>On her days off, she drives four hours up to the Chico area and spends two or three nights maybe to be with her daughter and then drives back and starts the week all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:31] \u003c/em>It’s hard for me, but it’s probably even harder for her. 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And so it becomes easier for behavior, bad actors, excessive use of force to go unremarked. And sort of condoned. Right, yeah. Immigration enforcement is happening twice as often here, and it’s just happening a lot more quietly. We’re not seeing street confrontations or the same kinds of sort of nabbing people out in a public setting. But we did see an arrest of a mother and daughter at SFO just the other day. There have been hundreds of thousands of people deported from the country. And it’s happening, arguably, in a more aggressive and violent way. And this administration has sort of set some benchmarks for how many arrests a day do we want. And that’s leading to a much more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:09] \u003c/em>Well, Tyche, thank you so much for joining us on the show. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:00] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:08] \u003c/em>About 10 years ago, Aby Pena was in school studying to be a nurse in the Bay Area. One day, she walked into a restaurant with her sister, not expecting to meet the man she would marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:24] \u003c/em>This was like on a day where I didn’t have school, it was over the weekend, and he used to work at a restaurant. So then I just went through to you with my sister, like did not expect to meet him. It was like unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:35] \u003c/em>Their waiter was being flirty, but she wasn’t interested in him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Peña: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:42] \u003c/em>He waiter was a different guy. He’s like, oh, you’re not interested in anybody that works here, but he was talking about himself. And then I was like, oh yes, the guy that sat us down on the table. I was, like, I think he’s really cute. So then he ended up coming over to talk to me and that’s how it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>That guy was Ulises Peña Lopez. The two would later start dating, get married, have a daughter, and move into an apartment in Sunnyvale together. And they lived like any normal working family in the Bay Area until one day when Ulises was violently arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents outside of their home. In front of his wife. And three-year-old daughter. He was eventually deported to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:37] \u003c/em>My life, my routine with my family was very different compared to what it is now. All these problems came to me when ICE arrived home that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:52] \u003c/em>During the first nine months of the Trump administration, immigration and customs enforcement arrests in the Bay Area have doubled. And with each person arrested, there’s a whole network of family members and community whose lives are upended too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:14] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:36] \u003c/em>Today, I talk with KQED’s senior immigration editor, Tyche Hendricks, about life after deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:06] \u003c/em>So Tyche, your story focuses on a man named Ulises Pena Lopez. Tell me a little bit about him and why you wanted to tell his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:16] \u003c/em>Ulises Pena-Lopez came from Michoacan, Mexico when he was 18. He was fleeing cartel violence and the police were not protecting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:29] \u003c/em>Tyche Hendricks is a senior immigration editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:35] \u003c/em>His uncle and his cousin, according to his lawyers, were killed by the cartel, and he was beaten and threatened with his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:42] \u003c/em>I started with my job as a carpenter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:47] \u003c/em>He came to the Bay Area, settled in Sunnyvale, became a carpenter and a member of the Carpenters’ Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:56] \u003c/em>He is, of course, married to a woman named Abby Pena. They have a family together. They have one child. What was life like for the two of them and their family before his deportation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:11] \u003c/em>They felt like they were, you know, making a good life together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:17] \u003c/em>He liked cooking a lot of like typical Mexican dishes like he really liked beef and like stew and like he loves rice a lot\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:27] \u003c/em>I met Abby at the house. She’s a licensed vocational nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:32] \u003c/em>So when they told me it was a girl, like at the appointment, I, he didn’t want me, he wanted me to like wait until he got home to tell him in person. But I was just too excited to tell them that it was a girl because I knew he wanted a girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:45] \u003c/em>She had had a challenging pregnancy with some health complications and had actually ended up staying home with their daughter, Emily, for those early years of Emily’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:58] \u003c/em>And then our daughter would watch him like eating spicy stuff. So then she would ask him. And then she started getting used to it too. Now she likes like spicy food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:05] \u003c/em>And so she was loving being a full-time stay-at-home mom, and he was supporting the family. Yeah, had a little apartment in Sunnyvale on the edge of San Jose in that area. Yeah, I think they were happy with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:20] \u003c/em>She was really a daddy’s girl, and he would always spoil her. I would say no, we would go to the store, she wants a toy. I was like, you have so many at home already, and then she would go him and he’s like, oh yeah, so then she will take her toy. She always knew that she could ask him for everything that I said no about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>He had some health challenges that had emerged in the few months prior to this arrest. Doctors found a tear inside of an artery in his neck. So he had been a little more cautious about his work schedule and had been closely monitored by doctors. That very day after he was taken by ICE was a day that he was scheduled to go in for an MRI or some kind of a scan. To monitor, check-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:12] \u003c/em>Right, but it sounds like aside from his sort of health problems that he was monitoring, they sound like a pretty average working family in the Bay Area. And then one morning, February 21st, 2025, everything really changed for them. Can you tell me about what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:35] \u003c/em>They were planning to go out and run some errands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>He went downstairs to warm our vehicle, which you can literally see from here in our window. It’s the red vehicle that’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>It was, I don’t know, seven in the morning. Abby was upstairs getting Emily ready and getting herself ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:52] \u003c/em>All of a sudden he called me and he’s like, ‘ICE is here, immigration’s here, they have me surrounded, I’m inside the vehicle.’ And I did not believe him at first. I was on the phone in the bathroom. I was like, cause we had just woken up. I did expect that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:16] \u003c/em>They had blocked the driveway and surrounded him in the carport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>They were all covered up, they didn’t have a specific insignia that said ICE or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:30] \u003c/em>The agents were telling him to get out of the car. They, according to him, were masked. Trust getting out of the car. So he didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:43] \u003c/em>And I stepped outside but I could only stand like at the top of the stairs since we live on the second floor. The stairs were blocked with ICE agents like I could not go down they weren’t letting me go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:55] \u003c/em>They took a baton and started banging on the window, cracked the window at which point he did open the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:04] \u003c/em>The ICE agents were just screaming like there was a lot of them surrounding the vehicle and as soon as he like barely opened it, they just pulled him out violently and pushed him against the floor and the vehicle, yeah. It was scary because I didn’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:21] \u003c/em>He, you know, at one point, like collapsed onto the ground. He said they were kicking and beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>Me sacaron de la cabaneta, me tiraron al suelo, golpeándome, diciéndome palabras racistas. Me decían en inglés, ‘Fucking Mexican.’\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:37] \u003c/em>Looking at ICE’s report of the incident, they say that they saw him fumbling around and they imagined that he might be looking for a weapon and so they justified their forceful actions on the theory that he could be armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:59] \u003c/em>And I remember telling them, like I said, that he has an appointment. He has to take his medications daily. And I just remember running back inside, grabbing a bag and putting all his medications in there. And I told them if they could at least take his medication with him, because he needs them. And just one of them took them away from me, but I don’t know what happened to those medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:20] \u003c/em>Then they sort of hoisted him up and held him against the car and handcuffed him and threw him in their own vehicle and drove off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:28] \u003c/em>Oh my gosh, and their daughter was watching all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:31] \u003c/em>Emily was screaming and crying and, you know, inconsolable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:36] \u003c/em>Where does ICE end up taking him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:38] \u003c/em>They ended up taking him, according to his lawyer and according to some records, including ICE’s own records, to an alley behind some shops, including a hardware store that was a few minutes’ drive from the house. And he says they pulled him out of the vehicle there and beat him some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:01] \u003c/em>And I had my hands exposed to the back and they started hitting me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:09] \u003c/em>Legal documents that they filed with a federal court. They have doctors testifying that he had probably both a heart attack and a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:20] \u003c/em>Oh my goodness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ulises Peña Lopez: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:22] \u003c/em>No se me perdió el conocimiento. Cuando recuperé mi conocimiento, estaba conectado al hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:29] \u003c/em>Says that he lost consciousness as he was being beaten, and then he came to some what and he heard an officer say, you know, call 911 basically, and he and somebody was on his chest at that point giving CPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>What a terrifying sequence of events. And I imagine then he woke up in the emergency room. What was that experience like for him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:09] \u003c/em>He came-to in the emergency room. I think there were a lot of wires and tubes and things attached to his body. And there were ICE agents guarding his bed. And during his stay there, he was handcuffed to the bed because he was under arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:29] \u003c/em>According to federal documents, ICE had flagged Ulises’ whereabouts early last year. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. And it’s these convictions that may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:55] \u003c/em>Meanwhile, back at the house, at the apartment, Abby was frantic, and she called Ulises’ mother, who lives nearby, and said, this is what happened. You know, what do I do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:09] \u003c/em>And then she’s like, Oh, I saw this number on the TV for rapid response. And she gave me the number and I just called there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>And she spoke to a lawyer. And once Abby was able to find somebody to take care of her daughter, went to the hospital and tried to see him. And they were blocked for many, many hours and ultimately had short visits with him, but only with ICE present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>I was there until really, really late at the hospital that day, and the ICE agents were there the whole time with him, so they never gave him any time alone with his lawyer that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:45] \u003c/em>Aby says that they took her phone away from her when she did get to see him, and I think this happene with the lawyer as well, so that they weren’t able to take photographs of the shape that he was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Yeah of his condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:05] \u003c/em>Ulises, within 24 hours or so, he spent a night at the hospital, and then ICE transferred him to an immigration detention center down in Kern County in McFarland. And he spent the next eight months or so in ICE detention and had very limited access to medical care. And by all accounts, it was very inadequate to his needs. Then he was deported back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:46] \u003c/em>Coming up, how Ulises’ deportation has affected everything else. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:02] \u003c/em>I think what’s so interesting about this story is that you were able to talk with this family about what these last several months have been like for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:13] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, it’s been a little over a year since he was arrested, and, you know, it still brings all of them to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:26] \u003c/em>It’s really sad here, especially when I look at Lisa’s stuff, like his clothes hanging in the closet, his shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:33] \u003c/em>Something I really wanted to understand was, yeah, we focus on these moments, these incidents, but then how does that ripple out? How does it unfold going forward for people? And what I found for this family was tremendous upheaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:58] \u003c/em>Since he was deported in October, Ulises has been living in a room at his aunt’s house in Mexico. He says he lost some of his vision and hearing as a result of his encounter with ICE, and that the right side of his body is largely paralyzed. Ulises doesn’t have health insurance, and it takes him a two-hour bus ride to see a doctor. And all of this has had major ripple effects on his family here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:37] \u003c/em>Aby, who was a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work now to support the family and pay the rent, and also to support her husband, who can’t support himself at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:49] \u003c/em>And now she’s almost going to turn five at the end of April and it’s going to be a year since she hasn’t seen her dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:55] \u003c/em>She worked some crazy shifts, 14 hour shifts typically, three of them back to back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:02] \u003c/em>That sounds impossible childcare-wise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:04] \u003c/em>Right, so what she figured out for childcare was that her parents could take care of Emily, but her parents moved outside of Chico, which is a four hour drive north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:15] \u003c/em>So it’s pretty far, so it’s kind of a sacrifice to have her like far away from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:20] \u003c/em>On her days off, she drives four hours up to the Chico area and spends two or three nights maybe to be with her daughter and then drives back and starts the week all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:31] \u003c/em>It’s hard for me, but it’s probably even harder for her. She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now. It’s really, really hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:39] \u003c/em>And when you’re four years old, you don’t know what’s Monday or Tuesday or two days a week, or when is mom going to show up again. And when something as traumatic as happened to her father has happened in her life, psychiatrists and psychologists will say it really, developmentally, is a huge rupture in a child’s sense of stability and security that is the foundation for them to grow in a healthy way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:08] \u003c/em>Oh my God, and she’s so young when she witnessed that too. It seems like it’s just left them with a series of difficult choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:17] \u003c/em>Yeah, and not a lot of options. Yeah. And Emily, by all accounts, was a lovely, peaceful, pretty easy child who slept through the night as a three-year-old. And since her dad was arrested, she wakes up screaming pretty much every night, is what they say. And this is a year on now, more than a year since this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Aby Pena: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:48] \u003c/em>She was fine before that and this all started with that. So like even when I have her here and when she goes to school and I’m working, it will be tough because she still doesn’t sleep through the night. Like it’s hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:04] \u003c/em>What is next for this family, Tyche? I mean, do they plan to fight Ulises’ deportation? I mean what do they planned to do here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:15] \u003c/em>I think the options are somewhat limited, but they have been fortunate that this call to the Rapid Response Network plugged them in with some legal support that has been like incredibly stalwart. And there are actually two different, you know, nonprofit legal offices involved. One of them is helping Ulysses with his immigration case, and one filed a complaint uh, under a federal law. Against ICE for the harm that they caused him. There is a level of an appeal to the appellate level of the immigration courts, but that would be his last chance to try to return to the U.S. And get some protection to be to live here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:11] \u003c/em>I guess I wanted to ask you this final question too, Tyche, which is what does this story say about how ICE is operating now versus in years past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tyche Hendricks: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:23] \u003c/em>Donald Trump came into his second term very much on an explicit platform that he was going to wage a campaign of mass deportations. So we are seeing a lot more. And Ulises was, you know, this was in the very first weeks after Trump’s inauguration. One thing that we have also seen is that some of the accountability sort of watchdog agencies within DHS, Homeland Security, ICE, have really been dismantled. And that means that there’s less accountability. And so it becomes easier for behavior, bad actors, excessive use of force to go unremarked. And sort of condoned. Right, yeah. Immigration enforcement is happening twice as often here, and it’s just happening a lot more quietly. We’re not seeing street confrontations or the same kinds of sort of nabbing people out in a public setting. But we did see an arrest of a mother and daughter at SFO just the other day. There have been hundreds of thousands of people deported from the country. And it’s happening, arguably, in a more aggressive and violent way. And this administration has sort of set some benchmarks for how many arrests a day do we want. And that’s leading to a much more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:09] \u003c/em>Well, Tyche, thank you so much for joining us on the show. 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"content": "\u003cp>SUNNYVALE — Sitting on the sofa in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sunnyvale\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a> apartment, Aby Peña blew a kiss into her pink cellphone as she said goodbye to her husband, Ulises Peña López, 2,000 miles away in Uruapan, Mexico. It wasn’t their first call of the day, and it wouldn’t be their last. They’ve talked often since Ulises, 31, was deported in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a year since the couple woke up together in this apartment and began what they thought would be a mundane morning of family errands. Ulises, a carpenter, went downstairs to warm up the car, while Aby got their then-3-year-old daughter Emily ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, Ulises would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">in the emergency room\u003c/a> at El Camino Health in Mountain View, barely conscious, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stationed near his bed. His lawyers would later tell a court that ICE agents had beaten Ulises so severely he suffered a heart attack and a stroke, allegations the agency has denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Aby would be on the phone with the local Rapid Response Network, frantically trying to locate her husband while soothing her wailing daughter, who had watched from the window as the agents forced her father from the car at gunpoint, wrestled him into handcuffs and drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened that February day, in the early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, prefigured the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566785/ice-dhs-immigration-tactics-more-violent\">often-violent immigration arrests\u003c/a> that have unfolded across the country over the past year. And the lasting trauma, upheaval and financial strain for this one Bay Area family is an early example of how Trump’s campaign of mass deportation has upended life for countless American children and families in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, the right side of my body is paralyzed. I’ve lost vision and hearing and sensation,” Ulises said by phone from Mexico. “Before that day, I was a normal person working in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> the number in 2024. Public attention has focused on the crackdown in cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where federal agents have killed at least two people and observers have documented their use of aggressive tactics. But even in Northern California, where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061294/federal-immigration-agents-in-the-bay-what-we-know-and-dont-know\">planned Border Patrol\u003c/a> surge was called off at the last minute last fall, immigration arrests have more than doubled. Ulises’ detention was just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña leaves her husband’s belongings as he left them at their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of pro bono lawyers, Ulises has appealed his deportation and the family has filed personal injury claims against ICE. KQED reviewed legal filings in those cases, as well as government documents, and interviewed Ulises, Aby, their lawyers and outside experts about what the last year has been like for the family and how it illustrates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5645006/how-trumps-mass-deportation-efforts-have-affected-families-this-year#:~:text=Transcript-,The%20centerpiece%20of%20the%20Trump%20administration's%20second%20term%20has%20been,Good%20morning.\">what is now unfolding\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of other families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under previous administrations, ICE sometimes violated the civil rights of immigrants — and its own policies — said Elena Hodges, an immigration attorney with Pangea Legal Services who’s part of the team representing Ulises. But now the intensity is escalating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This level of violence is becoming more common and is increasingly embraced as just the routine course of operations,” she said. “High-profile harms to people, where they end up in the hospital, their car window is smashed … that tracks with a new level of political acceptance and encouragement that we’re seeing from the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/trump-administration-closes-three-dhs-offices-focused-on-civil-rights-and-oversight/\">dismantled\u003c/a> many of the internal watchdog offices at the Department of Homeland Security, enabling agents to act with impunity, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we are seeing them be more aggressive and less likely to be called to account,” Meissner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a little after 7 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2025. Ulises was in the carport starting up his red Ford Explorer when unmarked SUVs suddenly blocked him in and armed men surrounded the car, shouting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it all started,” Ulises said. He said officers yelled racist epithets, pushed him to the ground, kicked him, then yanked him up and handcuffed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said they did not show a warrant (the administrative warrant ICE eventually produced was dated four days after the arrest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña sits in the kitchen at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aby looked on in horror from the terrace outside their second-floor apartment as her daughter watched from the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember seeing him shaking really bad,” she said. “I didn’t know, was it a panic attack or what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aby said she screamed to the agents that Ulises had a life-threatening medical condition and an important appointment the following day. Doctors had recently diagnosed a tear inside an artery in his neck that put him at risk of a stroke, court filings show. They were treating him with medications and closely monitoring him, Aby said. As the arrest was unfolding, she ran to the bathroom, threw his prescriptions in a plastic bag and handed them to an officer.[aside postID=news_12073728 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260218-George-Retes-01-KQED.jpg']Ulises said officers drove him to a nearby alley and beat him again, his hands still cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought they were going to kill me,” he said. “Suddenly, I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to with an officer pressing on his chest, performing CPR. He heard another man call an ambulance. The next thing he knew, he was in the hospital, hooked up to tubes and wires and handcuffed to the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s arrest report tells the story differently. There’s no mention of officers striking Ulises. The report said they handcuffed him without incident, but once he was in the ICE vehicle, Ulises told them he had a heart condition and “appeared to be panicking.” They gave him a pill from one of the prescription bottles, but he started coughing and spitting out pill fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE said Ulises threw up a red substance and began convulsing, at which point officers uncuffed him and laid him on the ground. He began “violently coughing up phlegm and grabbing his chest,” ICE said. When he lost consciousness, they performed chest compressions until an ambulance arrived, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not reply to requests for comment for this story. Last year, shortly after the arrest, ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">responded\u003c/a> to KQED and denied mistreating Ulises. At the time, an ICE spokesperson called the allegation that Ulises was beaten by officers “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The aftermath\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, according to Ulises’ appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “his hands and arms were bandaged, his face was swollen, and he could not move his right arm or hand.” A doctor indicated that Ulises had had a heart attack, the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges, the attorney, said she waited many hours before ICE allowed her to see her client at the hospital — briefly, with armed officers present. Likewise, she said, ICE prevented him from speaking privately with doctors or his wife. When Aby was finally allowed 30 minutes with him the next morning, ICE officers took her cellphone away so she couldn’t photograph him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Ulises was transported to Golden State Annex, a privately run immigration jail in northern Kern County, where his lawyers say he didn’t receive consistent medication or meaningful follow-up care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall at Aby Peña and Ulises Peña Lopez’s home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, ICE took Ulises to a local emergency room twice, for chest pain, trouble breathing and neurological symptoms. “A CT scan confirmed that he had had a stroke — either that day or during his arrest, or both,” according to his legal brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the nearly eight months Ulises spent in ICE detention, first at Golden State Annex and then east of Bakersfield at the California City Detention Center, his pain and neurological symptoms worsened, Hodges said. He suffered nightmares and flashbacks to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE officers’ physical assaults and verbal abuse during the arrest, “shock the conscience,” according to his claim for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act. And California Democrats, including Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, have recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">called out deplorable conditions\u003c/a> at ICE detention centers, including at California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ulises said, he walks with a cane, still in pain. Unable to work, he has no health insurance in Mexico. An aunt took him in. And Aby sends some money. But the doctors he needs are expensive, and a two-hour bus ride away in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that if I had gotten adequate medical attention at the time, I wouldn’t be suffering like this now,” he said. “It would be a totally different story if I’d gotten care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Those left behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the physical ailments that linger. Aggressive immigration enforcement not only harms immigrants, but their family members, many of whom — like Aby and Emily — are U.S.-born citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrupt family separations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66102/how-immigration-raids-traumatize-even-the-youngest-children\">traumatic for children\u003c/a>, said Dr. Lisa Fortuna, who chairs the psychiatry department at UC Riverside. But when a young child like Emily watches the violent arrest of a parent, the experience can leave lasting scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing treatment early and effectively can really help children,” Fortuna said. “But it is an emotional injury nonetheless, and it’s quite serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a pink dress she bought for her daughter’s next birthday at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many children who witness immigration arrests, Emily sees a therapist. But the little girl who used to sleep peacefully now wakes up screaming nightly. She’s fearful of strangers and jumpy when a car door slams. A year on, she is still replaying the event in her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a video call just two days ago, and my daughter asked, ‘Papi, are the men going to come back and hit you again? Does it still hurt?’” Ulises said. “That just broke me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dislocation in Emily’s life only compounded after her father’s arrest. Aby, 32, who’d been a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work as a licensed vocational nurse. Needing child care on an unpredictable schedule, she moved Emily in with her parents in Chico. Aby typically works three 14-hour shifts, then drives the four hours north to spend a couple of days with her daughter before starting the work week again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement runs counter to therapists’ suggestion that Emily’s recovery depends on a predictable routine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always having to say goodbye,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aby is home in Sunnyvale, the apartment feels empty. Her daughter’s closet is still full of toys and small pink dresses. Her husband’s watch is still on his nightstand, his razor in the bathroom – comforting reminders of the life they used to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair met a decade ago when she went to a restaurant where he was working. She was in nursing school, and he was training with the carpenters’ union. She admired that he was a hard worker and was happy to find that he loved to cook. When Emily was born, and Aby was recovering from a difficult pregnancy, Ulises soothed the baby to sleep on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ulises was 18 when he came to the U.S. in 2013. According to his appeal to the Ninth Circuit, he was fleeing the Jalisco Cartel after its members extorted his family and beat him, then — when he reported it to the police — murdered his uncle and cousins. Lawyer Priya Patel, with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, believes Ulises should have been considered for asylum at the time. Instead, he was swiftly deported under an expedited removal order. He crossed the border again, undetected, came to the Bay Area and built a life, unaware of that deportation order or the fact that it could be reinstated at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal documents show that early last year, ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center flagged Ulises’ whereabouts for the San Francisco field office. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. The most serious is a 2019 assault. Patel said Ulises pleaded no contest, following a verbal fight with his wife after he’d been out drinking. He was given a suspended sentence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña speaks by phone with her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, from their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are four convictions, none of them resulted in jail time, other than one day,” Patel said. “And none of it involved physical violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the convictions may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE, under priorities spelled out by Trump’s border czar Tom Homan early last year to focus on convicted criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan’s pledge to stay focused on the “worst of the worst” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071374/under-trump-ice-is-far-more-likely-to-arrest-people-with-no-criminal-record-data-shows\">buckled\u003c/a> in the face of Trump’s call for a million deportations in his first year, though. As of Jan. 6, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">one in four people\u003c/a> in ICE detention had a criminal conviction, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Ulises’ misdemeanors put him in that category.[aside postID=news_12073215 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY2-KQED.jpg']That’s likely to make his appeal harder. But his lawyers hope to convince the judges of the Ninth Circuit that Ulises was deported without due consideration of the risk of persecution he faced in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Aby keeps working to support her daughter and herself and help Ulises get the medical care he needs in Mexico. She wonders if she should move to Chico to be with Emily. And then she wonders if she and Emily should move to Mexico to be with Ulises — though he doesn’t want his daughter to grow up there. Mostly, she’s hoping against hope that her husband will someday be able to return to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma and strain Aby, Ulises and Emily are experiencing, a year after the arrest, is multiplied thousands of times across the country, as the government’s mass deportation campaign continues, said Fortuna, the psychiatry professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a public health issue,” she said. “It’s creating psychological distress, at minimum, for youth and children and families and whole communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the future uncertain, Aby and Ulises try to stay connected through frequent calls and — when his internet connection is strong enough — video chats. And both agree, their prime motivation is ensuring Emily gets well and has a bright future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I call them, I can hear their smiles,” Ulises said. “I know what it means to be a parent: Your children are the engine that drives you, and you never give up. And that’s how it is for my wife and me. Whatever happens, we’re not giving up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SUNNYVALE — Sitting on the sofa in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sunnyvale\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a> apartment, Aby Peña blew a kiss into her pink cellphone as she said goodbye to her husband, Ulises Peña López, 2,000 miles away in Uruapan, Mexico. It wasn’t their first call of the day, and it wouldn’t be their last. They’ve talked often since Ulises, 31, was deported in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a year since the couple woke up together in this apartment and began what they thought would be a mundane morning of family errands. Ulises, a carpenter, went downstairs to warm up the car, while Aby got their then-3-year-old daughter Emily ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, Ulises would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">in the emergency room\u003c/a> at El Camino Health in Mountain View, barely conscious, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stationed near his bed. His lawyers would later tell a court that ICE agents had beaten Ulises so severely he suffered a heart attack and a stroke, allegations the agency has denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Aby would be on the phone with the local Rapid Response Network, frantically trying to locate her husband while soothing her wailing daughter, who had watched from the window as the agents forced her father from the car at gunpoint, wrestled him into handcuffs and drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened that February day, in the early weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, prefigured the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566785/ice-dhs-immigration-tactics-more-violent\">often-violent immigration arrests\u003c/a> that have unfolded across the country over the past year. And the lasting trauma, upheaval and financial strain for this one Bay Area family is an early example of how Trump’s campaign of mass deportation has upended life for countless American children and families in the months that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, the right side of my body is paralyzed. I’ve lost vision and hearing and sensation,” Ulises said by phone from Mexico. “Before that day, I was a normal person working in construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 400,000 people were arrested by ICE last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">more than four times\u003c/a> the number in 2024. Public attention has focused on the crackdown in cities like Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where federal agents have killed at least two people and observers have documented their use of aggressive tactics. But even in Northern California, where a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061294/federal-immigration-agents-in-the-bay-what-we-know-and-dont-know\">planned Border Patrol\u003c/a> surge was called off at the last minute last fall, immigration arrests have more than doubled. Ulises’ detention was just one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074619\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña leaves her husband’s belongings as he left them at their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of pro bono lawyers, Ulises has appealed his deportation and the family has filed personal injury claims against ICE. KQED reviewed legal filings in those cases, as well as government documents, and interviewed Ulises, Aby, their lawyers and outside experts about what the last year has been like for the family and how it illustrates \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5645006/how-trumps-mass-deportation-efforts-have-affected-families-this-year#:~:text=Transcript-,The%20centerpiece%20of%20the%20Trump%20administration's%20second%20term%20has%20been,Good%20morning.\">what is now unfolding\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of other families across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under previous administrations, ICE sometimes violated the civil rights of immigrants — and its own policies — said Elena Hodges, an immigration attorney with Pangea Legal Services who’s part of the team representing Ulises. But now the intensity is escalating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This level of violence is becoming more common and is increasingly embraced as just the routine course of operations,” she said. “High-profile harms to people, where they end up in the hospital, their car window is smashed … that tracks with a new level of political acceptance and encouragement that we’re seeing from the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/trump-administration-closes-three-dhs-offices-focused-on-civil-rights-and-oversight/\">dismantled\u003c/a> many of the internal watchdog offices at the Department of Homeland Security, enabling agents to act with impunity, said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we are seeing them be more aggressive and less likely to be called to account,” Meissner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The arrest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was a little after 7 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2025. Ulises was in the carport starting up his red Ford Explorer when unmarked SUVs suddenly blocked him in and armed men surrounded the car, shouting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when it all started,” Ulises said. He said officers yelled racist epithets, pushed him to the ground, kicked him, then yanked him up and handcuffed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said they did not show a warrant (the administrative warrant ICE eventually produced was dated four days after the arrest).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña sits in the kitchen at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aby looked on in horror from the terrace outside their second-floor apartment as her daughter watched from the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just remember seeing him shaking really bad,” she said. “I didn’t know, was it a panic attack or what was happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aby said she screamed to the agents that Ulises had a life-threatening medical condition and an important appointment the following day. Doctors had recently diagnosed a tear inside an artery in his neck that put him at risk of a stroke, court filings show. They were treating him with medications and closely monitoring him, Aby said. As the arrest was unfolding, she ran to the bathroom, threw his prescriptions in a plastic bag and handed them to an officer.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ulises said officers drove him to a nearby alley and beat him again, his hands still cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought they were going to kill me,” he said. “Suddenly, I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to with an officer pressing on his chest, performing CPR. He heard another man call an ambulance. The next thing he knew, he was in the hospital, hooked up to tubes and wires and handcuffed to the bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s arrest report tells the story differently. There’s no mention of officers striking Ulises. The report said they handcuffed him without incident, but once he was in the ICE vehicle, Ulises told them he had a heart condition and “appeared to be panicking.” They gave him a pill from one of the prescription bottles, but he started coughing and spitting out pill fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE said Ulises threw up a red substance and began convulsing, at which point officers uncuffed him and laid him on the ground. He began “violently coughing up phlegm and grabbing his chest,” ICE said. When he lost consciousness, they performed chest compressions until an ambulance arrived, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE did not reply to requests for comment for this story. Last year, shortly after the arrest, ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028303/ice-arrest-left-bay-area-man-hospitalized-struggling-breathe-attorney-says\">responded\u003c/a> to KQED and denied mistreating Ulises. At the time, an ICE spokesperson called the allegation that Ulises was beaten by officers “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The aftermath\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, according to Ulises’ appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, “his hands and arms were bandaged, his face was swollen, and he could not move his right arm or hand.” A doctor indicated that Ulises had had a heart attack, the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges, the attorney, said she waited many hours before ICE allowed her to see her client at the hospital — briefly, with armed officers present. Likewise, she said, ICE prevented him from speaking privately with doctors or his wife. When Aby was finally allowed 30 minutes with him the next morning, ICE officers took her cellphone away so she couldn’t photograph him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Ulises was transported to Golden State Annex, a privately run immigration jail in northern Kern County, where his lawyers say he didn’t receive consistent medication or meaningful follow-up care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photos hang on the wall at Aby Peña and Ulises Peña Lopez’s home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, ICE took Ulises to a local emergency room twice, for chest pain, trouble breathing and neurological symptoms. “A CT scan confirmed that he had had a stroke — either that day or during his arrest, or both,” according to his legal brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the nearly eight months Ulises spent in ICE detention, first at Golden State Annex and then east of Bakersfield at the California City Detention Center, his pain and neurological symptoms worsened, Hodges said. He suffered nightmares and flashbacks to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ICE officers’ physical assaults and verbal abuse during the arrest, “shock the conscience,” according to his claim for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act. And California Democrats, including Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, have recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center\">called out deplorable conditions\u003c/a> at ICE detention centers, including at California City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ulises said, he walks with a cane, still in pain. Unable to work, he has no health insurance in Mexico. An aunt took him in. And Aby sends some money. But the doctors he needs are expensive, and a two-hour bus ride away in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m certain that if I had gotten adequate medical attention at the time, I wouldn’t be suffering like this now,” he said. “It would be a totally different story if I’d gotten care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Those left behind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the physical ailments that linger. Aggressive immigration enforcement not only harms immigrants, but their family members, many of whom — like Aby and Emily — are U.S.-born citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrupt family separations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/66102/how-immigration-raids-traumatize-even-the-youngest-children\">traumatic for children\u003c/a>, said Dr. Lisa Fortuna, who chairs the psychiatry department at UC Riverside. But when a young child like Emily watches the violent arrest of a parent, the experience can leave lasting scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Providing treatment early and effectively can really help children,” Fortuna said. “But it is an emotional injury nonetheless, and it’s quite serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña holds a pink dress she bought for her daughter’s next birthday at her home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many children who witness immigration arrests, Emily sees a therapist. But the little girl who used to sleep peacefully now wakes up screaming nightly. She’s fearful of strangers and jumpy when a car door slams. A year on, she is still replaying the event in her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a video call just two days ago, and my daughter asked, ‘Papi, are the men going to come back and hit you again? Does it still hurt?’” Ulises said. “That just broke me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dislocation in Emily’s life only compounded after her father’s arrest. Aby, 32, who’d been a stay-at-home mom, had to go back to work as a licensed vocational nurse. Needing child care on an unpredictable schedule, she moved Emily in with her parents in Chico. Aby typically works three 14-hour shifts, then drives the four hours north to spend a couple of days with her daughter before starting the work week again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She doesn’t have me or her dad nearby now,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement runs counter to therapists’ suggestion that Emily’s recovery depends on a predictable routine, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s always having to say goodbye,” Aby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aby is home in Sunnyvale, the apartment feels empty. Her daughter’s closet is still full of toys and small pink dresses. Her husband’s watch is still on his nightstand, his razor in the bathroom – comforting reminders of the life they used to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair met a decade ago when she went to a restaurant where he was working. She was in nursing school, and he was training with the carpenters’ union. She admired that he was a hard worker and was happy to find that he loved to cook. When Emily was born, and Aby was recovering from a difficult pregnancy, Ulises soothed the baby to sleep on his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ulises was 18 when he came to the U.S. in 2013. According to his appeal to the Ninth Circuit, he was fleeing the Jalisco Cartel after its members extorted his family and beat him, then — when he reported it to the police — murdered his uncle and cousins. Lawyer Priya Patel, with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, believes Ulises should have been considered for asylum at the time. Instead, he was swiftly deported under an expedited removal order. He crossed the border again, undetected, came to the Bay Area and built a life, unaware of that deportation order or the fact that it could be reinstated at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal documents show that early last year, ICE’s Law Enforcement Support Center flagged Ulises’ whereabouts for the San Francisco field office. The ICE arrest report mentions several misdemeanor convictions from his 20s. The most serious is a 2019 assault. Patel said Ulises pleaded no contest, following a verbal fight with his wife after he’d been out drinking. He was given a suspended sentence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-SUNNYVALEDEPORTED-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aby Peña speaks by phone with her husband, Ulises Peña Lopez, from their home in Sunnyvale on Feb. 19, 2026. Peña Lopez was deported to Mexico after being taken into ICE custody outside their home in February 2025, leaving his wife and young daughter in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are four convictions, none of them resulted in jail time, other than one day,” Patel said. “And none of it involved physical violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the convictions may have marked Ulises as a target for ICE, under priorities spelled out by Trump’s border czar Tom Homan early last year to focus on convicted criminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan’s pledge to stay focused on the “worst of the worst” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071374/under-trump-ice-is-far-more-likely-to-arrest-people-with-no-criminal-record-data-shows\">buckled\u003c/a> in the face of Trump’s call for a million deportations in his first year, though. As of Jan. 6, just \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-1st-year\">one in four people\u003c/a> in ICE detention had a criminal conviction, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Ulises’ misdemeanors put him in that category.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s likely to make his appeal harder. But his lawyers hope to convince the judges of the Ninth Circuit that Ulises was deported without due consideration of the risk of persecution he faced in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Aby keeps working to support her daughter and herself and help Ulises get the medical care he needs in Mexico. She wonders if she should move to Chico to be with Emily. And then she wonders if she and Emily should move to Mexico to be with Ulises — though he doesn’t want his daughter to grow up there. Mostly, she’s hoping against hope that her husband will someday be able to return to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trauma and strain Aby, Ulises and Emily are experiencing, a year after the arrest, is multiplied thousands of times across the country, as the government’s mass deportation campaign continues, said Fortuna, the psychiatry professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a public health issue,” she said. “It’s creating psychological distress, at minimum, for youth and children and families and whole communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the future uncertain, Aby and Ulises try to stay connected through frequent calls and — when his internet connection is strong enough — video chats. And both agree, their prime motivation is ensuring Emily gets well and has a bright future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I call them, I can hear their smiles,” Ulises said. “I know what it means to be a parent: Your children are the engine that drives you, and you never give up. And that’s how it is for my wife and me. Whatever happens, we’re not giving up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week, KQED and the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco convened some of the Bay Area’s youngest elected officials — Assemblymember Alex Lee, Hercules Mayor Alexander Walker-Griffin, and Sunnyvale Councilmember Alysa Cisneros — to share their experiences in conversation with politics correspondent Guy Marzorati and USF student fellow Caitlin Kennedy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8373713352&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch the full event on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTi6KaDpag\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about KQED Live events, go to kqed.org/live\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Young people are underrepresented in all levels of government. But take a look at what’s happening locally. And you can see that things are changing even if it’s happening slowly. Just take a look at Assembly member Alex Lee, who made history in 2020 when he became the youngest Asian-American, first openly bisexual and first Gen Z legislator in California history. And he’s not the only elected leader injecting new life into halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>Last year, the City of Hercules swore in Alexander Walker-Griffin as mayor, at 25 years old. And in Sunnyvale, residents elected 33 year old Alysa Cisneros to city council, where she would become the first openly queer woman to hold the title as vice mayor. It’s a unique perspective. And today we’re going to hear from these young electeds. Last week, they sat down with KQED Guy Marzorati and USF student fellow Caitlin Kennedy to talk about things like running for office during COVID, how to balance working in government with your personal life, and to share their visions for our region’s future. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Well, thank you all so much for taking the time to join us tonight. I know Tuesday night is usually city council night, so I know you all are, you know, missing some important stuff. But we appreciate you being here. And, you know, as we mentioned, a lot of folks in politics are a lot older than you all. You all got into this elected official game at a fairly young age. So we want to start kind of getting to know how that came about, what was kind of the moment or experiences that sparked your interest in public service and maybe Mayor Walker Griffin, we can start with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah. Thank you, Guy. And then just thank you, everybody, for having me here. Really For me? You know, I got into politics around the age of ten. My grandmother, who came from the Jim Crow South, came to California and has always emphasized civic engagement. So that was something that was really important to me. And when I was 17, I was walking along our city’s waterfront and I thought it was super, super dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>And so I go to our city council meeting, say, Hey, I’ll clean up for free, just give me the paperwork, whatever I need. Our old city manager told me no. And that’s the point really, where I just said, Hey, I have to get involved. And so that’s what led me to want to increasingly just increase my civic engagement and get involved in different things. So from there I went to the States Community College Board, served as my community college student body president, which ultimately led me where I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>Council Member Cisneros, is there a specific moment that really drove you into politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>So I had my daughter when I was 19 years old, and my life was pretty hard, I’ll be honest. Right? Didn’t have a lot of money. I was doing a lot of things on my own, hadn’t gone to college, didn’t know what I was doing. And I read this book called Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. And reading that book at that point in time in my life made me realize the reasons why my life is so hard isn’t because I’m not capable or isn’t it because other people who are living in poverty aren’t capable? It’s because there are systems that are designed to make it more difficult for some people to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And that’s just the way society is designed. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. And so I needed a job at the time and there was a candidate that was hiring anyone, no experience, just whoever it is. And that candidate was Barack Obama. Yeah, in 2007. So primary leading into that first election and I just kind of stuck around. I ended up working on campaigns professionally. After that, I was doing some public policy work, consulting on various issues and candidate campaigns, went to college, did all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And so I’ve been doing this for about six years now, and I never thought that I would be elected, thought I have master’s in public policy staff level doing that side of it. But it was actually the pandemic that really propelled me into that opportunity and going to districts in my in my hometown, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>I mean, that’s something that strikes me about all three of you didn’t just wake up into government. You’ve been kind of working in civic issues and working in in government as you led up to become an elected official. But assembly member for you going straight to the Capitol, straight to the state legislature in 2020, what was that moment for you? That was both you know, I’m interested in this. I want to get involved in government. And then what was kind of the push to say, I want to be the candidate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, I guess it’s fun enough to tie in with the councilmembers story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, I for my district where I grew up in the South, we I was kind of the average person that really just wanted to go to class, go home and hang with your friends. I didn’t really do any clubs. I didn’t really do any of those stuff until maybe the last the last part of being in high school because it looked better on your college applications than I did for that. And, you know, at the time, I remember deciding, you know, you’re asking 17 year olds decide what you can do with the rest of your life. And there’s college apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I was deciding between my hobby of doing filmmaking or this thing that started popping into my mind about doing politics and was actually at the time when I was applying to schools. And it shows you how when I decided it was the reelection campaign for Barack Obama. So it was around 2012, right? So the election time was right then. And I thought, well, this seems like a neat thing I could do to help people and probably has more stability than Hollywood. So I’ll try to do this one instead. So I applied for a place I political science at. UC Davis never looked back. I was a student senator, then became UC Davis as president during when Donald Trump became president as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And funny enough, I, I tell all young people this is like during those experiences of being in student government I’m sure Alex can relate is I thought I never want to do government ever again because in many ways it’s the same kind of petty disputes, the interpersonal politics that exists. But things just lined up and opportunity happened and I ran a longshot campaign and end up here. But I think it’s something remarkable to say that up here you have people who are very, very young, who are mayors and vice mayors who are changing the way that California is. And I think it’s remarkable. I got to be part of that generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>So and I know elections can be hard. Campaigning can be hard if we can talk. Talk about some of the hurdles that you’ve all reached. CISNEROS If we could start with you. Do you agree that we have a Jaron Talkers problem and the government currently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Well, that’s a really interesting way to put that. I you know, I have some really wonderful colleagues who are from other generations. But there is a problem when you have a serious lack of an entire portion of the population. And that issues really related to the ability, number one, to stay in the community where you grew up and to develop roots, because we have a massive housing crisis and an affordability crisis in our region. So not having that stability makes the idea of engaging on that deeper level really difficult for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Additionally, I mean, young young people who are working professionals are disincentivized from joining councils, especially if you get paid at all. And I have the highest part time council in Santa Clara County where we put in a whopping $30,000 a year. It’s not part time. You spend a lot more time than that and you’re having to negotiate, you know, the cost benefit analysis, just balancing your life. So there isn’t a lot of opportunities in leadership. If you’re young, it’s designed for people who are either independently wealthy or retired. So that is a problem because you only get one perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Assembly member Lee, how do you see that balance in Sacramento? Because this is one of the arguments for term limits in the early nineties was there you had folks that were at the Capitol wielding influence for decades and decades. But the flip side of that is the Capitol lost a lot of experience. And it turned out that lobbyists and people kind of who worked in the Capitol ended up knowing more than the electeds themselves. So how do you view the balance of kind of needing to get new blood in the Capitol with that kind of institutional knowledge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I firmly have been public, but I support term limits. And I think now that our new compromise of term limits has worked out, I think it is good. We had the first round of term limits that were very punitive. I think they were designed that way because the public was very angry at the way Sacramento was. Sure, you had a lot of experience, but you also had a infamy from the people up there. And they were doing a lot of shady things that I don’t think would have survived today. But I think now that the term limits are 12 years total, whether you serve any combo or blend between the Senate and the Assembly, I think that’s a good place to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>I frankly think it could be a little bit longer, but we haven’t. I think we’re we’re seeing a rebalance now where the legislators, their staff and the people we trust in that certain that sense of we want to be in power through democracy are now the ones who have had the experience and expertise. And I’ve come in at a very interesting time because I came in in 2020, obviously dynamic, which is interesting, but in of itself is that the first class of the new term limit legislators are terming out this coming this following election cycle and there’s only like six of them. They came in like 40. So even on average, most politicians turn over in six, eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>They either quit. Something happens to them, they’re forced to quit or they get promoted. Right? I think promoted if another job. So it’s this kind of natural turnover like this, frankly, I’ll spend joining the calls that Congress should have at least like an 18 year term limit to. I’m not convinced that someone can start a career and then by ten to end at it becomes from an infant to an adult that it’s not time for you to move on. Yes, there’s a lot of experience, but it’s also important to refresh legislature constantly to have those perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And if it weren’t for term, it’s for better or for worse, depending on who I say yes to. You wouldn’t have me. You wouldn’t have me in the legislature either. But it also gives stability in that sense, too. So, you know, for me, I term out in 2032 and I’m already thinking about who should replace me and who we should cultivate to carry on that movement. But it creates instability versus, you know, for instance, we had dramatically in the U.S. Senate write someone had to die and then suddenly things change, Right? Like that should not be the way we do things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>We don’t live in a medieval aristocracy. We live in a democracy in which you should be able to safely plan this. And if someone has 20 years, 12 years, whatever is to do the job they’re here for and they’re successful at it or they weren’t successful, I think it’s a good enough amount of time to do a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Mayor Walker-Griffin, maybe you can speak on the process. Citizens pay for the gerund talker C assured the Trump term is considering term limits and the issues surrounding that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah, and so similar to my colleagues, I also got elected and became a councilmember in 2020. Craziest time to campaign was during the pandemic, but in my city’s 123 year history and the first councilmember, first mayor to have ever grown up in the city. And so one of the reasons what made me want to run was I always felt like that perspective was missing. And so when we talk about someone who’s been sitting behind the dais for 20 years, usually that person has ran for some other office at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Very rarely have you seen somebody that stagnant and just want that office, but it becomes sort of a relevancy issue. I don’t know what I could talk about of my council 16 years down the road and I’m almost hitting 20 years on it. So and I also think about to life the missing perspective. Every city changes about 5 to 10 years. If you walk around Hercules right now, the average family hasn’t lived in town for more than seven years. So it’s a completely constant new, fresh. Perspective, and I think we want to honor that. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>So when we talk about like the next wave, the next people that we want to see in these sort of elected offices, we’re thinking about that new relevant problem, similar to what a family member Lee mentioned. If you’ve been in office for 50 years, how can you talk about being relevant to the problem? How can you sit there having a rifle in your hand and not know how to use it? If your staff has to guide you on how to how Facebook works, you know, Instagram works. I think you might need to check out. We’ll give you a nice proclamation or something like that, but it’s time to go at that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit about campaigning. You all campaigned during the pandemic. For some of you, the first time the first campaigns you were running was during COVID. And mayor, we actually have a photo of you here. I think going out and doing the doing the work of sign holding out during COVID. I mean, kind of take us through that experience. And as someone who I know you had worked for other elected officials in the past, was there something that you may be brought to the campaign where it was like, I’ve seen someone do it this way. I know, I know. I need to carry this forward or I know I don’t want to do this as a candidate or as an elected official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Well, first thing I would have done if I knew somebody was taking a picture of me, I would put lotion on my elbows to let them do so. But one thing that I told myself that I wouldn’t do was be the elected official that disappears after election time. So people always tell me, why do you give out your number to people when you’re campaigning? Well, I’m like, well, I told them I wanted to be accessible. I told them I wanted to represent them. So why not be accessible, right? Why I do that open door. But it’s not a burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>You’re giving in the real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>My mom, because of my number more than I do. So just let me. But another thing that I definitely did learn was just that connectedness and meeting people where they were. It was so weird knocking on doors and not talking to people physically, I was talking to ring. So for like the first year after, like winning my election, I would be a lucky, safe way and somebody would come up to me like, Hey, we talked to my doorbell and I’m like, Yeah, house you. Yeah, good to see you. But another thing that I that I say that I would not do, that I would have done differently was I wouldn’t have put so much of an emphasis on yard signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>We had a huge digital presence. But this, again, this is where the generational conflict was happening. You don’t have your yard signs. You don’t have your yard signs out. Well, I just spent three grands on digital ads are going to be running 24 seven for the next couple of weeks. No, that’s not going to win. No, that’s not going to win. So I think I would have worked with more people who are a little more relevant to how technology works. Are things in a place where possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Assemblymember, do you have anything to add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Ranger The pandemic was certainly interesting challenge. So I had obviously the primary and the general. I won the primary on March 3rd, 2020. My county, Santa Clara County, was the first county to shut down on March 17th. So sorry. I recount often is on March 11th. I went up to Sacramento. I met with the speaker, Anthony Rendon, at the time and he congratulated me. He said, You did really good. It’s very impressive knowing who you are and how this happened. But and I remember saying to him, This is really nice of you, and to have this nice meeting in the speaker’s office, everything, but I’m going to lose, you know, the data is going to change and I’m going to fall out of the top two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>But it didn’t. And then obviously, the world changed really rapidly. I did not declare victory until April 24th, which was when the results were actually certified. I literally no one in our team could really believe it. But frankly, you know, if we California did not say we want to speak first on the presidential election and we had a June primary, I don’t know if I would have won because most of our campaign was in doorknocking and talking to people face to face. Yes, it got to the point where I’m talking to people through ring and social media, but that was the heart of our campaign. So I don’t know if I would have won without that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>And you had the Bernie effect, right? The presidential primary was going on. You were running as a progressive. And it’s interesting. You were running as a endorser, Bernie, and you were endorsed by Bernie. And exactly so. But you were running in, you know, South Bay, parts of San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, that I think people might not associate with being the most progressive parts of the Bay Area. So how did you make your message, connect with residents or is that outdated? Did you find that people were you know, that that is a place that that kind of message could be embraced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, Progressive is all about being rooted in people. So if our message is about being attitudes of people and making sure that everyday families have access to health care, housing, political rights, civil rights, then it actually engages a lot of people. One fact that I’ve always been astounded by and why I didn’t think I was supposed to win was that general wisdom is that the early vote is the more conservative older vote I won on the first ballot. I kept winning as it going on, and then the late vote, if you will, which are generally supposed to be younger, more progressive people, boosted me up even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>But I did really well at the early vote. And from what I’ve now, being in office three years is that I think a lot of our message of what we talk about resonates with people of all ages and sometimes political parties, political partizanship that they think they have. Because what I talk about is getting corporate money out of politics. You should not have an elite system in our democracy. We should have housing for everyone. And how we shouldn’t means test to death everything that the government. Comes and helps you with. And even though that’s a broad reaching kind of progressive idea, I find a lot of older folks, even in my community, say, actually, you might have a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Or I argue the Republicans at door be like, Well, maybe you’re right about this. And, you know, especially what we know in my district is that and I’m one of two legislators doesn’t take any corporate money whatsoever in the legislature. It’s immensely popular in a district. And people want that source of integrity, even though, of course, in our hyper political world that’s, you know, super far left or whatever it is. I think normal people everyday want those things and that’s what my district connects with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And to add on to that a little bit, something that we all have in common, right? We were elected in 2020. That’s a presidential election year where I think you see a lot of the difference and you get a skewed, older, skewed conservative voter base is the off year elections. And when I think about that, I feel so fortunate to be in that presidential election year because you do have more people just turning out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>It’s really hard to turn people out and keep people engaged through those less, you know, the smaller campaigns, because I like to say Joe Biden, he did a lot for my campaign. He really turned out the vote for me. I Joe Biden going ahead and reminding people, fill out your ballots, make sure you’re doing that. And that’s a huge help to more progressive candidates. You have people who are turning out for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>In council member to follow up. We have a photo here of you on your campaign trail in 2020. What was it like campaigning for the first time during the height of the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Like I said, I had worked on many, many a campaign and the first thing I had to do was forget a lot of everything that I’d learned because it no longer applied. I didn’t knock any doors, actually zero. It was not something that my community was appreciative of when other candidates did it. So I kind of listened to that and went full digital. And something that I did during the campaign was I had a, you know, a team of filmmakers. I had my volunteers make COVID checking calls through the election saying, I’m here with Alyssa Cisneros, this campaign, but we’re not here to talk about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Do you have the resources that you need? Because a lot of times when you’re speaking to voters, you’re you’re talking to them because you want to know what they’re concerned about and what they care about. And during the pandemic in 2020, we knew what people were concerned about. In that moment. I was just running in the general and really tuning in to that and being responsive in a different way. It was a lot of digital phone banking and text banking huge as well as I have a there in that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>My my door hangers. We did hang doors, we didn’t do the conversations and then lawn signs, but lawn signs don’t vote. I had some volunteers at the local maker’s center. Go ahead and print up some of those cool Alysa campaign branded masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>Assembly member Lee as the first Gen Z Ledger state legislator. Have you experienced any discomfort from your fellow colleagues about your age, and have you ever experienced feelings of imposter syndrome?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>All the time. All the time. Oftentimes, my colleagues like to remind us that I am younger than them, even though I don’t bring it up. So they’ll all, though, often hear this right? They’re like, Oh, this thing happened in 1985 or something. Oh, you were born yet? And I was like, I mean, we know. I mean, I’m not going to bring in how old you are that what it’s like. But it seems to be very often that they like to bring those things up and then they’ll be surprised when I understand some sort of like seventies reference or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And I’m like, I know what the Internet is. I can search things. And we know pop culture existed too. So it happens a lot. I will say I think oftentimes that what we still struggle with, even from other Democrats, is that I get talked down to a lot. Often I think I’m giving the benefit of the doubt. I think it is that they see their children in me. So it’s like when we have a disagreement, they try to bring down that tone, which I’ve not seen them do to other colleagues. 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And the imposter syndrome was really hard because like I said, I’d been treated with a lot of respect in my former roles at the beginning of being elected so hard. But when you realize you have a community around you, you get the people together to hype you up and say like, No, that’s, you know, swear words are there. You should remember exactly how much you know. Right. And and the longer you do it, the easier it gets. I think you develop a thick skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah, I totally agree with both of my colleagues up here. I mean, for me, I think where I really was able to, I still experience it, but nip the sort of imposter syndrome in the butt was when I was 20 and we were starting. KALB Right. College and got to talk to Governor Brown. He came to our board meeting. He’s sitting right across from me. And I did tell him everything that was wrong with it. So one of the things is telling them that, hey, Governor, we don’t have the broadband to support this infrastructure throughout the state. This is this is in 2018 before the pandemic and this conversation even start with broadband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>And then so I get ripped apart by some people, like through my email while the meeting was still going on. So it was really crazy experiencing that. But then after that, me and Governor Brown are sitting directly in front of each other having lunch and I’m like, So governor, what are you going to do next now that you’re turning out? He says, Kid, I’m making olive oil with this fork pointed at me. And then so at that moment I was like, okay, all imposter syndrome is lost. But I really had to remember that like when you’re sitting right there, that kind of moments happening. I had to remember to myself that I’m here and now, as the mayor, you’re coming to me for something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>More often than not, people will see the age before they see the resume. So, for example, you know, in 2018, for most people don’t know this, I was the campfire in paradise. So when people were hearing about the casualties that were happening, that was me and my friends keeping a tally on that and running those numbers. So people will oftentimes never see that. At 20 years old, I voted to make community college tuition free and I’ve been doing all this stuff before. I was even old enough to drink. They just see how old you are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Had a meeting with some folks not too long ago. I have this jacket that says Alex Walker-Griffin. Mayor, come up, sit down at the table. And they said, Oh, so you worked for the mayor. And I said, Well, he’ll be here any minute now. So it happens a lot. But you know what? You have to laugh about it, right? And then so if people follow me on social media, you’ll you’ll see my mid-morning rant after the gym. And so sometimes I’ll talk about that kind of stuff. But at the end of day, you got to effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Mayor, maybe you can speak on some of the sacrifices of the jobs. I know. I’m sure there’s moments where you have to skip some social events and miss out seeing your friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Oh, absolutely. I mean, being getting elected at 23 now I’m 26. Most of my friends are still going to the club, so it’s not like I’m going to be joining them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>You’re like, there’s this really important sequel appeal that I have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Right, exactly. So I have to be like, Hey, guys, I can’t join you tonight because I don’t want you guys can take your pictures with your bottle of Hennessy or whatever. I can’t partake in that. But even sort of a little things, right? Like, you know, you just have to be kind of cognizant of how things will present potentially projects to the public, but also to have a full time job. And so just it happens every single week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>You have to have a meeting or you’ll have an event that you have to skip out on simply because the requirements for it, whether I’m talking to my city manager or I’m talking to someone who wants to do something in town, it always collides. But I think the big benefit for me is I’m a bachelor, so I don’t have to think about like, you know, how this is going to impact my children or I think about like my spouse or something like that. So that’s part of the one benefit that’s been in my favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>And Councilmember, did that do the kind of juggling work and family change at all as an elected official versus kind of your past roles, your past work? Did it get more difficult?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Yeah, Yeah, of course it does. It does get harder because before even though like the long hours, right. My my kid, bless her, she is used to that. I know that that’s I have a lot of evening engagements. That’s kind of been the thing. But it’s different when you’re also so public facing in a lot of ways. Your life is an open book, and so the kind of anonymity you could have as a staffer or is just somebody who works in a research firm or in a public policy shop is different. So you have to think about how your actions are going to go ahead and perhaps reflect on your family, like is this going to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Because one of the sacrifices you make is really to your safety, especially women in politics right now. Right. I’ve had stalkers. I’ve had to move into a more secure building because of threats to my safety over things like votes. So just being in the public eye. So the kind of sacrifices that my family have to make for me is is balancing that, like where we’re actually physically safer to the point where we’re packing stuff. Right. And in terms of balancing it on my kids a little bit older. So less of that demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>But when I talk to people with younger kids especially, there is a lot that you miss there. And because especially around election time, you have a lot of weekend stuff too. So you have to be able to find that time to spend quality time throughout the week as best you can. It’s really easy to lose touch with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>In Council member I know we talked about your campaigning during the pandemic. Civic participation changed tremendously during the pandemic. Is there any risk of going back to the old ways, like knocking on doors, having the yard signs, stuff like that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Well, this I’m running again in 2024 and engaging civically in, as far as I know, at least now. Right. But, you know, with the world as it’s been, I don’t make any guesses for what tomorrow is going to be like or or what’s going to be required of me during this campaign, because we live in unprecedented times every single day. I think we were talking about that earlier, and I am looking forward to getting back to that door to door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Right. And but we do have more tools in our toolkit. There are some silver linings to the pandemic. I look forward to continuing having a robust digital presence. Right. Especially because young voters are still reached base that way. But there are so many opportunities. When you talk to someone face to face, it’s a little bit irreplaceable because instead of hearing from me on the phone or over text or one of my volunteers being able to talk to me and know who I am builds a really important trust, especially if you have like a a district like mine where you have only about 12,000 voters, you can actually go and talk to everyone if you really get a good pair of sneakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>So I’m looking forward to that a lot. But we can take a lot of lessons about what it means to reach people who we weren’t able to reach before because of those challenges with COVID. And we all learned both as candidates and as governments, how to do that. And, you know, we’d be remiss not to continue doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Right. I mean, city council meetings, the state legislature, suddenly it was all available on Zoom and you could listen to hours and hours of public comment from the comfort of your living room. So, I mean, that kind of access. Is there a concern that maybe that goes away? Is that something, at least in Hercules, that you’re you want to make a part of council engagement going forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Well, actually, it’s unfortunate We had to do is we actually had to in so many other cities in the area and actually throughout the country had to do this. We had to cut public comment on Zoom because there’s been a wide variety of people throughout the country calling in and saying some of the most horrible things that you could ever say. So it is unfortunate that that is the case, but that does not mean the accessibility has gone away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>So one way that we’ve definitely stepped up our game in terms of being able to reach our constituents, either from the city council perspective or through the city perspective is we have an app online in addition to every other Well, we have an app that you can download to your phone. So rather than you calling 510245, blah, blah, blah, you just take a picture of whatever problem it is on the street or whatever, and it goes directly to our public works team. But I do think that it is a little scary to think that we have some bad actors who are doing a good thing, and we don’t know when it’s necessarily going to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>But up until literally last or last meeting two weeks ago, all of our meetings have been on Zoom and it’s been great to have people who traditionally would have never come in, especially some of the senior populations that can’t make it out and make it out on Tuesday at 7 p.m. or working families have and participate online has been great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>We went to full it. We decided as a council to do permanent hybrid meetings. So we meet in City Hall, but we also had that zoom component and we have not shut down public comment, remote public comment yet and we really hope we don’t have to because that is such a huge way we get participation. In fact, we often get more people participating in public comment on Zoom than we do in person. Actually, that’s most common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And so what people don’t realize, it’s like you can go ahead and your email, your your congressman and you’ll hopefully get something back from a staff member. But your city council members, your you and your assembly member with your district staff, we’re here and you can talk to us. And engaging the democratic process is so important. So even though that Zoombombing is happening, I’m like, I want to stick it out and see what we can do to curb it. And you know, I’m more stubborn than they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>So in the legislature, we’ve unfortunately mostly got away with the Zoom comments now to the discretion of committee chairs now. So I think in the Assembly I am one of two committees that still take a Zoom public comment. Yes, it is riddled with people who have very terrible things to say, but that’s I still believe in reducing the barriers for public participation. In my first year in office, I thought I was going to author a slam dunk exhibit. I said, Wow, we learn during the pandemic that Zoom comment and Zoom hybrid meetings work so well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Let’s just keep this forever. That was one of the hardest rules I ever worked on. The first time the cities opposed it because they said it costs too much, it’s impossible to do. And then suddenly everyone was doing I mean, everyone was basically doing it. So I said, I don’t understand. How you doing exactly? I mean, everyone is doing it. But the city is still said that it was too cost prohibitive, you couldn’t do it, etc., etc.. And then I made this big compromise where, okay, why don’t you just do it for the big cities, Right? Theoretically speaking, even though the technology scale is the same, no matter if you’re L.A. or if you’re Sunnyvale, why don’t we just try to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, unfortunately, that got vetoed and still hasn’t been been the same since. But I still think it’s important for city councils if you’re able to do it, to do the hybrid method, because it really does reduce a lot those barriers, especially in Sacramento, where you’d really legitimately have to take an entire day to come up to do your 30 seconds. It would means a lot to people. So that’s why I keep it in my own committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>All right. Well, we are going to have to leave the conversation there. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Young people are underrepresented in all levels of government. But take a look at what’s happening locally. And you can see that things are changing even if it’s happening slowly. Just take a look at Assembly member Alex Lee, who made history in 2020 when he became the youngest Asian-American, first openly bisexual and first Gen Z legislator in California history. And he’s not the only elected leader injecting new life into halls of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>Last year, the City of Hercules swore in Alexander Walker-Griffin as mayor, at 25 years old. And in Sunnyvale, residents elected 33 year old Alysa Cisneros to city council, where she would become the first openly queer woman to hold the title as vice mayor. It’s a unique perspective. And today we’re going to hear from these young electeds. Last week, they sat down with KQED Guy Marzorati and USF student fellow Caitlin Kennedy to talk about things like running for office during COVID, how to balance working in government with your personal life, and to share their visions for our region’s future. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Well, thank you all so much for taking the time to join us tonight. I know Tuesday night is usually city council night, so I know you all are, you know, missing some important stuff. But we appreciate you being here. And, you know, as we mentioned, a lot of folks in politics are a lot older than you all. You all got into this elected official game at a fairly young age. So we want to start kind of getting to know how that came about, what was kind of the moment or experiences that sparked your interest in public service and maybe Mayor Walker Griffin, we can start with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah. Thank you, Guy. And then just thank you, everybody, for having me here. Really For me? You know, I got into politics around the age of ten. My grandmother, who came from the Jim Crow South, came to California and has always emphasized civic engagement. So that was something that was really important to me. And when I was 17, I was walking along our city’s waterfront and I thought it was super, super dirty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>And so I go to our city council meeting, say, Hey, I’ll clean up for free, just give me the paperwork, whatever I need. Our old city manager told me no. And that’s the point really, where I just said, Hey, I have to get involved. And so that’s what led me to want to increasingly just increase my civic engagement and get involved in different things. So from there I went to the States Community College Board, served as my community college student body president, which ultimately led me where I am today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>Council Member Cisneros, is there a specific moment that really drove you into politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>So I had my daughter when I was 19 years old, and my life was pretty hard, I’ll be honest. Right? Didn’t have a lot of money. I was doing a lot of things on my own, hadn’t gone to college, didn’t know what I was doing. And I read this book called Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. And reading that book at that point in time in my life made me realize the reasons why my life is so hard isn’t because I’m not capable or isn’t it because other people who are living in poverty aren’t capable? It’s because there are systems that are designed to make it more difficult for some people to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And that’s just the way society is designed. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. And so I needed a job at the time and there was a candidate that was hiring anyone, no experience, just whoever it is. And that candidate was Barack Obama. Yeah, in 2007. So primary leading into that first election and I just kind of stuck around. I ended up working on campaigns professionally. After that, I was doing some public policy work, consulting on various issues and candidate campaigns, went to college, did all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And so I’ve been doing this for about six years now, and I never thought that I would be elected, thought I have master’s in public policy staff level doing that side of it. But it was actually the pandemic that really propelled me into that opportunity and going to districts in my in my hometown, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>I mean, that’s something that strikes me about all three of you didn’t just wake up into government. You’ve been kind of working in civic issues and working in in government as you led up to become an elected official. But assembly member for you going straight to the Capitol, straight to the state legislature in 2020, what was that moment for you? That was both you know, I’m interested in this. I want to get involved in government. And then what was kind of the push to say, I want to be the candidate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, I guess it’s fun enough to tie in with the councilmembers story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, I for my district where I grew up in the South, we I was kind of the average person that really just wanted to go to class, go home and hang with your friends. I didn’t really do any clubs. I didn’t really do any of those stuff until maybe the last the last part of being in high school because it looked better on your college applications than I did for that. And, you know, at the time, I remember deciding, you know, you’re asking 17 year olds decide what you can do with the rest of your life. And there’s college apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I was deciding between my hobby of doing filmmaking or this thing that started popping into my mind about doing politics and was actually at the time when I was applying to schools. And it shows you how when I decided it was the reelection campaign for Barack Obama. So it was around 2012, right? So the election time was right then. And I thought, well, this seems like a neat thing I could do to help people and probably has more stability than Hollywood. So I’ll try to do this one instead. So I applied for a place I political science at. UC Davis never looked back. I was a student senator, then became UC Davis as president during when Donald Trump became president as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And funny enough, I, I tell all young people this is like during those experiences of being in student government I’m sure Alex can relate is I thought I never want to do government ever again because in many ways it’s the same kind of petty disputes, the interpersonal politics that exists. But things just lined up and opportunity happened and I ran a longshot campaign and end up here. But I think it’s something remarkable to say that up here you have people who are very, very young, who are mayors and vice mayors who are changing the way that California is. And I think it’s remarkable. I got to be part of that generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>So and I know elections can be hard. Campaigning can be hard if we can talk. Talk about some of the hurdles that you’ve all reached. CISNEROS If we could start with you. Do you agree that we have a Jaron Talkers problem and the government currently?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Well, that’s a really interesting way to put that. I you know, I have some really wonderful colleagues who are from other generations. But there is a problem when you have a serious lack of an entire portion of the population. And that issues really related to the ability, number one, to stay in the community where you grew up and to develop roots, because we have a massive housing crisis and an affordability crisis in our region. So not having that stability makes the idea of engaging on that deeper level really difficult for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Additionally, I mean, young young people who are working professionals are disincentivized from joining councils, especially if you get paid at all. And I have the highest part time council in Santa Clara County where we put in a whopping $30,000 a year. It’s not part time. You spend a lot more time than that and you’re having to negotiate, you know, the cost benefit analysis, just balancing your life. So there isn’t a lot of opportunities in leadership. If you’re young, it’s designed for people who are either independently wealthy or retired. So that is a problem because you only get one perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Assembly member Lee, how do you see that balance in Sacramento? Because this is one of the arguments for term limits in the early nineties was there you had folks that were at the Capitol wielding influence for decades and decades. But the flip side of that is the Capitol lost a lot of experience. And it turned out that lobbyists and people kind of who worked in the Capitol ended up knowing more than the electeds themselves. So how do you view the balance of kind of needing to get new blood in the Capitol with that kind of institutional knowledge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I firmly have been public, but I support term limits. And I think now that our new compromise of term limits has worked out, I think it is good. We had the first round of term limits that were very punitive. I think they were designed that way because the public was very angry at the way Sacramento was. Sure, you had a lot of experience, but you also had a infamy from the people up there. And they were doing a lot of shady things that I don’t think would have survived today. But I think now that the term limits are 12 years total, whether you serve any combo or blend between the Senate and the Assembly, I think that’s a good place to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>I frankly think it could be a little bit longer, but we haven’t. I think we’re we’re seeing a rebalance now where the legislators, their staff and the people we trust in that certain that sense of we want to be in power through democracy are now the ones who have had the experience and expertise. And I’ve come in at a very interesting time because I came in in 2020, obviously dynamic, which is interesting, but in of itself is that the first class of the new term limit legislators are terming out this coming this following election cycle and there’s only like six of them. They came in like 40. So even on average, most politicians turn over in six, eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>They either quit. Something happens to them, they’re forced to quit or they get promoted. Right? I think promoted if another job. So it’s this kind of natural turnover like this, frankly, I’ll spend joining the calls that Congress should have at least like an 18 year term limit to. I’m not convinced that someone can start a career and then by ten to end at it becomes from an infant to an adult that it’s not time for you to move on. Yes, there’s a lot of experience, but it’s also important to refresh legislature constantly to have those perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And if it weren’t for term, it’s for better or for worse, depending on who I say yes to. You wouldn’t have me. You wouldn’t have me in the legislature either. But it also gives stability in that sense, too. So, you know, for me, I term out in 2032 and I’m already thinking about who should replace me and who we should cultivate to carry on that movement. But it creates instability versus, you know, for instance, we had dramatically in the U.S. Senate write someone had to die and then suddenly things change, Right? Like that should not be the way we do things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>We don’t live in a medieval aristocracy. We live in a democracy in which you should be able to safely plan this. And if someone has 20 years, 12 years, whatever is to do the job they’re here for and they’re successful at it or they weren’t successful, I think it’s a good enough amount of time to do a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Mayor Walker-Griffin, maybe you can speak on the process. Citizens pay for the gerund talker C assured the Trump term is considering term limits and the issues surrounding that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah, and so similar to my colleagues, I also got elected and became a councilmember in 2020. Craziest time to campaign was during the pandemic, but in my city’s 123 year history and the first councilmember, first mayor to have ever grown up in the city. And so one of the reasons what made me want to run was I always felt like that perspective was missing. And so when we talk about someone who’s been sitting behind the dais for 20 years, usually that person has ran for some other office at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Very rarely have you seen somebody that stagnant and just want that office, but it becomes sort of a relevancy issue. I don’t know what I could talk about of my council 16 years down the road and I’m almost hitting 20 years on it. So and I also think about to life the missing perspective. Every city changes about 5 to 10 years. If you walk around Hercules right now, the average family hasn’t lived in town for more than seven years. So it’s a completely constant new, fresh. Perspective, and I think we want to honor that. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>So when we talk about like the next wave, the next people that we want to see in these sort of elected offices, we’re thinking about that new relevant problem, similar to what a family member Lee mentioned. If you’ve been in office for 50 years, how can you talk about being relevant to the problem? How can you sit there having a rifle in your hand and not know how to use it? If your staff has to guide you on how to how Facebook works, you know, Instagram works. I think you might need to check out. We’ll give you a nice proclamation or something like that, but it’s time to go at that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit about campaigning. You all campaigned during the pandemic. For some of you, the first time the first campaigns you were running was during COVID. And mayor, we actually have a photo of you here. I think going out and doing the doing the work of sign holding out during COVID. I mean, kind of take us through that experience. And as someone who I know you had worked for other elected officials in the past, was there something that you may be brought to the campaign where it was like, I’ve seen someone do it this way. I know, I know. I need to carry this forward or I know I don’t want to do this as a candidate or as an elected official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Well, first thing I would have done if I knew somebody was taking a picture of me, I would put lotion on my elbows to let them do so. But one thing that I told myself that I wouldn’t do was be the elected official that disappears after election time. So people always tell me, why do you give out your number to people when you’re campaigning? Well, I’m like, well, I told them I wanted to be accessible. I told them I wanted to represent them. So why not be accessible, right? Why I do that open door. But it’s not a burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>You’re giving in the real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>My mom, because of my number more than I do. So just let me. But another thing that I definitely did learn was just that connectedness and meeting people where they were. It was so weird knocking on doors and not talking to people physically, I was talking to ring. So for like the first year after, like winning my election, I would be a lucky, safe way and somebody would come up to me like, Hey, we talked to my doorbell and I’m like, Yeah, house you. Yeah, good to see you. But another thing that I that I say that I would not do, that I would have done differently was I wouldn’t have put so much of an emphasis on yard signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>We had a huge digital presence. But this, again, this is where the generational conflict was happening. You don’t have your yard signs. You don’t have your yard signs out. Well, I just spent three grands on digital ads are going to be running 24 seven for the next couple of weeks. No, that’s not going to win. No, that’s not going to win. So I think I would have worked with more people who are a little more relevant to how technology works. Are things in a place where possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Assemblymember, do you have anything to add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Ranger The pandemic was certainly interesting challenge. So I had obviously the primary and the general. I won the primary on March 3rd, 2020. My county, Santa Clara County, was the first county to shut down on March 17th. So sorry. I recount often is on March 11th. I went up to Sacramento. I met with the speaker, Anthony Rendon, at the time and he congratulated me. He said, You did really good. It’s very impressive knowing who you are and how this happened. But and I remember saying to him, This is really nice of you, and to have this nice meeting in the speaker’s office, everything, but I’m going to lose, you know, the data is going to change and I’m going to fall out of the top two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>But it didn’t. And then obviously, the world changed really rapidly. I did not declare victory until April 24th, which was when the results were actually certified. I literally no one in our team could really believe it. But frankly, you know, if we California did not say we want to speak first on the presidential election and we had a June primary, I don’t know if I would have won because most of our campaign was in doorknocking and talking to people face to face. Yes, it got to the point where I’m talking to people through ring and social media, but that was the heart of our campaign. So I don’t know if I would have won without that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>And you had the Bernie effect, right? The presidential primary was going on. You were running as a progressive. And it’s interesting. You were running as a endorser, Bernie, and you were endorsed by Bernie. And exactly so. But you were running in, you know, South Bay, parts of San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, that I think people might not associate with being the most progressive parts of the Bay Area. So how did you make your message, connect with residents or is that outdated? Did you find that people were you know, that that is a place that that kind of message could be embraced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, Progressive is all about being rooted in people. So if our message is about being attitudes of people and making sure that everyday families have access to health care, housing, political rights, civil rights, then it actually engages a lot of people. One fact that I’ve always been astounded by and why I didn’t think I was supposed to win was that general wisdom is that the early vote is the more conservative older vote I won on the first ballot. I kept winning as it going on, and then the late vote, if you will, which are generally supposed to be younger, more progressive people, boosted me up even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>But I did really well at the early vote. And from what I’ve now, being in office three years is that I think a lot of our message of what we talk about resonates with people of all ages and sometimes political parties, political partizanship that they think they have. Because what I talk about is getting corporate money out of politics. You should not have an elite system in our democracy. We should have housing for everyone. And how we shouldn’t means test to death everything that the government. Comes and helps you with. And even though that’s a broad reaching kind of progressive idea, I find a lot of older folks, even in my community, say, actually, you might have a point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Or I argue the Republicans at door be like, Well, maybe you’re right about this. And, you know, especially what we know in my district is that and I’m one of two legislators doesn’t take any corporate money whatsoever in the legislature. It’s immensely popular in a district. And people want that source of integrity, even though, of course, in our hyper political world that’s, you know, super far left or whatever it is. I think normal people everyday want those things and that’s what my district connects with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>And to add on to that a little bit, something that we all have in common, right? We were elected in 2020. That’s a presidential election year where I think you see a lot of the difference and you get a skewed, older, skewed conservative voter base is the off year elections. And when I think about that, I feel so fortunate to be in that presidential election year because you do have more people just turning out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>It’s really hard to turn people out and keep people engaged through those less, you know, the smaller campaigns, because I like to say Joe Biden, he did a lot for my campaign. He really turned out the vote for me. I Joe Biden going ahead and reminding people, fill out your ballots, make sure you’re doing that. And that’s a huge help to more progressive candidates. You have people who are turning out for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>In council member to follow up. We have a photo here of you on your campaign trail in 2020. What was it like campaigning for the first time during the height of the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Like I said, I had worked on many, many a campaign and the first thing I had to do was forget a lot of everything that I’d learned because it no longer applied. I didn’t knock any doors, actually zero. It was not something that my community was appreciative of when other candidates did it. So I kind of listened to that and went full digital. And something that I did during the campaign was I had a, you know, a team of filmmakers. I had my volunteers make COVID checking calls through the election saying, I’m here with Alyssa Cisneros, this campaign, but we’re not here to talk about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Do you have the resources that you need? Because a lot of times when you’re speaking to voters, you’re you’re talking to them because you want to know what they’re concerned about and what they care about. And during the pandemic in 2020, we knew what people were concerned about. In that moment. I was just running in the general and really tuning in to that and being responsive in a different way. It was a lot of digital phone banking and text banking huge as well as I have a there in that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>My my door hangers. We did hang doors, we didn’t do the conversations and then lawn signs, but lawn signs don’t vote. I had some volunteers at the local maker’s center. Go ahead and print up some of those cool Alysa campaign branded masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>Assembly member Lee as the first Gen Z Ledger state legislator. Have you experienced any discomfort from your fellow colleagues about your age, and have you ever experienced feelings of imposter syndrome?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>All the time. All the time. Oftentimes, my colleagues like to remind us that I am younger than them, even though I don’t bring it up. So they’ll all, though, often hear this right? They’re like, Oh, this thing happened in 1985 or something. Oh, you were born yet? And I was like, I mean, we know. I mean, I’m not going to bring in how old you are that what it’s like. But it seems to be very often that they like to bring those things up and then they’ll be surprised when I understand some sort of like seventies reference or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>And I’m like, I know what the Internet is. I can search things. And we know pop culture existed too. So it happens a lot. I will say I think oftentimes that what we still struggle with, even from other Democrats, is that I get talked down to a lot. Often I think I’m giving the benefit of the doubt. I think it is that they see their children in me. So it’s like when we have a disagreement, they try to bring down that tone, which I’ve not seen them do to other colleagues. But to be frank, even if every disagreement and I’ve had to have a stern talking to you sometimes that you can’t talk to me like that, like I’m your son or something, I’m your colleague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>So it’s happened, unfortunately, and it’s unfortunately in our space. We have to reassert ourselves that we are equals. I’m not better than you. I’m not worse than you were equals. So it happens a lot, you know, And with imposter syndrome, you know, it’s all the time. I actually don’t think I have imposter syndrome anymore because I’ve just accepted that I’m doing everything I’m doing that I don’t exactly know if this is right, but I feel like it’s right. So I’m just going to do it. And that’s what hey, that’s what got me to win elections. So I said this. I’m just going to embrace that, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Council Member Mayor, I saw you both nodding through that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>Yeah. Something I hear a lot and have since I decided to run. And it it really didn’t happen so much in my career. In public policy. You look too young to be a council member. My I’m 35 years old. I don’t feel particularly young or you don’t look like a council member last year. You don’t look like a vice mayor. And it begs the question, what do they look like? You might forget. I have 16 years of experience doing this, right? So age doesn’t necessarily come with that experience. You can be relatively young, unfortunately, like relatively young and still come in more experience than most council members do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>So I do have to reassert that. And the imposter syndrome was really hard because like I said, I’d been treated with a lot of respect in my former roles at the beginning of being elected so hard. But when you realize you have a community around you, you get the people together to hype you up and say like, No, that’s, you know, swear words are there. You should remember exactly how much you know. Right. And and the longer you do it, the easier it gets. I think you develop a thick skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Yeah, I totally agree with both of my colleagues up here. I mean, for me, I think where I really was able to, I still experience it, but nip the sort of imposter syndrome in the butt was when I was 20 and we were starting. KALB Right. College and got to talk to Governor Brown. He came to our board meeting. He’s sitting right across from me. And I did tell him everything that was wrong with it. So one of the things is telling them that, hey, Governor, we don’t have the broadband to support this infrastructure throughout the state. This is this is in 2018 before the pandemic and this conversation even start with broadband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>And then so I get ripped apart by some people, like through my email while the meeting was still going on. So it was really crazy experiencing that. But then after that, me and Governor Brown are sitting directly in front of each other having lunch and I’m like, So governor, what are you going to do next now that you’re turning out? He says, Kid, I’m making olive oil with this fork pointed at me. And then so at that moment I was like, okay, all imposter syndrome is lost. But I really had to remember that like when you’re sitting right there, that kind of moments happening. I had to remember to myself that I’m here and now, as the mayor, you’re coming to me for something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>More often than not, people will see the age before they see the resume. So, for example, you know, in 2018, for most people don’t know this, I was the campfire in paradise. So when people were hearing about the casualties that were happening, that was me and my friends keeping a tally on that and running those numbers. So people will oftentimes never see that. At 20 years old, I voted to make community college tuition free and I’ve been doing all this stuff before. I was even old enough to drink. They just see how old you are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Had a meeting with some folks not too long ago. I have this jacket that says Alex Walker-Griffin. Mayor, come up, sit down at the table. And they said, Oh, so you worked for the mayor. And I said, Well, he’ll be here any minute now. So it happens a lot. But you know what? You have to laugh about it, right? And then so if people follow me on social media, you’ll you’ll see my mid-morning rant after the gym. And so sometimes I’ll talk about that kind of stuff. But at the end of day, you got to effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caitlin Kennedy \u003c/strong>And Mayor, maybe you can speak on some of the sacrifices of the jobs. I know. I’m sure there’s moments where you have to skip some social events and miss out seeing your friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Oh, absolutely. I mean, being getting elected at 23 now I’m 26. 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When you talk to someone face to face, it’s a little bit irreplaceable because instead of hearing from me on the phone or over text or one of my volunteers being able to talk to me and know who I am builds a really important trust, especially if you have like a a district like mine where you have only about 12,000 voters, you can actually go and talk to everyone if you really get a good pair of sneakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alysa Cisneros \u003c/strong>So I’m looking forward to that a lot. But we can take a lot of lessons about what it means to reach people who we weren’t able to reach before because of those challenges with COVID. And we all learned both as candidates and as governments, how to do that. And, you know, we’d be remiss not to continue doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>Right. I mean, city council meetings, the state legislature, suddenly it was all available on Zoom and you could listen to hours and hours of public comment from the comfort of your living room. So, I mean, that kind of access. Is there a concern that maybe that goes away? Is that something, at least in Hercules, that you’re you want to make a part of council engagement going forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexander Walker-Griffin \u003c/strong>Well, actually, it’s unfortunate We had to do is we actually had to in so many other cities in the area and actually throughout the country had to do this. We had to cut public comment on Zoom because there’s been a wide variety of people throughout the country calling in and saying some of the most horrible things that you could ever say. 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So I think in the Assembly I am one of two committees that still take a Zoom public comment. Yes, it is riddled with people who have very terrible things to say, but that’s I still believe in reducing the barriers for public participation. In my first year in office, I thought I was going to author a slam dunk exhibit. I said, Wow, we learn during the pandemic that Zoom comment and Zoom hybrid meetings work so well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Let’s just keep this forever. That was one of the hardest rules I ever worked on. The first time the cities opposed it because they said it costs too much, it’s impossible to do. And then suddenly everyone was doing I mean, everyone was basically doing it. So I said, I don’t understand. How you doing exactly? I mean, everyone is doing it. But the city is still said that it was too cost prohibitive, you couldn’t do it, etc., etc.. And then I made this big compromise where, okay, why don’t you just do it for the big cities, Right? Theoretically speaking, even though the technology scale is the same, no matter if you’re L.A. or if you’re Sunnyvale, why don’t we just try to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Lee \u003c/strong>Yeah, unfortunately, that got vetoed and still hasn’t been been the same since. But I still think it’s important for city councils if you’re able to do it, to do the hybrid method, because it really does reduce a lot those barriers, especially in Sacramento, where you’d really legitimately have to take an entire day to come up to do your 30 seconds. It would means a lot to people. So that’s why I keep it in my own committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>All right. Well, we are going to have to leave the conversation there. Thank you three so much for coming out, spending time with us and giving us some insight into your work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>That was KQED Politics and Government reporter Guy Marzorati and USF student fellow Caitlin Kennedy in conversation with Assembly member Alex Lee, Hercules Mayor Alexander Walker-Griffin and Sunnyvale Councilmember Alysa Cisneros. If you want to watch, the full live event, will leave you a link in our shownotes. This KQED Live event was produced by Ryan Davis. It was cut down and edited by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. By the way, there are a bunch of really cool live events happening all the time at our headquarters in San Francisco. For more on all the upcoming ones, go to KQED.org/Live. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>15-year-old Peyton Marcisz and 17-year-old Andrea Kitahata were excited to be back on the soccer field. Because of shelter-in-place restrictions, the team had to take a three-month break from in-person training and only recently had started practicing on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was special to be able to go out once a week,” said Marcisz. “It was really exciting even at the time and not being able to train for three months prior to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the team practices three times a week and are working their way up to full contact with other players. But Marcisz and Kitahata are just glad to be on the field after the turbulent summer they’ve had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=medium align=right citation=\"Andrea Kitahata, member of FC Bay Area soccer team\"]‘We don’t know if we’re going to get shut down in a week or if we’re not going to play for a while, so I do appreciate every moment I have on the field now.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls used to be part of the San Jose Earthquakes Girls Academy. For the past three years, the San Jose-based professional soccer team provided training programs for boys aged 13-19, and girls aged 14 to 19. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the academy paused in-person practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a blow for many of the players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of our life,” said Marcisz. “Soccer was basically our 24/7 with school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 15, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, a national soccer league which connected local teams across the country, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussoccerda.com/20200415-NEWS-DA-Letter-to-Development-Academy-Clubs\">permanently folded\u003c/a> due to pandemic-related budget cuts. Then, in May, the San Jose Earthquakes decided it would shut down their girls program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Major League Soccer (MLS) rules, the Earthquakes are “required to have a boys academy program, but they are not currently required to have a girls program,” said Andres Deza, a former coach for the Earthquakes’ girls program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boys can train in the Earthquakes training program and eventually join the professional team. But because there is no professional women’s team for the Earthquakes, the company has less incentive to keep the girl’s program running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Marcisz, Peyton’s dad, said the decision by the Development Academy and the Earthquakes to cut the girls program didn’t sit well with him. To him, it reeked of gender inequity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is absolutely something to the fact that it’s a girls team and we’re keeping the boys [team] and getting rid of the girls [team],” Marcisz said. “That was pretty rude to say the least. All that commitment that all these kids across the country and their parents have made are all just blown up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes didn’t respond to a request for comment, but the San Jose team is one of a number across the country, including the Los Angeles-based team LA Galaxy, to make similar decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really hard for us because in a short period of time, we lost the Girls Academy, the league, and then we lost the backing of the Earthquakes, which we had been developing for three years,” Deza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deza said he didn’t want to give up the team without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we’d give it a shot and try to see if we could, you know, keep the program together somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"soccer\" label=\"related stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after the Earthquakes shut down the Girls Academy, Deza and some of the other coaches from the girls program started their own club, which they named FC Bay Area. Deza said once they opened registration for their club, they were pleasantly surprised to find that about 90% of their original membership decided to move to the new club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The players and the families decided to stick with us, which was very humbling,” Deza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kitahata said the decision was clear for her: Deza was the best coach she had had and she was eager to be back out on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Us not being able to play for months on end — for me, it kinda put a fire in my belly about wanting to improve and be my best every time I step on the field because nothing’s guaranteed at this point,” Kitahata said. “We don’t know if we’re going to get shut down in a week or if we’re not going to play for a while, so I do appreciate every moment I have on the field now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11840382 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/SJ-Earthquakes-Pic-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The girls and boys teams train three days a week now and are slowly working their way up to full contact with another player. 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Everyone is looking forward to when the pandemic ends and matches can be scheduled again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deza is excited about the developments for the program, but he says it’s expensive to run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m basically a volunteer for a non-profit organization,” he said. “As you can imagine, the budget is very tight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teams must pay for equipment, first aid, coaches and fees for sports fields. Now with the pandemic, there’s the added costs of personal protective equipment and needing more space for social distancing. Deza hopes to rely on parents’ chipping in more fees and on fundraising and corporate sponsorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Financially, the viability of this project is going to be very challenging,” Deza said. “But we’re going to try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 4:05 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have charged Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34 — a former U.S. Army sharpshooter who has a history of PTSD — with eight counts of attempted murder after saying he plowed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County district attorney's office filed the charges Thursday against Peoples. He is being held at Santa Clara County Jail and is set to be arraigned Friday in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Peoples was on his way to Bible class when he deliberately drove his vehicle into pedestrians at the intersection of El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Avenue around 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday, hitting people both walking in the crosswalk and waiting on the sidewalk to cross. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peoples, a Sunnyvale resident, is accused of hitting seven people and injuring a total of eight, including a 13-year-old girl who is in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale public safety Capt. Jim Choi said Peoples is cooperating with investigators and has shown no remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11742536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg\" alt=\"Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said.\" width=\"604\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk on April 23, 2019 and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sunnyvale police)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phan Ngo, chief of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, said during a Thursday news conference that no motive has been determined in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Peoples did not slow down prior to the collision and appeared to accelerate as he moved into the crosswalk where the victims were crossing. The vehicle struck seven of eight victims and ultimately crashed into a nearby tree,\" Ngo \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SunnyvaleDPS/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a video on Facebook on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Following the collision, a witness reported that Peoples stated something similar to, 'Thank you God,'\" Ngo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo said Thursday that Peoples had no criminal record. A search of his car turned up a dismantled, inoperable shotgun. Ngo said Peoples had picked up food to take to a Bible study group before he struck the pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the eight people injured, including the 13-year-old, were taken to area hospitals. Their conditions on Thursday had remained unchanged:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A girl, 13, with major injuries was in critical condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A woman, 32, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 33, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 52, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A boy, 9, was treated and released with minor injuries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 45, was treated and released.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 24, was treated and released at the scene by paramedics.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 25, was treated and released at the scene by paramedics.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Peoples sustained no apparent injuries and refused medical treatment, Ngo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSunnyvaleDPS%2Fvideos%2F2272035633115648%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo said it appeared that Peoples was acting alone. Police searched his apartment and took his computer to forensics. Nothing from his Facebook accounts suggested a motive. The driver and the victims didn't seem to know each other, Sunnyvale police Capt. Jim Choi said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI was notified in case there were federal law violations, Ngo said, adding that Peoples hasn't been linked to terrorist organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prentice Danner, an FBI field officer in San Francisco, wrote in an email Wednesday that the agency was in touch with Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety and will become more involved if it's determined a federal crime was committed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/krisnoceda/status/1120896102050324481\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Sharp, a spokesman for the U.S Army, wrote in an email Thursday that Peoples served as a civil affairs specialist in the Army Reserve from March 2004 to July 2009, attaining the rank of sergeant. 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